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Hey, what's going on, guys?
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My name is Nate, and you're listening
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to the Otaku Liberation, a show where we help you
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break the chains that hold you back in your life
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by connecting some biblical principles
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with themes for your favorite anime.
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In today's episode, it's gonna be a little bit different
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because I don't have an episode to cover today,
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but instead, I invited a very special,
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pretty cool guest on here where, you know, he's my buddy.
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We worked together for the last couple years,
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and we both are true, true nerds at heart.
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ivities
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figures
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Kurt, I'm going to introduce yourself a little bit
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and talk to the people and tell them about yourself man.
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All right, all right.
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Thank you, Nate, for that beautiful introduction.
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Hey guys, my name is Kurtis.
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Like Nate said, we worked together for a good little while.
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And yes, I am a nerd, a big nerd.
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When it comes to any and everything about anime, I love it.
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Sir, all genres, all types.
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Love it.
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That you even even the feel good ones.
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Kurt, hey, listen, hey, listen, hey, since I've been since I've been a father,
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my anime has shifted a lot.
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OK, I love the feel good.
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And mays man, the good ones that make you just feel warm inside.
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Like I sometimes prefer just to watch those
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over the killing the drama and all that other animates that
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the typical show on us.
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Oh, yeah, like, look, me, you know, man, a lot of our interests are very much alike.
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So I get you 100 percent.
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I'm not a father, but man, a good story just hits different.
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It does. Like, you know, you know, I don't want to go into the tangent about this,
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but it's like one of those things where you
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let's just I'm a compared to like a typical TV show like people watch,
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you know, people watch TV shows for the drama and the storytelling.
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All the same. That's how anime is for me.
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I watch it. It's like the same reality TV shows that people watch,
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but it's just anime and it kind of it is stretched a little bit more,
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but it's still relatable to home.
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Sometimes you just get a little wild with the supernatural, but it's OK.
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It's OK. As long as you know what you're getting into.
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And it's funny that I was just having a conversation with my mom the other day
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about, you know, why I started this podcast and stuff like that is
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to help people understand that, you know, you can relate to anime a lot.
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It's not all about the killing and the demons and, you know,
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the fan service, depending on how deep you go.
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But there's a lot of good points that you can pull out from any media, right?
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Any shows, games, stuff if you want to go that deep about it.
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But yeah, because most of them have a hidden agenda.
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Yeah, honestly, some some good other ones are just no.
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But then you get the ones like what you see is what you get.
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So like, hey, listen, you just got to take for what it is.
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But but so yeah, man, again, this one, thank you for
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making time in your your busy schedule and being the dad and the father
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and the loving husband that you are.
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Take some time to talk to me about, you know, the stuff that we love.
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Anytime, anytime.
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So again, so I can know me.
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You can talk a little bit before about kind of what this whole thing is going to be.
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But so I got some some some got some questions for you that,
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you know, from sure the viewers, the viewers are home to their listeners.
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They're going to be, you know, they're they're going to be shocked
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about how deep some of these questions are.
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I think man, anime goes this deep.
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Yes. Yes, it does.
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Man, I read these questions before we even got started.
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And look, there's like, come on now, you got to think about it.
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You got me thinking like that.
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Never even thought about a perspective like this with some of these questions.
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But we're going to tackle them today.
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We're going to have the day on this.
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They look we're going to do it and do it together.
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I'm I'm reading them again now, like, man,
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I don't know my own answers to these questions.
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Listen to me, too.
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I said the same thing, but, you know, we want to make this as genuine as possible.
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So, hey, no prep time.
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Hey, right. We're just going in. We're just going in.
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All right. So the first one is,
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can you share with us how anime has influenced your life
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and shaped your perspective on just various things,
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you know, like relationships, your own personal growth,
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career choices, things like that?
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Oh, OK.
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So this one is several points in this question.
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But I'm going to try to attack each one on the jacks.
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But we're going to go with we'll start with relationships.
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So. As I was growing up,
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I didn't have that whole
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two parent household that, you know,
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that love and, you know, grew grew up around that, that love, that relationship,
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that, you know, that most family members and stuff seen together, you know,
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I have I have my great grandma. Right.
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OK. So I have a great grandma, my uncle.
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That was the closest as like a.
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And my sister, I'm not going to be scared of some of the other people
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and I have a sister and some family members, but they wasn't.
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I was never close.
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You know, other than my other than my immediate guardians,
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which was my uncle and my great grandma. OK.
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Um, so the relationship aspect of like love and,
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you know, having that growing up to see what, you know,
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that how to, you know, how to build those relationships and how to have a,
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you know, scrum bonds with people.
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Only bond that I had was truly was with my my mother figure
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at that time, which is my great grandma.
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Up until I started meeting friends, friends and animes.
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So as I.
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So yeah, I'm good to the power of friendship.
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Hey, look, hey, look for my viewers or my listeners who aren't really anime fans.
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Just know that the power of friendship beats everything like everything.
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And honestly, it shapes a lot of different aspects in life, too.
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Friends can get you through a whole lot of stuff.
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Oh, yeah. Like more than what family most of the time can get you.
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I mean, certain family, depending on, you know, your livelihood.
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But to get back to the go back to it is that.
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So at that time, I think as I was growing up, the animes I had were.
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The classic big old G, you know, you got to go with number one Dragon Ball.
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Yeah, Dragon Ball, the big three Dragon Ball Naruto in Bleach.
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OK, at the top. So.
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Watching Naruto and watching Dragon Ball showed me that, you know,
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no matter how down you can be, especially with Naruto, Naruto, just about an orphan.
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Everybody knew his life, everybody knew his life, but he didn't know his life.
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You know, everybody around him knew everything.
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And could it took this man out of a dark place?
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And they just didn't want to even try to get that right.
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Just did. And that goes the same thing.
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I mean, like I said, I didn't have to go to the hospital.
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I didn't have my mom and them stuff.
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I mean, I knew my mom, but, you know, oh, my father, they they was around.
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Oh, everybody knew them.
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But. I didn't know them.
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Yeah. I got one of these family members of me can say, hey, you know, you know,
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your dad is here.
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You want to meet him? We can take you to meet him.
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But they did, you know.
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So it was like so Naruto is really relatable to me and mine.
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And it was up until I met one of my closest friends.
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His name is Dante. OK.
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He we were.
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I didn't really, you know, have a bond and know what a bond was,
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but I just knew we shared one thing.
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We was watching Naruto.
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We shared one thing we was watching Naruto and from that, like
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we just became friends, like close friends shared about everything Naruto,
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all that good stuff and that relationship right there that I built
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from just anime watching with him changed my life.
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Like I started seeing, you know, I started being a little bit more positive.
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You know, I was more of a, you know, I started getting a more happy ongoing person.
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Right. Just just for that friendship.
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Just just finding one guy that likes that understood me.
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You know, I understood me.
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Do I? Yeah.
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That shaped everything.
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It changed everything.
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Just finally one thing.
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Just, you know, one person we had similar backgrounds, you know, we
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are our life was pretty much similar.
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And the aspect of like, you know, growing up with a single parent,
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you know, type of stuff like that.
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And a lot of things that helped us through it was, you know,
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a little anime, I'm not just saying Naruto anime, Dragon Ball Z.
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Dragon Ball Z shows you the power of friendship.
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You can overcome everything from friendship.
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You know, everybody depended on that one friend.
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It showed what a dependable friend was.
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Oh, I like that. I like that. Yeah.
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You see, you know, no matter how hard it was.
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He always showed he always knew he was going to show up, you know.
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And that's how I felt like, yeah, I have my family here.
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Yeah, I have, you know, my immediate guardians and all that stuff.
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But no matter how hard times was.
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You knew I had to like, I knew I could go over and talk to him.
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And as time grew, you know, I started getting other friends
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that was similar like that.
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That's how I built my circle from that trust, you know,
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finding people that's like that.
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So that's how relationships pretty much, you know, sum up with anime.
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And after watching Goku, watching Naruto, you know, even though
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and another the circle back Naruto is that, you know, no matter how hard
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or what you and your friends going through,
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you can still make up Naruto inside of you.
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You still make up Naruto and Sasuke.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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You see, it's a thing, man.
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Listen, I can go on and on about stories like this, like one.
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And one day and I was young and this was a terrible I didn't know no better.
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I mean, this guy, we've been friends forever.
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And one situation happened, I call this the typical anime situation.
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It involved a woman.
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Oh, Lord.
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Oh, no. Women cause great wars out here.
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OK. And same thing with me and my me and my boy Dante.
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I we actually stopped talking for a while over a girl.
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And it wasn't a typical, hey, I like this girl.
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You like this girl situation.
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It was more so.
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And. My I call him my brother, my brother,
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Dante, because this is a close thing that I had to a brother.
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This is yeah, he.
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Disrespecting the girl I was talking to.
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And. And.
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Me on my hand, you know, I'm like, all right, well, you know, OK, that's my brother.
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I don't care. I'm laughing about the situation.
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She didn't like that.
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She wanted him to leave.
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And never come back.
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Mm hmm.
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You know, I tried to talk the situation out, but it didn't work out the way I wanted.
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But I also like the girl.
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So you had to be a decision to be.
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But but like, listen, this how you know you have a good friend.
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This how you know this is OK.
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OK. He's like, you know what?
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I'm going to do what you said.
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Sometime when things didn't work out with the girl, came back like it was nothing.
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So listen, man, like it was nothing.
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I understand.
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You know what I said was a little messed up.
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You know, I did apologize.
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She like it, but you know, it is what it is.
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But you know, she go on.
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We back, baby.
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We back, baby, like it was like it was like it was just yesterday.
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We back. It's funny to hear that.
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So me, one of my old homeboys, we didn't have a fall now like that.
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But we just you know how sometimes you just grow.
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You outgrow some people, right?
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You go on different stages of your life and me and we had
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when we were best friends for like years, like he was pretty much my brother.
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But then we just I moved away.
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So we started going our separate ways in life.
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And, you know, we kind of lost lost touch a little bit.
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And then like just this past year, he reached out to me out of the blue.
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Well, we just picked up like it was yesterday.
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Like you said, it's just kind of it.
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Nothing. It felt like nothing has stopped.
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Nothing had changed.
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We just started laughing and joking like we used to.
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And, you know, I think, yeah, not to get too far off topic,
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but again, from from our listeners out there, just to really.
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Strive to be that type of friend, right?
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And I just look for him.
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But to really try to be that type of friend to where you know,
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you understand life happens, right?
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You know, you and your homework, you guys have to fall out.
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But he didn't he didn't fault you for it.
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He didn't fault the girl really.
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He just like, hey, this is it is what it is.
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I'll be here when you come back. Right.
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Type thing. I'll be here if you come back and vice versa.
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So I mean, I think that's something powerful that everyone should strive
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is just to be that type of person, right?
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Just going to turn the other cheek when you can and just, you know,
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just love one each other.
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So that's awesome, man. That's awesome.
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And hey, listen, you are absolutely right.
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It's you don't you don't see too many people like that.
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And that's why to this day, I still respect my brother.
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You call him every day. I talk to him.
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I mean, we don't aim like we used to.
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And but we both got families.
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We have.
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I mean, like, like, you know, grown, grown.
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So, yeah, we will get you know, we both married, got families and stuff like that.
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But, you know, we just a phone call away if anything needs.
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If he needs anything, I need them day.
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And just simply that, like I said, we pick up the phone.
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Hey, man, I love you, man.
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You're doing all right.
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And just chop it up a little bit.
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Hey, man, I talked to you when I talked to you.
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I already know you busy. I'm busy.
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We both trying to grind out here. We both trying to get it.
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Mm hmm. Oh, boy.
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Ain't that true?
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But to really sum up that whole thing, like, yes, if I didn't see those relationships in an anime,
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I don't think my friendships, I don't think the relationships that I have right now
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or the values that I grew up on relationships just by watching them would be the same.
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I probably would be
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I'd probably be somewhere else, you know.
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Hey, I said that you got to say no more.
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I got you. Yeah, man.
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It's just like one of those things like you didn't see that because that's the thing.
