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NETWORKING: THE ANIME AND LIFE CHANGER PANEL at Fan Expo Dallas 2022 · Dad Needs To Talk

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  All right. What's up y'all?
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  And welcome to Phoenix, Bo Dallas with your boy.
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  One of your host, Rob from Dennis Hawkins.
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  And I'm also joined by sanae, from Blenheim a podcast.
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  Hello. As well as the homie Steve from
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  Inside the Mind of a blurred podcast, how y'all doing.
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  So, yeah, we are here today on this, this beautiful.
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  Sunday, this beautiful Father's Day.
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  So happy Father's Day to all the dads out there in the world.
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  Also, happy Juneteenth to everybody out there as well.
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  So a lot last supper lots of big milestones and and things going
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  on today. So, so yeah.
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  So today we're gonna be kind of touching on the topic of
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  networking and both Al, you know, we've all use it both in a
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  professional sense, but also with, you know, covering each
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  other and with our nerdy ever since stuff.
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  So I guess kind of kind of just kicking also with networking.
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  Like I said a lot of people when they hear that term a lot of
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  times, they only think about it in like a professional, you
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  know, workplace environment. Like oh, yeah.
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  You know, I never was people to get a better job but networking
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  is something that can go. Ian and, you know, just that and
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  so what, you know, which is one reason why I wanted to get these
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  two on with me because we all met each other about a year.
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  Yeah. A little over a year ago,
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  through the podcast community and stuff and also shout out to
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  Black and me podcast.com because that site and Ashley the The guy
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  that runs it. He is the reason why I found
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  these two as well as some of the other do people within the
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  podcast community and stuff that we formed really deep, really
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  strong bonds over this last year, so kind of kicking things
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  off. Trying to think I guess I'll
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  start with you. Steve, what has been maybe like
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  one example? Networking, and how that's kind
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  of helped you throughout your life and things of that nature
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  throughout my life, in general. Every yeah, it's a lot, man.
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  So, like just networking in general, is just something that
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  you have to. You have to have a lot of times,
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  you might hear it, you know, it's not about what you know,
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  it's about who you know, and they can get you into places and
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  stuff like that. That, you know, I'm saying that
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  you never thought you could be in.
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  And then positions you never thought you could be in.
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  It's been a bunch of times where I felt like I was qualified for
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  something and I just didn't get it, you know, I'm saying?
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  But then once I reached out and I started to talk to people and
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  get to know people, all of a sudden, you know I'm saying, I'm
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  ready, I'm qualified, I'm able to get into these positions and
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  things that I couldn't get into. So yeah, man, like networking is
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  really important and it's not even just sometimes, you don't
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  even have to network to better yourself and get yourself for
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  it. Sometimes just networking, the
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  support people. Yeah, I'm real big on that.
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  Like, you know, I'm saying? I'm y'all know, that's how I
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  pretty much met y'all. And showing up the different
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  podcast life. Meetups things that y'all have
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  any time. You have a little episode or
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  anything like that. I'm always talking about it,
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  hyping it up, things like that. So you know, networking didn't
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  necessarily have to be about you.
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  We can be about big enough other people because everybody trying
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  to win. Yeah.
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  And what about, you know why? I agree with everything you just
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  said, networking is definitely important.
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  Definitely not always about. Business, which is building
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  relationships with people that you, you know, have lifelong
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  relationships with in the podcast.
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  Community's been really cool because when we started which we
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  start our Park podcast at the beginning of 2019, we didn't
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  know anybody that did an anime podcast especially in the DFW so
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  we kind of put ourselves out there and was you know like hey
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  well you know whatever happens happens and the next thing we
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  knew it was just like Like people Steve, I think he emailed
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  us one day and my ready to email him, like I ain't even know
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  people in Dallas was listening to us.
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  I didn't even know that people knew who we were her.
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  Like, I didn't even know that there were other nerds are aged
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  like, because nobody talked about it, you know?
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  Yes, the uncle nerds, here we are.
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  So it's been really awesome. Just being able to network with
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  everybody and just building those relationships and getting
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  to be on people's podcast getting to do.
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  Events like this and speak on like the benefits of networking
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  because again, thank you Rob because I would have never done
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  a panel, you know, the wrong with the reached out networking.
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  So when this opportunity came up, I was like, you know what
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  better way to showcase the power of networking than to have, you
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  know, actual you know, representations of people that I
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  have met I'm in and have the top those relationships and And just
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  follow along. Like, we're both of, y'all said,
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  yeah, those relationships that you build doing this stuff, it
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  is super, super big and just super important because a lot of
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  times, especially know, depending on people, you know,
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  where you might stay no way, you might know grew up all that
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  stuff. Whatever you might not
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  necessarily have like that immediate support system of
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  like, people that you live with or family and Things are so that
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  is why especially in today's age with how connected we all are
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  with social media and online and stuff that is pretty pretty easy
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  and in a sense to find people that you can connect with
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  because you know I know I've met so many people that you know
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  that they might stay in a small town in the middle of nowhere.
