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EP 61: Creating Content & Collecting Manga w/ Book Vybez · Dad Needs To Talk

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  What's up y'all? And welcome back to Dad needs to
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  talk. I'm your host, Robert.
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  And today, I am joined by my good friend.
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  Kiki AKA book Vibes. What is up?
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  Kiki is going on, glad to be here, man.
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  Yeah, we finally did it. Yes, indeed.
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  Yeah, I am. Yeah.
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  I'm very glad to, for, for us to finally be able to do this, you
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  know. But I also feel like, you know,
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  You know, as they say things happen, when they're supposed to
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  happen so but yeah, but so man it together.
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  Yeah, it is a, it has been a day, it has been a week.
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  All right, I guess let me start with you.
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  How has your day and week been so far?
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  Kiki, let me tell you, it has been.
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  Today, was one of the best days ever because the school year
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  ended, we are and I work for the public school system.
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  And, you know, I love the kids, I love my job, but that summer
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  break is absolutely needed. And I don't know if you're
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  familiar with the office, but my husband told me today that he
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  cuz I was going around. Hey everybody.
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  How you doing? Have a nice day.
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  Like I'm such an introvert. So today, I was on that Stanley
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  mode and I don't know if you watch the office, but when
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  Stanley will get really excited when it was ice cream, they or
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  something like that. I can't remember what it was.
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  Yeah, he was like really nice to everybody.
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  That was me today. So it was a really good day.
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  The week was short. So I'm very happy to start this
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  summer awesome that that that that is definitely a very
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  awesome here. And as for myself, I'm gonna try
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  to keep it short, because people, to listen, y'all know I
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  can talk for a while, but my, my day, my week so far and it's
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  only Tuesday has been a roller coaster to say, to say the least
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  just because, you know, you know, I guess going back to this
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  weekend. Very fine family filled weekend,
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  but you know, it just went Prolong because you know, we're
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  we're we're in June 1st, we can have gel maze track season for
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  my oldest daughter started, which nothing nothing to
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  unexpected or Star would think because we know she's 12 she's
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  been running since she's five so we've been in this for seven
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  years. So but a a wrench that came to
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  the plan is that this year, you know, she's been running the 800
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  in the 400 meter. All these years this year, she
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  added the mile. Well, well we found out that the
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  Mi was practically the last event of the day.
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  So we, we we we always get there pretty early around like a dish
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  or whatever. Just because her her first event
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  is usually like know, pretty early but She didn't run the
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  mile until close to 5 p.m. Oh my goodness.
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  So yes, yes, y'all wait. Yes.
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  Yes and out. I were you guys out that side
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  the oh my yes, and and that and that beautiful Texas heat.
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  Yes. So my my my heart dropped a
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  little bit because after she ran the first event, you know, she
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  came and checked in. To me or whatever and she was
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  like she's our coach said that the that the 800-meter would be
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  pretty much like second to last basically.
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  And yeah, I was not prepared, but best believe this weekend
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  going forward. So some adjustments will be made
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  just because it was like, you know, like I said, like that
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  being because normally most of her stuff is done or Around one
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  ish or so whatever. So you know a handful of hours,
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  not that big a deal. But yeah that that was
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  unexpected. And then after that my wife she
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  had a alumni basketball game. So which yeah, which was an hour
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  away. Oh my goodness, on the opposite
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  side of the DFW metroplex. So you know, Had to drive 30
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  minutes from the track thing to the house, to get the rest of
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  the kids and then our two to her thing, which I will say the
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  event itself for for the for the alumni thing.
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  Whatever was fire was super hot like in the best way.
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  Yes, because okay. Yeah being for those who don't
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  know. So my my wife she went to Tara
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  High School. The same school.
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  That Jamie Foxx went to. So it was Terror versus Kaufman,
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  their old rival schools, and the energy that was in that place.
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  When we got in, there was literally electric because you
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  have had families and no kids. They had a live MC talking
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  during the whole event. He walking on the core just
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  hyping up the crowd and stuff. You had people on the courts on
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  the sidelines, trash-talking kids it because they had music.
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  SSO kids, grown old people, dancing on the south.
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  It was hype, it was beyond hype. You want to know what's crazy?
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  When you said that I, you didn't see me, but I have a very close
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  friend. Hmm, Terrell.
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  And when you said I'm like nobody's fruit.
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  That's crazy. I think we're around the same
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  age. So she might be y'all might know
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  her. Your wife might know her.
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  So that's that is wild. It's such a small world.
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  I'm telling you. It is a small.
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  Yeah. Yes indeed as I was saying so we
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  went in there that like I said was super fun because it was the
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  the ladies played first and my wife's team won.
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  So yay to that. And then afterwards was there
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  some sort of this was the first year that the women's team had
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  their alumni game, but the men they've been doing it for a few
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  years at this point and stuff so bad, but overall, it was a
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  fantastic thing, but I said it was just a super long day.
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  So Sunday was pretty much just trying to just recover and stuff
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  and then fast-forwarding to today.
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  So my plan was I was okay. I got this thing plan with Kiki,
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  this afternoon Monday night. I'm going to go to bed at a
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  decent time. Get me some rest.
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  Oh, all the all the all the positive habits you should do.
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  And I started off on a good foot.
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  I got in bed before midnight, and you know, but, you know,
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  then I woke up. I woke up middle of the night,
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  like, somewhere between. I wanted to assure that ever.
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  Little Restless made the mistake of checking Twitter.
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  That's it. Nope, you'll never get off.
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  So the thing that happened were to order and out and this would
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  be a little small impromptu new section because because what I'm
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  about to talk about very briefly is the reason why I was up for a
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  while because first thing I see, you know, I said, it's likes it
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  like Want to am whatever I say one piece trending.
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  Okay, what was going on one piece?
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  So we get news that the One Piece manga will be going on a
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  one month. Hiatus.
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  Absolutely. Yeah.
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  So after that I was like about to lose their minds.
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  Yes, because you know, because the I guess I was like, hey,
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  have you read one piece you into one piece?
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  Don't care me. Well, I you know what?
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  I tried to read it, but I couldn't read it.
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  I watched. The anime and so I try to like
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  episode 80 something. So I'm really into gotcha.
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  I realized, you know, I just couldn't read it.
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  So I don't know. I guess there are some manga
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  like that. Like I'm like, I just, it's too
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  much. Yeah, I got was overwhelmed by
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  the amount of volume. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Do it asking, you know, so yeah.
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  Yeah. So the reason why I just asked
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  just briefly was because of the last time out of the Arthur did
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  a woman's break was when we Had the time skip event and that's
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  been over a decade ago, whatever.
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  So it's okay. We're having another one month,
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  Hiatus because we're wrapping up a very big Arc that's been going
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  on for four years. Okay?
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  Yeah, it's yes, so it's just kind of like the perfect storm
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  of events because, you know, this Big Arc is finishing up,
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  this year is the 25th anniversary of the series.
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  And so, he's also doing some traveling to go check on. on the
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  filming for the live-action series, their feminist South
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  Africa, right now and Oh, and also preparation for for.
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  There's a movie coming out at at the in this fall.
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  So so that that was the one piece and I'm okay.
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  Okay, cool. One piece.
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  I barely get calm down from that.
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  Then I see berserks trending on my why is berserk trendy also at
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  2823? Am gonna find out berserk is
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  coming back. Yes.
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  So just a little bit just briefly on that.
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  So I don't have the, the guy's number, basically, it was
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  somebody who was a very close friend, of the author of
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  Berserk. He knows a lot of the details of
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  what was going to be planned for the story.
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  So he's going to supervise the series as far as the story wise,
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  and then his a mirror, his a assistance.
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  We'll take over as far as like, the drawing in the Arts.
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  And so, and that's expected to come back, I believe in July.
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  So, that was another thing, July.
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  Hmm. Wow.
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  Yeah. Like now, like next month?
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  Yeah. Wow, yeah.
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  I didn't know it was that soon. Yeah, okay, yeah.
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  So, we'll see because I know they, they, they make, they
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  mentioned that they know that they're gonna, you know, of
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  course, focus on finishing up the current Arc that they're on
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  and You know, World we'll go from there.
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  This next one that I saw was also mentioned in all this.
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  This is a series. I haven't read myself.
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  I've heard seemingly positive things about it, but I know
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  nothing about it is called a land of lustrous.
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  I've seen that. Yeah landed look.
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  Yes. They're very nice.
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  Like they look good. Like yeah, cover it.
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  They're very pretty but I think there's a on the higher end and
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  mmm. Don't like really paying for
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  them. So you don't hear a lot of
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  people talking about it, but I haven't really like dive into
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  her tried to like read and see what it was about.
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  I really haven't. But yeah, I haven't either but
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  but yeah, I saw that mention his world back because apparently
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  that's that's Series has been on Hiatus as 2020.
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  So, okay. Yeah, so it's all of people are
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  excited about that because it was a you know, of course just
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  post. What else?
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  I'll people as I was like, like, like, what is going on.
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  We have One Piece, One Piece going on, Hiatus.
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  We have Hunter Hunter. Berserk and land of lustrous all
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  coming back after having you know, years for some of them
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  hiatuses and then the last little tidbit of news I saw and
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  this one is more on the rumor side because I saw one thing
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  last night then I saw something else today so I don't know, you
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  know what is what if both things are true or whatever.
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  But I'm sorry, rumors of both potentially a zombie, 100 anime.
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  A day and a live-action series. I don't know how that's going to
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  translate live action. Yeah, yeah.
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  I mean, he's already got a great live-action out, just like stick
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  to one buddy. Yeah, Allison.
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  What do I like it? Yeah, that's great.
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  No, yes, I don't know how know, but I'm a little excited about
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  that. That Psalm 100 rumor, because
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  that would be a great anime to watch.
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  I think, yes, yes, I'm in the same boat with you as well,
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  because because your, I've granted, I've only read I don't
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  know where my bonds are right now but I think I've only read
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  the first three volumes so far, okay?
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  And I have, are you for? I just haven't read it yet but
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  I've enjoyed, you know, what what, what I've read of it so
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  far, but yeah, but all that to say, yes, yes, yes.
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  You know, me being a still like three something in the morning
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  and then it just, I'm sorry, no not really what we're about to
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  say. I was gonna say, I was hoping
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  gonna say something about Vagabond like we're getting all
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  this stuff back. Come on in a way with me.
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  So so that that is a series that I still haven't got around to
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  reading you. It is it is high on my list of
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  things to get to but that was definitely In the, you know,
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  whenever I was. Okay.
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  Hey, all this other stuff is coming back.
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  Hey, let's toss back a bonding there to something like that.
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  Yeah. It's only been a year for me and
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  I'm like, come on in so yes. Yes.
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  So so yeah. So that that let's adjust the
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  domino effect of today of just, you know, I finally got to sleep
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  but then had to get right back up, you know, for work and stuff
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  and then what was on The Struggle Bus all day and they
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  finally got home napped a little bit and now we're here.
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  But, but yeah, so we're with that being said, my I'm-i'm-i'm
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  any tangent. So, back back back to you Kiki.
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  So, for for, for those who do not know, you know, Kiki is
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  somebody that I met through being being in the, in the, in
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  the, I guess we'll call the the manga tuber, because community
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  and stuff, community and stuff, you know, it's been very
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  awesome, you know, Watching all your videos, you know, you're
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  you know, all the different manga and stuff you've been
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  doing as well as just just all the different things that you,
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  you know, kind of, you know, started doing around that which
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  what, you know, what kind of cover and a second.
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  But you know, what would be? Kind of like, like your elevator
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  pitch. Like, hey, who is Kiki?
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  Who is book vibes? I want to tell you like this
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  this is I am someone who is new and just discovered a new world,
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  it entirely new world and it has changed my life.
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  And I want everyone's life to be changed by it.
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  And so, that is why I'm like, come on, man.
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  Like this is read any of them, try anything, whatever you read.
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  That's your Vibe. That's what you love.
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  I want everybody to be able to feel safe and what they read and
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  not. Like you know, whatever because
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  I know already people from my world, I was an English major.
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  They're like, what is this? Trash like what are you reading
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  these comic books for but I'm like, you don't understand this?
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  Yeah, this is another level. This gives me happiness like
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  this. It's a crazy thing.
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  And so I'm just someone who wants to share that joy and
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  he'll bring you all along while I'm discovering new things
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  because some folks have been in it for a while.
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  And I'm like, hey, what about this?
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  What is I'm like a child just yeah it's going to Disneyland.
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  That's really what I am. And that's what I want to share
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  with everybody else. Yeah, you know, first I want to
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  say the name book Vibes, definitely suits you your whole
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  vibe, everything very well, how did it take you a while to come
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  around to that name? Or was it like, okay, I'm gonna
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  do this stuff. This is the name.
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  It was more of a, okay? So when I started my Instagram,
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  it was going to be about novels reading novels and things like
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  that. Yeah, and I wanted it to be a
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  Vibe, that's all I was like, cuz I'm always talking about, you
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  know, Good Vibes, Good Vibes. I'm telling this to my kids all
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  the time. Give me good energy.
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  Good me, give me Good Vibes. And when I was trying to tell
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  them is, hey meet me where I am so I can meet you where you are,
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  so we can just chill. Yeah, I'm a very laid-back
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  person. I'm a military brat, but I Spent
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  a lot of time on the west coast and the west coast is known for
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  its chill Vibe. So anybody that's around there
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  like he was so calm and you're so like my guess, you know what
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  it is, what it is, why am I going to express myself over
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  that? So I want to say, okay, you know
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  what, reading is a Vibe reading is cool, reading is time that
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  you can chill, enjoy yourself. You can pull in was from the
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  book. You can learn new things.
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  Learn new words having a great big imagination.
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  That's who I am. I'm like I said, I'm an
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  introvert by Nature so I'm that kind of person out of sit there.
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  And I can look at something and just create a huge story and I'm
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  like, yeah, and I'm by myself. So, it was always a Vibe with
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  me. So that's kind of what I thought
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  of and I asked my husband, he's like, well, if you do that, you
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  know, have a unique spelling. I was like, yeah, so that's kind
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  of how that happened. So, yes, it was it was really
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  what I wanted to convey and it was I don't want to say it was
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  hard. I don't want to say it was
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  simple it. I did put some thought So yeah.
