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SCBOOKGAL & FRIENDS CHAT PODCAST EVERY TUESDAYS 8PM EST · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the sc Book gallon French Chat. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be talking about the latest and book reviews, author interviews
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  Speaker 1: and life. Come on in and join us. We're ready,
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  Speaker 1: are you? Hey? Everyone, this is your girl Sci Book
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  Speaker 1: Gal eight four three and it's another Tuesday night. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how y'all doing? Y'all know I'd like to start off next.
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  Speaker 1: How y'all do? How y'all doing? True? Well, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you how I'm doing. I'm confused. And why am
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  Speaker 1: I confused? Because on Sunday it was eighty three degrees
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  Speaker 1: and right now Charleston, it's like fifty something degrees and
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  Speaker 1: its supposed to go down to the freezing. I am
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  Speaker 1: sick and tired of this weather. And I'm about to
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  Speaker 1: say it. I'm tired of this bipolar weather. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talking about my people that have this ability. Y'all
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  Speaker 1: know my sister had one and I love you God.
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  Speaker 1: Plus my homeboy at work, and that's my boy. He
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  Speaker 1: has a disability. But this weather, this is how my
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  Speaker 1: granny said, this is the weather that gets y'all pull up. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but that's all. I just a little confused. But tonight
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  Speaker 1: it's a first for Sci bookyuds and friends chat. I
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  Speaker 1: have a graphic novel author of you guys, I've never
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  Speaker 1: done that before. Now have I ever read a graphic novel?
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  Speaker 1: I have, and it was about a little young boy
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  Speaker 1: who got involved with a gang. I forgot it. It was
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  Speaker 1: black and white and it was a good book. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but my daughter, that's the graphic novel. Queen that chicks
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  Speaker 1: loves graphic novel and there's a lot of people who
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  Speaker 1: are against it, and I'm like, why, it's just visual literacy.
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  Speaker 1: Get over it. Okay, these kids days, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: kids do not do the traditional word or we say
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  Speaker 1: the traditional brick and mortar when we talk to school stuff. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: some of these kids, they're a visual and that's me.
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  Speaker 1: You want to get me to read your book, show
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  Speaker 1: me a fly cover and I'm gonna read your book.
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  Speaker 1: Your book me suck, but I'll start it because of
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  Speaker 1: the cover. So I have my first graphic novel author
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  Speaker 1: and it's mind blowing because I want to know why
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  Speaker 1: graphic novels. Please tell me what's going on the mind
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  Speaker 1: of this eleven year old daughter? I got, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna pick his mind. Okay, So you got, I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to bring up mister Gerald. We know we're going first
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  Speaker 1: and pieces here, So come on up, Come on up.
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Hey? How are you doing? Patres? Look up in the air,
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  Speaker 2: Look up in the sky. It's your new favorite comic
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  Speaker 2: book guy with your with the voice that's old soul,
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  Speaker 2: fly what's popular? How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I am good, I'm not I'm gonna stop you right there?
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  Speaker 1: Are you? Okay? What people see in comic book?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's fine, Yes, okay, of course.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So you guys are wander like trees? What are
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  Speaker 1: you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: So y'all know I worked for a library. Right? Did
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  Speaker 1: y'all say the name? Because I don't want to get
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  Speaker 1: in no trouble. But y'all know I works for a library. Right.
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  Speaker 1: People hate the word graphic novel.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, people know you love the word graphic novel.
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  Speaker 1: They hate the word comic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's weird. I mean, well hold on, let me
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  Speaker 2: we listen. We don't judge, right, but you know, being
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  Speaker 2: a guy who you know, first off, my first comic book.
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  Speaker 2: I got my first comic book back when I was
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  Speaker 2: at least like eight years old, back when Spider Man
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  Speaker 2: one dropped in theaters, and ever since I seen that movie,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was hooked. You know, my dad would
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  Speaker 2: buy me, you know, his comic books and whatnot. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, if I wanted to learn more about Spider
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  Speaker 2: Man or about any superhero character, I had to pick
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  Speaker 2: up a comic, you know, and comics they get like
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  Speaker 2: this bad rep that they're not loaded with information or
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  Speaker 2: like educative elements. But hey, comic books, graphic novels, whatever
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  Speaker 2: you want to call it, man, d shit, they are.
