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Reservation Dogs Finale, Cocoon Review, Kagurabachi · Dad Needs To Talk

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What's up, y'all? And welcome back to Daddy's to
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Talk. I'm your host robber and today
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today I am here to talk about a few things, In particular my
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review for the video game Cocoon, my thoughts on the final
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season of Reservation Dogs and how that kind of ties into the
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overall theme of your world. Your the things you have going
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on matter just as much as somebody else's, but I hope
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everybody out there is doing well.
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You know it's been been a a pretty okay week for me.
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But before I get into all that, as always, if this is your first
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time here, welcome. But if you're returning listener
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and or watcher. Then welcome back, y'all, know
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here and Danny to talk. It's all about father and family
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manga, anime, TV and video games.
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So my week overall has been, for the most part, pretty solid.
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You know, of course, there's always life and things, you know
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your boy got to take care of, but.
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All in all, things are solid. Things are busy at work, I
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think. They're taking over some more
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clinics and stuff that's about to go out of business.
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So we're bringing in some more people on board, which means a
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lot of preparation stuff that I need to do with getting hardware
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and stuff together and configured and set up and stuff
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for those deployments in the coming weeks and months.
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But keeps me busy, you know which keeps me paid.
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Which keeps, you know my my life going and my family fed.
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But yeah. But aside from that, you know I
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I took some time off this weekend from a.
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Lot of the usual sports and activities and stuff, just kind
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of just talk to my wife within the last week being like, man,
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we're just not going to do nothing as far as like, you
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know, practices and all that stuff, whatever.
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So I got to stay home for the most part or whatever, but of
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course. You know, as a parent, and
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especially a parent with multiple kids, there's always
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something's going to come up, whatever.
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So we do have to deal with something, you know, Friday
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night, Saturday morning, whatever.
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But you know, not going to go into too much or whatever, but
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everybody's okay, but just kind of had to deal with the little
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little situation and stuff. But yeah, so aside from that,
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things are good. We're in the month of October,
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which is freaking wild to think about, man.
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Like fall season is upon us. And that means.
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That a lot of anime have started, which you know, I'm
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definitely going to touch on some shows a little bit later on
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that I've already started watching and checking out, But
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it'll still be another week or two before I do like a full fall
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season preview and stuff, just because I want to kind of give
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it a. A few, a couple weeks or
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whatever to me watching some stuff before I kind of do that
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episode or whatever. So.
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But it will be coming, yeah. And of course, you know, the,
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the avalanche of video games continues to March on and you
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know, I'll go and just get that out the way real quick, just
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kind of up top. So I got to play this game named
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it's called Cocoon. So Cocoon is a game developed by
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a geometric. I can't remember is it Geometric
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Interactive, which was founded by and created by a couple of
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former developers from the studio Play Dead, which is best
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known for their games Limbo and Inside.
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So it was kind of like the kind of like the head audio guy and
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the head game play designer along with some new people and
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stuff, went over, created this new studio and put out this game
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named Cocoon. Now the game is out on all
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platforms, PlayStation, Xbox, PC and Switch.
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It's on Xbox Game Pass as a bonus, but I bought and played
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it on position 5. Now I played through the whole
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game over the weekend. Not not a super super long game,
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it was maybe like 5-6 ish hours is what it took me or whatever.
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But the game itself is kind of like a adventure, not platform
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like you want to say platform, an adventure puzzle style game.
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Like I said, if you've played Limbo or Inside, you kind of
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have a general idea of the style of game, but it kind of involves
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you dealing with these different orbs and you going into
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basically each orb or whatever has a whole world inside of it.
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And by the time y'all are hearing this, whatever, or
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sometime in the within the same day or whatever, I'll have a
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little chunk of like 15 minutes of gameplay from the game on my
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YouTube channel. So if y'all want to see a little
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bit more in depth of what the game looks like and sounds like
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a stuff, whatever, go check that out or whatever.
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But but All in all, like like the game from beginning to end
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was fantastic because those games, Limbo and Inside, they've
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always been really good about setting, the tone and the
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atmosphere, and there's just always intrigue and wonder with
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every new location you go to. Every new ability that you get,
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I was like, oh, what does this do or whatever?
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And how is this going to plan to overall stuff?
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Because throughout the game you basically get four different
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abilities, three, yeah, 4, four different abilities.
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And the game does really well. We're kind of like chopping
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things up towards Okay. You got a new ability.
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Now you go through a level or a section of a level, exploring,
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learning how to use this new ability or whatever, and then.
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They kind of start interweaving the new stuff with the existing
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stuff and you kind of get stuff building upon each other to
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where you're having to like use some of the abilities and stuff
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in tandem with each other. And then the jumping in and out
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of the world of the orbs or whatever is like super dope and
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kind of like mind trippy in a way.
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Because, like I said, like some of the puzzles that you're
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doing. It involves you going like
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inside of a orb, inside of a orb, and it all kind of looping
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within itself, whatever. It's like super cool.
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Like it's like really trying to describe it, but but yeah, but
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like like like the game play of it is fantastic.
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I feel like it had just the right amount of difficulty to
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where I was pretty much able to play.
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I would say like 90% of the game just on my own with no help.
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There was there was one person in particular that I had to look
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up like pretty deep into the game.
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But it was one of those things where I was like man, I didn't
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really like think to look at it this way or whatever.
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And then another time kind of like 1/2 stepping whatever.
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I kind of got like majority of way through whatever and the I
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was literally staring at the answer.
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And one thing I like about the the game is that like, you're
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never going to get stuck to where like it's a lot of like
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once you get all these different abilities and stuff, whatever
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and they kind of bidding upon each other, you're never going
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to be in a position towards like, crap, I crossed this
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bridge or I went through this. Gate or whatever.
