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Tales of Mytherwrel and Creator Marie Kerns · Inspiring Stories

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  Thank you for listening to De Pictures Media Radio. You rat you readything to
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  me? Oh well, jus well not a bad stop. I just see
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  Solipashions its events. Welcome back to the show everyone. Today we're gonna speak
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  with a graphic artist and an author. Well she kind of combines the two
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  ideas together. A marine turn has created a whole entire world and that world
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  is called Ethrol. That Mythroal is a world full of equality, justice and
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  it's a great inspiration for how we all want to live. And I get
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  an opportunity to talk to Murrie about Methyl and the new graphic novel that's going
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  to be coming out based on her world that she created and what it all
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  means to her. And it's just kind of exciting to get to talk to
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  a person as they get to as they're first releasing their creation to the world
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  and seeing how everyone is going to react to it. So why don't we
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  welcome Marie Kern, animator, graphic artists and world creator to the show and
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  we get to hear about what Mythal is and what it means to her what.
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  So welcome to the show, Marie. Hello, So we need to
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  talk about the wonderful and epic world of Mythal. Right. Yes, it's
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  like so, because it would be totally honest with you. I've always been
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  a fan of cartoons, comics, all that sort of stuff, because the
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  art, telling the story the way it does and everything right, you know,
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  and the creativity and all that kind of stuff. Right, So,
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  how did you how did mithro get born? Oh? Many many moons ago,
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  I was about fourteen, and I had a start drawing these fairies I
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  guess you would call them. I was inspired by a stickers that I had,
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  and so I decided to expand on that story and I just went more.
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  The further I'd gone into it, the more it developed. And of
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  course I came across a group of people that were inspired by the story,
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  and they also helped build the story too. It is today, Yeah,
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  yeah, and yeah so and then going back like a few years ago,
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  both my husband Ian and I we both have several ideas that we wanted to
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  do for animation, but sadly, the cost of animation was far too high
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  and beyond our budget. It wasn't until a few years ago that Ian decided
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  to take one of his stories and turn it into a comic book, and
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  so, through Ian's company Electric Lips Comics, the first issue of The Man
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  of Chronicles is published. I was the I was the concept artist for careres
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  and the interior color for the comic pages. When that first issue was published,
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  that inspired me to take Tales of mythro and turn that into a comic.
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  Yeah. Yeah, well I only give the audience a little background information
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  here because if we if we trailed back about maybe what's almost ten years ago,
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  right, yeah, that we all worked together on different projects and everything,
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  and you were this wonderful graphic artist and let's say the the you came
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  up with the creed, the creativity levels you would come up with when we
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  were doing different campaigns and stuff like that were like it was like wow sort
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  of thing, right, And so I know we felt it fell out of
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  a long story short everybody, it's like Marie and I fell out of rust
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  for a little while. Then we caught up with each other, and it
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  was because I heard about that you were trying to get Tales of myth well
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  published. Yeah yeah, so it was like, so I was like really
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  excited to see and to see some of the drawings and everything that you had
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  done. And if everybody would go to the the blog post when it's released.