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  I didn't want to make it to where I want people to like hear
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  it and know exactly what's going on.
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  Its books about books and it survived.
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  Yeah yeah II I love it. Like I said, you know, just from
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  like I said from from day one, when I had first came across you
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  and your YouTube YouTube channel stuff, whatever just the name
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  is. So I was like well what's going
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  on over here and you you know you like ice.
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  Like I said well I got you. You definitely.
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  Not disappointed, your death of been very cheer, you've been
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  very entertaining. I always enjoy your your your
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  work shenanigans on your on your IG stories and staff and
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  everything but so and and you mentioning you know you starting
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  off with the novels and stuff. I honestly that that's that's
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  something I didn't really like fully nervous until yeah.
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  Yesterday when you know, I was like, doing some prep and stuff
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  for for this whatever. I was like, I don't think I've
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  ever like scroll like down to the beginning of your IG or
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  whatever and that is one thing that is just interesting about
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  like, like, with people's Instagram accounts and stuff,
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  especially know those of us that do content stuff, whatever.
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  It's just kind of like seeing like the the stages and like
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  okay, you know, this Is where this shit happen or this is
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  where that changed happened. Whatever.
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  And so yeah, just going to the bottom and just saying like, oh
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  wait, there's no manga down here.
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  Yeah, you can kind of see the shift to we're happy where I was
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  like, oh, yeah, like this. Yes, and you know, another dope
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  thing that I had that I learned as well, which I guess now kind
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  of also makes sense with, you know, mentioned mentioned.
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  You grew up in a military family.
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  Was I saw there that you spent some time and was in Thailand?
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  Yeah. Nope.
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  Yeah. So what was that?
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  Like, just well, I guess like leading up to that like, like,
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  When was that sheriff? And then how was it?
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  Yeah, just living in a whole different country and stuff.
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  Okay. So well, that was not my first
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  time, my dad, we went to Europe. So that was our first tour over.
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  Okay. Now that one I was like fourth
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  to sixth grade. I remember it somewhat, but I
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  was on a military base was completely different.
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  We did not live on a military base.
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  We lived in the what they call the economy.
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  We lived with the people in the park like that.
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  I thought they were families everywhere.
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  I went over there when I was. 13, turning 14 and I stayed
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  there till I was 18. So I was their formative years.
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  Yeah. Am I spent my formative years
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  there? So, all of my ideals and my
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  thought process, it was all developed there.
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  So I do consider that my second home.
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  Yeah. I just really want to go back
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  but it's not a drive away. What are we going to my husband?
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  I'm planning to bring because I want to take him to all the
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  places that we were that I was in places that I live.
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  The my school I went to an international school.
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  Probably. The best experience that I wish.
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  Every child can have that experience?
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  Yeah, because it really gives you a perspective on it gives
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  you a worldview like yeah, massive worldview.
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  And I mean I have friends from everywhere.
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  One thing that I think a lot of people asking about is how do
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  you make friends? You know, when you get back and
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  I'm like, no, I don't have any close friends, like a lot of my
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  friends don't go, I got all my friends and you know, Texas are
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  I got all my friends and wherever they're going, and I
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  don't have that. You know, I have maybe one or
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  two people that I met when I got back here.
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  But yeah, I have friends that live in Title 1.
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  I have friends that live in Japan.
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  I have friends, that still live in Thailand.
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  I have friends that are German, Scandinavia like everywhere.
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  Yeah, my buddy, you're everywhere.
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  So it's a weird unique world and I'm very thankful for, so yeah.
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  Stay in contact with them. Yeah.
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  Yeah, it was, it was a very, probably the best experience.
• 23:35
  My father could have given us is moving us.
• 23:38
  They're taking that chance. Yeah.
• 23:40
  Wow. Yeah.
• 23:41
  See, like I said, I like meme's Crow.
• 23:44
  He's scrolling down to the bottom.
• 23:45
  Just like, open up a whole another, you know, just just
• 23:50
  information view because I was because if I would have done if
• 23:54
  I didn't do that or whatever, I don't know, if you've been being
• 23:58
  there would have came up naturally in this conversation
• 24:01
  and You point probably but and let that sort of question.
• 24:05
  I'm just curious about with that is a, are you still flowing in
• 24:10
  any other in those languages and different stuff that you've
• 24:13
  learned over the years? And the lady came over and I
• 24:32
  ordered in ties. She was like, so she kept, she
• 24:35
  started like going off. And I was like no no no, no.
• 24:40
  No, it's just like she said, you'll remember and she starts
• 24:42
  speaking to me slowly. Yeah, and I start picking it up
• 24:45
  and I was like, I do remember. So that's I think if at some
• 24:49
  point and I decide maybe to pick it back up.
• 24:52
  Yeah, I think it will be a little easier.
• 24:54
  So yeah, I was not, I don't want to say I was fluent but I was
• 24:57
  able to get around. Yeah, English is not widely
• 25:01
  spoken. Poke in there.
• 25:01
  So like we wanted to get somewhere, you had to speak to
• 25:04
  if we wanted to order something. It had to be in tight.
• 25:06
  Yeah. So yeah, so it's crazy.
• 25:09
  Yeah. That just had that experience.
• 25:11
  I like, wait a minute. I do remember some.
• 25:13
  Yeah that that that is so freaking awesome.
• 25:17
  You know, like like I know mentioned to you before you
• 25:22
  before we started recording stuff like that.
• 25:26
  That that is why I enjoy doing my podcast and and talking
• 25:31
  People just because you just never know, you know, wearing
• 25:35
  what, where people have been, what, life experiences, they
• 25:39
  have, you know, been through and saying, things of that nature.
• 25:43
  So, Going, okay. So so going from there with, you
• 25:49
  know, we're going to take a trip down memory lane if you will.
• 25:57
  Your introduction to manga as well as anime.
• 26:01
  Which one did you get into first?
• 26:05
  And in about, you know, like like what was it?
• 26:07
  Then it kind of like an expert on your your interest in manga.
• 26:11
  Anime. There was this thing called a
• 26:15
  pandemic. So here I'll go back a little
• 26:20
  bit. Yeah.
• 26:20
  My husband is an anime. He is a weed.
• 26:24
  Yeah. He's, you know, he's got them
• 26:26
  all. Terms now because I'm learning
• 26:28
  in the community. Yeah, but he loves anime.
• 26:31
  Like, he'll he used to watch it and come, watch it with me.
• 26:35
  I try to watch Naruto with him and I was like, I can't watch
• 26:38
  this, man. It just didn't appeal to me.
• 26:40
  Yeah, and then I was like, what are, you know, when they had all
• 26:42
  the fillers? I was like, what does this have
• 26:43
  to do with the story? What is this?
• 26:46
  Plotline about, like, I'm plot line.
• 26:48
  And what's the, he's like, what is this, this in the story?
• 26:50
  I'm like that. So I never really finished it.
• 26:53
  Yeah. Bleach interested me a little
• 26:56
  bit more, but he was watching something else, so he didn't
• 26:59
  watch that. And then he was watching some
• 27:01
  other things and I'm like, yeah. Yeah, you know, Dragon Ball.
• 27:04
  The he tried to get me into that.
• 27:06
  I just couldn't stand it. Yeah.
• 27:09
  Whoa, I now watch it. I'll sit there and watch ya
• 27:13
  hours. I know I'm into it now.
• 27:16
  How I get understanding storage structures.
• 27:17
  Anyway. Yeah.
• 27:19
  I was watching Netflix and I saw be Stars, you know.
• 27:26
  I'll check it out because it was different because I had started
• 27:28
  watching the Grits, go aggressive.
• 27:30
  Coal is probably my introduction into actual anime because but
• 27:35
  awesome much. I love Rick and Morty like stuff
• 27:39
  like that. That's on Adult Swim, you know.
• 27:41
  I enjoyed that I went over to Grits go and then I saw a bee
• 27:45
  stars and I start watching. I said wow!
• 27:47
  This is this is actually a really good story.
• 27:49
  Yeah. Well I go to Barnes & Noble for
• 27:52
  books and I slide over to the mall.
• 27:55
  Unga section I was like okay let me look at this and I saw be
• 27:57
  start sounds like oh my goodness.
• 28:00
  Yeah and so I bought volumes 1 through 4 nice and I couldn't
• 28:05
  read them. I had no clue how to navigate
• 28:08
  the yes, put it to the side. I finished be stars and then I
• 28:14
  started watching The Promised Neverland and then I found out
• 28:18
  there book to that tools. Like what When the world.
• 28:21
  So I went and got those and then I taught myself how to read the
• 28:25
  panels and yeah. That was all during the pendant
• 28:27
  like that was last year. Wow.
• 28:30
  I just learned and so after that I was like I need more I need
• 28:33
  more. And yeah with manga to I was
• 28:36
  like what so it was one thing after another and I start seeing
• 28:42
  more, you know, manga fans on Instagram.
• 28:45
  And I was like, this is a world. It's a community.
• 28:48
  I belong here. Yes.
• 28:51
  Yeah. Oh wow.
• 28:53
  So okay that that is very interesting because of you know,
• 28:58
  there have been other people that I've, you know, mad talk to
• 29:01
  us if as well that are also you know, more recent, you know,
• 29:05
  fans or more recently got into the into the other medium and
• 29:09
  stuff. Now, out of curiosity, do do you
• 29:13
  think that you potentially heard that you really didn't like get
• 29:16
  into it like growing up and stuff for there just because of
• 29:19
  you, you know, living In other countries and stuff?
• 29:21
  Do you think that might've been a part of it or you just never
• 29:23
  just I just, I was more into reading, like, I would.
• 29:38
  Yeah, I was a huge and rice fan. I'm a huge Stephen King fan,
• 29:42
  like that was, you know, my world and I discovered in GE toe
• 29:46
  and I was like and there's pictures that I can.
• 29:50
  I have to make my own. Yeah, what was going on?
• 29:54
  He did it perfectly. So that's where our that's the
• 29:58
  kind of I would read huge thick books and that's all I wanted to
• 30:01
  read. Yeah.
• 30:02
  You know, I was that person in a corner and I could sit there for
• 30:04
  hours. Yeah.
• 30:06
  Yeah. Okay.
• 30:08
  Wow. Say ah, so for those watching
• 30:13
  the, the video, your collection behind you grant, I don't know.
• 30:19
  And we're getting It will get to in a second day, you know,
• 30:21
  majority of that is like for like the last year or so.
• 30:24
  But somebody seeing your collection is stuff wouldn't
• 30:28
  think that oh, yes. She's only been into this for,
• 30:32
  you know, a couple of years, just to paint him.
• 30:35
  I do not know you've been in it for you for years now, so okay.
• 30:40
  Wow. So so okay, so so, so, you know,
• 30:45
  you you start getting to the manga and things of that nature.
• 30:49
  So, When did you kind of and if none, of course, somewhere in
• 30:53
  there as well, you know, you made the your Instagram, and
• 30:56
  things of that nature. So then what was the turning
• 30:58
  point you decided, okay. I want to take the next step and
• 31:04
  doing a YouTube channel and things like that.
• 31:08
  I've always been in love with you too.
• 31:10
  YouTube has been something that I've always wanted to do, but I
• 31:14
  wasn't always in the situation to do it.
• 31:16
  Yeah. So when I first started YouTube
• 31:19
  because this is not, this is This channel is already like
• 31:22
  established and I had me videos before.
• 31:24
  Yeah, I did a hair Channel. I used to have my hair was
• 31:28
  natural and I used to actually be a product representative for
• 31:31
  a company called mild or going Organics.
• 31:34
  She's pretty big now. Yeah.
• 31:35
  And so I started making videos about my Organics.
• 31:40
  I mean, of course I have my link.
• 31:42
  You know, I made my money off that.
• 31:44
  Yeah, and I would do Orioles on my hair, you know, before I had
• 31:47
  locks and yeah, so that's Why have a YouTube channel?
• 31:52
  So I was like, you know what, I would like to begin.
• 31:54
  Then I start seeing you know, I think the first person I had
• 31:57
  seen and I was like, this is really cool was Captain Ryan.
• 32:01
  I don't know if you know Captain Ryan, but I was like, I don't
• 32:03
  have heard the name. Yeah.
• 32:05
  Yeah, so he's pretty he's pretty cool.
• 32:07
  Now start looking more then I saw darks.
• 32:09
  That's all dark stage and I was like, huh?
• 32:16
  And I was like, I need to do this for people, my age and who
• 32:21
  people who look like me. Because there wasn't a lot of
• 32:23
  people who look like me. That was my I knew.
• 32:26
  Mark. And Mark.
• 32:27
  I knew Mark was my age. Yeah, I was like, but I know
• 32:31
  that we read to black people Read Manga to sound like I want
• 32:35
  to be that person, that brings that into.
• 32:39
  Hey y'all, come on. Yeah, let's go.
• 32:41
  Ladies express yourself. I didn't realize How big our
• 32:44
  community was because I wasn't seen it on YouTube.
• 32:46
  Yeah, so that was one of the drives for me and then a kid saw
• 32:52
  me reading and he was like, what do you read?
• 32:55
  And I was like, oh, he's like you should put suggestions on
• 32:58
  YouTube and I was like, come on now.
• 33:01
  I like really. He's like, yeah.
• 33:04
  So another reason was for my kids.
• 33:06
  So I do have some of my kids do watch.
• 33:08
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 33:10
  That that is so dope. And so, okay.
• 33:16
  So with, so, with the manga Channel thing, that was nothing
• 33:21
  but then your first one was like, February of last year
• 33:24
  somewhere. Yeah.
• 33:25
  Okay. Yes, and it's funny that you
• 33:30
  mention it. You know, you you previously
• 33:33
  know how the hair challenge stuff, it remind me of.
• 33:39
  My friend mama loves manga Jessica.
• 33:43
  She, you know, also years back, you know, had hair stuff,
• 33:47
  whatever, but that's okay. But sorry, I'm I'm struggling
• 33:53
  with the words. Like I said, just just collects,
• 33:55
  adjust, just learning all this stuff on the fly.
• 33:58
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 34:00
  Yeah. So, so you're so so fast?
• 34:03
  Forwarding to now, so you've been doing this for a year now.