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Like I said, I didn't see that in the people that was my guardians and stuff.
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I saw that from me watching anime.
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I mean, you know, if it wasn't Dragon Ball Z, it was you.
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Hockey show. It was Naruto.
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It was, you know, I mean, at that time in the 90s, it was.
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Yeah, that was pretty much the ones that I was pretty hooked on at the time.
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Besides, the other ones that I don't speak of.
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I got here.
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Even even Cowboy Bebop, another another clue.
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Yes, I will be back. But, you know.
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So you are a peace fight, but
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it was such a tragedy.
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Hey, I still watch that anime every year once a year.
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Oh, really? OK.
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Yes. Once a year, I have to go back and watch the old G's
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every year. If it isn't Trigun,
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it's Outlaw Star Cowboy Bebop, Fooly Cooly.
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You know, class, those are classes.
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I might I might I might start that tradition myself, man.
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Listen, I mean, the classic, they still hit differently
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when you watch them.
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And if you watch the, you know, the new trend of anime is,
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of course, most of them is, you know, easy guys and stuff like that.
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And being right or needed and stuff.
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But the classics hit so different, so different.
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Worth watching.
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Oh, it's always worth watching.
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It still gives you that good feeling in that that
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since chills down your your spine when you're watching that anime.
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And they almost like to me, you know, back then is when
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they had a lot of good like storytelling and development.
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Like you cared about all of the characters, right?
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You know, in OG anime, like you said, a lot of the modern anime,
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I started with like a couple, you know, like you demon slayers,
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you just kind of stuff like that.
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But like you said, the Isakai is know that you really don't care
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about too many of the characters outside of the main character.
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And even then they're just same as everybody else.
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So it's like, you know what I mean?
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So it's like, what am I really watching here?
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But like the OG, the classics, the ones that, you know, yeah,
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very good story driven animes.
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And even the ones who aren't like Dragon Ball Z like, let's be honest,
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nobody watched Dragon Ball Z for the story.
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Well, I said you need it for some cold fighting and some cool transformations.
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I can't agree with you on that one.
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Oh, OK. All right.
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Listen, because I'm some of the older Dragon Ball Z
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has had pretty good red ribbon and Dragon Ball.
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Really good, really good driven story.
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Of course, we already know you can't go past the cell saga, you know, that
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cells are great.
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Yes, freezes, freezes.
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Actually, you know, freezes was really good, too.
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It was a lot of, you know, feel a bit freezes was really good as well.
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Majin Buu
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saw it was OK. At best.
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But, you know, what really got everybody, you got to say it is the freezes.
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I'm not free to the cell.
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So I got everybody in the drink, but yeah, I can argue with that.
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Yeah, I think that's probably the outside of
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Goku turned super tan the first time.
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I think the cell saga as a whole was probably some of the most iconic stuff
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from Dragon Ball Z.
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Like when you think about it, I know because it brought it brought the
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it brought future go on storyline.
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It brought future trunk storyline, which is a little side.
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It was a little side stuff.
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But right through your trunk stuff was still cold.
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I still to this day, when trunks first went Super Saiyan
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after the death of Gohan,
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was still embedded in my memory.
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In the rain, crying, holding Gohan.
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Come on, man. Come on.
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You can't tell me that one.
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Go. Are you right?
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I'm on the code of Super Saiyan to go on.
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Oh, boy. Man.
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Gohan got active after that.
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But what is saying that they did with Gohan after that?
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But if we don't speak on that, we don't.
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We'll speak on Jim Su. Jim Su.
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I can't even turn super saying no one.
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What? It's such a strain on my body.
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Oh, all right.
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All right. Let me.
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Hey, we got all the.
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We got.
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Oh, but.
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But again, that's again, the joys, the joys of,
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you know, anime and and
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just being an otaku in general, right?
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Because let me kind of break that down for people who don't really understand
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what that means because otaku, you know, you hear the word.
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People immediately think, you know, anime and, you know,
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Japanese type culture, stuff like that.
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But the word is really if you have a a an obsessive hobby.
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So anything you're interested in, you can be an otaku about fitness, right?
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If you're really into lifting weights and different workouts, stuff like that.
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You know, of course, video games, anime, the American football,
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you know, you know, soccer, things like that.
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So for me, it's when you when you surrender yourself
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with other people who share the same interests with the same intensity,
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then you get conversations like this, right?
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Where you can just go off on a tangent for four hours about one little thing,
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one little one moment.
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And then they say, you know, six plus hours going by.
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And, you know, I guess what I want this whole thing to be
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just a community like that, you know, to understand, you know, you're not alone.
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It's OK to be weird.
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It's OK to have these type of hobbies and stuff like that.
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You're not, you know, you don't get beat up in the street.
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And it's just it's just good playing fun, man.
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That's that's all it really is.
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But let me transition into this next question, because I'm reading it now.
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I'm trying to figure out an answer.
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So if you had if you had never discovered anime,
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how do you think your life would be different today?
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OK, so this actually really is a question.
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I don't think much would have changed in my life
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if I would have never discovered anime, because
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when it comes to anime,
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well, no, I'll take that back. I'll take that back.
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It probably would have changed a little bit.
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But my passion or I got to go break it.
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I got to go into my little career.
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I mean, which you are, you know, for the listeners.
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Right. I work in IT.
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And as a child, I was always interested in to
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destroying stuff and putting it back together.
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And I was always interested in destroying stuff and putting it back together.
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Mm hmm.
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Which started my whole IT thing for me.
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It's just I was like I was always interested on how things work.
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Why work the way it works?
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And if I can wrap my head around how it works,
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I can figure out how to make it work. Yep.
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And it started with a what it was.
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SNES, I believe it was.
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I think that's what it was.
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This is back in ninety.
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Eight, want to say, OK.
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Um, I had a super Nintendo.
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And it broke. Love that thing.
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That's cause we're at the top.
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Nintendo had a really great console.
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Um, I think during that time,
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I think it was transitioning to six for two.
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But so Nintendo loved Mario all that time.
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Mario also a favorite game to this day.
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But it broke.
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It broke. I didn't know why I broke.
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I was upset at that time.
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I think Super Nintendo is like two hundred dollars.
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And for that, I think maybe I get the action.
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Those lines, man, I think it was maybe a little cheap.
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I think, like I said, I think that was during the time
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when the 64 PlayStation was coming out.
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And I think they were about 200 bucks during that time.
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But, um, but I'm still young, young, can't afford it.
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I got no job cutting grass.
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I cut grass to get that soon.
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It's in the first place.
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But, um, that broke.
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And that right there say, hmm.
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And my mind is just immediately click.
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I was like, if I can break this open,
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kind of look at it, examine it and see.
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Why is it not working?
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Maybe I can fix it.
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Sure enough, I broke it now.
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Take a look at us.
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I wonder, I think it's like a little capacitor
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and it kind of bent or whatever.
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Wasn't it wasn't touching the board anymore?
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Forgot what I did.
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I think I kind of I don't know at that time.
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Maybe I use electric tape.
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I want to think try to get the connection now.
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And sure enough, it worked.
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I said, huh?
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I said, this is this is actually pretty cool.
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Um, I think I'm going to pursue this.
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And over time, you know, I started by, you know,
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I let my guardians at that time, like, hey, look, you know,
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I'm interested in this.
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And I think I want to try to do this.
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I'm still young, but, you know, they would give me like game boys
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and like stuff like little technology, DVD players and all that stuff
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to break ground, break down and play around when that was broken.
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And, you know, I end up getting the name of the house, Mr. Fix it.
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He was curious. He can fix it.
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I'm like, you do realize my half your age.
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This is given to him.
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He'll fix it. You figure that he's smart.
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And I'm in a house in the funny thing about I'm in a household
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with a lot of people that have no more than.
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Oh, now you'll say elementary, they have high school educations.
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You got your got you.
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Um, so, you know, they didn't know no better.
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So a lot of like a lot of people in my family,
490
00:25:51,460 --> 00:25:53,960
things only maybe one or two people actually went to college.
491
00:25:54,360 --> 00:25:56,760
A lot of people in my family were all right.
492
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:58,200
Well, we had to work.
493
00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,200
You have to work. We have to work. We have a good job.
494
00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,200
We had right kids, all that stuff.
495
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,860
So, you know, education came second.
496
00:26:06,540 --> 00:26:08,560
Working came first.
497
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,860
And same with my great grandmother, she she had no education.
498
00:26:13,860 --> 00:26:15,600
She was there her time.
499
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,640
She was working in cotton field.
500
00:26:20,540 --> 00:26:22,240
She always knew the work.
501
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,940
And then she was a janitor for J.U.
502
00:26:26,940 --> 00:26:30,800
for a long time, too, and she retired at a at the J.U.
503
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,060
Jackson University College.
504
00:26:33,060 --> 00:26:35,140
OK, as a janitor.
505
00:26:36,100 --> 00:26:39,540
So all her little funds and stuff came to buy me
506
00:26:39,540 --> 00:26:44,160
a little knit nets to, you know, play around with and to get into technology with
507
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:48,060
she would do everything she could to make that happen.
508
00:26:48,060 --> 00:26:49,700
I'll get you this. I'll get you that.
509
00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:52,900
Whatever I can get or, you know, people that work with it will give her stuff.
510
00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:58,860
But to circle back to anime, we can go back to like I was saying,
511
00:26:58,860 --> 00:27:01,420
like watching the big three, not to all of them.
512
00:27:01,420 --> 00:27:05,060
Like it showed that, you know, putting effort in.
513
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,720
To something and hard work pays off.
514
00:27:09,420 --> 00:27:13,900
So, you know, as I see people, you know, triumph in these different
515
00:27:13,900 --> 00:27:19,220
animes that I'm watching, it gave me the courage to keep going,
516
00:27:19,220 --> 00:27:23,520
you know, to keep trying to go and tackle the biggest obstacle I can
517
00:27:23,780 --> 00:27:26,020
or, you know, to go bigger.
518
00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:32,320
And that goes with, you know, to this day, I still watch them is that show, you know,
519
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,680
if you put your hard work in, you can try if anything.
520
00:27:37,180 --> 00:27:40,620
Blue Lock as an example, one of the most recent
521
00:27:40,620 --> 00:27:46,280
that I watched that shows that, hey, yeah, it ain't no I in teen,
522
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:47,760
but I'm going to make a.
523
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,520
Yeah, absolutely.
524
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,980
Hey, look, my listeners know Blue Lock is one of my favorite series, brother.
525
00:27:54,980 --> 00:27:56,320
Yeah, trust me.
526
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,780
But it also show you what hard work can pay off.
527
00:27:58,780 --> 00:28:03,560
You got a guy that had no confident in himself at all.
528
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:05,420
What I'm going to say, no confident.
529
00:28:05,420 --> 00:28:08,420
He knew he was OK, but he just knew he wasn't that guy.
530
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:09,820
Right. Yep.
531
00:28:09,820 --> 00:28:14,660
And and he thought of, you know, and he got, you know, other people in there,
532
00:28:14,660 --> 00:28:16,260
like what is their body?
533
00:28:16,260 --> 00:28:20,580
What is their body? He always I want I wanted to play.
534
00:28:20,660 --> 00:28:23,380
And I wanted to play with somebody, you know, right.
535
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:27,060
Instead of thinking about I am that, you know, I am that guy.
536
00:28:27,060 --> 00:28:29,420
You know, yeah, I don't mean nobody.
537
00:28:29,420 --> 00:28:30,420
I am that guy.
538
00:28:30,420 --> 00:28:33,580
It is fun to play with somebody. Right.
539
00:28:33,620 --> 00:28:36,020
I don't need somebody, but I don't need somebody.
540
00:28:36,020 --> 00:28:37,380
You know, right.
541
00:28:37,380 --> 00:28:39,980
Oh, but like I said, Blue Lock showed me that, you know,
542
00:28:40,460 --> 00:28:43,460
I mean, like that's the most recent example, I can say of the anime
543
00:28:43,460 --> 00:28:45,660
that showed me that, you know, hard work pays off.
