The Joy of Writing: Overcoming Brick Walls and Finding Inspiration

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you. Welcome to Crazy Fitness by Healthy Living

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Podcast, where we strive to motivate people who

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are on the autism spectrum to live healthy lifestyles.

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If you think this podcast is only for people

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who are autistic, then think again. Whether you

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are autistic or not, we have a mix of content

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from healthy living to everything in between

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that makes up a balanced and healthy life. Autism

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is our backbone and we strive to support the

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autism community by motivating, inspiring, and

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educating everyone about what autism is. Please

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welcome your host. host Jimmy Clare, who is a

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motivational speaker, autism advocate, author,

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and founder of crazyfitnessguide .com. Welcome

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to another episode of Crazy Fitness Guide, a

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hot to learn podcast that's free to learn motivation

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with Crazy Fitness Guide. Now, before we get

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started, I know I don't usually wear a hat on

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this show, and it's not going to be a trend,

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I can promise you that, but today, let's just

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say, and I'm going to keep it. Very short and

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sweet. I'll just say I'm just having a little

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bit of an off day. And I'm keeping it at that.

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So, yeah. Don't mind the hat. It's not a promotion

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of any sort. It just says Tufts on it. It's a

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school in Philadelphia. One of my friends went

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to there. So, that's it. It's not going to become

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a trend. Promise. I'm also this crazy fitness

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guy, Seth. And then I have to... say that but

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anyway that's all that's going to be said and

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I'm just going to have my guest come out and

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he today's guest very special guest he's been

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on the show before but he has his new book out

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and yeah I haven't read any of his books yet

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but I'm going to read his books his name is Jay

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Reese and he's well I don't know I haven't read

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his series yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

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And the reason I have him come back out here,

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come back because he's a very, I've seen his

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work. He is a great author. I don't know if he

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still has his podcast and whatnot, but he is

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such a great author and whatnot. And he always

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has great insights, great conversation on this

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and all around. amazing person so let's welcome

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my now and i'll save my other spiel so later

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if i have any so welcome jay reese hey jay hey

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jimmy yo you're gonna make me cry with that intro

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man wow that's touching sweet thank you you're

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welcome uh so before we get started can you tell

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us a little bit about who you are what you do

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how you got started and why you got started Oh,

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well, absolutely. The short of it is, is that

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I'm just a fun -loving vegan dad who wants to

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spread goodness and to help hopefully motivate

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others to fulfill their dreams. Yeah, my books

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are technically classified as young adult fantasy

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adventure novels, but I like to think of them

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more as parables to just life lessons of things

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that are going on. And yeah, I'm just a guy who

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tries his best to do as much good as he possibly

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can without any harm to others. That's the sense

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to me. That's a very, that's funny. That's a

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very, very short, short way. And a good thing

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because like, you know. I had some guests who,

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when they filled out my form, they gave me a

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huge big movie introduction or credits to. I'm

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like, now how do you want me to phrase this?

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Do you want me to give you fireworks on the screen?

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I can't do this with a stool. Well, Jimmy, me

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and you have known each other for a few years

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now. Do me a favor. If you ever catch me anywhere

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and the intro is five to 10 minutes long, go

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ahead and call me out right then and there, because

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I promise you, I never want to be that person.

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I always want to keep it simple, happy and just

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I want to be of service to people. And I don't

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think that does anybody a service when you're

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prattling off 20 million thousand accomplishments

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that nobody really cares about. Well, that's

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just my personal thing. I'm going to keep my

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mouth shut on that one just because I know many

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people. I'm not going to name any specific names

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or anything because that's the worldview. I don't

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understand what you're saying. So my first question

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for you is how... I should tell you my second

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question, but my second question for you is,

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can you give us a little synopsis of your first

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book, just a broad one, not to give any way details

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or anything else, but just very short and sweet.

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Well, absolutely. So Legacy, my first book, is

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pictured behind me for all those who might be

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watching. Legacy is a YA fantasy adventure novel

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centering around Zolani and Rain's search for

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peace. Once they think they find it, they get

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a knock at the door. And lo and behold, like

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most books, there has to be some drama. They

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get a royal message from the king saying, hey,

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you need to come back and answer for everything

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you've done. Well, at that point, they have to

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figure out if they're going to actually take

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their two kids and run or if they're actually

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going to fight for the peace that they so do

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deserve. And that happens to be the first chapter,

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Jimmy. That already caught my interest, too,

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because before we got on here, I was telling

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you the book that I'm reading. And I'm going

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to say the reason why I can't name it at the

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moment is because I might be getting the author

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on my show as well. And if I give it away, then

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it's going to give away who the guest is. And

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it hasn't happened yet. So sneak peek on that.

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I hope you'll tell. I'll tell you off air, but

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you can't tell anyone else just because it may

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or may not change. Stuff is still in the works.

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But anyway, what I really liked about her books

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that caught my attention was that I see some

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of the things that are happening in the book

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that is happening in real life. And I was like,

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why does this sound familiar? And I'm not getting

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critical or anything, but it was like, she really

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does. I always appreciate when an author or a

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writer of a TV show takes you on an adventure.

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Yeah. I'll give you an example. You may be heard

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of the show Avatar The Last Airbender. Well,

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they always have, you know, they have like, or

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genocide in the series, but they don't preach

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to you. You're on a journey, and they don't feel

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like they don't preach at you. It's like, you're

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doing this wrong, you're doing this wrong, you're

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doing this wrong. I like authors who do that.

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And so it's like, oh, I'm not being talked to

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like I'm getting scolded to my parents. It's

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like, you've done this bad thing, blah, blah,

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blah. Yeah. I thought I'm reading something to

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be enjoyed and entertained and learning some

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lessons along the way and not to be point fingers

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at. No, I absolutely agree. I personally don't

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want to talk down to anybody and I don't like

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it when people do it to me. I can listen to a

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story, which is honestly how a lot or most of

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us learn anyway. I feel we're all better for

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it. So, yeah, I agree with you. So my next question

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for you is what inspired you to start this series?

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Oh, it was my family. I used to read the daughter

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and kids when they were younger. They are currently

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at the time of this recording, 14 and 18. And

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they were a wee little tights. I used to read

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to them all the time. And the stories that we

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read. Uh, they were cute, but a lot of them didn't

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look like us. Uh, they didn't hold our values.

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And by that, I mean, uh, the kids just got their

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way. The picture kind of like dopey just there

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just to show that they had parents in the story.

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And they just, they just weren't in my opinion,

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family values, the families bicker. There was

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arguing not to say family don't do that, but

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I like to think that there are worlds where families.

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get along for the most part. They help each other

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out. Not that they can't argue, not that they

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don't disagree. In my book, the family does argue

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and they do disagree. But I think overall that

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family should work together if they're healthy

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and functioning. And that's pretty much family.

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So all of the drama more or less tends to come

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from outside the family versus what happens in

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the family. I love that, especially because I

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think everybody can relate to family drama. I

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also think that people can relate to maybe hardships

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with friends or other things. And the book I

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was just telling you about as well, there's characters

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in the book lately I've been seeing. More and

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more, this can sound kind of wrong, but I'm not

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trying to sound in a wrong way, but he's kind

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of, I feel like he's kind of part of me too.

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And I was like, huh, I can see. And I was like,

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this character kind of represents part of me.

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And I was like, because this character had extra

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challenges. It authorized a disability. And I

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was like, wow. I was like, he's been through

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people talking behind his back, saying bullying

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and whatnot. And I was like, wow. And then these

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other characters that are friends with him, basically

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one of them happens to be his, I'm not going

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to spoil it for anybody. Let's just say that

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he really likes the character. And the funny

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thing, the thing I find intriguing is that I

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can see myself in many of the characters, the

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main four characters in the book. I can get very

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hot -headed. I can get down like this person.

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I can be really relaxed like this other person.

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And I can be like a total genius at some other

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point like this other person. It's like, damn.

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I had like four characters in one of my whole

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body. It's like, no wonder I can't get any sleep

00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:33.519
at night. No, I get you completely. Being able

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to connect with a character I think makes any

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story that much worthwhile. I'm trying to think

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of the last time I really connected with a character

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from a story that I was reading. None is coming

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to mind, but I understand what you mean. Particularly

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if you're able to connect with more than one

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character. Yeah, I like that. I can see that.

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To be honest, I've read a lot of books over the

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years, but this is the first one I've ever seen.

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know that I can connect with their character

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deep down. Or like some of these other books,

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like one of them happens to be Alex Ryder from

00:18:24.089 --> 00:18:28.390
Anthony Horowitz, 14 -year -old spy. And I was

00:18:28.390 --> 00:18:31.710
like, boy, I wish I was a spy when I was 14 years

00:18:31.710 --> 00:18:33.910
old. And he's like, I've got cool gadgets. The

00:18:33.910 --> 00:18:37.450
hell? Those are really nice small gadgets. I

00:18:37.450 --> 00:18:42.980
want my spike. Right? Yeah. So my next question

00:18:42.980 --> 00:18:52.119
for you is being an author, what makes you continue

00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:56.579
to keep writing when you feel like when you hit

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a brick wall? Because I noticed for myself when

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I hit a brick wall, I've been working on a bigger

00:19:03.759 --> 00:19:07.140
project of mine. And when I hit a brick wall,

00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:11.000
it would have been because of college work. And

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then when I'm done at college for the semester,

00:19:13.579 --> 00:19:16.380
I'm like, how do I get back into this thing?

00:19:16.519 --> 00:19:18.299
And it's like, I try to go back into it. And

00:19:18.299 --> 00:19:21.000
it's like, still writing, still writing. And

00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:23.579
it's like, and then somebody interrupts me. Oh,

00:19:23.579 --> 00:19:30.539
crap. Now I can't get back into it again. Stay

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regret it. Oh, wow. Yeah. I'm speaking of relating.

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Yeah, I related to almost everything you just

00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:54.900
said. So I think it depends on what that roadblock

00:20:54.900 --> 00:20:58.759
is or what that brick wall is, because my approach

00:20:58.759 --> 00:21:03.640
might be different. So currently we have a lot

00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:06.359
of dogs on our property for various different

00:21:06.359 --> 00:21:12.529
reasons. And those dogs bark. People go past

00:21:12.529 --> 00:21:14.809
in the neighborhood, things happening around

00:21:14.809 --> 00:21:17.890
us, just the dogs bark. And in my house, I can

00:21:17.890 --> 00:21:21.170
hear them. So a lot of times I'm trying my best

00:21:21.170 --> 00:21:23.710
to write. It's hard to write when you got dogs

00:21:23.710 --> 00:21:26.490
barking all day long. So there was a time where

00:21:26.490 --> 00:21:27.650
I would say, you know what, I'm just not going

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to write today. But then I found that I wasn't

00:21:30.410 --> 00:21:36.869
getting any writing done. So luckily, I don't

00:21:36.869 --> 00:21:40.940
remember if I saw a video or just. A thought

00:21:40.940 --> 00:21:44.160
popped in my head, but I got myself some noise.

00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:51.359
I have right here and I use those. So that helped

00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:54.380
me get over that that block wall to write for

00:21:54.380 --> 00:21:58.339
that. When it comes to like distractions by family,

00:21:58.420 --> 00:22:02.299
my family knows that I have a block to writing

00:22:02.299 --> 00:22:05.759
time that from four o 'clock or excuse me, like

00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:09.759
four thirty in the morning. to roughly 11 o 'clock

00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:15.019
um in the morning from 4 30 to 11 that's my writing

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time unless it's an emergency or something just

00:22:17.660 --> 00:22:20.119
like the world's falling apart please let me

00:22:20.119 --> 00:22:22.039
write let me be creative let me get my stuff

00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:25.759
done um there's times where at first they won't

00:22:25.759 --> 00:22:28.480
respect those boundaries after that after a quick

00:22:28.480 --> 00:22:30.980
conversation We got it handled. So I handled

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that wall. But then there are times where stuff

00:22:33.660 --> 00:22:35.720
happens where like, you know, I had to fix the

00:22:35.720 --> 00:22:38.779
house. I can't write or just life happens because

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life is always going to happen. And I give myself

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grace to understand that in a perfect world,

00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:48.420
I could write all day, any day if I wanted to.

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But this isn't a perfect world. So I have to

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understand that things are going to come up.

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And even my own procrastination or my own. self

00:23:00.290 --> 00:23:04.190
-interference, let's say, sometimes that gets

00:23:04.190 --> 00:23:06.130
in the way. And like, I don't feel like writing.

00:23:06.130 --> 00:23:08.849
Luckily, I have a point now where I'll just go

00:23:08.849 --> 00:23:12.750
write even when I don't feel like. But there

00:23:12.750 --> 00:23:14.450
are times where, you know, I'm like, you know

00:23:14.450 --> 00:23:17.930
what, let me create, let me get to a zone to

00:23:17.930 --> 00:23:22.529
just relax, to like watch a movie or do something

00:23:22.529 --> 00:23:26.069
that will help me go back and write later. So

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sometimes walls are good. If that makes sense.

00:23:29.829 --> 00:23:37.750
I agree. For me, to be honest, I used to write

00:23:37.750 --> 00:23:42.289
a lot on my website, but I've been getting a

00:23:42.289 --> 00:23:45.930
lot of guest writers because I've been trying

00:23:45.930 --> 00:23:49.809
to get into the habit of writing for my own project.

00:23:49.990 --> 00:23:53.029
And because it's like, is this the flip side?