• 34:11
  What, what do you think like? Like, like with with?
• 34:15
  Can can you still hear me? Yep?
• 34:17
  Okay. Yeah.
• 34:19
  No, you cool. So, you know, with, with you
• 34:22
  been a year and some change in now.
• 34:26
  How do you feel or have have you been loving it?
• 34:29
  Enjoying it? What has been?
• 34:32
  What would have been gone? Absolutely love the community.
• 34:38
  I love this world. I love YouTube.
• 34:41
  There's so much I want to do but I haven't had time to plan it.
• 34:44
  So when I tell you I have pages and pages of ideas that I want
• 34:50
  to execute. I'm having too much fun.
• 34:52
  Yeah, it's my outlet. Yes.
• 34:54
  It's my outlet and And I know I've said this before but it's
• 34:59
  very important for people to know.
• 35:01
  Yes, introverts can get in front of a camera and have fun and
• 35:05
  just be happy doing that all day.
• 35:06
  Yeah, because I mean just being able to put The other side of
• 35:14
  you out in the be the other side of you sometimes is really nice.
• 35:18
  Yes, and it's, it's brought me out of, sometimes, like, some
• 35:23
  low times where I'm like, you know what, I'm going to record
• 35:25
  it and then wash myself in laughing myself.
• 35:27
  Sometimes. I'll even put it out.
• 35:28
  Yeah, but I've, you know, I've always had fun.
• 35:31
  I've always wanted to do something like this.
• 35:32
  So I'm excited that I found a medium that that I want to
• 35:36
  continue. Yeah.
• 35:38
  Okay, I guess I could do some luck videos in their orders.
• 35:43
  No, I don't know. But this is, you know, this is
• 35:46
  where I want to be right now. I love the community.
• 35:48
  Yeah, for sure. And you know, going back to what
• 35:50
  you saw my while, while ago about, you know, you at the
• 35:55
  time, not since so many people that they looked like you, you
• 36:00
  know, both, you know, like stuff from from aged black everything
• 36:04
  in between that, that that's kind of how I felt as well.
• 36:09
  And in a sense, when, when I started, you know, I started
• 36:15
  almost like little bit after you because I started.
• 36:18
  Okay, I think, well, podcast wise, I started March of last
• 36:23
  year, but I started doing, I didn't start doing the YouTube
• 36:26
  stuff. I believe until End of June,
• 36:29
  July somewhere in there. Okay, it's tough.
• 36:32
  So around two years. Yeah.
• 36:33
  Okay. Yeah, okay, and so kind of kind
• 36:36
  of a similar thing now to where I was searching around on
• 36:39
  YouTube and at the moment in that initial moment wasn't
• 36:42
  seeing you know to be polite. Oh God.
• 36:47
  No, yeah here, you know a stuff. So but it is so wild like you
• 36:53
  said, it's like it's like once you get into the community.
• 36:58
  Did you see? Oh yeah.
• 36:59
  Yeah, it's popping up in here. We we everywhere.
• 37:02
  But it's like, it's like, it's like, we're just like passing
• 37:05
  by, you know, and it's just not bubbling up, but it's like, it's
• 37:10
  like once you get on the inside, then it's like, oh, okay.
• 37:14
  Okay, so, okay, so, so I'm not the only one, you know, we're
• 37:18
  which is an awesome feeling because I because even like with
• 37:21
  the, you know, on the pocket side of things, you know, I've
• 37:25
  been in since a podcast well, Ten years, you know, plus at
• 37:30
  this point but it's like you know, especially with like you
• 37:34
  know anime and manga stuff like this whatever.
• 37:38
  I didn't know too many, you know people like us that were having
• 37:44
  podcast and stuff whatever. But once again like you said
• 37:47
  these algorithms and how stuff is presented to you whatever but
• 37:52
  it's like when when I have found a couple of people and then the
• 37:57
  biggest kicker Our was or the biggest turning point was, when
• 38:01
  I came across a Twitter account and website called black anime
• 38:06
  pods, okay, it is a whole directory, that is nothing but
• 38:12
  black and people of color, they do that, do anime and manga
• 38:16
  podcast. And he as of now, social the,
• 38:22
  the guy that that runs the count, his name is Ash.
• 38:25
  He's a he's from the UK. He This is your or he just hit
• 38:29
  his two-year anniversary this week.
• 38:33
  And so I've kind of had the pleasure of working with him
• 38:37
  here and there over the last year of our a, when I come
• 38:39
  across somebody, I damn him the name and he puts them into in
• 38:43
  the directory. And currently, I think he's
• 38:45
  sitting there like, I want to like 170 or so black anime
• 38:52
  podcast. And so when you go to the, when
• 38:56
  you go to the, to the, to the side or whatever and you just
• 38:58
  Browsing through. It is ridiculous.
• 39:00
  Like how many people are in there?
• 39:03
  And and that's how I found. So many people that I have met
• 39:09
  over this last year, was through that.
• 39:11
  I was like, it's like, right? Not only are there people that
• 39:14
  are doing this, there's dozens hundreds of people that are
• 39:20
  doing this from all walks of life from all different parts of
• 39:24
  the world. And so that, that is why I, you
• 39:27
  know, whenever Get the chance to Champion him and his sight.
• 39:32
  I shout them out because like I said, it's just one of those
• 39:34
  like, super helpful things that, you know, that is out there.
• 39:40
  But you know, once again, it's like yes, you don't know where
• 39:43
  to look, you don't know. Right.
• 39:46
  Right and stuff so, but, but yeah, but yeah, it was a cousin
• 39:50
  caught think what else? Cuz cuz I did that for the
• 39:54
  pockets but thing with the YouTube stuff, you know, I was
• 39:57
  just stringing. I'll string along keywords like
• 39:59
  okay black, anime YouTube or you know, black black lady manga,
• 40:06
  just different stuff. Yeah, and that's when I started
• 40:10
  coming to crosstalk. I found one or two and then
• 40:14
  sometimes that that's enough. You find a couple and then the
• 40:18
  algorithm starts acting, right? Yeah, and then we'll start
• 40:23
  bubbling up some or whatever. But yeah, it is.
• 40:28
  It has been so awesome. Like I said, just in this one
• 40:31
  year of Jess. Everybody that's out there.
• 40:35
  And and the thing, and it's also why it is so important to wear,
• 40:40
  you know, even if you're not active on all these platforms to
• 40:43
  at least be aware of the different, you know, Twitter
• 40:46
  Instagram, tick-tocks blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, because
• 40:49
  I've met people on each one that are only on that platform.
• 40:54
  Yes, only on one. Yeah.
• 40:56
  It's kind of like, I don't come here much, but like you said,
• 41:00
  you have to be aware. I'm I have, I become So now all
• 41:04
  of them. Yeah.
• 41:05
  I'm trying to, you know, see how I could.
• 41:07
  You can't work them all. It's a lot of work.
• 41:09
  Yes, you know, jobless a full-time me too.
• 41:13
  So we're not there yet. So when we get there, yes, but,
• 41:18
  um, there's a lot of folks that I saw in Tick-Tock and I'm like
• 41:23
  Yeah, I'm gonna Community still as far as YouTube and social
• 41:27
  media goes mind among Community is small.
• 41:31
  And it's small enough to where, if I wanted to go in and get
• 41:34
  personal with those people. They would, you know, interact
• 41:36
  like, hey, you know, let's talk and it's still small enough for
• 41:39
  that, which I love. Yeah, but I'm gonna have to
• 41:43
  check out that. That black enemy Park is yes
• 41:48
  that that list because I didn't know, I had no clue.
• 41:51
  Yeah. But I'll hook you up.
• 41:55
  Yeah, but yeah, so, so, you know, won't want that kind of
• 42:01
  wanted to kind of, you know, get into next talking about like I
• 42:05
  said, like I said, like, you know, you doing this for a year
• 42:09
  and, you know, more recently, and would you said a while ago,
• 42:14
  but it but even like sending your content, you know, how you
• 42:16
  say, how you kind of wanted to kind of Branch out and do even
• 42:20
  more stuff Beyond, you know, the, you know, The manga hauls
• 42:24
  and reviews and stuff like that. Oh.
• 42:31
  Try to talk to her, how to how to a score or get gather my
• 42:35
  thoughts together. But but yeah, I guess I like
• 42:40
  what has kind of been the driving force of the thought
• 42:43
  behind it. Okay, it's it's time to start
• 42:47
  transitioning. Branching out.
• 42:49
  You know, what, what what kind of bird is bringing brought that
• 42:52
  along? For me, I'm getting bored and my
• 42:56
  husband will tell you if I get bored, then it has to either
• 43:00
  change or I'm not gonna do it anymore.
• 43:02
  Yeah, it's just it's just this weird nature about, I'm like, if
• 43:05
  I'm getting bored like, even at work, I'll tell my bosses.
• 43:08
  What do you have something else for me to do?
• 43:09
  I'm getting bored. Okay, you know, I guess what
• 43:13
  come over here and do this because my mind just like I have
• 43:17
  to There has to be more to it. So for me, I'm like, I'm really
• 43:22
  tired of doing this. I one reason why I kind of stuck
• 43:25
  to a couple different types of videos was, I'm trying to
• 43:29
  practice. Yeah.
• 43:31
  I I don't know you if you've noticed I've changed formats.
• 43:35
  It's the same like talking head, but I've tried to shift things
• 43:38
  around. How am I going to, you know, do
• 43:40
  this? I think I'm, you know, better
• 43:42
  with the scripting and all that stuff.
• 43:44
  I want to get that part perfected before I move on.
• 43:48
  So, yeah, I think Had enough practice to where I'm like,
• 43:51
  okay, I understand. Okay, this is how much time I
• 43:53
  need. This is how I need to set up.
• 43:55
  This is how I need the lighting to look.
• 43:56
  This is I have all that ready, you know?
• 43:58
  So if I want to adjust it, I think now that things that I
• 44:01
  want to do, I'm okay when I'm sitting here and had the light
• 44:04
  right here and it's better. So if I'm going to do a skit or
• 44:07
  something, I need to be like this.
• 44:08
  Yeah. That's just how my brain works.
• 44:10
  So I was setting it up you know. Yeah.
• 44:12
  Okay. I'm bored now I know what I need
• 44:15
  to know for myself, you know, for that part.
• 44:17
  And I'm going to Take this next level.
• 44:19
  Yeah, I think that's what it is. I mean, if I can do like some
• 44:24
  like half, I don't think there's half feature movies, but, you
• 44:27
  know, yeah, little Sky long longer skits.
• 44:30
  Yeah, I will do it. I get to that point.
• 44:35
  Like I would love to have like little mini movies about
• 44:38
  something dealing with. I would love to, you know,
• 44:40
  taking portions of manga and making my own live action's with
• 44:44
  just me. Yeah, baby to other people, you
• 44:47
  know. Yeah, I'm fun.
• 44:49
  Things I wanted to be fun. I wanted to be something as big
• 44:52
  as I used to watch somebody called Nigahiga.
• 44:56
  I absolutely loved him. He was a Japanese-American
• 44:59
  Creator but he started out which is little things.
• 45:02
  Yeah. Misty know what he is like
• 45:04
  miniature video like movies and then, didn't he?
• 45:07
  I mean, I was like, I love this. So I would love to platform for
• 45:10
  what you could do creatively. Yeah.
• 45:12
  And I wasn't always like Into the media type thing.
• 45:18
  But I think part of me was and I didn't want to express it
• 45:21
  because I didn't feel like I fit into that.
• 45:23
  Yeah, that kind of category cuz I was a quiet reader.
• 45:26
  And yeah, I like to do things, right?
• 45:28
  Little essay, you know, stuff like that, but like maybe I need
• 45:33
  to try now. You know, I'm almost 40, so it's
• 45:36
  fine, you know, it's fine. I'm just gonna do it, you know.
• 45:40
  So that's kind of why I was ready to go.
• 45:43
  I'm ready to transition over. She is having hey, You here.
• 45:49
  Mmm. Okay.
• 45:51
  Good. Sleep apnea.
• 45:59
  No, no, she's not. She's fine.
• 46:00
  She's not, she's not coming through.
• 46:02
  Yeah. So yeah.
• 46:03
  And yeah, the I think that's something that, you know, some
• 46:08
  people from like the outside that their watch, you know,
• 46:13
  people like you me or just content creators in general.
• 46:17
  Is you know just not understanding sometimes like the
• 46:22
  need to change and adapt because it's like, you know and you know
• 46:28
  I'm pretty sure we've all seen some people here and there
• 46:30
  towards like they get to buried into one thing and then they're
• 46:35
  too afraid to Pivot because of like well everybody knows me as
• 46:40
  you know the June GE tell person or everybody knows me as the one
• 46:46
  piece guy. Or whatever.
• 46:48
  And then it's like, oh, I also enjoyed blue period, but I don't
• 46:54
  know, but I've been doing only one piece for like five years,
• 46:58
  you know, so because you know, because even like with myself,
• 47:04
  You know, I found myself almost getting pigeon-holed and to it's
• 47:09
  a certain areas and stuff unintentionally just because you
• 47:14
  know, it was just certain things that I was enjoying doing like,
• 47:18
  you know, reviewing manga and things like that and then, you
• 47:23
  know, like like like on the podcast and stuff here, you
• 47:27
  know, talking about a lot of like the weekly episodes of
• 47:30
  anime and weekly chapters of manga.
• 47:34
  Which was fine, but some parts of this I started I recognize
• 47:38
  like even like at the end of last year whenever I was like,
• 47:41
  okay, I don't need to talk about every chapter of juicer cars and
• 47:46
  every week sometimes hey, I can read it.
• 47:49
  Enjoy it and I can just say hey this week good and move on.
• 47:55
  I don't need to sit there and try to like read through the
• 47:58
  chapter and recap and blah blah blah, and I'm not feeling it.
• 48:03
  Yes. If you can't enjoy what you're
• 48:06
  you know, what you love? Exactly.
• 48:09
  I agree. I don't want to get to that that
• 48:11
  point where I'm like, Okay, I'm getting this and I'm showing you
• 48:15
  guys these books. But yeah, you know, I don't want
• 48:20
  to take this site excitement from it.
• 48:21
  So I'm not going to do this all the time, you know, exactly.