544
00:28:45,660 --> 00:28:48,320
But, you know,
545
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,060
hard work definitely pays off.
546
00:28:50,060 --> 00:28:52,780
And if you put that effort in, you're going to get that result.
547
00:28:54,020 --> 00:28:55,180
The symbol is that.
548
00:28:55,180 --> 00:28:59,480
And then you see that over the years of watching different animes,
549
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,080
you know, Naruto screaming, believe it all the time.
550
00:29:02,620 --> 00:29:06,160
I'm going to be a whole cog. Sure enough, years later, it took a lot of years,
551
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:07,880
but we end up being whole cog.
552
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,220
They may be a set.
553
00:29:10,220 --> 00:29:14,760
He said it from the start and always believed in what he wanted to be.
554
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:16,760
And look what he did. He achieved.
555
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,540
He achieved for that.
556
00:29:19,540 --> 00:29:22,260
Say it again for the people in the background.
557
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,300
If you set that vision.
558
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:32,040
And you believe in that vision, you can achieve that vision.
559
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:33,240
That's a simple.
560
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:34,360
Simple as that.
561
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:39,760
And anime shows you all the time over and over again that it is possible.
562
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:41,860
Yes, it is animation.
563
00:29:41,860 --> 00:29:45,360
Yes, it is not true, but that statement is true.
564
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:50,000
If you believe it and you put the effort in towards it, you will make it happen.
565
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:51,700
And that's the same thing.
566
00:29:51,700 --> 00:29:54,740
I feel about me and where I'm at in life right now.
567
00:29:54,740 --> 00:29:56,800
I believed in what I could do.
568
00:29:58,060 --> 00:30:00,940
And even when I couldn't do, I did not give up.
569
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,300
I tried. I tested the waters.
570
00:30:05,340 --> 00:30:11,260
I overcame the waters and I achieved what I put my mind to.
571
00:30:11,260 --> 00:30:13,100
And it's just that simple.
572
00:30:13,100 --> 00:30:16,220
And I'm still and not only that, I'm still working on myself.
573
00:30:16,220 --> 00:30:17,900
I'm still trying to do better.
574
00:30:19,420 --> 00:30:22,060
So, you know, I'm glad I'm glad you had it.
575
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:26,300
I'm glad you had the last party in saying that you that you're still working on it,
576
00:30:26,300 --> 00:30:31,300
because I don't want you guys to think that, you know, once you get to your current goal,
577
00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:34,400
once you achieve whatever it is you're striving for, that that's it.
578
00:30:34,660 --> 00:30:37,320
Like you know, taste clothes, missions, overweight, you're done.
579
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:42,780
Like, no, as long as we're probably have breath in our lungs, we are constantly improving,
580
00:30:42,780 --> 00:30:47,520
constantly trying to get better because it's not about the goal per se.
581
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:51,420
It's about, you know, as cliche as it sounds about the journey, right?
582
00:30:51,420 --> 00:30:56,880
You got to enjoy the process and what you're doing and in everything that comes with it, right?
583
00:30:56,880 --> 00:30:58,960
And not everything is is sweet.
584
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:01,480
Using Naruto as an example, right?
585
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:10,160
You know, he yeah, he became Hokage, but boy, the stuff he had to go through to get to get to that level is,
586
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,980
you know, talking about finding your best friend and finding out, you know,
587
00:31:15,420 --> 00:31:19,760
your parents really did love you, but they sacrificed themselves as soon as you were born.
588
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,380
Like you and even you five minutes out the womb.
589
00:31:21,380 --> 00:31:23,120
Yeah. And both your parents died. Right.
590
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:27,320
And constantly being attacked by terrorists, like, you know, stuff like that.
591
00:31:27,660 --> 00:31:29,520
You know, becoming a terrorist.
592
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:31,520
Yeah, becoming the same.
593
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,280
And hey, you know, kids, you're listening.
594
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,160
It's not it's not the answer. Don't don't do that.
595
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,580
Hey, the biggest obstacle one fighting his best friend, it was fighting moderate.
596
00:31:41,860 --> 00:31:45,060
Now you would feel like the whole nation.
597
00:31:46,820 --> 00:31:51,220
Well, boy, anybody who can solo an entire army, brother.
598
00:31:54,180 --> 00:31:57,920
And for the listeners out there, hey, listen, man, also, this is some real stuff.
599
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,180
There's going to always be a moderate in your life.
600
00:32:00,180 --> 00:32:06,920
And it's going to always be an obstacle or some type of unthinkable
601
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,860
or unbeatable challenge, but you can overcome it.
602
00:32:10,180 --> 00:32:11,920
Mm hmm. Absolutely.
603
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:17,480
Dude, yes. And hey, honestly, some of the some of the things I had to argue
604
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,860
to say most of the time that we are our own martyrs.
605
00:32:20,860 --> 00:32:25,760
Right. The the self doubts we have when we first started off doing something
606
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,600
or, you know, I can't do this. I'm not good enough to do that.
607
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,760
You know, everybody else is way ahead of me in the same field. Right.
608
00:32:33,140 --> 00:32:38,100
And I think we we we tend to beat ourselves before the world
609
00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:40,000
even has a chance to challenge us. Right.
610
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,100
I mean, that's just my view on it. That's my take on it.
611
00:32:42,500 --> 00:32:48,500
And, you know, so the first step is really facing yourself, right.
612
00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:52,400
Facing yourself and just saying, oh, I can do this no matter what happens.
613
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,760
No matter how many times I fail at it, because you're going to fail. Right.
614
00:32:55,760 --> 00:33:00,260
We're all we're all going to suck at it before we even can begin to be good
615
00:33:00,260 --> 00:33:03,760
at something. And, you know, unless you just see a natural born genius
616
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,600
in these Isakai, but you get to get power boosts for no reason.
617
00:33:08,060 --> 00:33:10,900
But last time I checked, it's a real life.
618
00:33:10,900 --> 00:33:14,240
So, but again, you know, we're going to we're going to stumble.
619
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,240
We're going to fall. And like Kurt said, man, we can always have these
620
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:22,360
unbelievable challenges that seem unbelievable to us until we beat it.
621
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,400
And then you look back, man, that was that wasn't nothing like a little light
622
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:27,400
work. Little light work.
623
00:33:29,060 --> 00:33:31,060
Man, I'm the main character now.
624
00:33:33,060 --> 00:33:39,200
And just to bring it home, like this is is a example of I was I was just
625
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:44,840
talking to Nate, maybe what it was maybe a month or two ago about me
626
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,400
taking this new role in my current job right now.
627
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:51,160
I'm talking about this is something I've never done in my life.
628
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,960
I'm over it. I'm not necessarily doubting myself.
629
00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:57,000
I knew I was going to be OK at the job or get a job.
630
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,040
I was going to stumble. I was going to have issues or whatever.
631
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,960
But it was just that uncertainty about stepping out
632
00:34:04,660 --> 00:34:06,660
and facing this challenge that I had.
633
00:34:08,660 --> 00:34:12,460
And that's only been in a lot of times that comes with being you're being
634
00:34:12,460 --> 00:34:14,900
you're being so comfortable doing one thing.
635
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,560
And then when the moment you step out of your comfort zone, it just
636
00:34:19,460 --> 00:34:21,460
anxiety hits.
637
00:34:22,660 --> 00:34:24,060
Yeah.
638
00:34:24,060 --> 00:34:26,860
Anxiety. Oh, why?
639
00:34:28,460 --> 00:34:29,460
Oh, boy.
640
00:34:29,460 --> 00:34:32,600
Yeah. But maybe we listen to some stuff right now. Right.
641
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:38,140
Yeah. And to be honest, Nate, just just to bring it back also is that,
642
00:34:38,140 --> 00:34:41,400
you know, even after having that conversation with you, you made things
643
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,060
a lot better.
644
00:34:43,060 --> 00:34:45,940
And that's what makes you one of my close friends, too, man,
645
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,440
because I can have a conversation with you, you know.
646
00:34:49,060 --> 00:34:51,300
I don't think I ever told you this, but we're going to tell you right now.
647
00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:53,340
I mean, I can have a conversation with you.
648
00:34:53,340 --> 00:34:56,760
And, you know, it gives me clarity
649
00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:00,800
with certain things that I am uncertain with sometimes.
650
00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:03,260
I mean, yeah, I am older than you.
651
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,740
Yeah, I have more wisdom with you, but you got an old man.
652
00:35:09,740 --> 00:35:14,240
So you got an old man so and I respect it and I can run things by you
653
00:35:14,460 --> 00:35:18,340
and be like, huh, you know, that's a different that's a different perspective.
654
00:35:19,060 --> 00:35:20,500
Let me take a look at this.
655
00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:22,860
Let me look at it at this route.
656
00:35:22,860 --> 00:35:24,440
I only had the whole thing.
657
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,700
I'm honored. And they thank me.
658
00:35:26,700 --> 00:35:27,600
And I appreciate that.
659
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,000
You know, I mean, a lot to me, man.
660
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,260
I really think that it really does.
661
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:38,740
Because, yeah, honestly, a lot of times, dude, I'm just speaking for my own
662
00:35:38,740 --> 00:35:40,820
my own doubts and stuff, man.
663
00:35:40,820 --> 00:35:44,340
I think I'm sure I told you when I first started this podcast, I was like,
664
00:35:44,340 --> 00:35:46,340
I don't know what I'm doing.
665
00:35:46,340 --> 00:35:50,380
I don't know how this is going to sound, how it's going to go, especially,
666
00:35:50,380 --> 00:35:54,740
you know, combining the two things right, you know, get anime.
667
00:35:54,740 --> 00:35:58,540
And, you know, I'm a believer in my faith, right.
668
00:35:58,540 --> 00:36:02,640
Trying to combine that, my God with anime and how people don't take it.
669
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,540
And I don't like to sound my own voice a lot of the time.
670
00:36:05,540 --> 00:36:10,140
You know, stuff like that. So I just.
671
00:36:11,540 --> 00:36:13,040
I just try to just try to help me.
672
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,740
I'm just trying to help people out there.
673
00:36:14,740 --> 00:36:19,540
You know, like me, like yourself, man, you just just realize that, OK,
674
00:36:19,540 --> 00:36:23,180
these things are as bad as they seem, even though they seem terrible.
675
00:36:23,180 --> 00:36:26,220
Like you said, anxiety hits when it hits, boy.
676
00:36:26,220 --> 00:36:27,780
You just don't want to do nothing.
677
00:36:27,780 --> 00:36:31,180
Like, no, I want to be go back to being comfortable.
678
00:36:31,180 --> 00:36:35,080
Like you said, being comfortable and just doing what I normally do.
679
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:39,280
But I truly believe that for us to grow,
680
00:36:39,780 --> 00:36:42,880
we have to step outside of that sometimes. Right.
681
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,680
I'm not saying go skydiving if you're terrified of heights.
682
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:48,280
Don't don't do that. Work up to that.
683
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,340
But, you know, good baby steps.
684
00:36:50,340 --> 00:36:52,680
So again, I appreciate that, man.
685
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:58,140
And I really, I really do. I'm glad that you one of my close friends too, man,
686
00:36:58,140 --> 00:36:59,140
because we can get on here.
687
00:36:59,140 --> 00:37:04,540
We can talk about anything, anime, life, even stuff that I'm not going through personally.
688
00:37:04,540 --> 00:37:05,540
Because again, I'm not married.
689
00:37:05,540 --> 00:37:06,820
I don't have kids and stuff like that.
690
00:37:06,820 --> 00:37:10,840
But, you know, me used to have a conversation about those type of things.
691
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:12,980
And it's just it's just it's just good, man.
692
00:37:12,980 --> 00:37:17,280
So I'm glad I got transferred out there with you, brother.
693
00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:23,340
Listen, man, I if I can guide the young is I try to guide them in the right way
694
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,740
that I can. I'm always here by helping them.
695
00:37:25,740 --> 00:37:28,680
And when I saw you, you you was lost, man.
696
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,640
Hey, you you absolutely I know what I was doing over there.