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  So I was like man I really enjoyed this show but I have
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  nobody To talk to about it. Like, man, that game was dope.
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  But yeah, nobody. I guess I'll just, I guess I'll
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  just talk to myself about it. But, you know, with having these
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  spaces and stuff, you know, we can kind of come together
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  through those common interests and things of that nature.
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  So, and it's kind of funny. Thinking about like each of us
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  with, you know, our respective platforms and stuff, you know,
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  it's like, you know, for the most part on my pockets and
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  stuff, I'm a solo host, you know.
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  That's like the few times I have a guess so now you she is a
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  co-host so it's her and Mike blind and made and then Steve
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  has like nine hundred people is not of us.
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  We like the Wu-Tang, It's not Park has is like it's a
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  everything podcast. So we talk about Cinema TV,
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  movies video, games, anime cartoons, everything.
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  So that way we have like two people that kind of like
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  specialize in this and comics and stuff like that, whereas
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  other people in our group are not as knowledgeable and college
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  Comics. So it's like okay well then you
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  can sit this episode out and then they run the show and then
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  so forth and so forth. So we all do rotating hosts,
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  it's not like like yeah, I created it but I'm not like in
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  charge anything in the sea, Since, you know, saying like
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  video games, I play video games, but bow on our podcast, he
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  watching III and all these other different gaming, things all the
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  time. So it wouldn't make sense for me
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  to host a gaming episodes. I'm like, you taking me like,
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  you sure. It's not even that serious, you
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  know, they're like. Yeah, so we just rotate.
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  Yeah. And you know, and then like, you
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  know, finally following up with what Steve was just saying and
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  kind of tying that back into the the sense of community that
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  there were all apart. Is, you know, you kind of find,
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  you know, whether it be that one person or that group of people
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  that, you know, are interested in the in the same show or Manga
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  or whatever that you're in. And then that also helps further
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  build up the community and the networking because it's been
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  times to wear. You know, somebody from stays
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  podcast or somebody from somebody else's podcast, be
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  like, oh, I know, Rob isn't to XYZ and we're going to do a show
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  about it. Well, then, why don't we bring
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  him in to do a show about that stuff?
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  And, you know, they're, they're, they're just so many people in
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  this community, in general, that, you can pretty much find
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  you can find people with that share the interest, no matter
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  how specific or an issue. It is there.
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  Somebody else out there that is like, you know, who try again or
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  whatever else, you know that, that you might be interested in
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  this stuff like that. And so, another thing I kind of
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  wanted to like, touch on is Maybe What has been?
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  And also with the United, what has been, maybe like something
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  entertainment, whether it be a TV show manga, or something that
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  you feel, like you might not have even ever heard of a came
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  across, if it wasn't for, you know, being within the
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  community, and having those people to kind of, you know,
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  talk with. Oh, definitely.
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  There's a lot to choose from told in with us in our podcast.
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  Like we all have our own, we do anime podcast, me and Mike and
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  we both have our The genres. I'm actually a horror person,
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  like horror movies or TV shows, or anime or Manga.
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  That's me like, spooky season name is, Renee is like, that's,
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  that's my nickname. So when people started listening
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  to us and started realizing like if I watch the slice-of-life I
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  SQ but I like I'm not interested.
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  I need somebody to die. I need Gore.
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  I need like I have to have that in something that I watch, it
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  cannot just be happy, so a lot of listeners start really giving
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  me like really good recommendations for For the four
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  different shows. I think that was like, I mean, I
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  can go down the list of some of the ones made in the abyss.
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  Even a shout out to Mike check even though that was not the I
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  mean it gets dark. So there were so many that I
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  didn't realize because I just had my cup, my respect, my death
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  note, maybe I guess, yeah, probably dead.
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  And I was like the main one that I had, had washed out like,
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  okay, this is horror. This is cool.
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  And I kind of went ventured back into shown and not realizing How
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  many anime and manga? I could actually see that was in
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  that horror genre. And I mean, even going on every
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  year, I get to go on it. Mom's pod to do like spooky
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  season stuff. So like, yeah, every every
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  October I get it, and, of course, networking, if it wasn't
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  for us networking getting to meet you.
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  Steve. I would have never been able to
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  have that opportunity or like I said the community being able to
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  give me those suggestions. So it's been great.
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  It's really networking, has really helped me with, like, my
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  anime Journey, because I did fall off, you know, going to
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  college and then not really knowing people that had a
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  similar interest in keeping it hidden in this community, really
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  helped me like get back into it and do like a I'm not alone and
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  all her to come. You know what about you?
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  So I had like a lot of recommendations because last
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  year we did like a hundred. Yeah we did a hundred Watcher
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  anime challenge. So it was like Like everybody on
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  Twitter was like, watch this, watch this, watch this.
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  Oh we was trying to watch like 100 animated like before and we
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  was trying to do it at our own pace.