00:23:55.059 --> 00:23:58.980
backseat a lot of pressure off my shoulders because

00:23:58.980 --> 00:24:02.059
I I don't know I'm the only writer and it's like

00:24:02.059 --> 00:24:04.119
there's a lot of people who want to be guest

00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:06.400
writers and it's like I want to be guest writers

00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:09.519
on other websites and whatnot I don't want to

00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:14.519
just be me me me me I and it's like I know as

00:24:14.519 --> 00:24:17.200
a magic mirror I was like with mostly a lot of

00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:20.400
things of me but it's like I want to be mean

00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:24.160
on other things and not just just hey i'm just

00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:27.000
gonna be the writer of everything and be a podcaster

00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:30.920
on top of that because like and it's like because

00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:34.180
you know it's either because when i started like

00:24:34.180 --> 00:24:38.559
a thing it's like do i want to be a writer or

00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:41.160
be a podcaster it's like let's do both and it's

00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:47.759
like yeah i'll review both well it's it's yeah

00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:50.279
like i i i understand it because um it's funny

00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:52.799
That I was actually having a similar conversation

00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:55.960
with a close friend of mine. We both are creative.

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And as a creative person, you tend to like to

00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:01.980
do a lot of creative things. Like there usually

00:25:01.980 --> 00:25:05.019
isn't just one thing you want or need to do.

00:25:05.500 --> 00:25:08.819
So we were discussing how do you do multiple

00:25:08.819 --> 00:25:16.660
things? Well, my work around usually is I have

00:25:16.660 --> 00:25:20.230
designated days where I do things. So like. Uh,

00:25:20.369 --> 00:25:25.130
currently Thursdays are my writing days. Uh,

00:25:25.210 --> 00:25:30.190
Wednesdays are usually my, my paperwork office

00:25:30.190 --> 00:25:32.109
day. I'm doing all the stuff that I really don't

00:25:32.109 --> 00:25:34.609
want to do. Like the unfun stuff, like sending

00:25:34.609 --> 00:25:36.990
emails, answering emails, all that lovely stuff.

00:25:37.230 --> 00:25:41.390
Um, website design, like all the stuff that isn't

00:25:41.390 --> 00:25:44.630
creative for me. Um, now my friend, on the other

00:25:44.630 --> 00:25:47.890
hand, he does it by hours. Like he has a set

00:25:47.890 --> 00:25:51.670
hour where he writes. He has a set hour where

00:25:51.670 --> 00:25:53.829
he answers email like he can break it down like

00:25:53.829 --> 00:25:59.349
that. Me, that's too much change for me. I need

00:25:59.349 --> 00:26:01.930
like when I'm focused, I need to focus. So like

00:26:01.930 --> 00:26:08.930
you. For me to maintain my website. That has

00:26:08.930 --> 00:26:11.490
to be a whole day for me to do. I don't do anything

00:26:11.490 --> 00:26:13.430
else. I do the website. Then there's another

00:26:13.430 --> 00:26:17.880
day where I just write and work on that. I do

00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:20.319
know there are people, there are some very famous

00:26:20.319 --> 00:26:24.259
writers out there who have ghostwriters, and

00:26:24.259 --> 00:26:26.460
I'm not hating on anyone who does anything like

00:26:26.460 --> 00:26:30.460
that. And what they do is they, I guess they're

00:26:30.460 --> 00:26:32.380
so high up in their career where they're just

00:26:32.380 --> 00:26:35.119
busy doing everything that they do. They'll have

00:26:35.119 --> 00:26:38.259
an idea. They'll send that idea off to a ghostwriter.

00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:43.420
That ghostwriter will write the first. one, two

00:26:43.420 --> 00:26:46.799
drafts of that idea, send it back to that author

00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:51.140
and their team. And then that author will take

00:26:51.140 --> 00:26:53.660
it from there. And yo, if that's what somebody

00:26:53.660 --> 00:26:58.099
wants to do to get stuff done, I don't necessarily

00:26:58.099 --> 00:27:02.559
have a problem with that because I think it ain't

00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:04.259
about you trying to be successful. You have to

00:27:04.259 --> 00:27:06.000
learn what you're good at and what you're not

00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:09.220
good at. And if you're getting bogged down in

00:27:09.220 --> 00:27:12.180
all the things that you're not good at, You're

00:27:12.180 --> 00:27:13.920
never going to get the time to do what you're

00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:16.720
good at. And then everybody suffers. You're not

00:27:16.720 --> 00:27:19.819
going to be of service to anybody. So as soon

00:27:19.819 --> 00:27:23.019
as you're able to, for lack of better words,

00:27:23.099 --> 00:27:25.640
pass off what you're not good at to other people

00:27:25.640 --> 00:27:28.299
who are good at it, it's going to be that much

00:27:28.299 --> 00:27:32.740
harder for you to succeed. Now, a lot of the

00:27:32.740 --> 00:27:34.180
things that I like to do that I'm not really

00:27:34.180 --> 00:27:36.539
good at, I like to do them. So I keep doing them.

00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:39.599
But maybe one point I'll pass things. I don't

00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:44.349
know. We'll see. I'm kind of like right there

00:27:44.349 --> 00:27:50.390
with you as well. Once I cut down on everything,

00:27:50.549 --> 00:27:53.069
I spread some stuff out throughout the month

00:27:53.069 --> 00:27:58.009
because I used to have, as a creative person

00:27:58.009 --> 00:28:03.069
as well, I decided there's some tasks that I

00:28:03.069 --> 00:28:07.359
did like seven days a week and like, why? I was

00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:08.900
like, is this thing going to serve me anymore?

00:28:09.299 --> 00:28:11.700
Because I got to take a look at my content schedule.

00:28:11.839 --> 00:28:15.579
I was like, I don't want to post an article once

00:28:15.579 --> 00:28:21.559
a month. I'm listening to a podcast once a month.

00:28:22.859 --> 00:28:27.220
Why am I doing this one task seven, six, five,

00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:30.150
or seven days a week? That doesn't make any sense

00:28:30.150 --> 00:28:33.930
to me. And I can even post my podcast on the

00:28:33.930 --> 00:28:36.730
platform, on this one platform. It's only for

00:28:36.730 --> 00:28:40.910
articles. And I'm like, okay, let's do it once

00:28:40.910 --> 00:28:43.509
a month, on the first of the month. And then

00:28:43.509 --> 00:28:48.829
I spread it out. A lot of things, like, for me,

00:28:48.890 --> 00:28:54.349
my admin test, my admin day stuff is all on Mondays,

00:28:54.349 --> 00:28:58.329
just because something always... I don't say

00:28:58.329 --> 00:29:01.230
always, but most times when something breaks,

00:29:01.509 --> 00:29:04.450
it happens over the weekend. And it's like, do

00:29:04.450 --> 00:29:07.569
I want to tackle that weather weekend on Friday?

00:29:07.990 --> 00:29:10.349
And I tried that for a little bit. And it's like,

00:29:10.450 --> 00:29:12.390
yeah, let's go on the weekend. Very annoying.

00:29:12.750 --> 00:29:15.210
I was like, that's a great way to experience

00:29:15.210 --> 00:29:17.490
the weekend. I was like, let's do it on Monday.

00:29:17.829 --> 00:29:20.539
And I was like, because it's like. I mean, it's

00:29:20.539 --> 00:29:22.299
not a great way to start the year together, but

00:29:22.299 --> 00:29:24.200
I'm thinking it's either going to have to be

00:29:24.200 --> 00:29:27.799
Friday or Monday. And I picked Monday because

00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:30.519
I knew Monday was not going to be an interviewing

00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:33.740
day for me. And so it's like, Friday's my interview

00:29:33.740 --> 00:29:38.900
day. I want to do it. And so I had to just scrap

00:29:38.900 --> 00:29:43.720
it. And so I like the rethink I've done because...

00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:46.700
There's some days I'm like really busy where

00:29:46.700 --> 00:29:49.000
I'm mark feeding and boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:29:49.339 --> 00:29:52.400
And then there's other days, like one day I have

00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:57.819
like 32 tasks in my digital to -do list. And

00:29:57.819 --> 00:30:01.740
then the next day is like 17. This week has been

00:30:01.740 --> 00:30:06.660
like 12, 13, 14. So it's kind of like more easily

00:30:06.660 --> 00:30:09.400
spread out. So it's like, if I have to pick four

00:30:09.400 --> 00:30:12.579
days out of the whole month to be very, very

00:30:12.579 --> 00:30:16.240
busy, it's like. I'll take those odds. I'll take

00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:22.180
those numbers. No. No, I agree with you. And

00:30:22.180 --> 00:30:25.559
I'm glad you were able to assess what you needed

00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:28.839
and what you were doing because that helped you

00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:31.859
alleviate or I shouldn't say alleviate, but that

00:30:31.859 --> 00:30:33.799
helps you change the structure of everything

00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:36.200
you were doing to be able to get more done. I

00:30:36.200 --> 00:30:38.460
know in the intro you were mentioning the podcast

00:30:38.460 --> 00:30:43.039
that I was doing about a year or so ago. I had

00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:45.140
to make a decision to pull the plug on that because

00:30:45.140 --> 00:30:48.519
it was taking me away from other endeavors that

00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:51.559
I thought were serving me and serving the community

00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:56.200
that I work with. And I found a short workaround.

00:30:56.299 --> 00:30:59.700
A friend of mine, me and her, we go live every

00:30:59.700 --> 00:31:02.180
Friday on TikTok. We're taking a short hiatus

00:31:02.180 --> 00:31:04.500
right now just because it's summertime. But every

00:31:04.500 --> 00:31:08.299
Friday on TikTok is where we go live just to

00:31:08.299 --> 00:31:10.220
answer author questions, to spread motivation,

00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:13.319
have fun. That whole kind of thing. And that

00:31:13.319 --> 00:31:15.700
was my workaround. I don't feel the pressure

00:31:15.700 --> 00:31:18.599
that I was having from the podcast, which I'm

00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:21.180
sure you can understand that completely. I don't

00:31:21.180 --> 00:31:23.119
really have to worry about marketing as much.

00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:25.220
So there was just ways that I could just get

00:31:25.220 --> 00:31:27.420
around that. I'm sure I'll go back to podcasting

00:31:27.420 --> 00:31:29.759
at some point. It's just for that time period,

00:31:29.819 --> 00:31:32.420
for that season, I kind of had to let it go.

00:31:32.539 --> 00:31:36.240
But I had to reevaluate my situation to make

00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:38.619
that decision, just like how you did with yours.

00:31:40.189 --> 00:31:45.309
Yeah, right. At the moment, for my podcast, I

00:31:45.309 --> 00:31:52.230
haven't said this as cheating, because some of

00:31:52.230 --> 00:31:54.569
my friends joke with me, like, oh, that's cheating.

00:31:54.769 --> 00:31:58.470
It's like, oh, please. It's like, I don't want

00:31:58.470 --> 00:32:03.710
to cheat if I could. I'll give you a quick example

00:32:03.710 --> 00:32:08.369
on that. Anytime when I got my video games growing

00:32:08.369 --> 00:32:12.509
up, It was either my brother or my cousins who

00:32:12.509 --> 00:32:16.029
got the cheat codes. And like, yeah, I used them,

00:32:16.109 --> 00:32:20.230
but it's not like I came. They left it on the

00:32:20.230 --> 00:32:23.670
desk, you know, in the basement. And I was like,

00:32:23.690 --> 00:32:27.869
oh, right. And I was like, I got it. So I admit

00:32:27.869 --> 00:32:30.970
on that stuff when I was younger, but it was

00:32:30.970 --> 00:32:33.109
never me. It was like, I'm going to Google how

00:32:33.109 --> 00:32:35.869
to do this or how to do that. That wasn't me.

00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:41.960
So what I was going to say and how to relate

00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:47.440
it to the podcast was over the years I bought

00:32:47.440 --> 00:32:52.559
some marketing tools just to help me to spread

00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:56.160
out my content and carry some content that I

00:32:56.160 --> 00:32:59.740
find interesting from other publishers that I

00:32:59.740 --> 00:33:02.160
wouldn't necessarily come across just on my daily

00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:06.200
Google searches. And I was like, This is not

00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:09.740
cheating. This is me working smarter, not working

00:33:09.740 --> 00:33:15.299
smarter, not harder. And so I was thinking at

00:33:15.299 --> 00:33:17.559
three o 'clock in the morning, I was like, I

00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:19.720
scheduled that out. And it was like, that's cheating.

00:33:19.900 --> 00:33:22.940
It was like, you think anybody, you think celebrities

00:33:22.940 --> 00:33:27.579
automatically are doing this here and there by

00:33:27.579 --> 00:33:30.220
themselves? It's like, no. And like, do you think

00:33:30.220 --> 00:33:34.099
other marketers are being manually across their

00:33:34.099 --> 00:33:39.819
platform? And it's like, well, I can do it. And

00:33:39.819 --> 00:33:42.160
it's like, who is it can do it? Why can't I do

00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:45.000
it? And it's like, I'm only one person. And it's

00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.259
like, they're helping me with funds. I do not.

00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:52.240
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with having a tool

00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:55.599
that helps make your life easier. Don't get me

00:33:55.599 --> 00:33:57.160
wrong. Like, yeah, there are certain advantages

00:33:57.160 --> 00:34:02.880
people have just by their economic status or

00:34:03.549 --> 00:34:07.230
their gender, race, whatever. But when you have

00:34:07.230 --> 00:34:09.889
literal tools that just help your life be easier,

00:34:10.070 --> 00:34:12.150
yeah, there's nothing wrong with that. Like almost

00:34:12.150 --> 00:34:15.429
every social media app now has some type of scheduling

00:34:15.429 --> 00:34:18.409
filter in it where you can schedule your post.

00:34:18.630 --> 00:34:22.389
A lot of people do that. I know there are celebrities,

00:34:22.630 --> 00:34:27.289
influential people who hire social media managers.