697
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:34,640
And I don't know.
698
00:37:35,940 --> 00:37:37,840
Man, I ain't going to leave you out there, man.
699
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:38,840
I got you.
700
00:37:40,020 --> 00:37:42,180
And then now look at what we're trying to be doing.
701
00:37:42,180 --> 00:37:44,480
We're doing some big things out here now.
702
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:45,940
But you said the ground is the ground.
703
00:37:45,940 --> 00:37:48,380
It's time and we got to you got to get it.
704
00:37:49,940 --> 00:37:52,140
Let me see. Go back to my little sheet here.
705
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:57,880
Oh, OK. So the next question is, so we've talked a little bit about,
706
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,040
I guess, like anime overall, you know, specific series and things like that.
707
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:07,440
But, you know, anime can create some deep emotional connections.
708
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:11,140
You know, we connect to the characters, some of the stories and stuff like that.
709
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,880
So can you describe one particular moment,
710
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:18,540
whether it's with a particular character or a scene or something like that
711
00:38:18,540 --> 00:38:22,580
in in, you know, an anime series or a movie or something like that
712
00:38:22,580 --> 00:38:25,940
that's really spoke to you and is really, you know, kind of
713
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,340
makes you think about life in a different way.
714
00:38:28,340 --> 00:38:32,680
Every death scene I have ever seen in my favorite anime.
715
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,680
It hits me so different
716
00:38:39,140 --> 00:38:44,440
if it is a future Gohan and the trunks that I mentioned earlier about
717
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:49,140
or Caesar from Jojo.
718
00:38:51,140 --> 00:38:53,440
Spike, like I mentioned earlier as well.
719
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:56,480
I think all this is so many anime deaths
720
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:02,180
that touch me so well, but it comes back to.
721
00:39:04,180 --> 00:39:06,040
Well, not just anime, because, you know, like I said,
722
00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:07,780
I'm a little talk of not just anime.
723
00:39:07,780 --> 00:39:10,640
I love DC as a whole.
724
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,680
DC Batman.
725
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,440
Batman is one of my favorite characters in DC.
726
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,540
I love DC.
727
00:39:17,540 --> 00:39:19,640
I love DC.
728
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:21,440
I love DC.
729
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,480
I love the characters in DC.
730
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,980
Even some of the DC deaths, I can go back and like
731
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,980
when Nightwing got killed by Damien.
732
00:39:32,980 --> 00:39:33,980
Mm hmm.
733
00:39:33,980 --> 00:39:35,980
Oh, that hurt me.
734
00:39:35,980 --> 00:39:37,440
It hurt me.
735
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,940
And not only that it hurt me, it's just that
736
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,940
the also, you know, I don't know how much you know about DC, but,
737
00:39:44,940 --> 00:39:47,840
you know, also Damien ended up taking on the mantle of Nightwing.
738
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:48,840
OK.
739
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:53,380
And he just killed him and he he went down a real dark spiral.
740
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,740
I like how Batman did Jason Todd when.
741
00:39:59,740 --> 00:40:00,740
Yeah.
742
00:40:01,140 --> 00:40:03,480
He took Tim Drake to kind of get him out of that.
743
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:06,140
He had to adopt a new, you know, Robin and
744
00:40:06,940 --> 00:40:10,040
Drake kind of brought back his humanity.
745
00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:14,380
After the death of Todd, same thing.
746
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:16,940
And same thing with Damien.
747
00:40:16,940 --> 00:40:20,240
He has Dylan kill Nightwing by accident.
748
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,780
And yeah, it took him into a dark path.
749
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,940
But like I said, I'm going on a tangent, but like just any anime death period,
750
00:40:27,940 --> 00:40:30,500
I want to go into any really truly specific.
751
00:40:30,940 --> 00:40:34,080
All right. I did name I did name a couple, but, you know,
752
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:38,200
brings back to reality like Matt at any given time.
753
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:40,540
We can be going tomorrow.
754
00:40:40,540 --> 00:40:45,740
Like I think about this, my mom, my guardian, my great grandmother.
755
00:40:45,740 --> 00:40:47,440
She I call up my mom.
756
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,000
She's 87 years old right now.
757
00:40:50,340 --> 00:40:52,280
And I think about this every day.
758
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,280
She's 87 years old.
759
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,780
In any given day, she can pass.
760
00:40:56,780 --> 00:41:00,880
And my great grandma has always been older as she was raising me.
761
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,540
And I was like, yeah, I was like that any given day she could pass.
762
00:41:05,540 --> 00:41:06,740
And what's going to happen?
763
00:41:06,740 --> 00:41:07,840
What's going to happen to me?
764
00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,240
You know, and this is when I was a kid.
765
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:11,440
Right. Right.
766
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:12,640
Like, what's going to happen to me?
767
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,840
Like, you know, how am I going to handle that?
768
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:18,920
Am I going to be torn up like some of these characters that I see in?
769
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:20,920
Why am I? I know we tore it up.
770
00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:21,920
My sweetie's.
771
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,180
Like some of these characters I see in the animes that I watch.
772
00:41:27,180 --> 00:41:30,320
I'm like, I don't think I'm ready for that tragedy.
773
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:37,180
Like to this day, I was talking to my wife the other day about this.
774
00:41:37,180 --> 00:41:40,240
And luckily, I have that support system with my wife.
775
00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:44,240
And I, you know, and I have my family and my kids and stuff.
776
00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:46,840
But I was like, I don't think I can handle this.
777
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,120
Like, if this happened, I may go and shut off.
778
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,240
I may be in a dark place.
779
00:41:52,240 --> 00:41:56,240
I'm going to need you there to get me out of that dark place.
780
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:00,040
You know, I'm going to need all my friends and stuff.
781
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:01,240
It's like, you're right.
782
00:42:01,980 --> 00:42:04,440
So, yeah, yeah, it's.
783
00:42:05,740 --> 00:42:08,840
That's another thing why, like, when I was a kid, I was like,
784
00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:12,540
that's another thing why, like, like I said earlier in the interview,
785
00:42:12,540 --> 00:42:15,820
I was telling you that I have shifted a lot of them, certain animes.
786
00:42:15,820 --> 00:42:20,640
And I like more of a happy space anime because that,
787
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:23,840
you know, a lot of dark animes and death related animes.
788
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:25,780
I'm like, you know, that's knocking on my door.
789
00:42:25,780 --> 00:42:28,580
I am older.
790
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,020
I have to start thinking about real life situations
791
00:42:33,020 --> 00:42:35,020
when it comes to stuff like this.
792
00:42:35,020 --> 00:42:37,020
Trust funds for my kids.
793
00:42:37,020 --> 00:42:40,880
Right. You know, making sure that my kids and stuff is OK.
794
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:44,580
You know, so if something do happen to me, it makes my family's OK.
795
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:48,420
If something happened to my mom, trying to make sure all those arrangements
796
00:42:48,420 --> 00:42:52,480
and stuff is OK, you know, and then I want that being mentally prepared
797
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:54,940
for with that with my family, my you know,
798
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:57,480
they call me the big little brother.
799
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:01,940
I'm polite that I am because I'm bigger than most of my siblings,
800
00:43:01,940 --> 00:43:03,340
but they're older than me.
801
00:43:03,340 --> 00:43:04,220
That you know.
802
00:43:04,220 --> 00:43:06,920
How can I help them?
803
00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:09,200
Because I know they're going to be able to take it either.
804
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,420
You know, so it's a it's a lot.
805
00:43:13,100 --> 00:43:16,300
Yeah, the breaking down is pretty much like that.
806
00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:19,920
That. It's it's a lot.
807
00:43:20,300 --> 00:43:22,160
It's just a lot.
808
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:26,860
No, I'm just saying I am saying I guarantee you the majority,
809
00:43:26,860 --> 00:43:29,760
if not all of my listeners understand the same thing do it.
810
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,800
It losing losing anybody, right?
811
00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,960
But especially the one who raised you, the one who fed you,
812
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:41,500
put clothes on your back, who sacrificed everything for you. Right.
813
00:43:41,820 --> 00:43:47,060
And it's one of those things that we all know is going to happen one day.
814
00:43:47,120 --> 00:43:48,300
It's going to happen to all of us. Right.
815
00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:50,320
We're all going to, you know, pass the one.
816
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:56,360
But when the reality hits you like they're gone now, I mean, it's
817
00:43:57,860 --> 00:43:59,960
it's different because, you know,
818
00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:03,000
but that's who my family is, my family business out there.
819
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:07,420
You know, my my grandmother passed a couple of years ago and that's my mom's mom.
820
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,260
And they were tight, man.
821
00:44:09,260 --> 00:44:11,160
Not too tight. They talked every day.
822
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:15,260
It was literally every day at some point she'd be on the phone with her
823
00:44:15,260 --> 00:44:17,060
and they just be talking for hours.
824
00:44:17,420 --> 00:44:23,820
And after my grandmother passed, you know, my mom, she was in that
825
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:25,360
that dark place. Right.
826
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:30,900
She was in that, you know, real hole.
827
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:34,020
And, you know, of course, she had, you know, she had my dad.
828
00:44:34,020 --> 00:44:37,500
She had, you know, me, my sister and both my sisters and we were all there.
829
00:44:37,500 --> 00:44:42,020
We were grieving and there and helping her and kind of helping to get through this, man.
830
00:44:42,020 --> 00:44:49,060
But it was. Like you said, it hit and it hits that close to home, you know,
831
00:44:49,060 --> 00:44:52,860
because it's different seeing on the screen, you know, whether it's a movie or a show
832
00:44:52,860 --> 00:44:54,520
or, you know, anime, things like that.
833
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,020
But when it hits home and it's.
834
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:02,920
In reality, you're just like, man, this is like you say, you got you
835
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,560
think I started thinking about things outside of yourself, right?
836
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,880
OK, I'm going to help my family get through this, right?
837
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:15,060
I'm going to help my sit. My siblings, my uncle's and so who's that was their mom too.
838
00:45:15,420 --> 00:45:18,020
How are we going to get through this thing together?
839
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,960
And. It's just.
840
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:23,720
It's just one of the things I like.
841
00:45:24,060 --> 00:45:26,880
I like a lot about, you know, an anime and stuff like that is.
842
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,160
We used to be for the ones that I watch, but it's not the ones I've watched.
843
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:35,260
So they they tend to show the aftermath of some things like that,
844
00:45:35,260 --> 00:45:37,060
because, you know, a lot of these shown in, right?
845
00:45:37,060 --> 00:45:40,680
A character gets killed and it's like, you know, it's par for the course, right?
846
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:44,260
But when they do take the time to show
847
00:45:45,060 --> 00:45:49,260
the steps of grief, it it it speaks to me.
848
00:45:49,260 --> 00:45:51,480
I'll give you an example from from Naruto, right?
849
00:45:51,660 --> 00:45:56,320
When Jiraiya died, man, we all I know me as a viewer,
850
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,360
I was upset because I didn't see it coming, right?
851
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,620
I mean, we just he was just joking around like he always is.
852
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,020
And then he gets jumped by pain and that's it.
853
00:46:06,660 --> 00:46:09,220
But you see the.
854
00:46:09,220 --> 00:46:11,020
The pain in our souls face, right?
855
00:46:11,020 --> 00:46:14,820
You see the dark place that he's going to come into.
856
00:46:14,820 --> 00:46:17,680
Jiraiya was, you know, even though he didn't know, Jiraiya
857
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:19,260
technically is his godfather, right?
858
00:46:19,260 --> 00:46:21,580
I mean, that's his godfather.
859
00:46:21,860 --> 00:46:25,260
And even though he wasn't aware of that relationship at that time,
860
00:46:25,260 --> 00:46:29,620
he still felt a real connection with him because Jiraiya
861
00:46:29,620 --> 00:46:33,760
in a sense was Naruto's first real caretaker, right?
862
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:37,060
Because I mean, sure, he had, you know, Kakashi and stuff like that.
863
00:46:37,060 --> 00:46:41,380
But Jiraiya was Naruto's first real mentor in how to
864
00:46:42,020 --> 00:46:44,680
how to use his power, teaching them different things.