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  Just do it in a year and had to be 100 anime that you hadn't
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  seen already. So all the animated you already
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  seen regardless of you are animate junkie or whatever those
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  don't count, it's just got to be new stuff so it was like all
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  sorts of different recommendation.
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  So, I watched a hundred different animated.
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  I've never watched last year and then I watched this show, I'm
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  not sure if y'all heard of it, but it's this show called
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  BoJack. Horseman Talk about it and he
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  was like, raving about it. And I always see it on Netflix,
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  but I just scroll past it because I was like, it looked
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  like something goofy, or whatever.
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  And he did, a whole deep diver how like it touched on social
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  issues and different things like that.
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  And I was like, let me check it out.
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  And then after that, I was like, yo, this one of my favorite TV
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  shows. So if it wasn't for Rob, you
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  know, listening to him. I wouldn't even know nothing
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  about BoJack Horseman. So, So I take that one, it's
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  going to yeah for real and kind of you know with what neighbors
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  smile with no. You said you kind of fell off a
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  little bit like when you went to college and stuff College was
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  kind of a time where it was like different like a point to where
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  like my interest started to brought in a bit.
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  Shout out to my friends in the audience Bree and Aaron, you
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  know, meeting them and a lot of people there was in our Circle
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  which of course, you know, I went to tech school Natural, a
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  lot of it, people, we're also kind of nerdy as well, so, you
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  know, that kind of first started broadening my view of like, a
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  lot of shows and stuff that I was watching at the time because
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  I believe one of the ones that bring you mentioned back in the
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  day, was out, lost. Our home was, was one of her
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  favorites and stuff. And so during that point in time
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  and then, of course, being in the space that we're in now,
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  Like we, at least like speaker for us, three in general.
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  I like we were in such a tight-knit group that we can
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  shoot out a tweet, or whatever being like, hey, I'm looking for
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  something in this genre or hey, somebody give me a
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  recommendation. And a lot of us, do you know,
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  just over the year and stuff that we've been talking to get
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  it to know each other? We can kind of like, okay, I
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  know that the naysayers into this type of thing or I know
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  students to this or wrong, So hey here's a shot.
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  I just watched you know here's my recommendation because going
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  back to the to the BoJack Horseman thing because a couple
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  months ago you had gave me a suggestion for was it?
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  Undone undone. Yes, cuz because Steve was like,
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  hey I remember how much you know, like BoJack Horseman.
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  Check out this show called andand that's on Amazon.
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  Prime at that shows, like super dope, never seen anything like
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  it. And so but you know like I said
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  it all just kind of feel. Is back into each other.
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  Towards I hey, you guess my recommendation and then they
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  come back and give you a recommendation and things like
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  that. And so I definitely realized,
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  you know, finding those communities and finding those
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  people to make those connections with or very important.
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  Because you know, a lot of times you know, and sometimes it's not
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  for a lack of trying, but a lot of times we kind of get stuck in
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  watching or reading or playing the same shows games.
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  Books or whatever. And then once you start to meet
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  more people, you know y'all might have connected because
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  y'all had one similar interest. But then it's like, okay, we we
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  from the connection off of this thing.
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  So I know we kind of have similar tastes and so then you
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  see them talk about this whole other thing.
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  You never heard about my okay, let me check that out.
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  Which, like I said, it's definitely like very important
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  because you know, a lot of people fall into those
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  trappings, you know, and not to say there's nothing wrong with
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  I've been afraid of fan of like the general shounen anime and
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  stuff, whatever. But it's also like there is such
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  a big wide variety of different shows and types and stuff like
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  that, especially for like, General people who might not be
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  that deep into anime and stuff like that.
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  Aside from like, you know, everybody knows dragon by
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  everybody knows, you know, Naruto and you know, Cowboy
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  Bebop and stuff like that. But it's like How many people
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  are talking about? Even stuff, like made in the
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  best or Black Lagoon or personal favor for me?
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  I oshio and Torah, you know, little little hidden gems like
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  that. Like, you know, you have to
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  definitely know, like, said broaden your palate.
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  I guess that's kind of one way to kind of approach that stuff.
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  So trying to think Sorry, my brain kind of blank for a second
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  but my a mock the like said that the main Crux of likes of the
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  conversation is just get out there meet those people.
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  Whether it be in person or online, I feel like meeting
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  people online can be a little bit easier sometimes because you
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  know it's not that kind of oh my God that's precious right here
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  in front of me, type of anxiety. But I know that there is to
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  those kind of Anxiety. Sometimes, I've even you know,
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  DM is somebody on Twitter or whatever because sometimes it's
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  like, you know, sometimes I feel like, you know, we might get
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  kind of caught up in the numbers and all this person has x amount
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  of followers, or they've collaborated with this person of
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  this brand or whatever. But one thing that I've learned
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  through being in this space, is that At the end of the day,
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  we're all people, you know? And sometimes it doesn't hurt to
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  shoot your shot because sometimes you just never know,
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  you know where there might lead you and you know, how we
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  opportunities might open up to you because because I have
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  somebody that I had on my podcast earlier this year, mama
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  loves manga. And so you know she has pretty
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  good following us and she's been doing this for many years and so
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  after we podcast and stuff, Have picked her brain.