00:34:27.449 --> 00:34:30.190
So all they have to do is give the content. to

00:34:30.190 --> 00:34:32.889
that manager, that manager will edit it, make

00:34:32.889 --> 00:34:37.110
it all pretty and post it where it needs to post.

00:34:37.929 --> 00:34:43.889
So is that cheating? I mean, we debate that all

00:34:43.889 --> 00:34:48.550
day, but a tool is a tool. It's not accessible

00:34:48.550 --> 00:34:50.889
to you or you don't want to use it, but a tool

00:34:50.889 --> 00:34:52.949
is a tool. I don't see anything wrong with sterling

00:34:52.949 --> 00:34:56.429
posts. Yeah, exactly. Of all the things that

00:34:56.429 --> 00:35:00.820
could happen. Oh, sorry, go ahead. I was just

00:35:00.820 --> 00:35:03.900
going to say, exactly. It's like, you know, it's

00:35:03.900 --> 00:35:06.780
one thing if this tool is totally off limits

00:35:06.780 --> 00:35:10.719
to the world, but I purchased it with no money.

00:35:10.920 --> 00:35:14.239
It wasn't like I went on the dark web just to

00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:17.639
look at it. It was on AppSumo, and AppSumo was

00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:20.159
up into everyone. I just happened to be like,

00:35:20.179 --> 00:35:23.360
huh, you know what? I'm tired paying the subscription

00:35:23.360 --> 00:35:26.360
for this. I go with the lifetime version. And

00:35:26.360 --> 00:35:28.400
like this company, it's a lot of those subscription,

00:35:28.460 --> 00:35:32.500
but they were giving lifetime deals or a certain

00:35:32.500 --> 00:35:34.840
amount of price. And I was like, okay, I'm not

00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:37.659
made of money, but if this saves me time from

00:35:37.659 --> 00:35:40.599
posting to one network, to one network, to another

00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:46.059
network. And it's like, yeah, I'm in. Well, that's

00:35:46.059 --> 00:35:49.730
the, that's the thing. Again, this is a conversation

00:35:49.730 --> 00:35:52.489
I have with a family member a long time ago,

00:35:52.650 --> 00:35:56.449
because the house I was staying at at that time,

00:35:56.489 --> 00:36:02.210
I had I had a lawn maintenance service come and

00:36:02.210 --> 00:36:06.510
take care of my lawn. And my friend or family

00:36:06.510 --> 00:36:08.050
member at the time, like, oh, why don't you just

00:36:08.050 --> 00:36:11.030
do that yourself? It's not that big. And I just

00:36:11.030 --> 00:36:12.969
look, I'm like, it's about the time. Like, if

00:36:12.969 --> 00:36:15.780
I do my yard, they'll take me. hour and a half,

00:36:15.820 --> 00:36:17.719
two hours. They come and do it. I don't have

00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:19.420
to worry about it. Well, yeah, you got to pay

00:36:19.420 --> 00:36:23.239
them to do it. Well, yeah, because I've valued

00:36:23.239 --> 00:36:27.179
my time and my time for me is money. That time

00:36:27.179 --> 00:36:30.039
that me cutting the grass, I could have been

00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:32.460
writing another chapter. I could have been marketing.

00:36:32.539 --> 00:36:33.659
And there's so many other things I could have

00:36:33.659 --> 00:36:38.679
been doing outside of my lawn care. And my family

00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:40.780
member just wasn't understanding it. They're

00:36:40.780 --> 00:36:42.760
like, oh, my God, I just like just do it like

00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:45.329
you could save that money. Yes, I could, but

00:36:45.329 --> 00:36:47.469
I'm making more money by doing what I can be

00:36:47.469 --> 00:36:50.250
doing instead of cutting grass. If I enjoyed

00:36:50.250 --> 00:36:52.409
cutting grass and that brought me peace and helped

00:36:52.409 --> 00:36:56.030
me like be creative. Sure. But it does nothing

00:36:56.030 --> 00:36:58.889
but add stress to my life. So why not me pay

00:36:58.889 --> 00:37:01.489
to do it for, you know, and I think that's kind

00:37:01.489 --> 00:37:04.469
of the same vein of like, yeah, if you bought

00:37:04.469 --> 00:37:10.309
a system that helps you send your things out,

00:37:10.429 --> 00:37:14.610
schedule your post. and saves you time you can

00:37:14.610 --> 00:37:16.190
go out and do anything else so you don't have

00:37:16.190 --> 00:37:18.469
to remember oh my god i gotta send this out at

00:37:18.469 --> 00:37:22.070
five o 'clock on friday on this post on two o

00:37:22.070 --> 00:37:25.130
'clock on wednesday get rid of that headache

00:37:25.130 --> 00:37:28.789
you can have more capacity to think about all

00:37:28.789 --> 00:37:31.730
the things you really need to do again i think

00:37:31.730 --> 00:37:35.010
that's i think that's the win right there exactly

00:37:35.010 --> 00:37:37.489
i don't think your friend was knowing exactly

00:37:37.489 --> 00:37:41.659
respectfully I think it was just like, he always

00:37:41.659 --> 00:37:44.320
teases me and everything, but I was like, really?

00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:47.619
And it's like, it's like, geez, it's like, it's

00:37:47.619 --> 00:37:50.659
like, if this is cheating, he's like, well, fine

00:37:50.659 --> 00:37:53.320
by me. I'll, I'll, I'll cheat them. And it's

00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:56.579
like, it's like me cheating for me, cheating.

00:37:57.019 --> 00:38:00.340
And my definition is like somebody buying followers

00:38:00.340 --> 00:38:05.199
off of, off of some scamming website. Yeah. Yeah.

00:38:08.059 --> 00:38:12.840
I'm not doing that. I'm not going to spend my

00:38:12.840 --> 00:38:15.099
money on that because I know that's going to

00:38:15.099 --> 00:38:19.480
be full of farts and fake accounts. Yeah. That

00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:24.940
doesn't sound legit at all. Wink, wink. Yeah.

00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:29.460
Yeah, right? Trust me. I used to work with, oh,

00:38:29.460 --> 00:38:33.739
I had a partner who me and her We're collaborating

00:38:33.739 --> 00:38:37.659
on videos and she wanted to do that. She wanted

00:38:37.659 --> 00:38:40.739
to like boost the engagement to buy followers

00:38:40.739 --> 00:38:44.260
and a whole bunch of other stuff. And this is

00:38:44.260 --> 00:38:47.480
like when it was new. So no one really knew what

00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:49.599
was going on. You just knew like, oh, how did

00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:51.199
they get so many followers that quick? They must

00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:54.760
have had a video that popped off. And I kept

00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:56.599
asking her about it because I didn't really know.

00:38:56.679 --> 00:38:59.500
I just figured it was just I figured the algorithm

00:38:59.500 --> 00:39:03.809
would show it. to people who fit our demographic.

00:39:04.030 --> 00:39:06.329
But like you're saying, Jimmy, no, it goes to

00:39:06.329 --> 00:39:08.710
fake accounts, bots, all these other things.

00:39:08.789 --> 00:39:10.750
And then it actually ends up hurting you in the

00:39:10.750 --> 00:39:14.630
long run because once you stop paying or once

00:39:14.630 --> 00:39:22.929
you frustrate people so much, your engagement

00:39:22.929 --> 00:39:25.329
just drops down and then your videos just die

00:39:25.329 --> 00:39:29.469
because it has nowhere to go. All that inflated

00:39:29.469 --> 00:39:32.789
engagement. does nothing for you except for just

00:39:32.789 --> 00:39:38.170
to show people the numbers. I agree with that.

00:39:38.730 --> 00:39:45.530
My next question for you is how did you come

00:39:45.530 --> 00:39:47.630
up with the name of the book? Did you always

00:39:47.630 --> 00:39:50.730
have the name in your head when you were starting

00:39:50.730 --> 00:39:54.929
it? If not, how did you come up with that name?

00:39:58.050 --> 00:40:02.760
Well, honestly, For the first book, Legacy, the

00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:06.039
name just came to me one day while I was thinking

00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:13.280
about it. The first story was about. Was about.

00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:20.159
I'm trying to think. And it was a very sad story

00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:24.840
to say the least. I let my daughter read it and

00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:26.699
she came back to me. She's like, Daddy, this

00:40:26.699 --> 00:40:29.739
sucks. Thank you for the feedback. I appreciate

00:40:29.739 --> 00:40:35.719
it. Thank you for your honesty. So I had to retool

00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:37.840
everything and rewrite and figure some things

00:40:37.840 --> 00:40:40.179
out and where I wanted to start to go. And I

00:40:40.179 --> 00:40:44.239
was trying to think of what do I want this story

00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:47.000
to hold? What would the title be? What's in the

00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:49.579
story? And the time that I thought about the

00:40:49.579 --> 00:40:53.480
name, the story wasn't even finished yet, but

00:40:53.480 --> 00:40:55.679
I kept coming back. What do I want to leave my

00:40:55.679 --> 00:40:58.980
kids? What do I want the world to know? What

00:40:58.980 --> 00:41:01.579
is this? And all I kept thinking about was like,

00:41:01.619 --> 00:41:03.619
this is my legacy. This is going to be my first

00:41:03.619 --> 00:41:06.500
book. This is just what I leave to the world.

00:41:06.579 --> 00:41:09.760
It's a legacy for all to see. And for some reason,

00:41:09.820 --> 00:41:11.619
as I was thinking, I just kept coming back to

00:41:11.619 --> 00:41:14.780
the word legacy. So I was like, oh, legacy. Yo,

00:41:14.780 --> 00:41:20.059
yeah, legacy. A Scion book series. And then the

00:41:20.059 --> 00:41:22.559
Scion, a lot of people don't know, Scion was

00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:26.050
heir to the throne. references some things that

00:41:26.050 --> 00:41:30.010
happened in the book. So I figured it all meshed

00:41:30.010 --> 00:41:33.570
together. So for the second book, The Forgotten

00:41:33.570 --> 00:41:40.449
Legacy of Gods and Men, that title, this actually

00:41:40.449 --> 00:41:43.449
came when I finished the book. And I was thinking

00:41:43.449 --> 00:41:45.750
about everything that happened in the book, the

00:41:45.750 --> 00:41:51.289
story that I was telling. And I wanted Legacy

00:41:51.289 --> 00:41:54.050
to still be in the title because they, They go

00:41:54.050 --> 00:41:58.670
together. It's like the series. And I kept thinking

00:41:58.670 --> 00:42:01.909
about what goes on, the story that I was telling.

00:42:02.409 --> 00:42:08.889
And the story itself has a lot to do about the

00:42:08.889 --> 00:42:11.909
people within the world that we've forgotten

00:42:11.909 --> 00:42:14.510
about, whether the gods, the men, the women,

00:42:14.550 --> 00:42:17.150
the children. So I was like, you know what? Yeah,

00:42:17.230 --> 00:42:20.130
that fits. The Forgotten Legacy of Gods and Men,

00:42:20.250 --> 00:42:23.340
a Scion book series. And that's how I got the

00:42:23.340 --> 00:42:29.079
second title. That's catchy. I like books with

00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:33.619
catchy names in it. I never say don't judge a

00:42:33.619 --> 00:42:38.619
book by its cover, but I always feel like I'm

00:42:38.619 --> 00:42:45.920
always like I think what caught me just as an

00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:51.860
example of the series I'm reading, each of the

00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:57.980
Wilkes had a cover of each of the four characters

00:42:57.980 --> 00:43:02.659
in the book. And I was like, I've never seen

00:43:02.659 --> 00:43:06.500
this before. I mean, there are some Alex Ryder

00:43:06.500 --> 00:43:09.579
books and whatnot, but some of them might be

00:43:09.579 --> 00:43:14.679
not his exact face, but you see his silhouette

00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:18.440
or something. But I was like, what does this

00:43:18.440 --> 00:43:22.320
character look like? And I was like, I mean,

00:43:22.340 --> 00:43:25.119
again, not like thinking about what they actually

00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:27.260
look like, but just like, I've never seen this

00:43:27.260 --> 00:43:30.539
on a book before. I mean, to actually see the

00:43:30.539 --> 00:43:32.699
main characters, because they always describe,

00:43:33.039 --> 00:43:35.940
like in the book, like this person has this black

00:43:35.940 --> 00:43:39.340
hair or whatnot. And it's like, and to see that

00:43:39.340 --> 00:43:42.539
on a cover firsthand, I'm like, this is interesting.

00:43:43.059 --> 00:43:48.059
And it's like, anything with magic in it kind

00:43:48.059 --> 00:43:50.500
of just kind of like. Okay, I'm already hurt.

00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:54.119
I wish magic really existed today. If I needed

00:43:54.119 --> 00:43:56.599
to clean my bed and just snap my fingers and

00:43:56.599 --> 00:44:03.039
everything just clean, like, all done. Yeah,

00:44:03.159 --> 00:44:14.059
magic would be nice. Be gone. No, I agree with

00:44:14.059 --> 00:44:18.559
you. There's something about a cover. I tend

00:44:18.559 --> 00:44:22.199
to be a book dragon myself, so I judge books

00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:26.420
by covers. I cannot lie to you. A cover will

00:44:26.420 --> 00:44:30.659
draw me over to a book every single time. If

00:44:30.659 --> 00:44:35.880
a book has, in my opinion, a bad cover, it's

00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:37.880
very rare that I pick it up and look at the back

00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:41.340
to read to see the synopsis. If the cover is

00:44:41.340 --> 00:44:44.280
really well done and it fits what I feel like

00:44:44.280 --> 00:44:47.409
I'm in the mood to read, yeah. I judge a book

00:44:47.409 --> 00:44:49.590
by its cover. I really do. And I think a lot

00:44:49.590 --> 00:44:53.530
of people do, whether they admit it or not. And

00:44:53.530 --> 00:44:57.329
to be honest, I mean, I don't like doing every

00:44:57.329 --> 00:45:00.170
day in the world or anything. It's just like,

00:45:00.190 --> 00:45:02.829
if I'm going to spend my time reading something,

00:45:03.030 --> 00:45:07.389
I want it to be fun, adventurous, entertaining,

00:45:07.650 --> 00:45:10.769
or something like if it's a how -to book, I want

00:45:10.769 --> 00:45:13.469
to learn something out of the book and whatnot.