865
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:49,060
I mean, he taught Naruto one out of the two Jutsu that he uses the whole time, right?
866
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:52,320
And it's just that type of bond.
867
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:57,460
And when that person is taken from you so suddenly, right, just out of the blue,
868
00:46:57,460 --> 00:47:00,880
you don't even know what happened or what you can even do.
869
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:02,220
You feel powerless, right?
870
00:47:02,220 --> 00:47:05,360
You just feel you just just feel down.
871
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:10,080
But for them to show us how Naruto went from that to,
872
00:47:10,820 --> 00:47:13,220
you know, the support he had with, you know,
873
00:47:13,220 --> 00:47:15,680
Kakashi and the rest of the leaf village to support him,
874
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,980
and especially after he beat pain, right,
875
00:47:18,980 --> 00:47:22,520
the the morale boost that came with that from everybody, right?
876
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:24,120
How they lifted him up.
877
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,120
They're like, OK, you know, Naruto's that guy.
878
00:47:26,580 --> 00:47:29,860
And just to walk us through that whole thing, I think that was really
879
00:47:30,460 --> 00:47:35,260
special and touching moment, you know, that you don't really get to see too
880
00:47:35,260 --> 00:47:39,180
too often, right, especially in the battle of Shonen and things like that.
881
00:47:39,180 --> 00:47:42,320
But I I felt I felt that.
882
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,420
So that was a moment I thought about when I read this question, man, it's just,
883
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:50,420
you know, seeing that firsthand and experiencing it
884
00:47:51,220 --> 00:47:54,420
kind of to the first hand, because again, it was my it was my grandmother.
885
00:47:54,420 --> 00:47:57,260
I still love her and still miss her. But, you know,
886
00:47:58,380 --> 00:48:01,160
if it was one of my parents, right?
887
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:05,420
That but now I might be my my village, my village origin story, brother.
888
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:10,360
Maybe came a village.
889
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:12,280
The world's going to know pain after that, really.
890
00:48:13,780 --> 00:48:14,760
Now, and you're right.
891
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:18,360
Like, you know, and it's sad that that actually it slipped my mind
892
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:22,320
to think about dry death, dry death was one of the hardest deaths
893
00:48:22,580 --> 00:48:26,680
to to cope with in order to deal with in Naruto for me as well.
894
00:48:27,020 --> 00:48:30,520
Because just the fact that is.
895
00:48:31,260 --> 00:48:35,280
The fact that you want you, of course, you got defeated and killed by your own.
896
00:48:36,720 --> 00:48:38,620
I've got to mention that. Yeah.
897
00:48:38,620 --> 00:48:41,860
You got defeated by someone that you raised as well or trained.
898
00:48:41,860 --> 00:48:45,580
I don't say necessarily raise, but you trained. Mm hmm. And
899
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:49,860
the just the disbelief and shock and dry eyes
900
00:48:49,860 --> 00:48:51,980
when he found out who he had to go against.
901
00:48:51,980 --> 00:48:57,480
Mm hmm. Like that whole death was just it was just it was just wrong.
902
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:00,960
For him to start to finish, it was just wrong.
903
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:05,580
Like you I'm I'm looking at the person that I raised.
904
00:49:05,580 --> 00:49:12,620
I taught Jusus to I train and I know I don't want to fight. Mm hmm.
905
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:17,880
So I am in a situation where I know I am pretty much useless against
906
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,920
because to be honest, I believe, you know, the only reason why is true.
907
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,920
Death was was the fact that he
908
00:49:25,780 --> 00:49:28,180
he didn't want to really didn't want to fight either.
909
00:49:28,180 --> 00:49:29,880
I didn't want to fight him.
910
00:49:30,520 --> 00:49:32,480
And you know, it was one of those things.
911
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:36,460
I have to let this happen. And you know, I mean, yeah,
912
00:49:36,460 --> 00:49:39,920
he did have a busted running gun and all that stuff. Right.
913
00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:44,260
But it it was one of those things like I could have got away.
914
00:49:44,260 --> 00:49:49,580
But you know, I got to let this happen for the development of the show.
915
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,460
Of the show. Right. Yeah.
916
00:49:52,460 --> 00:49:57,580
Hey, look, it is just another point that is kind of getting my mind to, though,
917
00:49:57,580 --> 00:50:01,420
was Rango Cuman from Demon Slayer.
918
00:50:01,420 --> 00:50:02,920
That was another one.
919
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:08,120
I mean, I mean, we didn't even spend much time with him like we did with Jiraiya.
920
00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:11,980
But it was the time again.
921
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:14,880
Again, listeners, this is what happens when we start going off on stuff.
922
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:19,380
But just the time, the little bit of time we had with Rango Cuman,
923
00:50:19,380 --> 00:50:21,780
it was so impactful. Right.
924
00:50:22,060 --> 00:50:24,280
Like, I mean, whether you watch the movie train movie
925
00:50:24,280 --> 00:50:28,660
or you watch the the season that when he broke it up. Right.
926
00:50:28,660 --> 00:50:33,040
We only knew him for like, well, maybe an hour and a half total
927
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:33,960
out of the whole series.
928
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:38,760
That's nothing. But the impact he made not only on, you know,
929
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:42,640
Tanjiro and the guys, but as us as viewers, like this is
930
00:50:43,300 --> 00:50:46,760
Rango who was what a Hashira stood for. Right.
931
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:50,460
This is the pinnacle. This is the he he was likable.
932
00:50:51,060 --> 00:50:53,260
He was about his business and he got after it.
933
00:50:53,260 --> 00:50:56,300
But he was he didn't belittle the guys.
934
00:50:56,300 --> 00:50:59,640
He actually gave them some pseudo training while he was talking to him.
935
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:03,060
Right. He inspired them. And.
936
00:51:03,060 --> 00:51:06,240
And then to tie back to how they felt, right.
937
00:51:06,540 --> 00:51:10,060
When when the causes showed up at the end, they just got through fighting
938
00:51:10,060 --> 00:51:13,660
one of the toughest battles of the of time during those careers.
939
00:51:14,100 --> 00:51:16,260
And they are they're tired, they're spent.
940
00:51:16,260 --> 00:51:19,160
And then this dude just shows up out of nowhere
941
00:51:19,460 --> 00:51:23,660
who is significantly stronger than the last team they just fought. And.
942
00:51:23,660 --> 00:51:27,560
For them to have to sit there and watch as Rango
943
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:30,600
who fights for his life and dies.
944
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:32,560
I mean, just think about that for a second, brother, you.
945
00:51:32,560 --> 00:51:33,600
They ain't useless.
946
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,960
They are. They know they don't have those. They're the chain.
947
00:51:37,700 --> 00:51:39,940
They'll be in his way if they even attempt to help.
948
00:51:40,540 --> 00:51:42,100
So they got to watch this.
949
00:51:42,100 --> 00:51:46,040
Let me play it stuff like is moments like that, but it really humanized
950
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:49,260
a lot of these characters for me, because I mean, we've all.
951
00:51:50,300 --> 00:51:52,960
Been there in some in some point of our lives.
952
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,700
And if you haven't yet, unfortunately, you will.
953
00:51:55,700 --> 00:51:56,800
I mean, that's just how life is.
954
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:00,540
But when you and you see your loved one, you see somebody
955
00:52:00,540 --> 00:52:03,840
who you truly care and respect, you know, they're going through a battle
956
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,900
that you just you can't do anything about how
957
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:11,740
the week that makes you feel like you just
958
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:16,200
you can easily easily start to, you know,
959
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,760
to self hate, to self doubt, all this type of stuff like that.
960
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,860
And it's a slippery slope.
961
00:52:23,720 --> 00:52:29,200
But on the other side of it, right, there's the same dark moments, right?
962
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:32,920
You know, the death of Rengoku, death of Jiraiya, those things
963
00:52:33,260 --> 00:52:37,820
helped motivate our main characters to go even harder than they have for him.
964
00:52:37,820 --> 00:52:41,860
Right. I mean, Naruto masters age juice right after that.
965
00:52:41,860 --> 00:52:46,400
You know, he he he grew more confident in himself and his abilities
966
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:48,000
after Jiraiya's death.
967
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:52,860
And same thing with time, Jiro and the boys, you know, they train that much
968
00:52:52,860 --> 00:52:56,660
harder after Rengoku's death because they realize they even said
969
00:52:56,660 --> 00:52:58,420
they don't want this to happen again. Right.
970
00:52:58,420 --> 00:53:02,260
They don't want someone that they love to die with them being able
971
00:53:02,260 --> 00:53:03,820
to do nothing about it.
972
00:53:03,820 --> 00:53:07,720
And for me, that that was a real key takeaway is just like, hey,
973
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:13,120
you know, when bad things happen in life, when they happen to our loved ones
974
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:17,560
or who are us personally, you know, it's all all in how we
975
00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:18,920
decide to take it right.
976
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:24,120
You know, we can take it, be upset, you know, take time to process
977
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:25,500
what's happening.
978
00:53:25,500 --> 00:53:27,720
But then then we have a decision to make.
979
00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:31,920
Right. Either we're going to stay in that place and feel sorry for ourselves
980
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:34,160
and you know, why did this happen to me?
981
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:35,520
Why did this happen to them?
982
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:39,920
Or we take it and we try to live our lives better like the person
983
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:43,960
would want us to write to kind of move on and don't forget them.
984
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,920
Right. And I say forget them, but to under their memory,
985
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:51,160
honor their legacy that they left that they left behind by improving yourself
986
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:55,520
and really just, you know, doing the best you can, because again,
987
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:57,760
they wouldn't want you to sit there and throw a piggy party. Right.
988
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:00,760
I don't think I don't think it's like, man, I've been training you
989
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:02,860
to sit there and cry about it the whole time.
990
00:54:02,860 --> 00:54:05,120
So, you know, let's get after it.
991
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:07,720
So anyway, I have to say, that's what I thought about.
992
00:54:07,720 --> 00:54:09,960
Get over and go to man. I was so upset.
993
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,720
Yeah. And there is some more honorable mentions.
994
00:54:14,720 --> 00:54:19,860
I can't think of them right now, but, you know, all the listeners out there,
995
00:54:19,860 --> 00:54:23,920
you know, put some comments down there about any honorable deaths out there.
996
00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:25,520
So you boy, Nick.
997
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:26,820
Oh, yeah, absolutely, man.
998
00:54:26,820 --> 00:54:29,020
Because that is too many.
999
00:54:31,020 --> 00:54:33,420
We can go on and on and on and on.
1000
00:54:33,420 --> 00:54:35,920
We still got a couple of questions.
1001
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,420
All right. Let me get back to it.
1002
00:54:38,420 --> 00:54:40,920
So this next question that you have for me,
1003
00:54:41,220 --> 00:54:43,460
I mean, we kind of really touched on this a lot, too.
1004
00:54:43,460 --> 00:54:45,420
But, you know, yeah.
1005
00:54:45,420 --> 00:54:46,220
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
1006
00:54:46,220 --> 00:54:47,760
Throughout the whole conversation.
1007
00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:51,660
Honestly, it's also again from listeners out there,
1008
00:54:51,660 --> 00:54:54,360
you guys put in some of your answers to these questions, too.
1009
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:58,720
You know, I would love to read a couple and just I might put them in another episode
1010
00:54:58,720 --> 00:55:00,920
just to, you know, really tie it back home.
1011
00:55:01,920 --> 00:55:06,260
But so the next question is, again, a lot of these stories,
1012
00:55:06,260 --> 00:55:09,980
they have characters facing challenges and trying to overcome obstacles
1013
00:55:09,980 --> 00:55:11,260
and things like that.
1014
00:55:11,260 --> 00:55:15,060
So, Kurt, can you share another again?
1015
00:55:15,060 --> 00:55:19,520
We've already covered it, but another experience is, you know,
1016
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:23,260
you've overcame something difficult or better yet, you know,
1017
00:55:23,260 --> 00:55:26,820
how does it influence your like your mindset and your approach to it?
