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030 - Poppin' and lockin' w/ K-Pop Stop & Anime · Here's to You

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  Are you a Kpop fanatic? Look no further.
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  The Kpop stop has the hottest merchandise for all your
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  favorite artists. From BTS to black pink, they've
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  got it all. Get your hands on exclusive
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  t-shirts. Hoodies albums and much more.
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  And don't miss out on the limited edition.
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  Items are sure going to sell off ass, come on down.
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  The 211 North Hill Side Street, in Wichita, Kansas and show off
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  your Kpop Pride at the store trust us.
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  You won't be disappointed. Hello hello.
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  Welcome back to another episode of here's to you the podcast.
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  This is episode 030. Number 30, it's are dirty 30.
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  The lady sitting next to me to my life.
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  I've got a famous Rancher banister McAllister.
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  And the one in the only Asian baby, girl.
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  EPG Emily peak. And yes I owe everyone.
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  You know, High joining us today. You've got a big old gang
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  joining us today. Big big gang all the way from
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  the Kpop Stop Shop. Got Faye Rula, and Laura, Thank
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  you for coming in today for having us.
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  Yes. Yes.
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  How are you guys feeling nervous?
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  Because I didn't actively excited excited.
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  My first experience though. Yes.
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  I'm just, yeah, you here for the experience actly that we are all
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  here for experience. Yeah, you guys will all have a
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  lot of fun. We promise.
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  We've been told that we make people feel comfortable.
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  Oil in a little tipsy. So yeah.
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  I think like a quick round of introductions.
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  Introductions would be helpful. Yeah.
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  Fake. Do you want to tell us a little
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  bit about yourself? Yeah, go ahead.
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  Hi. I figure Ewing's.
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  I'm the owner of the Kpop stop and Anime the one and only here
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  in Wichita, I would say the first one.
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  Kpop stop. Yeah.
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  So you gave up store here in Wichita and I'm from
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  Philadelphia. And I don't know why I'm here.
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  You're here because I'm in Italy.
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  Yeah no you're here because you are amazing.
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  We got to know. We're so excited to have you.
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  Here we really are. You're here because we were just
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  really excited to hear about your story here about all the
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  stuff that you're doing to bring Kpop into the Wichita community.
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  And honestly, like we just love interviewing people from all
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  walks of life. So you are sharing with us to
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  that you've brought Rula and Laura long.
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  Can you tell us about? Do you guys want to introduce
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  yourselves? Tell us a little bit about like
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  who you are Fay. If you want to tell us how you
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  got involved with them, you first is this roller?
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  Hello. I'm also don't know why I'm
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  here. I really loved her like she just
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  she's a very obvious infectious personality like, oh my god.
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  Well, yeah, that's why every time he called and she's part of
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  my three kids look team don't we just had two weeks ago and next
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  is Laura as what I said before, my high roller, my honor,
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  volunteer and my event, and oh, and with other, with our income.
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  Being event as well. Yeah, these two volunteers
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  already volunteering well, actually, I was the first person
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  to have anything like, Kpop related and Wichita Kansas.
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  And so, it was really cool, you know, like you always, I always
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  like, you know, I'm on Instagram and all that and I see all these
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  people go to these events and like, you know, now we have
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  someone that holds them. And yeah, so I was like, yeah,
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  this is my opportunity, that's all we got.
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  Yeah, same same. It's hard to find Kpop friends,
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  I think. Yeah, please.
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  I got into Kpop a little later on in life.
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  None of my friends are into it. So I just really wanted to find
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  more people that were into it, girl.
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  So I only one in my group loves Kpop as well.
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  Yeah, I told her, I would love to help, and I have really
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  wanted to go to the event to meet new people and how I met
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  her, where, like my cheese now. How is it?
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  How does it feel to be the first Kpop store in?
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  Wichita Kansas. When there's nothing Kpop
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  whatsoever, no one know what Kpop is, or, you know, oh, I'm
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  so excited. I'm so happy.
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  So, I would say that I told my husband.
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  No, I meant that. Kpop history in Wichita, know
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  it's hard with my daughter. Yeah, like she likes Kpop and I
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  always go with her shopping. And then I'm just frustrated
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  like oh why we have to go to Dallas, just to go and buy some
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  K-pop and every time we go to Philly fans, we have Korea.
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  Always ask can we have koreas? Are stopover Mom, okay?
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  Now I know cuz there's also Kpop store in the bookstore there in
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  the airport. Yeah.
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  So that was helping North Korea is our stopover go?
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  Oh yeah every year we would always go home.
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  So you have like a layover in Korea before you, okay?
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  Got you. These have like four hours late,
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  that's your connecting flight. Yes.
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  And I love it because it's so much fun.
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  I love I love, I love when they give you the food, they give you
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  all these bougie stuff. They give you slippers there to
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  everything every girl. Yeah, if you're not going to
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  sleep, you'll end up eating, you know, and your home and then
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  like, you know how like Korean people, they're very like nice.
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  They're like very formal. Oh girl, when they treat you.
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  They treat you like royalty. Like you're like even though
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  you're in like what coach they'll treat you like royalty
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  as well? It's amazing.
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  I love it. But yes bacteria.
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  Sorry. So like you had to go to an
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  order to get any type of merchandise.
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  For that Kpop related, you had to go out of town.
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  Yes. Dollars or even plan our
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  country? Yes.
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  Yes. And especially my husband's
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  always complaining like yeah, we have to go to Dallas 5 hours and
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  a half. Half.
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  And then we have to go like around 3:00 or 4:00 in the
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  morning and we have to come back as well and then the next day
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  school, so that's it. And then I'm just sorry and that
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  covid hits in. I just realized that all like
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  most of the teenagers if you'll ask it's either the like Kpop or
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  anime and I love business anything any business I'm into
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  retail? Yeah, yeah every time everywhere
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  I go, I always buy something. Yes.
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  Sell it to my friends that my husband is all the just like
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  what my note just like with my daughter and husband said, like
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  Mom, you marry a hustler here, you just don't go shopping and
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  just focus. Can you just focus mom and does?
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  Let you guys know we have faith has been here too as well.
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  So he's saying that they actually do.
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  Don't go on vacation because she's always working only
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  shopping in the good way. He's like yeah, that's why I
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  decided and then one day, I have a friend that owns that, you
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  know, the shop beside me and then she said like, hey, this is
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  others shop is vacant? Do you know anybody that like
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  and I said, hmm. And at that time we were we we
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  had this little booth in the flea market.
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  Pony, and that's awesome and Seneca.
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  Yeah, that's how Wesley Marketplace.
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  Yeah, and I told my friend, what tell me how much I'm so, she
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  said, how much? But I said, hmm.
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  Without consulting my husband. I chopped liver.
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  You have to follow your passion and you marry an Asian woman.
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  And I went to my friend, my friend, I'm gonna buy albums and
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  at have some other stuff that I had from the flea market and,
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  and that's it. I opened my store like April 18,
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  by the way, next month will be our second anniversary and so
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  funny because at the store we just open half, huh?
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  Is the river still a lot of need Knocks over there because my
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  friend still have it and I told her, I don't care as long as I
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  want to open now. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Because he wanted to get your
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  foot that's it. And I'm so happy in the first
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  day and I will not get to say how much I had, but Vietnamese,
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  the loss community supported. I can't believe I could have
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  believed and then and then that's it.
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  That's the yeah, I started my business.
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  That's exciting is, you know, when I say to my I told my
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  friend I'm gonna get this space. Yeah.
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  And right away, I went to my workplace and asked for a
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  two-week vacation. I need a vacation so you you're
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  about two years in April 18th, April 18th, that's awesome.
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  No, that is really cool. I lost my train of thought.
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  That is so exciting. How excited you are about, even
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  having your own store and then how much you've been bringing
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  the community together. So instead, you honestly brought
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  the Kpop world into Talk. The other thing is I have
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  something to talk to the to the young ones.
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  Yes. Like I have this like a topic
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  like because either the like Kpop or anime.
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  Yeah, pretend I know everything actually I'm learning from them.
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  Yeah. So since you know the beginning
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  you had albums, you have you know you started with albums
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  right at first and then you just drove all the way to what Dallas
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  and Carlton. In to go get those stuff.
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  Yeah, yes my friend. Yes, what, what else?