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  I was like, hey, I see you've worked with, you know, this
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  company or XYZ and so I was like, hey, how did you do that?
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  Like what were your stuff to do that stuff?
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  And so a lot of times we have to share that information because a
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  lot of times, you know, and I guess, you know, it's kind of a
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  thing like with with podcasting like the special stuff we're in,
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  we're all still kind of new to this or we're all still kind of
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  like finding our way through. But it is also important to wear
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  when you get out there and you make a discovery, you just some
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  information come back to the group, you know, share it with
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  everybody. So we all can kind of, you know,
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  rise up together because you know sometimes it's just a
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  matter of, you know, it's like man I really want to do this
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  thing or really want to, you know, be a part of this, but
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  sometimes you don't know, like, okay, where's the door to get
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  in, you know, cuz cuz that that is definitely something which
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  you Some people have that information and sometimes they
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  like to just hold it for themselves cuz I okay.
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  Hey I got in I'ma keep this place for myself but you know I
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  try not to be that way. I feel like you know named Steve
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  also know we all try to be that way and it's okay hey I figure
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  out this thing. Let me share with Steve the
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  Michelle Renee or whoever else. Because then from there that all
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  just kind of helps continue to build Build upon each other
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  stuff like that. So I'm trying to think we could
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  I guess, I guess all I ask since we do have a few people here.
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  Does anybody have any questions that I want to cover a come up
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  and ask us? Does anybody have maybe any dope
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  recommendations of anything that you've watched recently?
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  Anything you've played etc, etc. Anybody want to come up and ask
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  a question? Hey, I just wanted to say, have
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  you read what? I've suggested the last couple
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  times we've talked you got to remind me a commie.
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  I'll come and pick you up. Yeah, you read that one?
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  Yeah, I hadn't read it yet. Come on, man.
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  I know you. You know, that that is still on
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  my list to get to a reading specialist because you know, I'm
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  a I've heard over the years and we've talked about it, you know
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  how different I believe the manga is from and what they come
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  in anime. Yeah, cuz I watch the anime
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  nein. Hmm, save the anime caught up
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  with the source material. So then they just they just
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  start because it's tough when they own that when I think we
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  need to see if they can do a remake.
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  Can we Brotherhood it? I guess?
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  Yeah. Yes.
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  There are definitely lots of series like that claims are
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  which one claim or they'll or the manga supposedly different.
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  I didn't read it but like I was so mad at the end of that anime.
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  I was like, oh, I cannot believe y'all knew like well didn't like
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  that in the manga I do I didn't watch that.
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  May I read it but I haven't watched it.
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  Don't don't don't watch. I think you don't have any other
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  I guess stories or situations of stuff, you know.
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  Like say whether it be no real life or even you know with just
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  series that you've come across the they want to be I want to
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  talk about I know that we're me like I basically I mean Kasha
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  who's part of land amazed team. She me and her went to high
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  school Together. And that's how pretty much I got
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  into the whole Community, really, because she retweeted
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  out that she has a podcast and I started listening to them to
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  blame him. A I started from the very
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  beginning. I think that was so like, 80
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  something. But this is back when I was
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  like, I was doing like doordash and Uber and stuff, so like I
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  was just running through episodes like in the car and
• 23:22
  then like I got like caught up and then I heard them say
• 23:26
  something about like where you again because somebody asked a
• 23:28
  woman The question is, like, we don't watch One Piece, too long.
• 23:32
  It was all I, but if you want to, we can refer you to wear
• 23:34
  gin. And then that's when I got over
• 23:36
  there. And then I was next thing, you
• 23:39
  know, I'm listening 1315 different podcast because I got
• 23:42
  so much content and I'm still just driving around hours at a
• 23:46
  time. I'm like, I need something to
• 23:48
  listen to. So it was some good
• 23:49
  conversations from all the different podcasts.
• 23:51
  And so like is literally just like, just one little small meet
• 23:56
  one person brought all this about Out.
• 23:59
  Like if it wasn't for me, seeing cautious, Facebook post, I
• 24:02
  wouldn't even be sitting right here, you know?
• 24:04
  Saying so it's like, it just unraveled unraveled, and even
• 24:07
  just listening to them. I'm actually, I'm a writer and I
• 24:12
  have a comic book coming out. They interviewed a group called
• 24:14
  concept Moon. And now I'm trying to find a way
• 24:18
  to get signed the concept of moon and be a part of their
• 24:20
  brand and everything like that. So it's just like a whole crazy
• 24:24
  Snowball Effect of all different things, just for meeting one
• 24:27
  person. So yeah, it definitely.