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Oh no, I'm stuck. It's like, no, you're in the
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place that you're meant to be in or whatever, and.
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If you still have to kind of go come and go or whatever, then
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that means that you probably still have an objective or
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something to still do and tackle.
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And I love that. Because like once you are fully
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cleared with the area, it will like like if you cross the
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bridge or whatever, Then if you're meant to just continue to
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go forward and not going back, then that bridge will crumble,
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so to speak. Well, figuratively,
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figuratively, and literally. The bridge will crumble and then
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you know it's okay. Then there's nothing more for me
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to go back and do here whatever. And the other thing that I
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enjoyed is that the game kind of has these kind of chapter
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markers or percentage markers or whatever as you play throughout
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the game and at any point in time you can roll back through
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those different check Marks and stuff and revisit the area or.
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You know, or whatever case you want to do, want to do whatever.
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Because like the example, when I recorded my gameplay earlier,
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since I had already been in the game, I had all 100% check marks
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that I can just kind of scroll through and okay, let me go show
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off this ball. So let me show off this piece of
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a level. It's just like really cool.
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And of course the sound design, the music, like I said, it all
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plays into the atmosphere stuff, whatever, like the sounds were
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just like. So well done and like I said,
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like All in all it's a nice tight package.
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It's about 2025 bucks I believe is what it was and like I said
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it is also in Game Pass. If you have that subscription
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you can try that as well, but it definitely was worth the money
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to me. Like suggest the the level of
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Polish of the game and like I said, I got a good solid 5 to
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6-7 hours. Out of the game, whatever.
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And it it, it just felt good to kind of like flex those certain
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creative muscles in my brain to kind of like think of these
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different poses and stuff. And a lot of times it it was
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just a case of like, you know what?
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I'm looking at this too much. Whatever.
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Let me take a break. Go get something to eat.
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Go outside for a walk. Maybe go watch some TV or
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whatever. Find something that has to do at
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least a month or whatever for a little bit.
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And then circle back, come back to it with the fresh mind or
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refresh mind and then it's like oh okay, this is what I need to
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do to go forward. So but yeah so like I said All
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in all Cocoon is one of my favorite things for shop play
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this year. Whatever.
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And it's just very dope. I got to play this right after I
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beat See if stores a couple weeks ago or whatever by a
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cocoon Super good. Highly recommended.
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Like I said, especially. If you enjoyed playing games
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like Limbo and Inside years back, and Speaking of which, if
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you play Cocoon and you never play those games, go back and
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revisit those games because they are both like, really dope and
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definitely worth your time. Now those are a little bit more
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like. Like the kind of like spooky
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vibes. So it might be like again, to
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get going to play right now in the fall season, as we're
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getting to the spooky season that I know a lot of y'all love,
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but we have Cocoon came recommended.
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Enough, go check it out. So yeah, So moving on from
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there. So aside from that, like since
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I'm talking about games real quick, I'm trying to think.
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I had downloaded and booted up the Foam Stars beta over the
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weekend, but I don't know. Like I I immediately just felt
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like. I just wasn't in the mood to
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play it like I literally was going through the tutorial.
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And got to like a couple sections, use my weapon a little
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bit. And then I was like, you know
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what, No, I'm just not going to play this whatever right now.
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Like I said, now maybe when it comes back out later on or if
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they do another beta or whatever, then maybe, you know,
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I might jump in and give it a try again.
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But it just I just didn't want to.
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Force myself to play it when I just wasn't mentally in the mood
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for cause I I was in the middle of playing cocoons, so probably
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I just wasn't in that mindset of like wanting to play it or
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whatever. So but yeah, so we'll see about
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that. I booted up 13 Cent notice they
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just rammed a little bit before I started recording.
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Whatever, I love the arsenal of that.
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The game looks like really, really different artistic.
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Wise kind of remind me a little bit of the anime.
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Grim guard of fantasy and ash, it's made.
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The game is made made by vanilla Ware with which are the same
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people who made that Dragon's Crown game back on, like the PS3
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Vita. Era.
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But yeah, but, so who knows, I might revisit that or whatever,
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but I'm kind of like in this little pocket window right now.
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So I'm trying to decide like, okay what game I might want to
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tackle next. Because Spiderman Two and Mario
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Wonder is in a few weeks on October 20th.
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Now Assassin's Creed Mirage comes out at the end of this
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week and I'm kind of like having a internal struggle trying to
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figure out like man do I want to get that at lunch and play it
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now because it it is, they are launching it cheaper than
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normal. Is coming out at 50 bucks for
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the best game in this 60 for the for a deluxe.
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Edition and I'm like, man, do I want to play it?
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Because I have heard and seen that it is like a, you know,
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kind of going back to like the the roots of the series from
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like, you know, a C2 and three and that era and it's supposed
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to be a shorter game, you know, like. 20 to 30 hours or so,
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roughly, which, hey, that's music to my ears.
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But I'm also like, man, I know that these games, Ubisoft games
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in particular, go on sale on Black Friday and stuff.
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Something like, man, yeah, why yes, it is only going to be 50
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bucks. I could probably get it for 30
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or 25 on Black Friday. So I don't know.
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You know, like I said, it's not like I don't have to play, but
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it kind of just feel like. I'll just kind of just look
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around and just see what I might be in the mood for.
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I do have a couple of demos on Steam I have download.
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I might kind of maybe check out some of those and see what's
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going on with some of those games and stuff.
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So but but yeah so that's pretty much it.
