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Syfy Aliens Mystery Adventure And Author DJ Molles The Peace Child · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration. What are you doing with a voice
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Speaker 1: like that, mister author.
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Speaker 2: I don't know it it Does it sound good or bad? No?
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Speaker 1: It sounds really good. I mean you speak very clearly.
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Speaker 1: It's almost like you're coming from a journalist background.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, I'm not doing anything with my voice
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Speaker 2: except for talking to you.
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Speaker 1: And I hear that you're right here in Charlotte with me.
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Speaker 1: Where are you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we're actually about an hour east of Charlotte
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Speaker 2: in the album arl area.
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Speaker 1: Okay, very right down twenty seven man, I know that
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Speaker 1: area so well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're actually in Stanfield, so just a little bit
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Speaker 2: south of Lucas.
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Speaker 1: What what drew you toward writing that because I've always
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Speaker 1: said that people here in especially North Carolina, there's something
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Speaker 1: in the soil that makes all of us writers, but
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Speaker 1: there's only a few of us that step up and say, okay,
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Speaker 1: I'll take it on.
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Speaker 2: Oh man, I've been writing since I was a kid.
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Speaker 2: It's just been a fascination for I think storytelling in
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Speaker 2: general has just always been a fascination for me. When
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Speaker 2: I was younger, you know, I wanted to be a
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Speaker 2: movie director and then but you know that requires like
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Speaker 2: film school and all that kind of stuff. But I
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Speaker 2: could certainly type on a word processor. So I got
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Speaker 2: started just writing little short stories and stuff like that
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Speaker 2: that my you know, i'd give my dad to read
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Speaker 2: and stuff like that. And then in high school I
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Speaker 2: ended up getting a short story published, and then got
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Speaker 2: another one published. And then I took some time off
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Speaker 2: just you know, learning how to be an adult, join
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Speaker 2: the Place Department here in Charlotte, and you know, needed
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Speaker 2: a creative outlet to kind of do with some of
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Speaker 2: the stressors. Went back to writing and ended up doing
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Speaker 2: the remaining which was my original success.
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Speaker 1: So don't you love those moments when the stories come
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Speaker 1: to you and somehow, some way through your imagination, those
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Speaker 1: storylines have got to come together inside those paragraphs which
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Speaker 1: then reach us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's kind of magic. I've I've compared it
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Speaker 2: to you know, it's it's kind of a telepavy almost,
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Speaker 2: where it's like my ideas are winding up on this
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Speaker 2: page and then you look at all these little symbols
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Speaker 2: and you get to see what I'm seeing and thinking,
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Speaker 2: you know.
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Speaker 1: And and and to be able to take it to
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Speaker 1: the depth that you're doing. I mean, I mean, seriously,
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Speaker 1: what you're doing with the Peace Child. I mean, we're
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Speaker 1: talking about humanity, we're talking about the last hope, We're
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Speaker 1: talking about things that are really happening that as a reader,
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Speaker 1: you're going this could happen. I mean, this is something
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Speaker 1: that really you have to keep your eye on.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean, especially with you know, there's been
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Speaker 2: a lot of interest lately, you know, over the last
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Speaker 2: couple of years with the revelation of the what do
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Speaker 2: they call in the UFOs these days, I can't remember
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Speaker 2: that is a UAPs. Yeah, you say, you know, the
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Speaker 2: Navy released those videos and it's like, are they aliens?
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Speaker 2: We don't know, but it's definitely not something we made,
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Speaker 2: you know, And so it's I think there's some interest there.
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Speaker 2: And I think anytime you have stuff like that that
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Speaker 2: hits the public perception, then all of a sudden, what
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Speaker 2: was this far fetched idea of people start thinking of like, oh,
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Speaker 2: maybe this will happen, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, But isn't it. Isn't it odd, though, DJ that
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Speaker 1: the the authors of the world are sitting here and
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Speaker 1: we have a different vision of what they're showing us
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Speaker 1: inside those videos, because I kind of step back, going, eh, no,
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Speaker 1: that's not the way I see it. It's almost like
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Speaker 1: a martial arts movie where you just sit there go no,
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Speaker 1: the human couldn't do that. And I feel the same
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Speaker 1: way about the movies, whereas the writing, I'll sit there
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Speaker 1: and read your words, going yeah, this is real. Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, this is very real. Why is it that
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Speaker 1: then we're making that connection with the authors.
