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Parents Ragnarök | God of War, Gaming, & Fatherhood · Dad Needs To Talk

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What's up, y'all? And welcome back to Danny's to
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talk. I'm your host, Robert.
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And today today, we are here because Ragnarok is coming.
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And no, I'm not talking about the recent events of the manga
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Undead. I luck.
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I am, of course, referring to the game, God of War Ragnarok.
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Now, the lead-up to this title is amiss in many ways and the
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connection that I have with this franchise now with my son is
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something I never could have imagined would be the case many
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years ago. Back when I first started
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getting into the series now today, imma take out on a
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journey back in time for a multitude of reasons because I
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feel like I just want to give, like I said, a little bit of
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story time, a little bit of Inspiration to those out there,
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especially those that are parents, whether you're a
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father, a mother, a new parents you've been a parent for a long
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time or you're somebody who's about to be a parent.
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I just want to talk to you about my journey into this and to let
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y'all know that, hey, even once you become a parent that the fun
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doesn't have to stop the gaming, does at the stop.
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The manga and the anime does not have to stop because I know
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there's a lot of stereotypes or certain sayings of that up once
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you have kids fun times over no no that is definitely not the
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case. As so we are going to look at my
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journey. To this moment because this week
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as a whole is the stars have aligned in so many ways, because
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the same Year, my son was born in 2017.
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Just like this week. We got a one-piece Movie,
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beginning of 2017 and we just got one this weekend now, while
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God of War 28, the first God of War didn't come out that year,
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it came. It came out within me.
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Vash being born, which IMA get to very shortly.
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But the crazy fact that, after all these years, I get the new
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one piece, movie Vash his birthday, and God of War
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Ragnarok all within a week. And so, when it was announced
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that God, of War Ragnarok, was gonna be coming out on November
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9th. And my son's birthday is on
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November 8th. I was like, there's no way I
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could let this time pass without talking.
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About it and just taking a lovely trip down memory lane.
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So like I said, for those of y'all who might be new here,
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like I said my name is Rob AKA father of Ash and that is very
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literal because yes much like the series I have behind me Vash
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from Trigun. My youngest son is named Vash
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and so this is a story. This is a journey My first full
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year as a father because those other might have been following
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me for a while know that I have a blended family.
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So my wife already had four kids when I met her there if they
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were all very young but of course y'all know when it comes
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to those situations there's a lot of extra people involved
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their fathers and other people in the family stuff whatever.
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And so when it came down to the year 2017 and myosin brother
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Wilbur born, it was a whole different ballgame because this
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is going to be 100% me. No other input officers often my
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wife by no other input from anybody else have like hey I
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don't like the way you know you're you know raising my kid
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or I don't agree with this in that order is like no, this is
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all 100% on me. And so I want to show y'all and
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and I want to say for those who might be Audio, Only listeners.
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I highly encourage you all to check out the video version of
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this, because this will be very visual heavy.
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But I want y'all to go on this journey with me to see how we
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got from this image of me and Vash when he was 5 months old.
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When god of war came out till now.
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And let me get Vash now. So I want y'all to see.
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This is what 5 years. I've probably heard looks like
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Vash come here. Say hi.
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Hi. What's your name?
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I thought. So let's get ready to go on this
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journey with my first year or fatherhood with my son Vash. so,
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going back in time, Man, so we we we just came out for the
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holidays holidays of 2016 and I had just proposed some of my
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then girlfriend at the time. And so we kind of had things
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planned and set for, Hey, Summer, 2017, we're gonna get
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married, do the whole shebang but it was a journey to get to
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the wedding. And then getting to Vash being
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born. So, start off the year, nice and
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strong. I'm feeling good one Piece Film
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gold. He just came out over here in
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the US. Well, first, I had just had my
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birthday January 6, just turned 27, that's all one, Piece Film
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gold a couple weeks later, which coincidentally the same day came
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out here in Dallas was the same day.
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At Nintendo did the big Nintendo switch reveal event?
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Which all these years later? I regret rushing home to because
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the hype got to me because literally, I was at the one
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piece Premiere where they had the entire voice cast of One
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Piece there, and they all literally set right in front of
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me. And you know what Robert was
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like, you know what forget that? I'm gonna go home and see this
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Nintendo switch event or whatever and so on high site
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later than that, when I saw pictures on front of Nations,
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Twitter account of stuff for the one piece Twitter account, I'm
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like But it is what it is. So go on from there and Of
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course, Horizon zero Dawn comes out, then a February, right
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before the Nintendo switch and Zelda.
