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S13E020; Go Beyond, Plus Ultra with Tony Weaver Jr. · Blerd’s Eyeview

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Let's get this started. My brother, the man on the other end,
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the preacher in the pool pit, the blur that has all the answers,
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Navy mine. Tell what's going on? Brother? What's going on? Brother?
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How you doing? Man? I am trying to stay cool. Man.
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I just turned on my AC before I walked in this office, because
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then I start looking like a hardboiled egg. I'm damn near dressed like one.
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Now, good Lord to saying, so you're gonna like this, Okay,
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I don't always when I have a chance to show something, you know,
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I try to show because you know, I'm always about that, that
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comic life that blurred life. But I discovered something at my job that we
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had. Oh wait a minute, hold on, let me put you up
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front for that one. Oh y'all enough, that's what y'all had. Yep.
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I found this, Yo, I found this treasure, and I said,
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oh, I gotta keep this, gotta keep this, y'all see John
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when I did. So, here's the thing I do. Oh, you
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can't go Roma storm, never roll with store. So when I did Free
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Comic Book Day, I went late in the day, so there's a lot
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of picks that I did not grab. Same. So you know, I
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went like at three in the afternoon, which I know it's not the ideal
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time for Free Comboo Day, but you know, our normal meetups, you
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know, and shout out to Carolyn John's over here in Camp's Corner in Cleveland,
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Ohio. They used to do night parties for Free Comic Book Day,
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but then COVID hit and that kind of messed up the dynamic. Now they
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still do late night comics on like I think it's Wednesdays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays,
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and they do like the half price deals and everything else. But yeah,
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ever since they came, ever since the world opened back up, they
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haven't had a free Comic Book Day night party, and I miss it.
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I miss it. You know, you get to talk about the You get
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to talk about the latest movie that's dripped, You get to talk about the
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latest comics. Are a group of friends. We would always meet up and
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eat and just nerd out. Same. And while I'm happy that the focus
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and the enthusiasm for comics and the interest is growing, you got to get
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the free Comic Book Day earlier than anybody else because I missed out on everything
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this year. Everything. I don't even know if they had a tick free
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Comicboo Day for Tick. I always look at those. So my second in
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command, the lady who keeps everything in line. She's she is my Zoro
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to my Loofy. And it's the only it's the only one piece reference and
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the grumpy one too, Lady mad Lord's in the building. To me,
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that's all I'm gonna say about. That's what he says too. So guess
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what, keep it light and tight, keep it lighting, tighth what's going
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on? Lady? So we also have someone who is extremely skilled when it
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comes to nails and all the characters that she puts on. I don't know
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how she does it. I commend her for it. Whooped the freaking dudes
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in the building. What's going on? Whoopy? Hello? Hello? So
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it's whooptee. Every time I see your nails and I'm like, if my
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little one would just do that, I would be I would gladly say you
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know what, Yeah, you can go ahead and get it because it's got
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the Powerpuff Girls or something, you know, but but yeah, it's it
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was my COVID superpower. So like, oh, I love my neighbor Totoro.
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Those totoros are beautiful. Our man on the boards, the books on
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the ground, keeps the editing together for Blurred's eye view too far our TV.
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What's happening brother? But the dude ladies and germs, it does well
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as long as we can stay cool. Hydration is a key. Uh So
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we have a special guest with us tonight. We always have great guests.
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We do our best. We like to highlight those in the Blurred community who
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are really out here doing their thing and really making a difference, which is
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the best thing really to make a difference. But this gentleman here is a
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public speaker, He's an influencer. He has a new book that he's got
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coming out called Weirdo. He talks about just embracing your nerdiness and embracing who
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you are and going up against anti and being anti bully and everything else.
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I can't speak enough about this guy. I followed him for quite a while.
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But this brother here, he does his thing. Tony Weaver Junior is
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in the building. What's going on, Tony? Hello? This first off,
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I need to give you this because you, my friend, are an
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amazing individual for what you do and how you get on and you get in
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the hater's face. Man, So for that, I appreciate you. But
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yeah, I truly enjoy what you've been doing, going to the schools,
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going to different functions and talking to these kids and letting them know it's okay
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to be different. So how did you get started in this realm? Well?
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I think good context about me to have is that I'm from Atlanta,
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Georgia. So at a base level, everything that I do, every room
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that I show up in the way that I show up is colored by the
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fact that I am from Atlanta, Georgia. So somebody think they're gonna come
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into comments and talk to me some type of way. You got. You
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gotta understand, dog, I don't. It's like I don't know. I
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don't know what type of black person you thought I was. You know,
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people hear my voice and sometimes people see the way I dress and they're like,
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oh, he's one of those like Midwest and never had a black friend
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type of black people. I'm like, please, please understand. I'm from
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the Black people Factory. I'm from like people in the United States. It
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was like my backyard, Like that's that's where I'm from from. Let's go
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like like like like like hey, that's sometimes you got to pop out,
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and you know, sometimes I think everything in my work is rooted in this
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deep belief that stories and storytelling, especially things in fantasy, especially things in
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like kind of sci fi realms, all the things that require imagination are things
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that we can use to imagine a better version of ourselves, in a better
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world for us to live in. And I try to champion that belief through
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all of my work where there it's the videos that I'm posting, the work
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I'm doing at my nonprofit, the things that I'm writing I'm always thinking about
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how I can create things that help people show up in the world as their
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best selves. I can appreciate that so much, Lady Mandelor well, shit,
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I don't know how to fucking follow up with that. Honestly, just
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aside from your book, which comes out in September, everybody go preorder it
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on Amazon and all the places that he has it available. I honestly have
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a question about Japan. I know it is not about your book, and
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I'm so sorry for that. I want to go next year. I'm planning
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on going for Star Wars celebration that is happening in Japan next year. You're
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right, it is. I don't know a lick of Japanese. I don't
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I'm also quite dark skinned. I don't know if I need to prepare myself
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for all of the not Japanese. I'm going to be in a place that
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is very Japanese. Oh boy, So I can I can provide some support
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there. Let me give some context for our friends, for our friends that
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that might not be as close as we are up here. So uh for
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for my new friends. I'm a writer, uh, and I create stories
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like the on Commons was just came back on on yesterday, so the Young
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Commons as a new episode is dropping on Web two now. So we came
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back on June Team on purpose. That was that was our pop out.
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The series came back just as was taking the stage. I said, here
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you go. You can't even you can't time like euphoria started and then I
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get to another year. It's perfect, beautiful, great. But I also
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have a book, All Weirdo that is the nerdy kids instruction manual for self
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love and self confidence. It's a full graphic novel. It kind of chronicles
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my personal experience learning how to love who I am uh, embracing the things
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about me that make me different. And it's kind of supposed to be a
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helping hand for every person as they go on that journey, because it's a
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journey that we all have to go on. And Lady Mandelor that is relevant
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to Japan because the way that I got started as a writer, I was
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writing a course I was in school. I used to write poetry a lot.
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I trained at the Tupac Sha courseonner for the Arts for about eight years.
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So Tupac's sister Sat you Uh was actually my first poetry teacher. So
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we call her on set and she taught me how to write poetry. So
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when I decided that I wanted to write comics, I was like, well,
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I really like manga. Manga's what I love like. I'm gonna go
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to Japan and study and study how they write in Japan. That was the
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idea. The idea. I was like, well, I gotta I gotta
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go see where all these stories that I like and I fell in love with,
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where these stories got me, how they do it over there? I
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gotta go. So I spent about me Japan on the Study Abroad program,
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and I lived in Osaka, Japan, and uh, what a time I've
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had if I made some videos about about about my the adventures of me uh
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and my and my four other black friends. We called ourselves the Blacks and
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five UH, and we were just roaming the roaming the streets of Japan in
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a way that was like I feel like, I feel like if we were
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older, we wouldn't have been that free, like some of the some of
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the what is it over here? Yeah? Like this, the the sort
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art line statues that you see like on the top shelf from my Thing.
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My friend won those while we were in Japan, Like we would go to
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arcades and he was the only one that was good at the game, so
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we just give him money to go and like and stuff. But I would
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say, you need you need to know a little bit like you need to,
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you need to you need know a little bit, like a little bit
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of Japanese, like even just so for example, there are services that you
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can pay for where like when you get to the airport, your little like
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hot spot pocket Wi Fi thing will be waiting for you to pick up at
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the airport and you just grab it so that you're connected to data for the
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entire time that you're there, and then you just drop it off in the
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in the like mailbox at the airport when you go back. Tiny things like
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that. I'm like, that makes a trip a lot better. Knowing how
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to act like basic things or communicate basic needs. I think it's always good
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because very few people speak English, very very few. Okay, that telebrasion
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happening Tokyo. Uh yes, yeah, yeah, yes, it is,
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Yes, it is. I can't remember which. Yeah, it's like an
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offshoot. It's a little bit outside of Tokyo. It's about an hour's drive
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from the main city. Oh that's good. So they're gonna get a place
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we can take over. I'm very excited. And the fact that you said
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pocket Wi Fi and I'm like, here, we are a fake. I'm
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gonna just say this, we already know that they're monitoring ourselfs. I don't
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need them in in your pocket. The pocket Wi Fi chronicles were actually a
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very great time. I don't feel like I've made any videos about this,
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but you got to remember, like, uh, my phone was on airplane
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mode the entire time while I was in Japan. I didn't have cellular data,
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so the only time I had access to anything was if I was connected
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to Wi Fi. For the first two like, I didn't order my my
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hotspot until I got there, So for the first two weeks I only had
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Wi Fi, like when I was at home, or when I was at
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schools and I was in transit or anything like that. If I got lost,
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I was like, hey, Doug, you can You're kind of on
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your own. But when I did get my pocket WiFi, it was like,
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don't let that thing run out of battery. Don't do that. Don't
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let it run out of battery. One time we were at a coffee shop
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like at least an hour away from home, and like it was on like
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one percent, and we didn't know what trains was said to get home.
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The trains were gonna stop running in like the next half hour, so we
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really need to figure out what train's supposed to go to. And we go
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on to we go in this coffee shop and while we're waiting to be Sarah,
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we plug in the hotspot and the dude that was working there was like
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very upset with us. He was like, no, no, my friend
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who is darker than me and has like dreadlocks and is also like very bralic,
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like like we're like a heart, heart of gold, like one of
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the most gentle people. But on paper it looks like a linebacker was like
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two levels higher to mine. He was desperately trying to explain to just dude,
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we just need it so we can get home, and he was not
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having He hit the formation. He said, no, no, what's a
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good time We got home though? Okay? The oh my god. They
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by some some Japanese and a backup battery, and respect started learning. Now,
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culture will take you far. They see you definitely, culture they will
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they will bend over backwards for you. I've seen several videos where people they
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look like us who are overseas in Japan and they're at restaurants or wherever,
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and they respond fluently and they're just they're they're outdone. They just they love
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it and they just it's very just based on what part you're in. Like
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I I lived in Osaka, but I lived in like a suburb of Osaka,
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so like it was near the city, but it wasn't the city,
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So I've I would suspect that they had some familiarity with exchange students, but
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the neighborhood that I lived in, because I live with a Japanese family,
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it was like, yeah, for eight months, there's just there's just this
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six foot tall like you just roaming around. He doesn't like he speaks very
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broken Japanese. He doesn't really say anything to you because he has his headphones
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on all the time. But I would get home really late at night,
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so people would like I'd be walking from the train station and it'd be dark
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and I round a corner and somebody will see me and they're like, oh,
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and I'm like, you know what I buy that I get that I
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can see why that might yo. That's why I could see you on that
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bit scary. So you got a question? Uh. Actually, first off,
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I want to say, Tony, I've been following you for a while
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because, sir, you are amazing everything that you do, especially for the
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kids. Because as a father, and my daughter just turned sixteen a couple
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of days ago, so happy birthday to my baby, Thank you, thank
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you. I always want to and as as a blurred older blurred, I
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always want to see them comfortable in spaces and see folks like us. And
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you are a literal orator. You are like a prophet of it. As
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far as I'm concerned that maybe you may not accept that, but I'm gonna
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tell you straight up, I love what you do. Continue what you do,
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and just calling me if you need back up. That's all I gotta
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say. Navy's the kind of guy. It's a reason why we call him
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the preaching the pool pit but hem. If you've ever been if you've ever
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been a fan of Firefly, he reminds you of Shepherd book. He preaches
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the word, but don't let him fire off. Look, I'm a nice
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guy, Okay, just don't be a basement virgin. That's all I ask.
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That's all I ask. I'd tell there's this interesting belief that people have
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where if you're black and you're in a community where you're dealing with discrimination,
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and there's this belief that, like the racist people don't have to play by
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any rules, but you got to be gracious about how you respond in any
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way. They can show up and say whatever they want to you. But
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if you don't, if if you if you respond in kind right like if
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you if if if they buck and you decide to knuck all of a sudden,
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and I think, I'm I'm I'm with you on that. I'm like,
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no, please understand whatever you whatever energy you show up with, I
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can we we can, I can return it the same way and it doesn't
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reflect poorly on me. It doesn't reflect poorly on me if I match your
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energy and that that right there, speaking volumes, I concur, I concur.