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  It's like you get to see some of that artwork and see some of
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  Marie's creativity. Mm hmm. So how do you come up with the with
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  with the ideas. What is like the thought process or something that you go
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  through to to start conceptualizing. That's a very good question. Sometimes I'll look
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  at something as fascinating as a rock and say, oh, that that comes
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  up to the story and characters in the world. So I don't know,
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  I'm connected with something in the universe. Yeah, and it just you just
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  kind of let it go go free and oh yeah, because if I don't
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  do that, then it just sort of travels up into a sponge and just
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  sort of rots away. Yeah, let it fly. So yeah, So
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  because I know, uh, years ago you talked about creating this this epic
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  world sort of thing, and what's the basic message, because you want to
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  use use this whole thing to empower people, right, yeah, a little
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  Naturally, most of my stories turn into an inspiration for other people. So
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  whether it's like self, follow your heart or or believe in yourself, each
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  character in some way can find a relationship with the reader or viewer or something
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  or somebody who is looking for a character to relate to. Tells Mithro will
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  have that as well, where each character has its own his or her own
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  journey and people will find a connection with that. Yeah, it will the
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  main characters. So tell us about the main characters. Well, with this
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  comic book, We're going to start off with Fenia Timesca and she is what
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  you would call a prodigy of alchemy magic. However, she tends to lose
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  control of her emotions and therefore she will lose control of her magic and start
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  blowing things up. So one day, uh, a man named Darmantum comes
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  and takes her to a school called Gardel University, and this is a pristine
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  school for highly skilled alchemy students. For more, you know, you gotta
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  wait till the next issue. So with what type of if you were to
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  describe her as a person Athenia, she well, she's not so simple like
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  uh some stories will start off a simple little farm. But while she's not
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  that simple, she has uh without understanding her powers, she uh works hard
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  to try and control herself by practicing martial arts. I guess you the form
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  of like a self defense using magic and brute force. Uh, and she
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  loves to write these majestic beasts called Clarence where they're they're kind of like buffalo
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  type creatures, and that other farm creatures are kind of like chicken base,
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  but they more look like dragons are I mean dinosaurs. So you get these
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  dinosaur like creatures running in the desert farm and those creatures are called muk and
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  they produce one of the staple food sources for Mithro, which are these eggs.
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  Okay, wow, So so you're thinking about the whole thing right down
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  down to the most minute details. Yeah, I mean, you're creating a
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  world. You gotta Yeah, It's like, if you want to be sucked
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  into a world, you must understand the bare necessities of that world. Yeah.
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  Are there's like some lessons in life that you're they're using veenia you're trying
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  to teach teach people. Mm hmm. Well, I guess for thenium one
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  of the main major tough lessons that she will have to face with this issue
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  and most likely issues in the future as well, uh temper, controlling the
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  temper and and uh focusing on uh being true to herself. Yeah. Yeah,
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  at the same time controlling her temper so that she doesn't hurt herself or
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  other people. Yeah, the being true to herself thing as a creative person,
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  and is that something that's important to you very It's going to be who
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  you are, whether it's a creative person, telling a story, or just
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  living your life daily. Everyone has their their method of being who they are
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  mhm. And whether you believe it or not, everybody has a little bit
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  of creative energy in them. Mm hmmm. I feel like, oh I
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  could. I cannot create a story, but you could also without realizing it,
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  you could use your creative There's creative energy in what you do on your
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  during your day, right mhm. Yeahving a pro them or or or just
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  coming up with solutions if you find yourself hitting a brick wall on something hmmm.
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  Yeah, very true. Yeah. So out of the out of our
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  main character, is there any parts of you that did show through, like
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  some of your some of you, your favorite points of yourself? Hmmm.
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  I don't know. I think a little bit of me is in a majority
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  of my characters, whether they're quiet and shy or outspoken and and the center
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  of attention. I'm sure in the middle of all that. Yeah. Yeah,
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  because I remember that from working with you before that you were outspoken insteadfast
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  when in some respects and then in other respects you were more the okay,
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  I'll sit back and listen sort of sort of person. Also, yeah,
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  so yeah, sounds me it's for you, right. So, because it's
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  a whole world, right And of course Tena has friends, So what are
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  our friends like, Well, get to meet them in later issues. But
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  one of her best friends that she will meet in the next issue is Augia.