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Birth of the wild come out. Which I got all of it.
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I got all of it and it was a glorious time.
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I'm playing games, my wife is playing games, just chilling,
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having a good old time. And then sometime in March, my
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wife had found out that He's expecting a so that led to a lot
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of, of course, I mixed emotions because of course, it's okay,
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hey cool, happy. We know we're having our first
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child together, but it's also this thing of like the wedding,
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because there's been a lot of, you know, years of buildup, and
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things of that nature. But, you know, we we continue
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to, you know, Soldier owner stuff, whatever.
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But little did we know? That the road ahead would get
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very bumpy, but I will say along the way though, some more very
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awesome game. Some of my all-time favorites
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are just some very awesome Little Gems that I love or my
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wife love came out along the way because within, from January to
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the summer, aside, like I said, from Horizon, and Zelda, and the
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switch launch whatever. We also had Night in the Woods
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come out. We also had near autumn Order
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more remains of Peter Finch Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which I
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loved. And I got into heavy with all my
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kids, including even my nieces and nephews and one of my wife's
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little favorite such, they're her friends got hooked on to
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Friday the 13th so we rocking and rolling.
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And then The craziness begins towards the end of June.
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I found out I got that offer my job which was a month before our
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planned wedding and so, but little did I know that this kind
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of was a slight blessing in disguise.
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Of course, it was hard to see at the moment, but I'll just say
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now, because of me being unemployed pretty much up until
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end of November, December of. Year.
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It did lead to me being able to bond with my wife more and led
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to me being able to. And I also got a chance to go to
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all of the doctors appointments. So I was there for all of the
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different sonograms and things of that nature to kind of see
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the baby's progress throughout the year and stuff.
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Of. But like I said, it definitely
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wasn't. It definitely wasn't wasn't
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easy. But like I said there, there
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were some bright spots along the way mixed in with some craziness
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because of course, we have the wedding.
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The wedding was wonderful. You know brother I found this
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got together and plus we that that that's also where we
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actually revealed that we were expecting because prior to the
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wedding, the only people who knew that we were A child was my
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mom and my sister my wife's grandparents and her parents and
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her my parents and stuff. But other than that even like
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some of the like my closest friends didn't and family didn't
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know, until literally at the wedding at the reception we
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said, hey we got an announcement baby's coming and a few months
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so that our different just very crazy.
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To go through and experience and stuff.
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So but we went through, we made it.
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Hey, one of the little hiccup, one of the kids was playing with
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the window in the car in the freaking window got stuck and of
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course I'm not working. So we're kind of tight on money
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so we pretty much wrote around for like months, with that
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window kind of like stuck halfway down but getting back
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into the game. Staff.
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And it feels like so many of these games that came out along
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the way. Also like I said, just just just
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like the themes of some of these games were just all.
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So just very fitting for this time in my life as well because
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like I said, you know, not in the woods and they're Armada and
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what remains will be of either Finch and Halo night was also
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mixed in there along with life is strange before the storm.
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And yeah, just so many awesome games along the way and that
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that has been one beautiful thing.
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About my life. These last over years with my
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wife, my partner that I have is, of course, with her also been a
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big nerd and gamer like me, you know, we both gave each other.
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That time to still enjoy the things we want to love and enjoy
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and also bond together over certain over this stuff too.
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But yeah, so we continue to track along, you're doing the
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doctor's appointments and all this stuff like that, and, right
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before, The birth, there was a very huge, huge gaming release
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weekend. I almost forgot about this
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little Hidden Gem to right before.
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Bash was born, one of my close friends.
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They got him a Vash, the Stampede 1z to celebrate.
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Here's him the, the Stampede on the horizon.
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Now, October 27th, 2017, one of the most memorable and then
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Saying gaming release days that I can remember.
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Now a lot of you are probably do remember because on the same day
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we got Mario, Odyssey Assassin's Creed Origins and Wolfenstein to
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The New Colossus all in the same day.
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Now. I was in gaming Heaven, that
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whole little part of time, just because it's the, oh my God, so
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many awesome games from so many series that I love are coming
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out. Let's dive in now.