1018
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,020
I think that's probably a better a better one we can get.
1019
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:35,860
Overcoming an obstacle.
1020
00:55:35,860 --> 00:55:39,220
I'm going to go a little bit more in details about my current obstacle
1021
00:55:39,220 --> 00:55:40,660
I'm going through right now.
1022
00:55:40,660 --> 00:55:43,580
OK, so my current obstacle,
1023
00:55:43,580 --> 00:55:47,180
like I mentioned a little early, is that I am in the position of transition
1024
00:55:47,180 --> 00:55:48,460
into a new job.
1025
00:55:48,460 --> 00:55:53,820
And so and one of the obstacles are one,
1026
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:57,320
the experience in the new job role and two,
1027
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:02,160
the lack of knowledge on certain things.
1028
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:04,960
Over those can be, you know, with time fix.
1029
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:09,160
And that's what I'm currently working on, you know, trying to get the experience
1030
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:12,560
practicing, trying to learn the knowledge.
1031
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:16,340
But to circle back to anime with it is the.
1032
00:56:19,340 --> 00:56:22,440
Blue lock. Blue lock
1033
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:26,860
has been my go to anime as it just ended great
1034
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:31,960
first season, but this has gave me my new inspiration on life
1035
00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,480
from out the watch and blue lock.
1036
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:38,560
Blue lock has showed me that, yes, you may come into a situation
1037
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,480
with certain experience.
1038
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:45,560
Mm hmm. You may even think you're pretty good with that certain experience.
1039
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:48,960
You may think you are the best player out there.
1040
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:51,560
There's always someone better.
1041
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:56,080
Now, what you're going to do with that someone that's better out the experience
1042
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:57,480
and that they are better.
1043
00:56:57,480 --> 00:56:59,480
You can do one or two things.
1044
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,820
You can take that fall that you just saw or that experience
1045
00:57:02,820 --> 00:57:06,180
that you saw that someone is better than you and use that as motivation.
1046
00:57:06,980 --> 00:57:09,820
Mm hmm. Or you can take that.
1047
00:57:10,860 --> 00:57:15,780
Realization that someone's better than you and do nothing with it.
1048
00:57:15,780 --> 00:57:16,780
Mm hmm.
1049
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:22,580
There's a core of mine who's training me,
1050
00:57:22,580 --> 00:57:27,280
and I realize that we are in this particular situation of this job role.
1051
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:29,620
Are in two different leagues.
1052
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:32,360
I mean, he's a senior for a reason.
1053
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:34,360
You got to. Yeah.
1054
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:36,360
He's a senior for a reason.
1055
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:42,860
You know, even with my me coming in and you know, I'm you know,
1056
00:57:42,860 --> 00:57:45,260
I feel like I'm that guy right now.
1057
00:57:45,260 --> 00:57:47,060
I can do this. I can do that.
1058
00:57:47,060 --> 00:57:50,620
I'm showing that I am better than some of the people on the team
1059
00:57:50,620 --> 00:57:52,120
and proving that I'm better.
1060
00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:54,780
Not just showing, you know, I'm proving that I'm better.
1061
00:57:54,780 --> 00:57:58,180
I'm doing and going over and beyond, you know,
1062
00:57:58,180 --> 00:58:01,280
making some of the other people look bad, unfortunately.
1063
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:04,580
But it is what it is.
1064
00:58:04,580 --> 00:58:06,780
Pretty much it is what it is.
1065
00:58:06,780 --> 00:58:08,780
You know, they are they just bad.
1066
00:58:08,780 --> 00:58:12,960
Now, you know, but yeah.
1067
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:17,780
But after seeing after going through a full training session with him
1068
00:58:17,780 --> 00:58:20,780
and he's showing unlocking his shotgun.
1069
00:58:20,780 --> 00:58:23,780
And showing me I'm like, huh, all right.
1070
00:58:23,780 --> 00:58:26,780
Well, maybe I ain't as good as I thought I was.
1071
00:58:26,780 --> 00:58:28,780
I got humbled.
1072
00:58:30,780 --> 00:58:34,780
Very hopefully, maybe I'm not as good as I thought I was.
1073
00:58:34,780 --> 00:58:37,780
But then I realized I was like, you know what, I can't take that
1074
00:58:37,780 --> 00:58:41,780
and be like, well, you know, he's just, you know, he has more experience.
1075
00:58:41,780 --> 00:58:44,780
So it's just it's just one of those things that I want to do better.
1076
00:58:44,780 --> 00:58:46,780
I get me to do better.
1077
00:58:46,780 --> 00:58:48,780
I'm not going to do better.
1078
00:58:48,780 --> 00:58:50,780
I get me to that level.
1079
00:58:50,780 --> 00:58:53,780
Show me how to get to that level.
1080
00:58:55,780 --> 00:59:00,780
And like I said, he he has shown me a lot.
1081
00:59:00,780 --> 00:59:02,780
And not only that, I have shown him a lot.
1082
00:59:02,780 --> 00:59:04,780
Mm hmm.
1083
00:59:04,780 --> 00:59:06,780
Not just that.
1084
00:59:06,780 --> 00:59:14,780
Sorry if I got a little bit of not, you know, have been humbled and stuff.
1085
00:59:14,780 --> 00:59:16,780
I've also been showing him, hey, you know,
1086
00:59:16,780 --> 00:59:23,780
even though he lacks the experience that I have or lack the amount of experience
1087
00:59:23,780 --> 00:59:26,780
that I have, he can show me a thing or two.
1088
00:59:26,780 --> 00:59:30,780
And that's just like the main character in Blue Lock, you know,
1089
00:59:30,780 --> 00:59:32,780
it's the king.
1090
00:59:32,780 --> 00:59:37,780
I would borrow that thing going up is the king.
1091
00:59:37,780 --> 00:59:39,780
But he also surprises King.
1092
00:59:39,780 --> 00:59:41,780
He win.
1093
00:59:41,780 --> 00:59:42,780
He win.
1094
00:59:42,780 --> 00:59:44,780
He win the first time.
1095
00:59:44,780 --> 00:59:46,780
Right.
1096
00:59:46,780 --> 00:59:47,780
See where I'm going there.
1097
00:59:47,780 --> 00:59:48,780
He win the first time.
1098
00:59:48,780 --> 00:59:49,780
First time.
1099
00:59:49,780 --> 00:59:51,780
But he showed his potential.
1100
00:59:51,780 --> 00:59:54,780
Mm hmm.
1101
00:59:54,780 --> 00:59:59,780
And that's how I feel with my my current situation.
1102
00:59:59,780 --> 01:00:01,780
I ain't win.
1103
01:00:01,780 --> 01:00:02,780
I ain't win.
1104
01:00:02,780 --> 01:00:04,780
But I definitely showed him a thing or two.
1105
01:00:04,780 --> 01:00:05,780
Yeah.
1106
01:00:05,780 --> 01:00:06,780
Yeah.
1107
01:00:06,780 --> 01:00:09,780
He was like, oh, yeah, yeah, I made it.
1108
01:00:09,780 --> 01:00:13,780
And the first thing after I showed him, I showed him something.
1109
01:00:13,780 --> 01:00:16,780
I don't want to go into too much work details about it, you know,
1110
01:00:16,780 --> 01:00:18,780
you know, come to the process.
1111
01:00:18,780 --> 01:00:21,780
I showed him a script and stuff that I created.
1112
01:00:21,780 --> 01:00:24,780
And he was like, oh, yeah.
1113
01:00:24,780 --> 01:00:28,780
Man, I never thought about doing it this way.
1114
01:00:28,780 --> 01:00:29,780
Oh, you did?
1115
01:00:29,780 --> 01:00:33,780
Let me show you a little something else.
1116
01:00:33,780 --> 01:00:34,780
Let me show you what I can do.
1117
01:00:34,780 --> 01:00:35,780
You know, right.
1118
01:00:35,780 --> 01:00:37,780
At first I felt useless.
1119
01:00:37,780 --> 01:00:42,780
I felt like, hey, man, I don't know if I can keep up with these people.
1120
01:00:42,780 --> 01:00:46,780
But when I started realizing that, yeah, the person that I'm actually going
1121
01:00:46,780 --> 01:00:48,780
against, I technically he's training me.
1122
01:00:48,780 --> 01:00:52,780
It's on a whole nother league and is expected.
1123
01:00:52,780 --> 01:00:55,780
It's like, OK, well, yeah.
1124
01:00:55,780 --> 01:00:56,780
All right. Well, I want to be like him.
1125
01:00:56,780 --> 01:00:57,780
You know, right.
1126
01:00:57,780 --> 01:00:58,780
Oh, I was not necessarily.
1127
01:00:58,780 --> 01:00:59,780
I want to be like him.
1128
01:00:59,780 --> 01:01:01,780
I want to be on his level.
1129
01:01:01,780 --> 01:01:03,780
Right. I want the respect.
1130
01:01:03,780 --> 01:01:07,780
Hey, you know, let's bounce ideas from each other.
1131
01:01:07,780 --> 01:01:09,780
Mm hmm.
1132
01:01:09,780 --> 01:01:13,780
And see, let me take let me take your mind said, let's see how see.
1133
01:01:13,780 --> 01:01:14,780
Maybe I ain't thinking it that way.
1134
01:01:14,780 --> 01:01:16,780
Let me think. Let me see how you think.
1135
01:01:16,780 --> 01:01:19,780
And Curtis, I do.
1136
01:01:19,780 --> 01:01:20,780
You know how.
1137
01:01:20,780 --> 01:01:26,780
But it doesn't that alone, too, is he has someone like that who is also willing
1138
01:01:26,780 --> 01:01:31,780
to take it, you know, take the advice or something like that from somebody who
1139
01:01:31,780 --> 01:01:34,780
doesn't have as much experience in their own field to that.
1140
01:01:34,780 --> 01:01:37,780
That is a rare thing in of in of itself.
1141
01:01:37,780 --> 01:01:41,780
Right. The case of point, like you say, about the king, right.
1142
01:01:41,780 --> 01:01:46,780
When when he saw he beat Barrow, the say he beat him the second time after they
1143
01:01:46,780 --> 01:01:47,780
own the same team. Right.
1144
01:01:47,780 --> 01:01:49,780
You know, he was like, what?
1145
01:01:49,780 --> 01:01:52,780
I'm the king. How is this happening to me?
1146
01:01:52,780 --> 01:01:56,780
And then you get people like that out there in real life, right.
1147
01:01:56,780 --> 01:02:01,780
Who they think they they're the best things since sliced bread and nobody could
1148
01:02:01,780 --> 01:02:02,780
tell them anything.
1149
01:02:02,780 --> 01:02:05,780
And then when they get showed up, you know, they're they're mad about it.
1150
01:02:05,780 --> 01:02:09,780
Right. And they're just like, uh, who is the new guy?
1151
01:02:09,780 --> 01:02:13,780
But when you have two people, you know, one who has more experience, the other
1152
01:02:13,780 --> 01:02:16,780
one who's the up the up and comer.
1153
01:02:16,780 --> 01:02:19,780
Right. And you guys can have a conversation.
1154
01:02:19,780 --> 01:02:24,780
You can share and exchange knowledge and notes with each other.
1155
01:02:24,780 --> 01:02:26,780
And like you say, you can teach each other different things.
1156
01:02:26,780 --> 01:02:31,780
Do you know how much better off, you know, just, you know, in a corporate
1157
01:02:31,780 --> 01:02:32,780
situation, the company would be.
1158
01:02:32,780 --> 01:02:35,780
But in life in general, how everybody would be just be better off like that.
1159
01:02:35,780 --> 01:02:43,780
If we just took the time to really learn from each other and to do that.
1160
01:02:43,780 --> 01:02:46,780
They are talking about this in one one of the more recent episodes I just
1161
01:02:46,780 --> 01:02:50,780
recorded is that, you know, I want to view your experiences, Kurt.
1162
01:02:50,780 --> 01:02:53,780
But when you get older people, you know, you know, who are like, you know,
1163
01:02:53,780 --> 01:02:58,780
10, 20 years older than you, they think they know everything because because
1164
01:02:58,780 --> 01:02:59,780
they're older.