• 24:29
  Yeah, I would always, I would also suggest, like, when
• 24:33
  Network, like Rob was saying earlier, it can be really scary,
• 24:36
  like, putting yourself out there to like ask someone like, you
• 24:41
  know, like, hey, can would you would you like to be a part of
• 24:44
  this? Or can I pick your brain about
• 24:46
  something? It can be super nerve-wracking
• 24:48
  like anxiety high but I always say like the worst.
• 24:52
  Like we said earlier the worst thing somebody can say is no, so
• 24:57
  my biggest things like, go ahead and Do it even though like it's
• 25:00
  so scary it's probably the like one of the most liberating
• 25:04
  things when you actually find out that person it's like oh
• 25:07
  yeah sure. Like I would love to be a part
• 25:09
  of that. I would love to do this or you
• 25:12
  know, whatever your idea is. Because honestly when I think
• 25:15
  about it when we started the Pod it's kind of funny because a lot
• 25:19
  of people that we've talked to him, it all said that like oh we
• 25:22
  listen to you guys and you gave you inspired me to start a
• 25:26
  podcast or you guys inspired me to you.
• 25:29
  Getting the content creating. I'm like that wasn't what we
• 25:32
  were even planning to do when we started, and just seeing how the
• 25:35
  community has grown and how we all have been able to connect
• 25:38
  and just grow with each other and learn.
• 25:41
  I mean I'm glad that we did it, you know?
• 25:44
  So I would say like if again don't don't let the fear of
• 25:50
  rejection. Stop you from like trying to
• 25:52
  network because you really never know like what can happen.
• 25:56
  Like because again this is this is all All from networking that
• 26:00
  we're up here right now. Yeah, for sure.
• 26:03
  And, you know, one one, one of my favorite stores.
• 26:06
  I always like to tell of you you just never know where
• 26:14
  opportunities and stuff might pop up so years ago, so, like I
• 26:19
  mentioned before I work in the, it field.
• 26:22
  So my first real true opportunity in it field.
• 26:29
  Started at a barbershop. So, back in the day this is
• 26:36
  probably. This would have been fall, 2013,
• 26:40
  the barber. I was going to at a time was a
• 26:42
  close friend of my brother-in-law's.
• 26:44
  And so I've been going to him for years at this point and just
• 26:49
  somehow. Someway, one day I was noticed
• 26:52
  in the barber shop, like I have been hundreds of other times and
• 26:57
  for whatever reason, the topic of Of Robert.
• 26:59
  Does it Guy brought up and kind of find out there was a guy
• 27:05
  sitting in the corner who was AIT recruiter, who was also a
• 27:09
  close friend of the barber. And so, I was okay.
• 27:13
  All right, mr. Shout out to mr.
• 27:15
  Calloway change my life in that moment, but him and the barber
• 27:19
  or The Barbers are hey Rob, isn't it?
• 27:23
  Mr. Calloway's it recorder so on and so forth.
• 27:26
  And so at the time, you know, I wasn't looking Work.
• 27:29
  But here's a thing like where we exchange information?
• 27:32
  As a you know what? Maybe someday I might need.
• 27:35
  This was someone's later some stuff happened.
• 27:38
  I ended up needing to look for a job and I was all yeah, that guy
• 27:41
  I met. Let me reach out to him and we
• 27:46
  linked up and then from there he got me.
• 27:49
  One of the biggest opportunities I ever had like, first come into
• 27:52
  it. God got me on a contract doing
• 27:55
  some work at Microsoft and so it's like, like I went from
• 28:01
  working retail to working at one of the biggest tech companies in
• 28:04
  the world, all because I knew somebody at a barbershop, you
• 28:11
  know, and so it is just so funny, how, you know, I felt
• 28:17
  like a lot of us have stories of that nature to her somebody's
• 28:21
  like, hey, how did you get that position or how did you get to
• 28:24
  where you are today as so it's not it's not always a simple.
• 28:30
  Oh yeah. Hey here's a, here's a guide.
• 28:33
  Follow these steps, you know, to, to get to the same path that
• 28:37
  I went to because, you know, y'all see learn and experience
• 28:42
  so many different things in life and but that is why, you know,
• 28:47
  we all try to encourage people to like, hey, just be open to
• 28:50
  the idea of, you know, putting yourself out there and you know,
• 28:55
  it might be scary but you know, speaking up and making those
• 28:59
  connections because What was it our last year?
• 29:05
  I went to my first convention at anime Dallas and I was pretty
• 29:10
  much on the opposite side of this.
• 29:11
  I was in the audience at a podcast panel like this and
• 29:16
  there was another guy in the audience, that's took them.
• 29:18
  And asked the question that he was also a podcast host.
• 29:21
  Whatever. And so, I was hesitant, I was
• 29:25
  like, I kind of want to talk to this, dude, but the same time,
• 29:28
  I'm like, I don't know. You know, it's always weird
• 29:31
  know, something about trying to Make that initial first contact
• 29:33
  with people but something like no.