00:45:13.670 --> 00:45:16.210
I don't want to just like... I'm going to teach

00:45:16.210 --> 00:45:18.590
you how to do this. And then I read the whole

00:45:18.590 --> 00:45:21.250
thing. It's like, well, what the hell was I supposed

00:45:21.250 --> 00:45:27.530
to take away from this? Stay with us. We'll be

00:45:27.530 --> 00:45:30.690
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00:45:30.690 --> 00:45:34.730
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00:45:42.890 --> 00:45:46.829
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00:45:50.289 --> 00:45:54.369
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$3 .99 a month or $30 a year. No, I agree. I

00:46:32.210 --> 00:46:37.030
have a rule that it took me a while to impose.

00:46:37.570 --> 00:46:40.670
So if I pick up a book and start reading it and

00:46:40.670 --> 00:46:44.590
by the third chapter, if I'm not learning, entertained

00:46:44.590 --> 00:46:49.969
or happy, I stop reading. I might come back to

00:46:49.969 --> 00:46:55.610
it later, maybe a few years. But I just figured

00:46:55.610 --> 00:46:58.380
that maybe I'm not ready for that book yet. And

00:46:58.380 --> 00:47:00.260
then I don't give it a rating, but that's my

00:47:00.260 --> 00:47:03.519
personal thing. I just feel like life is too

00:47:03.519 --> 00:47:07.420
short. There's too many books out there and there's

00:47:07.420 --> 00:47:10.360
too many things to do. I like to, like you said,

00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:12.420
I want to enjoy what I'm reading. I want to make

00:47:12.420 --> 00:47:14.820
sure I'm learning something. And if I don't feel

00:47:14.820 --> 00:47:17.719
like I'm getting that within, again, three chapters,

00:47:17.940 --> 00:47:21.679
yeah, I'll put it down for quite a while. I'll

00:47:21.679 --> 00:47:24.159
come back to it at some point, but chances are

00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:30.119
it'll be a long time. That brings me to my next

00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:34.980
point. There's only two books maybe I've ever

00:47:34.980 --> 00:47:40.880
given a really bad review on. I'm not going to

00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:45.659
say the older one. This is kind of maybe a little

00:47:45.659 --> 00:47:53.760
bit controversial for some people. I was a fan

00:47:53.760 --> 00:47:57.409
of the Lord of the Rings movies. And I know there

00:47:57.409 --> 00:47:59.909
was a little bit long, but at least there were

00:47:59.909 --> 00:48:03.750
some entertaining spots, got to see battles.

00:48:05.429 --> 00:48:10.590
But where I got annoyed with Tolkien, and I know

00:48:10.590 --> 00:48:15.070
he's long gone, but where I got annoyed was that

00:48:15.070 --> 00:48:18.130
there was a few... I think there was like a whole

00:48:18.130 --> 00:48:21.489
chapter he was just describing a blade of grass.

00:48:22.010 --> 00:48:25.659
I'm like... Are you kidding me? I was like, I

00:48:25.659 --> 00:48:31.159
get it. I was like, I mean, it's impressive that

00:48:31.159 --> 00:48:35.119
he went through this whole realm. But I was like,

00:48:35.260 --> 00:48:40.179
it's grass. If I want to, if he wants to, I'll

00:48:40.179 --> 00:48:44.000
go outside and stay there. The grass myself,

00:48:44.519 --> 00:48:52.579
I'm not really caring. So I'm laughing about

00:48:52.579 --> 00:48:56.559
this because of all the authors you could have

00:48:56.559 --> 00:48:58.380
picked for all the books you could have picked,

00:48:58.420 --> 00:49:00.079
you had to pick Lord of the Rings and Tolkien.

00:49:00.300 --> 00:49:03.780
And the reason why I say that is because, so

00:49:03.780 --> 00:49:08.019
again, my partner in crime, Rosalie, we talk

00:49:08.019 --> 00:49:10.679
about this all the time because she knows that

00:49:10.679 --> 00:49:13.690
I am a Tolkien hater. I hate Tolkien. I have

00:49:13.690 --> 00:49:15.610
no problem saying that y 'all can hate me. You

00:49:15.610 --> 00:49:17.929
can judge me all you like. I hate I despise Tolkien.

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Don't be wrong. The movies. I like the movies.

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I enjoy them. They're entertaining. But the books.

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No, I do not. But here's the thing. I do have

00:49:29.489 --> 00:49:33.050
an understanding of. Anytime a book is written.

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It is nice to be able to take into consideration

00:49:37.429 --> 00:49:40.789
what else is going on. So when Tolkien wrote

00:49:40.789 --> 00:49:44.539
his books or his series. There wasn't television

00:49:44.539 --> 00:49:50.900
there like there was no Internet. So he was describing

00:49:50.900 --> 00:49:55.260
things that people had never seen before, never

00:49:55.260 --> 00:49:57.719
heard of before. And, yeah, people heard of grass,

00:49:58.039 --> 00:50:01.099
but they didn't. A lot of people that read his

00:50:01.099 --> 00:50:04.860
books were like in cities. They might not know

00:50:04.860 --> 00:50:07.480
what grass looks like. Most people who live in

00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:10.340
cities have concrete around them. everywhere

00:50:10.340 --> 00:50:12.539
they've heard of grass and yeah if they go to

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a park they can kind of see grass but a field

00:50:16.019 --> 00:50:19.960
a meadow like token describes no they wouldn't

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know what that is or like i think there's one

00:50:22.059 --> 00:50:25.880
part where he's describing a tree for like 27

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pages i'm like bro who hasn't seen a tree but

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there are there there have been people who haven't

00:50:33.019 --> 00:50:37.079
seen a tree like a real tree so at his time when

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he wrote all that stuff Yes, it was very important

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that he described almost everything to nauseam.

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And I respect that. I get that. However, nowadays,

00:50:48.150 --> 00:50:51.929
that's not necessary. So like so like for me,

00:50:51.949 --> 00:50:54.210
instance, like I'm an author and I write in my

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books. I have mentioned trees. I don't go on

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three pages. I know in my first book, there is

00:51:06.320 --> 00:51:09.960
a force, the lightning force. I describe how

00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:11.360
the trees look in the lightning force because

00:51:11.360 --> 00:51:13.960
my understanding that lightning trees are not

00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:16.820
a real thing. So I had to describe that. But

00:51:16.820 --> 00:51:19.360
there are other trees I talk about that someone's

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leaning against the tree. I didn't have to describe

00:51:22.139 --> 00:51:24.800
that because most of us have seen trees before

00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:27.559
in this generation, like in this time frame.

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So Tolkien, yeah. Personally, I'm not a fan of

00:51:31.860 --> 00:51:34.699
Tolkien because like you, Jimmy, he goes on forever

00:51:34.699 --> 00:51:38.840
describing stuff. However, I do understand that

00:51:38.840 --> 00:51:42.780
in the time that he wrote those books, there

00:51:42.780 --> 00:51:46.519
was a need for it. Those people, a lot of those

00:51:46.519 --> 00:51:48.340
people that read his stuff didn't understand

00:51:48.340 --> 00:51:51.199
or didn't know what those things looked like

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in his defense. But yeah, I don't read Tolkien

00:51:54.440 --> 00:51:58.139
anymore. I tried several times and I'm gone.

00:51:58.219 --> 00:52:02.849
I don't read Tolkien. To be honest, now that

00:52:02.849 --> 00:52:07.289
you get to me like that, I kind of assume, I

00:52:07.289 --> 00:52:10.809
kind of understand that too now. But I just think,

00:52:10.909 --> 00:52:16.010
like I said, I couldn't get into it. My brother

00:52:16.010 --> 00:52:22.210
liked it. My mom loved it. And I get to the point

00:52:22.210 --> 00:52:27.250
that stuff needs to be there a little bit. Like,

00:52:27.250 --> 00:52:31.099
for instance, One thing I liked about what J

00:52:31.099 --> 00:52:34.460
.K. Rowling did, not saying about her recent

00:52:34.460 --> 00:52:39.260
comments or anything, because I can disagree

00:52:39.260 --> 00:52:41.760
about that all day long. I don't really have

00:52:41.760 --> 00:52:45.840
an opinion about that. But my point is, before

00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:48.780
any of that other stuff came out, so this was

00:52:48.780 --> 00:52:55.769
like 2007 and whatnot. I was able to, reading

00:52:55.769 --> 00:53:00.409
all the Harry Potter books, I was, what got me

00:53:00.409 --> 00:53:04.150
intrigued with that was that she described something,

00:53:04.369 --> 00:53:07.849
but she didn't go in too much in depth, but just

00:53:07.849 --> 00:53:10.610
enough so you're like, I feel like I'm in that

00:53:10.610 --> 00:53:16.010
room. And so, but not to, you're like, I don't

00:53:16.010 --> 00:53:18.230
like this thing, but to be a dead horse or whatnot.

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And I just like, okay. I got it. I understand.

00:53:24.230 --> 00:53:27.670
The project I'm working on, I'm making sure,

00:53:27.789 --> 00:53:33.710
is this too much being a dead horse? I don't

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think so. I admit that maybe there's some parts

00:53:37.090 --> 00:53:39.590
in here and there I maybe expand a little bit,

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but I'll let someone else look at it before I

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do anything with it. I'm just getting my words

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down on paper. I just don't want to. make any

00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:56.119
corrections at the moment because like if i take

00:53:56.119 --> 00:53:58.739
it away it's easier to take away than it is to

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add um yeah yeah a lot of times it really is

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um me personally like you i try my best not to

00:54:10.719 --> 00:54:17.710
over explain things while i write um But I like

00:54:17.710 --> 00:54:19.650
to say that's what my editors are for, because

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if they read it and they're like, hey, this makes

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no sense. I don't know what you're talking about

00:54:23.610 --> 00:54:26.289
here. Then, OK, I need to add more. I need to

00:54:26.289 --> 00:54:28.969
be more descriptive because, again, I want to

00:54:28.969 --> 00:54:32.170
give people enough where their imagination can

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take over and build whatever else needs to be

00:54:34.570 --> 00:54:36.710
built for them, because we're all different.

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We all want to see various different things.

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Case in point. In the second book. I let a lot

00:54:45.869 --> 00:54:51.309
of arc readers get to it and several, well, no,

00:54:51.389 --> 00:54:54.610
one of them particularly was like, hey, what

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race is this person? And I just replied back,

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I don't know. And they're like, well, how do

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you not know? You wrote it. And I just simply

00:55:06.849 --> 00:55:11.789
responded with, no, I know what I feel that person

00:55:11.789 --> 00:55:16.059
is. However, that person's race wasn't important

00:55:16.059 --> 00:55:19.519
to the story. So you can picture that person,

00:55:19.579 --> 00:55:22.920
whatever race you want them to be. But as far

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as I'm concerned, their race was not important.

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Now, there are some other characters in the book

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whose race is important to their character. So,

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yes, they are described as that race was described.

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But for the most part, if this is a background

00:55:40.019 --> 00:55:43.360
person or a person whose race is not important,

00:55:43.619 --> 00:55:47.099
like it holds no merit to their character, then

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there's no reason for me to describe it, at least

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in my opinion. I agree with that to an extent,

00:55:54.579 --> 00:55:58.539
too, because like the books I shall not name,

00:55:58.840 --> 00:56:07.050
the author, I mean, this sounds like the... Lord

00:56:07.050 --> 00:56:09.969
Voldemort again and say, the wizard must not

00:56:09.969 --> 00:56:18.070
be named. But anyway, the software, there's some

00:56:18.070 --> 00:56:23.969
race in the book, but it's very slightly where

00:56:23.969 --> 00:56:29.769
it's like... I want to see beyond this. I want

00:56:29.769 --> 00:56:33.429
to see, hey, there's friendship amongst everybody.

00:56:33.469 --> 00:56:40.269
There's this and that. It's come together. I

00:56:40.269 --> 00:56:45.250
have to say, it's been my group. I have many

00:56:45.250 --> 00:56:52.519
favorite authors. And even though I love, like,

00:56:52.559 --> 00:56:55.760
a lot of the authors that I had on the show,

00:56:56.019 --> 00:57:00.460
but even just more to the point of the authors

00:57:00.460 --> 00:57:04.679
that I just read for fun and everything else,

00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:10.380
I haven't had it look like this since, like,

00:57:10.440 --> 00:57:13.079
Harry Potter, where there's some nights I was

00:57:13.079 --> 00:57:16.300
up until, like, 11 o 'clock, and some people's

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like... Yeah. There's times when my parents,

00:57:20.219 --> 00:57:23.820
when I was reading Harry Potter 2 late at night,

00:57:23.880 --> 00:57:25.519
it's like, well, at least you weren't watching

00:57:25.519 --> 00:57:28.400
TV. And I was like, that's true. And I was like,

00:57:28.480 --> 00:57:31.159
and so even though I'm tired, like the next day

00:57:31.159 --> 00:57:34.019
I'm like, huh? And it was like, I just read my

00:57:34.019 --> 00:57:35.880
book and it's like, I want to know what happens.