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So my question for you, Gus sir, is you've been doing this
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for a while. Other than obvious, what has been the biggest challenge for
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you as someone who was trying to convey this powerful message of self acceptance and
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strength. I think so for context, I started my organization when I was
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nineteen years old, I was a junior in college. I got I won
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five hundred dollars in a pitch competition from the School of Business. And even
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that was like petty because I was an acting major and I would I had
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to take like my required business class in the School of Business. And I
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found out about the pitch competition, and someone like someone said something real off
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to me about like what would an acting major be doing in a School of
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business competition? And I that that Michael, that Michael Jordan moment happened.
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It became I don't even know how long this concept is going to live for,
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but I do know. You need to lose. It is it is.
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It is not just enough for me to win. You must lose.
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And that's why I'm here. So we took first place with that, and
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we got we got, we got hundred dollars, and I was like,
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five hundred dollars, that's like eighty percent of a PS five. We can
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totally change the world with five hundred dollars. That's a that's a lot of
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money. And what I found was that my optimism was a bit misplaced.
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So I think that's the that's the challenge. I think maintaining the optimism.
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I have very bold goals that some people would say border on like ignorant,
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youthful idealism about what type of place the world can be, what type of
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place community can be, how nerds can show up for one another. I
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have these very like pronounced and some people would say like utopian views about how
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we can show up for each other as a community. And I think the
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only reason they feel so out of reach is because there are a lot of
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systems in place that prevent it from becoming reality. And maintaining that maintaining that
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optimism while bumping up against those those difficulties. I think it is the is
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a place where I struggle. Like my organization we're in in Productions, we
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do a lot of work around mental health. Over half a million kids a
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year. We're giving them mental health curricula completely free of charge, partner with
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comic books and different works outs so that their teachers can facilitate. And when
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we started, we were initially going to schools trying to get things implemented in
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schools. And the principles will tell me to straight up to my face like
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hey, this sounds like a cool program, but I don't have a budget
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item for mental health, Like we have any tools or systems that we're using
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to gauge mental health right now, there's no. That's not really a mandate
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that we have, Like it'd be nice, but that's not really what we
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have. And then my question became, like, well what are you focused
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on? And they're like, well, we got to get them read and
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we care about literacy. And I'm like, well, you know, comic
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books do help with literacy. On average, they include ninety percent more rare
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words than pros. And I'm going and grabbing all these studies and all these
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visual things, and now just for me to go and heal a kid,
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and here I got to go talk to this gatekeeper over here and explain how
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comic books help literacy. Because that's familiary, they'll let it in. And
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I think that with most of the work that we've done, especially in institutions
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that are a bit more bureaucratic, whether that's schools, whether that's healthcare,
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whether that's philandophy, the challenge is always on paper. We both know that
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they need what I am trying to give them, but you won't let me
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buy unless I jump through your specific hoop. And everybody has a specific hoop,
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and over time that gets a little demoralized, but I feel like it's
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worth it in the end. I think I agree with the comic books helping
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literacy. I mentioned Carol and John, which is a mother and son on
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comic bookshep Here, And there's a story that John the son tells about his
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grandfather who was an immigrant, and that's how he learned how to read was
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through reading comic books. And you know John, who is naturally born sentenceive,
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he just passed him off to his grandson and became this guy that owns
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a comic book store years later with his mother. So I always found that
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to be and I agree, I found that to be a beautiful thing when
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people, you know, you just can't push a book in the kids face
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and expect them read it. But if you push a book in the kids
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face, that catches their attention. M h. And comic books always catches
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a kid's attention, grabs their imagination. It allows the imagination to flourish and
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grow so they can create more and not feel like they're being gate kept by
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those who think they know more. Exactly because comics where I got to where
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I got to, That's why I'm weird now got thirteen long white box.
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It's no waiting so far right question. So first, I know you were
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like very tired, So thank you for letting us do the shoot at Molokan
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Man. I was gone, no sleep voice gone. I didn't I didn't
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catch your press conference because they had it so early in the day and I
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didn't see it until after. So I was like, well, now I
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feel bad because I was trying to talk to him, but I didn't get
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a chance to like interact with him like everybody else. Also, my bad
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about the shirt. I will get you one another day. I will get
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you. I owe you a Gear five shirt. But with being in the
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realm of just the internet, how does it feel to have this following that
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you've gathered now have this anticipation for this thing you've created with Weirdo coming out.
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So I think the way that I keep myself balanced and this is a
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this is a point of vulnerability for me. So I asked to be shared
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respect. I asked her to be kind of like treated with respect. Right.
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I don't know how many followers I have because I don't look like I
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haven't actually looked at my profile in like a year and a half. I
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don't know. I have absolutely no idea. Most of the time, I
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don't even know how a video performs when I post it, like I'll like
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I have like a creative way that I like block the screen with my hand
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where it's like I'll look at the comments. But I don't necessarily know what's
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going on in a numbers perspective. And I think that the reason that I
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do that is because what I've noticed for myself is that it's very easy for
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me to feel this courage sometimes, but if I believe that what I'm doing
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is the right thing to do, I have to look at that belief in
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that understanding that what I'm doing is just drive my actions. So so for
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me, I'm like, a following is good, and you know why,
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you know why a following is good. I didn't have a lot of friends
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growing up, like in Weirdo. That's one of the things that I talk
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about, Like when I started to make friends, I was like, I
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genuinely do not know what to do because I have not had friends before.
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And even those friends, like, in a lot of ways it seem like,
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well, you know, we're a group and we love each other and
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Tony's the nerdy one. So even when I found community, it wasn't necessarily
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like all of my friends were like nerds leaping off the wall about cartoons like
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me. So I feel really lucky because I feel like I get to create
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something for others that I didn't necessarily have myself. It's my hope that in
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the videos that I post, like in my discord, in the community that
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I curate, that it's a safe place for people to show up and be
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themselves and talk about the things that they're passionate about. Like in my discord,
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it's wild. There are kids who were like fourteen when they joined my
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discord that are graduating from high school and I'm like, this is wild,
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Like they're going to college and studying creative Like what it's the inspiration? And
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it's crazy when you say that, because I fortunately was not one of those
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kids. I was never bullied for my nerdiness or anything else. But by
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the time I got to like middle school and high school, you kind of
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have to find your tribe. And by the time I met my wife,
29:22
she was just like, you're like a thug nerd and like Michael Jordan,
29:26
he seems to come up a lot, Like I kind of took that personally.
29:29
I'm like, I don't even know what that's supposed to mean. But
29:32
she said, well, you have an edge to you, but you're nerdy
29:37
as hell, and I'm like, okay, just don't use that term anymore.
29:41
But it was fun, you know, so, But yeah, I
29:45
think that's that's commendable when you have, like you said, you have a
29:49
fourteen year old kids who are in your discord and now here they are graduating
29:55
high school because you made that influence in such a positive impact that they are
30:03
passing it on is being passed on, you know, because now what you've
30:07
done has viewed them with some confidence and strength, and now what they're gonna
30:11
do will do the same for someone else. We should hope, We should
30:15
hope that's the goal. Like I'm I'm never arrogant enough to believe that I
30:22
am the sole entry point for the solution. I do not entertain any delusions
30:30
that what our community needs, what the nerd community needs, and what these
30:37
kids need is something that Tony Weaver Junior has to be there to provide.
30:41
But what I do think is that the people that are gonna that the people
30:45
that would have those solutions are not going to be able to come up with
30:48
them if they don't love themselves and if they don't love who they are.
30:52
So the idea is, I'm gonna make sure that everybody loves themselves. I'm
30:57
going to make sure that you embrace who you are. I'm gonna be this
31:00
shield and stop you from these like and kind of protect you from these fundamentally
31:04
broken people seeking to tear you down, because I believe that on the other
31:08
side, you will come up with the thing that will help everybody. I'm
31:12
really just a bridge, Like I'm just I'm just here to make sure that
31:17
you get across safe. And as soon as you've become that person like you
31:21
can literally leave me behind and throw me away like a Sesame Street doll,
31:25
like that's fine. I'm literally just here so that you can hit that moment
31:30
of self actualization. And so one of one of our crew members, uh
31:34
geeked by heart. She had a chance. You had a chance to speak
31:37
at her school a couple not what was it last week or maybe the week
31:41
before, and uh that would last week, Yeah, and the the she
31:45
said, the experience for those children was profound. Uh, and she really
31:52
appreciated that. So when she she let me know, and I'm like,
31:56
oh, yeah, he'd be perfect, you know, because she's she's in
31:59
the education, and one of those things you want to see in that realm
32:04
is just that foster, that fostering of young minds and people. A lot
32:09
of people don't understand it. Whether it's elementary, middle school, even high
32:15
school, these minds are very successible to being molded in the wrong way yep,
32:23
or in the right way. You know, some people have a villain
32:27
origin story, you know. I think what I notice is that the things
32:36
that you teach in middle schooler become the things that they need to talk to
32:40
a therapist about in their late twenties. Like that six through like maybe ninth
32:49
grade moment is so crucial because it's in that moment that we're starting to establish
32:54
core beliefs. It's in that moment that we're starting to establish like our worldview.
32:59
And if the wrong thing gets swirled in there, like chemical acts,
33:04
you get kids like you get kids parroting parroting like Andrew Tait talking points.
33:10
So now you've got year old being like, oh, these thoughts and you're
33:15
like whoa, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, where did
33:21
you where did you know that? Right now? Like hitt in sunglasses?
33:28
Yeah, it happened so quick, like you turn, you turn, then
33:34
you come back and it's like it's too late. Mother if she it's like,
33:39
how do we get here? The children? Have your parents buy you
33:45
Weirdo as a graduation gift. Let's get you on the right path. Yeah,
33:47
exactly, Like this is why you need Weirdo because honestly, one of
33:52
my favorite things about writing Weirdo was getting the chance to like pars through some
33:57
of that stuff. So I'll show you something. I publisher is gonna get
33:59
upset because this is not like you would You wouldn't be the first one to
34:05
come on the show and give us like exclusives because most of it because people
34:07
need to see this, So we have we have a chapter in uh in
34:14
weird Oh where I get I get a crush on somebody, like I see,
34:20
uh, I see a girl at my school, and I develop a
34:22
bit of a crush on her, Like it's like a very immediate uh like
34:28
moment, and I spend a whole chapter like trying to figure out how to
34:36
talk to this girl or like or like what what to say to this girl,
34:39
and in my brain I go from zero to one hundred like very fast.
34:43
I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, oh man, I'm in
34:45
love. I don't know what to do. I can't afford a house,
34:51
too many kids. What if she doesn't want kids at all? I don't
34:53
know. Like it's it's like it's a it's very much just like very pure,
34:58
like I love Therefore, live life with this person, live life for
35:04
this person. I love this person. And in the chapter, one of
35:08
the things that one of my friends says, because like I guess they're like
35:12
the parallel is that in the real world, Tony is like smitten with this
35:15
girl, but also one of his friends is like writing a fan fiction and
35:20
like attempting to like balance out how do I ship these characters? Oh wow?
35:27
And what she says is what she says is the feelings that you have
35:36
for another person are just reminders that you possess the type of empathy required to
35:43
appreciate another individual. And that's never anything that you should be ashamed of.
35:49
That other person is not to turn the feelings for you. The feelings that
35:52
you have for that person are your feelings. That person brought them out of
35:58
you. But they're still you, like they originated in you. So you
36:01
can take all of that appreciation, all of that love, and you can
36:07
apply it to yourself, because ultimately this person just brought something out of you.
36:12
You're like, Wow, you really inspired these feelings out of me.
36:14
I would like to give these feelings to you. They don't want them,
36:17
that's okay, I'll put them back in here. Just the fact that I
36:22
was able to appreciate that about you and understand that about you and feel that
36:25
like connection with you as a human being. There are people that go their
36:29
whole lives struggling to do things like that. I wrote that specifically as an
36:35
antithesis for you got rejected when you were fourteen, and now fifteen years later,
36:40
every black woman that you run into has to suffer the consequences. Why
36:47
it's always it's always like, man, you don't understand. Uh. In
36:52
middle school, godly, they only wanted the thugs like me. They didn't
36:59
understand. Yeah, all the good guys like me. Girls don't want the
37:02
good guys. And I'm like, we we gotta get you some therapy,
37:06
don't you need to? I need you to read weird reading from there?
37:16
Just go straight to this chapter. Just give everything else, just go straight
37:20
to this one. So before the balloon said before you yeah, before before
37:27
you pop the balloon, go ahead, whoop be Okay. Of course,
37:31
once again I was with Tafari at Mama Khan. Thank you so much for
37:35
talking to us. Then. I appreciate you being able to find the energy
37:38
to and interact with us. My question for you this evening is you said
37:44
that you're that you're a writer, and you've done it on comments and you're
37:46
doing the book that the manga that's coming up. Where the is there ever?
37:51
Has there ever been another genre of writing? I know you mentioned poetry
37:54
that you would see yourself expanding into, so aside from the uncommons and weirdo,
38:01
I have an e Sakai series that got acquired by McMillan called The Dream
38:06
Frontier that I have written. I've written the first book for so that's in
38:12
production right now. Actually I owe my team and email about that. Actually
38:15
it's a good reminder for me. But The Dream Frontier is like being drawn
38:20
right now, So the characters are kind of popping off the page designs are
38:22
coming in, and I'm super excited for you all to see it. But
38:28
additionally, I think there are sci fi stories I want to write. They
38:32
are like dramatic comedy stories I want to write. Personally, I would like
38:37
to write a live action show about my time in Japan that is Atlanta mixed
38:46
with the Big Bang Theory, and I think it would be absolutely hilarious.