• 48:24
  Yeah, that makes sense. Exactly.
• 48:26
  And that that that's kind of where I've just kind of, you
• 48:30
  know, I started making that shift of like, hey if it feels
• 48:34
  something that was if for show had a exciting and are episode
• 48:38
  sure. I'll talk about it.
• 48:40
  Otherwise, I might just give it like suggest a general and Hey,
• 48:43
  this week's episode of blah. Blah was good.
• 48:46
  And we moving on just because I'm like, I'm like one.
• 48:51
  I'm like my podcast isn't a seasonal anime podcast.
• 48:55
  So I don't want to get put into that whole of our Roberts.
• 48:59
  Going to talk about every episode of Every show every
• 49:02
  week. All right, there's plenty of
• 49:03
  other awesome podcast that specialize in.
• 49:07
  Hey, I have some friends over here.
• 49:08
  Go check them out. I'm not doing that.
• 49:11
  Yes, exactly. And stuff.
• 49:14
  And, and even with you, with me, with the, with the manga tuber
• 49:18
  stuff, when I'm trying to think who was it?
• 49:24
  I think, I think I might have been Gemini manga.
• 49:27
  I'm pretty sure it was him last year when he, when he put me in
• 49:32
  the, in the market Uber disk, or he invited me to it.
• 49:37
  He ever mention, you see she like hey or you in the manga
• 49:40
  tuber Discord and me myself. I'm like I wasn't I wasn't
• 49:44
  considering myself to be, you know, a market Uber.
• 49:47
  I'm like, yeah. Yeah.
• 49:48
  Yeah. Yeah, I'll talk about manga
• 49:49
  alive, but I don't know. I didn't miss anything.
• 49:52
  I classified as that or whatever.
• 49:54
  And so, that was kind of a kind of the first mono moment of,
• 49:57
  like, you know initiatives. Oh, okay.
• 49:59
  Hey, you know, I guess I'm doing something to Nature where, you
• 50:02
  know, y'all are seeing me as being part of part of that
• 50:06
  section of the community. But then, you know, as the
• 50:11
  monster stuff going on and I was thinking, I was like, I was
• 50:15
  like, okay, I'm doing these reviews and stuff, pretty
• 50:19
  frequently. Anybody that sees my my You Tube
• 50:22
  in my podcast feed, Is a man, probably putting these things
• 50:25
  out, but it's just like manga manga manga manga manga manga
• 50:29
  and then I'm over like looking at my PS5 or my switch or
• 50:33
  whatever. And I'm like man I haven't
• 50:35
  really played a video game and mice in which that is a part of
• 50:40
  me that like video games are so integral to me as a person to
• 50:44
  who I am. And then it's like, it's like
• 50:47
  man. I've really enjoyed diving deep
• 50:51
  into manga over this last year, but then it's like, The time
• 50:55
  I've spent doing all this reading whatever I've you know,
• 51:00
  yeah, but the gaming and stuff for the kind of, you know, fell
• 51:03
  to the side as a casualty. And so I was already know where
• 51:07
  I want to start shifting things back and that's kind of why I
• 51:11
  also started doing more podcast episodes like this where I'm
• 51:16
  interviewing or just talking with other people.
• 51:19
  Because that's something else that I was that I was that I was
• 51:20
  also enjoying as well. It's where I'm like, okay.
• 51:24
  Me doing every week so low, you know talking about every chapter
• 51:29
  every episode blah, blah, blah, blah blah.
• 51:32
  We gotta shake things up. And so that's when I started,
• 51:36
  you know, reach out to people building my list of okay, you
• 51:39
  know, I have a long list of people mocha.
• 51:41
  Hey, I reached out. Just give me a.
• 51:43
  Yes, if someday you might want to come on and, you know, I'll
• 51:48
  just keep that in my bank and then might be, it might be next
• 51:51
  week, might be five months from now.
• 51:54
  I'm talking about someone, so, oh, I know, Kiki's into that, or
• 51:57
  I have a topic or whatever. Okay, hey, let's bring that
• 52:00
  person on and, and do what it do.
• 52:04
  And so I'll say it. So that that is for anybody that
• 52:07
  is listening watching, whatever that is getting into getting it
• 52:11
  to the stuff, whatever, you know, I always say.
• 52:13
  Do not be afraid to pivots if you feel yourself getting bored
• 52:18
  shift, make a move. Yes, it might suck for some
• 52:22
  people that's watching you. You and whatever.
• 52:25
  But hey do what makes you happy. That's what I was gonna say,
• 52:30
  yes. A lot of times we get so caught
• 52:35
  up in numbers and YouTube. You forget why you started in
• 52:40
  the first place, you're like, hugging the views.
• 52:42
  I'm not getting abused, but are you happy making the video?
• 52:45
  Yeah. Did you have fun?
• 52:46
  Did you have fun while you were editing?
• 52:48
  Did you laugh at yourself? Did you go?
• 52:49
  Oh, I can improve that. Is this a craft that you enjoy
• 52:53
  doing it? Just doing it for the views,
• 52:55
  which is a part of it. Don't get me wrong.
• 52:57
  Like we all want people to watch what we made.
• 53:00
  Yeah, but if it's not making you feel good, if you're just
• 53:03
  putting it out because people like it, you don't like it.
• 53:07
  You've already lost. You've already lost your
• 53:08
  passion. You're not.
• 53:09
  You're not gonna make it. I feel like I just feel like
• 53:12
  you're gonna be like, I'm done with this.
• 53:13
  I'm tired over it. Yeah, if you're not doing it for
• 53:17
  yourself, and so I know that, you know, I'm going to put out
• 53:22
  videos and people going to think it's stupid.
• 53:23
  They I might even get my first haters.
• 53:25
  It'll be great. I can't wait because that means
• 53:27
  you made it. Yeah.
• 53:28
  Ready for you. I am ready in but I'm putting
• 53:34
  out what I'm having fun doing. If I have one making that video
• 53:38
  that had fun making this kit. I have fun doing whatever.
• 53:42
  Yeah, I'm gonna put it out, you know.
• 53:45
  Yeah, even with the whole thing with like me, putting myself
• 53:48
  more on the stories people like you really are showing them,
• 53:50
  right? Because this is what I want to
• 53:52
  do. Yeah.
• 53:53
  You're going to see a little bit more and how really goofy I am.
• 53:56
  Yeah. You know just I want to be more
• 54:00
  personable. I want people.
• 54:01
  Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's a community.
• 54:03
  That's what we're here for, you know.
• 54:05
  Oh yeah. So that yeah.
• 54:07
  You gotta do it if you like it. Yes.
• 54:09
  Because it's in demand. Yes.
• 54:12
  The really hard thing for you to work.
• 54:13
  Yeah, exactly. And that you just mentioned
• 54:17
  something that I thought that that I was curious about as
• 54:19
  well, bad bad. Back when you first kind of
• 54:22
  started, you know, making the step into becoming, you know,
• 54:27
  content creator where there'd be no with Instagram and with
• 54:30
  YouTube whatever. What was there ever any, you
• 54:35
  know, hesitancy as far as like you know putting yourself out
• 54:40
  there more. You know, like said I used to
• 54:41
  like not getting more on the camera, you know showing who you
• 54:45
  are and things of that nature. Absolutely, because I say like
• 54:51
  this not a lot of the people that I know personally know
• 54:54
  about anything. I'm doing.
• 54:56
  Yeah, my family knows, and they, I'm thankful that they encourage
• 55:01
  me. You know, my mom, my husband.
• 55:03
  He always buy me some put that on a video, like I enjoy that,
• 55:07
  you know, great. My family's always ready.
• 55:08
  My niece's are always ready to watch my videos.
• 55:10
  I know I'm going to get at least six views.
• 55:13
  Yeah, but, um, and they're telling me You need to give
• 55:18
  yourself more because you're, you know, you're a cool person.
• 55:21
  I really, you know, I like you, there's always this self-doubt,
• 55:24
  like, oh, yeah, people really can't.
• 55:26
  Accept me the way my family. Does it away?
• 55:28
  The people? I know closely do.
• 55:30
  Yeah, and I've always been a very close person.
• 55:35
  Yeah, and I'm wondering if that's just a personality that I
• 55:38
  built to protect myself. Yeah, you know, like, if people
• 55:42
  saw me on YouTube that work with me, they would be like Are you
• 55:47
  gonna stay in person? I'm being honest here.
• 55:51
  Yeah, cuz it's it's so, one of my biggest fears, was they see
• 55:56
  me? They expect that for me at work,
• 55:58
  like, you know, because my main focus at work or my kid, like, I
• 56:01
  can be this way with the students, but when it comes to
• 56:03
  the adults, I'm like, hey, I'm going my corner now and be by
• 56:08
  myself and being my secret, you know, my, my yeah corner by
• 56:12
  myself, you know. And You know, even when I start
• 56:16
  reading stuff, we're hearing about things like coma.
• 56:18
  Can't communicate. I'm like, do I have social
• 56:19
  anxiety? Like yeah.
• 56:21
  Oh, yeah, and this is who I am. Did I create this person?
• 56:24
  So definitely. I was like, I can't have people
• 56:27
  find out about me, you know, only one, the magnitude friends
• 56:30
  know how, you know, excited. I am over this.
• 56:33
  Yeah, but so, it took a little while and I think I'm thinking
• 56:39
  maybe around want to say Christmas time.
• 56:44
  When we did the whole little Christmas exchange thing is when
• 56:48
  I actually kind of finally came out of my shell.
• 56:51
  Because I had to communicate outside of Instagram with other
• 56:55
  people. Yeah, and I was like, all right.
• 56:59
  And so, the more I saw in the more, you guys like, everyone
• 57:03
  from the community, or guys always like, oh, you're, you
• 57:05
  know, you pumping me up. I'm like, wow, these people Me.
• 57:09
  I'm not really like to sound stupid.
• 57:11
  But um, I really appreciate this most of the encouragement from
• 57:14
  you all that kind of made me say, you know what they accept
• 57:18
  me. Yeah.
• 57:19
  They think the way I am is okay. I'm going to give them more.
• 57:23
  Yeah, and that's kind of how it is.
• 57:25
  That's that's why I started doing more because I forget I
• 57:29
  was afraid. Yeah, it looks like it is.
• 57:31
  I'll put stuff up and I'll delete it.
• 57:33
  Yeah, I'll start. I'll delete it.
• 57:35
  I might not help. Yeah, yeah.
• 57:40
  So yeah, that that is definitely a you some I like having that
• 57:46
  support, you know, like today both from, you know, family and
• 57:51
  stuff like that that you know, live within that, you know, as
• 57:54
  well as people within the community, that you have messed
• 57:57
  up. Because I'm pretty much a
• 57:59
  similar boat as you to where I've had so many, you know,
• 58:04
  times and almost I'm like, I don't know.
• 58:07
  What are you know that I do and you know, same thing by my wife
• 58:11
  she'll be like, hey, you should go to such and such event or or
• 58:17
  hey, you should go because it will be stuff that there will
• 58:22
  see in the store. Like, you should get that and
• 58:24
  talk about that on your podcast or on your channel and stuff
• 58:27
  like that. Because I couldn't because one
• 58:31
  of the biggest pushes and she gave me last year, was she is
• 58:35
  surprised me with tickets to anime anime Dallas.
• 58:41
  That was my first convention. I had ever been to where, which
• 58:45
  is kind of wild when people find out that I live here in the
• 58:48
  Dallas area and we get freaking conventions like every don't
• 58:53
  have money. Yeah.
• 58:54
  Yeah. Even people that I met when I
• 59:01
  was in college, that's like an East Texas when they found an
• 59:05
  old Rob. Okay, they knew I looked up
• 59:08
  here, there was like, wait, you you haven't been to a con, your
• 59:10
  intended. Uh, and they've been they've
• 59:12
  been to it more than me and I live practically down the street
• 59:16
  from some of these places I stuff as so.
• 59:19
  So yeah. So yeah.
• 59:20
  Last year she gave me a hey surprise.
• 59:23
  Here you go. Go.
• 59:25
  Yes. And yeah.
• 59:27
  And that that was a very big step for me as far as I'll come
• 59:32
  out here and like some kind of like okay well it looks cool.
• 59:36
  Corruption really quick. Yeah.
• 59:38
  Can I congratulations sir now we're talking about conventions.
• 59:43
  Excuse me. We are talking about that on the
• 59:47
  podcast or whatever. Yeah.
• 59:53
  Thank you. How are your flowers are?
• 59:57
  Congratulations. That is awesome.
• 59:58
  I don't know. Like to do that.
• 59:59
  Who congratulate? That is.
• 1:00:01
  Awesome. I I I wish I can come when I was
• 1:00:04
  we can all come. And thank you so much for that.
• 1:00:12
  Cuz yeah, honestly, it, it still saves.
• 1:00:16
  So surreal and probably will feel that way until I am.
• 1:00:21
  All on stage in that moment in a couple of weeks, but, and, and
• 1:00:26
  just for anybody, that might have missed the news and stuff.
• 1:00:30
  What, what he's referring to is that in two weeks, on Sunday,
• 1:00:36
  June 19th Father's Day of all days on Father's Day at 3 p.m.,
• 1:00:43
  I'll be doing a panel at Fan Expo.
• 1:00:45
  Dallas. Yeah, like like I mentioned
• 1:00:55
  before when when they had reached out to me a couple
• 1:01:01
  months ago which wish that that alone has been just like
• 1:01:07
  stressful and in a sense of like sitting on this information.
• 1:01:13
  Hey, this might be happening. This might be in the works and
• 1:01:17
  not telling many people there. Those are called paper, I know.
• 1:01:21
  Mentioned, vaguely that I might be doing something with it that
• 1:01:25
  I need. You like some advice and tips on
• 1:01:27
  some stuff but but yeah, like sitting on that for like a month
• 1:01:30
  or two but yeah, I'm excited. And you know, I'm trying to, you
• 1:01:38
  know, still myself because This is like it is definitely going
• 1:01:44
  to be a moment just because of the fact that like, hey, I've
• 1:01:49
  only been doing this for a little over a year and this
• 1:01:51
  opportunity has come a long as so, once I got confirmation that
• 1:01:58
  it was happening. I was already kind of like
• 1:02:01
  looking at the calendar, but, okay.