00:57:36.219 --> 00:57:39.980
Like I was, there's one point where I was like

00:57:39.980 --> 00:57:43.059
worried that these main characters were going

00:57:43.059 --> 00:57:46.199
to have something bad happen to them. And I was

00:57:46.199 --> 00:57:48.750
like. I kind of know what happens. And every

00:57:48.750 --> 00:57:50.530
time I'm, like, about to find out what happens,

00:57:50.769 --> 00:57:53.409
I have to, like, leave for karate after I do

00:57:53.409 --> 00:57:55.389
this, I do this. I was like, damn it, I just

00:57:55.389 --> 00:57:58.690
want to learn this thing. And it's like, I can't

00:57:58.690 --> 00:58:04.849
believe I'm in that. That is the sign of a really

00:58:04.849 --> 00:58:07.530
good book, or when you're really interested in

00:58:07.530 --> 00:58:09.190
the book, when you feel like you just can't.

00:58:09.190 --> 00:58:12.650
But there's a few books that I've read recently

00:58:12.650 --> 00:58:17.110
like that. However, there is one book that I've

00:58:17.110 --> 00:58:20.010
been trying to read and it's about to get DNF

00:58:20.010 --> 00:58:26.610
finish because it's about witches, werewolves

00:58:26.610 --> 00:58:29.909
and vampires. And the main character doesn't

00:58:29.909 --> 00:58:33.849
know that she's a witch. She finds out through

00:58:33.849 --> 00:58:35.730
the death of him. And I'm not spoiling anything.

00:58:35.809 --> 00:58:37.110
It's like on the back of the book when you read

00:58:37.110 --> 00:58:44.429
it. So the first. I don't know. Two and a half,

00:58:44.469 --> 00:58:47.530
three chapters. It's just her talking about her

00:58:47.530 --> 00:58:49.510
situation like she doesn't know what's going

00:58:49.510 --> 00:58:52.349
on. And it's very, very boring. And like I said

00:58:52.349 --> 00:58:57.289
earlier, after three chapters, I put it down.

00:58:57.389 --> 00:58:59.309
I might come back to it later, but I put it down.

00:58:59.650 --> 00:59:05.019
So I'm intrigued enough because. There's things

00:59:05.019 --> 00:59:06.760
have happened in the book where I'm like, okay,

00:59:06.800 --> 00:59:08.679
I want to see where this goes, but you got to

00:59:08.679 --> 00:59:10.440
give me some more. You got to give me some more.

00:59:10.699 --> 00:59:14.019
So chances are, I might give this one a fourth

00:59:14.019 --> 00:59:17.300
chapter, but chances are, I think I'm really

00:59:17.300 --> 00:59:19.719
going to like sit it to my, to the side and come

00:59:19.719 --> 00:59:22.579
back to it later, just because it's such a slow

00:59:22.579 --> 00:59:24.800
burn to begin with. And I'm not a fan of slow

00:59:24.800 --> 00:59:27.719
burn books. Well, unless they're romances that,

00:59:27.760 --> 00:59:29.739
that, that tends to be a little different, but.

00:59:30.500 --> 00:59:34.179
Action books or action books, fantasy books or

00:59:34.179 --> 00:59:37.760
just fun books, yeah, I don't need those to be

00:59:37.760 --> 00:59:40.079
slow. I want my action like bam, bam, bam, bam,

00:59:40.079 --> 00:59:45.019
bam. Yeah. Very much like maybe like the third

00:59:45.019 --> 00:59:53.059
or fourth page of the series. I mean, it literally

00:59:53.059 --> 00:59:55.079
just became like super interesting. It's like,

00:59:55.199 --> 00:59:59.420
oh, this is a big monster. what is this thing?

00:59:59.559 --> 01:00:02.239
And I was like, I need to know what else. And

01:00:02.239 --> 01:00:04.679
then, like, all of a sudden, like, on the fourth

01:00:04.679 --> 01:00:08.699
book, just, like, from the fifth, into the fifth

01:00:08.699 --> 01:00:13.159
book, it was just, like, a continuation. It was

01:00:13.159 --> 01:00:16.099
just, like, hey, here's a recap of everything.

01:00:16.340 --> 01:00:19.000
And we're just like, here you are. There's, like,

01:00:19.019 --> 01:00:21.719
a new TV episode. It's like, what's happening?

01:00:22.139 --> 01:00:24.480
And, of course, when I found this author, she

01:00:24.480 --> 01:00:26.340
has, like, 50 other plus books. And it's like,

01:00:26.400 --> 01:00:28.769
yeah. I guess I know her. I'm going to be sly

01:00:28.769 --> 01:00:33.769
for a while. That's the best thing, too, is when

01:00:33.769 --> 01:00:37.929
you're able to find an author who has a plethora

01:00:37.929 --> 01:00:41.289
of a backlog, they just have so many books, and

01:00:41.289 --> 01:00:43.389
it's like, that's great. I'm going to be with

01:00:43.389 --> 01:00:45.710
you for quite a while. I appreciate that, too.

01:00:47.489 --> 01:00:51.250
And no offense to anybody out there who are a

01:00:51.250 --> 01:00:54.860
James Patterson fan, I like him. But there's

01:00:54.860 --> 01:00:59.500
a point where it's just like a lot of his detective

01:00:59.500 --> 01:01:05.179
books is just like solved, solved, solved. One

01:01:05.179 --> 01:01:10.239
of my authors that I met on Twitter, my very

01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:14.380
first few of my first 10 Twitter followers, he

01:01:14.380 --> 01:01:16.880
followed me on years ago when I first started

01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:20.199
on Twitter. Sorry, now X. Oh, wow. That's cool.

01:01:21.079 --> 01:01:23.789
Yeah. Funny thing is... I don't think I'll ever

01:01:23.789 --> 01:01:27.309
call it that. Are you sure? I thought it was

01:01:27.309 --> 01:01:36.590
a really great name. Ballcraft. Sure. This guy,

01:01:36.750 --> 01:01:42.170
while I really liked him, I called him the young

01:01:42.170 --> 01:01:45.150
James Patterson because even though when you

01:01:45.150 --> 01:01:49.230
think something is solved, he leaves you on a

01:01:49.230 --> 01:01:52.340
cliffhanger for the next one. I'm like, I did

01:01:52.340 --> 01:01:56.719
not see that coming. It was like, oh, I wish

01:01:56.719 --> 01:02:00.260
sometimes James Patterson did this. It's not

01:02:00.260 --> 01:02:02.440
that I'm bashing James Patterson because I've

01:02:02.440 --> 01:02:04.780
read a lot of James Patterson books, especially

01:02:04.780 --> 01:02:08.679
when I was always in the library reading his

01:02:08.679 --> 01:02:13.760
books. I was like, you know, sometimes you just

01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:17.570
want more and not just like... It's like the

01:02:17.570 --> 01:02:20.730
show Bones where it is that they're wild instead

01:02:20.730 --> 01:02:24.969
of having a continuation or something that they

01:02:24.969 --> 01:02:28.489
can't solve yet. It's like you can't just solve,

01:02:28.690 --> 01:02:30.949
solve, solve, solve. Everything is just perfect.

01:02:33.289 --> 01:02:35.469
I'm not wrong there. Can you solve this case

01:02:35.469 --> 01:02:44.289
in 300 pages? Well, no, I know exactly what you

01:02:44.289 --> 01:02:51.650
mean, because like you, if you do solve it, I

01:02:51.650 --> 01:02:53.949
need it to be so many twists and turns inside

01:02:53.949 --> 01:02:58.210
that I feel the solve is justified. When it comes

01:02:58.210 --> 01:03:01.690
to James Patterson, I feel like he's in a hole

01:03:01.690 --> 01:03:05.349
right now because every series he comes up with,

01:03:05.510 --> 01:03:08.909
like you said, it's usually solved by the end

01:03:08.909 --> 01:03:12.159
of the novel. And that's what his fan base. look

01:03:12.159 --> 01:03:14.800
for that's what they like so for him to put out

01:03:14.800 --> 01:03:18.300
a book where the ending isn't solved I don't

01:03:18.300 --> 01:03:20.420
know if his fan base would tolerate that and

01:03:20.420 --> 01:03:22.360
I think that's the hard part when you write a

01:03:22.360 --> 01:03:25.599
series or when you're an author who's known for

01:03:25.599 --> 01:03:30.739
something look at what is it R .R. Martin he

01:03:30.739 --> 01:03:33.519
has himself in a hole right now for various different

01:03:33.519 --> 01:03:37.760
reasons but one of the things that his readers

01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:40.889
love about his books It's that like he's able

01:03:40.889 --> 01:03:46.230
to speak. Particularly European history and twisted

01:03:46.230 --> 01:03:51.250
to fit this world of game rooms and his last

01:03:51.250 --> 01:03:56.409
book, which is taking quite a while, is another

01:03:56.409 --> 01:03:58.210
hole that he's had. Like, I feel like there's

01:03:58.210 --> 01:04:00.869
so much pressure on him right now. I don't know

01:04:00.869 --> 01:04:02.710
if we'll ever get to see that last finished book,

01:04:02.789 --> 01:04:05.150
which also is another reason why a lot of people

01:04:05.150 --> 01:04:07.329
won't start a series. Like if they know your

01:04:07.329 --> 01:04:09.900
book is a series. They won't touch it. I've had

01:04:09.900 --> 01:04:13.139
many people come to me or not come to me, but

01:04:13.139 --> 01:04:16.920
like I could be talking to a new reader. And

01:04:16.920 --> 01:04:19.219
one of the first questions is, oh, is this a

01:04:19.219 --> 01:04:22.820
series? Yes, it is. Oh, when you finish the series,

01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:24.539
I'll be more than happy to pick it up. I don't

01:04:24.539 --> 01:04:26.219
finish it until I know the series is complete.

01:04:26.719 --> 01:04:29.300
And that's that's right for them to do, because

01:04:29.300 --> 01:04:30.719
they want to make sure they're going to get the

01:04:30.719 --> 01:04:33.699
payoff that they deserve, because if they go

01:04:33.699 --> 01:04:37.619
through with this whole series and. If they're

01:04:37.619 --> 01:04:40.760
left on a cliffhanger, let's say like, so right

01:04:40.760 --> 01:04:43.340
now I have book one and I have book two published.

01:04:45.019 --> 01:04:46.960
Heaven forbid, if something were to happen to

01:04:46.960 --> 01:04:49.800
me and book three doesn't come out, there are

01:04:49.800 --> 01:04:51.559
going to be people out there who are wondering

01:04:51.559 --> 01:04:53.619
what's going to be happening in book three that

01:04:53.619 --> 01:04:56.480
won't know. And I get it. I mean, I hope they

01:04:56.480 --> 01:04:59.440
still pick up the books anyway, but I get it.

01:04:59.460 --> 01:05:01.500
They just know that the books aren't going to

01:05:01.500 --> 01:05:05.409
be done. But again, R .R. Martin. there's people

01:05:05.409 --> 01:05:08.429
out there waiting one that book but it's going

01:05:08.429 --> 01:05:10.690
to take a while but james patterson he ties everything

01:05:10.690 --> 01:05:13.309
up in a nice little bow and that's what his readers

01:05:13.309 --> 01:05:18.610
like so yeah i think i mean and they're getting

01:05:18.610 --> 01:05:21.510
wrong i like his books too and because like i've

01:05:21.510 --> 01:05:25.670
posted on social media with a few of his books

01:05:25.670 --> 01:05:29.750
and says i'm not bashing him whatsoever just

01:05:29.750 --> 01:05:35.079
that he's Because his book didn't sound like

01:05:35.079 --> 01:05:42.579
how it was. Yeah. And there's times where if

01:05:42.579 --> 01:05:46.219
I'm in between books or series, I might go pick

01:05:46.219 --> 01:05:49.900
up another James Patterson book digitally from

01:05:49.900 --> 01:05:58.920
my library. It's a good filler to him. He does

01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:03.059
have this one series. I think it's a series.

01:06:03.260 --> 01:06:09.199
I mean, it's called NYPD Red and there's like

01:06:09.199 --> 01:06:12.980
up to like book seven now. And I haven't read

01:06:12.980 --> 01:06:16.300
like, I don't think I've read six or seven yet.