38:53
That sounds like a show for Blurred Station live Action. Here it is,
39:00
Kevin. I'll try to get that concerto for you. But yeah, it's
39:07
something that we're doing at Blurred Station where we are as soon as out launch
39:10
streaming that which dedicates itself to showing blurred centric content live action, anime,
39:19
manga, uh, speculative fiction, sci fi. So we have a combination
39:24
of animations that's coming on there. We have a combination of live action movies.
39:30
We just acquired Michael Jay White and his wife Jillian Uh to write and
39:36
star in the film, and Orlando Jones as well. So something that like
39:40
what you're just like an Atlanta slash Big Bang Theory. Yeah, I like
39:47
to see it. I would like to watch it. I've been a fish
39:53
out of water twice in my life. I can play a part just memory
40:00
oh Man, so cinematic assassin you got a question. Yes, Tony.
40:05
First and foremost, thank you for even being here this evening. Secondly,
40:09
thank you for being you, as weird as that might sound like. You
40:15
sound like the person I needed when I was in sixth, seventh, eighth
40:20
grade. So I feel like the work that you are doing out in the
40:25
world in our community is just inspired and just thank you for existing and continuing
40:31
to carry that cross what I did when I ask. I am sort of
40:37
a big mental health advocate myself. I preach about it on the show every
40:43
time that we close out. Yeah, it sounds like weird though. You
40:49
got to walk through a lot of your own experiences and putting them on the
40:52
page and getting to the place of self acceptance and self love. Do you
40:58
feel like that was therapeutic in and of itself for you? And what was
41:02
that journey? Like? I think it was really therapeutic, because, like
41:10
I mean, like I'm very I hope that this doesn't sound flippant when I
41:15
say it. I'm very open about it. But I'm a suicide survivor and
41:20
that's something that kind of comes up in Weirdo. It's something that gets explored,
41:24
and I think when you experience things that are as dark as that.
41:30
Sometimes when you end up when you when you end up like on the other
41:34
side of it, you lose context for exactly how hopeless you felt. And
41:42
I wrote Weirdo in like a variety of places like so, so for majority
41:46
of it, I I went back to my parents' place, like I went
41:52
home for Thanksgiving, and I told my parents. I was like, I'm
41:53
saying here till Christmas. But even though I'm at home, I'm not at
41:58
home, like, don't bother me, I'm probably not leaving the room.
42:00
So I at the end of Thanksgiving, I went up to I went up
42:06
to my room and I closed the door. And by Christmas, like ninety
42:09
five percent of the book was done. And part of that was because I
42:14
was like in my childhood room where I grew up, I'm with all my
42:17
things, I'm with all my stuff, I've got my CDs, and I'm
42:22
taking myself back to these moments. And I think it's been a visually in
42:28
two primary ways. Number One, going back to that place helped kind of
42:35
reignite a passion for me to help kids that are still there right now,
42:38
because when I had to go immerse myself in that darkness, for a bit
42:42
and to no, I'm like, listen, I can leave. I got
42:45
a little like eject buttoner, like an emergency switch, Like I got people
42:50
that I can call that will like pull me up out of the water.
42:52
But there are kids for whom this is their whole reality right now. So
42:55
having that intimate understanding and that closeness to it really helped drive me as a
43:00
writer. But also I think being able to step away from it and kind
43:05
of look at it on the page gives me this moment of like, dang,
43:07
you really you came back from it, and I'm proud of you,
43:10
dog, Like that's that's amazing you came back from it. I don't think
43:15
when we overcome things we give ourselves credit for it as much. It's kind
43:20
of liked you, you know, the you know the vibe. It's like,
43:22
hey man, it'd be like that sometimes and you just you just never
43:27
stopped a moment ago like yo, you you did something that a lot of
43:30
people would struggle with and you overcame a pain that you didn't deserve to hold.
43:36
So I'm proud of you for that. And having that conversation with myself
43:38
I think was super helpful. I think that's something that a lot of like
43:43
once again, you know, Mental Health Month, Men's Mental Health Month and
43:45
everything else. And like Maham's mentioned, he does mention this every closing,
43:52
but it's not talked about enough, or it's not confronted enough. It's not
43:55
solved. The problem is not foster to be helped or any thing like that.
44:00
So yeah, to have you need that support system, you know,
44:05
as they say, it was a phrase that was going around check on your
44:07
strong friends, you know, because you know when you even the even the
44:12
happiest person can be going through their darkest time and you never know it because
44:17
they're so busy making sure everybody else is okay. And that's a wait,
44:22
it can be a wait. So yeah that one, we're glad you're here,
44:27
uh, And two, thank you for taking that that moment with us
44:31
and then taking that moment that you had and overcoming it and having that support
44:36
system around you is most necessary. So thank you for that. Can I
44:39
share my like my chills moment, like the moment where I was writing it
44:44
and I was like, Okay, I'm glad you finished this part. We
44:46
need to like get out of here now. It's like in the movie An
44:51
inception where they're like, you got to get out of the dream dog Eric
44:53
Crumbling got out here. I was living in DC at the time. I
45:00
was on the train in New York to meet with like my agent to go
45:05
and like talk to publishers, and I'm writing, and so I'm on the
45:08
train, I'm in the quiet car. I got my headphones on and I'm
45:12
listening to like I was writing that. I was writing the scene like where
45:17
I attempt and it was heavy because I'm like, we got to go there,
45:22
but we can't go all the way there. There's a tasteful way to
45:25
express this in a way that like a parent is going to be okay with
45:29
putting it in the hands of their sixth grader. So you got to find
45:31
a way to balance that dark but also make it kind of age appropriate.
45:37
And I put on solo dolo from Kid Cutty's Man on the Moon album because
45:44
that album, Like, I feel like that album saved my life in more
45:46
ways than one. One of my goals for Weirdo is to get a copy
45:51
of it in Kid Cutty's hands, because I like his mental health journey is
45:57
one that he's very public about, and I'm like, man, I don't
45:59
even think he knows how much he saved me, Like I don't, I
46:02
don't, I don't feel I don't feel like he knows. And I'm like,
46:05
if if the shoe were on the other foot, I want to know.
46:07
So I was, I was kind of listening to that and like I
46:12
was there. I was like in that moment, like it took me right
46:15
back there. And as soon as it happened, I like I wrote every
46:20
single thing down. I was like, need that, need that, neat
46:22
that, neat that, neat that done, And it's like amber, like
46:25
emerging from the desk of the ocean, Like okay, okay, we're not
46:35
going back there. I'm not doing that. The Stranger the Stranger things seeing
46:39
where they like send a dude into the upside down. It's uh. From
46:45
Nerdy Bear Studios. He has a question, he says, is creating your
46:49
works, how do how do you approach your intersectional moments through like cultural divergence,
46:53
lived experience if that makes sense to me. So for me, writing
46:58
is like math. If you think about algebra, you're like a square plus
47:05
v square equal c square. Right, I show up with my c square,
47:08
which is basically as an audience member. How do I want you to
47:12
feel? What do I want you to walk away with? What do I
47:14
want you to learn? How do I want you to shift? What is
47:16
the way that I want to impact you at the end of this narrative.
47:20
Because for me, I'm like, I'm too lazy to write just for the
47:22
sake of writing. Like, if I'm writing, it's for a purpose,
47:24
and that purpose normally because I want someone to understand something, I want someone
47:28
to feel something, And as a neurodivergent person, I think a part of
47:31
it is also I want you to know how I felt so that we can
47:36
better understand one another. So when I write, the plot points have to
47:43
add up. So if you think about dialogue, right, if we start
47:45
a scene in ten lines in character B is yelling at character A, that
47:51
means that I have nine I have nine lines of setup. You got to
47:55
feel that momentum build, You got to feel that growth. The way that
47:59
they speak, the way that they're like kind of angle towards one another,
48:01
everything has to add up because for me and I feel like this is this
48:06
is a part of like where the neurodivergence becomes a superpower for me. If
48:08
it doesn't add up. I can feel it viscerally. If it doesn't,
48:14
if it doesn't align, then it's like if it doesn't align, then it
48:20
is like the To me, mentally, it feels like having a wet sock,
48:23
like not a soaking wet sock, but like where you step on like
48:28
just like one drop and you're like, it's soaking and I can tell,
48:32
I can I can tell, Or like a rock in the bottom of your
48:36
shoe, You're like, that's that's not supposed to be there. Mentally,
48:40
that is like the That is the sensation that I get when I'm writing something
48:45
and it doesn't add up. So what I try to do is lean into
48:47
my message. What is the message? What do I want you to What
48:51
do I want you to walk away with? And if I look at it
48:53
and everything doesn't calculate, then I gotta go redo my math. I gotta,
48:57
I gotta, I gotta line things up properly. But it's here because
49:00
it's like most people look at writing, it's like creative, it's free flowing,
49:02
and I'm like, for me, writing is not creative. For me
49:06
writing right For me, writing is like building a puzzle but you don't know
49:12
what's on the front. Of any of the pieces until you've already put all
49:15
the pieces in order. It's like doing a puzzle with it flipped over,
49:17
Like you take all the pieces, you make everything fit, and then you
49:20
flip it and you're like, oh, there's the image, there's the thing.
49:24
But prior to that, you're just in the dark. You're like,
49:27
I don't even know if this is a puzzle. I don't even I don't
49:29
even know. I don't know, I don't even know. Which would make
49:34
you wonder, is like why what why'd you choose to be a writer?
49:37
Just like the only thing I'm good at. So we're here. I kind
49:42
of know that feeling when I plan to do stuff and I'm thinking, my
49:45
wife, what are you doing? And I'm like, trust process, it's
49:49
gonna plan out. Don't don't ask me how I know, it's just it
49:52
just will you know. So yeah, I kind of get that. Uh
50:00
Well, first, sir, I want to say, it's nice to finally
50:04
meet you, because I know I've been following you for a while. Uh.
50:06
I guess when I came on, I ran to a description of myself
50:08
which I had the most confused look. It was like you were describing a
50:12
dude, like, well, he's about as he's about about the size of
50:15
a linebacker, and I was like a description of myself. So you're so
50:21
you might be kindred spirits here? Where's mandanas too? Lord? Oh good
50:25
grace, but hey, I'm not against that, but no, aside from
50:30
that, at first, I can give you flowers. Man. I you
50:32
know, like you, I like working with children. I like letting them
50:37
know that it's okay to be themselves, to to to be nerdy, to
50:40
be giky, to be to express yourself to just because that's my big thing
50:46
because I have two kids. He likes Corey Kenchin, and I feel myself
50:54
being like Dave Chappelle, like who the hell is Corey Kenchin? But it
50:57
turns out he's all right, dude, the best person that your son could
51:00
be watching. If I have to pick one streamer or leave their content on
51:05
for a budding teenager, I'd be like, as as a parent, when
51:12
you hear something like that, the first thing you're gonna be like is what
51:15
the hell are you watching? But you're exactly right. Because I did get
51:16
to watch a couple of his videos. I'm like, Okay, you're you're
51:20
You're exactly what these the what kids need? So when I see you going
51:24
out and actually, you know with your book Weirdo, which again I can't
51:29
wait to read and be able to read with my kids, I would just
51:34
say, I guess the question I would have is is just that as you
51:36
were describing the fact of your process, uh, what you go through,
51:40
what you're pulling from your life experiences, I guess my question would be just
51:45
because what what if there was as many mountains as you're trying to climb,
51:52
what's the one the distance that you just had that you have that is I'm
51:57
not gonna say your piece of resistance, but it's gonna be the one that
52:00
you just have to be done. Like that's gonna be the equal one of
52:02
your purpose? Do you have a goal like that? I wrote a film
52:08
and TV treatment or I wrote a film treatment for animated film about a year
52:15
and a half ago. And so normally for me, like how I put
52:21
it, normally, when I write, I don't spend like it takes on
52:24
average it takes me like a month to write a book. So like,
52:28
if you don't bother me, I'm like, I like, I'll outline it
52:30
and then I'm like, all right, the outline is done, I'm gonna
52:32
go write. You give me three weeks to write it. At the end
52:35
of week three, I send it to my agent. My agent's ready to
52:38
grab it and edit, edit, edit, give me notes and then I
52:42
take those notes and you give me a week to implement the notes, and
52:45
then we're done. And I go about my life. Because I write so
52:46
many things, I'm like, I can't be like in writing all the time.
52:50
But normally I plan it, but this story, I didn't plan.
52:52
It just landed in my heart, and I like, I need it to
52:57
write it, so I like pull push everything off the table. I was
53:00
in my writing group talking about it. I was I was like outlining,
53:06
outlining, outlining, and I hadn't done an animated film script before, so
53:09
I was like, I'm gonna do the treatment. We're gonna pitch it.
53:12
And at the time, I was signed with this film and TV agency that
53:15
reps a lot of big A list people, and I called my manager and
53:20
I was like, listen, I got this idea. I think it's really
53:22
good. I think it's amazing. I was going to like change the world.
53:23
And I think a part of why I was so big on it is
53:27
because in my head it was a Disney movie. I was like, this
53:30
is a Disney movie. This is one that they pour marketing into. When
53:35
I go to Disney World, They're gonna have a skyliner cable car themed after
53:39
these characters. I'm gonna see these characters standing in the park waving at kids,
53:46
and kids are going to line up with their parents and the line will
53:50
be like out and around the corner just to get a picture with these characters.