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  Kind of merchandise to you? So I think a pop shop owee aside
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  from the little anime and also mostly Kpop.
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  We have the shall we go? Shall we say stationaries?
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  Yeah, I grew up liking that sundry you.
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  Okay. I guess everybody loves under
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  you. Yes, I love those stationary is
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  like dispense the Sun during my time.
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  The scented paper. Oh yeah, then I found it like,
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  in the store as well. In Carlton already have it.
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  So, I go go where to find where the right kind of get this one
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  and I even have my friend. Come on.
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  Tell me. Who's your supplier?
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  Yeah. Starting your like hustling.
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  And he won't, he won't tell me and I mean like she won't tell
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  me. So I said, come on cuz I'm I'm
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  your, you know, like one of your top clients in here so she said,
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  give me a paper Give me a paper, she won't say it but after that
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  I also add Google another one. And then after that do Supply,
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  we're going to call you. Because at the time when I open
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  up for a few months, if you go go, like keep up store in
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  Wichita, keep up. Stop is the first one that will
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  get down. Yeah, you know like yeah come
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  out. Yeah, I guess that's what that
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  that's a good thing and and again We haven't said the
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  location to the Kpop store yet so it's 200.
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  And I love 10:54 North Hills side street and that's where you
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  can find, it find them them. And the other thing is Emily.
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  What do you mean? You got a lot to?
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  I honestly, I should but I only I go, I do go, but I the only
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  album by ever bought was BTS, and I mean, a great first one.
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  Yes, and the mine. Nieces and my nephews and like
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  my cousin's have all these photo cards and, you know, I just tell
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  them, hey, can I have this one? But yes, I'm so happy for you.
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  Congrats amazing thing. Like sorry.
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  We were still going through some of the merchandise that she
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  offers, right? So stationary stuff, you can
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  find some albums and Anime feet. Especially the enemy figure.
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  Oh, yeah. Yes.
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  Oh, like like you The real things like the doll.
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  Yes. Okay yes.
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  They're not called dolls are. Actually no
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  action figures are very popular with our flushes.
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  Oh yeah. All the sun, Ryu characters?
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  Yes. Yeah.
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  Like, we have, like a regular customers that always go there,
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  because there's always a new A new collection, shall we?
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  Say like the, we assumed all the newest collection of the sun.
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  Are you is the blue jeans? Yeah, recently January it, was
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  The Wizard collection. Yeah.
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  And our flashes are different from the one that you could find
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  in the sundry you.com because that comes from Korea and Japan.
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  That's awesome. So it's a lot more authentic.
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  Yeah, well Jared authentic, but it's just like different
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  designs. Okay.
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  Okay. Nice.
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  You're soaked clothing, right? You have like, all we have some
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  shares but I just only had two rocks in there because, you
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  know, like inventory is especially sizes.
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  That's true. That's a good point.
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  Yeah. What are your guys favorite
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  things? To purchase us K-pop fans.
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  Yeah, there's a whole like thing with PCS like the photocard,
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  though. The trading in the selling.
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  It's a whole thing online. But they also has those in her
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  sore. So Yeah, those are nice to go
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  into those kind of pick through Hotel cars are really expensive.
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  Yeah, and I'm just like what Okay.
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  Yeah. So basically, like your favorite
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  person. Yeah.
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  Basically, there's like bias Wreckers which always are
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  fighting to get the bias spot. Like, for example, one of the
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  main or one of the artists from BTS BTS, Like, Backstreet Boys,
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  guys, one of the main singers or one
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  of the singers from Members, BTS members of thank you, like, you
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  could be like Hey, that guy in the purple of I'm gonna buy like
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  an album of just him essentially or not.
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  Break it down for me because I'm too dumb music as a group.
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  Yeah. But um they do sometimes make
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  solo work but they typically stay together as a group and
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  make music as a group. Yeah.
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  So then how do the bias so work? I think I understand things that
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  are just about that person or that zodiac sign, right?
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  So kind of like if I'm relating it to the hell basically it's
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  just like okay so it's like a it's like a picture of metaphor
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  and you just you know, it's just individually of individual
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  photos of each member and yeah, there aren't random.
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  And they're like, they just like get like so if you buy an album,
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  like those type of albums on their, they have photo cards on,
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  there it is, they don't even tell you who's in there.
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  Just give you whoever's on there, and then there are whole
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  albums is just pictures and like their little each member writes
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  their own little. Like, you know, how they feel
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  about the album. So, yeah, and then also small
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  inclusion. Yes, Locker, yes.
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  So it's like and those those albums like cause like Mobile,
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  sometimes like 70 up, or like, even sometimes lower, but I
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  mean, it's worth it because everything on there.
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  Yeah, yeah. And back to the bias is, Is
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  actually like white people or say like hosted by.
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  It's it's depict. Why do you pick the person?
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  It's because of the personality, right?
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  Yeah. Jim and Joe, why does Turtle you
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  know why? Because I like sugar, because of
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  his personality would like like being an Untouchable, he's
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  behind then. Yeah.
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  And then with jimin is the sweetest.
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  That's why, that's why you lived with.
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  I feel like, yeah, I heard somewhere that your bias is the
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  person you like see yourself most in a while.
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  Your bias wrecker is who you're like, your ideal person would
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  be. That's is my bias wrecker.
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  Mine was too young. Pictures lately.
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  Okay, I'm gonna, if I have like a bias Wrecker in the group, it
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  would probably be jimin. So like he's always trying to
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  compete for first place. I mean, I think my first black
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  pink. Oh, she's so cute, I love her.
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  Like my BTS spices. Why is always jimin You're
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  loyal? We have our intern at the
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  highest esteem, but we demoted him recently because he was
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  supposed to have got to come back to be promoted.
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  So you know how we talk about bias, your merchandise and
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  everything. What else did we do?
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  You re talk about your merchandise, right?
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  I got lost and beeps. Yeah, so let's talk about the
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  Kpop history, I don't know a lot about Kpop history, but what
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  Wikipedia says, you know, not a lot of people
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  know what Kpop is because like, when you tell someone what's
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  Kpop is it like those? Like you think it's just those
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  Asian guys that looks like girls, like pretty, they're
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  really pretty wear eyeliner and everything like that, blah,
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  blah, blah business. But more Kpop is a lot to as
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  well. There's different genres of
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  Kpop, they could be wrapped. It could be R and B.
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  They could be like, you know, hip-hop Rock and Roll dance.
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  You know what I mean? Yeah.
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  So, Oh, I was, I was going to say, you know, like that really
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  reminds me of when I get thrown was first started.
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  Yeah, so did I get done is also pretty new genre in music and
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  that I remember like growing up listening to reggaeton and at
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  that point growing UPS like we're talking about like not
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  that long ago, but they used to call it like Underground Music,
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  more Urban Music and then over time because it was just mostly
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  Because I get done is mostly in Spanish so it's mostly Latin
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  American countries where you hear that where you have most of
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  that presence and now it's gone International.
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  So it almost. And so like you can also find
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  like reggaeton artists who are into trap, who are into more
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  Barbie, who are a little bit more rock and roll Pop as well.
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  I don't know about rock and roll, but they're a little like
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  different to a lot of them just stem from a certain, like,
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  Instrument or like a certain sound which for to get done.
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  It's like, boom bow. Oh that's what that is.
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  It's a certain sound. So I'm just kind of curious a
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  little bit about like Kpop to how then like when did it start
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  to explode if you guys maybe kind of remember, because I
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  ended up becoming like a really big fan and I get thrown out one
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  point, right? So then I'm like, Googling, I'm
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  like, why is it called this or like, why do so new?
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  You know, I don't know if you guys are super fans.
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  I think about same thing. When DNA BTS.
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  Yeah. I have specific, are sorry
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  sight. Yes.
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  I was kind of the like, like the beginnings of our beginning.
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  Beginnings bar and DNA came in and just, yeah, yeah.
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  So like what kind of what year I iron 2017 that comes?
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  That's when I started kind of getting into it because I
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  remember earlier in the year, BTS was on like an award.
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  I think it was I think was the billboard, and I was like, that
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  was like, in May of 2017 and I was just kind of like just 2017.
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  Yeah. Yeah, but the thing is you're
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  like a Triple G. It was in November and I was
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  just so fascinated. I don't know what it was.