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  Speaker 1: I mean when I bring books home to my daughter. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna back it up. When I went to my
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  Speaker 1: daughter's school for like the parent meet the teacher, parent
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  Speaker 1: teacher night whatever, one of her teachers said she does
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  Speaker 1: not want the kids reading graphic novel I looked at her,
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  Speaker 1: and who you play with? I said, Yeah, my daughter
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  Speaker 1: loves graphic novels. She don't sit down here in writing
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  Speaker 1: regular books, but she's really drawn to graphic novels. And
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  Speaker 1: tell the fact that I see her drawing her own pictures.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter is going to be the artistic type. Okayes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: dance music. Please Lord don't let her start singing, because
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  Speaker 1: I don't think she could sing. But you ain't hear that,
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  Speaker 1: baby mummy love you. She loves to draw, she loves slime,
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  Speaker 1: she loves putting stuff together, she loves markers. So when
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  Speaker 1: that teacher told me that she doesn't want the kids
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  Speaker 1: to do graphic novels or comic books, I felt like
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  Speaker 1: that was stunning their growth.
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  Speaker 2: So I agree, yes, that's.
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  Speaker 1: On my mind. You got to tell us a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, of course, so as I say, tod, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not trying to sound too bragged due, but I have
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  Speaker 2: your new favorite comic book creator that you never heard
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  Speaker 2: of until today, until this very second. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: am a mental health advocate. I love like sci fi,
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  Speaker 2: elements of horror, fantasy, those are my favorite genres. And
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  Speaker 2: one day, you know, during COVID, I just got bored
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  Speaker 2: one day and I was like, you know what I
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  Speaker 2: can tell. I bet you I can tell the next
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  Speaker 2: best sci fi tale of the century. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: it started as a dream, and now it's evolving into
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  Speaker 2: a physical, tangible thing that you yourself at home, can purchase
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  Speaker 2: or anyone can purchase at you know, a comic shop,
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  Speaker 2: at any of my local comic shops in here in Buffalo,
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  Speaker 2: New York, and yeah, that's how it's going thus far.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, the main theme of these tales Kyrus
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  Speaker 2: Layer Kaiju, It's basically the main theme is mental health
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  Speaker 2: awareness because it's basically about a twelve year old boy
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  Speaker 2: who gets access of this alien nanotechnology and the suit
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  Speaker 2: responds to his emotions. So let's say he's feeling like
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  Speaker 2: really stressed out, that suit has the potential to backfire
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  Speaker 2: on him. But if he's feeling like really courageous and
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  Speaker 2: really really what's the word, If he's like feeling himself,
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  Speaker 2: it has the potential to like either unlock a new
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  Speaker 2: ability or transformation, if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, you just did so much in one book?
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  Speaker 2: Did I?
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  Speaker 1: The fact of is a comic. The main character is
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  Speaker 1: a twelve year old and you're having the baseline of
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  Speaker 1: mental issues or topic. The topic of the book is
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  Speaker 1: dealing with mint issues. You know, you just hit three
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  Speaker 1: burials right there, and three barriers that really don't get
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  Speaker 1: any attention. And then and I'll tell you truth, there's
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  Speaker 1: a four point five. You're an African American male and
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about mental health issues. You should just get
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  Speaker 1: a trophy just for that. By itself, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of African American male that do comics. They're
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  Speaker 1: right about mental health issues.
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  Speaker 2: And why and you know what, And before I even
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  Speaker 2: delve further, it's funny because a few weeks ago, I
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  Speaker 2: was actually in an interview with this gentleman who was
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  Speaker 2: thinking about advertising my books into his church magazine, and
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  Speaker 2: I basically gave him a description like the very same
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  Speaker 2: description that I just gave you, And I kid you not.
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  Speaker 2: The brother started tearing up a little bit. So I
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  Speaker 2: guess that's a sign that I'm doing something right. You know.
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  Speaker 1: You are, because I mean, think about it, mental health
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  Speaker 1: is not something that we pay attention to. What we
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  Speaker 1: used to not pay attention in the black community, it
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  Speaker 1: is now coming to service. We're now starting to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I need help. Okay. One pastor that I listened to
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  Speaker 1: says the two thinks you need a good pastor and
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  Speaker 1: a good therapist. And believe you me, that is so true.