53:52
That's how. That's how like in sense I feel about this story and
53:55
how universal it is and how necessary it is. And I gave it to
54:00
my film and TV manager, uh, and he looked over it and was
54:04
like, wow, this is great, no notes, I'm ready to sell
54:06
this right now. And I go cool. And a month goes by and
54:08
I don't hear from him, and I call him and we get on the
54:10
phone and he goes, I love the script. Great story, seems like
54:14
it's really deep in animation. Animation is not really my thing. I feel
54:17
like you should find somebody that works a little better with animation. And I
54:22
was like, you just you just break up with me because I gave you
54:24
a good script. Is that how this is supposed to go and like it
54:36
like shook me a little bit because I'm like, I'm I'm a writer and
54:37
I gave you a script and it's a script that you like, but it's
54:39
going to require work to sell because it's animation, and you don't want to
54:43
do the work to sell it, so you're just gonna drop me. And
54:45
that feels weird because I thought that your job was to sell things. I
54:50
don't understand. It kind of made me like curl into a ball a little
54:54
bit, But that's a that's a long version of saying I still feel like
55:00
that movie is a Disney movie. I feel like that movie is like a
55:05
Disney film animation, like an insight Out or roll out the Red Carpet.
55:13
Commit the budget to it, Promo it everywhere attraction at disney World and Disneyland
55:21
within five years or release like that's how strong I feel about this idea,
55:27
and I'm gonna make it happen. I think, I think I I have
55:30
like deep seated desires for like all of my stories and where they can land.
55:35
But I think that for that film in particular, that's the most ambitious
55:37
because to me, I'm like, it's so good, I don't need to
55:42
do anything else before I do it. Like, if you think about it,
55:45
some people like like like think about lem Ma andwel Miranda right, like
55:46
he's writing everything. It's like music from music from Mowana too. He's writing
55:51
the music for Mufasa. I was like, I didn't even know Mufasa was
55:52
gonna have music, but I would not have called them Manuel Miranda, Like,
55:57
I don't hate Limit Miranda. I got Hamilton memorize. I just I
56:00
don't know it was on my list to call for the move also movie,
56:05
but who knows, maybe maybe maybe maybe I'm the one that's that's out of
56:08
pocket here because I'm sure he gonna show up with some heat. But a
56:14
lot of people when they get things of that scale, they got to do
56:16
something else first. And it makes people go, oh, you're trustable.
56:20
I believe in you, you have a bankable name. Then we'll I guess,
56:22
we'll, I guess we'll do this now, We'll give this opportunity now.
56:25
But I audaciously look myself in the mirror every day and say that my
56:30
first foray into film writing is going to be like a flagship Disney film.
56:35
And I just believe that. I just I just own that because I think
56:38
because I think I'm that good. You said it right there, you hit
56:42
the nail right there on the head, like you believe it. You're owning
56:45
it. He said, I want this now. I don't want to hear
56:47
anything else. And that's what I'm expecting it to be. So to have
56:52
that that level of confidence and belief not just in yourself but in what you're
56:59
creating to put out in the world says volumes about your character. Mm hmm.
57:06
You know some people who don't understand are a little closed minded. They
57:08
say, oh, that's just you know, you're being fully SI. Well,
57:12
you call it what you want. But I know this is going to
57:15
be out there, you know. So not everybody can say that. Not
57:19
everybody say that. Uh, when you believe that much in your goal,
57:22
I get it. I mean that's a that That's what I's getting to.
57:24
That's what I was asking about your prayer. You know, things that are
57:28
close to us, we just we that's our that's our belief system. That's
57:32
like this is going to get done, or this is going to get mad,
57:36
or this is gonna get produced. So I completely get where you're coming
57:38
from online. That's why I was like, I love hearing that type of
57:42
fire because that hearing that type of fire pushes me to do things. And
57:46
you know, that's the kind of cammaderie that, again in the Blurd community,
57:52
is heavily needed. Yeah, so before we go to break a very
57:59
a very own medic assassin has it. It's an unseerious question, but it
58:01
kind of beat it. Lord, Oh my god, it wants to know
58:07
how did the Mountain Lady have become part of your signature? Looks? Boy?
58:12
Is it a story? And So I used to live in Wathington,
58:19
d C. I lived near DuPont Circle and there's this comic shop in DuPont
58:22
Circle called Phantom Comics. It was my first local comic shop there, I
58:28
a twenty minute walk from my apartment. I would go there all the time.
58:31
And while I was there, I made like really close friends with some
58:36
of the people that that that work there. So there was a person that
58:39
worked there who who is like she's a She's like, they're they're uh,
58:45
they're an attractive individual, It's what I'll say. And what I learned is
58:49
that they were being courted by this dude that was like into them, but
58:55
in a really like creepy way like this dude would this dude like he had
59:01
way too he has way too much money, Like he like he has way
59:05
too much money. He has like he has like Middle East oil money to
59:07
give you, like so you like buy them a bunch of stuff, and
59:13
he'd be like like he would go higher illustrators to draw images of her because
59:21
he just wanted he just wanted her like that bad like creepy, right,
59:27
And this person that works at the comic shop mentioned that they were like into
59:31
my hero academia. So he goes like overboard and buys like a bunch of
59:37
my hero stuff. And at this point, my friend like they're done with
59:43
him. They're like, you know you actually kind of creepy, just feel
59:45
the kind of fetishy. I don't like this. I'm not into this.
59:47
I'm not into you. I'm good. And his way of like winning her
59:52
back was like sending all this stuff. So he sends all of my hero
59:57
stuff and she's like, I don't want to touch in of it. And
1:00:00
one of the other employees after show was like, well I'll take it because
1:00:04
she like just he's like I need my hero merchandise. This was when like
1:00:09
you couldn't even get like a Decu ninderoid because they did not account for like
1:00:14
the demand, like all that stuff was like very rare. And I stopped
1:00:16
by the shop one day and she was like, hey, Tony, you
1:00:22
like my hero, right, And then I'll go yeah, and she goes,
1:00:24
do you want this hat? I'm never gonna wear it. I don't
1:00:28
know who would wear something like this, and giving me any context for the
1:00:35
Tyler Perry movie that led to her being in position. I wasn't briefed on
1:00:40
any of this. All I was told was I have this hat and I
1:00:46
look at her and I go, see that's your thing. You don't understand
1:00:50
fashion, That's what that is right here. This could actually work for a
1:00:57
lot of stuff. So I'm like excited. I'm hype. This is good.
1:01:04
And when I started making videos on social media, we were in the
1:01:07
pandemic and my hair was looking a little rough. My hair looking rough right
1:01:10
now. But I'm doing something. I'm growing, So I'm trying. I'm
1:01:13
trying something to give me a minute. Remember I'm from Atlanta. I'm from
1:01:19
Atlanta. Let him cook if that if that hairline ain't right you. So
1:01:28
I was like, no one's gonna take me seriously if my hairline looks like
1:01:30
this. So if I put on his hat, nobody will notice, and
1:01:32
my hairline is looking a little and that became the signature. That is that
1:01:39
is how he got here. My attempt to protect my ego by hiding my
1:01:44
hairline from the world became iconic. Yeah, such a roundabout way. So
1:01:51
Tony, we're gonna take a break. Yeah, we're gonna be talking about
1:01:54
some news bits in the Acolyte. Are you able to stick around? I
1:01:59
know you got a crazy schedule. I mean I just finished watching the most
1:02:02
recent episode of The Acolyte, So I am, I'm I'm here. That
1:02:07
sounds like a let's go. So we will be right back with our guest,
1:02:15
Tony Weaver Jr. We're going to talk about a little bit some news
1:02:19
and Acolyte episode four. Eat it in sales, eat it. I see
1:02:25
that uncomment sticker. We will be right back with his next announcement. All
1:02:36
right, I want to say something cool. Yeah, okay, yeah,
1:02:45
so we order thank you. Yes. So the Blurs of of You crew
1:02:52
for a second year in a row, has officially been approved for Pressed dream
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Guy, which means July twenty sixth through twenty eight, you can catch us
1:02:58
in the All Tin Convention Center. We'll be up with friends, catching up
1:03:00
with our mutuals, hanging out with some of our favorite creators, going to
1:03:04
press events, going to tournaments, getting to see some premieres, going to
1:03:07
panels, going to see Deadpool and Wolverine because that drops the same weekend,
1:03:12
as well as just seeing some of our favorites, giving them their flowers,
1:03:15
and conducting interviews while we're there. If he here's about last year dream Conn
1:03:17
or any previous con coverage we've done in the past, I highly recommend you
1:03:21
please check out our interview playlist that has all our previous con coverage on it
1:03:24
as well as all the cool sitdowns you've got to do. Thank you dream
1:03:27
Con once again for having us really looking forward to the big weekend. See
1:03:30
y'all in Austin. I'm Tony Weaver, junior author of Rearing and player of
1:03:37
Nichik The Gathering, and you are watching words. I be y'ao ya,
1:03:46
yeah, look crazy hate to creating the cool got into a dual fading not
1:03:57
just pulled the trash car race was with a fourth raight catalog testing for the
1:04:01
shadow round you should never act God love with so in city is that I
1:04:05
need an apprentice time and that's the with the forest peat, the contacts of
1:04:10
my sittings roping the phantom like this it this just don't that's me with my
1:04:13
penis that they know that I'm the mean it's who you kidd and bitch I'm
1:04:15
then this Now that s's a job. High headed ronches. Shirley Cole tested,
1:04:19
you can never twist my medal like the jewelry. God, why ain't
1:04:23
never mad when I push it to the match? I got Chris riding with
1:04:26
me about to turn this bitter fury road. Since Ani made it, I'm
1:04:29
the one that who congratulated and winners will profou to take the couple like is
1:04:32
Lamin made it. Tam I made the sixteen like a gill of teens.
1:04:35
That's imating if you think that chill red hed, you get the capitator on
1:04:40
that a side. I ain't really hear the rab Nords. I'm here to
1:04:43
tell you who representing for the Black Yards to remind you neither one of these
1:04:47
a bad word's biggest living mirrors. They just choose to see it bad.
1:04:50
Whoa who be the leader's discussion winner topic, trans giant sections, got the
1:04:55
coach and run the microscopic maid who got to take that? You can miss
1:04:59
it from this got them make you feel like an explant on the subject by
1:05:01
the time jos said the stand Louis viewership is man nice. All these other
1:05:06
shows don't seem to Courtave. That's a bad hash of off the books,
1:05:10
Winter Script, the Jewels. You can write no vapis, but these interviews
1:05:14
on a Yeah, this is the best part rhymes on man Delauri and the
1:05:18
Pennis made the best goal starting the war with these stars. You won't give
1:05:23
fun. This is the way you play a game of life. For text
1:05:26
style so far removed from the drama. We don't know this. How bulon't
1:05:30
hesitate to shed a light like a patrol show when mischief manners shovels at a
1:05:33
disadvantage. Must be something in the water. Dip your toe because you know
1:05:38
it's warm. Yeah, why can you find another show with such a fine
1:05:41
cast? And if you try to box them in, they playing Minecraft and
1:05:44
basically the sum made up like you define now this true is the best and
1:05:47
it figures like a line craft from every band. Like the words of John
1:05:53
Yo headed. You don't have to have them say that you. They know
1:05:56
you can relate because they're nervous like you. You go help. You'll see
1:05:59
there on from my bur you are now tuned in some Blurs out view and
1:06:10
without furs of a du we out. Yeah all right, everybody. Uh.
1:06:24
That was the premiere of the new Blurs a View intro to my own
1:06:30
brother Crazy Hat the great thank you very much new thing. Yeah. I
1:06:35
like that theme song, shout out crazy great for that one. I told
1:06:39
the people. I didn't tell the crew, I said. I got a
1:06:42
little surprised. I didn't say anything anybody. I'm like me, come like
1:06:45
a second Sunday, just to the door. Whatever. So we got a
1:06:57
little bit of news to talk about. So here we go. So on
1:07:11
a somber note, we have lost as as Lady Mandeler put it in and
1:07:16
I said it. I said it that she thought it Donald Jack Bauer's daddy,
1:07:24
Donald Sutherland. He passed away. He was eighty eight years old.
1:07:28
They said he had an illness. So you know, he's been in quite
1:07:31
a few things. From Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Hunger game series,
1:07:38
you name it. This man was there and gave birth to one of the
1:07:42
greatest agents out there who protected the black president before we got President Obama,
1:07:48
Jackie Bower so Keith of Sutherland. He passed away. He was eighty eight
1:07:54
years old and he's an icon in that in the acting community. So sad
1:08:00
to see him go do that stuff. Also waiting on the word to come
1:08:05
through. But apparently we got a sequel to Spaceball's coming through the search for
1:08:11
More Money exactly. Josh Gadd will be acting and producing and Mail Brooks will
1:08:18
be helping him to produce as well. Uh, Spaceballs is just one of
1:08:23
those films that just kind of stand up and still hilarious to this day.
1:08:29
Every time I get a pick, every time I get We just need Ritten
1:08:32
Morance to come back for one movie. Just I need Dark Helmet, If
1:08:38
If then Michael Winslow. I need both of them to come back. It's
1:08:44
all I kind of said. Are they are? They never ready, They
1:08:47
never read it. But it's gonna be funny just to see that comb the
1:08:49
Desert. We ain't standout movie. As as you heard earlier, our guest
1:09:00
Tony Weaver has appeared his animated series back on web tunes on juneteenth, and
1:09:05
another person as well. K Dot did it again. Let's go look.