• 29:36
  Hey, just reach out. And so I'll touch my show like
• 29:40
  hey man, I got a podcast to Can-Can we talk afterwards and
• 29:46
  that led to me meeting even more people and stuff because he, he
• 29:49
  told me about there was a event called a DFW, podcastfast had no
• 29:56
  clue about it, never even heard of it, but it was a events where
• 30:00
  it was a bunch of people with in here and did W that had podcast
• 30:03
  that was coming together, just to just to talk and to mingle
• 30:06
  that stuff. And so like I said, that, that
• 30:09
  just lets me meeting even more awesome people that are doing
• 30:13
  amazing things and stuff like that, but I would have never
• 30:16
  known about it. If I didn't you note after got
• 30:19
  mushrooms. I hey.
• 30:21
  Hi, I'm Rob. I had a whole situation where
• 30:26
  like, like we always wanted to do like D&D but I was like, you
• 30:32
  know I'm saying you just never feel kind of like comfortable
• 30:35
  just walking into a room with stuff like that.
• 30:37
  So we kind of like use the people from my community and
• 30:40
  made our own DND thing. So it was like me, gee be
• 30:44
  fashioned, like all these other life people that I never did DM
• 30:47
  deal for and it was like two people that have done it.
• 30:49
  And we did our own little DND thing and it was way more
• 30:52
  comfortable because it was like we were all new and we don't
• 30:55
  want to just go into somewhere and not know we doing and
• 30:57
  everybody kind of like clown us for doing d and e and whatever
• 31:00
  stuff. And it was actually, it was a
• 31:03
  lot more laid back because you know, I'm saying it was kind of
• 31:06
  like you know saying more urban in the sense, you know I'm
• 31:08
  saying, what we just kind of like kicked it and did it in a
• 31:11
  way in actually been turned out to be real cool.
• 31:13
  We did it online stuff. Yeah.
• 31:15
  So yeah like it is cool to just like just try new stuff and just
• 31:19
  reach out and just asking people to do stuff.
• 31:22
  Yeah. And that does the point that you
• 31:24
  just talked about like finding people that that you call like
• 31:28
  comfortable you know doing that with that is also like a They
• 31:32
  have, you know, heard multiple. I just over the years on
• 31:36
  especially the last year is, you know, networking across, you
• 31:41
  know, versus networking up, you know, like I said, I hate, you
• 31:44
  know, like I said earlier, it's not just nothing wrong with you.
• 31:46
  Of course, reaching out to people who might have bigger
• 31:50
  audiences bigger platforms, but, you know, if you feel a little
• 31:55
  bit nervous or hesitant about that, or whatever, then try
• 31:58
  starting small starts, you know, start with people that are Kind
• 32:02
  of like at the same level as yours.
• 32:04
  Okay. You know I've only been doing
• 32:05
  this for a year or so okay. Here's these other people that
• 32:08
  have been doing this for a couple of years.
• 32:11
  You know, we're all kind of rough like at the same level,
• 32:14
  you know, that that kind of, that's kind of a nice way to
• 32:18
  kind of like help ease you into stuff as I.
• 32:20
  Okay, hey, we're all kind of knew, you know, that's kind of,
• 32:24
  you know, bounce off of each other and work together on
• 32:28
  coming up together. You know, like said, like
• 32:30
  versus, you know, if you were Hesitant about Tina, reach out
• 32:35
  to somebody with a bigger audience or a bigger platform
• 32:38
  and things of that nature. So, but but yeah, and then
• 32:42
  they're working. It is a, it's a very beautiful
• 32:45
  thing. You know, of course, you know,
• 32:48
  how do you realize the, you know, it might not be for
• 32:50
  everybody, but I definitely encourage everybody to, at
• 32:52
  least, you know, try, you know, like say, you know, it did it.
• 32:57
  Sorry, like I said, it doesn't have to be for the work
• 33:00
  purposes. It could just be like, hey, I
• 33:01
  just To broaden my Horizon, on the show's, I'm watching and the
• 33:05
  books. I'm reading and things like
• 33:08
  that. So, you know, networking can be
• 33:10
  used in MIDI many. Fastest of life.
• 33:15
  So yeah. Anything else now gamma
• 33:20
  radiation want to say, well, we are our networking, I guess I
• 33:24
  can that work in plug my friend in.
• 33:26
  So I have a friend. His name is Ben and he has a
• 33:29
  comic book called Fiasco and he actually has a booth in artists
• 33:32
  alley. If you guys want to go up there
• 33:35
  and check them out. If you ask a comic book I think
• 33:37
  they might have like three volumes.
• 33:39
  There might be more than that now maybe four volumes out but
• 33:43
  they have This year, they were able to get a booth here at Fan
• 33:47
  Expo and so we networking somebody that went to school
• 33:51
  with us told them about us and we did a pond with them and then
• 33:54
  we've been friends with them ever since and got to see them
• 33:57
  grow and become an artist and getting their kind of looking
• 34:01
  stuff out there since you haven't even.