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  Speaker 1: So the fact that you who took all of those
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  Speaker 1: serious components and put it into a comic is mind blowing.
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  Speaker 1: So my question to you would be why a comic?
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  Speaker 1: Why not just a traditional novel?
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  Speaker 2: So and I'm glad you asked what I noticed, because
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  Speaker 2: I've been working in education for several years at this point,
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  Speaker 2: and what I've noticed is that, you know, whenever the
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  Speaker 2: kids have like free time, they either log into like
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  Speaker 2: some type of comic or graphic novel, streaming app or service,
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  Speaker 2: and they read like they either had they either use
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  Speaker 2: us like an online service, or they're actually pulling out
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  Speaker 2: like a manga book. And what kids are very this
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  Speaker 2: is something that we have to take into consideration. Kids
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  Speaker 2: are very visual when it pertains to like things that
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  Speaker 2: they're interested in. You know, they love especially anime, anime,
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  Speaker 2: anything involving like superheroes, with like really kick ass designs,
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  Speaker 2: things of that nature. And so I feel like it's
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  Speaker 2: it behooves all of us to basically create a tale
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  Speaker 2: that's informative, action packed, and something inspiring and that can
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  Speaker 2: help them basically reach their goals in terms of and
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  Speaker 2: teach them something new pertaining to mental health, because like
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  Speaker 2: so many of us are facing mental health crises, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I know growing up, I didn't necessarily have
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  Speaker 2: too many outlets to tell me how to battle certain
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  Speaker 2: mental health struggles. But you know, this is why I've
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  Speaker 2: heard of the reason why I'm basically fulfilling a purpose
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  Speaker 2: of being a author to help help inspire others. If
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  Speaker 2: that makes sense, that.
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  Speaker 1: Makes all the sense. I mean the fact that you're
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  Speaker 1: that you took on that that that genre in in
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  Speaker 1: those tough topics and place them in a book that
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  Speaker 1: a twelve year old can be able to relate to.
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  Speaker 1: That it's you actually don't know how mind blowing it is.
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  Speaker 1: How mind blowing. I've seen novels and graphic novels or
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  Speaker 1: comic books that deal with everyday issue. So now I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna ask you a question. You guys, I do not
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  Speaker 1: I am gonna say this. I do not have a
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  Speaker 1: copy of the book, but I will be getting a copy,
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  Speaker 1: So don't stop your mean character, your main character. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask something real weird. Okay, do you do
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  Speaker 1: you do you give your me character at at this
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  Speaker 1: word in me always have a problem and NIPTI c
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  Speaker 1: so yes, because I've seen graphic novels or comics that don't,
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  Speaker 1: and I kind of wonder why I want to know.
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  Speaker 2: So as you can, as you can tell, as I
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  Speaker 2: zoom in, one can make the educated guess that Kyu
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  Speaker 2: himself is of African American descent. You know he's got
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  Speaker 2: like but he's half white. You feel me. No, I'm
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  Speaker 2: joking as far as I know. No, As basically I
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  Speaker 2: was going into this like and I create like he
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  Speaker 2: has both both his parents are black, and there's really
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  Speaker 2: outside of that, you know, I didn't really make it
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  Speaker 2: too obvious that he could have been of Caribbean descent
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  Speaker 2: or any other descent. He basically it's like, as you
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  Speaker 2: start reading, like I'm gonna show us particular page here
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  Speaker 2: where he's actually fighting some aliens that are trying to
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  Speaker 2: abduct him, like, you can make the safe assumption that
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's African American. And I felt like it
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  Speaker 2: was important to create him in that category because I
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  Speaker 2: don't know in the community, you know, we have heroes
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  Speaker 2: like Black Panther, we have Static, you know, now Captain
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  Speaker 2: America with Sam Wilson. But I feel the more the merrier,
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  Speaker 2: the more the merrier, especially like coming from the African
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  Speaker 2: American community, the more the merrier. Why not so I
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  Speaker 2: could have made him literally any other ethnicity. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's so rewarding when a parent picks
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  Speaker 2: up a comic book for their child and basically sends
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  Speaker 2: in my DMS, a drawing illustration of a character that
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  Speaker 2: I created. I mean, it's so very rewarding.