• 1:02:02
  Wait, what else is going on this year?
• 1:02:05
  Let me see if I get some more water.
• 1:02:07
  Yeah, even if I don't do any more panels, then press access.
• 1:02:12
  Cuz yeah, once again, kind of a little bit.
• 1:02:15
  Like what you would you minute mentioned earlier?
• 1:02:17
  Just like like being more, sure of yourself is there, there is.
• 1:02:23
  I think sometimes and I've different been guilty of this as
• 1:02:26
  like, sometimes there is that unknown factor which, which a
• 1:02:29
  lot of us just because the information isn't out there.
• 1:02:33
  But a lot of times there is that perception like, hey, you need
• 1:02:37
  to be doing this for x amount of years.
• 1:02:38
  You have X amount of flop following and Saucer, before
• 1:02:44
  before you can do a press event or do a pound or this and that,
• 1:02:49
  or whatever here. I am.
• 1:02:50
  I barely a year, a little over a year and you know, II get decent
• 1:02:56
  traffic. But, you know, I, you know, I,
• 1:02:59
  you know, topping the charts and stuff, but the fact that I got
• 1:03:04
  on somebody's radar somewhere, right?
• 1:03:08
  Yeah, and so it is something to run my, okay.
• 1:03:11
  Be be more. Confident in yourself, be more
• 1:03:15
  confident in what you do. And, and, and with that being
• 1:03:20
  said, I have to give a shout out to and this is something that
• 1:03:23
  I've just also, just been learning.
• 1:03:25
  Just seeing how there's any Community, the awesome group of
• 1:03:29
  ladies from from a podcast called past present future
• 1:03:33
  podcast. It is a podcast with with four
• 1:03:36
  black women, that cover anime and manga They've only been
• 1:03:39
  doing this for. Maybe about six months or so
• 1:03:43
  whatever. And they've been, they've been
• 1:03:47
  rocking it. They've already got panels.
• 1:03:50
  They've been getting press access.
• 1:03:52
  They just got their stuff is playing on a on a radio station
• 1:03:57
  somewhere. I'm thinking somewhere, but
• 1:04:03
  stuff like that. But, but that, that has been
• 1:04:05
  like a prime example for me. Yes.
• 1:04:10
  Yes. Fact of like, you know, some of
• 1:04:13
  the self self that I had of myself, I'd only been doing this
• 1:04:16
  for a year. It is done.
• 1:04:18
  Yeah, because I don't know enough.
• 1:04:20
  I don't have a yeah, that's and in here and I learned and I
• 1:04:24
  learned firsthand from them on a couple of things.
• 1:04:28
  One of them was a couple months ago.
• 1:04:31
  We all wish I was talking with one of them about, you know,
• 1:04:34
  we're looking at dream, kind of stuff because I've missed all
• 1:04:37
  the times for the tickets, you know, someone out the side
• 1:04:40
  glitches. Whatever which sucks is because
• 1:04:43
  I've said it a million times like a broken record, but it's
• 1:04:46
  super sucks because I literally live 15 minutes from where it's
• 1:04:49
  going to be it. But, but so, so, yes, I was
• 1:04:54
  talking to one of them and they're like, hey, Rob did did
• 1:04:57
  you try to apply for press access?
• 1:05:00
  And I was like, no, because I see on the side that I owe.
• 1:05:04
  You got to have be doing it for x amount of, you know, time have
• 1:05:08
  X amount of followers, blah, blah, blah, so I'm like, I don't
• 1:05:12
  meet those qualifications then saw was like, I was like, I gave
• 1:05:17
  up to be honest, I gave up. I was like, I'm not even going
• 1:05:20
  to try to pursue it because I know I don't fit the criteria.
• 1:05:24
  Sure. Tell me why few weeks maybe a
• 1:05:26
  month later. I see them post an image while.
• 1:05:30
  Hey confirmation. We gotta press access to dream
• 1:05:32
  car. I was like, I was like
• 1:05:42
  congratulations, but I was like, oh no, so I am that person too.
• 1:05:50
  And that's so funny because I was like, my husband is what
• 1:05:56
  they lay down. I don't fit any of those this
• 1:06:02
  year. Robert.
• 1:06:06
  We call Robert or Rob, you know, are either or look, man, we
• 1:06:11
  gonna try. Yes, you need to apply for
• 1:06:13
  things. You already got your fennel.
• 1:06:16
  We gotta try. I've encouraged now.
• 1:06:18
  I'm like, you know what? Because I'm ready.
• 1:06:22
  Just do it. Yeah I'm ready to just do so
• 1:06:25
  when you when you post it I was like I mean, I went to my
• 1:06:29
  husband, I didn't congratulate, you aren't think?
• 1:06:31
  I congratulate you on Instagram because I went to my husband.
• 1:06:48
  Thank you. I had to make sure I said that.
• 1:06:50
  So I'm glad you brought up cons and things like that.
• 1:06:53
  Yes, yes. And and thank you again so much.
• 1:06:55
  And like like we just said, hey Plus shoot your shot because you
• 1:07:01
  just never know you know with no and that is across the board
• 1:07:06
  where they would be trying to get a panel press access
• 1:07:12
  collaborating with somebody because same thing I've you know
• 1:07:17
  I've gotten a couple people I like Mama loves manga and dark
• 1:07:22
  Sage. I've had them both on.
• 1:07:24
  They've been doing this for way longer than that.
• 1:07:26
  I have a half, you know, way bigger following Yes and I was
• 1:07:29
  like hi I'm Robert Danny's to talk.
• 1:07:33
  You want to do something romantic?
• 1:07:35
  Oh yeah for sure. Yeah yeah.
• 1:07:38
  So stuff like that just just been encouraging and another bit
• 1:07:44
  of advice, I'll toss out there because I'm pretty sure I
• 1:07:46
  mentioned it some time a long time ago, whatever, but search
• 1:07:52
  around both local stuff stuff within and this is both to you
• 1:07:58
  Kiki as Anybody is listening and watching local stuff, both, you
• 1:08:02
  know, your city state, whatever for opportunities, to get your
• 1:08:08
  name out there more because last year sometime, I was people
• 1:08:15
  know, you know, for those who don't know, are forgot, you
• 1:08:18
  know, my day job, I work in it and he even before I was an it
• 1:08:23
  I've always been known as like the researcher of my friend
• 1:08:26
  group. So I'm always Surgeon doing this
• 1:08:29
  and that, or whatever. So, one day last year, I want,
• 1:08:32
  I'm just just like, I just went down the rabbit hole of just
• 1:08:35
  searching for just different stuff like different keywords
• 1:08:37
  over, okay, podcast, Texas, podcast Dallas, black podcast,
• 1:08:42
  this bike park has that did it do and just seeing what all
• 1:08:45
  stuff pops up, whatever their there is a local site here in
• 1:08:50
  DFW. I think, I think I think it's
• 1:08:53
  like I think the sign is called, think it's due to one 4.com.
• 1:08:58
  And they specialize in big attractions for the Dallas
• 1:09:03
  Metroplex. Like, hey, you looking for the
• 1:09:05
  best places to go get food, entertainment, yada yada yada.
• 1:09:09
  I'm okay. So, I'm burning through the side
• 1:09:10
  or whatever and they had a section for podcast is hey,
• 1:09:15
  local podcast in the DFW area. So I'm like so I'm like
• 1:09:18
  searching around without my okay.
• 1:09:21
  So found out I found the contact to somebody from the side or
• 1:09:25
  whatever. I shot them.
• 1:09:27
  My emails a hey Well, what is the process to to get my stuff
• 1:09:32
  up there? And he was all right.
• 1:09:34
  Hey Rob. Nice to meet you.
• 1:09:35
  Check out your podcast using. Hey, just just send me a link to
• 1:09:38
  your stuff, you know, whatever image you want to use for the
• 1:09:43
  thing, whatever. And we should take care of him
• 1:09:45
  and within a within a couple of weeks.
• 1:09:47
  He reached back out. He's all right, they're good to
• 1:09:49
  go. And I went to the site and it's
• 1:09:51
  there. Wow, now, every so often because
• 1:09:56
  of this. This is where the Adeno the
• 1:09:58
  analytics and all that stuff. Looking at the numbers coming to
• 1:10:00
  play because every so often I'll come across when I'm working in
• 1:10:06
  my stuff with her for my website for a for all my stuff whatever.
• 1:10:10
  You know, it show you. Okay.
• 1:10:11
  Hey this person to come to your site came from Twitter Instagram
• 1:10:14
  that it is every month. I get at least like a couple of
• 1:10:17
  people show know you had a couple people that came here via
• 1:10:20
  this So and and stuff like that. That is why I always just out of
• 1:10:28
  curiosity, depending on the person, the situation whatever,
• 1:10:32
  oftentimes ask people like how they found me because I had a
• 1:10:36
  guy, he mailed me a couple weeks ago and, you know, he was just
• 1:10:42
  like, hey, you know, I'm trying to get to the stuff, you know,
• 1:10:46
  came across your stuff, whatever.
• 1:10:47
  I'm also a dad. I did animated manga game
• 1:10:50
  double.so. Norwegian or whatever.
• 1:10:53
  And so he, which I was I was I was out of curiosity.
• 1:10:56
  Where did you find me at, or whatever?
• 1:10:58
  And he mentioned that site. He said all he said he said, he
• 1:11:02
  said, I was always searching for probably which was nothing.
• 1:11:06
  I found out. He's also an area to, so but I
• 1:11:09
  fought back. Yeah, it's also.
• 1:11:12
  He said that he was just Googling Dallas podcast or
• 1:11:16
  whatever Stringer words came across that website saw me.
• 1:11:21
  And now we're connected and chit-chatted stuff.
• 1:11:25
  Whatever. So, like I said, just the DMV.
• 1:11:35
  Yeah, we have stuff over here. Yeah.
• 1:11:39
  All the time like, yeah, we have a big community.
• 1:11:42
  So I'm probably going to look into that.
• 1:11:44
  I mean, I've got my work cut out.
• 1:11:46
  I have eight weeks of nothing, man.
• 1:11:48
  Yeah. I'm excited.
• 1:11:50
  Yes. Look at that.
• 1:11:53
  So thanks for that tip. Yes, that is awesome.
• 1:11:56
  Yes, so yeah. So definitely I said, just just
• 1:11:58
  look in those corners of the internet that people don't
• 1:12:03
  normally look because, like I said, I me finding that or
• 1:12:05
  whatever. Like I said, it was just me.
• 1:12:07
  Just sitting there for hours, just random string of keywords.
• 1:12:12
  Boom, this came up in, here you go.
• 1:12:13
  Now I'm on the website as so, sorry, I so nothing.
• 1:12:19
  My my little side tension. I do want to mention though
• 1:12:22
  because you know with with you talking about with, you know,
• 1:12:26
  you having this time now for the summer having the time off to
• 1:12:33
  kind of just like be able to just create Well, I guess not,
• 1:12:40
  not even, just not just on the creation side, just in general
• 1:12:44
  having the the time during the summer.
• 1:12:46
  Like how how has that been in? Like how many years have you
• 1:12:51
  been like within the school system where you have the
• 1:12:52
  Summers that stuff off? So, I have been working with the
• 1:12:57
  school system. I want to say since 2017, my
• 1:13:04
  Classics, your something like that.
• 1:13:07
  To be honest, I worked every summer.
• 1:13:10
  Okay, I always got a summer job somewhere so I was always part
• 1:13:13
  time. Yeah but this is one of the
• 1:13:16
  first are I was in like doing classes.
• 1:13:18
  So this is one of the first years I've never done anything.
• 1:13:22
  So this is gonna be a new experience for me because I'm
• 1:13:25
  usually doing something years before that, I worked with the
• 1:13:28
  boys and girls club. So I always had some of her
• 1:13:30
  Yeah, always, you know, doing something.
• 1:13:32
  So this would be the first time that I actually took a full two
• 1:13:36
  months. I mean, if you're not including
• 1:13:38
  the pandemic, but I still did work during that time.
• 1:13:42
  Yes. I had you know that off-site
• 1:13:43
  job. So it's I really can't.
• 1:13:46
  Say, I'll find out. Yeah.
• 1:13:48
  Somehow if I get super border, if I keep myself engaged in
• 1:13:51
  everything enough. Yeah, which I think I have plans
• 1:13:54
  too because I do have plans to take other little courses on my
• 1:13:58
  own like There's something called a register Behavior.
• 1:14:02
  Technician. My end goal is to become a be
• 1:14:04
  CBA board. Certified behavior analyst.
• 1:14:08
  I want to work with kids in this social emotional world.
• 1:14:11
  So I'm taking courses for that and also want to give a
• 1:14:15
  copywriting. I know that's like a whole other
• 1:14:18
  world is coming. Yeah, what is marketing?
• 1:14:20
  And things like that? So I'm taking some copy writing
• 1:14:23
  courses. So I do, I am a little, like, I
• 1:14:25
  have things that I'm going to be doing.
• 1:14:27
  Yeah, but I'm also going to be trying to make different.
• 1:14:30
  Videos, get out the house and do different things.
• 1:14:33
  And so what we'll see how occupied I can.
• 1:14:36
  Keep my yeah, the fun side. Yeah, but I want to do nothing.
• 1:14:39
  I have nothing, you know, so yeah, I think I think it'll be
• 1:14:44
  good. Yeah and and real quick because
• 1:14:48
  because speaking of giving flowers.
• 1:14:50
  Congratulations on your graduation.
• 1:14:53
  Thank you, sir. I appreciate the oh my goodness.
• 1:14:56
  Yes. Yeah.
• 1:15:00
  Congratulations on finishing that and you know, heading off
• 1:15:07
  or I guess just just saying what your next adventure and stuff is
• 1:15:10
  going to be 0. So, I'm dropping War.
• 1:15:14
  What else? It was something I wanted to ask
• 1:15:15
  you about. My brain, my brain, you know,
• 1:15:23
  while I'm trying to think of that.
• 1:15:26
  What what, what, what is, what is best some stuff that there's
• 1:15:29
  this been occupying, your time as far as like reading or
• 1:15:33
  watching, you know, what, stuff in view of this this culture
• 1:15:37
  interest recently took a deep breath.