1165
01:02:59,780 --> 01:03:02,780
They just know the reason they just just because they're older than you.
1166
01:03:02,780 --> 01:03:05,780
Right. And they have more life experience, things like that.
1167
01:03:05,780 --> 01:03:06,780
You know, which is true.
1168
01:03:06,780 --> 01:03:09,780
They've experienced more things in their life than you have at that point in
1169
01:03:09,780 --> 01:03:10,780
time.
1170
01:03:10,780 --> 01:03:14,780
But that's not that doesn't mean you just know more than I do.
1171
01:03:14,780 --> 01:03:15,780
You know what I'm saying?
1172
01:03:15,780 --> 01:03:18,780
You have more wisdom about certain things than I do that I haven't
1173
01:03:18,780 --> 01:03:19,780
experienced them.
1174
01:03:19,780 --> 01:03:23,780
But I also know some things that you don't know, because the world has
1175
01:03:23,780 --> 01:03:25,780
changed since you were my age.
1176
01:03:25,780 --> 01:03:26,780
Right.
1177
01:03:26,780 --> 01:03:31,780
And I think if both both sides, the older generation and the younger
1178
01:03:31,780 --> 01:03:34,780
generation, just take the time to try to understand each other about that
1179
01:03:34,780 --> 01:03:36,780
type of type of stuff.
1180
01:03:36,780 --> 01:03:40,780
And we see a lot more advancements, a lot less competition, you know,
1181
01:03:40,780 --> 01:03:44,780
competition amongst ourselves within our own community and things like that.
1182
01:03:44,780 --> 01:03:47,780
We just come together and like, hey, let's let's let's lift each other up
1183
01:03:47,780 --> 01:03:49,780
because we we all just trying to get better.
1184
01:03:49,780 --> 01:03:51,780
We're all trying to do the same thing.
1185
01:03:51,780 --> 01:03:53,780
So let's lift each other up.
1186
01:03:53,780 --> 01:03:54,780
Right.
1187
01:03:54,780 --> 01:03:59,780
And I'm really glad that you said that you and your current mentor can share
1188
01:03:59,780 --> 01:04:00,780
notes and stuff like that.
1189
01:04:00,780 --> 01:04:04,780
I mean, I think that's awesome that you don't see that too, too often.
1190
01:04:04,780 --> 01:04:08,780
Oh, you are absolutely right, because, you know, everybody's is a competition.
1191
01:04:08,780 --> 01:04:14,780
Like you said, everybody wants to be where you at or to be better than you.
1192
01:04:14,780 --> 01:04:16,780
And it's never a.
1193
01:04:16,780 --> 01:04:19,780
I want to share knowledge.
1194
01:04:19,780 --> 01:04:22,780
It's always I want to withhold knowledge.
1195
01:04:22,780 --> 01:04:28,780
And withholding knowledge never really gets you anywhere.
1196
01:04:28,780 --> 01:04:34,780
Oh, because for me, it really never gets you anywhere, because it's one of those
1197
01:04:34,780 --> 01:04:40,780
things that, yeah, you can be good at one thing and you can hold it from someone,
1198
01:04:40,780 --> 01:04:43,780
but someone can always figure out how to do it.
1199
01:04:43,780 --> 01:04:47,780
And, you know, it's not that is something that no one can do.
1200
01:04:47,780 --> 01:04:49,780
They just have to figure it out.
1201
01:04:49,780 --> 01:04:53,780
They may not have the, you know, you're helping figure it out.
1202
01:04:53,780 --> 01:04:56,780
But with a little bit of effort and time, they can figure it out.
1203
01:04:56,780 --> 01:04:58,780
So withholding information going to get you anywhere.
1204
01:04:58,780 --> 01:05:03,780
Now you can share that information and have bounced off ideas with each other.
1205
01:05:03,780 --> 01:05:05,780
And you may learn some more information.
1206
01:05:05,780 --> 01:05:11,780
You may you may think you may take a look at an outcome and be like, huh, if I try
1207
01:05:11,780 --> 01:05:14,780
this way, this might be even better.
1208
01:05:14,780 --> 01:05:17,780
You may start learning more from other people.
1209
01:05:17,780 --> 01:05:19,780
So age for me doesn't matter.
1210
01:05:19,780 --> 01:05:22,780
They should be absolutely don't matter.
1211
01:05:22,780 --> 01:05:23,780
Like I said, you're a lot younger than me.
1212
01:05:23,780 --> 01:05:27,780
And I still think you are very wise when it comes to certain things.
1213
01:05:27,780 --> 01:05:29,780
And like you say, we lived in two different time.
1214
01:05:29,780 --> 01:05:35,780
But what you go through in your life right now versus what I go through in my life
1215
01:05:35,780 --> 01:05:38,780
right now, two different things, you know, I was your age.
1216
01:05:38,780 --> 01:05:43,780
I was doing all types of different stuff.
1217
01:05:43,780 --> 01:05:45,780
I mean, the age thing is not a thing.
1218
01:05:45,780 --> 01:05:51,780
It's just when you willing to open up your mindset to, you know, hey, what does
1219
01:05:51,780 --> 01:05:53,780
this person got to offer?
1220
01:05:53,780 --> 01:05:55,780
What does this person, you know, how can he contribute?
1221
01:05:55,780 --> 01:05:57,780
And maybe he might have a valid point.
1222
01:05:57,780 --> 01:06:01,780
That's when you start getting somewhere and it ain't too many people.
1223
01:06:01,780 --> 01:06:04,780
Like you said, I experienced that just like you do.
1224
01:06:04,780 --> 01:06:08,780
My current job is full of military people that are a lot older.
1225
01:06:08,780 --> 01:06:12,780
And you know it, you know, you work with some of these guys.
1226
01:06:12,780 --> 01:06:17,780
They know they know everything when they don't know everything.
1227
01:06:17,780 --> 01:06:19,780
They don't know it.
1228
01:06:19,780 --> 01:06:20,780
They know it.
1229
01:06:20,780 --> 01:06:22,780
They won't say they know it, but they don't know it.
1230
01:06:22,780 --> 01:06:28,780
It is one of those things that if they just be quiet, listen, they could learn
1231
01:06:28,780 --> 01:06:32,780
something or even find a way to do something better.
1232
01:06:32,780 --> 01:06:33,780
But they don't.
1233
01:06:33,780 --> 01:06:37,780
And unfortunately, that's how corporate America is.
1234
01:06:37,780 --> 01:06:39,780
Yeah.
1235
01:06:39,780 --> 01:06:42,780
And seniority and all that other stuff that comes with it.
1236
01:06:42,780 --> 01:06:44,780
Terrible.
1237
01:06:44,780 --> 01:06:51,780
So yeah, that if you young is listening out there, just just wait.
1238
01:06:51,780 --> 01:06:52,780
Yes, wait.
1239
01:06:52,780 --> 01:06:57,780
Hopefully you don't experience this type of thing, you know, too harshly
1240
01:06:57,780 --> 01:07:02,780
because, you know, I mean, we work at right now again without going, you
1241
01:07:02,780 --> 01:07:04,780
know, too, too deep into that.
1242
01:07:04,780 --> 01:07:08,780
It's not as bad as some other places, but it's not as good as some other
1243
01:07:08,780 --> 01:07:10,780
places, too, when it comes to stuff like that.
1244
01:07:10,780 --> 01:07:11,780
Right.
1245
01:07:11,780 --> 01:07:15,780
You know, they typically value seniority over actually knowing the job
1246
01:07:15,780 --> 01:07:17,780
and processes and stuff like that.
1247
01:07:17,780 --> 01:07:21,780
But, you know, there are other places that, again, are worse off than that
1248
01:07:21,780 --> 01:07:23,780
and then other places that are better.
1249
01:07:23,780 --> 01:07:26,780
So, you know, don't it's not no doom and gloom or anything.
1250
01:07:26,780 --> 01:07:31,780
The point is just to have an open mind and be willing to be teachable, you
1251
01:07:31,780 --> 01:07:35,780
know, be humble and be willing to teach others to write because, you know,
1252
01:07:35,780 --> 01:07:38,780
I mean, how young or how old you are, you have something of value that you
1253
01:07:38,780 --> 01:07:42,780
can get to somebody else, right, whether they ask for it directly or not.
1254
01:07:42,780 --> 01:07:45,780
But if you see somebody struggling with something, it takes another for you
1255
01:07:45,780 --> 01:07:48,780
to go tap them on the shoulders and say, hey, I see you struggling with
1256
01:07:48,780 --> 01:07:49,780
this.
1257
01:07:49,780 --> 01:07:52,780
Have you tried doing it this way, you know, or maybe thinking about it
1258
01:07:52,780 --> 01:07:56,780
like this, you know, just just lend a helping hand because you remember
1259
01:07:56,780 --> 01:07:59,780
what it was like to struggle through that type of stuff.
1260
01:07:59,780 --> 01:08:03,780
And like you said, man, eventually they're probably going to figure it
1261
01:08:03,780 --> 01:08:04,780
out.
1262
01:08:04,780 --> 01:08:08,780
And they put enough time and effort into it because a case of point, man,
1263
01:08:08,780 --> 01:08:10,780
there's so many things.
1264
01:08:10,780 --> 01:08:13,780
How many times have I come to you asking you for some help with some of
1265
01:08:13,780 --> 01:08:16,780
like our whole lab projects that I'm working on, right?
1266
01:08:16,780 --> 01:08:19,780
Like, hey, listen, all the time, all the time.
1267
01:08:19,780 --> 01:08:20,780
And I like it.
1268
01:08:20,780 --> 01:08:22,780
Like you said, I have no problem helping you.
1269
01:08:22,780 --> 01:08:26,780
If I have already done it and I have the experience and I'll be like, you
1270
01:08:26,780 --> 01:08:30,780
know, here, try this or do this or whatever, you know, I have no problem.
1271
01:08:30,780 --> 01:08:34,780
Like if you can call me any any time of the day, night, whatever, if I'm up
1272
01:08:34,780 --> 01:08:37,780
and you're asking a question about something, I answer the phone every
1273
01:08:37,780 --> 01:08:38,780
time.
1274
01:08:38,780 --> 01:08:41,780
You know, here, you know, try this, do this.
1275
01:08:41,780 --> 01:08:43,780
And this is what I mean.
1276
01:08:43,780 --> 01:08:46,780
I'm going to say again, guys, that's what we're talking about, right?
1277
01:08:46,780 --> 01:08:47,780
Isn't it?
1278
01:08:47,780 --> 01:08:50,780
I mean, it is something I can figure out for myself.
1279
01:08:50,780 --> 01:08:52,780
Yeah, I mean, I can look it up.
1280
01:08:52,780 --> 01:08:54,780
I can do my research, so like that.
1281
01:08:54,780 --> 01:08:58,780
But I know I got Kurt, you know, Kurt got my back and then vice versa.
1282
01:08:58,780 --> 01:09:02,780
I mean, he called me up for a couple of things like he said earlier in the
1283
01:09:02,780 --> 01:09:07,780
in the conversation, you know, if he's going through something or if he not
1284
01:09:07,780 --> 01:09:11,780
sure he just wants a different opinion, he'll call me the same thing, man.
1285
01:09:11,780 --> 01:09:15,780
Anytime I'm up, as soon as I see his name on my phone, I'm stopping what I'm
1286
01:09:15,780 --> 01:09:19,780
doing to at least, you know, pick up the phone so we can, you know, just chop
1287
01:09:19,780 --> 01:09:20,780
it up.
1288
01:09:20,780 --> 01:09:25,780
So it is find somebody like that and you be someone like that is pretty much
1289
01:09:25,780 --> 01:09:26,780
the whole moral, right?
1290
01:09:26,780 --> 01:09:28,780
Yeah, pretty much.
1291
01:09:28,780 --> 01:09:30,780
We need more people like that.
1292
01:09:30,780 --> 01:09:32,780
We definitely need more people like that.
1293
01:09:32,780 --> 01:09:34,780
Well, who are you telling me?