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  Speaker 1: You know, see you just she just hit it on
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  Speaker 1: the head. That's why you saw. I'm gonna give it
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  Speaker 1: to you because as a mother, I have a twenty
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  Speaker 1: three year old son and I have an eleven year
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  Speaker 1: old daughter. So y'all know, don't ask why people, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it was an alcoholic yeah yeah, so. And in the
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  Speaker 1: whole entire time, the only place I've been working, the
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  Speaker 1: only place my kids have ever known me to work,
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  Speaker 1: it's been the library. Okay, Like I told y'all twenty
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  Speaker 1: years actually twenty one this year. When my son was
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  Speaker 1: growing up, he did not have books that had African
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  Speaker 1: American characters. Okay, it was always and I'm not being racist,
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  Speaker 1: but I love I want my kids to be able
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  Speaker 1: to read a character that looks like them. But I
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  Speaker 1: got the guitarme of seeing the little White boy and
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  Speaker 1: the dog, and then sometimes there were some fairy creatures
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. But now the whole separate side
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  Speaker 1: of it with my daughter, it is totally different because
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  Speaker 1: this little chick has so many books to choose from,
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  Speaker 1: and I've seen the revolving of children's literature in the
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  Speaker 1: realm of African American children and authors like you. I
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  Speaker 1: thank you for that. I truly do that gives my
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  Speaker 1: kids and those kids who visit the library a chance
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  Speaker 1: to say I can do this, or I can swing that,
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  Speaker 1: or I can do this. I appreciate you, guys, so
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  Speaker 1: that that means so much as a parent and as
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  Speaker 1: somebody who work with these young adults, these teens and
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  Speaker 1: these kids.
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  Speaker 2: So I thank you, thank you, no honestly, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for recognizing that. And the thing is just to expand
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  Speaker 2: and support what you just said. Like back in the day,
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  Speaker 2: I grew up hopeful lot. I'm aging myself when I
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  Speaker 2: say this, but you know, I grew up in the
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  Speaker 2: early two thousands where one of the only well known
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  Speaker 2: one of the early one of the only well known
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  Speaker 2: black superheroes was Static. You know Satic that show Static Shock.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw that show and first off, great show,
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  Speaker 2: Rest in Peace, Dwayne McDuffie, great show, valuable lessons taught
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  Speaker 2: in various episodes. But subconsciously, I feel like that did
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  Speaker 2: something to me subconsciously as a little one. I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: on a subconscious level, I thought, Wow, I could do that.
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  Speaker 2: I could do that one day, I could create, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a badass character that would help inspire and entertain you know,
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  Speaker 2: those to come.
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  Speaker 1: So we talked about the reason. We talked about the
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  Speaker 1: why we've talked about you. Now let's talk about this book. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you gave us a little bit about it, but tell
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  Speaker 1: us a little bit more. If I had my eleven
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  Speaker 1: year old, No he's not eleven, he's twelve. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: got one for you. I have a thirteen year old
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  Speaker 1: nephew and an eleven year old nephew, and I bring
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  Speaker 1: them in front of you, and I said, hey, you guys,
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  Speaker 1: he's an author and you have to sell your book.
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  Speaker 1: Did these two big head nephews of mine, how would
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  Speaker 1: you do it?
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  Speaker 2: I would at first ask them this are they so?
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  Speaker 2: Are they a fan of video games? If?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, my sister was fussing with the twelve year old
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  Speaker 1: because he took her card and bought some stuff with
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, sister.
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  Speaker 2: But that was so the reason why I would ask
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  Speaker 2: them that is because so this design right here, hopefully
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  Speaker 2: you can see it. Yeah, basically, the panel the speech
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  Speaker 2: bubble say how do you like this? I saw this
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  Speaker 2: in a video game he's referring to like his new transformation.