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Is this a like the this is like the image of a man who's about
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to be a father in a couple of weeks that my Mario Odyssey.
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Have my Dragon Ball jacket, my Assassins Creed shirt, just
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living my life and the best way possible but Like I said, just
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to show y'all that. You can be a nerd and parent as
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well. But yeah.
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Just living good up until and gaming.
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Good. Literally up until birth.
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I was literally playing. I literally finished playing
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Wolfenstein to and the hospital that I wish.
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I woulda thought we should hit my wife to take a picture of me
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playing this freaking game in the Rome.
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But I never forget because, like I said, it was like, a couple,
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maybe like a night or so, before a couple nights before, whatever
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because I had rented it from Red Box because, you know, I'm
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strapped for cash, you know, II and I was barely able to get
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Assassin's Creed and Mario Odyssey.
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And I'm like, man, I want to play Wolfenstein also, but shout
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out to shout out / RI p 2 red box gaming, because that sucker
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came in clutch because I rented it.
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And blew through that game because I never forget like, so
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I was like playing playing playing and then I remember
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because it was do that night. So I played in Finish
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Wolfenstein in the hospital and then like left the hospital for
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a few minutes to go. Run back and turn it in before
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literally like minutes before. The time was up, but they had
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playing that and I said playing Assassin's Creed Origins because
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That game was a shift for the series, but also the fact that
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the main character biak, as wife, the story, so right at
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them and their child. And so, that was another kind
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of, kind of like a beautiful connection as well to play this
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game in this moment in time and so Yeah, and so then, here we
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are. Fatherhood.
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One of my favorite photos, one of the first nights when we got
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him home and this was like a true sign because my wife, of
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course, it is why we took this while we were asleep and it was
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like, there is no denying that that is your child.
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Because look at that, he's literally Powers up in the exact
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same position hand in all. I love it.
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I love it. I said that.
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That is one of my all-time favorite photos. but, Literally
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the next night. Maurice entity struck because my
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favorite my car, my baby, my Ford Escape.
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It was late at night. My I had a sweet tooth and I was
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like man. I want to go to the store.
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Give me a little snack whatever and same light.
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I got through all the time. Whatever is same?
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I have to go through now. All these years later.
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Freaking car rides, the light. And totals my car but luckily I
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made it out with minor bruises and stuff, whatever.
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Nothing obviously not the fate or whatever.
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But here we are now down another vehicle that I had fully paid
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off. I just for the paid it off like
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a year or so ago before this happened and so yeah, but
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through tragedy You know, more bright things emerge because I
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soon get a get a finally get a job offer at one of the biggest
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hospitals here in the area and thus put me back on course to
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live in a bigger and better life.
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Now, Sometimes, you know people wander laogai, hey, when did you
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know, or when did you think that your child might be into gaming?
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Well, let me tell you. This picture was literally
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taken. Maybe a couple of weeks after he
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was born, so he was born on November 8.
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The top step on this picture was November 24th.
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So just a couple of weeks later he's sitting there.
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My wife has him while she's playing the game and I could not
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not take this picture because look at that, the concentration.
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He's in a murdered by the controller.
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And all these years later I was like, that's the moment I knew
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that my son, And he had it in him.
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Now, people say he got that dog in him, he had that controller
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and him. But yeah, that moment when ice
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when this picture was taken, I was like, yeah, yeah.
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My my, my son is gonna be in it is it is in his veins and yeah,
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it proved very much. So, all these years later, Now
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fast-forward. Five months.
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To this picture I showed you earlier.
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Of one, God of War, 2018 came out, April 20th. 2018 Vash was 5
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months old. So the God of War series as a
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whole now. I got into the series Pretty
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layout. Of course, I had always heard of
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it and knew of it and stuff, but honestly it wasn't until God of
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War, 3 was coming out at the beginning of 2010.
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I was in college and I was like, you know what the trailers look
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super Doper than ever. I've always heard good things
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about it. Let me check the series out.
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So I bought the little of that, that's when they just came out
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with the God of War HD Collection, that had wanted to.
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And the the P games all on this, I'll play there, all of them
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then delve into God of War 3, really enjoyed all of them,
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whatever, super crazy dope games.
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But little did I know or suspect that I would have a bond of
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connection with Kratos? Because when they first started
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showing off trailers for God of War 2018, I did not know.