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Speaker 2: You know. I think there's just a difference in it,
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Speaker 2: And it might just be the form of media. You know,
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Speaker 2: you have what can be communicated on a screen, and
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Speaker 2: that has its own limitations, whereas with a book. You know,
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Speaker 2: sure it has its own limitations, of course, but at
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Speaker 2: the same time you're able to convey a lot more depth,
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Speaker 2: and in that depth, you're able to make things much
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Speaker 2: more what's the word, you know, people can identify with
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Speaker 2: them and see how it applies to them and have
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Speaker 2: an emotional connection to this thing. And I think you
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Speaker 2: can't get that necessarily without really really good script writing.
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Speaker 2: And you know, the perfect storm of good script writing
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Speaker 2: and great actors and great directors, and every once in
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Speaker 2: a while we get that come out on the screen,
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Speaker 2: but most of the time, sadly, it misses. And I
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Speaker 2: think it's just a lot easier to make that connection
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Speaker 2: with books.
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Speaker 1: Well, you're in total harmony with your publisher because this
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Speaker 1: book covers sad that's it.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: I mean you walk into a Barnes and Noble over
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Speaker 1: here at the Arbor Readam or somewhere down there by
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Speaker 1: South Park, and you're going to be sitting there going,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, this is the book I've been waiting
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Speaker 1: for this summer.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I absolutely hope so. And I love the cover
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Speaker 2: with what they did with it, you know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So we went back and forth a few times with
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Speaker 2: some different concepts, but I think that one was the
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Speaker 2: really one that hit the nail on the.
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Speaker 1: Head, you know.
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Speaker 2: It conveyed that this definitely was you know a sci
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Speaker 2: fi with you know, alien invasion, but also that it
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Speaker 2: has to do with the team dynamic of a squad,
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Speaker 2: of a small squad, which is really kind of my expertise,
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Speaker 2: if you might say.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so now when when it did And a lot
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Speaker 1: of listeners don't understand that that process of selecting the
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Speaker 1: book cover. So many of them think that, oh, it
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Speaker 1: just happens, But it doesn't. I mean even with the
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Speaker 1: editing that how many times it's sent back to us
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Speaker 1: and we have to make the correction. Sometimes it's pages,
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Speaker 1: other times it could be just a few sentences. What
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Speaker 1: did you have to go through and putting this book together?
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Speaker 2: Oh, there was As far as the manuscript itself, there
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Speaker 2: was a good bit of rewriting, which was it was
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Speaker 2: oh yeah, I kind of anticipated it going into it,
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Speaker 2: so I was very open to that. I wasn't I
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Speaker 2: wasn't offended by it or anything like that. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: there was a good bit of rewriting that they wanted for.
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Speaker 2: It was very reasonable stuff that they were asking for,
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Speaker 2: you know, better emotional connection. You know, initially in the
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Speaker 2: in the first rough draft or in the first draft
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Speaker 2: that they received, there wasn't as much interchange between Saul
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Speaker 2: and Anna and Pima and uh you know they they
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Speaker 2: the editor, you know, very correctly, I think, pointed out
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Speaker 2: to me that this was a this was great material,
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Speaker 2: We need more of this. So a lot of rewriting
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Speaker 2: was actually just additions, you know, adding more fleshing that
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Speaker 2: relationship out a little bit more, exposing a little bit
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Speaker 2: more of the of the culture shock between you know,
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Speaker 2: these long necks and humans kind of being thrust together
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Speaker 2: in this harrowing circumstance.
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Speaker 1: So now when when you are giving that opportunity to
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Speaker 1: go back and make a correction like that, I know
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Speaker 1: what it's like to produce a commercial for iHeart and
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Speaker 1: then go in and have to redo it and redo
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Speaker 1: it and redo it. What is it like for you
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Speaker 1: as a creative person to have to go through those revisions?
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Speaker 1: Because it does play with my heart? Because it's like
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Speaker 1: my gun, I thought it was great the first time.
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Speaker 1: What do you mean it didn't meet you know, your expectations.