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  It was the dance moves. If it was their faces and
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  everything else. I mean it was just like so
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  different and I don't know. It just seemed like I wanted to
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  I wanted to know more and that's where it kind of Might the whole
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  I jumped in and never looked back, but like the openings gone
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  from the, why don't you can't unsee it, right?
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  Laura, right. How did you start with Kpop?
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  I have a very long is because I have, I'm ready.
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  Twice, with a fancy. So, I found Twice first twice as
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  the first group I ever heard of, or, like, saw on YouTube, then,
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  I like film to that rabbit hole. I saw bts's mic drop, and like
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  all these other songs. And I think what, really, drew
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  me until I get was that they were singing and dancing at the
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  same time, which is not really common.
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  And like Western artists like what?
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  Like now fast forward a little bit more because like early
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  2000s that's so pretty common. Yeah, I know, but that's not a
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  lot of. Yeah.
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  But I just thought they were beautiful and just like I really
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  enjoy watching people dance because I, I just love dance.
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  And so I think that really drew me into it, but then I I kind of
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  just like, drizzled out of it. And then in 2019, it wasn't the
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  pandemic start was starting and all that I think.
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  Had a lot of time on our hands. Some rough patches, and I had
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  time to like really dig into it. Yeah, yeah.
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  So I saw your Kpop back in 2013 because my cousin's love were
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  like watching these Asian guys on on the screen and I'm like it
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  was BTS. And I was like why does that guy
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  have so many haircut like colors?
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  And they're like, that's his style.
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  Those are em and I was like, I think that's pretty cool.
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  And then I started getting to know more and more and deep and
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  more, and more. And I'm like, wow, I love this.
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  Like I really do like I watch how twice was formed.
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  I watched their you the competition thing and
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  everything. Also there was a competition.
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  So basically in Korea, like they do because there's so many K-pop
• 27:23
  groups in Korea, many so many active ones, like a survival.
• 27:27
  It really is. Its survival.
• 27:29
  Is this file to the fittest to be on.
• 27:30
  So it's like if you were in Nashville, And you were trying
• 27:32
  to make it out as an artist and like because so this is
• 27:35
  different. So in Korea they have
• 27:37
  entertainment companies, okay? And entertainment companies,
• 27:40
  there's like there's so many that there's like a big one like
• 27:42
  jyp IG Hive was big head. Yeah, it was big head Starship.
• 27:49
  They have Cube Entertainment. There's just so many so many.
• 27:53
  So everybody has to audition for first to go to the
• 27:56
  entertainment, and then you go through different levels and you
• 27:59
  like, do you do rap? You do singing it.
• 28:02
  Acting job at Sur. But if it was American Idol back
• 28:05
  ten times more intense, your training, your change from your
• 28:08
  dream, it's like all School kind of like that but you know it's
• 28:17
  yeah, I guess your true for so long.
• 28:20
  They like they literally keep you.
• 28:21
  There's people that have been training for like two years.
• 28:24
  It's like a to 10 years. Yeah, that's cool.
• 28:26
  Yes some are basically, yeah. It's like they're trying to
• 28:33
  just, you know, hone in on what you do best and then they want
• 28:37
  you to be like perfect at it, you know, the perfect person in
• 28:40
  the, if you're perfect in their eyes, the world wants to be, you
• 28:43
  want, they want you to be perfect in the world's eyes,
• 28:45
  right? Well, so, so they do the
• 28:47
  training and everything like that, and not trained, they get
• 28:50
  audition, and then they get called back.
• 28:52
  And then they they audition in front of like the CEOs and all
• 28:56
  those people that artists and then once you get in you're like
• 29:00
  in a you're like And I'd like a training camp and then like you
• 29:05
  live with 15 people in one apartment and like bunk beds
• 29:09
  everywhere and then you're like, all you do is eat, sleep,
• 29:13
  School, train music. That's all.
• 29:15
  That's all, that's all you do. Yeah, I know.
• 29:21
  There's like one trainee made it for.
• 29:23
  He was like a trainee for like five or eight years.
• 29:26
  I can remember. There's maybe function.
• 29:29
  Yes, yes, yes. Take care of ya.
• 29:32
  There was one from this group called CI eggs and he I think he
• 29:35
  was like in it for 10 or 11 years.
• 29:37
  Yeah, inning. Yeah.
• 29:38
  I always, I do. Sometimes they start really
• 29:40
  young like 14. So then sometimes I was seven
• 29:43
  years old, it's almost like if you chose a career paths kind of
• 29:46
  a certain age and then you could go to this bootcamp School type
• 29:51
  of thing to grow up in this and learn how to make it a career.
• 29:56
  Yeah. Because they either want you to
• 29:58
  be that she's either, you could be a solo or you could be in a
• 30:01
  group or you Be like, or you could be like, we don't think
• 30:05
  you're a great singer. We want you be an actor.
• 30:07
  Mmm. All that stuff like that.
• 30:09
  So there's these entertainment companies companies all over
• 30:13
  Korea that are and you could train for that long and they can
• 30:16
  say, bye-bye, we don't want. Yep.
• 30:19
  We we don't need to do it for you.
• 30:21
  No, that's crazy. Yep, we have to become midday.
• 30:23
  So then when you, when you start actually, when they find, when
• 30:26
  you start acting like to train and everything they find, okay,
• 30:29
  we want you in this group and they do.
• 30:32
  Beards. So, like, they're like, okay,
• 30:33
  you need to do being a group like this.
• 30:35
  You do all these showcases for us and see if you if you're
• 30:39
  ready to date today, Beauty to the world.
• 30:42
  So that's how it goes. Okay?
• 30:44
  And so when they do the debute is out when everybody sees who
• 30:47
  you are but like why is everybody where the fandom
• 30:50
  starts to happen? Well, fandom starts even when
• 30:53
  they're training to, it's like, you can see them on TV, then
• 30:56
  going through trading yep. Yeah, yeah.
• 30:59
  Because they want them to grow up like they want people to Have
• 31:03
  they want a fan base for the families for them?
• 31:05
  Well yeah, that's how it starts. Oh my goodness.
• 31:08
  It's fake. Do you have like a K-pop group
• 31:16
  that you first fell in love with?
• 31:18
  Or when did you start getting into Kpop?
• 31:21
  I know you mentioned your daughter.
• 31:23
  Yes. Well she started it Axl.
• 31:27
  Nobody didn't mention I know it. Let you guys know EXO is like
• 31:35
  all their members are done with their military except Kai
• 31:39
  speaking of reggaeton you should listen to his new song.
• 31:42
  I think you love me. I thought he really did know
• 31:48
  he's going he's going to I think he's the last one right girl I
• 31:51
  thought cause like when I thought I was like man BTS is
• 31:54
  sick on a Hiatus right now and I said maybe EXO is gonna have
• 31:56
  their tour and I was like, okay well I heard this is why her
• 32:02
  That they're going to have the super em.
• 32:05
  Yes, super, absolutely. Because that tape Taemin the is
• 32:10
  already have known. She, he will be finished by
• 32:13
  April and then the other one that's that was in the Hiatus
• 32:18
  Locust. Okay, he'll be back.
• 32:21
  Yeah, I love him. So that's what I heard.
• 32:24
  You know, you guys are hearing it first.
• 32:44
  I have to go to this sum P, you know, do you read some P?
• 32:50
  That's where I got my, you know, all the news about Kpop and
• 32:53
  also, not only the Kpop and kdrama, I love kdrama.
• 32:57
  Okay, wait, before you get on that.
• 32:59
  So you were sharing you started with When my daughter and her
• 33:04
  first Kpop, that group that she liked was EXO twice.
• 33:09
  And then BTS. Mmm.
• 33:10
  But now she's into and Anime. Okay, everybody loves animals.
• 33:16
  Yeah, that's why. Well, that's good.
• 33:19
  I'm happy. I love how we're all connecting
• 33:21
  like this talking. I love, I love this.
• 33:37
  Kpop music as well. She does by the album's and she
• 33:41
  has a couple. I don't remember from which bans
• 33:45
  honestly and she's shared a handful of teen I do.
• 33:49
  NCT is NCT. Yeah.
• 33:56
  So I'm sure that she's going to be listening to this episode.