1:09:14
Well when he started the concert with euphoria in the meditating piccolo polls, that
1:09:18
just told me how the rest of the night was gonna go. I commend
1:09:25
this brother because one, I'm a I'm a fan of his work anyway.
1:09:29
Two, the fact that he managed to unite all of ls, all hoods,
1:09:36
all different backgrounds, peaceful in a pop up event and they filled the
1:09:43
forum and everybody in their mother was there, Roxy Hayes, everybody in their
1:09:51
mother was at this event. But to air it on Amazon Prime and the
1:09:58
chat in the Twitch channel was on fire mm hm. That was an event
1:10:02
to see. Uh he really I love hip hop and to me he's an
1:10:08
epenome of that of that culture because he stands on his business. You know,
1:10:15
it doesn't have to be played on the radio. What he's talking about
1:10:17
is necessary for the culture to hear. I'm just I mean, what what
1:10:25
what? What? What? That was some fantastic camera work, by the
1:10:29
way, Yeah, the cameraman was that was That was a master class of
1:10:33
f around and find out and then go ahead and then having the the West
1:10:43
coast o g give me the okay before I I quin Tumple tap you I.
1:10:49
We were in our own chat and I'm like, he's running it back
1:10:53
again again. I should I said, do I hear five? And sure
1:11:01
all I got there and say, somebody picked up gardening. After that,
1:11:04
somebody put the mic down and picked up a garden house. It's just it
1:11:11
definitely wasn't event. It definitely wasn't the flower. I don't care what nobody
1:11:15
said. That boy was crying in the shower. He's still crying in the
1:11:18
shower today. Pound Cake on repeat right now. Wow, it was.
1:11:32
It was definitely an event. Hellspawn Cosplay said it best. He was like,
1:11:36
he needs to just go back to Canada and just be a dad.
1:11:40
It's crazy if he can be good at that. Why did you move to
1:11:46
Texas? Sir? Why why would you go there? It's not safe for
1:11:53
you there. Either go north, baby, The steak text asked, that's
1:12:00
probably why. That's not that's not the best way to experience the slave experience.
1:12:05
You don't go south to go because no, it is not. It
1:12:10
is not cyberbility at this point. This is this is this is all the
1:12:13
smoke you asked for. This is rules of engagement, sir. You fired
1:12:16
first, Now now you're coming. You asked for the asked for the rain,
1:12:21
he comes in troll. Holy yeah, I saw that movie. That
1:12:25
was incredible. I heard several people, several accounts have said, Yeah,
1:12:30
Kendrick will never be dissed at this point. In all the years I've been
1:12:34
listening to hip hop, I've never heard this level ever. I firmly believe
1:12:41
that if Kendrick had called me, if Drake had called me to ghost write
1:12:45
two songs in, we could have turned this around. You called me a
1:12:51
little earlier in the process, we could have turned it around. But it
1:12:57
was a point of no return. The A minor line was the point of
1:13:00
return. I said, I can't not. One of the funniest the concert
1:13:05
starter was that A minor is gonna sound like the boom from the Oppenheimer Bomb
1:13:10
when they go off to But Yeah. He had a star studied event.
1:13:17
Everybody came out on stage. Lebron James looked like he was getting ready to
1:13:23
go, and Savannah said, no, no, you're not, you're not.
1:13:29
And we got Bloods and crypt Westbrook and Lebron. You're going to continue
1:13:32
to be the kid from Akron and that's it. Uh, you know,
1:13:36
I'm like, look, I'm a kid from Akron and Lebron was ready to
1:13:40
go up there and start crypt walking. It's not you, that's not your
1:13:44
role, Mabron, they say that, but yeah, definitely, uh,
1:13:48
definitely. It was definitely a moment in hip hop. Definitely a moment for
1:13:53
the culture. Uh congratulations. I don't know if those tickets were free or
1:13:59
if they were, but I will tell you this. Amazon Prime looked and
1:14:02
said, he just made us money. And he just made a lot of
1:14:06
money because now people are looking for albums, they're gonna get in some of
1:14:10
his older stuff. And yeah, stream streams and purchases for Kindred. Actually
1:14:15
did quick check on that they've jumped up nearly forty seven percent and that was
1:14:19
after three hours as of three hours ago. His I mean TD TD Entertainment
1:14:27
right now is enjoying that windfall because ship just literally he said, he said,
1:14:32
I'm going to kill your career and when so many different ways. Next
1:14:40
time, the man, the man want to feel a surprise. Come on,
1:14:45
why would you? Why would you? I love when he said if
1:14:49
you were gonna call Tony said, you could have called the morning The morning
1:14:57
shot. The warning shot was said when he said, And not I knew
1:15:00
was when he sat there and said, don't tell lies about me. I
1:15:03
won't tell truth about you. That was the warning. You want to know
1:15:11
what's a gift that keeps on giving? Go and read some of the comments
1:15:14
on the Kendrick distracts, like once a week there's something new there and I
1:15:17
laughed. The top comment on Meet the Grams is I truly believe Kendrick wrote
1:15:23
this in the dark with a quill pen in one hand and a gun in
1:15:25
the other. Next time, let Tony be a ghostwriter and don't get actual
1:15:31
ghosts. You see how many people were on stage. These are all the
1:15:36
people who was like I would have got on Instagram the way Snoop did Gail
1:15:41
King, but we got like businesses and stuff we don't want to f up.
1:15:45
Means like when when when Dre was just like I see people, I'm
1:15:50
like, yep, there's the ghost sign that is the finish on stage tang
1:15:58
Awards see so like like Tony said earlier, he started out in poetry.
1:16:04
Kendrick is a poet. Mm hmm, he's great. Maybe if Drake broddy
1:16:11
Man brought Tody in earlier. It's I try to look at rap beefs with
1:16:16
like some level of realism, like I'm just like, hey man, it's
1:16:19
just music. But when Drake did the like Tupac deep fake thing, I
1:16:27
was like, that's not good. That's not I don't do that. I
1:16:31
was like, I was like, it's not a game anymore. Like you
1:16:34
could have just you could have just put out another song and it was fine.
1:16:38
But from a from an optics perspective, you co opting the voice of
1:16:45
one of the most iconic, necessary, and legendary artists in this genre,
1:16:50
like a true leader in our community. I'm like, whatever they do to
1:16:55
you after that, you deserve it because I feel like if you had an
1:16:59
ounce of respect, honor, even you wouldn't stoop that low. And that
1:17:04
I'm like, I can't be around for what happens next that Initially I was
1:17:10
watch and give him a mirror, So I was very much like that's corn
1:17:16
and I'm not going to listen to it. But then when I listened to
1:17:18
it, I'm like, yeah, this is like solid wordplay, but this
1:17:21
is very disrespectful little basically ghost respectful ghosts in two of the West Coast legends
1:17:30
and basically say that they're both disappointed in him. One from the grave and
1:17:33
then to do it on snoops holiday, No less, you woke me up
1:17:38
on four to twenty for this again, he asked, Wow, happening to
1:17:45
him is everything that he asked for. And then he did push ups first,
1:17:48
which was already you shot at twenty different people. You then would have
1:17:51
made a whole separate track for this smoke you wanted so badly. And now
1:17:56
I think he's spirally because why did you why did you wrap on BBL drizzy
1:18:00
yourself? Yeah? I never crying on the stream. How was the old
1:18:04
the one commercial? Like, That's not how this works. That's not how
1:18:06
any of this works. What we do here in this whole conversation. This
1:18:14
this, this is why you leave the quiet kid alone alone, has prep
1:18:19
time. This man was listening to mister Morale and raising his kids and just
1:18:24
being a family man. And no, you wanted to come and tell him
1:18:27
to come outside. You just want to Kendrick. Kendrick's not fucking quiet.
1:18:34
He's say when he needs to have something to say. He's not quiet.
1:18:40
He's I see him to come out. He's strategic with his moves. But
1:18:47
don't don't come over and saying you want to play games and get mad when
1:18:50
I'm winning, don't don't The controller of those uh yeah ah so uh comments
1:19:02
is also hilarious. Oh god, he's just like I know everybody Amandola Steinberg
1:19:08
collapsed back, tired of the haters talking about her on Acolyte and having all
1:19:14
this racist vitriol going about, and she says, okay, I wish you
1:19:17
would She's got a video while responding to the said haters like she said,
1:19:25
it's not gonna happen. I got something to say. You're not just gonna
1:19:28
sit here and keep talking about me and saying anything. We are living in
1:19:31
an age where there's one group of people who feel the need, because it's
1:19:36
free speech, that they can say whatever they want and not have anybody,
1:19:42
Like Tony said earlier, responding kind However, there's another group of people us
1:19:46
who said, oh guess what we can do? That free speech gonna costume?
1:19:54
Right like you got free speech. Don't think it's just gonna go unanswered.
1:19:59
Though, so in the spirits of Kat Williams, we shall be speaking
1:20:01
our truth this year. Between between the Acolyte and the boys, they have
1:20:05
just home punching air and probably their why free Look, free speech comes with
1:20:10
clap backs. That's what you need to understand. You say something to the
1:20:14
boy, don't expect the void not to say nothing back. Right. The
1:20:16
thing that I am trying to develop an understanding of, uh is what is
1:20:23
it about the moment where we are right now in terms of technology and our
1:20:27
overall kind of cultural evolution that this like anti woke grift is just the thing.
1:20:36
I'm like, I'm like, at what point did it become profitable and
1:20:42
beneficial because I don't feel like most of these people actually believe what they're saying.
1:20:45
I feel like they're osturing it and like signaling it in order to rile
1:20:48
up some base that's going to get them, like YouTube views, Like basically
1:20:53
whenever a black character isn't anything, a bounties on their heads, like,
1:20:57
Oh, this is how I'm going This is how I'm gonna come up.
1:20:59
If I say the right thing, I'm gonna go viral in all the right
1:21:01
wing circles and then they'll join my Patreon, and they'll sign up for my
1:21:04
substack, and then Ny'll and then I'll be able to monetize off of this
1:21:09
hatred that they have for this other group of people. And I'm like,
1:21:12
it's really a net negative for society at large, just the fact that you
1:21:16
over here with no honor in the corner, just like just just pedaling the
1:21:21
hate, pedaling the hate. And I I don't know when we got there.
1:21:29
It was Real World nineteen nineties, was in ninety eight ninety seven,
1:21:34
when was the first one. It was the first reality TV show. It
1:21:39
was okay, the Real World. Yeah, looks funny that they're potentially going
1:21:47
to introduce like community notes to YouTube videos. So all of those like anti
1:21:53
woke propaganda people are shaking in their boots right now because good they now it's
1:22:00
that they're about to get targets on all their backs and just get noop because
1:22:03
there's all these unseasoned coconut bars just need to stay in the damn packs where
1:22:06
they came from, because we don't want any of you want. Well,
1:22:12
that's the problem. You can broadcast from the pack now and just tell people
1:22:15
to like and subscribe. And but here's the problem, like Tony said,
1:22:19
it's the problem with that type of you know, pindering. It's profitable and
1:22:26
and it's like you could turn around and as long as you are an echo
1:22:30
chamber because now they're they're not shameless anymore. They'll come out and droves and
1:22:35
be like, well, we don't like Star Wars, we don't like Captain,
1:22:40
we don't like the Marbles, we don't like the m c U.
1:22:43
Only because there's a hundred different people out there in their own little YouTube YouTube
1:22:47
channels or podcasts or whatnot that are just simply fanned the flames. But at
1:22:53
the end of it all by my book or subscribe to this or Joe my
1:22:57
only fans. The peddling only continues because they pay it, because it feeds
1:23:02
their insults. The social media has made them brave when he boils down to
1:23:06
a microphone, a camera. All of that has made them brave because they
1:23:12
don't have the kohonees to be faced in real life, in public on the
1:23:15
street when someone calls you out, because the minute someone does, that's when
1:23:19
you turn the strawberry shortcut. You be this little girl. Oh, I
1:23:21
guess you know what I said, we heard you. I'm sorry. It
1:23:27
made me think of a video from a couple of years ago, and it
1:23:30
was a guy who he was He was a Nazi supporter and he was at
1:23:34
some function and he did the sign and everything, and a brother just hauled
1:23:38
off and the dude was trying that, yeah, hold off, and he
1:23:42
punched him, and I said, see, you can't do that. You
1:23:45
like, you just can't come out here and be a Nazi supporter and not
1:23:48
suffer them. There are consequences to this shot. Shout out to the camera
1:23:53
guy that got the shot though, because I mean, it was like me,
1:23:56
just just everything. So I agree. I agree with Telly though,
1:24:02
because I don't. I think a lot of these people just say shit just
1:24:05
to say shit. It doesn't have any actual bearing on their lives. So
1:24:10
it's like they throw the brick and hide their hands and run off while everybody
1:24:13
else is making all of this noise. It's not even necessarily to gain money.
1:24:16
It's strictly for it's strictly to see the crabs in a barrel, like,
1:24:21
who what? What kind of reaction can I get out of this?
1:24:26
And it's consistent because we constantly respond to the shit. If you don't give
1:24:32
them what they want, which is the attention it magically gets. They have
1:24:36
nothing to say, they have nothing to say. They can keep trying to
1:24:41
say it, but it's an it doesn't even turn into an echo chamber at
1:24:45
that point. I think this it's starting to it's taking time, but it's
1:24:51
starting to make a turn around. Because when when we mentioned the Acolyte,
1:24:55
which we're being ready to talk to talk about now, you mentioned the Acolyte.