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As far as like a game stuff. Oh I actually got them nice guy
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added to game pass so maybe maybe maybe I might give give
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that a try there or whatever. But yeah, so enough of the game
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stuff, whatever. I kind of want to get into
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talking about reservation dogs and kind of using that as kind
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of like a springboard for talking about kind of like I I I
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guess the best way to kind of say it is that like just
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remembering that whatever situation and stuff you have
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going on in your life. You matter just as much and what
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you have going on matter just as much as the next person.
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Now, while yes, on paper, you know, you might be in a better
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position, like, OK, yes, I'm not homeless, just I have a car.
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Yes, I have a job. But that doesn't mean that you
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still don't have your own struggles going on.
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But before I dive deeper into that, So Reservation Dogs is a
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series. That went on for three seasons.
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They did three seasons, total 28 episodes altogether.
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The first season just had eight episodes, and then season two
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and three both had 10 episodes, 10 episodes of peace, and so the
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show pretty much follows a group of.
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Teens living on this native reservation in Oakern, Oklahoma.
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And so pretty much one of like, one of like the coolest things
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about this show is that you can truly see the love and care that
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was poured into this. And I got to say, shout out to a
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couple of paper real quick. Shout out to the homie Airy from
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Soon Dairy because she's the one that originally put me onto this
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series last year when I had her on for the Fall anime preview
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for last year. And we were talking about stuff
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we liked, including like Abbott Elementary.
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And she was like, oh hey, you need to check out Reservation
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Dogs. And it also shout out to this
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guy I know named Ian, who runs a podcast called Native Film Talk.
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Now he is Native American. And so it was very awesome
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getting to hear his perspective as somebody from that culture,
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that background, because like I said, like like I said, the show
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follows this group of teens. Kind of in the beginning, kind
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of like starting off them dealing with the loss of a close
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friend and kind of like how they all individually and as a group
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deal with the loss of him. And then the show kind of
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follows not just them, but also just like different things that
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people in the native community deal with from, you know, living
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on the Reds and different. I I HS facilities and just
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different things. They kind of struggle and go
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through and how. There were some things I could
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kind of relate to as a minority person they kind of go through.
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But there are also some other things that you know, was very
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informative for me with the show because like I said, like kind
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of like going back with the love and care put into the show a
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good chunk of. Like the staff, the production
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crew, the directors, majority of the cast and stuff, whatever or
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all of indigenous backgrounds and stuff, whatever.
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And so I think, I think I remember on one of Ian's Pockets
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episodes and just different interviews, I heard him talking
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with people about is that I think that this is like one of
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the shows that has like the most native people working on it and
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like the biggest cast of people because what was one of the
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directors of Tyka Waititi and lots of other people.
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But but yeah, so like I said, the show just follows these kids
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going through that loss and they it's kind of over the course of
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the seasons getting a chance to spend time with each of these. 4
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characters You Know, Bear Cheese, Laura, Willie, Jack.
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But also all the characters surrounding them, everybody in
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their communities, from their families, friends, just run the
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people they encounter. And it was freaking amazing.
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And this final season did not disappoint because it kind of
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gave a good wrap up and conclusion to pretty much
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majority of the characters that we've met along the way
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throughout these three seasons. And I feel like each of these
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characters are kind of left in a good place by the time that
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final episode ended. Now, this show does deal with
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some very serious topics throughout, but the show will
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make you laugh as much as it's going to make you cry.
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And I feel like that's kind of like kind of like the beautiful
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balance. Of this show, kind of like like
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what I've talked about before with like Abbott Elementary to
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where it's such a genius way of them.
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Kind of touching on real world topics and struggles of like
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what teachers and stuff go through, but also mixing in a
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little bit of that humor and stuff that makes it relatable.
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And like I said, like seeing the different things that these
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characters go through and reservation dogs.
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There was different. So many moments that like really
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hit close to home, just like with, you know, some of the
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characters dealing with different family things, whether
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it be, you know, not knowing who a parent is or losing a parent
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at a very young age or, you know, feeling like they're alone
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and they don't have anybody to talk to or whatever.
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The case may be like the show, it is like super high on my
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recommendation list. If you were just wanted
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something that is good, something that is relatable and
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something that is also very informative because like I said
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there are some things I can relate to as you know a black
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man, a minority. But this show was super
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informative to that culture and a lot of things that are
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specific to them and like I said shout out look once again to the
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to Ian and native film talk definitely go check out his
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podcast and and and hearing his perspective talking about this
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Series A kind of you know, opened up my eyes even more
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because like I said like while I was learning some stuff
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whatever. But there was a lot of, like,
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culture specific things towards, like if you're not from, you
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know, from that from that background, then a lot of jokes
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and a lot of, you know, end jokes and sayings and different
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things like that or whatever are just going to kind of go kind of
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go over your head. And But like I said, it's like,
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you know, it's kind of like one of those things where it's like
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sometimes, sometimes it's good to have shows that are made for
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us by us, so to speak, whatever for for different cultures and
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stuff to where it's like, hey, this is good enough for anybody
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to enjoy. But it just has that extra good
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feeling to where it's kind of like an inside joke of like, oh
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man, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I, I, I definitely.
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I've been there. Yeah, I've been in that
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situation or whatever. Yeah, my auntie's like that.
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Yeah. My grandma was like that that
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type of familiarity that the show had, They just, they just
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do so well. And like I said, I just, I loved
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these characters all the way through.
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And so like I said, just kind of like so like using that is kind
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of like like a like say like a springboard for the topic of
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your problems matter, you know, because I, I, I kind of have
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this struggle sometimes myself to where, you know, while, yes,
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there are certain goals and things I want to get to in life.
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And it's like, man, I really wish I could be doing XYZ or
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man, I wish I was, you know, in a bigger house or I wish I had a
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house, not an apartment or a man.