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Speaker 2: Right, you know? It's I'm what they call a hybrid author,
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Speaker 2: So I do some stuff that's published through traditional publishers
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Speaker 2: and some stuff that is self published. So I have
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Speaker 2: been around the block a few times with publishing, and
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Speaker 2: I know that, you know, they have their bottom lines,
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Speaker 2: they have their marketing analysts working on things, they have
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Speaker 2: their audience that they need to appeal to. So it's
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Speaker 2: not just about me and how I see things. And
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Speaker 2: if they're you know, footing the bill for this thing,
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Speaker 2: then you know, I have to be open to the
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Speaker 2: fact that they want certain things, and then they're not
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Speaker 2: gonna want other things. They're gonna find some things offensive.
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Speaker 2: I had to clean up some of the language and
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Speaker 2: things like that, but you know, I kind of view
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Speaker 2: it as well, that's what happens when you are going
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Speaker 2: with the publisher, you know, and there's pros and cons
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Speaker 2: to traditional publishing and self publishing, and that's one of
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Speaker 2: the things that you just have to deal with if
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Speaker 2: you're going to do publishing with a traditional publisher, is
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Speaker 2: that you know they're going to want to have things
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Speaker 2: change and you have to be open to that. And
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Speaker 2: I'll get mud hurt about it.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I can really relate with that
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Speaker 1: language inside the books because my first publication they printed
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Speaker 1: it with that language in there, and I begged them
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Speaker 1: to not do that. But there's about maybe maybe five
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Speaker 1: or six of them that are still out there. But
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Speaker 1: I made them send me everything they had that had
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Speaker 1: the bad language in it because I didn't want it
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Speaker 1: out there, because I wanted to get into a different
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Speaker 1: section of Barnes and Noble, which is another reason why
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Speaker 1: listeners don't understand the journey that we're going through. That, yes,
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Speaker 1: we have to clean it up so it can get
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Speaker 1: into a certain section or a genre.
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Speaker 2: Right exactly. Yeah, And if they have, you know, certain
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Speaker 2: people they want to appeal to that they think are
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Speaker 2: going to you know that otherwise the book is a
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Speaker 2: great product for them, but they might be you know,
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Speaker 2: taken aback by some of the language. Then you know,
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Speaker 2: you just have to you know, kind of soften it
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Speaker 2: out a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Please don't move. We're gonna be right back with author
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Speaker 1: DJ Malay, the name of the book The Peace Child. Hey,
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Speaker 1: thanks for coming back to my conversation with author DJ
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Speaker 1: Malay the brand new book The Peace Child. Now, I
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Speaker 1: gotta be honest with you because I mean, you've being
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Speaker 1: in Carolinas, you might you might actually know this already,
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Speaker 1: but there's a lot of those trolls that are that
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Speaker 1: are being placed all over in North Carolina from that
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Speaker 1: the gentleman Thomas Dombo and the and the thing is, though,
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Speaker 1: is that when I look at this book cover and
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Speaker 1: I see that fog, first of all, you cannot help
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Speaker 1: but sit there and think, that's a Carolina morning fog
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Speaker 1: right there. I know that fog from anywhere. And then
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Speaker 1: you have one of those trolls walking through and I'm going,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, DJ's onto something here. He sees them,
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Speaker 1: and so do I.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, uh, clarify this that what you're stating for.
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Speaker 2: I'm not for sure.
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Speaker 1: Have you not seen the trolls yet? There's a troll
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Speaker 1: over here in Charlotte, over here on Steel over in
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Speaker 1: the Steel Creek area. And what it is You're walking
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Speaker 1: along and all of a sudden, this huge troll is
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Speaker 1: out there. There's one up in high Point, there's one
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Speaker 1: in Ashville, and and this this this artist is putting
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Speaker 1: these trolls all over North Carolina. But when you walk
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Speaker 1: up on it, you it's kind of like what you have,
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Speaker 1: like here in the front cover on a foggy day,
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Speaker 1: and from that fog, all of a sudden, this troll
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Speaker 1: comes into your eyesight and and it just you're sitting
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Speaker 1: there go, there's gotta be an alien that put that
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Speaker 1: troll there. There's no way the man built that.
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Speaker 2: That's super cool. I had no idea. I haven't seen
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Speaker 2: them yet.
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Speaker 1: You got to. It'll change you, dude, It'll it'll change
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Speaker 1: you because they're so big and they're they're in the
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Speaker 1: middle of nowhere that you that you go, yeah, this
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Speaker 1: is our pyramid, that's what it is. These trolls are.