01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:19.539
I forget where I stopped at, but at least I keep

01:06:19.539 --> 01:06:22.699
track of my books in the book reading app so

01:06:22.699 --> 01:06:26.360
I can go back to see which ones I finished. But

01:06:26.360 --> 01:06:28.949
there's something. I think sometimes there's

01:06:28.949 --> 01:06:32.610
like a little bit of continuation or something

01:06:32.610 --> 01:06:36.429
new happens, at least with the family in the

01:06:36.429 --> 01:06:43.190
book of this detective. And so it's just like,

01:06:43.329 --> 01:06:47.090
sometimes I like that stuff is tied up into a

01:06:47.090 --> 01:06:48.889
book, but then there's sometimes it's just like,

01:06:49.289 --> 01:06:54.070
I want some more twists and turns and not just

01:06:54.070 --> 01:06:58.940
like, oh, there's four bodies in the book. I

01:06:58.940 --> 01:07:00.960
know this is a detective book, but it's, like,

01:07:01.440 --> 01:07:06.260
what I really like about the author I had on

01:07:06.260 --> 01:07:10.159
my show, Luke Murphy. Yeah. Yeah, he leads you

01:07:10.159 --> 01:07:14.719
with him. Like, he doesn't tell you exactly what

01:07:14.719 --> 01:07:17.199
happened until, like, near the end. And it's,

01:07:17.280 --> 01:07:21.219
like, when one of the characters goes to sleep

01:07:21.219 --> 01:07:24.599
at night and he remembers in his head of what

01:07:24.599 --> 01:07:29.519
the... one of the person's body that died right

01:07:29.519 --> 01:07:32.440
before his eyes, she said to him, and then that's

01:07:32.440 --> 01:07:36.579
how he ends it. I'm not saying exactly how it

01:07:36.579 --> 01:07:41.579
ends, but it's like, it's not even the wordage

01:07:41.579 --> 01:07:45.900
of it, but I was like, huh? And then he was like,

01:07:46.860 --> 01:07:48.420
I want to know what happens. I was like, you

01:07:48.420 --> 01:07:53.000
end it there? I was like, how dare you? But yeah,

01:07:53.059 --> 01:07:56.239
I like authors that twist turns, and it's like,

01:07:56.780 --> 01:08:00.239
Keep me up, y 'all. Please. I mean, I need my

01:08:00.239 --> 01:08:05.000
sleep, too. No, it's funny that you mention that

01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:08.639
because there's been a few other projects that

01:08:08.639 --> 01:08:10.800
I've been I've written on and I've helped other

01:08:10.800 --> 01:08:15.059
authors and we'll end it on a cliffhanger. And

01:08:15.059 --> 01:08:18.920
the loving hate mail that we'll get, like, how

01:08:18.920 --> 01:08:22.579
dare you end it this way? How could you? When's

01:08:22.579 --> 01:08:27.960
the next book come out? People like it. They

01:08:27.960 --> 01:08:30.180
say they don't, but they really do. They really

01:08:30.180 --> 01:08:35.359
do like it. You should write back to them and

01:08:35.359 --> 01:08:44.140
say, I'm getting mixed signals here. No, a lot

01:08:44.140 --> 01:08:47.199
of times I just simply write back, oh, I'm sorry

01:08:47.199 --> 01:08:50.159
you feel that way, but... um you know for the

01:08:50.159 --> 01:08:52.100
story we were telling we felt that was the best

01:08:52.100 --> 01:08:55.180
resolution at the time or something to this that's

01:08:55.180 --> 01:08:59.960
usually how we respond or i will respond makes

01:08:59.960 --> 01:09:05.000
sense uh so my night my uh next uh questions

01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:12.720
are uh how many books do you see in the series

01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:20.250
just as like a rough estimate or I can't give

01:09:20.250 --> 01:09:22.909
that. I can't give that away, Jimmy. That's that's

01:09:22.909 --> 01:09:28.810
like a secret. I can't that. I can't tell you

01:09:28.810 --> 01:09:32.229
what the plan is for the book. No, I don't mind.

01:09:32.270 --> 01:09:36.510
I don't mind telling you. So I honestly I plan

01:09:36.510 --> 01:09:42.710
nine total. But here's the thing. So each three

01:09:42.710 --> 01:09:49.600
books will be his own story. So. I have one,

01:09:49.680 --> 01:09:52.920
there's two, and then the third one hopefully

01:09:52.920 --> 01:09:57.380
will be out by next year. Those will all be one

01:09:57.380 --> 01:10:03.439
story or one continued story. And then my characters

01:10:03.439 --> 01:10:06.720
will age. There'll be a time jump. And then we'll

01:10:06.720 --> 01:10:11.319
move into the next set of challenges that goes

01:10:11.319 --> 01:10:13.539
on for these characters within the next three

01:10:13.539 --> 01:10:16.680
books. And then there'll be another time jump.

01:10:18.100 --> 01:10:21.939
and continue on. I can see that right now. There's

01:10:21.939 --> 01:10:23.319
nine. That's what I'm planning. I mean, that

01:10:23.319 --> 01:10:27.220
might less might go higher, but right now nine

01:10:27.220 --> 01:10:31.899
is where I'm going. I can, I can dig that at

01:10:31.899 --> 01:10:36.079
the moment because, uh, uh, there's some TV shows

01:10:36.079 --> 01:10:40.779
I'd seen, uh, Tom jumps. And, uh, but I mean,

01:10:40.779 --> 01:10:44.119
they don't do like it and like, um, necessary,

01:10:44.260 --> 01:10:48.220
like, um, bad way or wrong way. And it was like,

01:10:48.319 --> 01:10:50.819
okay, there's a, there's some difference, slight

01:10:50.819 --> 01:10:53.960
differences, but as I, as long as you can tell

01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:59.659
me a great story, wrap it up. And, um, like for

01:10:59.659 --> 01:11:01.699
instance, uh, you probably heard of the show

01:11:01.699 --> 01:11:05.960
stranger things, uh, yeah. On Netflix. Well,

01:11:06.140 --> 01:11:11.220
there's a part to me where like, so far it's

01:11:11.220 --> 01:11:15.720
been. It first came out in 2016, and they're

01:11:15.720 --> 01:11:19.500
saying the last ones can be wrapped up by the

01:11:19.500 --> 01:11:25.500
end of 2025, give or take. And I'm like, it took

01:11:25.500 --> 01:11:29.319
you that long to do this? And it's like, no wonder

01:11:29.319 --> 01:11:33.039
why people are just tired. Well, they had the

01:11:33.039 --> 01:11:35.399
first problem of being on Netflix, because Netflix

01:11:35.399 --> 01:11:40.100
is notorious for taking so long to bring a new

01:11:40.100 --> 01:11:44.449
season. or bringing the next season of a series

01:11:44.449 --> 01:11:48.310
in. And by the, by time they dropped the season,

01:11:48.510 --> 01:11:51.529
most of us have forgotten what happened. Even

01:11:51.529 --> 01:11:54.510
like right now, like you, I watch stranger things.

01:11:56.329 --> 01:11:59.949
There are a few things that I remember, but overall

01:11:59.949 --> 01:12:03.449
story don't remember. There's been a couple of

01:12:03.449 --> 01:12:05.569
other shows that I remember really, really liking.

01:12:05.970 --> 01:12:09.250
And for life of me, I know what season two or

01:12:09.250 --> 01:12:12.250
the next season is coming out. I don't remember

01:12:12.250 --> 01:12:14.470
the last season. I remember enjoying it, but

01:12:14.470 --> 01:12:16.609
I'm like, what happened here? What was this character's

01:12:16.609 --> 01:12:19.789
name? I don't like, um, I'm trying to think,

01:12:19.829 --> 01:12:24.329
uh, we'll be good as, Oh, um, there's an animated

01:12:24.329 --> 01:12:26.270
series that I was watching with my kids called

01:12:26.270 --> 01:12:29.510
the dragon Prince. It was a very good show. Um,

01:12:29.829 --> 01:12:31.649
but they were taking so long with these season.

01:12:32.409 --> 01:12:34.229
Right. But they were taking so long with the

01:12:34.229 --> 01:12:36.890
season. We would have to go back and rewatch

01:12:36.890 --> 01:12:39.270
the whole thing to remember everything that happened.

01:12:40.140 --> 01:12:42.779
For the last season and I don't think anybody

01:12:42.779 --> 01:12:47.460
really has time for that. And so, you know, well,

01:12:47.600 --> 01:12:51.739
one thing I've, uh, uh, do you realize like,

01:12:51.800 --> 01:12:56.539
uh, well, one thing I had to say though, uh,

01:12:56.779 --> 01:13:01.279
not Chris's criticism, criticism of, uh, of stranger

01:13:01.279 --> 01:13:05.180
things, but if it's the Harry Potter movies that

01:13:05.180 --> 01:13:08.239
I like, two and a half hours long, or two hours

01:13:08.239 --> 01:13:12.279
long, however long each movie is, because I think

01:13:12.279 --> 01:13:15.020
each movie became a little bit longer towards

01:13:15.020 --> 01:13:19.960
the end. It can all do between a year to a year

01:13:19.960 --> 01:13:24.640
and a half, and that's a full -blown movie. This

01:13:24.640 --> 01:13:28.159
is a TV show, and it consists of eight episodes.

01:13:31.890 --> 01:13:34.510
You're probably familiar with Cobra Kai on Netflix

01:13:34.510 --> 01:13:37.949
too. Well, at least one thing that they're doing.

01:13:38.050 --> 01:13:39.670
Yeah, I haven't watched it, but I've heard of

01:13:39.670 --> 01:13:42.909
it. Well, what they're doing for the last season

01:13:42.909 --> 01:13:47.470
is that they're putting it out like five episodes,

01:13:47.689 --> 01:13:50.029
five episodes, five episodes, and five episodes

01:13:50.029 --> 01:13:53.609
because it's going to be 15 total episodes. And

01:13:53.609 --> 01:13:55.909
some people say, oh, I don't think he's good.

01:13:56.090 --> 01:13:59.729
That's all I want. And I have to say, well, you

01:13:59.729 --> 01:14:02.310
know, Maybe this is going to work for this last

01:14:02.310 --> 01:14:04.909
season because people want to see something.

01:14:05.529 --> 01:14:07.590
The way that they're gathering, it could have

01:14:07.590 --> 01:14:09.770
been all the way where Stranger Things has gotten

01:14:09.770 --> 01:14:18.909
to the end of 2025. Yeah. Well, so it's challenging.

01:14:19.329 --> 01:14:24.670
So I have an acting background. So I have knowledge

01:14:24.670 --> 01:14:27.590
on the industry. Not because I know people, but

01:14:27.590 --> 01:14:30.329
because... So like when TV shows used to get

01:14:30.329 --> 01:14:31.710
made, I don't know how much, you know, Jimmy,

01:14:31.750 --> 01:14:33.409
I don't know how much the audience knows. So

01:14:33.409 --> 01:14:36.510
like season used seasons used to be 22 episodes.

01:14:36.710 --> 01:14:39.409
Right. Everybody remembers the new shows would

01:14:39.409 --> 01:14:41.390
come on. They were starting to fall. They would

01:14:41.390 --> 01:14:45.609
get green lit for like one episode, like a pilot

01:14:45.609 --> 01:14:49.050
or two episodes, three episodes, maybe at the

01:14:49.050 --> 01:14:51.970
most. They would see how the show tested on his

01:14:51.970 --> 01:14:56.510
first few openings. If it did really well, it

01:14:56.510 --> 01:15:01.939
would get. uh green lit for um for another 13

01:15:01.939 --> 01:15:05.100
maybe 14 episodes to last till christmas they

01:15:05.100 --> 01:15:07.000
would come out once a week and then they would

01:15:07.000 --> 01:15:08.840
see where they are at christmas and if they were

01:15:08.840 --> 01:15:10.640
really good they'd come back if they weren't

01:15:10.640 --> 01:15:14.619
so good they wouldn't come back um but also if

01:15:14.619 --> 01:15:17.500
a show was really good like say it was already

01:15:17.500 --> 01:15:21.439
on for like i don't know two maybe three seasons

01:15:21.439 --> 01:15:25.859
and the first season didn't do as well as expected

01:15:27.310 --> 01:15:29.250
They wouldn't cancel it, but what they would

01:15:29.250 --> 01:15:31.569
do is they would retweet the show. They would

01:15:31.569 --> 01:15:33.470
either write in new storylines or they would

01:15:33.470 --> 01:15:37.750
just completely change older ones. So then for

01:15:37.750 --> 01:15:39.729
the next season, you might have a different tone.

01:15:40.130 --> 01:15:43.050
And that was the 22 season or the 22 episode

01:15:43.050 --> 01:15:45.949
for the seasons. Right. So now with the model

01:15:45.949 --> 01:15:48.670
of what a lot of streaming services are doing.

01:15:49.350 --> 01:15:51.989
They've gone to an eight episode model, which

01:15:51.989 --> 01:15:54.890
in my opinion is very horrible because that is

01:15:54.890 --> 01:15:58.310
barely enough episodes to tell a great cohesive

01:15:58.310 --> 01:16:04.670
story for streaming. But there is no testing

01:16:04.670 --> 01:16:07.029
the audience anymore. It's them filming whatever.

01:16:07.569 --> 01:16:10.369
And then they drop it on a streaming services

01:16:10.369 --> 01:16:12.789
like Netflix. They usually drop it all in one

01:16:12.789 --> 01:16:15.289
day. Now, Disney Plus and a few other streaming

01:16:15.289 --> 01:16:20.199
services like Amazon. They still do the days

01:16:20.199 --> 01:16:22.460
of dropping it once a week because they know

01:16:22.460 --> 01:16:25.880
that creates the buzz. Then that helps the show

01:16:25.880 --> 01:16:28.359
last longer, the longevity, because people are

01:16:28.359 --> 01:16:30.720
talking about it. Netflix is like, yo, we're

01:16:30.720 --> 01:16:35.460
just going to... I think there have been a few

01:16:35.460 --> 01:16:38.039
other series that they've dropped their episodes

01:16:38.039 --> 01:16:40.890
a little bit by little. Because, again, they're

01:16:40.890 --> 01:16:42.949
trying to test that water. So I don't know if

01:16:42.949 --> 01:16:46.470
Cobra Kai is going to do reshoots or tailor things

01:16:46.470 --> 01:16:49.130
differently because they're spacing all those

01:16:49.130 --> 01:16:52.409
episodes out. Or if it's just a simple fact of

01:16:52.409 --> 01:16:54.369
they want to keep the longevity of the conversation

01:16:54.369 --> 01:16:57.050
of Cobra Kai because it is a very popular show.