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I wish I had, you know, a newer car or whatever.
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No, we all have different things.
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We kind of want better for ourselves.
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And that is okay to want those things.
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Because I know, like sometimes, you know, where I work at or
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whatever, like out in Dallas, you know, every day I'm driving
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by and there's I see the same homeless people.
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I've been working. I've been at this job for a
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little over three years now, whatever.
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And some of these people were there when I got there three
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years ago, and I still see them on the same corners every day
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for three years and stuff, whatever.
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And so it's like seeing stuff like that.
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It's like, man, you know, I'm fortunate that I'm not in that
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position and stuff or you know, I'll be driving home from the
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grocery store and you know, hey, how can I, you know, load up my
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trunk with all the groceries and I'm driving home, but I also see
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somebody else leaving from the grocery store too.
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But instead of driving the car, they're walking down the street
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or on the sidewalk, whatever, where arms for the groceries or
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whatever. And it's like, man, you know,
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and I'm glad I'm not in that position because I have been in
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that position. That's how I grew up.
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You know, I grew up in the, in the hood.
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You know, my mom, we never had a car growing up.
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Whatever. And so every time we go to the
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store for groceries or whatever, you know, if if there wasn't a
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family friend or or a relative nearby, they could take us to
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the store or whatever. Hey, we walked to the store.
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We did our shopping or whatever, and we me and my momma's or
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sometimes just me, sometimes just her, depending on we know
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what's going on. Whatever.
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Walking home, we're just arms with bags and bags and bags of
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groceries. And so, you know, sometimes I
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see those moments and I'm, you know, appreciative of the
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situation I'm in now or whatever and just being like, man, at
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least I'm glad I'm not there anymore.
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But I think that sometimes we lessen ourselves and how we're
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feeling and what we're going through because yeah, we might
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see somebody that is in a worse position than us.
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And so you sometimes we kind of feel like that.
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We can't voice our concerns, We can't voice our struggles
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because it's like, well, Robert, try to be grateful because you
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know, you do have a home, you do have a job and da, da da, da.
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But just because I do have that or whatever doesn't mean that I
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still don't have different things that I struggle with or
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things that concern me. They keep me up at night.
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That stresses me out and different things like that
26:26
because you know. We are all different people and
26:28
we all have our different levels of things that we go through.
26:34
Whatever, you know, because, you know, like for example, you
26:39
know, I'm married, I have, you know, five kids or whatever.
26:43
And it's like, man, you know, sometimes it's like, man, Rob,
26:45
like how do you do, how do you keep up with all this stuff with
26:48
just on a base level, with the family, whatever.
26:52
And then on top of that, they're from doing sports.
26:54
Y'all traveling across the country doing sports and stuff.
26:56
Whatever. Somebody always got a game or
26:59
practice a tournament. Da da, da da.
27:02
But then on the flip side, it's also like, well, you know,
27:05
there's, you know, somebody, you know, I have, I have somebody
27:08
that I know that you know, it's just, you know, he's just.
27:12
Married with his wife. They have no kids, nothing
27:15
whatever. Maybe a couple of dogs and
27:17
that's it or whatever. But I have my struggles and me
27:23
looking from the outside is like OK, you know we work you know
27:27
you know we we, we know we working the same job.
27:29
We're doing some of the things whatever.
27:30
And you going home and you know you don't have the extra stuff
27:34
whatever that I have to deal with or whatever.
27:36
But I don't know what all this person has going on you know in
27:41
their home or in their own personal life aside from just
27:44
the little bit I can blame from our conversations and stuff
27:46
whatever. And like I say, it's it's just
27:49
one of those things just kind of just kind of like keep in
27:52
perspective to like we all have different things going on.
27:56
Some of us, you know, deal with things more quietly than others.
28:02
But we also do need to be aware of it's OK to speak out, it's OK
28:07
to vent. That's one of the reasons why I
28:10
created this podcast, created this show, this platform as a
28:15
place for me to talk. Because I was going through
28:18
something very heavy and stuff, kind of, but I was kind of going
28:22
through it by myself and even just me coming on, you know,
28:27
setting up my mic and stuff, whatever hit and record and just
28:30
talking. Sometimes it just makes me feel
28:33
better just to get all this stuff off my mind, off my heart
28:37
and just get it out there into the world.
28:40
And you know, regardless of if there's somebody on the on the
28:43
other end to receive it or not, just the fact that I can speak
28:47
my peace, it's sometimes all that we might need.
28:52
And so now I'm not saying hey, you know that that you have to
28:56
start a podcast or make a YouTube video or whatever to to
29:01
voice your concerns. But if you have that friend, if
29:05
you have that relative or something or someone that you
29:10
can pour your heart and stuff out to, whatever, then please do
29:16
it. Because like I said, don't
29:20
lessen yourself and what you have going on just because you
29:25
think that, Oh well, there's bigger and crazier things going
29:28
on in the world. Like, yes, there there is always
29:30
something crazier going on in the world, you know, than what
29:36
you might have going on. But sometimes we just need to
29:39
just be just worry about what's going on in your world, your
29:43
bubble, because there is so much stuff going on that we can't
29:47
control everything that everybody is doing.
29:50
Sometimes we have to just start local, start with ourselves and
29:54
make sure that we are okay, you know, before we continue trying
30:01
to March forward and stuff. So, but hopefully that makes
30:04
sense to somebody out there. And like I said, like these are
30:07
just different things. They just like really came to
30:11
mind a lot. A lot of it's going to come to
30:13
mind a lot lately in general, but especially this past week as
30:17
I watched this final season of of Reservation Dogs and I just
30:22
kind of got to see all these characters kind of like deal
30:26
with their various problems and stuff.