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I would have a son by the time, the game came out because it
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starts when I get my first thing, like 2016 or so.
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And so, seeing that Kratos was back, some time had passed.
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He also now has a son and he is trying to find his way on this
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journey with his son. Like I said, it seemed cool of
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course, going into it or whatever, but Once vast was born
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and planter that game with him, in my lap was just a whole other
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type of experience. And I want to say, shout out to
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the prudie. I think he's not the main
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creative director of that game and he also worked on some
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previous God of War Games. Corey Borlaug because Because
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PlayStation and Sony Santa Monica, the studio that makes
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God of War after the game released.
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They put out this kind of kind of like a documentary thing
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called God of War raising Kratos.
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We're basically tells the story of the whole creative journey of
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the game and the people involved making it and Corey bar log.
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He also was going through the Journey, of course, taking on
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this new role, but also himself has a father with his child,
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growing up through the years of production of this game.
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And so like I said, it just kind of just like the the sense of
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family and fatherhood and parenting stuff just continues
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to perpetuate through everything surrounding this game and stuff.
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And also shout out to Dope thing, which was he just tied
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everything together about Corey is that he's also a fan of the
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series Venom Saga, which for those who do not know, is also a
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series that follows or that's kind of like a viking and North
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themed. So that was something I found
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out years later he had posted, he had picked up some copies of
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the manga and the he was enjoying it.
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So I was like it's pretty dope and of course with Season 2 of
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the anime coming out in a couple of months and stuff.
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It's just like man. Everything is just coming full
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circle but um, but yeah. So so playing that game.
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It was just, I don't know because the the game itself, of
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course, was freaking awesome. So freaking awesome.
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But I feel like it was just a whole nother level of
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connection. Like I said, like, Playing it as
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a dad. And so yeah it just kind of just
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made that game. So special for me as so just
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seeing Kratos Journey throughout that game of trying to navigate
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the conversations, his feelings struggling, with some things,
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he's done in the past who he was in the past, and then try to
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find a way forward with his son. Spoke to me in so many ways
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because, you know, myself growing up, I didn't have a
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father in the house and home and so being a father being a
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stepfather. All these years it's been a lot
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of trial and error. I know, I have not been nowhere
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near perfect, but I've just been trying my best, you know,
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because it's like, okay, you know, of course, you know I have
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an older brother and uncles and male figures that were in my
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life whatever. But That's not necessarily the
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same as like, having a father in the home everyday, raising you.
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And so, even the even just saying the words, dad or daddy?
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Or father? Never really came out of my
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mouth growing up. And so now, I have a son who
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comes up to me when he needs stuff or just in general, like
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hi Dada. Hey Daddy, you know, all that
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stuff, whatever. And it is just such a special
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Feeling hearing those words there were once so foreign to me
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throughout my life, pretty much, you know?
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And so yeah, God of War. I feel like was a truly special,
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Jim was a masterpiece in so many ways and so, yeah.
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And like I said, just just the fact that Ragnarok is upon us
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And it's going to be coming the day after my son's birthday.
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Who would have thought that the stars were lined up in this way,
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but they did, and I'm very much looking forward to playing the
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game. Hopefully, I can get it soon.
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And also along with that very dope looking controller as well,
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just because it incorporates so many things that I just love.
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My favorite animal is a wolf, my favorite color is blue.
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So just the fact, there's always a blue controller.
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This is god of war, and it also has the two wolves on it over
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there. I'm just like PlayStation, you
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got me? But yeah, and another dope
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thing. I forgot to mention as well,
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back, when Vash was first born, The very first thing I got to
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reach to him that following weekend.
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When it came out, I got to read, read him the, it was a One Piece
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manga chapter 85 which For Those whom I remember that I was a
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chapter when it was deep in the Luffy versus category fight and
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it was the chapter when Luffy took brulee and escaped into the
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mirror and stuff like that. So that was another very awesome
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feeling just being just my son called it up and really him one
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piece, which is just like How, how can life in in these
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connections? Get any better but The gaming
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continue to be great throughout later that first year because
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much later. Some other likes honorable
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mentions. I just want to mention real
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quick. Detroit become human and a
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little Hidden Gem that I loved moonlighter those come out along
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the way, but the big one, two big ones that came out for me
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towards the end of the year in September 2018.