• 33:58
  Although she's a Super Fan, so she listens to all of them
• 34:01
  because she better. Nighty, Lighty vibey lighting
• 34:07
  by, do you better be listening? We talked about the Kpop music
• 34:13
  industry and everything like that because, you know how
• 34:15
  there's new generation and there's old generation.
• 34:19
  What does that mean to find that?
• 34:20
  So old generation is like back in like how do I say Like Girls
• 34:25
  Generation? Yeah, like Girls Generation like
• 34:28
  little news. Like considering started like in
• 34:44
  the 80s as well. Kpop has been in the music
• 34:50
  industry for a very, very, very long time.
• 34:53
  How much is a very long time? As one I'm trying?
• 34:55
  I mean, like I knew it is. Okay, that's about the same as I
• 34:58
  get on nothing. That's what.
• 34:59
  That's what I still consider. That's so new.
• 35:02
  Right? Like when we consider all types
• 35:04
  of music, over the course of like Humanity.
• 35:07
  Like, that's new. Yeah, because I get done is also
• 35:09
  new. That's why, like, I mentioned
• 35:11
  there was a time when that was called more Underground Music or
• 35:15
  Urban Music because it started to slowly start getting that
• 35:20
  traction of the name again phone.
• 35:22
  So, Kpop is similar. It's pretty new then.
• 35:24
  Yes. So like Kpop, how do I say this?
• 35:26
  Like Kpop was in Korea the whole entire time and never came out
• 35:31
  into like National or anything like that.
• 35:34
  Kpop, honestly, just branched out.
• 35:36
  Basically, when rain came like that was like rain ISM early
• 35:44
  2008. Yeah, around there, but yeah, so
• 35:49
  that's the technique later second generation.
• 35:51
  So that's basically like we're girl generate Girls Generation
• 35:54
  anything like that. Yes, yeah, this started when
• 36:00
  they were very young. Like 14 years old, yeah.
• 36:08
  Oh, 1990s. I know I said.
• 36:11
  Yeah, it's so simple, but there's awesome 21c.
• 36:18
  Honestly, I never heard of Kpop until I think Psy with Gangnam
• 36:23
  Style, like, I think that's when it started Library.
• 36:24
  What he? I mean, he kind of opened my
• 36:27
  eyes to, what is K-Pop? Yeah, exactly.
• 36:30
  Because he did come to United States.
• 36:32
  Yeah, very first would be tedious, you know, started.
• 36:36
  That's it. Yeah, so now we're in this
• 36:44
  fourth or third generation in this.
• 37:07
  Some people may not know anything about it, like ideas
• 37:10
  that you get like 100 million views like the like BTS gets 100
• 37:14
  million views in like a day. Yeah.
• 37:16
  On YouTube. Like they really something like
• 37:18
  it's yeah, no. I mean I definitely understand
• 37:21
  that like you know, when it's music in a different language
• 37:25
  for those that become like super fans like you're like yeah dude
• 37:29
  like of course this is why this person is super famous and you
• 37:32
  like start to show like all your love and excitement and then so
• 37:36
  totally get it. Get where this is coming from.
• 37:40
  I guess I relate to it more from like, my my love.
• 37:44
  For sure. I get thrown.
• 37:45
  And I'm like, oh yeah, this artist and that argues and that,
• 37:47
  you know, we should be on the yeah, I used to listen.
• 37:54
  Yeah, yeah, they say it. So fans Ivan's ain't like
• 37:56
  reggaeton. Sorry awkward silence because it
• 38:34
  was trying, did you see that? Apparently, no.
• 38:37
  Hmm. The only questions about our
• 38:41
  Event log 2 weeks ago. Yes, Eric.
• 38:43
  We're going to save that for last.
• 38:46
  Yes we I can't I want to hear more about your event and
• 38:49
  everything like that we have that real quick so that's also
• 38:58
  why we wanted to have you on here because like you are
• 39:01
  someone that we first can't got connected with to start writing
• 39:04
  ads about Kpop your the k-pops or on our podcast.
• 39:08
  So you guys are starting to listen to those ads here.
• 39:12
  They just had their first event like 2 weeks ago and so we're
• 39:16
  going to take a quick break and as we come back into break,
• 39:19
  we're going to talk through the drink and then also start
• 39:22
  talking about your event and any other future events as well.
• 39:42
  Thanks for the coffee, Emily, I really needed it.
• 39:45
  No problem. We got our hurry because we're
• 39:46
  always late, don't worry about it.
• 39:55
  We can just go ahead and I'll schedule with to you Auto,
• 39:57
  they'll come to where we at and then they'll clean it while
• 39:59
  we're at the wedding, okay? You drive off schedule with to
• 40:03
  you, Otto what's website? Go to, to you Auto.com?
• 40:06
  Wait, what was it again? The number to the letter U
• 40:11
  Auto.com Perfect. Me a detective or pmf worldwide.
• 41:30
  No, welcome back to the show. We're here, getting started with
• 41:34
  segment to our great friends from the K-pop top.
• 41:38
  How you girls feeling today? Had a good break, Emily.
• 41:45
  Emily Finally, we have it. Emily just made these awesome.
• 41:52
  Awesome. Looking, pink drinks here.
• 41:53
  And I just had a taste, and it was definitely amazing.
• 41:57
  What are you girls doing so good?
• 41:59
  Really, very good Emily. Tell us what you made today.
• 42:01
  Well, I made a drink called think pink.
• 42:07
  So ingredients today, you know guys we have to drink our Soju.
• 42:11
  You know, we chose, I chose the flavor strawberry today because
• 42:16
  I love Strawberry and I didn't ask him by what fruit they want,
• 42:19
  but I just chose myself. It's good choice.
• 42:22
  So today I will have Soju here and then we have all these
• 42:27
  things are called like it. Yeah, cool.
• 42:29
  Yes. Yes there.
• 42:30
  Yeah, I don't pronounce it. But yes, that and it's just
• 42:33
  basically just pure yogurt dream.
• 42:36
  This is basically mostly Frozen but, you know, but it's good.
• 42:41
  It's a good dessert, a good. When you're, you know, out in
• 42:43
  the summer drinking this, you just flip the lid.
• 42:46
  And just drink it like add animal.
• 42:49
  Yes, I've literally got the animal.
• 42:54
  I also have some popsicles, strawberry popsicles fire.
• 42:58
  There's so good. I'm glad you love them.
• 43:02
  I'm glad you love them. And I also have some Vera Yogo
• 43:07
  Vera from Korea with some aloe pump as well.
• 43:13
  She tried, but yeah. So, oh, you forgot the real
• 43:18
  fruits. This you did your own.
• 43:21
  I mash up some fruits. Yes, I did.
• 43:24
  I put two shots in there, Soju in there and I just mix all
• 43:27
  together and I put the popsicle at the end, just use it with the
• 43:30
  stirring while are so good. Make sure to follow us on here.
• 43:33
  See you cast on Instagram, where you'll see a quick real about
• 43:38
  how Emily made this drink. So you can make it at home, too.
• 43:42
  That was good, huh? It's really good and we're
• 43:49
  professionals on Facebook, right.
• 43:51
  Here's to you pod. Is that right?
• 43:53
  She don't even know. Oh, yeah, bitch.
• 43:56
  You don't even know. You're always asking for the
• 43:58
  password on everything. You know, you guys, for the
• 44:01
  longest time, I was like hot. What's our popularity?
• 44:06
  Emily would always call our podcast.
• 44:08
  Cheers to you, and we, and then Dusty and I would always be
• 44:11
  like, it's, here's it's here. We're back with you guys were
• 44:26
  back with. Say we're back with Roula and
• 44:28
  Lauda. Oh my God.
• 44:29
  Sorry, it's good. Just whatever I'm not eating.
• 44:49
  Well I don't know you just roll your r's of the.
• 44:51
  Okay. And then Faye you said yours is
• 44:53
  actually Fay. Yes.
• 44:55
  Okay. So we're back with faith rule,
• 44:57
  ahora, Emily, and Dusty and family to our friends and she
• 45:09
  said Katie was hanging out with us.
• 45:16
  And I called her an idiot. But in Spanish and also like
• 45:20
  lunar. No.
• 45:20
  Well, I was just like, yeah, I was just like I was like, dude,
• 45:25
  I'm going to stun Mensa and yeah, no, no, it's so funny
• 45:30
  though because she was like, what did you just call me?