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  Speaker 2: So basically, when he's feeling like really hyper inspired, that
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  Speaker 2: emotion then basically transmutes into his suit and allows him
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  Speaker 2: allows him to like shape or craft what his suit
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  Speaker 2: is going to look like. And basically he follows up
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  Speaker 2: in this speech bubble that says and they say gaming
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  Speaker 2: is just a waste of time, Well, clearly it's not,
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  Speaker 2: because it's helping him.
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  Speaker 3: Whoop the s of the bad guy, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean? So, hey, you got one of them. The
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  Speaker 3: eleven year old loves this, but now you got the
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  Speaker 3: year old.
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  Speaker 2: And basically, in that very se that I just described,
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  Speaker 2: Kyu he learned a new skill and or battle move
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  Speaker 2: from like a video game that he played. So basically
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  Speaker 2: he turned this abandoned train into a noonchuk of sorts
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  Speaker 2: and he used that to basically slay the enemy monster.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, I think the thirteen year old might be
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  Speaker 1: coming on. I think he might be coming on. So
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  Speaker 1: how does this book help you? Because a lot of
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  Speaker 1: authors say they write their books because of situations that
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  Speaker 1: they've been through, or they see opening that or something
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  Speaker 1: that has not been a dressed or opening that needs
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  Speaker 1: to be full. How does your book, how does your
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  Speaker 1: book going on? With that?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so, growing up, as you could probably make like
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  Speaker 2: the assumption growing up, I was a Godzilla disciple. I
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  Speaker 2: still am. I'm a Godzilla disciple. And you know, I
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  Speaker 2: always thought giant monsters, dinosaurs, things of that nature were cool.
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  Speaker 2: But I always wanted to tell a meaningful, entertaining story
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  Speaker 2: that many would remember that also involved a dope intellectual theme.
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  Speaker 2: So here I wanted to incorporate the element of mental
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  Speaker 2: health awareness into this. And how Cairu and like him
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  Speaker 2: in his suit, how basically the relations the relationship between
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  Speaker 2: him and his suit, and how his suit basically adapts
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  Speaker 2: based off of like a feeling that he's feeling at
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  Speaker 2: the moment. And honestly, the kaiju themselves, the monsters that
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  Speaker 2: he faces, they're basically symbolic for different mental health crises
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  Speaker 2: that we counter in real life, you know, like depression
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  Speaker 2: or anxiety, things of that nature.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Yo, that's awesome, that's awesome, Thank you, you did
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  Speaker 1: you did that. So it's time for those fun questions.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready for the fun questions?
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  Speaker 2: Bring it, bring it, let's go, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: See he confident job right, So like I told you
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  Speaker 1: to find questions are They usually deal with music, entertainment, music,
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  Speaker 1: mainly music and movies and television. But that's something that
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  Speaker 1: I do, and that's something that I love, and I
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: use that as a reader's advisory to while I'm at work.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: So BT plus they said, you know what, we want
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: to step into something new, something that's new, upcoming, something
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: that's groundbreaking, and we want to take your book, your
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  Speaker 1: character and create a little miniseries for for our tweens.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Because you know, that's a that's a you know, a
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: demographic that doesn't get much attention like it used to
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: when the Disney Channel days. We're up, so you know
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: it is going to be a comic. But now we need.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Voice actors, right, yes, what.
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  Speaker 1: Voice actor or what actor would you want to be
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: the voice of your main character, Charen?
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Oh hold on? That person has to be a nineties
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  Speaker 1: rap artist.
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  Speaker 2: A nineties rap art. This huh wow, spend you know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: because that's a tricky wow, tricky question because like, ideally
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  Speaker 2: I would have did what they did back in like
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  Speaker 2: old school Charlie Brown and just hire actual kids to
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: voice my you know, kidd characters.
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  Speaker 1: But okay, so let's okay, so you would you would
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: hired kids? So let's go, let's spend it. What can actor?
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Would you hire.
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  Speaker 2: Any relevant well known character in either Nickelodeon or Disney currently?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, currently? Do they still have like TV shows
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  Speaker 1: on this you guys, I don't have Disney Channel. I
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: mean she has the Disney.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: App Yeah, but I mean, now, I was gonna say
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  Speaker 2: the stars. I have no idea, Like it's been since
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  Speaker 2: I said don.
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  Speaker 1: I take that back. Don't even person I really know
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  Speaker 1: is Reeven.