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  Yeah. Yeah, she's like basically the other side of life. Denia
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  as a farm girl in Bosnia is more of like I wouldn't say rich girl,
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  but sort of like she lives a more peaceful life and she doesn't deal
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  with farm animals or like gardens and musical instruments. Mm hmm, I see
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  in well in well, it's also a school setting, right yeah, well,
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  yes, the story will start off in a school setting. Then of
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  course they will graduate and and see where the story develops from there. Mm
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  hmmm. So or there any specific like social problems or anything that you did
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  you want to tackle with this Did you want to deliver a message to people
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  that did you want to get at? Mmm? Well again, this world
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  will have I think mum. What I will do is explore the history of
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  my thrill and the history is kind of similar to what most of us see
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  today with what's happening with their governments and stuff. So the message I guess
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  from that is take what happened in the past and realize that possibilities will happen
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  for the future. So it's like, say, dark times are now,
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  it's not going to be forever. There is more down the road. Yeah,
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  yeah, we don't need to worry about what's happening. Like again,
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  nothing's forever. So whether things may seem dark, yeah, I always remember
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  that the sun will rise on a new day. Yeah, So kind of
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  stay focused on on the on the positive and and there's more to come.
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  Yeah. You can be optimistic, optim stick and realistic at the same time.
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  Mhm. But also sending in the positive energy might encourage things to progress
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  more positive for everyone else. Mm hmm. What does optimism mean for you?
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  Optimistic? Yeah, A lot of people will start saying negative things like
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  oh, this will never change, this, this, this all never going
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  to happen, blah blah blah. I would say, okay, uh,
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  that may seem true, but that's only part of the truth that if we
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  keep pushing forward and not dwelling on the negative, we'll see that Hey,
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  that was just an illusion. There's still a goal yet to make mm or
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  things are not. Sometimes things change and sometimes they change the better. Is
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  that what you're trying to do with uh with a methaorl is teach people that
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  things can change for the better. Yeah, it's one of them, one
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  of the things. Yeah, what did the other things? Yeah? Come
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  on, you can spell hm hmm again h encouragement mm hmm. Focus on
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  your full beyond your full potential. Don't give yourself to any limits, because
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  sometimes limitations are what causes us to hold back and dwell on negative h mm
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  hmmm mm hmm. Sometimes you just got to take that risk and and go
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  for your goals regardless what if anybody else says about them. Mm hmm.
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  So was that is that you moving forward and you not listening to the naysayers?
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  Is that part of Metro being created because you you went forward with it
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  and regardless of whatever nair was around. Well, I didn't really have any
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  many naysayers. I just didn't give up no matter how many times I technically
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  failed. H try and achieve because originally Teales and Methro I wanted it to
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  be an animated series, but there was just tony let let backs and and
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  and put downs saying well, that's not what we're looking for, or we
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  expect to have this as a full on anime series before we take it on,
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  et cetera, et cetera. You know things that well, if I
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  was a big expensive studios in the problem, but I'm just one person.
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  And then I had like a small group of people helping with the story.
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  Of course, one of them being Doug Lesbie who helped write it. Yeah,
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  so his writing, some of his writing has been transformed into comic for
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  the story, and of course I added to it to make it flow for
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  comic book. But the point that I'm trying to make is that regardless of
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  all these disappointments, I guess you would call them. And I realized through
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  the inspiration of Ian doing his comic book, I thought, Okay, well
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  why don't I try that? And now tells me thrill was finally getting told.
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  Right, So the endpoint is you want the story told, yeah,
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  and hell well why not we could eventually still see see it appear on on
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  our on our screens as an animation is just you know, did this is
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  one step towards it? Right? Yes? So is that part of part
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  of one of the lessons that you're learning is to keep taking the steps,
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  take care of the steps, and sometimes you gotta take a different path to
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  get the same solutions. Mm hmm. That's part of your creativity is to
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  find find the path that leads to the solution. Right. Very cool?
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  Mm hmm. So the anime you haven't really given up on the animated series.
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  You're just taking this as a step to get there. Yes to me.
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  Uh so you're uh, you're using this step to develop an audience towards
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  a reality. Correct. Yeah, And what what do you what? What
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  would you want that audience to do with with what they're learning from from the
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  Tails? Right? What would you want to Is there some action that you
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  would want the audience to do the people who read The Tails of Methrol?