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We got Spider-Man. And of course, you know, I got
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to remember a memorable picture of that moment as well.
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Vash. He is about I think ten months
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here on top of them. Yeah, he was 10 months where
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Spider-Man 2018 came out and that was another very awesome
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thing get getting to I'm wearing my Spider-Man shirt he's wearing
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his Spider-Man 1. He's in debt as lap as we're
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just swinging through the city of New York.
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And once again, it's just the story in that game was so
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awesome. And so beautiful, you know, just
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getting to experience that once again with my son, which we kind
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of got another kind of a cool Repeat moment with that as well
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years, later, of course, because because because I've Loved
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getting to take pictures and stuff, throughout throughout
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these years, with updates of, as like sequence to certain Games,
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come out or whatever, getting updated pictures and stuff of
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him. And just quick, shout out to
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Spider-Man Miles Morales at the PS5 launched, three years later.
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And, or I guess two years later from 2018, and that's just
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three. Now, we're just so wild, but I
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just love that. I have these photos to kind of
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go back and reflect on. But after Spider-Man, the other
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big one that came out. Over after that was Red Dead
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Redemption too. The whole town in vibe that
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game, I appreciate it. And that game for the kind of
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like I guess it's for one. Just the setting in general
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being in the old west, giant world to explore super detailed.
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It was perfect for a dad gaming because I could just take my
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time, enjoy the journey and Of course, what a wonderful journey
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of was just getting to play that game getting to explore that
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world, but okay, see, okay see, see your boys on point.
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I didn't get it. I didn't get a picture with me
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and Bash and I'm wearing my Red Dead Redemption.
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One shirt, I got freakin many years.
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Prior back when I worked at GameStop and I can't free messed
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up there but I totally forgot about this picture.
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I love it. But yeah.
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So but yeah. So God of War Spider-Man ready
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to Mario. Odyssey.
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All these games along the way have just meant, so much to me
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so much to my son, so much to my family and getting to experience
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this stuff, what they miniature version of me There's nothing
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else like it. And so, I just want to say, I
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encourage everybody out there like I said if you are a parent
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or if you're a parent to be to know and be encouraged that just
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because you have a child or about to have a child that?
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Yeah of course there's gonna be some changes, there will be some
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adjustments that will have to be made but You do not have to give
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up the things, you love and the things you enjoy.
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Just because you know, you have somebody depending on you
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because, you know, that just means the, hey, Okay.
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Now you have somebody to share those loves and passions with
33:15
cuz years later. Now, you know, like said Vash,
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he'll be five. Then in a couple of days from
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when I'm recording this, he'll be five now and he's in pre-k.
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So he just go to school and the fact that, you know, he is
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already at a point to where men him can run Coop and games and
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stuff. It is just super dope. but there
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is nothing more special than having somebody to share your
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loves and your passion with, you know, whether it's Nieces and
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nephews stepkids, your children. Cherish these moments.
34:14
Because kids grow up fast because like I said, I've long
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before I was a father, I was an uncle and I'm 32 right now and
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I've been Uncle since I was four.
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So I've had many, many nieces and nephews over the years, some
34:34
of, some of them that I literally grew up with some of
34:37
them I have been in more of a parental figure type.
34:44
Uncle. But the film has never changed
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that I have been lucky and blessed to have so many amazing
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kids along the way who have shared and enjoyed my passion
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for all things nerdy, you know, from cartoons, to video games,
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to manga, to anime. Because my mom my little boy.
35:14
He was just asking me that I have you heard of seven deadly
35:17
sins? I'm like, yes, yes, I have.
35:22
But, um, but yeah, so cherish the Is taking lots of pictures,
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lots of video because before, you know, it, you know, they're
35:36
not going to be just a little child that you're holding the
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palm of your hand. Or you know that you can carry
35:44
around with one arm now like Vash.
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He is now half the length of my torso, my oldest boy, my hold
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his stepson. You know, he was five when I met
35:58
my wife and he just turned 14 and he's almost my height.
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Now, he's just another school. And so, My yeah, my, my whole
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family, it has been a journey over the years and through all
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the rough patches and stuff. I wouldn't change it for the
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world as so I hope that someday if any of y'all, if any of my
36:28
kids and you're my nieces and nephews if any of y'all see this
36:33
down the road just know that you know, Uncle Robert your dad, I
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did my best along the way and I hope you enjoyed the journey
36:44
because I surely did and I look forward to many more.