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Speaker 1: This is our little thing.
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Speaker 2: Oh goodness, could you imagine you know, coming you know,
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Speaker 2: people finding those things two hundred years later or not
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Speaker 2: knowing the conspiracy theories around that that have whole video
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Speaker 2: series on you know, ancient well.
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Speaker 1: See, And that's that's one of the things that I
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Speaker 1: was thinking about when when when we were talking about that,
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Speaker 1: I'm sitting there going, Okay, so the troll is gonna
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Speaker 1: be there two hundred years from now. They're gonna come
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Speaker 1: across the book The Peace Child. They're gonna go. Then
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Speaker 1: he's from the Carolinas. He knows about the trolls, and
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Speaker 1: and so it's like, oh my god, they're gonna make
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Speaker 1: that connection because you know how people are when they
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Speaker 1: interpret stories.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah, I'll I'll be all over their
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Speaker 2: their TV series, as you know, they act the expert
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Speaker 2: on the Trolls.
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Speaker 1: What is it like as an author though, to be
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Speaker 1: able to do something so sci fi, because that means
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Speaker 1: you have to leave this world and then later come
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Speaker 1: back and what what does that do for your creative psyche?
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Speaker 2: Oh? I actually love it, you know, I have always
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Speaker 2: been more of ague. I actually don't enjoy writing very
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Speaker 2: contemporary or like in world stuff because there's just I
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Speaker 2: have to constrain my imagination to what is actually real.
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Speaker 2: Whereas when you're working with sci fi and fantasy, like
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Speaker 2: you get to make stuff up. Now do you have
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Speaker 2: to make it make sense? Does there have to be
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Speaker 2: a system associated with it? Of course, but you can
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Speaker 2: just do very cool, very fun stuff you know that
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Speaker 2: you just can't do if you're writing in straight, strict
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Speaker 2: contemporary themes.
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Speaker 1: Do you envision any actors playing out these roles as
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Speaker 1: you're writing, because that was one of the tricks that
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Speaker 1: they taught us way way way back when I was
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Speaker 1: in middle school. And you know, envision who your actor
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Speaker 1: is going to be. They'll play that role, the story
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Speaker 1: will come together. And with a book like this, my god,
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Speaker 1: even Matt Damon would have a great time with this
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Speaker 1: story like this.
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Speaker 2: I would love Matt Damon to put if you want
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Speaker 2: to get on any of my books, you're welcome to,
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Speaker 2: you know, for this one in particular. Now, I have
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Speaker 2: done that in the past with several of my books,
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Speaker 2: where I'll have like a very clear visual representation and
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Speaker 2: I will often associated with either somebody I know and
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Speaker 2: have dealt with before, or an actor coming down to
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Speaker 2: like their speech preferences and you know, their manner of
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Speaker 2: movement and all that kind of stuff. For this book
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Speaker 2: in particular, I didn't have that actor. I have a
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Speaker 2: clear visual idea, which you know I described in the
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Speaker 2: character descriptions and stuff like that, but I wasn't picturing
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Speaker 2: any actors for this time around. You know, that's just
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Speaker 2: kind of a unique to this book type of thing.
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Speaker 2: Every book is a little bit different in how I
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Speaker 2: visualize it, and in this particular instance, I wasn't visualizing
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Speaker 2: particular actors. But I will take Matt Damon absolutely.
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Speaker 1: So would you make him the narrator because that narrator
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Speaker 1: plays a major part inside this book. And I sat
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Speaker 1: there and I thought, who was he listening to? Who's
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Speaker 1: giving him this role? What is he feeling in this
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Speaker 1: moment to be able to give this this narrator a
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Speaker 1: plan and a purpose.
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Speaker 2: Oh man, Yeah, I think Matt Damien would do a
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Speaker 2: pretty good job of it. Of course, I think he's
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Speaker 2: narrated some different stuff. If I'm remembering correctly, that came
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Speaker 2: off well. I think you just have to be able
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Speaker 2: to hit, and you know, Matt Damon is able to
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Speaker 2: hit that kind of you know, snarky tone. Yeah, that
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Speaker 2: is prevalent in the first person narration here. But the
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Speaker 2: place I was coming from personally was just, honestly, I
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Speaker 2: was just being myself. I'm you know, I'm not like
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Speaker 2: a combat bet or anything like that, but I do
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Speaker 2: have that same sense of humor and way of viewing
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Speaker 2: the world and stuff like that. So I was really
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Speaker 2: just kind of enjoying the process of writing a first
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Speaker 2: person narrative, which is not something I usually do, and
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Speaker 2: just letting it be essentially me, you know, a hopped
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Speaker 2: up version of me, and the way I think.