30:29
Sometimes, you know, they try to deal with it on their own or in
30:32
silence. And then it might have been a
30:35
friend, it might have been a relative, it might have been a
30:37
spirit that kind of came and talked to them and being like,
30:40
hey, are you okay? Or hey, you need to go and talk
30:43
to this person or hey, you need to go and do this thing or hey,
30:47
it is okay to do something for yourself cuz like cuz like a
30:54
bear. His mom, she got a job offer but
30:59
it was somewhere else. She would have had to move away
31:03
or whatever. And of course, you know, as a
31:06
parent, as a mom, she struggled with that because she was like,
31:10
no, you know, my son is here. I can't leave him.
31:14
And I've never left this, left this town or whatever, you know,
31:18
as far as I living wise. And so she was visited by the
31:22
spirit of a, of a, you know, of a past friend.
31:26
I won't speak too much or whatever because I want you to
31:28
watch the show. But the spirit kind of just told
31:30
her just like, hey, your son is an adult now, you know, he's 18.
31:35
He's, you know, he's an adult and and you know he'll be OK and
31:42
that's like, hey, you did your job as a parent, you raised him,
31:46
whatever. But you know, it is OK to want
31:51
something for yourself. It is OK to live your life for
31:56
you and the spirit also kind of being like, hey, like I want you
32:04
to go and strike up a conversation with this person or
32:07
whatever. And it's like, see you.
32:10
You could have been doing this, whatever.
32:13
Why haven't you done this? And it's like, you know, I wish
32:16
I could do this, whatever, but you know, I'm not here.
32:18
Like, hey, I can scream and yell and fuss at this person all they
32:21
want or whatever, but they are not hearing me versus you're
32:25
still alive, you're still in the flesh.
32:27
You can go over to that person's house and speak to them and
32:32
stuff. So do it, you know.
32:35
And so it it was just different moments like that where you
32:38
know, characters learning like okay, no, it's okay to be, I
32:42
don't know if stuff is the right word, but basically kind of like
32:44
it's okay to do stuff for you. It's okay to, you know, to treat
32:49
yourself every now and then. It's like, you know, like I said
32:50
the end of episode, treat yourself to something nice, take
32:53
care of yourself. And I know while I do sit at at
32:57
the end of every practice episode, I am also not the best
33:00
at practicing what I preached, so to speak.
33:03
Whatever. Because I kind of like, like,
33:07
look back on my life and especially like, like my life as
33:11
an adult. And there's been so many people
33:15
that have come and gone in my life that it's like, man, I
33:20
should have just went up to the house and visited just because,
33:24
you know, versus, you know, all the excuses or Oh well, I got
33:28
this and that or whatever. And it's like, man, you could
33:30
have just, you know, taken an evening or a night or whatever
33:33
and just gone, sat visited with this person or whatever.
33:36
But hey, that person is no no longer here, you know now you
33:41
can only, you can only regret what you couldn't do.
33:43
Whatever. But time continues to March
33:45
forward or whatever. And so it's just like stuff like
33:47
that. Same thing with, you know, like
33:49
like job opportunities and stuff, whatever.
33:51
I've done that myself too. So I was like okay, hey, taking
33:54
a leap of faith, you know, like a coin tossers okay, hey, job a
33:58
job B or whatever. And just kind of pick one and
34:00
just see where it takes you. Oh yeah.
34:04
So like I said, all of that to just kind of say both.
34:07
Watch Reservation Dogs. It is a super awesome, super
34:10
fantastic show. But also take care of yourselves
34:16
and speak up. If if you're not doing well or
34:21
if you feel like something is wrong, speak up.
34:24
Like I said, that's kind of why I took the time off this weekend
34:28
or whatever. And I'm taking PTO this Friday
34:30
as well, just because, you know, with life stuff going on or
34:34
whatever, I find myself sometimes kind of like running
34:39
on autopilot towards like okay, You know, I'm, I'm up late
34:43
naturally. But then I'm up early because,
34:45
you know, I got to get up, get the kids ready for school, then
34:48
get off to work and yadda, yadda yadda, whatever, just on the
34:51
autopilot. But it's like sometimes I'm not
34:54
getting enough proper rest consistently.
35:01
Or, hey, I'm not, you know, going out and doing different
35:04
things for myself, whatever is like, I'm always running around
35:08
like, OK, yeah, taking the kid here, taking the kid there,
35:11
doing what this person want to do, doing what that person want
35:13
to do, whatever. And it's like sometimes you have
35:16
to just like stop and pause and just like take control back of
35:22
your life. That's kind of why I've been,
35:25
you know, happy that, you know, I've been playing more games and
35:29
stuff recently, because that's something I super love doing.
35:32
But there was like a stretch of like months where I really
35:35
didn't play nothing for a while because I was just like, I felt
35:38
too exhausted after doing everything and expending so much
35:42
of myself for everybody around me to where I wasn't saving
35:47
anything of myself for me. And that's not a good way to
35:53
live. And I started feeling it
35:55
physically taking a toll on my body and on my health or
35:59
whatever. And so it was OK, realize, OK,
36:02
hey, you've got to do better for you, for yourself.
36:07
And so, so, yeah, So like I said, I'm just kind of rambling
36:10
at this point. Like I said, just kind of on the
36:13
point of you matter what you have going on matter, you know,
36:19
just don't compare your struggles to the struggles of
36:23
somebody next to you. So that's the simplest way I can
36:28
say that. And so with that, I'm going to
36:31
take a quick little break and then we'll come back and talk
36:33
about some other stuff I've been watching and reading.
36:37
So be right back. All right.
36:43
So. Oh, and last thing I've got to
36:46
mention, so with the reservation dollars, it's on Hulu, so all
36:50
three seasons on Hulu. Go check it out and please come
36:53
back and tell me how you feel about it.