1:24:59
Despite all the negative vitual that's trying to bring the show down on being
1:25:03
reviewed, bound or anything, the ratings are still good. Mm hmm.
1:25:08
The ratings are still good, you know, and people like they're destroyed.
1:25:11
I've seen people on on Instagram and everywhere else just complaining about it. I'm
1:25:15
like, why can't you just enjoy Star Wars and if you don't like it,
1:25:23
don't watch it. If it's not it's not it's not the canon you're
1:25:28
used to, So just sit back and enjoy it. The thing that drives
1:25:35
me nuts about the Star Wars conversation in particular is that this is the universe
1:25:41
in which there are people with wings, two noses, four eyes, green
1:25:45
yellow purples, and the black person is the person that takes you out of
1:25:50
your fantasy, out of your realm. That's that's that's that's the part that
1:25:55
I'm like, make it make sense. Even the rookies got a damn Cicada
1:26:00
problem right now. Accolite Episode four, Wookie, I feel robbed between the
1:26:10
boys and Accolade, I feel robbed this week. So Lord, I want
1:26:14
to put you up from because you are our resident Star Wars fanatic. Mm
1:26:19
hmm. And so what were your thoughts for this episode? I was bored.
1:26:29
I was bored, and I loved the show. This episode was a
1:26:34
it was a dragon ball Z episode. It was a dragon ball Z episode
1:26:38
for me. Wow, that's bad thing. But I didn't think I didn't
1:26:45
think of it that way though, but it was. It was a bunch
1:26:47
of all, we're almost, we're almost going to get to that fight scene
1:26:50
and then you yeah, yeah, I didn't. I don't. I hate
1:26:54
when they do that. That does not mean that I hate the show.
1:26:59
This is not a entry point for people to say the show is trash.
1:27:02
It just means they did they had to stretch this out with some fluffy writer
1:27:09
or writing yes, it's filler. It didn't really do anything to make me
1:27:16
like or just it didn't do anything to move the story alone. We all
1:27:19
knew that she was headed to this planet based on episode was it? Uh
1:27:26
two? Yeah? Yeah? Because three was the backstory based on episode two,
1:27:30
she's going to go kill the Wookie. Okay, so now we get
1:27:34
our backstory, which is also technically a filler episode if you want to be
1:27:38
specific about it. All right, we're gonna go see the Wookie now,
1:27:42
right, where's the Wookie? I just wanted to I just where's my back
1:27:49
I'm like, I need my backstory Wookie Jedi story. I where's where's you
1:27:56
know what? I don't. I don't need a backstory on the Wookie Jedi
1:27:59
just yet. I would have liked to have one. I would have liked
1:28:01
to have seen him actually fight in any kind of a battle, because also
1:28:06
episode four robbed us of that. I I this is not the episode I
1:28:15
want to be from the center for your fanaticism has put you here. Accept
1:28:20
it, but but I'm real about my shoot. I'm gonna say one it's
1:28:25
bad. That's at the BAM. You know if I say something's good,
1:28:30
p if it is, I wouldn't have I'm gonna put our guests Tony upfront
1:28:36
to ask him as well. You said you've recently seen it as well.
1:28:41
But like you said, Kiera, that ending scene, I'm like you could
1:28:45
have I looked at my iPad and I'm like, wait, I still like
1:28:53
I've got time left. I don't want to see the credit you could have
1:28:55
gave us. You could have stopped this mid fight. Something you didn't give
1:28:59
us. You you gave us the bo and credits. Wait a minute,
1:29:10
I saw what they were going for. But I think that for me,
1:29:13
it's like I said earlier, the math didn't meth like. I didn't things,
1:29:16
things didn't add up specifically because I I don't consider this episode filler because
1:29:23
I think there are a lot of things that were going on that I feel
1:29:26
like could have been commuted a little communicated, a little bit differently. So
1:29:30
there's just like there's this budding ship between Osha in the in the other Jedi
1:29:36
that makes fun of that makes fun of Yourn. There's a moment where they're
1:29:42
walking through the forest and they that like creature like pops up and then like
1:29:47
it it doesn't pop up until Osha touches it, and then after after Soul
1:29:57
deals with it. The little people in the background, they said it really
1:30:00
quick. They were like they were like, oh, I went right for
1:30:01
the lightsaber and then it goes They're attracted to light and I'm like Oh,
1:30:05
I see what you did. So we have twins born of the Born of
1:30:10
the forest nefarious means, one of which is like murdering people in the other
1:30:13
which is like very not for sensitive at all. But this thing that is
1:30:15
only attracted to the light literally wakes up when she gets near it. So
1:30:21
it's like, oh, I see what you're doing, especially in this episode
1:30:27
where where like, meanwhile, meanwhile May and Uh and Kamie are having this
1:30:33
conversation about like, well does everything change now? What does the Master taught
1:30:36
you? I'm like, there's very much a narrative of light and dark that's
1:30:40
happening right now. It's being communicated in everything from those little tiny lines.
1:30:45
So the way the lighting cues are picking up in certain moments, I was
1:30:47
like, I get exactly what you were trying to do on paper. All
1:30:53
the pieces are there, but a little bit of the way that things were
1:30:56
arranged I feel like could have made the message a bit stronger. And I
1:31:00
don't like cliffhangers in general. I feel like we I feel like we don't
1:31:01
need them no more. You don't. You ain't got to do all that
1:31:05
you're going to do it. At least let him lay hands on somebody first,
1:31:09
like I'd be okay with it, Like if you smoke palmed and then
1:31:14
you give me like one saber impact, like let me see you just like
1:31:17
wah, somebody so hard that that that that saber just like flies out and
1:31:23
impacts into a tree and then cut But don't it was it was like it
1:31:28
was forced push cut seat. Yeah, it's a lot of flash, no
1:31:32
bang, they didn't even flash. I don't even know. But actually,
1:31:40
for Tony, I think you see it more because you've done the treatment.
1:31:45
You know what it takes and what the the descriptions are a lot easier than
1:31:51
me or any of the other uh audience members might see, so you can
1:31:56
make those leaves me. I'm like, what am I? What am I
1:31:59
here for? Like I'm still I'm waiting for all of these connections between ocean
1:32:02
and the light in the dark and the fact that you have all these people
1:32:05
that are in the middle of this light and dark area of the gray that
1:32:09
are that are manipulating the actual out uh severe sides of the force, Like
1:32:15
I need them to make more connections with that. I don't feel like that's
1:32:21
as blatant as that should be. I agree there was there was a moment.
1:32:30
There was a moment where, uh, where May and Ocean we're talking,
1:32:34
or May and Comille were talking, and he's like, well, have
1:32:39
you ever seen the Master? And she's like no, And I'm like,
1:32:41
so you're just going off of everything because when something happened, we still need
1:32:47
to know exactly what something happened at that temple when you were a child,
1:32:53
and it was never explained. We still would have four episodes left is yet
1:33:00
for I believe. I believe we're going to get the rest of that story.
1:33:05
But as you're seeing everything, especially with the Jedi, and it seems
1:33:12
like, like we said last week, there was something hidden hidden. Not
1:33:15
everybody told the truth about something. Out of the ones that was there,
1:33:19
there was one who was definitely responsible for some stuff, and and and and
1:33:27
probably out of that group, there's probably one who has plausible deniability to a
1:33:31
degree. And yes, it's it's difficult to do, like, I have
1:33:40
trouble writing mystery elements like that because I think about one piece, right,
1:33:44
think about how long one piece takes to tell us literally anything like I feel
1:33:48
like I feel like the the identity, purpose and nature of the girl say,
1:33:59
I think like quite literally fifteen years and people were just like hey,
1:34:05
people were just like like, hey, man, well, well we'll get
1:34:08
there when we get there. There's always difficult to know, like when to
1:34:11
do what. Here's what I'll say. We're four episodes in. Is is
1:34:14
anybody else clocking that the Master is a woman and is one of the Jedi
1:34:19
leaders that were around the boardroom table at the beginning of the episode, like
1:34:23
we we all agree that that's that's that's what it is. My money's on
1:34:28
Green Ladies, and I feel like that it'd be too obvious. It is
1:34:31
a key line Jedi. I think it is her. I don't know.
1:34:36
I don't think it's her only because she's the frame of that of whoever the
1:34:42
dark Side person is. It is a lot slimmer, she's a lot more,
1:34:45
she's a lot broader in the chest area. This person is who they
1:34:51
keep saying a t which immediately lets me know it's a she. Her frame,
1:34:58
her frame is different. It's not it's somebody else. I was thinking
1:35:04
in Darah, Yeah, the Wookie seemed without a fight. It would have
1:35:12
to be someone familiar to that was that was definitely my rug turned rug pulled
1:35:17
out from under me. Moment because I'm like, yo, wait, there
1:35:21
was no struggle at all. There was. It was in the flashback.
1:35:27
In the flashback episode, we see what Soul is doing when everything gets burned
1:35:31
up, and we see what the dude with the scar that drank the poison
1:35:35
was doing when everything gets blown up. But I need to go back,
1:35:39
Yeah, Torbin, I need to go back and review. I don't know
1:35:42
that we saw in Dara that night. Didn't see knock. We didn't sell
1:35:48
either one. Also, the Wookie had he didn't get attacked from behind.
1:35:51
He got attacked directly in front, so he was being close proximity to her
1:35:58
as well. So it was somebody he wasn't threatened by, and nobody sensed
1:36:02
their presence when they walked up, like like like yeah, somebody familiar,
1:36:08
Like they didn't deem them a thread or something. Yeah whoop what do you
1:36:11
would think? Whoopy? Yeah whoopee Yeah now yeah I thought it was short.
1:36:17
I'm the one that was yelling filler in the comments. I still enjoy
1:36:30
like Cara said, I still enjoyed the show, but you know, it's
1:36:31
it was just an episode. I didn't feel I wasn't it wasn't it wasn't
1:36:39
a punch. There wasn't an other than the punch, and the gud about
1:36:43
taking out Karaka would no right. The only the other thing that bothered me
1:36:46
was this was may switch. It just seemed like, all of a sudden,
1:36:50
I'm so angry about everything and now I'm not. Yeah, you know,
1:36:55
she was like it was like and they just happened to catch and they
1:36:59
know she's in there, and just say she's been going around KILLDN Jedi is
1:37:02
a just particular group, and then all of a sudden, she's not the
1:37:06
one that did this. Right, It's right. It's not exactly NICs out,
1:37:13
but it's right. Anybody. Episode was short, yeah, ca and
1:37:21
went right and sat compared to thirty minutes instead of an hour. Yeah,
1:37:30
because for forty five minutes sat right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's
1:37:34
why it was like intro commercial, intro outro, Wait what hold on?
1:37:39
What did you mean? Yeah? I felt that it was short, Like
1:37:43
I said, I was. I had it on my iPad and I'm like,
1:37:45
wait, it's over already. Wait a minute. I had to check
1:37:46
the time, and you know, I'm like this it seems short. Maybe
1:37:50
it was me, you know, Farr apparently Hello kiyot Monday. I didn't
1:37:57
realize you were here the whole time. And to the point we're making earlier,
1:38:03
some of these people just get so riled up and will sell their people
1:38:06
lies because, like Firecrackers said, some people just need something to believe in.
1:38:11
But I have never seen so many people fight to edit a wiki page
1:38:14
in my life. I watched his because apparently this this retcons his original birth
1:38:23
date, and people were very upset about it. So they were I was
1:38:26
reloading the page in real time watching it switch back and forth. Also,
1:38:31
they're upset because I believe in the first movie he says there hasn't been a
1:38:33
sit in over millennia and then think that this kind of out or undoes that.
1:38:41
So that was an interesting discourse to watch. It's funny how the turntables
1:38:45
we are getting rid of the sellouts and unity and we're looking at them just
1:38:49
likeugh savages. Yeah, episode kind of came and went. I was I
1:38:56
had hopes up for this Wookie man and we got nothing. Space the catos
1:39:00
Are thing. Apparently it was a cool creature. It definitely, it definitely
1:39:05
did like some fear inducing. It didn't make sense to mention the blaster and
1:39:12
reference as she was going to hold on to the blaster only for her to
1:39:15
not pull out the blaster during a time when she at that part. That
1:39:20
didn't add up to me. But I don't seeing a century old what they
1:39:28
were using a hundred years ago for like stun guns and what the second or
1:39:30
third episode. I want to see more of their like previous tech, but
1:39:34
I feel like we're not getting a lot of that, Like we're more focused
1:39:38
on the characters and whatnot. But and then I'm still confused on the pile
1:39:42
of bodies that didn't seem to have save re marks or anything like I don't
1:39:47
know if the sisters drank the magic punch to ride the space comic that was
1:39:50
coming by Eclipsed for their cult meeting or sorry, no, how do I
1:39:58
put this? I'm a fan the show, but when when the when the
1:40:03
Covin was doing their like s type sequence, it looked like non melanated people
1:40:10
trying to do divine nonsteps. I was I was like, what is the
1:40:15
choreographer for this? Because we we're not one band, one sound right now.
1:40:24
They watched a couple of breaks on YouTube and they were just all out
1:40:31
of sync with it they there, there was an explanation, because I'm a
1:40:35
nerd. They were trying to have a multitude of cultures being expressed in that
1:40:42
one particular scene. That's not how that it creates like a messy soup.
1:40:53
All those nobody had rhythm when the the the she's the only one you like.