• 34:02
  Yeah. Check them out of the darkness.
• 34:04
  A lie. Yeah.
• 34:05
  For sure. Yeah, I'll follow us up there
• 34:07
  because as soon as this yeah we do yeah.
• 34:15
  As far as me it's nine of us on Inside the Mind of a blurred
• 34:20
  they all have different YouTube channels and twitches and all
• 34:23
  this other things that they got going on and make sure if you
• 34:26
  guys want to follow us at the blur mind, pot, Nick, and lead
• 34:29
  you to everybody. I have a podcast for my daughter
• 34:33
  that I also do on the side, called The Scholar, Scuba Steve
• 34:37
  thing, and we kind of just like, have a little fun on there as
• 34:40
  well. So yes, I can talk about my book
• 34:43
  but You know, that's coming in the future.
• 34:45
  So not something I want to just, you know, too much like try to
• 34:49
  take this moment away from these great people.
• 34:51
  That's up here right now. Yeah, it's not good.
• 34:55
  But yeah. Like I think there's nobody else
• 34:59
  in the audience. Has any other questions or
• 35:01
  anything are you? Yeah, go ahead.
• 35:20
  Yeah. On Facebook, we have a Facebook
• 35:23
  group that's actually how our podcast started.
• 35:25
  I started a Facebook group, like six years ago to try to get
• 35:29
  people. Like I said, like, older nerds,
• 35:33
  who didn't have a space to Safe space to talk about, you know,
• 35:37
  anime and manga and games and comic books and things like
• 35:41
  that. So, our Facebook group is called
• 35:44
  Blenheim a, oh, it's called Blenheim a, don't eat the end of
• 35:47
  May. I mean, don't eat the cake
• 35:49
  anime, but if you go on there on Facebook, just like on the
• 35:54
  screen, would our name is, I think if you type in Blenheim a
• 35:57
  podcast, the group will come up, but if you type in blaming me
• 36:00
  that that's a space is there. And then we do have on Twitter.
• 36:04
  I mean the Community is there. We're blending my podcast on
• 36:07
  there and I don't know. We I'm not in a group I guess on
• 36:11
  Twitter. Maybe the park has been ages,
• 36:14
  but you kind of get. If you start following people,
• 36:17
  you'll end up in the community because everybody just Falls
• 36:19
  each other's bad. Yeah, that that, that that's
• 36:21
  kind of how how has been for about 34.
• 36:24
  Like, for most of us is that we found one or two people to
• 36:27
  follow, whether it be on Twitter or Instagram and then from
• 36:33
  there, kind of found other people.
• 36:35
  You know, it's a kind of like Branch off from there.
• 36:39
  I'm trying to think I was because for, as, for myself,
• 36:42
  like I have, well, I'm not as active in it anymore, I still
• 36:46
  have it. But I had a Facebook group, or I
• 36:49
  still have a Facebook group it's called lord, Mastermind is a
• 36:55
  mastermind inform Master mind. Palace that that?
• 36:58
  That's what it was. Yeah.
• 36:59
  Sorry say that shows how I've just like transition to
• 37:04
  different. Spaces over the years but but
• 37:06
  that the house a little community that I have built many
• 37:10
  years back just just to kind of have like a space of different
• 37:15
  friends. People that I've met over the
• 37:16
  years to kind of just share and talk about, you know, what
• 37:20
  shells were watching. And you know, funny, you know,
• 37:25
  gifs and memes and stuff like that.
• 37:29
  I think 20 also have it just dawned on me Discord that that
• 37:36
  is also been another like really big space or platform that a lot
• 37:40
  of us are active in. So I know.
• 37:43
  Like, like, like Steve, I know they have the assignment of
• 37:46
  required this Core Group. There's one I'm here for the my
• 37:53
  hair Academia podcast. There.
• 37:57
  There there's there's a lot of so I would definitely recommend
• 38:02
  though. At least.
• 38:02
  I kind of maybe just kind of starting whatever platform like
• 38:06
  social media, perfect platform that you might be on the most
• 38:08
  where they be, no Twitter Instagram, Facebook, all of us
• 38:14
  have accounts on there. So follow us from there and then
• 38:19
  now kind of at least like get you in the door to kind of help.
• 38:22
  Get you seeing more people because because you know, a lot.
• 38:27
  Those kind of talk and interact with a lot of the same people.
• 38:30
  So as you kind of start, you know, Getting involved with it
• 38:36
  and stuff, you'll start saying, oh, okay, you know, these are,
• 38:39
  you know, the people that are, you know, are that I can follow
• 38:43
  for recommendations on shows to watch, or games to play, or
• 38:46
  Manga or books to read. So, that that's kind of how we
• 38:49
  kind of operate in a sense like that.
• 38:53
  So, hopefully, that was helpful. Yeah, if you, if you follow one
• 39:01
  of those, you will follow all. You'll find.