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Speaker 1: Now I've got to go back and I've got to
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Speaker 1: reread it, and the reason why, knowing that you're that
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Speaker 1: close to album marrow and I know how writers are,
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Speaker 1: They like to put little sneaky things in there. So
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Speaker 1: I have to go back and see if you hinted
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Speaker 1: towards Snicker's Lane, which is right there on twenty seven,
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Speaker 1: or if you make any mention of Reed's gold mine
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Speaker 1: or something, because we like to do that. We like
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Speaker 1: to plant little regional things inside our stories.
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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, Now most of this took place in South Carolina.
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Speaker 2: So there are a few towns mentioned that are in
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Speaker 2: the South Carolina area. And you know, I did my
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Speaker 2: my Google Maps research. I like people up Google walk
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Speaker 2: the streets and stuff like that and get a night
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Speaker 2: for you know what the town looks like in the layout. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: the town where they end up meeting up with the
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Speaker 2: narak ap set and you know the bank scene, stuff
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Speaker 2: like that. That that all happens in Waltersboro. Uh, And yeah,
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Speaker 2: I did a full tour of Waltersborough. A couple of
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Speaker 2: things mentioned there that I'm sure people from that area
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Speaker 2: would recognize. Oh hey, that's the bank. I go. That's to.
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Speaker 1: How much does scent play in something like that? Because
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Speaker 1: I know that when when I usually write and things
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Speaker 1: like that, I'll always put the scent of the air
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Speaker 1: in because I know it's a great way to draw listeners.
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Speaker 2: In absolutely that is one of my favorite descripting techniques,
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Speaker 2: because descripting I'm making upwards here, but you know, it's
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Speaker 2: one of those things where you know, you can smell
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Speaker 2: something and it does weird things to your brain. There's
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Speaker 2: so much nostalgia and feeling an emotion that can be
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Speaker 2: communicated with the smell. And so I've always been a
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Speaker 2: huge fan of using scent and the way a room
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Speaker 2: smells and the way the outside smells, and you know,
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Speaker 2: wet concrete after it's been hot rains, and you know
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Speaker 2: that's going to conjure up emotional feelings and that's what
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Speaker 2: I want. I want them to feel like they are there,
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Speaker 2: And a lot of that comes down to the physical sensations.
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Speaker 2: One of the primary ones being sent.
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Speaker 1: Are they putting you on a book tour at all?
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Speaker 1: I mean, are we gonna see at the Park Road
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Speaker 1: Bookstore or anything like that around Charlotte or anywhere around
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Speaker 1: the Carolina is even anywhere in general, because people love
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Speaker 1: to meet those who are bringing stories to life.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I will be at Park Road Books and chart
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Speaker 2: that's actually my old stomping grounds. That's a little tiny Yes,
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Speaker 2: it's a little corner of where I used to work
17:07
Speaker 2: as a police officer. Now that was that was a
17:09
Speaker 2: nice end. The rest of it was up towards West Boulevard, yep.
17:12
Speaker 2: But yeah, I used to eat at the Flying Biscuit
17:16
Speaker 2: right there next.
17:16
Speaker 1: Course you did, Oh my god, Well, dude, I because
17:20
Speaker 1: I wanted to be with people during the lockdown, just
17:22
Speaker 1: for the hell of it. I took a job at
17:24
Speaker 1: that Harris Teeter right over there at where that we're
17:25
Speaker 1: park Road books is, and so I mean, and I
17:28
Speaker 1: spend more time down there at that damn bookstore because
17:30
Speaker 1: I just want to be at the authors. I just
17:32
Speaker 1: want to go down there and hang with people who
17:33
Speaker 1: like reading books. But yeah, I know that area so well.
17:37
Speaker 2: Oh yeah mc craney's right across there. Used to get
17:40
Speaker 2: cigars there, and yeah, we'll be there for a book
17:43
Speaker 2: signing on August eleventh at seven pm.