36:57
So, so yeah, so really quickly, Like I said, I just want to just
37:01
just briefly touch on some stuff I've been been watching because
37:07
man, like it's it's so much freaking stuff coming out, man,
37:10
that, you know, across the board, gaming, anime, TV shows,
37:18
manga, all this stuff, whatever, man.
37:20
Yeah so so like like like the is it Jim V Jim V?
37:28
The the boys spin off series came out last weekend.
37:34
They dropped like 3 episodes. They're all hour piece.
37:37
Haven't got to watch that yet but I was like Dang OK alright
37:40
that's on my radar. Whatever.
37:41
And then the the Adventure Time spin off with Fiona and Cake
37:46
came out last week. They dropped 10 episodes.
37:48
I'm like, OK, Loki season 2 drop later this week.
37:55
I feel like there's something else big.
37:57
I think Lupin season three is coming out end of this Week 2 or
38:03
whatever. So I'm just like, man, it's just
38:05
like so much stuff. But you know, that's that's
38:08
awesome. You know I'll get the stuff when
38:10
I get to it. But but yeah, so As for stuff, I
38:15
did watch and check out SO. Let me see.
38:20
Let me pull up my little, my little list here.
38:25
So and like I said, just going to just going to briefly touch
38:32
on some a few things, whatever. So I checked out that my
38:38
daughter left the nest and returned an X Rank Adventurer
38:43
anime. And that first episode was OK
38:47
You know, like I said, like some some.
38:49
Some wholesomeness mixed in there, some.
38:51
I'm different down for some wholesomeness because basically
38:53
follows a a former adventurer. He got injured so he can be an
38:58
adventurer no more finds a baby in the woods, you know, raises
39:02
the baby, she becomes an adult. Then she goes out to becomes an
39:06
A renowned adventurer out in the world and now she's trying to
39:10
make her way back home. So I don't know, it might be
39:13
kind of one of those ones where I might give another episode or
39:16
two, but this might be one. I may be like saving binge later
39:19
on like, so I'll kind of touch more on this in the coming weeks
39:22
when I do my full preview thing. Shout out to Firefighter.
39:27
Diago dolls are really dope. First episode.
39:33
Kind of following a few firefighters doing a thing, but
39:40
the MC Diago is a beast. With his, the way he like the
39:44
flashbacks with this training and stuff, whatever looks really
39:46
cool. So I'm.
39:49
I'm excited to maybe try to keep up with this one.
39:51
We'll see. Now I know that there was like a
39:53
prequel series that they did as a movie.
39:58
I'm debating maybe I might try to see if I can find that and
40:02
maybe watch that, but I don't know because this this came out
40:05
in 1999, so super, super. Old school one, but I don't
40:12
know, maybe, maybe I might go back and check it out.
40:18
Let me see, man. So Freren.
40:21
Beyond Journeys. And they dropped.
40:25
So we we already knew. It was supposed to be like a two
40:28
hour premiere. At least that's how it aired in
40:31
Japan. But on Cruncher, on the stuff,
40:33
they dropped it as four episodes, but man, they they
40:42
blew expectations out the water because so the four episodes
40:48
cover the first volume of the manga, which I don't think I
40:52
have within arms reach right now.
40:58
Oh yes, I do. I actually do.
41:02
So yeah. So the the the first four
41:05
episodes of the anime cover the. First volume of the manga, which
41:11
is super awesome I I did a review for it last year or two
41:15
years ago. I don't remember but a while
41:17
back and so, but yeah, but like man, like visually, the music,
41:25
the voice acting, everything was phenomenal.
41:29
Everything was on point. Even as somebody who already
41:34
read all that material, I was still getting hit in the fields
41:39
with the with the show, and I guess I'll mention real quick
41:44
too. So with Freren beyond Jenny's
41:48
and it basically follows the a group of adventurers who
41:53
defeated the demon King. And Freren, she's an elf, so of
41:59
course no elves, they have super long lifespans for thousands of
42:04
years. Whatever.
42:05
So her concept of time and and human life, whatever, she just
42:12
doesn't really care or have a good understanding of it until
42:17
basically some of her party members start aging and then
42:21
eventually passing away and then she kind of starts to understand
42:26
and appreciate to start enjoying the moments of life because
42:31
she'll just casually be like. You know, they're like, man,
42:34
yeah, that that adventure to to, to defeat the Deming King took
42:38
us 10 years. And then she was like, yeah, it
42:41
just just, yeah, just took a mere 10 years.
42:44
Or, you know, there was an event where like this meteor shower
42:47
only comes up for 50 years and then she was like, man, you know
42:51
what? The next time I'm going to take
42:53
you out to this really cool spot.
42:54
I know. Or whatever.
42:56
So, you know, I we'll go to the next time, whatever.
42:59
And like the the human. Part members like.
43:03
The next one you know in 50 years and so the show does like
43:08
a really the series is a really awesome job, kind of kind of
43:11
reminds you in a way of like to your eternity.
43:14
We had this kind of like semi immortal being watching the
43:19
years pass by as they kind of. Live and do different things.
43:24
Whatever. But but yeah, so these episodes
43:27
were freaking fantastic. Kind of like a fantasy slice of
43:32
life series. And I'm very excited because now
43:34
going forward, since these four episodes covered everything from
43:39
this first volume, I am now going to be blind with what's
43:43
going on going forward. So I am looking forward to that.
43:45
And it's also going to be 24 episodes too.