• 39:02
  All of us will pop up in the recommendation.
• 39:05
  Things like that and I know we heavy and Anime Community, but
• 39:10
  we do talk about other different things as well as video games,
• 39:13
  May definitely talking about movies or movies and stuff.
• 39:27
  Yeah, yeah for sure. Yeah.
• 39:30
  But yeah for sure. Twitter has the ground probably
• 39:32
  like the top two for sure. Especially Twitter for us.
• 39:38
  Go we're on there a lot, but yeah, but yeah, but yeah, follow
• 39:43
  us. And then like I said, you're
• 39:45
  kind of star star making making more friends and more
• 39:49
  connections to that way because because Even last year when I
• 39:53
  started doing my podcast instead of it was a thing of like of
• 39:57
  like man, I don't see too many other anime podcast and they
• 40:01
  know it's kind of like the whole of an analogy of like, you know,
• 40:04
  like looking under a rock and like, saying I owe all this
• 40:07
  stuff is here, I just didn't see it.
• 40:09
  It was like, you know, I once I kind of got on the inside and
• 40:13
  started following a person here or there, there's a lot of it is
• 40:17
  dozens of people, you know, that are active and talking about.
• 40:21
  The stuff all day every day. But sometimes it's just a matter
• 40:23
  of finding those one or two people to follow the, okay?
• 40:28
  I know that person to talk about this stuff and then from there,
• 40:32
  I guess, you know, with how the internet and all these
• 40:35
  algorithms and stuff working, then just start getting that
• 40:39
  stuff popping up in your suggestions and stuff.
• 40:41
  More often once you kind of you know like sliced are getting
• 40:44
  active into into those spaces and stuff.
• 40:46
  So make sure you find us do father animates we do is more
• 40:50
  fun over there. It's real serious on the other
• 40:55
  forms of Twitter, but anime, Twitter is a lot of fun.
• 40:58
  So make sure you you can find this.
• 41:00
  Make sure you get over there and find us money.
• 41:02
  Yeah, any other questions or anything else?
• 41:07
  All right, so I guess so for, and for myself, you know, you
• 41:13
  can find me everywhere online at that needs to talk this Twitter,
• 41:17
  Instagram, YouTube channel. Everything of this panel itself
• 41:23
  will be posted online officer ever up on my channel of these
• 41:27
  two, probably have it upon their channels and stuff as well.
• 41:31
  But yeah, like I said, I'm Rob once again.
• 41:33
  I also, I also got my father Vash shout-out to my smile.
• 41:37
  Ross and Bash is in the audience.
• 41:41
  So so, yeah. So yeah, find me everywhere
• 41:45
  online at Danny's talk sanae. Where can I find you?
• 41:48
  Yes, you guys can find me on all platforms Bland on my podcast.
• 41:53
  So Twitter, Instagram, Facebook group and maybe I mean if you
• 41:59
  find our pod page, then my personal stuff is on there as
• 42:04
  well. Me and my co-host been doing
• 42:06
  this for a little while and We're kind of funny.
• 42:09
  So thank you guys. Check us out again, blend of my
• 42:12
  podcast on all platforms. Yeah, that's the OG.
• 42:18
  They end up. Like they've been running the
• 42:20
  game for a couple of years. Now I'm at Scuba Steve 1428 on
• 42:26
  all social media and then I podcast Pages the Blurred mine
• 42:30
  pot. If you follow that, it's a link
• 42:33
  tree to everybody. It's not of a miss too many
• 42:37
  shout out to them. I know they not here but I'm
• 42:39
  pretty sure they're gonna catch this gonna be watching it.
• 42:42
  So, shout out to Danny Alpha Campbell.
• 42:45
  Abe. Black Crystal and hydro.
• 42:50
  Yeah. Oh, and underscore Rob Jay.
• 42:53
  Oh, yeah, Rob. Can you shut up?
• 42:57
  But yeah, I follow all of us for all of your anime and manga, and
• 43:04
  video games everything. Nerdy.
• 43:07
  And especially, you know, like I said, once again.
• 43:11
  Happy, Father's Day to all the dads out there in the community.
• 43:15
  All the dads out there in the world, you know?
• 43:17
  Meet me and Steve we we link up pretty often.
• 43:20
  I'm talking about Dad stuff episode should be dropping right
• 43:26
  now, right? As we speak.
• 43:28
  Yeah, we we did a Father's Day episode with me.
• 43:32
  Steve Ray of Hollow real Carlo. Yes, could be there.
• 43:37
  But yeah, yeah. So I'm So yeah.
• 43:39
  So follow us for all of your Nerdy knees and is, and I'll
• 43:46
  close out by saying, you know, as always say, you just have to
• 43:49
  some nice recent manga, watch some anime, play some video
• 43:53
  games and live your best life. And with that we're out.
• 43:56
  Thank you Fan Expo for having us.
• 43:58
  Thank you guys.