17:47
Speaker 1: Are you pushing the book to be shared when it
17:49
Speaker 1: comes to moving pictures? Are you going in that direction
17:51
Speaker 1: yet or are you just planting the story now to
17:53
Speaker 1: see where it's going to grow?
17:56
Speaker 2: Pretty much just planting it and seeing where it's Obviously,
17:59
Speaker 2: I would be very much open to any what if
18:01
Speaker 2: it wants to come and talk about option agreements. But
18:04
Speaker 2: as of right now, we're just putting it out there
18:07
Speaker 2: and hoping it does well and seeing what comes of it.
18:10
Speaker 1: And when you're talking about UFOs and UAPs and things
18:13
Speaker 1: like that, I mean, you know there is a mass
18:15
Speaker 1: following when it comes to that. Are they writing to
18:17
Speaker 1: you asking questions or you know, because i mean, are
18:20
Speaker 1: you showing up at conventions where they want you to
18:22
Speaker 1: be because you're speaking their street. Now everything in here
18:24
Speaker 1: felt so fricking real, then I'm going to be shocked
18:27
Speaker 1: if they don't invite you to the party.
18:29
Speaker 2: Oh I would love an invite to the party. I'd
18:32
Speaker 2: be down for it. You know, I've up to very recently,
18:36
Speaker 2: I've been very like, we'll call it private. Some people
18:41
Speaker 2: would call it curmudgeonly, but I you know, I typically
18:45
Speaker 2: just kind of want to, you know, sit down on
18:47
Speaker 2: my computer and do my own thing. But you know,
18:50
Speaker 2: we are living in a world where you have to
18:52
Speaker 2: go out there and you have to make personal connections
18:55
Speaker 2: with people and be a face. And I'm I'm brad
19:00
Speaker 2: getting more comfortable with that arrow I'm working so these
19:04
Speaker 2: are you know, I'm trying to take steps in that direction,
19:08
Speaker 2: particularly with this release.
19:10
Speaker 1: It's so funny you you said, you said curmudgeon, and
19:12
Speaker 1: right away I'm going, oh my god, it's the next
19:14
Speaker 1: Robert Rayford from the John Boy and Billy Show. I
19:16
Speaker 1: know it's got to because now he's got that voice
19:17
Speaker 1: and he's writing, it's got to be Robert D. Rayford
19:20
Speaker 1: coming back to visit us. It's it's so amazing, because
19:28
Speaker 1: are will you team up your voice with your writing
19:30
Speaker 1: somewhere along the way in maybe doing podcasts or anything
19:33
Speaker 1: like that, because because writers are the ones that started podcasting,
19:37
Speaker 1: and I feel like that writers are getting their regaining
19:39
Speaker 1: control of not only Hollywood movies, but podcasting as well.
19:44
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I have thought about it in the past.
19:48
Speaker 2: You know what's funny is you you mentioned my voice.
19:51
Speaker 2: I was interested probably about last year or the year before,
19:55
Speaker 2: and I was like, I was asking friends, because you
19:58
Speaker 2: never hear your own voice correct, So I was like,
20:01
Speaker 2: what I might be interested in, like narrating audio books.
20:05
Speaker 2: I think it would be a lot of fun.
20:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, well they are fun. But the problem
20:09
Speaker 1: with that DJ is that and I did I did
20:11
Speaker 1: it for for one time, and and I sat there
20:14
Speaker 1: on page number thirty five with one hundred and seventy
20:17
Speaker 1: five still to go, and you're sitting there going you
20:19
Speaker 1: gotta be kidding me, And so once once you're poisoned
20:22
Speaker 1: by that and you see how many you've got to go.
20:24
Speaker 1: That's the only thing that I try to do with
20:26
Speaker 1: people that want a voiceover is that go into it
20:29
Speaker 1: knowing it's not over on page thirty five. You're you're
20:32
Speaker 1: just getting started with the journey.
20:35
Speaker 2: Right right. Yeah. So I asked, you know, friends, I
20:39
Speaker 2: was like, what do you think shit? Would I be
20:42
Speaker 2: a good narrator? And the response like I was.
20:44
Speaker 1: Like, you know, oh my god, dad.
20:47
Speaker 2: I was like, well, maybe we let that one die.