43:47
So I'm looking forward to several months going from now to
43:51
April of next year, March, April of next year of just kind of
43:55
being an anime only person who just kind of get into and enjoy
43:58
this adventure though of course. They do have the manga on the
44:03
Viz Media app as well, so who knows, maybe I might get
44:08
impatient and read ahead, but for now I look forward to
44:11
experiencing this beautiful show as it's airing another one that
44:19
I was highly anticipated that did not disappoint.
44:22
Shangri-La Frontier and Shout Out to All the People has been
44:26
finding my review from last year because I was just.
44:30
Looking at some some analytic stuff whatever earlier today or
44:33
whatever. And so I got a little spike of
44:35
people going back and checking out that man.
44:38
So Shangri-La Frontier Man once again this is another one that
44:43
like really is blown blown expectations out of the water
44:47
because the visuals off the charts, the sound effects for
44:51
like when he does like the counter attack and stuff and the
44:55
critical hits and it it is all just like so.
44:59
Awesome man. Just like so well done.
45:02
And I love the shot of the the video game store at the
45:08
beginning of the episode where they kind of have these kind of
45:11
like alternate versions of real life games.
45:15
Like you see a game that is basically the cover of Elder
45:19
Rings. Is there the Breath of the Wild
45:21
Pokémon Sword and shield or or scrolling and violets?
45:29
Mario Odyssey so many games. Stardew Valley, like Delicious
45:35
goes on and on and on and on and so it's just really cool just
45:38
like Cindy love and attention they put into the stuff
45:41
whatever. But but yeah so and I'm loving
45:44
the the attention that the series is getting.
45:47
I love all the people that are like man you know I wasn't going
45:49
to check that out or whatever but I'm I'm going to give it a
45:52
shot and so I'm glad seeing people being open minded and
45:56
checking it out. So shingle our frontier every
45:59
Sunday on Crunchyroll and Freyrin.
46:02
That's every Friday, and this is one that I watched on a whim, is
46:08
called a playthrough of a certain dues VRMMO life.
46:13
That is a mouthful of a title, but basically the the, the thing
46:17
that I really I loved about this one out, the game or whatever is
46:20
that this is also kind of like like another gamer VRMMO game
46:25
like Shangri-La Frontier. But obviously, like the budget
46:29
and quality isn't as high with this one as as a SLF.
46:33
But one thing that immediately made me connected with this one
46:37
is that the main character that's playing this game,
46:40
whatever, he's a 38 year old adult man who has a normal 95
46:46
salary man job. And one of the lines he says
46:50
alone in the episode is that like because of life and work
46:54
and stuff, whatever, he can only game.
46:58
If possible two maybe 3 hours a night if that.
47:02
If he's able to whatever. And then like certain parts like
47:05
when he finished, you know he creates his character, starts
47:09
the game, whatever, play a little bit or whatever, do a
47:10
couple of missions or whatever and then he logs off for the
47:13
night and he makes a comment like like, yeah, and I know all
47:18
the hardcore gamers going to be up playing all night and stuff,
47:21
whatever. But.
47:22
Sadly, I can't do that. I got to go to, I got, you know,
47:24
I got to work in the morning so I got to head off to bed.
47:27
So just little stuff like that. I was like he's he's, he's me,
47:31
I'm him type of energy, whatever.
47:35
But like, yeah, I just, I just really connected with that.
47:37
And same thing when he was kind of like building his character
47:40
and his stats or whatever to where he was like, I'm not
47:44
really wanting to play with other people, whatever, because
47:46
of, you know, my my work, life, whatever.
47:49
And I can't really commit to being with a group and a party
47:52
for too long or whatever. So he was picking different
47:55
skills and abilities than most people wouldn't want.
48:00
Like you know, he just he got the bow and arrow, he got the
48:02
kicking skill, stealth, cooking, making potions or whatever.
48:08
But just seeing how that all kind of ended up working at this
48:11
benefits a little bit later on was super awesome.
48:15
So yeah, so this will probably be like a comfort watch.
48:19
No, I might. Keep up with, you know, just
48:21
like like as time permits or whatever, especially if it's
48:24
going to be a a Monday premier anime or whatever.
48:28
So that'll be a nice little slot because I start the day off or
48:31
start the week off with watching that and unwinding.
48:34
So like I said, pleasant little surprise.
48:37
Like I was just very interested to see where I might go from
48:41
here. But, but that's kind of it.
48:43
As far as like new shows I checked out.
48:46
I'm trying to think oh. I did watch the premiere of
48:50
Ragna Crimson, which that was also a hour long episode or
48:55
whatever, and that that episode covered the first chapter of the
48:59
manga. It was okay.
49:01
I'm kind of feeling a little bit indifferent to it or whatever,
49:03
but you know, I'm, I might kind of watch a few more episodes of
49:09
it and then kind of see where I feel.
49:12
With it after that or whatever. Like I said, this is one of the
49:15
things also going to be 24 episodes.
49:17
So it might be when I might circle back to a little bit
49:19
later on after you know it's kind of built up some episodes
49:22
and stuff so but so that that that's primarily it with with
49:26
what I've watched lately. I'm going to go back because let
49:31
me look at this real quick because Shah started today and
49:41
there was something else. Oh that Ron Common Hashi
49:48
Forbidden Deductions once started today as well.
49:52
Berserker Gluttony. I want to check that out.
49:56
And of course a lot of us are starting later in the week like
49:59
Under Ninja and Undead on Luck and Pluto and stuff like that or
50:05
whatever. So man, there's a lots of stuff
50:07
coming that I'm excited to watch.
50:09
Like I said, both anime wise and just other stuff in general
50:15
trying to think oh. There was a couple of manga
50:19
things I wanted to touch on, so let me look up real quick.
50:25
Alright, so just just a couple of quick little shout outs of
50:27
stuff that I read and caught up on.