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  Speaker 2: It's just likes to read his home yep.
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  Speaker 1: And I take that back again, Penny Proud, because I said,
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  Speaker 1: Donny and watched The Proud Family all day, so you
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  Speaker 1: would get a children's Yes. I love the fact that
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  Speaker 1: they had the character. She's always carrying a book, every book.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, boy, you slick, I see that. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, so we.
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  Speaker 2: Had not to cut you off. You know who voice
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: to play? Like voice wise the kid that we saw
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: at the end of Black Panther two, it was revealed
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: that was his son.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, I know exactly who you're talking about.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I know Zachtly. I don't know his name, but I
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: did I do remember that at the end when he
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: was sailing his real name and the sister. It was like,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: oh my god, this is his child. Okay, okay, we'll
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: call him Mini to Challa. So BT plus says, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, we love it, okay, but of course it
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: needs a theme song. Oh what would be the theme
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: song for your book? Oh?
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: You know what, So if you're familiar with like the
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: rapper m F Doom, I would I would take like
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: like m F Doom type beep and like place it
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: over like the intro credits for Cayrou like all you need,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Like if you ever heard that song all caps?
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I just looked it up and I see m F done.
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  Speaker 2: Said, yeah, rest in peace.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's passed away in twenty twenty. Yeah, or
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: simply know bom Okay, okay, all right, So we got
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the Nickelodeon and Disney Channel kids in m F dooone
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  Speaker 1: his beat for your theme show song. All right, guess
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: what b T said? We love it? Okay, cool, we
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: want to do a little mini documentary because this thing
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: is just blown up. We love it. It's we got
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: T shirts, We now got characters were now making money
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: off this, Okay, so we want to say, we want
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: to do a background biopic of you. Okay, who would
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: you give you? Who would you give the honor of
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: playing you? And why why would you give that person
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: that honor?
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Ah, you know what I was gonna say. This answer
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: is kind of complicated because like in real life he's
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: not bald, so he's like so like it kind of
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: complicates the answer. But Tyler James Williams, I feel like
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: I feel like that's like my long I feel like
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: that's my long lost brother. It is, is that the
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: little dude from everybody?
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Everybody? So you have some abbed elementary everybody? Okay, so
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: why am.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: You know what it's? Uh, it's I feel like we
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: just all have dappel gangers or like you know that
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: like that one person that's like a celebrity but like
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: can kind of pass as like a relative, if that
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: makes sense. Like there's so many honestly, like watching the
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Ebbitt Elementary, the way he just looks at the camera
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: when like some dumb or crazy shit happens, Like I
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: do that all the time. So like that there's a
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: relatability factor right there.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Oh so you're the onely putting the people over your
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: feet because it's written all over your face.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Huh, pretty much to the understand it.
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  Speaker 1: My boss told me that a couple of weeks ago
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: that when I get frustrated, she said, it's just and
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: she and it was so funny because at my desk
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: there's this picture of an hour and the hours just
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: like this, and she said, I see you every time
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: somebody frustrates you and get you mad, this is how
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: you look. Sometime I'll just come through the back door
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and the first words to come out of her mouth is,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: what done happened? Like you just got that look on you? Yes,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: sometimes we don't.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: We don't mean for it to always be given away,
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: but it.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Just kind of happens, you know, listen.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Up on it like you know IG or social media.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: You don't mean a look at him, but it just
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: kind of happened.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Kind it just happened. I know one thing with my mate,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: when we look at each other face to face, I
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: know he would be like this girl got fifty million
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: facial expressions. But I could tell him she ticked off.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I just can't help it. Even my daughter's like, oh
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: around with you, fix your face and I'll fix mine.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: So I totally understand. But before we leave, you have
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: just gained all of these new readers with this podcast
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and me sharing your information and me those that are
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: going to watch the replay, what would you like to
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: say to your old readers, your new readers, and your
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: future readers.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: So here's a message that can basically be conveyed to current,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: future and present read You know, readers that I don't
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: even know about basic in my new issue. So let
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: me just count the issues real quickly. I have one
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: who three for five, I have six in production, and
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: basically that is the debut of the superhero matra that
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: I have for Kyu, which goes as follows. Whether I'm up,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: down or feeling glue, there's far too much left for
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: me to do. What keeps me going is doing what's right. Darkness,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: beware my unyielding light. Honestly, that is a matra that
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: basically serves as an affirmation. I say it to myself
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: at least five times a date, and it pulls me
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: out of some really stressful scenarios. So start saying that matra.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna put it up on a shirt very soon,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: and uh yeah, you'll feel a lot better.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Well, That's what I'm talking about. Now we have to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: get the rundown. And what the rundown is is you
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: give us how we can follow you, how we can
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: get your books, how we can just be abreast on
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: everything that you're doing, so when this next book drop,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: we can be on it.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: So give us a rundown, of course. So here's the
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: shame club, right y'all be waiting for it, all right?