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  Would you what would you want them to do? How would you want them
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  to act? Well? Best, the best way to help support not just
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  my comic book, but Ian's as well is go to our mark shop e
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  l pmarch dot com. Yeah, and purchase one of our many designs that
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  we have on that store. We We've got his uh Man of Chronicles,
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  u as T shirts, blankets, et cetera. Uh And then I'm also
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  wearing one of the Mythral shirts. So this is one of the Yeah,
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  yeah that one there too, plus other other designs that I have for it.
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  Yeah. So I imagine you you want this whole thing to become like
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  a whole movement, like like you know, we'll go other comics like from
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  when we were growing up, you know, we we have we had like
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  the Spider Man comics and the Fantastic for the Avenger comics and all like that,
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  and it's like we were learning like equality and justice from these comic books.
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  You know, he's trying to create a movement like like like they did
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  with the with the comics then you know, well in a way, but
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  basically just showing what what's life like on a different world, like a world
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  with two sons for example. Yeah, is there any parts of that world
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  did you'd like to see in our world? Hm? Hmm, Like maybe
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  attitudes or you know, how people treat each other sort of thing, well,
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  regardless of what's happening now, Like there's a lot of diversity. But
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  again, regardless how one might think about what's going on now, it's again,
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  it's not gonna last forever. You never know what's going to happen.
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  And sometimes, yes, we're always going to meet somebody that we disagree with,
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  but how we react to that is up to us as individuals. Like
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  some people will will just full on hate what anybody has to say. Yeah,
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  or somebody like me is like, okay, I hear you, but
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  strongly disagree and move on. Well there's an interesting concept, right, It's
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  like instead of dwelling in the in the disagreement, in the in the hatred
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  part, okay, we can agree to disagree and then we can still move
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  forward and and create more more beauty and and loving in the in our world.
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  Right. Well, that's a good, good goal to have. Yes,
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  it's it's not going to be easy to fully on expect that to happen
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  overnight. It's a work in progress. Yeah, can't we have a magic
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  wand and a puff Oh everybody loves each other? Yay? M hm,
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  yeah, you know, like the like comic books and things like that are
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  are part of that magic wand of creativity to help us know that that's possible.
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  I would consider them more like planting the seed of tree of knowledge.
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  I like that one. Mm hmm. What would be some of the fruit
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  that you'd like to see on that tree of knowledge? Mm hmm peaches?
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  Mm hmm. What would that peach represent? I mean like fuzzy on the
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  outside, sweet on the inside. Ah, So we'd have a world we'd
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  have we'd have a world full of fuzzy on the outside and sweet on the
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  inside. Yeah, meaning that we'd have to as we go through, we
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  had to go through maybe a little a little bit of journey, but the
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  end would be something really cool, right yeah, and then using the core
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  as another seed to plant, so the journey of learning keeps going. Mm
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  hmm. That's that is a really cool concept in of itself, right to
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  keep planning the seed and keep learning. Yeap, gain the knowledge, plant
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  the seed, learn more sounds but right yep. So what are some of
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  some of the lessons that you've learned while going through this journey of creating mythrol
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  and and what what would you in and what is the things that you could
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  teach people from it? Um? Well, I learned would have inspired me
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  to take classes for animation. So I got to learn how to develop animation
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  and putting together serious pitch booklets and them. From there, uh, working
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  together with some friends on some other animation projects. And then of course me
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  Ampathy and we learned together how to put together comic book and then how to
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  write for the on the book and all the little tricks trying to put the
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  comic together. You mean little tricks are putting the comic book together, like
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  how to do those speech bubbles, for example, and how to properly layer
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  the comic book the artwork and displaying the boxes for the each panel. M
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  So it's so you create each panel layer by layer for me, yes,
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  because it's just easier to do it that way in case I have to move
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  certain images over room for the speech bubbles. Yeah, I do remember something
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  that from because remember when we all worked together, because I used to do
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  some graphic arts too, and everything right and and sign development all that kind
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  of stuff, and I remember all the layers in And one of the things
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  that people didn't get that never tried anything at all in graphic arts was why
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  it took so long for something to say eve as you have right, It's
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  like those people think that that it's like one of the reasons why it takes
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  so long for things to develop is because they most people think of a single
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  they think of the like texts, it's a single like a word documents,
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  only a single layer. It's like the zip zapp. It's it's saved in.