1:41:03
I can't help all of y'all while I'm up here, I can't be
1:41:05
both is while Homegirls Evil. You ever mess up a quick time event in
1:41:11
the video game, and now you got a thousand wrong telltale choices? Wow,
1:41:18
I have a question because you all seem like you'll be able to have
1:41:20
an answer for this. When we see the Wookie at the beginning of the
1:41:25
episode, when we show like the inside of their place, we see that
1:41:29
spiral symbol. That's the same symbol that was put on May's head during the
1:41:31
ceremony the week prior, and I didn't know what was going on. I
1:41:38
didn't know. I see the wheels turning in our heads. There's going to
1:41:45
be an explanation for that in the next episode, which you could have done
1:41:49
that ship in this one, and I think kal Knaka, I think Kaka
1:41:59
stated went back to that planet and did some investigating himself. Possibly he was
1:42:08
tethered to that planet for something like he went either went back or had a
1:42:13
conversation with somebody because he because they said he pretty much went into to to
1:42:17
the outside eye. He pretty much went into self exile. And I was
1:42:21
asking myself, I said, what is with the self exile? And I'm
1:42:26
and I was like you here, I'm like, n This's got to be
1:42:29
something else. He shot it chafter Black videotape and he watched it. I'm
1:42:36
wondering if this is the reason we haven't had a Wookie Jedi sens. It's
1:42:39
like every time we give you all one of our kids, they don't come
1:42:42
home, so we will stay here. You need e walk Jedi like just
1:42:47
just like a cracked up, please up caffeine John. I wouldn't mind seeing
1:42:57
it, because look, we already know they could take our stormtroops is with
1:43:00
no problem. And by the way, I think they were eating, so
1:43:03
that's a whole Yoda has the hops and all the levitation. Give me somebody
1:43:08
who's like Sonic the Hedgehog fans with the lightsaber. I do it just when
1:43:15
you walk in the room Stormtroopers. Everybody's Achilles is just done. Oh my
1:43:19
gosh, you got so spartan. What do you think? Uh? You
1:43:26
know, I like I said, I'm I'm the nubie in this because this
1:43:28
is where my my limited knowledge of Star Wars kind of puts me into that
1:43:33
I'm watching with eyes wide open with Kira because I'm the one time ill with
1:43:39
Kira. Even though one Piece is not a cult, it's with a colt
1:43:42
with jacket. But here we go. It didn't like drinking balls the episode
1:43:45
because it did kind of build up towards the end. You did see I
1:43:49
call the helmeted one. I didn't actually get the name of it. They
1:43:53
did get the name of the person. But the person that walked up at
1:43:56
the end. This scene is how you know. Here's how you know it's
1:43:58
gonna be a bad as scene. When this person with a helmet on and
1:44:01
nobody knows who this person is and it's walking up on them, says nothing
1:44:08
but a lightsaber pops out and then decides to go to work. That's where
1:44:13
I got mad because I was like, man, we faded black? Really?
1:44:16
Yeah? You just show you to show the fact that no words was
1:44:21
said, but hands were about to be thrown and then credits. I'll give
1:44:28
it to him. It's it's a it's a hell of a way to tease
1:44:30
people. But I was like, I want it necessary. I was hoping
1:44:33
for like more than a push. Like if anybody's ever watched the og Clone
1:44:38
War Show, when Chris was just treating Anakin's entire platoon like play things,
1:44:45
she was. She was drowning them, crushing helmets, wrapping people in tarzan
1:44:48
rows, smashing them into trick here. You didn't watch it? Stop it,
1:44:58
man, what is wrong with you? I specifically remember saying thirty saying
1:45:01
I hate this and I'm turning it off. Mace Wind did the same the
1:45:09
two thousand and three two D card too, the shorts, the shorts,
1:45:15
but in the end of that it was rough. It was two thousand and
1:45:19
three that was great. But yeah, when Ventures was just when Ventures was
1:45:24
showing us what the Force could be done, and just how she treated those
1:45:27
clones like toys, I was expecting that. But then we just get a
1:45:30
push and roll credits. I'm like, you know, when perfect Selle came
1:45:33
back, he least murdered someone's firstborn child before the outron. He also gave
1:45:39
He also gave him ten days a set up, a wonderful, laughing sphere
1:45:42
to fight though, and even that was fine. But here we got this
1:45:45
is uh, this is Trump's and go ten training while Boo was outside murdering
1:45:48
people. I'm still like feeling good about the show. I think the thing
1:45:55
that will make like my confidant level drop, that will make me go like
1:46:00
is if at the top at the top of next week, I need no
1:46:04
questions, no setup, just smoke. I need smoke. I need because
1:46:10
if next Tuesday I show up at nine o'clock Eastern and you cut to the
1:46:15
end of the fight where all the Jedi are laid out and everybody's and it's
1:46:21
just there and sees the Master and the Master's like you dare think of betraying
1:46:27
me? And then we cut to the credits or something like that. I'm
1:46:29
gonna be like, don't don't do that if you go to the smoke.
1:46:33
I need. I need bodies him, I need it. I need to
1:46:40
see it happen, don't. I don't know what I need at this point.
1:46:45
Y'all have been cops for the last four episodes. Get with the brutality
1:46:47
and jump person. Maybe I need I'm trying I'm trying to think of the
1:46:54
right example. I need go Jo and Ugi fight. I need I need
1:47:01
Yugi and in Toto Biden, I need some some she wu level. I
1:47:08
need something. I need that. I need the zooms, I need the
1:47:12
quick cuts. Give it to me. Don't need the cameraman to be on
1:47:15
a wa wa wap timing because I need I need, I need JoJo's level
1:47:23
action, like just go to work, just get people, because you brought
1:47:28
a one piece. I'll keep it spoiler free from no one who was reading.
1:47:30
I need, I need to feel about this revealed the way I feel
1:47:32
about the girl say right now, because gee, I'm not. I'm further
1:47:36
questioning why Shanks felt so comfortable around these people to just put his feet on
1:47:41
the couch like that. But it's it was given. It was giving Rick
1:47:45
James energy. It's Rick James, but it's giving where his manager was at
1:47:51
the time, because this is some next level stuff. But thoughts, maybe,
1:47:59
ah, you said it's so much sometimes it's not enough E and too
1:48:08
much h. I'll put it like this. I was skeptical going into it
1:48:15
from the first episode, and I fell in love with it within the first
1:48:17
ten minutes. Okay, I see where this is going, and something in
1:48:20
my mindset there's going to be a filler episode, young man, like,
1:48:26
no, no, it's not gonna be a filler bitch. You gave me
1:48:29
a filler episode. But it did set up a lot of questions, just
1:48:33
like like like herero Will stated, this set up a lot of questions,
1:48:38
especially about who is the master And I'm telling you it's it's Kaylme Jedi.
1:48:42
I'm telling you it's key Lime Jedi. Straight up. She's the dessert nobody
1:48:45
wants. But you're gonna get it anyway. I'm telling you. She come
1:48:49
up to you with a red knife. She said. So it's just the
1:48:53
way it is, Jedi. That's right. I mean, think about it.
1:48:57
Why else didn't she want so to go on the mission? Like she
1:49:00
was explicitly like no, don't go, it's not good dream, but you
1:49:03
don't want to be Suddenly she's like, oh, you don't want to be
1:49:06
there for it's about to go down. I don't think that's what Yeah,
1:49:13
because she was like no, I don't want true being Investigation pulling up the
1:49:18
side and say why didn't anybody say anything about what happened at the temple and
1:49:24
a whole bunch of all those others exactly. She pulled them to the side
1:49:28
in front of everybody's view, and yeah, it didn't work because was still
1:49:33
still determined. But I like, honestly, I liked the episode overall.
1:49:41
I wasn't expecting too much from it because we still have more road to travel,
1:49:45
but I like that it's set up different questions because I'm true crime.
1:49:48
I love it. So you got killed, knocked in the chair with a
1:49:53
cut across his chest and he's dead, Like, who got close enough to
1:49:56
you to do that? Dude? Because you look like you six foot forever
1:50:00
five, OMG, you was cooking and nobody and nobody's facing off with a
1:50:04
wookie proudly. I feel like, on top of that beat you to death
1:50:15
one m it feels like I can see I'm like, I'm trying to like
1:50:23
I'm trying to like sharing gun I and like, look at off the pie
1:50:28
and I'm like, you started the first with like very intense combat, and
1:50:32
I think there's a possibility that they were, like I just gave you two
1:50:35
episodes of smoke. Now I'm gonna give you some backstory and we're gonna ramp
1:50:41
back up to the smoke, and I think there was a slight miscalculation and
1:50:44
like how much we want to smoke? Like I need I need to smoke
1:50:47
if we I feel like if the scene with the space Cicada had been a
1:50:53
little longer and it been a little like if there were more of them,
1:50:56
if more, Yeah, if we needed like a like a little more,
1:51:01
like a little like that, that's much more. Even the training scene at
1:51:05
the beginning, where like he's training them is like if instead of training it
1:51:10
was sparring and it felt like they were actually putting some heart into it,
1:51:13
that would have my appetite. I would have been fine, I could.
1:51:16
Yeah, it was like it was like like Obi Wan and uh and again
1:51:20
that felt like a deleted scene straight off the second movie and they're just like,
1:51:24
here's a little side dish to y'all get the main course. At the
1:51:27
end of the obi Wan series, we were robbed of those deleted scenes of
1:51:32
of uh, those those those fight scenes. Yeah, just oh my god,
1:51:40
if you want to watching their sparring scene felt like going back in time
1:51:44
twenty years and that was fantastic. But this I was expecting us to like
1:51:46
pull up to the forest because that's just like territory and see signs of like
1:51:51
a battle and trees chopped. I was expecting some for sun leash type activity
1:51:56
and like hop from trees and what and we got the fin treatment. All
1:52:01
right, what am I doing on set? Just lay right here and just
1:52:03
don't move. Okay? Actually, wow, give me first episode of wind
1:52:11
Breaker. Just give me win Breaker straight straight straight streat heat straight straight smoke.
1:52:16
I need to watch it. I've been on Kay number eight BRU,
1:52:23
but no time wind Breaker with no time straight. You got seven minutes into
1:52:29
that episode and there was nothing but bodies everywhere. He was to make you
1:52:33
a quick sandwich or something and got the TV plane. So you can't do
1:52:39
that. You can't you can't go get you a dark glass kool aid.
1:52:42
You can't do nothing. You just gotta sit there because they're going right.
1:52:47
I like the show. I feel like there is an old point in our
1:52:50
eighth episode run. I'm hoping I'm right. I'm hoping that. I'm hoping
1:52:57
that this will be the lowest episode and everything's up from here because I need
1:53:01
to Like he's, like Tony said, I ain't trying to see a bunch
1:53:03
of bodies opening credits and the last person struggling. No, I want to
1:53:08
see people I need to see, be able to get the tops, try
1:53:13
to jump this person who's technically done nothing yet, but still they all get
1:53:16
dropped anyway, Michael Myers versus the mob, even though Buster rhymes and Karate's
1:53:21
enough to take you down, apparently, Yeah, I want. I want
1:53:26
to hear what may Im asked to say about this, and I've been waiting.
1:53:29
Oh well, see here's the thing. We are close to time.
1:53:31
That's number one and two. I've had limited like me time this week,
1:53:38
and the time that I did have, I've been in the gym singing unbig
1:53:42
my back again, so I'm not actually caught up. So I relinquished the
1:53:49
floor to the panel. Thank you for your thank you for your motivation.
1:53:57
When Simmons pass off, they can be come a gobless and good night.
1:54:01
Another word. In other words, ma'am said, you do what you do.
1:54:05
I do what I need to do. So we're getting ready to wrap
1:54:13
up. We're giving me like you said, we'll come to time. I'm
1:54:15
trying to keep these things type people. But what that means it wrapper protocol
1:54:20
initiated captain. Oh thank you to our guests, Tony Weaver Junior number one
1:54:30
guy, look once again you get this than we love what you've been doing.
1:54:44
We love what you've been doing with just everyone, uh and and instelling
1:54:49
that confidence in kids across apparently the country and overseas and just given given Lady
1:54:58
Mandlor tips about Japan and like it's needed. So but really, Tony,
1:55:05
you are an amazing addition to the Blur community and we need more like you
1:55:12
out there doing the good work and talking to the next generations, in current
1:55:16
generations to say, hey, it's okay to be quote unquote weird, It's
1:55:23
okay to like these different things, like these different animes. Don't worry about
1:55:29
it. Water finds its tried. So thank you once again. So tell
1:55:33
everybody where they can find you and your book. I am at Tony Weaver
1:55:40
Junior on Everything WEIRDO is basically everywhere Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Target Bookshop,
1:55:48
you can pre order at your local bookstore. Comes out September seventeen,
1:55:51
but it is my goal to get five thousand pre orders. So that is
1:55:57
kind of what I'm what I'm pushing towards right now. So I would I
1:56:00
would appreciate it if you could support me in that, Do I do that?
1:56:02
Go out there, stow your support. This man is really doing the
1:56:06
good work. Thank you for your time, thank you for joining us.
1:56:12
And with that being said, Lady Mandelor, Hi first, Tony, thank
1:56:19
you for giving me your time at the Oh my god, at the Schomberg.