• 45:33
  And then I'm like, comes around. She called you a stupid bitch,
• 45:35
  but in Spanish Yeah, you're fat bitch, but
• 45:54
  speaking of other languages, speaking of really cool, yeah
• 46:00
  music in other languages to which we actually were talking
• 46:02
  about that yet but we wanted to just kind of come back to the
• 46:07
  podcast to start talking through to start talking about the
• 46:13
  events that you guys had. But before we even get there, We
• 46:16
  want to talk a little bit about the difference between K-pop
• 46:19
  fans and then Kpop stands. You guys know that I'm learning
• 46:31
  stuff so I but yeah I think fans are more casual listeners.
• 46:40
  Like they'll dabble into all sorts of groups but won't really
• 46:43
  dig deep into the like the name, the names of Personality, all
• 46:48
  like all because then in like groups and I'm fandoms there's
• 46:53
  like inside jokes that look like member said like ten years ago
• 46:55
  but like everybody knows it. Okay.
• 46:59
  Jimin's latch Ebola like Insider stuff.
• 47:04
  I think that's stand and okay you know everything about the
• 47:07
  groove. You like follow all their
• 47:08
  content, everything they make and a fan would be just like a
• 47:12
  casual listener. Okay, what does stand stand for?
• 47:17
  Or does it stay cloudy thing as an actor?
• 47:19
  Gentle stand came from him at him stare like crap from us that
• 47:25
  song from Eminem's really. I said, I'm pretty sure I'd like
• 47:29
  because he's like a crazy fan. We're not crazy, we're not
• 47:34
  crazy, he knew everything about him and him.
• 47:39
  Yeah, it was like really into him and like well, okay, that
• 47:42
  sounds like a conspiracy theory almost Yeah.
• 47:52
  Okay, so you guys are all basically just like I was
• 47:56
  thinking about such a slight. Older activities.
• 48:18
  Yeah, you just call everything they do definitely like Eminem.
• 48:34
  As they follow them everywhere, they get the information like
• 48:38
  information. Like whites are going to be.
• 48:40
  I mean there are dedicated. Yeah, it's kind of scary.
• 48:44
  It's really scary. Yeah, I don't know how they find
• 48:46
  out where sometimes they even pay people.
• 48:48
  Yeah, it's for the information like their obsessive.
• 48:51
  Yeah, those are crazy. Those are more like Eminem
• 48:54
  answer that We're talking about K-pop fans
• 49:35
  and everything like that. Have you guys been to a fan
• 49:38
  meetings? Those usually happen in Korea or
• 49:42
  yeah, but they didn't. They also when they call on
• 49:44
  tour, they also do it here, too, as well.
• 49:46
  Maybe I'll do it as much after covid.
• 49:48
  They kind of stopped doing like they would have, what are they
• 49:51
  called? The What are the when they give
• 49:53
  him high fives, I'm literally blinking.
• 49:55
  All The Shield's know they. Yeah, they would like they have
• 49:58
  the shield after and you just wave at them but like there was
• 50:00
  like the high-touch they do is they would use high touches
• 50:04
  before in the they had like a shield and stuff if they even
• 50:07
  did that, you know, sometimes I don't even do that.
• 50:10
  Speaking of meetings though, can we talk a little bit and
• 50:14
  transition into the event that you had?
• 50:16
  Because that's almost, let's not a true meeting.
• 50:18
  But you did, you had a lot of fun stuff you had Raffles.
• 50:22
  You had a Up sleeve, we had boba drinks, you had vendors, you had
• 50:26
  a whole event. The Kpop stop here in Wichita
• 50:29
  had a whole event dedicated to Kpop music, because Drake AIDS
• 50:34
  is coming and they're actually coming.
• 50:36
  I think is it next week or something like that?
• 50:38
  They're here already. Yeah, tonight they are awesome.
• 50:45
  So you had a whole event basically just to continue to
• 50:48
  round up all the fans get together.
• 50:50
  Enjoy celebrate that Music and get the chance to win some
• 50:55
  tickets for the concert. We have two winners.
• 50:59
  Okay, so we want to hear a little bit about the event how
• 51:02
  that came about what like let's start off with that.
• 51:05
  Like what made you want to start with creating an event?
• 51:07
  Is that your first of it and do you plan to have more?
• 51:10
  Yes, it's my first event, it's just that like I said, like mink
• 51:14
  frustrated. Nothing come, you know happened
• 51:17
  here in Wichita and then there was a cop's live event that how
• 51:22
  we What's that January? It was.
• 51:24
  Yeah for V. And then I'm thinking.
• 51:28
  Oh what making a bigger event than that?
• 51:30
  Like, like more than a cup sleeve.
• 51:32
  Because what happened in the cops live is the usually do that
• 51:36
  in like a cup of Café or even a boba or in a vertical Boba.
• 51:41
  Not a barber shop but yeah like a passing shot like yeah
• 51:45
  something like that. We're fans just go there and buy
• 51:48
  and then get the cops leave and then have the picture taking and
• 51:51
  then that's it. Can you tell everybody what a
• 51:53
  cup sleeve is a cups of the event is actually originated.
• 51:58
  In Korea. That's how they do.
• 52:00
  Do, it's like a fun meeting, you know, the usually do it like a
• 52:05
  birthday of their, their Idol or are there by us.
• 52:09
  And then we do some picture, taking a cups.
• 52:12
  And then if you buy a drink in the place, you gonna get a cap
• 52:16
  sleeve, you know, word. There's a picture of the whoever
• 52:21
  does celebrant of the day and then you also get the photo
• 52:25
  cards event. A lot of people just go there
• 52:29
  because they're also collecting those items.
• 52:31
  Got ya. So what happened?
• 52:34
  We had that one here in January and then I realized like, oh
• 52:37
  maybe I can make like a mini comic many.
• 52:43
  Yeah, okay, yeah. And I just realized oh it's very
• 52:47
  ambitious for me to do it. Maybe just would just make it
• 52:50
  like a bigger than a cap sleeve. And then we'll go on with that.
• 52:53
  After we, we do. We have the experiences, how to
• 52:56
  handle it. That's it.
• 52:59
  Then the good thing is, like, when we announce it, like, three
• 53:03
  and three weeks time, our tickets were sold out.
• 53:06
  Yeah, likes. I know we are, we were supposed
• 53:09
  to do promoting promotion for your guys's event.
• 53:12
  And right before we started, like I remember, we made one
• 53:15
  post and we were like, okay, we're getting ready to also do
• 53:18
  the ads on the episodes that we were about to release and then
• 53:22
  we got a text message. They sold out guys.
• 53:24
  We're like He's like, yeah, it's sold out guys.
• 53:30
  They're like, what is like, yeah, event place that we have I
• 53:41
  had at the time is only good for 200 people, but I don't really
• 53:45
  glad we don't want to go over because.
• 53:48
  Yeah, that was a special especially if your first time.
• 53:51
  Yeah. And I can't believe everyone had
• 53:56
  a blast, like, you guys It was so fun, so fun, like everyone,
• 54:00
  every time I ask because when we are when we started I always go
• 54:04
  around and check like for people if they have good time.
• 54:07
  And the good thing with our program was that like we don't
• 54:10
  have like a pose. It's, you know, like it after we
• 54:14
  had this this this. So we say like this games that
• 54:19
  we have another thing coming on. So like everyone is like, oh I
• 54:24
  guess they don't want to go home but they were all excited.
• 54:29
  And unfortunately, there were people that complains because
• 54:32
  isn't able to get, you know, to get in just yet.
• 54:36
  So when we know that the tickets are sold up and I told I told
• 54:40
  them because they asked me like a PHA, there's some more people
• 54:43
  that like to get in and we let them come and go, no tickets,
• 54:48
  that's it. Yeah, yeah.
• 54:49
  Well that's also a good thing though because like that starts
• 54:52
  to tell you the market that you have is what I mean.
• 54:54
  Like now you have an idea of like oh I need to get a bigger
• 54:57
  event. It's because you had I mean
• 55:00
  again you guys sold out really quick.
• 55:02
  You have you are now. I can't believe.