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: You can follow me at writer w R I T
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: E R Underscore Man seven one six. That's where I
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: post a lot of comic book related material or content.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: It's also really where I just post like what I'm up,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: you know, whatever the today's agenda is, you know, or
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: make a random story, you know. That's that's the IG
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: that I use the most. I also have a Cairo
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: IG as well at Kyra Underscore Slayer, Underscore of Underscore
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Ki Kaiju. That's my Caygrow page, but that's centered obviously
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: towards Cayu himself and like the comic book itself, that's
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: basically where you can like attain the most recent updates,
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: but either page is good. Also under my first I
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: G page is where you can find the GoFundMe and
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: you can basically you basically have the liberty to like
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: comment under photos of the Cayu pictures and basically inquire
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: about how to receive your copy, and I can happily
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: direct you on how to you know, receive it. You know,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: we can work it out in the DMS, you know.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: All right, when you guys got that information, of course,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: you know that when I post this onto sc bookouts
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: and friends blog and to aspiring authors and to the
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: crew Facebook page in our YouTube pages, that I will
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: make sure I get all that information for you guys
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: so you can go follow him and get your copy,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: like I'm gonna get my copy. Okay, thank you mister
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Jerald for being with us tonight. We greatly appreciate it.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: No, honestly, it's a pleasure being on the show. Pleasure
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: being on the show. Thank you so much. I know
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: I probably came off a little bit annoying when I
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: kept inquiring like, oh my goodness, when's the day, when's
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: the day? What you know, whenever we're gonna stream wherever
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: we're gonna stream, black. I was just trying to get
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: the details, you know, situated, So I ain't meant a
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: bug you.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: No, listen to you, guys. I'm gonna I'm gonna tell
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: you just like can to tell him. I have fifty
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: million things going on, and I am bad. I'm supposed
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: to read messages now, trying to train myself to read
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: them the press that it happens, and I kind of
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: forget the first son read but still got me here,
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  Speaker 1: y'all along with the autor next week, I did the
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  Speaker 1: same thing to hurt to im. Sorry, I thank you
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: for being here. We're gonna have that information for our
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: readers to go ahead, grab your novel. Listen. The relationship
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: with sca Bookyald the Friends does not end on this podcast.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: We're gonna link up on some other stuff. I ain't
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: coming to Buffalo, y'all. Y'all got to my son.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, with all that you're gonna around, get us, get
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: get trapped in a block of ice. So yeah, don't
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: do that.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, listen. In the love of my life is
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: in Texas. I ain't going out there. I don't do
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: plans trains while I dods, I cleans, and I don't
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: do trains.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: You know, we're gonna make it do what it do.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: But thank you for being with us. Tonight. It has
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: been such a pleasure to be with you. Thank you,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: thank you. What it is another Tuesday night with another
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  Speaker 1: book in the books. Okay, you guys, you go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and get grab that novel because you know what, Well,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: it comes down to our kids. We need to start
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: investing in them. If you want to give them the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: new video game, the newer shoes, how about grab.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Them a book.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Let's put back what they lose.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Let's kill that stigma. If
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you don't want a black cow to know anything, put
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: in a book. Let's kill that. Okay, there is a
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: book out there for every kid. Believe in me. I
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  Speaker 1: am one of those people that help them find their books. Okay,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: next week we have another author coming up. You guys.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: I am so ready for this novel. I am so
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  Speaker 1: ready to talk to miss Vernond Brown about this book. Boss. Okay,