• 1:15:43
  I have a terrible habit of reading a bunch of stuff at the
• 1:15:47
  same time. Yeah.
• 1:15:50
  So I would say like this the thing that has really caught my
• 1:15:53
  attention is Tokyo. Revengers.
• 1:15:56
  Hmm. I absolutely love took.
• 1:16:00
  Your revenge has I took a weekend and watch the whole
• 1:16:02
  anime. Yeah.
• 1:16:03
  First season. And then I'm reading it now.
• 1:16:06
  Yeah, which I've read past the anime.
• 1:16:09
  So I'm like, oh my goodness. Second season coming out this
• 1:16:11
  year. I cannot wait.
• 1:16:13
  Yes. I I just love it and it's, it's
• 1:16:16
  one of those things. That's kind of weird to me
• 1:16:17
  because The age group that these people are.
• 1:16:20
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:16:23
  These are not a middle schooler. Sure that I go to work.
• 1:16:26
  I mean I work in high school but they're, you know the say yeah,
• 1:16:33
  this is this is not reality. You need to calm down.
• 1:16:35
  This is a made-up story of Derek.
• 1:16:37
  It capable of I know it's not not like a middle school.
• 1:16:47
  Yeah, they're they're they're they're they're going to middle
• 1:16:48
  school now. Yeah it is yeah it is weird
• 1:16:52
  thinking about that stuff sometimes like No and stuff.
• 1:16:57
  So odori door. Oh, oh, yeah, absolutely.
• 1:17:04
  Loving door. He door.
• 1:17:05
  Oh, as far as anime right now. I've been watching One Piece.
• 1:17:09
  Like that's the kind of my go-to now since I kind of like binged
• 1:17:12
  Tucker Avengers. Hmm.
• 1:17:15
  Um, my husband trying to get me on Demon Slayer.
• 1:17:17
  I just haven't I feel like it. Maybe it was a little too over
• 1:17:20
  hide from him. So I want to watch it with
• 1:17:21
  nobody's watching. Yeah.
• 1:17:23
  Yeah, and you know what? Yeah, not really very much this
• 1:17:31
  summer. I have a lots of reasons.
• 1:17:34
  Yeah, don't be more, you know. Oh yeah.
• 1:17:36
  But those two Series right now probably my biggest ones like
• 1:17:39
  the ones. I go back and forth to and
• 1:17:41
  bleach bleach like those three are the ones that I'll rotate.
• 1:17:44
  Yeah. The other ones I'll kind of put
• 1:17:45
  them in there but those three are always on rotation.
• 1:17:48
  Yeah, yeah. So okay I know what else I
• 1:17:52
  wanted to mention to you about because I didn't bring this up
• 1:17:56
  earlier but so You doing this for a year, the manga collecting
• 1:18:04
  side of things. I was like, we haven't even
• 1:18:05
  talked about that part. So first of all, do you know how
• 1:18:10
  many you have in your collection currently give me the number.
• 1:18:20
  I think it was somewhere around 7 64 I know I went insane but I
• 1:18:32
  will say that I Learned a little later how to find deals.
• 1:18:38
  Yeah. I started from fomo.
• 1:18:40
  Yeah, you're missing out. Yeah.
• 1:18:42
  So I was like, I Gotta Have This.
• 1:18:44
  I Gotta what if it goes away because I started to notice that
• 1:18:47
  people are like oh these are out of print.
• 1:18:48
  I'm like what does that mean? Yeah and I was like wait they
• 1:18:52
  don't come back. Companies.
• 1:19:02
  This median is gonna come back out at somewhere within the next
• 1:19:06
  10 years. I are you doing maybe five
• 1:19:08
  years. I'll say?
• 1:19:09
  Yeah, it's gonna come back out. Yeah.
• 1:19:12
  Things like vertical or you know, sir played they don't
• 1:19:15
  print out more Dark Horse. They don't print a lot of the
• 1:19:17
  time. Yeah, sometimes they'll
• 1:19:19
  eventually come back berserk is going to come back.
• 1:19:21
  I feel like yeah, so I started to learn that a little later.
• 1:19:24
  So I slowed down. Yeah.
• 1:19:27
  Absolutely down a little bit more like you saw last Hall.
• 1:19:30
  Had twelve volumes. Yeah.
• 1:19:32
  And now I'm starting to do digital.
• 1:19:34
  So I'm getting smarter. So it took a year.
• 1:19:36
  Yeah, of that. And then I just it's been a lot
• 1:19:42
  of money and I, you know, I'm a collector by Nature.
• 1:19:45
  I have a very impressive sneaker collection and I didn't collect
• 1:19:49
  any sneakers last year. Okay, my whole life, you shipped
• 1:19:53
  it over. And yeah, I buy.
• 1:19:56
  So I've shifted, so it was okay. And so, I think, if I'm, if I'm
• 1:20:01
  honest, I may have spent less on manga than I did on my sneakers
• 1:20:04
  because I love my shoes. Yeah.
• 1:20:06
  Yeah. No sneakers.
• 1:20:08
  You know how much they cost? Yes, sir.
• 1:20:11
  I am aware. My mom.
• 1:20:12
  I want. My wife is a big sneaker head.
• 1:20:15
  I'm like, it's just think ahead. Yep.
• 1:20:17
  Yep. Yeah, duck.
• 1:20:19
  Yeah. I mean, I love my sneaker.
• 1:20:21
  So it was a better shift. You know, I think.
• 1:20:26
  Yeah safer. So now going into this year.
• 1:20:29
  I think I'm going to be a little bit better.
• 1:20:31
  I'm going to know what I already told.
• 1:20:33
  So I told you she be. Oh my God said I'm going to
• 1:20:34
  curate right collection and really keep things that I'm
• 1:20:38
  actually going to read again and not just buy it.
• 1:20:41
  Because and so I'm learning. Yes.
• 1:20:44
  That is the the combination of like you said like like with the
• 1:20:49
  fear of missing out, being new to the Space, Nine knowing how
• 1:20:52
  some things go. Like you just said and also just
• 1:20:55
  just being in the community in general kind of Chris this
• 1:20:59
  frenzy of like, oh, I've seen everybody posting about this.
• 1:21:03
  Okay. I need to go buy it too and then
• 1:21:05
  next thing you know, it's like, okay.
• 1:21:07
  I I still got stuff that I bought this time last year.
• 1:21:11
  And even open up and ready it and then it's Longley and then
• 1:21:16
  they're like, you know, it's been days where I'm like ma'am
• 1:21:19
  look a little bit short on man. I wish I had a couple extra
• 1:21:22
  bucks for for lunch today and like I like look at that volume
• 1:21:27
  of manga like that but Granite that that is also been the
• 1:21:33
  flipside suits were like I'll be, you know, out about Mike.
• 1:21:37
  Maybe I'll stop and give me something for lunch.
• 1:21:39
  And I'm like Spent 10 bucks on lunch.
• 1:21:43
  That's a manga volume. Now.
• 1:21:44
  I'll pass on lunch to make it Amigo.
• 1:21:47
  Just go go. Oh, yeah.
• 1:21:51
  Oh, yeah. Because I'm like because the the
• 1:21:53
  funny thing like how I guess, kind of like how I think of it
• 1:21:56
  sometimes is like, you know, you have a meal, you have a monk and
• 1:22:00
  the city, both Brad, 10 15 bucks.
• 1:22:04
  You might consume them both fast, but then I'm like, but the
• 1:22:07
  manga I can consume again the food.
• 1:22:10
  Hey, is gone. On and bye-bye.
• 1:22:13
  Oh, oh, it tastes too good in the moment, but now I got to
• 1:22:16
  spend another 10 bucks to taste it again.
• 1:22:20
  Whereas Mong, kok, I bought it. Once I can read, I can go back
• 1:22:23
  to it as many times as I want. So I can actually staver it.
• 1:22:28
  I can go through it. You know.
• 1:22:29
  Yeah, it's funny. You mentioned that my husband,
• 1:22:31
  what at some time. He told me, he was like, you
• 1:22:34
  want to you, you guys have like, Brazilian Rhodesia goes where
• 1:22:36
  you go and they serve you all the meat, like, and they won't
• 1:22:39
  stop. Ya know how much?
• 1:22:41
  Place is cost and he's like, hey, do you want to go to one?
• 1:22:43
  I was like. I said I kind of, you know, I
• 1:22:47
  want to buy this is was coming out and I said that's that's a
• 1:22:50
  whole 56. Hi Hannah, I'm good.
• 1:22:54
  He said really go home and watch anime and eat some hot dogs.
• 1:23:02
  It's been time in a place. Yeah.
• 1:23:04
  Why do we need to do that? I do sacrifice things.
• 1:23:08
  Yeah, I know seriously coming out that I want because like I
• 1:23:12
  said, I'm shifting my what I'm paying for different things.
• 1:23:14
  Getting a little smarter. Yeah.
• 1:23:16
  Yeah, and not that kid in the candy store anymore because
• 1:23:20
  that's what like I told you earlier.
• 1:23:21
  I was just like, yes, it was fun.
• 1:23:24
  And I think I had like one Funko Pop.
• 1:23:27
  Now. I'm getting like figures and
• 1:23:29
  yeah, it seems like an altogether and then I got a
• 1:23:32
  switch. Yeah.
• 1:23:34
  It's part of the community to like it's like all of the, you
• 1:23:37
  know, but I love all of it. I've always loved games like
• 1:23:40
  that. I've always loved little figure.
• 1:23:42
  So I was like might as well get the figures that go with my
• 1:23:45
  manga and yeah. You know, yeah, it's been an
• 1:23:50
  adventure. I absolutely love it though.
• 1:23:52
  It really my favorite time is when I go manga shopping like
• 1:23:55
  I'm in another world. Yes.
• 1:23:56
  Yes. That that going going into going
• 1:23:59
  into a bookstore of any sort. I also find that it's kind of
• 1:24:04
  like my peaceful place to wear. As I you know, what, you know,
• 1:24:09
  especially me here are all these kids running around.
• 1:24:13
  I'm like I'm like, you know, way there's gonna go All right, and
• 1:24:19
  look and luckily, because of where I live.
• 1:24:22
  I am spoiled with options of theirs.
• 1:24:27
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:24:28
  It aside from like, like like like the, like the bigger stuff.
• 1:24:31
  You know, I like the Barnes and Nobles and, you know,
• 1:24:36
  Books-A-Million that that is one that I see very frequently
• 1:24:41
  because the Books-A-Million, on my side of the Metroplex, it is
• 1:24:46
  Is at a mall. They my kids have basketball
• 1:24:48
  practice at so my prime location.
• 1:24:54
  My-my wife has gotten used to it now to wear sometime.
• 1:24:58
  Okay, when I'm okay, because she keeps up with the schedules and
• 1:25:01
  stuff for prices of way, better than me, some, okay, who's
• 1:25:04
  anybody got purchase today? That it is?
• 1:25:06
  Oh, yes, also got to practice. Whatever.
• 1:25:08
  All right, I got it. And she's like, are you going to
• 1:25:12
  you? You first go fight by somewhere
• 1:25:14
  else? Thompson trying to support my
• 1:25:17
  baby. But yeah, but and and plus with
• 1:25:21
  with, with no, with my, my older group of kids, you know, I can I
• 1:25:27
  see you in an hour? Drop them off, you know, they'll
• 1:25:29
  go do whatever and I can go to the mall spend know that hour or
• 1:25:34
  so, whatever just just in there just browsing around and that
• 1:25:38
  same thing with freaking a half price books.
• 1:25:40
  I think there is like I wish, oh my gosh, we don't have that up
• 1:25:45
  here. I'm trying to think it's because
• 1:25:46
  I had told somebody the number a while back.
• 1:25:52
  It is well into the double digits cuz cuz I did not know.
• 1:25:59
  I tell somebody had pointed out that the, I guess the original
• 1:26:03
  half-price bookstore is here in the DFW area.
• 1:26:09
  Probably. Yeah, I have everything.
• 1:26:11
  I have a key. Know y'all have have Christ.
• 1:26:13
  Yeah. I've seen where The crazy thing
• 1:26:21
  is, I know their name Jerry and his wife wife wife with me and
• 1:26:26
  when Sage goes out, they have so many stops.
• 1:26:30
  Thank. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:26:32
  So, nice out there. I my mom lives in the area and
• 1:26:34
  I'm like, you gotta go to the store for me.
• 1:26:38
  Yes, I'll get her out there. One day.
• 1:26:40
  Look at the map at a glance. We have minimum 15, Half Price
• 1:26:44
  Books, and the Metro plays grief.
• 1:26:47
  And I, and, and I've only been to maybe, I've been to under 10
• 1:26:53
  of them just because some of them are on the other half that
• 1:26:56
  I haven't ventured out to whatever but which I didn't know
• 1:27:00
  which it never dawned on me to like, oh let me just Google and
• 1:27:03
  see if there's more because there was always the same one.
• 1:27:06
  I would go to and I'm like they stay selection wasn't too much
• 1:27:10
  and then through being this community, whatever I'm like, oh
• 1:27:13
  yeah, Google. Let me look at the map and the
• 1:27:16
  day I found out that there is so many right also in low, same
• 1:27:21
  distance like Now one just the opposite direction.
• 1:27:24
  I found so many gems and stuff whatever.
• 1:27:27
  But but yeah, but yeah just just just going into those places it
• 1:27:32
  is definitely kind of like a therapeutic that's the word I
• 1:27:35
  was looking for a while ago. Their pubic.
• 1:27:36
  Yes. Yeah.
• 1:27:39
  Just been at just being able to to do that.
• 1:27:43
  And and you know it's one of those things of why I tell
• 1:27:47
  people, you know, people like why why do you want to buy all
• 1:27:50
  this? And then I just read online.
• 1:27:52
  And it's like because for 10 grand, I also I wasn't
• 1:27:58
  necessarily like that bad of a no physical read or whatever,
• 1:28:02
  but I was also like I can just read it online.
• 1:28:05
  It's what's the difference? But last year when I bought you
• 1:28:11
  know, the first two books that I bought physically was volume 1
• 1:28:15
  of 20th century, 20th century, boys and then, and then a book,
• 1:28:19
  five event of soccer. Those those are the first two
• 1:28:21
  things are bad. And when I rare them, it was
• 1:28:26
  just a different feel to it. And I have come across so many
• 1:28:34
  series because I physically went to the stores and I'm browsing
• 1:28:40
  the shelves, Sam. What is their right?