36:49
Memories being made. I look forward to like I said,
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once again, hopefully getting my hands on Gardevoir Ragnarok in
36:58
the coming days and then being able to reflect on that
37:04
depending on what Kratos. And the traces journey is
37:08
through that game and who knows what other life lessons and
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stuff. I might take from that game from
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all these games, from all these manga from everything, Nerdy
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that I have enjoyed and of course one thing that officers
37:27
took from the first game boy I said all day every day.
37:34
Boy come here boy, clean on your bed and stuff.
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So bro, but yeah, I'm a nerdy dad through and through I quote
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stuff. From movies and Anime and stuff
37:53
like that, or I'll be surprised to see the day.
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If some of my kids find out there, like, wait, he was
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quoting Thanos because I'm giving speeches many times.
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My kids be like balancing things out.
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And, you know, as far as like, you know, Equivalent Exchange as
38:17
far as I, hey, You do good things, good things were
38:20
happening, you do bad things, there are consequences and all
38:23
these things like that. So, shout out to all the nerdy
38:26
stuff out there for giving me memorable quotes that I can then
38:31
use as life lessons for my kids. But anywho I hope that you have
38:42
enjoyed this short Journey down memory lane with me, like I said
38:49
this is something that I have had in my mind to do for a while
38:55
maybe didn't get to do it as fully and cleanly and fancy
38:59
editing and stuff as I would have liked to.
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But I felt like the message was more important than all the
39:08
Visualizing stuff along the way. But like I said, parents out
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there, or even just adults in general.
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Hey, do you know this stuff? Read your manga, wash, some
39:25
anime play, your video games and continue to live your best life
39:31
because Herod and is to talk. That's what I talk about and
39:37
that's what I preach all the time.
39:40
Self-care. Don't let life family kids.
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I know it's a lot to keep up with.
39:48
Like I said, I know that better than anybody.
39:50
Married five kids. Three of them are in sports all
39:55
year round. And so all of a very busy life,
40:01
but I do my best to try to carve out even if it's a little bit of
40:05
time to watch what I want to watch, get a little bit of
40:09
gaming and or even hang. I'm just going to go spend some
40:12
time at the bookstore and just browse some shelves and peace
40:16
and quiet. Get that made time and because
40:20
it is very important because it is very easy. when you have the
40:26
weight of the world, when you have the weight and
40:28
responsibility as a parent as an adult as somebody who has to
40:34
maintain a household, To feel like, man, I can trust, I got to
40:40
keep going, whatever, but even if it's just for a brief moment
40:43
and get time for yourself, you'll thank me later.
40:49
But yeah, but I look forward to more chickens in the future
40:55
because like I said, it's lots of dope things on the horizon.
40:58
Like I said, just think of tied in because speaking of a midget
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near automata earlier, there's an anime for that coming out
41:07
early next year in January is my birthday month.
41:10
Same month is freaking Then soccer season to say - as the
41:18
last of us, live action TV series.
41:22
So same month as the reboots to try again, Contracting stampede,
41:31
it's all coming full circle baby and it is a error that I hope to
41:39
look back on fondly with tons of memories, but enough of that,
41:48
like I said, once again, thank you so much for watching and
41:51
you're listening if you enjoyed what you saw, Leave a comment.
41:59
Let me know what you think. Let me know what connections you
42:02
have with God of War or if there have been any other series that
42:08
you have bonded over with whether it be when you were
42:11
younger with your parents or now that your parents are things,
42:15
your that you're bonding over with your kids with let me know,
42:18
because I would love to hear some of y'all stories and things
42:23
of that nature. But once again, shout out to
42:26
everybody that's been involved. It God of War.
42:29
Everybody's been involved with any of these series that I've
42:33
talked about today. It's your odor for One Piece.
42:39
So many people, so many people, I can't set up her name them
42:43
all. But just know that all of y'all
42:47
is hard work, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears is much appreciated,
42:53
but y'all take it easy. I love y'all.
42:57
And like I said, while I go and as my usual sign off, treat
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yourself to something. Nice.
43:03
Read some manga watch some anime and TV play some video games.
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And live your best life. Y'all be easy.
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Y'all have an awesome day and I'll catch you on the next one.
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Peace.