50:30
So I caught up on the oil. I caught up on the free chapters
50:34
for the web tune A Man's Man. Still so good like that.
50:39
That is definitely one that I enjoy binge reading and those of
50:46
you who might be curious about, I did a review for it early in
50:49
the year, I think whatever. But but basically it kind of
50:53
like follows like a C like a former tech CEO that kind of got
50:58
reincarnated or kind of like got to go back into his younger self
51:02
20 years ago, whatever. And so kind of like it's for
51:06
those of y'all who might not know, remember whatever I work
51:08
in IT. And so kind of getting to see
51:13
them talk about all these technologies basically like
51:17
around the time where like right before iPhone was coming out or
51:20
whatever, around the time like smartphones and stuff was coming
51:23
and different things like that or whatever.
51:25
But it's it's just just really good.
51:27
So I caught up on the free chapters for that, which I was
51:30
surprised like I let them build up for like a few like a couple
51:34
of months. I think when I was behind
51:37
another month I want to shout out that I caught up on is a
51:41
Beat in Motion. That's one that I that I talked
51:44
about a while back as well. Still just wholesome and I still
51:48
just enjoy seeing these two characters bond in relationship
51:55
and friendship and stuff kind of like continue to blossom and I
51:58
look forward to seeing him hopefully continue trying to
52:04
work on the the animation for this music video of hers.
52:08
They try to put together and stuff so but shout out to to be
52:11
emotion. And the other one I wanted to
52:17
shout out this Carguru Bacci so I decided to finally give us a
52:24
shot now that it's got 3 chapters out just because there
52:27
was all types of memes and stuff whatever going on with it.
52:32
And so it basically follows this guy she hero who is on a path of
52:38
vengeance for his father being killed.
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And his father was like a renowned blacksmith who back
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during this war created these kind of like 6 legendary like
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kind of like mythical blaze they had like abilities or whatever.
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And then once the war was over, you know, all the blaze returned
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to him and he stole them for safekeeping, was of course some
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evil organization came, stole them, killed him and stuff.
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But his last dying thing that he did is that he forced a 7th
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blade for his son and now his son is best on the path of
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vengeance to try to hunt down not only the people who killed
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his father, but also to recover the missing and the stolen
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blaze. So 3 chapters in or whatever it
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was it was, it was okay. Definitely top meathead type of
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stuff, which is not bad, but you know, it's definitely one of
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those ones where I'm glad I waited a few chapters and I
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didn't jump in day one because this, this is probably one I
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might kind of check in every now and then after like a handful of
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chapters and stuff, Bill. So maybe I might maybe read one
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more chapter this coming weekend when it comes out, but after
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then I probably just let it build up until it's like 1020
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chapters or whatever. So many months from now, I'll
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revisit and see how the series and stuff is going, especially
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with how stuff is getting canceled and stuff left and
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right nowadays. So I'm like, I don't know if I
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want to, you know, dive into stuff too early, but.
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But yeah, but that's pretty much it.
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As far as, like Monga, I wanted to shout out real quick because
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because one piece is going to break my hair.
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Academia had a pretty big chapter.
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I something's going on. Some flags are being waved.
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I don't know if they're going to go through with it, but I'm.
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I'm just going to leave it at that.
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But but yeah, my hero is going through some stuff.
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JJK is going through some stuff I really need to catch up on
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because I'm like super behind on Soccer Motor Days, man.
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I am. Oh man, I'm like 15 chapters
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behind on Soccer Motor days and especially in with undead and
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luxe anime coming out. Let me see how far behind them I
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own that man. I might be like 40 to 40 to 50
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chapters behind on Undead and Luck because I think, I think
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the last chapter I read was 141 and that came out Christmas of
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last year and they're on 177. So I don't know.
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I'm, I'm out to make a day and just kind of bend and catch up
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on a lot of stuff or something. With Akani Bonacci.
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I am last chapter I read it was like 5657 and they're on 80, so
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I'm like 30 chapters behind on that.
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So much stuff and there's a bunch of like new stuff mixed in
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there as well. Showed you know I'm behind on
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that. Been thinking about going back
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and circling back to Shojan X especially because it's like
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kind of like, you know from the creative Tokyo Ghoul Spooky
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Vibes I think. I think I stopped reading that
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back in like chapter 10 and I went chapter 41.
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So I got like 30 chapters or so that I can read.
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So who knows, I'll kind of pay some of the stuff by air.
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But I'm I'm, I'm excited because like I say it's it's plenty of
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stuff to read and catch up on. But yeah, but I think that's it
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you know it's it's it's getting late and like I said, I just
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wanted to do a little something just to like say like primarily
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touch on some stuff I'm reading and watching and like I said
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primarily to to to review Cocoon and to kind of give that topic
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with the Reservation Dogs series finale and stuff.
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So but yeah, I think I'm going to wrap it up there.
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Give me a little light night dinner and then maybe watch some
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more anime and get my butt in bed and get ready to March
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towards this Friday off this three day weekend.
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And who knows, like I said, maybe I might get a C Mirage.
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I don't know. We'll kind of see a player by
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ear, but. But.
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But yeah, I think I'm going to wrap it up there.
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So as always, thank you so much for watching or listening.
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You can find me everywhere at Dad Needs to Talk.
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rigmarole and all that fun stuff.
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But yeah, so as always, treat yourself to something nice
57:57
reason Monger. Watch them and a man TV, play
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some video games and live your best life.
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And with that I am out. There's lots of stuff to enjoy
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and I hope you enjoy it well. Also, take care of yourself and
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I'll catch y'all on the next one.
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Y'all be easy. I love y'all.
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Thank you so much for all the support.
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Peace. Whoops.