• 1:28:42
  Because you can only see and get exposed to so much on the line,
• 1:28:47
  you know, because, you know because you know, You kind of
• 1:28:52
  have your general series or genres that you're answering,
• 1:28:56
  and that's kind of what you, you know, not necessarily like, you
• 1:28:59
  know, that you don't want to find other stuff.
• 1:29:01
  But sometimes that's all you see is all okay?
• 1:29:04
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:29:05
  Well, yeah, I guess okay. Yeah, I enjoyed reading, no
• 1:29:07
  Naruto and one piece, and the typical stuff and there's a
• 1:29:12
  whole other world out there. And that is one thing that I
• 1:29:15
  love about going to the store and make sure that I have the
• 1:29:20
  time because I'll On those shelves and million times over.
• 1:29:24
  I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure that's like for
• 1:29:27
  all of us within the community. I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure
• 1:29:30
  of unemployed probably won't like they have went by that one
• 1:29:35
  spot, like 15 times. I'm pretty sure you probably saw
• 1:29:38
  with you. Sorry, but I can't tell you how
• 1:29:43
  many times I've. Okay.
• 1:29:45
  Now, I'm looking to see these. For example, I've gone through
• 1:29:48
  there multiple times, but then that Time.
• 1:29:53
  Oh, I didn't see that. Your eyes are like this cover is
• 1:30:00
  great. Yes.
• 1:30:01
  It's it's just different people. Yes.
• 1:30:03
  It's very different. Yes.
• 1:30:05
  That's why I told somebody I would never.
• 1:30:07
  I don't think I'll ever go fully digital.
• 1:30:09
  Like, I'm going to look at, you know, some digital.
• 1:30:12
  Yeah. And try it out, but I can't like
• 1:30:14
  I love the feel of a physical book.
• 1:30:16
  Yeah, you know, it's a thing. It's it's yeah, yeah.
• 1:30:22
  Exactly. Enjoy the art more to.
• 1:30:25
  I mean, yes, I don't know. It just looks, I don't know.
• 1:30:28
  I just feel like you can maybe it's all in my head.
• 1:30:30
  Yeah, but there there there. Is that the idea I do agree with
• 1:30:36
  it. Do you feel like there is that
• 1:30:39
  that extra level of appreciation, for its having it,
• 1:30:44
  you know, physically and your space.
• 1:30:47
  But like like we both said earlier.
• 1:30:49
  It's also like a slippery slope. No, until I hated you have put
• 1:30:54
  put some restraints and yourself for some limits.
• 1:30:56
  And you know, that's their thing for my height.
• 1:30:59
  Making sure your budgets right, you know, but budget itself.
• 1:31:02
  Don't just pop out by that. Yeah, cuz I just real quick cuz
• 1:31:12
  like a couple months ago. I think I was gonna did my
• 1:31:15
  February Hall. It was my my biggest heart I've
• 1:31:18
  ever done all these manga had I have bought and then now in
• 1:31:25
  hindsight or kind of come down off of off of the book.
• 1:31:28
  Hi, which speaking on our somebody?
• 1:31:31
  I think I got a channel called a book.
• 1:31:33
  Hi. Hmm, if you don't hire whoever
• 1:31:36
  out there free free name for you free name for you.
• 1:31:41
  Yeah, but it's like it's like it's like, you know some time
• 1:31:51
  has passed. Past and then I like looked at
• 1:31:54
  myself sometimes and I'm like, I know I'm never going to read
• 1:31:58
  this. Like I was I was in Half Price
• 1:32:01
  Books and and I'm a know. I've never seen this.
• 1:32:04
  Never heard of it looks interesting or I'ma buy it with,
• 1:32:07
  which is fine for some stuff. And I have found some gyms that
• 1:32:12
  way, but it is also some stuff to her.
• 1:32:14
  As I sometimes, you have to take that Mom.
• 1:32:16
  Like, all right, let's slow down.
• 1:32:18
  And let's think about this. I'm trying to see, I think most
• 1:32:25
  of everything. I do have some things that I
• 1:32:28
  bought on what's that website called.
• 1:32:32
  It's kind of like half-price have price, but macari, I'm
• 1:32:37
  sorry. In stock trades, maybe it might
• 1:32:45
  have been them because they had stuff like really cheap.
• 1:32:47
  Yeah but all this stuff and that is when I bought which people
• 1:32:53
  like it. The plus-sized elf and about
• 1:32:56
  something else. Some whole bunch of stuff.
• 1:32:59
  I have long sold it but I just bought it because it was cheap
• 1:33:03
  and it was Manga and I was like yeah.
• 1:33:10
  Never read any of it. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:33:14
  So but you know, it is all, you know, Lessons Learned along the
• 1:33:20
  way and, you know, I'm I'm a know, but before we kind of wrap
• 1:33:25
  things up, I do kinda just, just, we'll just want to ask
• 1:33:27
  you, um, you know, having this moment in time of looking back
• 1:33:34
  and also another giving you flowers also Is on your 100 Subs
• 1:33:40
  Milestone as well, that that you recently hit on YouTube, looking
• 1:33:45
  back on the last year of you doing, you know, the manga
• 1:33:50
  collecting and just just the whole content creation stuff in
• 1:33:54
  general. Well, what is kind of been your
• 1:33:58
  take away? Some some positives that have
• 1:34:00
  come out of it and then also some like okay, let's do that
• 1:34:04
  differently going forward. Like some lessons learned Okay.
• 1:34:09
  I mean, I think if we're looking at actual content creating, I
• 1:34:15
  think it has been an outlet, I found out that I'm More
• 1:34:22
  expressive and I have more to put out then I thought I did.
• 1:34:25
  Yeah, I found that people watch me.
• 1:34:29
  Like that's that's cool. You know, I think the first time
• 1:34:32
  somebody goes I can't wait for your video.
• 1:34:34
  I'm like, you can't like, yeah, like I've had some really
• 1:34:38
  emotional times like I think even I think the biggest one is
• 1:34:42
  making the friends in this community.
• 1:34:44
  It's it's insane. Like there's a whole lot of
• 1:34:47
  people out there. Yeah.
• 1:34:49
  That are just like me that like the Things as me, you know we
• 1:34:54
  don't need to like see each other every day.
• 1:34:56
  But when we do, we're like, yeah, let's talk about this
• 1:34:58
  business. And we talked about other things
• 1:34:59
  too, that has been the biggest prize that I've received the
• 1:35:04
  biggest gift that I proceed. So that part is is amazing.
• 1:35:09
  I would have never met anybody like that.
• 1:35:13
  Come down there. I'm like, bro, me and the family
• 1:35:16
  you and the family? We're all good.
• 1:35:18
  We're gonna go do something. Yeah.
• 1:35:19
  Because It's crazy how you can meet and trust people and we
• 1:35:23
  just you know go out somewhere. Talk go manga shopping video
• 1:35:26
  whatever. Yeah.
• 1:35:28
  I feel confident enough to do that with some of the people
• 1:35:30
  that I've met. Yeah you know yeah as far as - I
• 1:35:35
  think just wishing that. I had more time.
• 1:35:40
  Yeah. I want to do more.
• 1:35:43
  I want to put out more. We've had our little drama who
• 1:35:47
  was fun to watch, as I like to say, I like to stay in.
• 1:35:50
  Background of drama. Yeah.
• 1:35:52
  Wow, we really had our little fight good.
• 1:35:54
  It's a community thing. That's, you know, that's part of
• 1:35:57
  it. Yeah.
• 1:35:59
  I think I haven't really seen too many nasty sides of people.
• 1:36:03
  So it's more of me just wishing. I had more time wishing.
• 1:36:07
  I had more space wishing. I had gotten into this earlier.
• 1:36:12
  Yeah, and in most of the discouragements coming from me,
• 1:36:18
  not from anybody else. So me, I need To get my mind,
• 1:36:21
  right? Do you know what you're okay,
• 1:36:24
  you're doing it. Just just be you, you know, so
• 1:36:29
  not too many negatives. I haven't had any negatives yet.
• 1:36:32
  Thank goodness. Knock on some wood.
• 1:36:33
  So, you know, yeah. Yeah, I've been that bad.
• 1:36:37
  Yeah. I'm I'm kind of in the same boat
• 1:36:40
  like that. I referred to by with the what
• 1:36:43
  the drama or whatever. That mess was because 441 a lot.
• 1:36:50
  that stuff I miss because I long well, not that long but some
• 1:36:54
  months back I muted Discord just because I got it to too many
• 1:37:00
  discords and it was just too much because yeah, because I
• 1:37:06
  honestly, honestly a big thing that I did originally when I
• 1:37:11
  took my little break for a few weeks, whenever as that I muted,
• 1:37:15
  pretty much all Social Media stuff, period, you know, I have
• 1:37:20
  a Couple of specific things like I have like my Twitter DM's I
• 1:37:24
  have with that was to build up just because I know if
• 1:37:28
  somebody's messaging me on that or whatever.
• 1:37:31
  Okay, something I need to know, I can be aware of and I'm not
• 1:37:34
  I'm not getting a million DM's. Do you know and stuff like that?
• 1:37:37
  So it's okay. That comes.
• 1:37:39
  That's bubbling up to the top. All right.
• 1:37:40
  Let me see. It's going on there.
• 1:37:42
  But, but, yeah, it's like some of the other stuff, whatever.
• 1:37:46
  It's like, you know, half a day or more than passed by and I
• 1:37:50
  happen to see, Somebody's response video or whatever.
• 1:37:53
  And I'm like, wait, what what what happened is?
• 1:37:55
  Like that was that better than that?
• 1:37:58
  Mr. Krabs me more. As like he's like the blurry
• 1:38:02
  vision all around him and stuff. And I'm like, okay, so I'll go
• 1:38:05
  looking at this corner like scrolling through.
• 1:38:06
  And I'm like, okay, sure, whatever.
• 1:38:09
  You know, just yeah, yeah, yeah. So what should you do?
• 1:38:14
  You have to do in this space? Whatever is like, Hey just just
• 1:38:21
  do your thing, you know, and move on because which you know
• 1:38:25
  that that's why I why I understand some people.
• 1:38:28
  They posted content and they log out, you know?
• 1:38:35
  Yeah. Cuz cuz I'll have some people to
• 1:38:38
  wear you know, they'll post a video and almost watch it
• 1:38:41
  immediately and like comment but then it'd be like days or weeks
• 1:38:45
  before they like or respond or whatever.
• 1:38:48
  And it's like oh that's because Everton.
• 1:38:50
  Okay. Hey, I recorded the thing, I put
• 1:38:52
  it onto the world. I share it on my social media,
• 1:38:54
  all right, by see y'all whenever I Stand Alone on to the next.
• 1:38:57
  Yeah, it's so I think it's healthy.
• 1:39:03
  Yeah I think it's healthy to do that because sometimes you can
• 1:39:06
  become a little obsessed with that and we put stuff out and
• 1:39:10
  we're like who watched me or who did I'll just put it out there
• 1:39:13
  and that's why I started even now when you asked me earlier
• 1:39:16
  about being confident, putting stuff on Instagram, I put it on
• 1:39:20
  there and just yeah, we're on it and put my phone down because I
• 1:39:23
  my deleted already put it out there.
• 1:39:25
  Is it done deal? It'll do what it do.
• 1:39:27
  Yeah. And if they, you know, respond,
• 1:39:29
  whatever they don't, whatever I did it, you know.
• 1:39:32
  So that's a good place to be and taking those breaks or it's so
• 1:39:36
  good. Yes that's like we're not just
• 1:39:38
  communicating with people in hanging out.
• 1:39:40
  It's a good to take a break from creating if you know.
• 1:39:43
  Yes. Yes, yes, yeah, yeah.
• 1:39:46
  That that is definitely something that the I encourage
• 1:39:50
  everybody to do. That's something that I admire
• 1:39:53
  from other people in the community because light like
• 1:39:56
  Mama loves manga she'll-she'll, dipping heart be like, you know,
• 1:39:59
  I'm gonna go be a mom or do some other stuff.
• 1:40:02
  Duff, I'll see y'all when I see y'all, or even like some some
• 1:40:08
  Pockets friends. I have that also have debit card
• 1:40:11
  of the common house. Hey, letting end of last year,
• 1:40:14
  they put up an episode, like it did like the end of November, or
• 1:40:18
  whatever first we could descendants.
• 1:40:19
  All right, we'll see you next year, you know, in the, in a
• 1:40:22
  couple months, whatever. And matter of fact, it was
• 1:40:24
  somebody a month ago when I was kind of like getting my stuff
• 1:40:29
  prepped to take my little my little mini.
• 1:40:32
  Hi. - whatever they are putting on, those are hey we all got
• 1:40:37
  life stuff going on. So we're going to be taking a
• 1:40:40
  break. I'm expecting to see like a few
• 1:40:43
  weeks, couple months, there's our hey, we are done for the
• 1:40:46
  year. We'll see you on 2023.
• 1:40:48
  I was like what? But hey, you know.
• 1:40:53
  Okay, kudos to kudos to them, for knowing themselves.
• 1:40:58
  Nothing like you know what? Hey we need to go handle
• 1:41:01
  business. We'll see y'all when we see
• 1:41:04
  y'all top of things. You know where's know?
• 1:41:06
  Like even myself like even me being away for a few weeks, you
• 1:41:09
  know, I wasn't like 100% gone, I'll still lurking here and
• 1:41:13
  there you know, I did better about not being in the apps all
• 1:41:17
  day and stuff but you know still kind of alert.
• 1:41:20
  I like the post here and there, you know, but but it was
• 1:41:25
  different, definitely something to Rama.
• 1:41:26
  Okay, yeah, this needs to be something that I need to.
• 1:41:31
  Scheduling to you know, mocking okay.
• 1:41:34
  Hey every couple months or however frequently whatever.