01:16:57.430 --> 01:17:00.630
I'm not sure what all that stuff is, but I have

01:17:00.630 --> 01:17:03.250
a feeling that Netflix is changing a lot of their

01:17:03.250 --> 01:17:06.189
policies. And it wouldn't surprise me if a lot

01:17:06.189 --> 01:17:10.680
of their shows. stop dropping all at once. If

01:17:10.680 --> 01:17:14.699
they started doing either a weekly thing or kind

01:17:14.699 --> 01:17:17.380
of like how they did with Bridgerton or there

01:17:17.380 --> 01:17:20.279
was a show they did a while ago that they dropped

01:17:20.279 --> 01:17:23.119
half of it in the beginning of the year and then

01:17:23.119 --> 01:17:25.899
they dropped the other half a few months later.

01:17:29.180 --> 01:17:31.260
It's all a preference. Me personally, I like

01:17:31.260 --> 01:17:33.100
shows that come out once a week, like one episode

01:17:33.100 --> 01:17:35.520
a week, maybe because that's what I grew up with.

01:17:36.130 --> 01:17:38.710
But I feel like there's something to long for.

01:17:38.770 --> 01:17:41.189
There's something to wait for versus having to

01:17:41.189 --> 01:17:43.590
bend or not having to, but instead of bending

01:17:43.590 --> 01:17:45.729
it all at once. But, you know what I mean? I'm

01:17:45.729 --> 01:17:48.770
more of an old school person. I'm kind of a little

01:17:48.770 --> 01:17:51.529
bit of both. If that makes sense, Jimmy. It does.

01:17:52.010 --> 01:17:55.689
I'm kind of a mix of both. It depends, like,

01:17:55.789 --> 01:18:04.390
if the podcast, I mean, if the show rolls it

01:18:04.390 --> 01:18:09.729
out. once a week or every couple or five here

01:18:09.729 --> 01:18:14.050
here here and there i'm fine with that uh sometimes

01:18:14.050 --> 01:18:18.750
i like to binge it but it depends on like what

01:18:18.750 --> 01:18:21.970
the show is like if it's like behind the whole

01:18:21.970 --> 01:18:27.130
season like let's say for ncis fans let's say

01:18:27.130 --> 01:18:30.579
for instance like you don't have cable, you can't

01:18:30.579 --> 01:18:32.640
watch all the new episodes. Well, if you're behind

01:18:32.640 --> 01:18:35.579
the season, then you drop it all at once because

01:18:35.579 --> 01:18:42.220
you're watching on streaming and it is all old

01:18:42.220 --> 01:18:45.100
episodes. It's not like, hey, this is new, whereas

01:18:45.100 --> 01:18:48.500
to me, it's still on cable television. Holy crap,

01:18:48.600 --> 01:18:54.130
cable still exists. Yeah. Yeah, it hasn't gone

01:18:54.130 --> 01:18:56.529
away just yet, which a lot of the streaming services

01:18:56.529 --> 01:18:59.010
are doing bundles now. So it won't be long before

01:18:59.010 --> 01:19:03.050
we're doing some form of cable anyway. So we'll

01:19:03.050 --> 01:19:12.989
see. Exactly, exactly. My last few questions

01:19:12.989 --> 01:19:18.149
for you are, who is your favorite author and

01:19:18.149 --> 01:19:27.960
why? I feel like this answer always changes because

01:19:27.960 --> 01:19:31.279
I'm always finding new authors. I started reading

01:19:31.279 --> 01:19:34.380
late. Not because I couldn't read. It's just,

01:19:34.479 --> 01:19:36.520
to be honest, I didn't like to read when I was

01:19:36.520 --> 01:19:39.220
a kid. And I think that's because I used to have

01:19:39.220 --> 01:19:44.800
to read a lot of old. When you're in school,

01:19:44.899 --> 01:19:47.359
they make you read all these books that are educational

01:19:47.359 --> 01:19:52.079
and classics. You can't relate to them or the

01:19:52.079 --> 01:19:55.079
English in it isn't what you how we speak now.

01:19:55.420 --> 01:19:58.340
So I just wasn't comprehending a lot of those

01:19:58.340 --> 01:20:01.640
books. So I got into reading later in life and

01:20:01.640 --> 01:20:08.300
now I love reading. I mean, I don't read. So

01:20:08.300 --> 01:20:10.720
I'm always finding new books and new authors

01:20:10.720 --> 01:20:15.380
to read. But currently right now, I would say

01:20:15.380 --> 01:20:22.630
my favorite author would be. Josh, Joshua Metcalf.

01:20:23.369 --> 01:20:29.930
He is a. I don't know if you'd call his book

01:20:29.930 --> 01:20:32.270
self -help, but they usually tend to be in the

01:20:32.270 --> 01:20:36.710
self -help section just because like like I was

01:20:36.710 --> 01:20:39.050
saying earlier about my books, his books tend

01:20:39.050 --> 01:20:43.930
to be parables. So he'll tell a story. He has

01:20:43.930 --> 01:20:48.750
a book called Pound the Stone. which is about

01:20:48.750 --> 01:20:53.189
this kid who has anger issues and he loves basketball.

01:20:53.289 --> 01:20:56.130
So he gets kicked off the team and on the way

01:20:56.130 --> 01:20:58.449
he came back on the team, if he goes through

01:20:58.449 --> 01:21:02.989
this program, that teaches him all these different

01:21:02.989 --> 01:21:05.569
life lessons, but he has to get a sponsor. So

01:21:05.569 --> 01:21:07.270
he ends up getting a sponsor and he ends up going

01:21:07.270 --> 01:21:10.109
through these different life lessons. Perfect

01:21:10.109 --> 01:21:12.710
book. Washington is a perfect book. I don't think

01:21:12.710 --> 01:21:14.869
anything's perfect, but it's a great book. I

01:21:14.869 --> 01:21:17.529
love it because inside the book, you get to witness

01:21:17.529 --> 01:21:21.050
all these stories, like all these instances of

01:21:21.050 --> 01:21:23.689
what he goes through. And it helps you understand

01:21:23.689 --> 01:21:25.210
that, oh, maybe I should think this way. Oh,

01:21:25.250 --> 01:21:27.670
I can see that. Then, in fact, he has another

01:21:27.670 --> 01:21:32.750
book called Shine in the Dark, which is all about

01:21:32.750 --> 01:21:35.649
doing the work that we all should be doing when

01:21:35.649 --> 01:21:38.569
there's nobody else around. So we've said it

01:21:38.569 --> 01:21:44.039
multiple times on this. I have two books out,

01:21:44.119 --> 01:21:49.079
right? I'm currently writing my next books. I'm

01:21:49.079 --> 01:21:56.640
in this office anywhere from 40 to 60 hours a

01:21:56.640 --> 01:21:59.899
week doing everything I need to do to get my

01:21:59.899 --> 01:22:03.100
books ready. No one's seeing me do this stuff.

01:22:03.220 --> 01:22:05.380
I mean, yeah, my family comes here every so often,

01:22:05.420 --> 01:22:08.500
but they don't see what I do. Not all the time.

01:22:09.119 --> 01:22:11.439
So I have to constantly put out this do this

01:22:11.439 --> 01:22:14.460
work while there's nobody around. And in that

01:22:14.460 --> 01:22:18.640
book, there is a character or there is a boy

01:22:18.640 --> 01:22:24.899
who is learning how to tighten rope walk because

01:22:24.899 --> 01:22:28.260
of his grandfather. And he's having to learn

01:22:28.260 --> 01:22:31.039
how to do all this work and how to do it while

01:22:31.039 --> 01:22:34.899
there's nobody around. And he's the kind of kid

01:22:34.899 --> 01:22:40.140
who likes the attention. So it's just a very

01:22:40.140 --> 01:22:41.979
good book. And he has some other books, too,

01:22:42.060 --> 01:22:44.840
that are in the similar vein of just him. He

01:22:44.840 --> 01:22:47.880
tells you a story, but there's all these different

01:22:47.880 --> 01:22:52.000
lessons while you read it. Like, I feel like

01:22:52.000 --> 01:22:54.600
his most famous book is Chop Wood, Carry Water,

01:22:54.880 --> 01:22:59.020
which is about this individual who wants to be

01:22:59.020 --> 01:23:01.760
a samurai archer. I didn't know that was a thing,

01:23:01.800 --> 01:23:04.300
but it is. So he wants to be a samurai archer.

01:23:04.539 --> 01:23:09.659
So he has to go. and be with all these mentors

01:23:09.659 --> 01:23:13.460
and gurus. And he's trying to learn how to be

01:23:13.460 --> 01:23:15.140
an archer, but they're teaching him all these

01:23:15.140 --> 01:23:18.140
life lessons as well, where he literally has

01:23:18.140 --> 01:23:20.460
to chop wood and carry water and do all these

01:23:20.460 --> 01:23:24.039
different other things. So I just love what he

01:23:24.039 --> 01:23:27.800
does. I love the way he writes. Phenomenal individual.

01:23:27.979 --> 01:23:30.220
I've talked to him online through email a couple

01:23:30.220 --> 01:23:32.619
of times, and he's just a really good guy. And

01:23:32.619 --> 01:23:35.039
yeah, so he's my favorite author right now. And

01:23:35.039 --> 01:23:43.739
that's why. I have to say that my favorite current

01:23:43.739 --> 01:23:46.300
author right now is the one I'm reading at the

01:23:46.300 --> 01:23:50.520
moment, which I can't say. It might be this word.

01:23:54.539 --> 01:23:57.359
It's like sending Bloody Mary into the mirror

01:23:57.359 --> 01:24:01.020
three times. Holy crap. I'm kidding. Oh, let's

01:24:01.020 --> 01:24:08.869
not do that. One thing I was going to piggyback

01:24:08.869 --> 01:24:13.329
off of there real quick. Okay. I like what you

01:24:13.329 --> 01:24:24.149
said that there's many, there are a lot of authors

01:24:24.149 --> 01:24:29.289
that, I didn't like reading as a kid either.

01:24:30.729 --> 01:24:35.130
Okay. My school district made me read some stuff

01:24:35.130 --> 01:24:38.750
that I wouldn't say it was age -appropriate for

01:24:38.750 --> 01:24:43.949
them. Okay, maybe a little bit age -appropriate,

01:24:43.989 --> 01:24:49.550
but there was some instances where I was in special

01:24:49.550 --> 01:24:53.569
education growing up, and they were making me

01:24:53.569 --> 01:24:56.329
read something much lower than my reading level.

01:24:57.869 --> 01:25:01.810
And so basically, while everyone else was reading

01:25:01.810 --> 01:25:06.359
a book like this, I'm like a pain. like a pamphlet

01:25:06.359 --> 01:25:11.640
i'm in seventh grade my special education teacher

01:25:11.640 --> 01:25:16.039
challenged me and say jimmy you should read something

01:25:16.039 --> 01:25:22.199
that is more of your at your reading level if

01:25:22.199 --> 01:25:24.500
you don't understand something come to me come

01:25:24.500 --> 01:25:28.199
to norm i think google was around back then uh

01:25:28.199 --> 01:25:31.159
i mean i didn't have my first cell phone at the

01:25:31.159 --> 01:25:34.510
moment I mean, smartphones didn't exist back

01:25:34.510 --> 01:25:41.949
then. Gee, I feel like I'm old. But basically,

01:25:42.090 --> 01:25:46.630
she helped me get into liking reading because

01:25:46.630 --> 01:25:51.430
she basically said, who cares what the school

01:25:51.430 --> 01:25:55.439
district is making us read? go challenge yourself

01:25:55.439 --> 01:25:58.920
to read this or whatever book you want to read.

01:25:59.220 --> 01:26:03.720
And so I chose Harry Potter because, you know,

01:26:03.840 --> 01:26:06.460
I always joke with my mom because she's like,

01:26:06.619 --> 01:26:08.739
I couldn't get into those books or the movies.

01:26:08.739 --> 01:26:12.039
And it's like, how are we related? I was like,

01:26:12.079 --> 01:26:14.859
how dare you? I was like, I don't want to share

01:26:14.859 --> 01:26:17.260
this thing with you. I'm going to let you know.

01:26:17.619 --> 01:26:21.479
What the hell is wrong with you? I always have

01:26:21.479 --> 01:26:26.020
them on TV. They're on TV in the summer. I'm

01:26:26.020 --> 01:26:29.180
like, how can you not like it? I just thought

01:26:29.180 --> 01:26:36.899
they were overhyped. Yeah. Overhyped. And so

01:26:36.899 --> 01:26:40.319
when she was reading me those books, I guess

01:26:40.319 --> 01:26:42.239
she couldn't get into them. I was like, I'm going

01:26:42.239 --> 01:26:45.319
to take it upon myself and read it. And I admit

01:26:45.319 --> 01:26:47.140
that there was a lot of things that were from

01:26:47.140 --> 01:26:52.550
the movies, from the books. Right, yeah. But

01:26:52.550 --> 01:26:54.869
I was like, well, do I want to see a five -hour

01:26:54.869 --> 01:26:57.909
movie, or do I want to see a two -and -a -half

01:26:57.909 --> 01:27:01.109
-hour movie? Because when you just drag something

01:27:01.109 --> 01:27:04.270
in, it's like, damn it, I can't do it. Yeah.

01:27:05.170 --> 01:27:08.270
But honestly, I would say my favorite author

01:27:08.270 --> 01:27:12.909
is the current one I'm reading, and I just think...

01:27:12.909 --> 01:27:16.310
And there's one other book that I agree with

01:27:16.310 --> 01:27:20.020
you, that the old literature from... that they

01:27:20.020 --> 01:27:22.079
had those freelance girls were not my favorite.

01:27:22.800 --> 01:27:25.159
I'm not going to get into one of their names

01:27:25.159 --> 01:27:27.460
because it will just bring nightmares for me.