• 55:04
  Yeah you guys just sold out like that it was just like oh my gosh
• 55:09
  and that is still like a lot of people to fill up in an event
• 55:11
  space. So now you have an idea of like,
• 55:13
  okay next time I need to go to for this type of size so that
• 55:17
  you can start to bring more people together.
• 55:20
  Can you tell us a little bit? I know you were going to include
• 55:22
  some vendors in the bank. Can you tell us about the
• 55:24
  vendors that you had? And we do want to know, Whoo.
• 55:28
  Whoo, whoo. All right.
• 55:29
  So the vendor, so the vendor or so, in our ticket actually.
• 55:32
  So we all are ticket was $20 at the time.
• 55:35
  So that was, as what you mentioned earlier.
• 55:38
  There's a bull but drink included with that.
• 55:40
  And also three raffle tickets and cap sleeve.
• 55:43
  And also like this at that time, we also gave them to put cards,
• 55:48
  whoever their favorite one. Yeah.
• 55:50
  And then the second one was surprised.
• 55:52
  Okay. So with the booba drink we have
• 55:55
  our vendor the macchina. Yeah I guess you heard.
• 55:58
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 55:59
  Those doughnuts are, yeah. So, so what, what, what I did.
• 56:02
  I make it easier for them. So since I've included in my,
• 56:07
  you know, in the, the ticket package.
• 56:10
  Yes. I, uh, I asked the people at the
• 56:13
  people who want their dreams, so I just submitted it to them,
• 56:16
  like, hey, these are the drinks that you have to prepare, like,
• 56:19
  200 drinks. Wow.
• 56:20
  Yeah, to have drinks and we also have the remote unit.
• 56:24
  Do not touch that time. Yes, such a cute picture.
• 56:28
  My team and the lady in pink. She's my decorator.
• 56:35
  Just guess she's the one decorating shears.
• 56:37
  Like you narrating the whole like doing?
• 56:39
  Yes. Everything is first to us is
• 56:47
  actually more on the wedding wedding the course.
• 56:51
  Yeah. And then that's it.
• 56:53
  Yes. Just the one doing the MCA.
• 56:56
  Oh my god. Wow.
• 56:56
  Yeah. Because if I, Harper.
• 56:58
  I don't know. Yeah, that's true.
• 57:02
  I wouldn't even know either. Yeah, we just put a poster up
• 57:11
  and we have some games. Everybody wanted to join the
• 57:15
  old, want to join the game. Yeah, games.
• 57:19
  We had the first one we have. Is the newspaper dance.
• 57:21
  I don't know if you are familiar with newspaper dance.
• 57:24
  Well, thank you play the game like to partner, you know, a
• 57:27
  partner. Oh yeah and a new play that you
• 57:29
  played us music and then you dance.
• 57:31
  And then stop. Okay, so this is music stop.
• 57:34
  You have to be inside the newspaper.
• 57:37
  Okay, after that. After that after death then you
• 57:41
  have to fold the newspaper. Well yeah.
• 57:43
  I'm gonna, you know, like so I get smaller and smaller as
• 57:52
  partners. Newspaper.
• 57:58
  Oh, that's that looks like fun though.
• 58:04
  Yeah. And then, the second game we had
• 58:06
  is that we had like a two games. Like the, you know, how the
• 58:11
  Koreans are very famous for their handles, that, you know,
• 58:14
  the rock paper and scissors. Yes, yes, we do that, what and
• 58:17
  then after that, whoever the winners those, I guess we have
• 58:22
  the fifty, fifty four pairs, then whoever the winner then
• 58:26
  going to go to the Ground. No.
• 58:28
  Hey gotcha. Gotcha.
• 58:30
  Then we have an, how many games we have three games in history?
• 58:33
  Yeah, you had triggers with everyone had a blast.
• 58:36
  That's awesome. Good.
• 58:37
  So so who won who were you're lucky winners, I forgot.
• 58:43
  What's there are waiting? We're waiting for the pictures.
• 58:47
  So the locators will be ready. Then we're gonna put it in our
• 58:50
  Instagram. So you have like, professional
• 58:52
  photographers come in and what Piper was the picture.
• 58:58
  Yeah, the photography. And then Piper told me.
• 59:00
  That was she still busy? Then she's gonna come to the
• 59:04
  shop and then give it to me. Nice.
• 59:08
  I'm excited to. So the winners though, they got
• 59:11
  to have the two tickets, right there was going to be two
• 59:15
  winners and they got two tickets to see stray kids in Dallas or
• 59:20
  Fort Worth and Fort Worth. Yeah, damn, that's awesome.
• 59:24
  And who the little girl 11 of them?
• 59:28
  She is 15 and the other one is past 18.
• 59:33
  So she's okay to go as long as there's an adult that can
• 59:36
  download and so remind us. Like, originally, those tickets
• 59:40
  are super expensive. What's, what was the original
• 59:42
  cost for those tickets? Well, it cost me like, you can
• 59:47
  also determine or in general. Like those tickets though, like,
• 59:52
  for an average buyer, like us, that ticket would have been
• 59:56
  what, like five hundred dollars or two hundred.
• 59:58
  It or where am I? And the resale prices now.
• 1:00:00
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:00:02
  But when I bought it it's almost show.
• 1:00:05
  Say it's 800 for the two tickets.
• 1:00:07
  Wow. It's, you know, like there's all
• 1:00:09
  there's an add-on. Hmm.
• 1:00:10
  Yeah, yeah. So that's awesome.
• 1:00:12
  So two lucky winners. And the other thing is aside
• 1:00:15
  from the vibe, roffels, 05 Ruffles or five different
• 1:00:20
  albums, okay? Yeah, but shows it's Five
• 1:00:24
  albums, right? But it's twice because those
• 1:00:28
  albums have different versions, so we forever.
• 1:00:32
  Each album is different. Yeah.
• 1:00:34
  And then the good thing is like, we also.
• 1:00:38
  I also give them the official photo cards of each album.
• 1:00:42
  Yeah, it's good that I collected those.
• 1:00:43
  So look at you face. I don't like you.
• 1:00:48
  So that's why I told you can find them.
• 1:00:58
  And also, they have their own website.
• 1:00:59
  It's beyond the shirt shop. And we also have Paparazzi,
• 1:01:05
  because yeah. So like for jewelries, and then
• 1:01:09
  we also have Piper was also one of the vendors and then I have
• 1:01:13
  my Filipino friend, that did the food and also Grace market for
• 1:01:21
  you guys. I'm proud of you guys.
• 1:01:24
  You guys did well. So from the attendee side, how
• 1:01:27
  was that? What was that experience?
• 1:01:29
  Like to. It was so cool to see, like it
• 1:01:31
  really was. Yeah.
• 1:01:32
  It felt like helped for the most part, but it was fun.
• 1:01:34
  Seeing it was. Yeah, you're like wow.
• 1:01:36
  So many K-pop fans and it was fun things like dancers.
• 1:02:24
  But they had hey but I they had a good time together like I'm
• 1:02:28
  gonna buy a lot of tickets. Yeah.
• 1:02:29
  Now you know anybody so many people want to come in here like
• 1:02:37
  I'm a big Centre to imagine what it's like if you're gonna have a
• 1:02:49
  volunteer I'm happy for you guys.
• 1:02:56
  Thank you. What are you thinking for
• 1:02:59
  follow-up events or yes? What we already posted an
• 1:03:02
  Instagram. Oh really?
• 1:03:04
  You guys are behind. We are
• 1:03:23
  Still the BTS anniversary. Yeah, actually we were sorry
• 1:03:28
  Falls in June June 13. I guess.
• 1:03:30
  Yeah. And then the event place at I
• 1:03:32
  was looking at the time. They don't have any vacancy on
• 1:03:36
  those dates that I'm looking even Sunday, even Friday,
• 1:03:39
  everything is was book and then I just realize, oh, maybe there
• 1:03:45
  are midday because of July. Nice, what's your capacity for
• 1:03:48
  this place? This is 450 people.
• 1:03:51
  So we are Are thinking of selling 400 tickets.
• 1:03:55
  Yeah. And then 54 us the, you know,
• 1:03:58
  the volunteers and also the vendors, okay?
• 1:04:04
  And then I have some calls already up.
• 1:04:06
  Some people that do the hot, they're doing their own Kpop
• 1:04:10
  merch. Yeah.
• 1:04:11
  So I have to talk to them next week.