20:49
Speaker 1: Oh man, oh no, no, no. I would at least give
20:52
Speaker 1: you a shot at it, dude, because you definitely have
20:54
Speaker 1: the vocal tones for that, and plus you understand storytelling.
20:57
Speaker 1: You would be bringing your experience to that as a
21:00
Speaker 1: story sharer. You know what I mean by that. There's
21:02
Speaker 1: a difference between a storyteller and a story sharer and
21:05
Speaker 1: you share stories.
21:07
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely. You know there's a lot of you know,
21:11
Speaker 2: feeling the right emotional tone and stuff like that that
21:14
Speaker 2: I think would be a lot of fun as well
21:16
Speaker 2: as you know, what we mentioned before. When you're describing characters.
21:20
Speaker 2: You know, a lot of times we think of actors
21:22
Speaker 2: and you know, their vocal inflections and stuff like that.
21:25
Speaker 2: And I know when I was reading to my kids
21:28
Speaker 2: back in the day, you know, the Harry Potter series
21:30
Speaker 2: or whatever, you know, I would have you know, certain
21:33
Speaker 2: actors or you know that I would be imagining and
21:36
Speaker 2: I would be mimicking their voices. Not just the voice,
21:39
Speaker 2: but also you know, a lot of it comes down
21:40
Speaker 2: to how they say words and the way they inflect.
21:44
Speaker 2: And I always just thought that was fun and interesting
21:47
Speaker 2: to do. And I'm one of those people that I'm
21:49
Speaker 2: always looking for fun and interesting things to do.
21:52
Speaker 1: Wow, where can people go to find out more about you, DJ,
21:55
Speaker 1: because I want them to really dive into your projects
21:58
Speaker 1: and everything that you're going to be doing.
22:01
Speaker 2: Uh, well, I have a website. DJ mulay is looking
22:05
Speaker 2: at my wife here just making sure if it's DJ
22:08
Speaker 2: lay author. Just g djmlay djmlay dot com. I foller,
22:12
Speaker 2: I don't even know my own R.
22:14
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. Yeah, I just say
22:16
Speaker 1: google me. It's like I don't know where it is.
22:18
Speaker 1: Just google me. Hey, you'll find me somewhere out there,
22:21
Speaker 1: you'll find me.
22:23
Speaker 2: That is true. Yeah, if you if you google djmlay,
22:26
Speaker 2: my website will be up on there, as well as
22:27
Speaker 2: all my socials. I think I was getting confused with
22:29
Speaker 2: my socials. A lot of those are under djmlay author.
22:33
Speaker 1: And let's spell that last name for those that are
22:35
Speaker 1: in the UK as well as in other areas of
22:37
Speaker 1: the nation, because they're m O l l E s Molay.
22:40
Speaker 1: So I mean, so I want because I don't want
22:42
Speaker 1: them to go in there to do the When Jason
22:44
Speaker 1: Moraz came out with his song, they didn't know how
22:46
Speaker 1: to spell Jason Moraz, and so then people would call
22:48
Speaker 1: me endlessly at the radio stations and I can't find it.
22:51
Speaker 1: I can't find it. And then so yeah, so so
22:53
Speaker 1: dj molay m O l l E s.
22:57
Speaker 2: That is correct. Yeah, say, it's one of those made
22:59
Speaker 2: up Ellis Island names. Everybody asks Extreench and is like, well,
23:05
Speaker 2: we don't really know. We think it used to be
23:08
Speaker 2: Miller until somebody wrote it down wrong.
23:10
Speaker 1: But no, it's an alien. An alien came down here
23:13
Speaker 1: and gave it to you. That's what it was. You're
23:14
Speaker 1: part of that.
23:15
Speaker 2: Circle, dude, I was anointed you know.
23:19
Speaker 1: Well, you got to come back to this show anytime
23:21
Speaker 1: in the future. And man, we need to meet over
23:23
Speaker 1: there at the Park Road Books sometime, have a face
23:25
Speaker 1: to face and let people watch us have that conversation
23:28
Speaker 1: so they can learn the ins and outs of writing
23:30
Speaker 1: and maybe be inspired themselves to grow forward.
23:34
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I would love that arrow.
23:36
Speaker 1: Excellent. Will you be brilliant today, mister DJ Moley.
23:41
Speaker 2: Thank you you as well, sir.
23:42
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you so much. Guys enjoy, Thank you.