01:27:27.739 --> 01:27:31.960
It had this very graphic scene. And I don't mean

01:27:31.960 --> 01:27:39.180
like battle scene because I know like, oh, this

01:27:39.180 --> 01:27:43.279
is make -believe or this is just part of my imagination.

01:27:43.779 --> 01:27:48.859
But this one got like, I'll just say, Not even

01:27:48.859 --> 01:27:57.300
graphic, like, sex graphic. This was, like, very,

01:27:57.420 --> 01:28:01.579
very, like, full -blown for, like, I mean, this

01:28:01.579 --> 01:28:05.000
book I was reading in high school, but I don't

01:28:05.000 --> 01:28:08.939
think, in my opinion, an English special education

01:28:08.939 --> 01:28:12.260
class should have been reading this. And because,

01:28:12.420 --> 01:28:15.079
like, for my learning, it's, like, on an instant

01:28:15.079 --> 01:28:20.300
replay. Had to read it after. It kind of stuck

01:28:20.300 --> 01:28:25.039
in my many weeks. And I have nightmares every

01:28:25.039 --> 01:28:28.260
single night about it. It's like, oh. And it's

01:28:28.260 --> 01:28:30.600
like, bad for the character in the book to do

01:28:30.600 --> 01:28:34.319
this. But it was just really awful. And I'm like,

01:28:34.439 --> 01:28:37.880
okay. And I was like, I'm never reading this

01:28:37.880 --> 01:28:42.319
book ever again. I'm not going to name the plug

01:28:42.319 --> 01:28:45.439
because maybe some fans really like the book.

01:28:45.779 --> 01:28:48.340
I am not trying to pick the books, but this book,

01:28:48.479 --> 01:28:52.560
it's staying in my mind for a week. So I can't

01:28:52.560 --> 01:28:55.399
say it out loud or I'm just going to bring it

01:28:55.399 --> 01:29:01.300
back up in my real memories in my brain. It took

01:29:01.300 --> 01:29:05.699
me a while to get rid of that. Give me the heebie

01:29:05.699 --> 01:29:09.520
-jeebies. So my last two questions for you is,

01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:13.859
One of my last three questions is, where can

01:29:13.859 --> 01:29:17.539
people find your books, buy them, purchase? Are

01:29:17.539 --> 01:29:23.840
they in libraries as well? Absolutely. So, yeah,

01:29:23.939 --> 01:29:28.659
my books, you can go to Amazon, Target, Walmart,

01:29:28.880 --> 01:29:31.680
Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, anywhere on

01:29:31.680 --> 01:29:33.460
Washington State, anywhere. But most major retailers

01:29:33.460 --> 01:29:37.100
have my books online, my first one and my second

01:29:37.100 --> 01:29:42.659
one. My first book. are in a fair amount of libraries

01:29:42.659 --> 01:29:48.319
on the East Coast. Can't sit here and say every

01:29:48.319 --> 01:29:50.500
library have, but it never hurts to ask your

01:29:50.500 --> 01:29:55.460
library if they can get a copy. I'm sure they

01:29:55.460 --> 01:29:56.960
would be more than happy to if they have this

01:29:56.960 --> 01:30:00.579
on their bookshelf. And in fact, also, yeah,

01:30:00.659 --> 01:30:02.520
if you would like a signed copy, please head

01:30:02.520 --> 01:30:06.840
to my website, www .jreese .com, J -A -Y -R -E

01:30:06.840 --> 01:30:10.439
-E -A -C -E. And yo, I can get you a signed copy.

01:30:11.819 --> 01:30:15.279
My next question for you is where can people

01:30:15.279 --> 01:30:17.960
follow you and learn more about who you are and

01:30:17.960 --> 01:30:24.260
what you do? Oh, yeah, of course. I've mentioned

01:30:24.260 --> 01:30:27.640
earlier I'm on TikTok the most. Assuming TikTok

01:30:27.640 --> 01:30:29.640
is going to be around much longer. But I'm on

01:30:29.640 --> 01:30:33.220
TikTok the most. I'm also on Instagram and I

01:30:33.220 --> 01:30:35.979
have an author page on Facebook. All of them

01:30:35.979 --> 01:30:40.369
are I. All of them are IamJReese. That is my

01:30:40.369 --> 01:30:43.149
handle on AllPlay. Oh, and I'm also on Twitter.

01:30:44.810 --> 01:30:54.609
IamJReese. I'm sorry for those people who like

01:30:54.609 --> 01:30:57.350
the platform. I mean, I don't hate it necessarily,

01:30:57.590 --> 01:31:01.250
but I just hate the name of it. That's my only...

01:31:01.250 --> 01:31:08.529
It's such an odd... If you wanted to rebrand

01:31:08.529 --> 01:31:11.010
it and rename it, fine. There's nothing wrong

01:31:11.010 --> 01:31:13.970
with that. But I'm like X. You couldn't think

01:31:13.970 --> 01:31:16.369
of like an actual name. You just want to name

01:31:16.369 --> 01:31:20.729
it X. I don't understand why. Maybe there's an

01:31:20.729 --> 01:31:23.029
article said why he chose X because I got to

01:31:23.029 --> 01:31:25.069
understand why he chose X. There has to be a

01:31:25.069 --> 01:31:29.350
meaning behind it. I don't get it. Yeah, I'm

01:31:29.350 --> 01:31:33.810
like, but X. You can come up. You kind of just

01:31:33.810 --> 01:31:36.149
like use AI to come up with a creative brand

01:31:36.149 --> 01:31:42.020
name. Like, really? Something. I don't know.

01:31:42.079 --> 01:31:45.539
It's just, it is what it is. And my last question

01:31:45.539 --> 01:31:47.539
for you is, who's your favorite podcaster and

01:31:47.539 --> 01:31:56.140
why? And feel free not to say me. See what I

01:31:56.140 --> 01:31:59.680
did there? Oh, I can't, I can't, I can't say,

01:31:59.760 --> 01:32:02.500
I can't say the crazy fitness guy. Oh man. Okay.

01:32:02.659 --> 01:32:10.689
Let me think of something. You want to. Well,

01:32:10.729 --> 01:32:13.329
yes, I hold Jimmy in great regard. Jimmy is definitely

01:32:13.329 --> 01:32:17.130
one of my favorite podcasts. But let me get some

01:32:17.130 --> 01:32:21.090
shine to another podcast. Actually, there are.

01:32:22.949 --> 01:32:30.810
There are. There's. Two that I hold like very

01:32:30.810 --> 01:32:32.529
high, like there's I listen to a lot of different

01:32:32.529 --> 01:32:36.920
podcasts, but the first one. will be the Growing

01:32:36.920 --> 01:32:40.279
in Marriage podcast. Even if you're not married

01:32:40.279 --> 01:32:43.119
and you are in a relationship or you'd like to

01:32:43.119 --> 01:32:45.840
be in a relationship, there's nothing wrong with

01:32:45.840 --> 01:32:49.460
listening to this podcast. Rich in Indiana, they

01:32:49.460 --> 01:32:51.659
are a wonderful couple. They have been married

01:32:51.659 --> 01:32:56.180
for 20 plus years. They share their experiences.

01:32:56.399 --> 01:32:58.260
And I'm talking about like their real experiences.

01:32:58.260 --> 01:33:02.069
Like this is the made up stuff. They share the

01:33:02.069 --> 01:33:03.970
ins and out of their relationship. They have

01:33:03.970 --> 01:33:06.069
two wonderful children. Well, they're adults

01:33:06.069 --> 01:33:10.010
now, but they keep it where they don't talk about

01:33:10.010 --> 01:33:14.010
the kids. They talk about how they work together,

01:33:14.250 --> 01:33:18.109
everything they do. So if you are a person who

01:33:18.109 --> 01:33:21.890
is looking for somebody and you want to be happy,

01:33:21.970 --> 01:33:24.550
healthy and learn how to communicate, I suggest

01:33:24.550 --> 01:33:27.970
listening to them. It's a wonderful. podcast

01:33:27.970 --> 01:33:30.630
growing in marriage is it's one of five recommended

01:33:30.630 --> 01:33:34.869
to anybody and everybody. Um, my other favorite

01:33:34.869 --> 01:33:41.090
podcast would have to be, um, the plant -based

01:33:41.090 --> 01:33:44.350
news podcast. Um, they are kind of like Jimmy,

01:33:44.449 --> 01:33:47.770
they are a health. I mean, they're, let's not

01:33:47.770 --> 01:33:50.710
describe it. Anything in the world of plant -based

01:33:50.710 --> 01:33:55.350
is what they cover. Um, anything from the laws

01:33:55.350 --> 01:34:00.600
to um health and fitness to new studies that

01:34:00.600 --> 01:34:04.300
are coming out uh i just find them and as i said

01:34:04.300 --> 01:34:07.380
at the beginning i'm vegan so anything about

01:34:07.380 --> 01:34:11.100
helping the world helping people and helping

01:34:11.100 --> 01:34:15.319
animals that tends to be my heart spot right

01:34:15.319 --> 01:34:17.979
there and that show covers all of that so yeah

01:34:17.979 --> 01:34:21.039
those would be my two favorites outside of january

01:34:21.039 --> 01:34:25.319
of course i think my two favorites would be uh

01:34:26.390 --> 01:34:29.909
Lewis Howes, The School of Greatness, and the

01:34:29.909 --> 01:34:32.069
other one is called Braving the Elements Podcast.

01:34:32.130 --> 01:34:36.989
Oh, yeah, I like that one. I've heard that one.

01:34:37.529 --> 01:34:41.310
I was on the Braving the Elements Podcast. I

01:34:41.310 --> 01:34:44.949
got to meet Janet Farney, Liz Cora, and Legend

01:34:44.949 --> 01:34:48.489
of Cora. She was actually on the show, too. So

01:34:48.489 --> 01:34:57.000
take a check of... Allowance. Yeah, and... And

01:34:57.000 --> 01:35:01.100
someone actually was on my show not too long

01:35:01.100 --> 01:35:04.220
ago. He actually met Lewis Howes and was like,

01:35:04.380 --> 01:35:10.300
how dare you? Oh, wow. I didn't get an opportunity

01:35:10.300 --> 01:35:13.840
to ask him, but I was like, help me up. I want

01:35:13.840 --> 01:35:19.220
to meet him, too. Right? Right? Oh, my God. Because,

01:35:19.359 --> 01:35:21.659
you know, he does those conferences every year,

01:35:21.779 --> 01:35:24.500
and I would love to go to one of his conferences.

01:35:25.930 --> 01:35:27.449
I haven't been able to put space in my calendar

01:35:27.449 --> 01:35:32.670
for it yet, but I'm going to get there. Definitely.

01:35:33.590 --> 01:35:37.529
I want to go to one of his conferences too. Right

01:35:37.529 --> 01:35:41.609
now, just the pricing is just high for my budget

01:35:41.609 --> 01:35:45.869
at the moment. Oh, yeah. That's the other part

01:35:45.869 --> 01:35:50.069
of it. People are like, you don't seem to have

01:35:50.069 --> 01:35:52.989
a good budget at the moment. It's like, no, I

01:35:52.989 --> 01:35:57.399
don't. I admit that. Orally. Every time I'm paying

01:35:57.399 --> 01:35:59.920
a bill at a new business, I'm like, I'm always

01:35:59.920 --> 01:36:02.600
reminded. I feel like some other people remind

01:36:02.600 --> 01:36:06.039
me, and it's like, trust me, it hasn't slipped

01:36:06.039 --> 01:36:12.239
my mind. But anyway. Absolutely. But anyway,

01:36:12.340 --> 01:36:14.279
thank you for being on the show, and I hope I

01:36:14.279 --> 01:36:17.100
didn't take up too much of your time. I was enjoying

01:36:17.100 --> 01:36:25.010
having you on the show. Oh, I, I, I will enjoy

01:36:25.010 --> 01:36:27.430
being here. I'm just sorry that it took me so

01:36:27.430 --> 01:36:29.270
long to come back. You know, it took me a while

01:36:29.270 --> 01:36:31.670
to write the next book. So hopefully, uh, like

01:36:31.670 --> 01:36:34.270
I said, the next one will be out next year. I'll

01:36:34.270 --> 01:36:37.430
be back within a year. Yeah. I'm going to hold

01:36:37.430 --> 01:36:39.770
you to that because I, I loved having you on

01:36:39.770 --> 01:36:45.350
my show. Oh, thank you, Jim. I appreciate it.

01:36:45.350 --> 01:36:48.050
I love being here, man. Well, I look forward

01:36:48.050 --> 01:36:50.710
to staying in touch with you, and I'll let you

01:36:50.710 --> 01:36:53.090
know when this episode drops, and if you stay

01:36:53.090 --> 01:36:55.229
a little bit after, I'll tell you exactly when

01:36:55.229 --> 01:36:59.729
it will drop. And I'll also give you a sneak

01:36:59.729 --> 01:37:09.970
peek. Okay. Ooh, yay. And no one else. I'll see

01:37:09.970 --> 01:37:18.079
you in a few minutes. So that's all the time

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it keeps my water nice and cold and refreshing

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throughout the day. And yes, I do drink a lot

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of water throughout the day, so even though it

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stays colder for longer, I still like having

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a reusable water bottle like Hydroflask. because

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it just sits on my desk, and it just sits on

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my desk and reminds me, hey, you've got to drink

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water. And Hydro Flask, it keeps it cold longer,

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which makes me want to drink more water throughout

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the day, because, you know, there's nothing worse

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than drinking warm water. Go to hydroflask .com.

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And use the link in the show notes. And yes,

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I do get a small commission from Hydroflask,

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which also helps support the show. So tell them

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I sent you. Use the link below. And yeah, check

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out hydroflask .com for more information.