• 1:04:14
  Yeah, that's so fun. Having you have two events
• 1:04:17
  coming up. This one.
• 1:04:19
  I'm sorry. Sorry, I understood to for a
• 1:04:20
  second. I have it put together.
• 1:04:22
  I put it together. Oh okay, post anniversary and
• 1:04:25
  also the Army day, okay. Got you got you know, you but
• 1:04:28
  you are right. There's there's another one come
• 1:04:30
  here because it's a place that, you know, you don't know if it's
• 1:04:36
  already. So we're excited with this and
• 1:04:42
  watching out is also with us. I mean of course Bochy not of
• 1:04:47
  course because we have the key, they sell the Korean dogs there
• 1:04:50
  to know. They can't or they couldn't be
• 1:04:52
  couldn't. Yeah, but that we had the donuts
• 1:04:59
  and then we have the gimbap. Hopefully, I can next time we
• 1:05:02
  gonna have the too bulky because they have their own kids, they
• 1:05:06
  have the kitchen. These are actually this event.
• 1:05:09
  Area have a big stage that we can use.
• 1:05:14
  They have the ticket booth. Yes, we're you guys, might like
• 1:05:19
  to be no. And also, we have the kitchen,
• 1:05:24
  so I have to check the kitchen as well.
• 1:05:26
  And the other thing that top, what attracts most of the K-pop
• 1:05:30
  fans is our trading station, trading station?
• 1:05:34
  Is you guys could bring your precious photo cards because
• 1:05:39
  somehow Doubles, and then you can trade because if you buy it,
• 1:05:42
  but sometimes it's expensive. Right?
• 1:05:44
  Right? Right.
• 1:05:45
  So those are like collectors, items essentially, write,
• 1:05:48
  Laura's that, you know, my heart High Roller Laura's.
• 1:05:53
  Like I love to spend money. The Junior and senior.
• 1:06:41
  Yeah. Because I told them this is a
• 1:06:43
  very expensive hobby. Yeah.
• 1:06:44
  Yeah. It is, yeah, well, most of them
• 1:06:46
  have but that's other said, like I wasn't looking for a job.
• 1:06:49
  Like, do you have a vacancy here, funny.
• 1:06:53
  I also speaking of that, then like are you planning to so like
• 1:06:56
  if you're already starting to get so much traction and people
• 1:06:59
  are asking you like, what does it look like to be able to work
• 1:07:02
  here to work with you? Have you considered, maybe
• 1:07:04
  expanding the the stop or what are you thinking there I
• 1:07:09
  believe? The field.
• 1:07:10
  Ha ha ha, your husband over there.
• 1:07:20
  Don't look that way. Don't look that way.
• 1:07:21
  I'll look this way like three shots in his
• 1:07:39
  It excited. I'm excited because it says the
• 1:07:42
  pts. You know how big the fandom is?
• 1:07:44
  Oh yeah. My Army is nothing, you know.
• 1:07:48
  So let these virgins know about this.
• 1:07:51
  So I know there's other virgins out there.
• 1:07:53
  I'm not the only one Are you are your family?
• 1:08:41
  I like hey, who okay. Oh he's a rapper.
• 1:08:45
  I haven't heard of him with what the company is.
• 1:08:48
  He from West, was Jay Park, sold a company named amog, am
• 1:08:58
  tickled, changing something like that, but I will recommend it
• 1:09:05
  because that's that kind. Recommendations are we just
• 1:09:18
  talking like rappers epik High? Yeah for YG.
• 1:09:23
  Yeah and Tableau yeah I like that.
• 1:09:25
  I love him. You know he made a song with our
• 1:09:27
  mmm-hmm. There's yeah that's well.
• 1:09:30
  Yes he I love. So my God loves your she my
• 1:09:33
  best. That's my girl.
• 1:09:39
  Unless you can't it was, oh my God, how do you know what you
• 1:09:42
  wanted? And what's up bitches?
• 1:09:53
  But my first, my first problem is actually zico, zico say yeah,
• 1:09:58
  but my advice is a lot. My daughter said Mom, it's not
• 1:10:01
  sick old, the Korean said Chico go.
• 1:10:04
  Okay, so you know and Kpop Road, they also have like like, Live
• 1:10:10
  music entertainment as well. So they go to like so there's
• 1:10:15
  like music shows. So they like the when they when
• 1:10:17
  they like to make a new song. They go to like these music
• 1:10:20
  shows and sitcoms, yeah, MC countdown show something.
• 1:10:24
  I thank you guys. Yeah, something like that.
• 1:10:26
  You know, but like they produce their songs from there because
• 1:10:30
  everyone watches that, I love those, by the way, this one
• 1:10:34
  really helps really, hey, hey, you told me because I told you
• 1:10:39
  You like I like that drink from Gangnam know if I'm gonna make
• 1:10:42
  it better. Yeah, imma make it better.
• 1:10:44
  Honestly, Emily has been pining for this episode for like a good
• 1:10:48
  month now because we need to have, if you like I was like, I
• 1:10:51
  know what she want. I'ma get it right now, get
• 1:10:54
  everything for her. I did this for y'all.
• 1:10:57
  Well I'm glad that we did not make it last time, right?
• 1:10:59
  Because here you go. You brought your high roller
• 1:11:03
  with you. I was like, fate.
• 1:11:40
  Don't even tell me that. Like, don't don't tell me how
• 1:11:42
  much it is discharging out loud right now.
• 1:11:47
  I need your pics. Yeah, and pics.
• 1:11:53
  Yeah. To be honest.
• 1:12:40
  I'll let you handle food. Like slurping my riddle.
• 1:12:45
  Nothing like surface. You have it for extra pepper in
• 1:12:49
  here for $50. Okay.
• 1:12:55
  Oh my God. What's his name is actually or
• 1:12:57
  is he still doing those? He was like, one of the biggest
• 1:12:59
  mug fingers pop it off but bangers that I have no idea.
• 1:13:40
  No, I like walk by mafia boss, and I think probably my mom is
• 1:13:45
  so big BTS fan. Right now.
• 1:13:48
  We have to meet your mom. Yes.
• 1:13:50
  Oh, you're on E. My she has, she has not been to
• 1:13:54
  the shop. I need to take her.
• 1:13:55
  Yes, I did. Come to your shop to buy stuff
• 1:13:58
  for, you know, you doing that back.
• 1:14:00
  She loves that bag, she loves it, my mom's a big army fat, she
• 1:14:04
  loves Jin. Oh, that's a rare, like, they
• 1:14:08
  don't find people that stand Jenny.
• 1:14:10
  She loves Yankees like he's so handsome.
• 1:14:13
  He is like he is the real war. Yeah I know.
• 1:14:37
  I don't know why but it hit me. Something you know what Korean
• 1:14:45
  fans? They like go to like even to
• 1:14:48
  their military base that's and it makes it kind of makes me
• 1:14:51
  mad. Like I'm like dude just let him
• 1:14:53
  do his doing from the so explain that real quick.
• 1:14:56
  Before we move on into other stuff rights because we know
• 1:14:59
  that or I kind of know that, but again, all of these artists are
• 1:15:04
  based in Korea and again they all went into some type of we'll
• 1:15:09
  call it a Boot camp and entertainment boot camp.
• 1:15:12
  Whether it started at 7 years old or 14 years old, and they
• 1:15:15
  basically lived in the music industry to essentially, develop
• 1:15:19
  and grow up into being K-pop artists, or maybe a dancer, or
• 1:15:24
  maybe an actor. So, why is BTS in?
• 1:15:28
  Why have, why haven't we heard too much lately and like,
• 1:15:32
  explain all the stuff about when artists have had to leave the
• 1:15:37
  group for a second? Because They had to go quote
• 1:15:41
  unquote, serve time. We haven't heard what?
• 1:15:46
  Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't understand that
• 1:15:48
  question. Platform of the question, I just
• 1:15:50
  so like the army stuff. Like, why we don't hear much
• 1:15:53
  about the military enlistment? No, I was just curious.
• 1:15:56
  If you can speak to like, when they enlist or why they have to
• 1:15:59
  enlist. Because Emily, you've explained
• 1:16:01
  it to me before. Yeah, because in Korea, it's for
• 1:16:04
  the for men, it's mandatory in there.