1:56:25
Uh we go. Appreciate you very much. Also, you are more
1:56:30
than a bridge, you are a tether. I think you are something that
1:56:32
is an You found your anchor, and you're something that other people can hold
1:56:38
on to in order to grow. So thank you. I think my show
1:56:44
Room Full of Birds, Yes it does. It airs on YouTube Sundays at
1:56:47
seven pm Eastern Standard Time, where I am currently in the throes of talking
1:56:53
about independent comics series. We've been reading a few upstarts this week. Oh
1:57:00
my god, I completely forgot what his name is. I'm so goddamn sorry,
1:57:04
Jesus, I swear I'm sorry. I have another intro indie comic maker,
1:57:12
and we will also be talking about Midnight Comics in their series. And
1:57:16
I'll go into more detail about episode four of The Acolyte because you can.
1:57:26
We'll we'll talk some more. We have you can find me roomful of Birds
1:57:31
on pretty much everything, uh Twitter, TikTok, I do some voice acting.
1:57:38
I am very sleepy and slightly hungry, so I'm going to end my
1:57:45
rant here. Oh Navy is also my co host on Roomful of Birds,
1:57:50
and he is invaluable to me. Thank you, sir. It feels good
1:57:57
having the second in command, doesn't it? It does? It does?
1:58:00
Thank you, sir. Talk to the good people. I'm whoot the freaking
1:58:11
do. You can find me here or shirking off my TikTok at Wootie freaking
1:58:15
Do. And if you're ever in the look for in the look for Jesus.
1:58:21
Words are hard if ever pretty nails or just nails in general. Also
1:58:28
find me at Yes Here we go, Yes nails. You can find me
1:58:35
at Fresh Press by Yes those look good right maybe, Ladies and gentlemen,
1:58:45
boys and girls, bloods of all ages. Good evening, good morning,
1:58:46
good afternoon. Once again, it is your frost to be at a blur
1:58:48
the corn. The oldest cat owned the panel. You see this name right
1:58:51
here, This is where you can find me. I'm across everything. I'm
1:58:55
on YouTube, I'm on Twitch, I'm on TikTok unfortunately and to my h
1:59:01
my esteemed captain of the room. It's Annabete's comics that we will be Thank
1:59:06
you Jesus quest that we chit chatting with to talk about the magnificent project.
1:59:13
Ahead, come up with us a Sunday at seven pm. Absolutely, I
1:59:16
should have the blur combos coming. Come on. You know I got you,
1:59:20
I got you the Beard and I we got you. It's a tag
1:59:24
team. Okay. If the beard hits you, just be careful. It's
1:59:27
artist. We are working. Everybody who has been supporting us. Thank you
1:59:31
so much. Blur Con is coming along. If you're gonna come to blur
1:59:36
Con, please come show love, be a part of this amazing thing.
1:59:40
It's summer madness. We're working really hard to take care of that. The
1:59:43
crew is gonna be there. I'm gonna be there. And if I can
1:59:46
put out a word to everyone out here, if you know somebody who's trying
1:59:50
to use their imagination to go above where they are and they are earnest about
1:59:55
it, support them. If they have a project, if they have a
1:59:58
passion anything that they're involved in, and they don't feel like anyone believes in
2:00:01
them, lift them up and let them see that you acknowledge what they're doing,
2:00:06
because we got enough negative energy out here going as it is. So
2:00:11
let's do something that the so called superheroes want to do but the real mutants
2:00:15
are doing. Ooh, he preached another word, because you know I love
2:00:20
mutants. That's the collection. Please, it's fine mutants, dude, get
2:00:29
the job done. I'm just saying they don't avenge. They get the job
2:00:33
done before that happens. Appreciate it. You can find me here on all
2:00:38
platforms underneath this name. Impost skits on my own page on Mondays to make
2:00:41
them a little less terrible. Thank you again, Tony for all your time
2:00:45
today and again at Mombokan. And I hope the book sales go. Well.
2:00:47
You're on the road still this summer. Correct, you're gonna be How
2:00:50
be your bur Oh yeah, I'm so serious for your services. Let me
2:00:58
know your size. I think I have to go by this studio in the
2:01:00
next couple of weeks. I will grab you two things when I'm there.
2:01:03
That is my way of saying thanks for everything here. I also do the
2:01:08
editing for this podcast and behind the scenes work. We usually post Monday,
2:01:11
Wednesdays and Fridays. That's just for people who can't get through a two hour
2:01:15
show. I get it. Attention spans are no longer a thing, so
2:01:17
or if you want to recommend us to a friend, send a clip.
2:01:19
We have our last interview from Momo Con coming out tomorrow. Nights I have
2:01:25
the other half of the Engaged Couple. So last week was a night as
2:01:28
Quinones and now we have aj Beckle's coming up. I currently I highly recommend
2:01:32
you please go watch both of those. It was a really fun time,
2:01:35
very sweet individuals. After that, Yeah, we're going to be a dream
2:01:39
con. We're going to be a Blurred Con. We will be out here
2:01:42
in the streets. Comatic Assassin is in the building, talk to the people.
2:01:48
Yes, and as I will be watching a Cinematic Assassin. I am
2:01:54
the editor in chief and singing web developer of blurredsiview dot org, where my
2:02:00
self and all these lovely people you see on screen contribute to talk about movies
2:02:03
and comics and TV shows and wrestling. Uh. If you like my particular
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brand of foolishness, you can follow me at Mayhem Media. This m A
2:02:12
y e h E M Media, where I talked movies, comics and TV
2:02:15
shows and most importantly I talk mental health. Tony, thank you again for
2:02:19
coming through and as a fellow survivor, I want to say thank you for
2:02:25
your just strength and vulnerability earlier and sharing that information with us. And yeah
2:02:31
it was. It was a really powerful and just amazing show tonight with you.
2:02:35
Thank you so much. And as I always say every episode, remember
2:02:41
I always take three things with you. Number one is your meds. Number
2:02:45
two your PTO. Number three, take a deep breath before you let that
2:02:49
ship go right all, definitely take your PTO because I did. And yeah,
2:03:00
anyway, you thought you was gonna go speechless this episode, didn't you.
2:03:10
You didn't think it was gonna come from Navy. It's usually Will.
2:03:15
Will is the one I'm like, I just if I get past him,
2:03:17
I'm fine, But Reverend Navy decide to get me anyway. Black and the
2:03:21
score Spartan six one five is where you can find him. On the socials,
2:03:25
I usually do talk about everything, including working out why because there's piece
2:03:30
between weights and it helps, especially on the mental side. At least it
2:03:33
helps me out. A couple of my own podcast, Guys, How the
2:03:38
Fact We Got Here, can be seen every Wednesday at seven pm of course
2:03:41
tomorrow the Gidbit podcast, which will be eight point thirty ish. We usually
2:03:45
get started around that time where we do cover video games on the news because
2:03:49
we will be covering Nintendo Direct and everything else that happened throughout the week.
2:03:54
Podcasts can be found where a podcast can be seen or heard on the various
2:03:58
areas of where you may get those things from. Just like Reverend Navy,
2:04:01
I'm just ciousically just repeating a little bit of a servant. I like to
2:04:04
share a follow? Is that sign? Is that in signs calling? But
2:04:10
let's not. He's like, he's like, he's like, I'm missing my
2:04:13
call off. I was like, Obie, right now is either fighting a
2:04:17
bathtub or fighting sleep? One of the two right now? I don't know.
2:04:28
I haven't went downstairs yet, but uh, we'll find out a minute.
2:04:31
But no, again, like sharing follow costs nothing, again, we
2:04:36
we can't do so like your support. On top of that, again,
2:04:40
the con rules are still the same, guys. Uh. Number one,
2:04:43
respect the cosplayer at all times. Cosplaying is for everybody, regardless of your
2:04:46
race, size, creed, or whatever preference you may prefer. The only
2:04:49
thing we asked that you don't do is don't do blackface. That's it.
2:04:53
Don't get your ass kicked to the con. Don't do blackface. That's simple
2:04:57
number two. Again. Hygieneus important, please, guys. So theodorant a
2:05:03
little bit long goes a long way at these cons where there's next nothing in
2:05:06
room and nobody wants to be able to smell you. Natural deodorant does not
2:05:12
work when it's summertime. That can go both days at the same time.
2:05:16
Guy's last rule that I have for myselves for everybody else in a world that
2:05:19
is cold, that is unforgiving, be nice, be kind, share fandoms,
2:05:26
don't be a dick, and will all be cool. Thank you,
2:05:30
Hey, everybody, it is your man on Walll Christ Fiery. Thank you
2:05:32
to our guest, Tony. We were junior. Go show your support,
2:05:35
Go get that pre order for Weirdo dropping this September. Tony. We will
2:05:40
be seeing you at Blurred Con because we are the premier news station, the
2:05:45
news corp for Blurred Station, and we are sponsoring Blurred Con. So maybe
2:05:49
we can get a sit down. We have a little we have a couching,
2:05:55
a couple of chairs and we're getting the setups together. So nice little
2:05:59
ESPN style set up so we might get you, maybe run it to you,
2:06:02
maybe get you on for a little bit. Thank you to this amazing
2:06:08
crew. We do great every week. We do great through the chats,
2:06:12
and when you're not hearing me, do voice work on somebody's project where I'm
2:06:15
not being the news director over at the Blurred station, then I'm doing Blurred's
2:06:19
eye view, and I'm just fostering other people and showing love to other Blurds
2:06:26
in this Blurdy community that are really out here making a difference and showing up
2:06:31
and showing out. And with that being said, you can catch us every
2:06:35
Tuesday and every Thursday eight pm Eastern YouTube Twitch and ig ig only for an
2:06:42
hour because it won't go past an hour. But go show you, but
2:06:45
go show your love on the YouTube channel, check us out on always first
2:06:48
record through your Roku and Amazon Fire devices. And with that being said,
2:06:54
remember to educate yourself and others, entertain yourself and others, and most of
2:06:58
all, encourage yourself and others. Tony, I can't say it enough,
2:07:02
but I'm going to say it again. Thank you. You are an amazing
2:07:08
person. You are in an amazing addition to this community. We need you.
2:07:13
We need you. We thank you for that story you shared with us.
2:07:15
It was very open, very raw, and I hope that that message
2:07:19
was received to those who are out there listening or watching us. So thank
2:07:24
you once again. We will catch you guys next week after the heat wave
2:07:31
breaks. Because Jesus, Jesus, but I've been having a fan going on
2:07:40
me the whole time. So but thank you once again. Go show you
2:07:44
love, Go show your support, Give flowers while your people are out there
2:07:47
right now. Don't wait till they're gone. Don't wait till your favorite podcast
2:07:50
goes away. Just give your show or your favorite indie comic artists. Go
2:07:57
out there. Support, support, support, So we will see you guys
2:08:00
next Tuesday. We're still here. This is wonderful. This is wonderful.
2:08:11
We're still here flaying in the background. Oh god, the album. Thank
2:08:22
you, pray for the donation. By the way, everyone's channels can be
2:08:26
found on the hometime. Thank you. Telling me from a fellow OREO,
2:08:30
here we go. We're out yo, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, look
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crazy Hate, the Great and the Cool got into a dual fading that just
2:08:52
pulled a trap car rap Rappers with a fourth rade Cat and Livestin for the
2:08:56
shadow round. I should never act he is that I need an apprentice drive
2:09:01
and that' stuff with the forest peat the context of my satans run the fantom
2:09:05
like thisit this just don't ask me what my penis that they know that I'm
2:09:07
the meaning's who you kid and bitch im? Then the standers sweet you jive
2:09:11
hog headed roan of Shirley Cole tested you can never twist my medal like the
2:09:15
jewelry God. Why ain't never mad when I push it to the match?
2:09:18
I got Chris riding with me about to turn this bitch to fury Road Since
2:09:22
animated, I'm the one that who congratulated Win's whipper rapp detective cover like is
2:09:26
Lavin made it am. I made the sixteen like a killer teens. Ta's
2:09:31
a maating. If you think the chiln hed you get the capitator on that
2:09:33
A side. I ain't really hear the rab Nords. I'm here to tell
2:09:37
you who representing for the black Nurs to remind you need the one that he's
2:09:41
a bad words biggest living mirrors. They just choose to see it bad?
2:09:45
Whoa who be the Leader's discussion winner topic trans Giant sections got the coach and
2:09:50
run the microscopic name who got to take that? You can miss it from
2:09:52
the start and make you feel like an explant on the subject by the time
2:09:56
Unions shake the stand. Louis viewership is nice. All these other shows don't
2:10:01
seem to court it. That's a bad hash off the books Winn and Skipt
2:10:05
the Jewels. You can write no vampires, but these inter dudes on a
2:10:09
Yeah, this is the best part runs on Mandalori in the Pennis made the
2:10:13
best go starting the war with these stars. You won't give fun. This
2:10:18
is the way you play a game of life. The text style so far
2:10:20
removed from the drama. We don't know this. How bugn't hesitate to shed
2:10:24
a light like a patrol show when mission managed troubles at a disadvantage must be
2:10:30
something in the water. Dip your toete because you know it's warm, yea.
2:10:33
Why can't you find another show with such a fine cast? And if
2:10:35
you try to box them in, they playing Minecraft and basically the sum made
2:10:39
up like you define now this trews the best and it figures like a line
2:10:43
crash from every band, like the words like gone yo headed. You don't
2:10:48
have to have them said, like you. They know you can relate because
2:10:50
they're nervous, like you, Like you, go help. You'll see the
2:10:54
world from a blood's eye, you will you. Yeah, you are now
2:10:58
tuned in to blurs up human and without further ado, we out. Yeah. Hm