• 1:41:39
  Take a break it is it is okay. You know yes the the monitor
• 1:41:45
  you're going to review will still be there for you to review
• 1:41:47
  and you come back whenever people will look it up there
• 1:41:52
  just getting into manga. It's a, it's a real tating
• 1:41:55
  thing. Like it's never I don't think it
• 1:41:57
  would go away. People always would be new to
• 1:42:00
  attack on tight. Yeah.
• 1:42:01
  That video out. Its somebody down the line.
• 1:42:04
  It's going to be like me. I was new to it after they've
• 1:42:07
  been out for years. Yeah, it was always gonna.
• 1:42:10
  So like you said, put it out when you put it out.
• 1:42:12
  Yeah. Okay.
• 1:42:13
  Yeah. Okay.
• 1:42:15
  Yeah. And so are so yeah.
• 1:42:17
  So with that like I said, just you know, I guess the big key
• 1:42:22
  phrase and theme to everybody out there is a just just be
• 1:42:25
  encouraged be confidence and take care of yourselves, you
• 1:42:30
  know, like see like from It's taking breaks and and you know,
• 1:42:35
  just just everything in between the that kind of comes with that
• 1:42:38
  stuff. So I'm trying to think of her,
• 1:42:42
  try to think that I have anything else.
• 1:42:43
  I wanted to pick your brain about.
• 1:42:47
  But before we hop off, but I want that will definitely say is
• 1:42:52
  that, you know, we would definitely be doing this again.
• 1:42:56
  Absolutely, at some point because like I said, I
• 1:43:00
  definitely Boyd, you know, talking to you today.
• 1:43:04
  And oh, I definitely give a shout out to your Vlog you and
• 1:43:11
  mr. Vibes.
• 1:43:12
  Did you know that? That was like another one of
• 1:43:16
  those moments to wear. When I remember seeing, when you
• 1:43:19
  add acts like, hey, I'm thinking about doing this, you know,
• 1:43:23
  would y'all be interested? I was leaving, I was like
• 1:43:25
  smashing yes, yes, yes, yes, put the video out.
• 1:43:31
  Like that out of what? What's that?
• 1:43:33
  That their gift from Star Wars were just like more more.
• 1:43:39
  Yeah, you know, I got a really good response and I was like
• 1:43:44
  okay we do have another one planned.
• 1:43:47
  It's just getting you know as lined up.
• 1:43:50
  Yeah he is so busy like me like we're always everywhere.
• 1:43:53
  He's very very out. Extroverted like he's like go
• 1:43:57
  talk to the people and meet with the people, how this group of
• 1:43:59
  friends, I'm gonna go hang out with and When we're at home,
• 1:44:02
  we're just at home. So stepping out is another step
• 1:44:05
  for us. So yeah, we had to plan another.
• 1:44:07
  We definitely have another day' playing.
• 1:44:10
  I'm trying to get us out of the state.
• 1:44:12
  It's who we going? Like a little road trip,
• 1:44:14
  somewhere else and do shopping somewhere else.
• 1:44:16
  Oh, yeah. There's definitely more coming.
• 1:44:18
  I'm I actually really enjoy vlogging.
• 1:44:21
  I'm like John make this a part of my life?
• 1:44:23
  Like yeah. I didn't think I would ever be
• 1:44:26
  able to do it. Yeah, it was until I got to this
• 1:44:29
  platform and I knew My friends are watching me.
• 1:44:32
  So it's just me sharing my day with my friends.
• 1:44:34
  And that's honestly how I stepped across that threshold
• 1:44:38
  was like. Hmm friends watching, you know,
• 1:44:41
  so yeah, and yes, so yeah, I definitely will be there, you
• 1:44:48
  know. No, Randy went went whenever
• 1:44:50
  whenever that happens. And once again, it just goes
• 1:44:55
  back to what we talked about earlier with like finding a
• 1:44:59
  community finding friends. They're kind of support you and
• 1:45:03
  will give you that push because st.
• 1:45:05
  Like that, there's a bit like stuff that surprised me, you
• 1:45:09
  know, over this time doing this. Where somebody's going.
• 1:45:13
  Hey, I can't wait to hear your thoughts on this or I can't wait
• 1:45:15
  to see this next thing and it's like, wait, somebody's
• 1:45:18
  somebody's waiting for me. Wait for me.
• 1:45:21
  You know, I gotta give a shout out to Laura.
• 1:45:29
  I love Love love. Love.
• 1:45:33
  She does the the Instagram stories post where she'll go out
• 1:45:37
  there. She checks out everybody stuff.
• 1:45:40
  Yeah, and she tags everybody and she puts a little comment next
• 1:45:44
  to the video of a, hey, I enjoyed this or I was thinking
• 1:45:48
  about that or blah blah and I just I just love that.
• 1:45:52
  Not only not only is she supporting just by watching but
• 1:45:57
  she's supporting by going above and beyond.
• 1:46:01
  Hey, I'm a gather all these videos and tag everybody and
• 1:46:07
  make comments on everything. So it's really I think it helps
• 1:46:12
  so many of us. It's a like she really took the
• 1:46:14
  time to write sentences for all of us.
• 1:46:16
  It's like, I'll go watch more like, girl.
• 1:46:18
  You gotta like yeah for sure. And so with that said I'm not
• 1:46:32
  think we're going to start wrapping it up, KiKi, where can
• 1:46:38
  people find you and do you have anything on the horizon that you
• 1:46:43
  want people to be able to be on the lookout for I'm well, you
• 1:46:48
  can find me on Instagram, Twitter and Tick-Tock I have all
• 1:46:55
  those platforms. I usually have, I'm going to
• 1:46:58
  actually make one of those links links my Instagram pretty soon.
• 1:47:02
  So look out for that on my Instagram, but it's just book
• 1:47:05
  Vibes at book Vibes, in the other ones are book underscore
• 1:47:08
  values, but it'll be easier if I can just put it all in one
• 1:47:10
  place. So, yeah, going to make one of
• 1:47:12
  those pretty soon and I'm going to be doing a few Logs and I
• 1:47:17
  have a plan to do on a, how I'm going to collect from now on
• 1:47:21
  video, which is something I've been working on for a while.
• 1:47:24
  Yeah, I will be revealing more of my spending habits and
• 1:47:28
  telling you how I'm going to dampen that.
• 1:47:31
  So, yeah, that's what I have coming up in the next few weeks.
• 1:47:35
  Hopefully, it's, it'll go as I planned and I'm thinking about
• 1:47:39
  doing a Skittle Tick-Tock. So we'll see how that works out.
• 1:47:42
  Yeah. I had a run of a little little
• 1:47:45
  skit, so we'll see. Awesome, awesome.
• 1:47:47
  And as always, you know, I will have links to all of kinky stuff
• 1:47:53
  in the description box is I do it.
• 1:47:55
  Everything. There.
• 1:47:56
  There is. One last thing.
• 1:47:59
  I do want to ask because you know, I'll be kicking myself.
• 1:48:03
  If I let you go without even asking this after we talked
• 1:48:05
  about all this manga as tough a couple questions will I'm gonna
• 1:48:10
  start with one. What are You got the don't have
• 1:48:16
  to give me like like like like a top three or whatever but just
• 1:48:19
  like what what what has been some manga series that you that
• 1:48:25
  you have read that you that? Okay.
• 1:48:27
  Yes, this is something that forever will stick with me or
• 1:48:32
  what? It went, whatever you know have
• 1:48:34
  you might want to rephrase that. Okay um 20th century boys.
• 1:48:40
  Absolute favorite. I think I think that is my top
• 1:48:43
  favorite. I will read that again.
• 1:48:45
  Again, I actually read that entire Series in like two days.
• 1:48:50
  No, I didn't sleep. It was I was, I was invested
• 1:48:54
  very, very good series. Now, here's our will pull you
• 1:48:58
  into the rest of the series it, you know, you start with that
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  when I'm yeah, another series that I love that.
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  I thought I would love. It is Fruits Basket because I
• 1:49:09
  always said, I don't like the fluffy stuff because I'm more of
• 1:49:11
  a sanding. And, you know, shown and girl.
• 1:49:14
  But because I do psychology all the psychology, it was so
• 1:49:21
  profound. So I will be reading that again.
• 1:49:23
  Just looking at the different personalities.
• 1:49:25
  They have. Yeah, and that series I think
• 1:49:27
  that's another great one. So, yeah those two pushers stick
• 1:49:30
  out, you know as series that I would recommend to anybody.
• 1:49:35
  Yeah, CNC that, that is definitely a interesting angle.
• 1:49:39
  You mentioning light. That that would be something
• 1:49:44
  interesting to maybe see a deeper dive on maybe at some
• 1:49:48
  point just know getting getting those deeper perspectives on
• 1:49:53
  that stuff from your background with dealer psychology and
• 1:49:57
  stuff. So but okay, awesome.
• 1:49:59
  And then what what is, what is some stuff on the horizon like
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  some, some Manga and Anime May either or that, you're excited
• 1:50:10
  about? Okay, you know what that is.
• 1:50:12
  My radar. That's on my calendar to pick up
• 1:50:16
  or to be on the lookout for. um, we're gonna go with anime
• 1:50:21
  because I feel like right now, I'm just looking at stuff that
• 1:50:25
  I'm already collecting. So, for anime, I'm looking for
• 1:50:28
  hell's Paradise because I absolutely love it.
• 1:50:31
  Yeah. I'm looking forward to chainsaw
• 1:50:32
  man, because I thought it was hot.
• 1:50:34
  It was hilarious. Yeah, a lot of people didn't
• 1:50:36
  like it, but I thought it was funny.
• 1:50:38
  I thought was a great storyline. I'm looking forward to the final
• 1:50:42
  Arc of bleach. I'm catching up rise.
• 1:50:45
  Lovely. Like I think that is a great
• 1:50:49
  series, especially If you're into shown in that, I think
• 1:50:52
  everyone should leave just read one volume.
• 1:50:54
  Yeah, so those animator, some animes that I'm really, really
• 1:50:58
  looking into but you looking forward to and of course, the
• 1:51:02
  second season of Tokyo. Yeah, like I love soccer.
• 1:51:06
  Yes. Yes.
• 1:51:07
  Yes. Yeah, awesome.
• 1:51:09
  That. That is very dope.
• 1:51:10
  Well like, so I'm not gonna hold you hostage any longer, you
• 1:51:13
  know, I'll have to like, say I'll definitely have to get you
• 1:51:18
  scheduled to Come back again, because I'm pretty sure we will
• 1:51:23
  have so much more that there is always something to talk about,
• 1:51:29
  you know, with, with content creation and collecting manga
• 1:51:33
  and just life in general. There's always stuff to the to
• 1:51:37
  be on the lookout for and yeah, and as for me, y'all can always
• 1:51:43
  find me everywhere at Danny's to talk Twitter, Instagram,
• 1:51:46
  YouTube, then to talk.com Everywhere in between, I'm
• 1:51:53
  trying to think of something stuff that I did recently says,
• 1:51:58
  last episode, I did a review for when a cat faces, West volume,
• 1:52:05
  one that. So, just just looks like mini
• 1:52:11
  mini tangent for a minute. That is one that I only came
• 1:52:15
  across because it is a digital only release.
• 1:52:19
  Okay? Okay.
• 1:52:20
  And so I would have never, would have never crossed my radar.
• 1:52:24
  If no, I found a via the, I think, I think, I think I had
• 1:52:28
  mentioned to you about the, the, the two websites for the, for
• 1:52:34
  the reviews and stuff, that that is where I found out because I
• 1:52:37
  was browsing through the publisher stuff like, hey,
• 1:52:40
  here's the stuff that's, you know, recent releases that you
• 1:52:42
  can request whatever and I was like, oh, what is this?
• 1:52:45
  So say yes, when it can't faces West.
• 1:52:48
  And then The other day I also just did.
• 1:52:55
  This one volume 1 whoops, but my whanau of lost lad London if you
• 1:53:01
  enjoy, I didn't either if you enjoy a murder mystery.
• 1:53:09
  Okay, check it out because this is that looks like it's a
• 1:53:18
  One-Shot know it's a series but it's going to be a short
• 1:53:23
  circuit. It's not going to be three
• 1:53:24
  volumes. So.
• 1:53:26
  Okay. Once again, I'll say I'll say
• 1:53:30
  shoutout. Yeah, I'll say shout-out to
• 1:53:34
  there's a Twitter account that I follow.
• 1:53:36
  I believe the name of this. Is manga.
• 1:53:41
  Is it manga morgue re something like that?
• 1:53:45
  Cuz yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:53:50
  That that, that, that account, that, that is where I found out
• 1:53:53
  about this because they had tweeted out a newer series from
• 1:53:59
  the author. And then I saw, I saw people in
• 1:54:01
  the comments, tell him, I like. Oh, I'm looking forward to that
• 1:54:05
  because I loved lost lat, London.
• 1:54:07
  I'm saying, I'm like, what is that?
• 1:54:09
  And just just the look of the art styles?
• 1:54:11
  Times that is different. I need to I need to do some
• 1:54:14
  investigating and luck. Have it?
• 1:54:18
  It just came out like a week ago.
• 1:54:20
  So, okay. Yeah, it is super new, at least
• 1:54:24
  like, for us relation wise, but yeah, I'm definitely gonna look
• 1:54:30
  at that, that looks. Yeah, I like that.
• 1:54:32
  Yeah, yes. So so yeah.
• 1:54:36
  So be the only guy for that stuff.
• 1:54:40
  I don't think I have too much else to To to mention, like I
• 1:54:45
  said, like we we are lots of series are returning stuff going
• 1:54:50
  on Hiatus. It is a wonderful time to be a
• 1:54:54
  fan of, of all this stuff. I'll dive into some more stuff
• 1:55:00
  in next episode because I also have been watching stranger
• 1:55:04
  things, Miss marvelous starting tomorrow.
• 1:55:11
  Lots of gaming news coming out there.
• 1:55:12
  There's this funny stuff coming. So be on the lookout for that
• 1:55:15
  stuff in the coming weeks, but I'm stop rambling and close it
• 1:55:20
  out. But but as I always say, treat
• 1:55:24
  yourself to something. Nice.
• 1:55:25
  Read some manga, watch some anime play some video games, and
• 1:55:29
  live your best life. And with that, I am out.
• 1:55:33
  Thank you again for joining me. Kiki and we'll catch ya.
• 1:55:37
  Yes. One piece.