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  And uh when you have like I don't know, like the your your
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  background right, that that tells a mythrol that could be I see like two
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  different types of texts, and and this the son that's just behind your your
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  head. It's like two sons, right, It's like and each one of
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  those things in of itself had to be a layer. Mm hmm. And
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  then don't forget the little the little moon in this corner and then see yeah,
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  other moon on this side. So all that all that work to create
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  each layer. And then you have to put the layers together in just the
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  right way so that the shading and everything else works also mm hmm. It's
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  like and then you hit save and then you go get a coffee and you
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  come back and you look at the screen and it's like, oh, it's
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  still saving okay, Uh, I'll cook get a cookie now. And you
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  finished the coffee and the cookie and they'll behold it's saved. Do you remember
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  that so many moons ago? Yeah? So it was always always lots of
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  fun, right, m you know, it was like the waiting part that
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  he had this for it to all come together. Well, a lot of
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  computers are more powerful now I can handle more data. But yeah, I
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  remember I remember turning on a computer going to get a coffee or something,
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  coming back and it's still uploading. Yeah, yeah, yeah type for a
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  computer. Yeah. So well, it's the fun part of about it,
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  all right. It's a lot of hard work that you put into it mm
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  hmm and creating it. And do you are you able to like reuse like
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  like say that background that's behind you, Like if we were to take away
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  the bubble that has the the texts and it two levels and it takes it.
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  If we were to remove those and you had that background, could you
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  introduce characters straight into it? Yep. But beauty of having layers is on
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  the boat, so you can actually like literally remove the go in click click,
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  okay, and layers gone now click click put that layer in and it
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  can't kind of kind of helps the work move along a little faster. Yeah,
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  And I don't do usually don't do a click click. I used drop
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  and drag, drop and drag. Yeah. So so yeah, so you're
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  having a lot of fun like building methrol and and what's the satisfaction of watching
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  it come to life? Mum, It's kind of great. And the as
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  I go along, I get to be more creative with the the world itself
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  and the vehicles that these these characters drive in. It's not not like normal
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  cars that we have. The cars are different, and I kind of in
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  order to make sure that I got the perspective correctly, I do a unique
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  way of uh going into Blender and modeling the rooms or the vehicles in the
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  three D and then rendering it so that I could take each perspective and kind
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  of traceful for it. Mm hmm. Okay, very cool. So when's
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  the big release soon? I'm going to say either maybe sometime in October.
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  Again, we're on a process of having it proof read for a grammar mm
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  hmm, and then once that's completed, then we fall on launch and it
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  should be within a few weeks. Again, I probably would recommend following us
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  on social media because that will uh we will definitely be announcing the launches on
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  social media. Cool, best ways to find you on social media and find
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  the whole project. I have the website talesomithroll dot com if you don't mind
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  adding that in and it trusts me, it will be in in the show
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  notes and the other social media outlets that you're one on tells some mythroll dot
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  com. There is h links to our social media on Twitter and on the
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  Facebook group. Okay, very cool. Well, Marie, I hope you
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  have a good launch and I look forward to actually getting my copy of the
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  comic book because hey, I'm already a fan. All right, So thank
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  everybody for listening, and go detailsomthrol dot com. And look at this is
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  our merch page too. What's that? Don't forget to visit our merch page,
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  our march march page, merch merchant Oh yeah, merchandise, don't forget
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  merchandising, merchandising, merchandising, get your get your t shirt? Yes,
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  yes, yeah, so so it's also on the same website, right,
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  uh yeah, there's a link there and you can see all the different march
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  that we have. But you're also interested in checking out the other designs,
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  we also have those as well. Yeah, very cool. So again,
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  go go to talesmithrol dot com. Check out the merchandise, get your copy
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