• 1:16:07
  Like they have to go out some certain age.
• 1:16:10
  I think it's a cut-off age to go in and you have to go in 128.
• 1:16:15
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:16:26
  Like half the country's income. Is there the Ambassador?
• 1:16:31
  Yes. Like male citizens have been
• 1:16:42
  required between the ages of 18 and 35 to enlist in the Army for
• 1:16:47
  some type of training. Yeah, I don't want to get too
• 1:16:52
  much into it but I just feel like they're always like scared
• 1:16:55
  of War. So I feel like they got to
• 1:16:56
  prepare everyone just in case. I feel like that might be why
• 1:16:59
  they like just want everybody to have basic knowledge of like
• 1:17:02
  military and like how to you know I love me a man in uniform.
• 1:17:37
  Army for a little bit too, didn't you say that?
• 1:18:07
  Call for me when you want me to. Yes.
• 1:18:09
  And I love that about him like that.
• 1:18:13
  I look at you. I think that that is still so
• 1:18:15
  crazy though because like you think about these K-pop artists
• 1:18:19
  and how much money they make that they are still like no but
• 1:18:22
  my government says I have to do this and my governmental me, I
• 1:18:25
  have to go over stupid stuff. I bet I feel like they probably
• 1:18:31
  gave him an option saying that you don't have to because like
• 1:18:34
  they I mean, they are bad. Like you said, yeah.
• 1:18:37
  Yeah, they said you don't have to go there, so we're gonna do
• 1:18:43
  it. I want them all to go already
• 1:19:09
  like right now and then come back Thanking us.
• 1:19:13
  Well I'm back in two years and it's fucking do another one.
• 1:19:22
  Yeah yeah yeah.
• 1:19:41
  Damn it. That's what there before they
• 1:19:46
  go. Yeah.
• 1:19:48
  But you know, hey, they I still love them and they they did,
• 1:19:52
  they did everything online and I loved it.
• 1:19:55
  You know, their concerts online, all that stuff.
• 1:19:57
  Girl, I was up at for commuter myself in my room the same
• 1:20:04
  concert four times over. Yes.
• 1:20:06
  Give it to me. I do it.
• 1:20:11
  I'll watch it. I'll be right there on my living
• 1:20:13
  room with my glow. Stick.
• 1:20:37
  Did you remember when they had their cinemas as well?
• 1:20:40
  But I went. There you go.
• 1:20:42
  I will not go to the second one. The second one.
• 1:20:46
  The one, the one in Busan girl. Brooklyn stop.
• 1:21:08
  The video is zoom in and go slow mo but song at least on people's
• 1:21:17
  junks or what? J-hope fucked it up.
• 1:21:24
  Oh my god, when they saying the, uh, was that uh yeah, it's like
• 1:21:29
  4.3. 540 Cipher came on. I lost it.
• 1:21:35
  Great arm was like, this is the last time.
• 1:21:37
  Singing the song Everybody. We're moving on to the bigger
• 1:21:39
  thing, better thing, bigger and better things.
• 1:21:43
  So sad about it is my favorite. Well guys, we going to go to
• 1:21:47
  different segments right now. I loved I'll talk to PCS with
• 1:21:49
  you all day. I love to but we're doing this
• 1:21:53
  new thing called lightning round.
• 1:21:55
  I asked you these questions and you guys answer them quit.
• 1:21:59
  Okay, wait. So what's this comes in whatever
• 1:22:01
  comes in your mind. That's dangerous.
• 1:22:03
  That's okay. Are you ready?
• 1:22:05
  Yes. No, I'll do it.
• 1:22:14
  So who's your favorite K-Pop group, faith?
• 1:22:19
  How quick can I pick two? Yeah.
• 1:22:22
  Okay, 80s and 90s. Okay, perfect, what was your
• 1:22:27
  most recent Kpop Concert Experience?
• 1:22:29
  Most? Thanks 80s, black pink, black
• 1:22:38
  paint. Okay.
• 1:22:41
  Name to K-pop groups, that you would recommend to virgins, BTS.
• 1:22:47
  Mmm. EXT.
• 1:22:49
  Okay, it's a to say three, are you a member of a Kpop fan club?
• 1:23:05
  No, no. Dan's.
• 1:23:18
  I said, have you ever met any of your favorite Korean Idols in
• 1:23:22
  person? No, no III lie.
• 1:23:27
  I lie, I lie so hard. How do I short sorcery?
• 1:23:34
  I was I was in Vegas while BTS was therefore for the Grammys
• 1:23:40
  back in April. And I me and my friend made a
• 1:23:42
  rash decision to see silk Sonic last moment and you decided you
• 1:23:48
  See then I'll listen listen I got sober.
• 1:23:51
  You're right. So we sat like two seats or two
• 1:23:54
  rows behind the VIP section and I'm like distracted or not in
• 1:23:59
  all of a sudden. My friend goes Rula, who are
• 1:24:02
  those people? And I turn my head and I swear
• 1:24:05
  to God the from where I'm at to like where the window is?
• 1:24:08
  Maybe like what? 70 or something.
• 1:24:11
  Yeah JK V. + J. Hope I give myself Goosebumps.
• 1:24:17
  I swear to God. And then you hope with them.
• 1:24:20
  Yes, we made eye contact like Jack, Atlas, and here's the
• 1:24:25
  band. No, like, literally, I had a
• 1:24:28
  full mental breakdown, like, I was trying to be calm about it.
• 1:24:31
  Like, I was just crying my eyes out, but I'm not going to be
• 1:24:34
  that fan to be like, I'm just like this, like I'm watching
• 1:24:46
  like, Bruno, Mars and handsome. And fun of me, right?
• 1:24:48
  And then like naughty has me feeling.
• 1:24:51
  I'm just like, dude, I just remember somebody, like, I had
• 1:24:55
  my, I was like, I'm gonna stand up this entire concert because
• 1:24:58
  this is gonna be my moment. I can feel it, do it.
• 1:25:00
  And I was up the entire time and I felt someone's glaring at me.
• 1:25:04
  Like, and I look over and J case Terry, did you guys watch his
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  mind? I just like look.
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  And he smiles and I just like, smile my heart.
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  As part of it though, I could be making this all up, you don't
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  know. Because in silk Sonic, they make
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  you put your phones away. So your phone is in a pouch so
• 1:25:28
  you can't actually like you, it's locked like you only making
• 1:25:31
  it an open as with a magnet. So I'm over here, like prying
• 1:25:35
  that damn phone on my goddamn ready to get this out now.
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  Crazy. Yeah, but I mean there was
• 1:25:41
  Witnesses and I'm not, it was just so unreal, you know?
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  Like it was just yeah, I'm still proud.
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  That's awesome. So crazy.
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  I'm happy for you. I'm jealous.
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  I'm happy for me. So yes, I did kind of meet some
• 1:25:52
  of my ideas. No, no.
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  Okay, can you speak Korean? Oh no, not after all those
• 1:26:04
  kdramas, you would think, I would know.
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  I am, girl, do you have any advice for someone who's
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  starting out and who wants Start out in Kpop.
• 1:26:19
  Well, do your research first because I did not just for of
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  the moment a person I would say it can be overwhelming, but
• 1:26:32
  definitely start with one group and focus on one group first
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  because like you can look at it all and be like, oh my God, this
• 1:26:39
  is a lot to take in. So if you think, if you focus on
• 1:26:42
  one group will be easier like everything else.
• 1:26:44
  Will start falling, you'll find other groups and they won't be
• 1:26:46
  as overwhelming. Yeah.
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  Just had fun. Yeah, peace is.
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  Look at these little of last living on the internet.
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  Oh, good. Just be nice.
• 1:26:55
  That's a good one. Be nice.
• 1:26:56
  Well guys, I appreciate you guys coming.
• 1:27:00
  I love this segment which I'm in love this podcast and I love all
• 1:27:04
  our podcast is but you know, I felt I was in my world again.
• 1:27:10
  So yes, we are really excited. We're so happy that you guys
• 1:27:13
  were able to join us. Typically at this time we would
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  have poured a shop but Drink it off all.
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  So that's kind of been happening over the last couple of episodes
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  so that's probably not a surprise to anybody who listens
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  to us. So we'll just pretend about
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  arriba, abajo Al Centro. And so clean.
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  And so clean.