1294
01:09:34,780 --> 01:09:35,780
Absolutely.
1295
01:09:35,780 --> 01:09:38,780
And this place would be so much better.
1296
01:09:38,780 --> 01:09:40,780
All right, let's see.
1297
01:09:40,780 --> 01:09:46,780
And then the last last question I got over here is, OK, here we go.
1298
01:09:46,780 --> 01:09:51,780
So it says anime here, but again, it's going to be any type of media, anime,
1299
01:09:51,780 --> 01:09:52,780
movies, video games.
1300
01:09:52,780 --> 01:09:57,780
All these things offer a sense of, you know, escapism, exploration of, you
1301
01:09:57,780 --> 01:10:01,780
know, different cultures, settings, worlds, things like that.
1302
01:10:01,780 --> 01:10:07,780
And through like like some self discovery to, you know, learn about who you are
1303
01:10:07,780 --> 01:10:09,780
and who you want to be, things like that.
1304
01:10:09,780 --> 01:10:14,780
And so my question for you, Kurt, is has I'm I'm I'm running from just
1305
01:10:14,780 --> 01:10:15,780
anime, right?
1306
01:10:15,780 --> 01:10:18,780
Because again, we're otaku is of more than just that.
1307
01:10:18,780 --> 01:10:22,780
But has any of your hobbies or media, something like that, have any of that
1308
01:10:22,780 --> 01:10:27,780
played a role in helping you understand yourself better or, you know, even
1309
01:10:27,780 --> 01:10:30,780
discover something new about yourself that you didn't know you like before or,
1310
01:10:30,780 --> 01:10:32,780
you know, something along those lines?
1311
01:10:32,780 --> 01:10:35,780
So the breakdown.
1312
01:10:35,780 --> 01:10:36,780
Yes.
1313
01:10:36,780 --> 01:10:45,780
There's so I call this my escape in my escape room.
1314
01:10:45,780 --> 01:10:48,780
So I'm in my office.
1315
01:10:48,780 --> 01:10:52,780
I surround myself with various different things.
1316
01:10:52,780 --> 01:11:00,780
Anime posters, DC posters, DC figurines, anime figurines, everything that I
1317
01:11:00,780 --> 01:11:02,780
like, video games, all that stuff.
1318
01:11:02,780 --> 01:11:08,780
So when I lock in is what I like to call it when I lock into a, you know, if
1319
01:11:08,780 --> 01:11:10,780
it's an anime, it's a video game.
1320
01:11:10,780 --> 01:11:18,780
If it's some, you know, I'm reading a DC comic or anything, you know, it's my
1321
01:11:18,780 --> 01:11:19,780
escape.
1322
01:11:19,780 --> 01:11:20,780
It's my escape.
1323
01:11:20,780 --> 01:11:25,780
It gives me clarity to figure out certain things in life that's going on.
1324
01:11:25,780 --> 01:11:29,780
So because life is we all know life is pain.
1325
01:11:29,780 --> 01:11:33,780
It's sometimes you just need to get away.
1326
01:11:33,780 --> 01:11:41,780
And as I'm enjoying these different things, if it's me locking in and call it
1327
01:11:41,780 --> 01:11:48,780
duty, if it's me working the manga, watching anime, I sit there and yeah, I'm
1328
01:11:48,780 --> 01:11:53,780
playing, I'm self reflecting about, you know, how can I be better in life?
1329
01:11:53,780 --> 01:11:56,780
It's kind of like a meditating thing.
1330
01:11:56,780 --> 01:11:59,780
I should say.
1331
01:11:59,780 --> 01:12:03,780
As I'm doing these activities, I am thinking about life, what I can do better in
1332
01:12:03,780 --> 01:12:04,780
life.
1333
01:12:04,780 --> 01:12:08,780
A lot of times thinking about how to make a million dollars.
1334
01:12:08,780 --> 01:12:16,780
And to be honest, I get ideas from that stuff.
1335
01:12:16,780 --> 01:12:18,780
I get a lot of ideas from that stuff.
1336
01:12:18,780 --> 01:12:25,780
My recent idea during my self reflection was I was, you know, I got so I'm a huge
1337
01:12:25,780 --> 01:12:26,780
fan of Batman and stuff.
1338
01:12:26,780 --> 01:12:32,780
I was watching, I want to say it was the Justice League animated movie.
1339
01:12:32,780 --> 01:12:35,780
The Injustice one.
1340
01:12:35,780 --> 01:12:39,780
Yeah.
1341
01:12:39,780 --> 01:12:42,780
As I'm watching this movie, I'm just sitting there thinking about different
1342
01:12:42,780 --> 01:12:44,780
business ideas.
1343
01:12:44,780 --> 01:12:49,780
And this is how I came up with the display shelves that I send you a picture of.
1344
01:12:49,780 --> 01:12:50,780
Yeah.
1345
01:12:50,780 --> 01:12:52,780
How I made the display shelves or whatever.
1346
01:12:52,780 --> 01:12:57,780
So I was like, huh, you know, I like DC.
1347
01:12:57,780 --> 01:13:00,780
I like, you know, I got a bunch of DC statues.
1348
01:13:00,780 --> 01:13:02,780
I need to figure out something I'm doing as I'm watching movie.
1349
01:13:02,780 --> 01:13:04,780
And I just it is strange.
1350
01:13:04,780 --> 01:13:07,780
I know you're going to be like, how did this come up?
1351
01:13:07,780 --> 01:13:12,780
I was like, you know, I said, let me try to find a product.
1352
01:13:12,780 --> 01:13:13,780
It's just me watching movie.
1353
01:13:13,780 --> 01:13:15,780
I'm just I'm zoned out.
1354
01:13:15,780 --> 01:13:23,780
I find a product that I can possibly build that will give me everything that I need,
1355
01:13:23,780 --> 01:13:26,780
which is like, you know, I had all these boxes of statues.
1356
01:13:26,780 --> 01:13:31,780
And then do some really cool stuff with it.
1357
01:13:31,780 --> 01:13:36,780
And as I'm watching this stuff, I'm like, you know, I'm watching Batman and stuff.
1358
01:13:36,780 --> 01:13:41,780
I'm like, all right, well, you know, Batman, I start coming up with some ideas.
1359
01:13:41,780 --> 01:13:48,780
And I was like, yeah, I'm going to build me a display shelf and I'll build a display show.
1360
01:13:48,780 --> 01:13:52,780
I want to put all my Batman stuff, statues in there.
1361
01:13:52,780 --> 01:13:56,780
And then the whole idea just started coming out of that.
1362
01:13:56,780 --> 01:13:58,780
I just started coming out with different things.
1363
01:13:58,780 --> 01:14:00,780
And then I started bouncing ideas with you.
1364
01:14:00,780 --> 01:14:03,780
Yeah, I end up coming up with that.
1365
01:14:03,780 --> 01:14:05,780
I think you know, I mean, I don't know.
1366
01:14:05,780 --> 01:14:07,780
We get off of them.
1367
01:14:07,780 --> 01:14:12,780
But then, you know, I came up with the idea with the whole voice activated display stuff.
1368
01:14:12,780 --> 01:14:15,780
Mm hmm. I remember.
1369
01:14:15,780 --> 01:14:19,780
He did what?
1370
01:14:19,780 --> 01:14:24,780
But like I say, yeah, man, it's anime is a safe space for me.
1371
01:14:24,780 --> 01:14:27,780
Just to sum it all up, anime is a safe space for me.
1372
01:14:27,780 --> 01:14:33,780
It allows me to get my some of my most creative thinking, not just anime in general,
1373
01:14:33,780 --> 01:14:41,780
and just if it's a hobby, a video game, anime, manga, whatever it is,
1374
01:14:41,780 --> 01:14:44,780
it allows me to do my best creative thinking.
1375
01:14:44,780 --> 01:14:47,780
Mm hmm.
1376
01:14:47,780 --> 01:14:50,780
While while enjoying myself, I should say that.
1377
01:14:50,780 --> 01:14:53,780
Oh, yes. Yeah, that's the key part. Yeah.
1378
01:14:53,780 --> 01:14:54,780
You never know.
1379
01:14:54,780 --> 01:14:59,780
Like you can be watching some type of anime or something and just some random thought come in your mind.
1380
01:14:59,780 --> 01:15:03,780
I mean, this at least for me, like some random idea will always come up.
1381
01:15:03,780 --> 01:15:06,780
And it may be something I saw in the anime as a huh.
1382
01:15:06,780 --> 01:15:09,780
That's a cool thing. Oh, yeah.
1383
01:15:09,780 --> 01:15:12,780
And then I start I start going off.
1384
01:15:12,780 --> 01:15:17,780
I start thinking of other stuff like in the midst of the anime or I saw something in the anime
1385
01:15:17,780 --> 01:15:23,780
that gave me an idea to do something here, especially when it comes to the Japanese culture and anime.
1386
01:15:23,780 --> 01:15:26,780
They're so futuristic in a lot of things.
1387
01:15:26,780 --> 01:15:31,780
And that you'll see something in the anime.
1388
01:15:31,780 --> 01:15:34,780
Huh? I don't think we have this in real life. Yeah.
1389
01:15:34,780 --> 01:15:38,780
Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to get you know, how can I try to get something like this?
1390
01:15:38,780 --> 01:15:41,780
Mm hmm.
1391
01:15:41,780 --> 01:15:44,780
I don't know. I don't know if that ever hits you like that.
1392
01:15:44,780 --> 01:15:48,780
Yeah. But for me, all the time and they can end it crazy thing about it.
1393
01:15:48,780 --> 01:15:53,780
It can be like an amazing back in like 2016, 2008, like stuff with technology.
1394
01:15:53,780 --> 01:15:57,780
Ain't really was. Well, was it really booming like that?
1395
01:15:57,780 --> 01:16:05,780
But in anime, you see like this whole futuristic type stuff like one of the ideas I got actually recently,
1396
01:16:05,780 --> 01:16:09,780
which I'm working on now, was from anime was this.
1397
01:16:09,780 --> 01:16:17,780
I was watching. Let me I don't want to pass the bus name.
1398
01:16:17,780 --> 01:16:20,780
Is one of those super long ones that two sentences or something?
1399
01:16:20,780 --> 01:16:24,780
Yeah, it's one of those really low is a guy.
1400
01:16:24,780 --> 01:16:30,780
And I would have to go find the actual name of the title, but I'll tell you later about it.
1401
01:16:30,780 --> 01:16:33,780
But I started thinking about no, no, no, no, no, no.
1402
01:16:33,780 --> 01:16:37,780
I think it was my was it my easy kind of life?
1403
01:16:37,780 --> 01:16:45,780
I don't know. I can't think about a title of it right now, but however, I was watching the anime and.
1404
01:16:45,780 --> 01:16:52,780
You know, we all in the world of, you know, AI right now, AI is taking over everything.
1405
01:16:52,780 --> 01:16:58,780
Like I generated and AI in IOT devices.
1406
01:16:58,780 --> 01:17:04,780
OK, cool. I already like what this is going, but go ahead.
1407
01:17:04,780 --> 01:17:09,780
So in most easy guys, you have great sage, you know, like remember, you know, you know.
1408
01:17:09,780 --> 01:17:18,780
Yeah. Yeah. So you have these AIs in their minds that are reading and feeding back information to these things.
1409
01:17:18,780 --> 01:17:27,780
And I'm like, we're currently close to a time in life where we can have some of this stuff doing this for us.
1410
01:17:27,780 --> 01:17:35,780
Right. So, you know, you know, I already dappled a lot in the AI and doing voice active stuff and automation and stuff.
1411
01:17:35,780 --> 01:17:41,780
Right. My home labs. So as I'm watching, I think it was my easy guy life.
1412
01:17:41,780 --> 01:17:46,780
I think that's the one with the slimes and stuff where. Yeah, I've seen that one. Yeah. Yeah.
1413
01:17:46,780 --> 01:17:50,780
Yeah. Well, he had all the old peace lines and he made great.
1414
01:17:50,780 --> 01:17:56,780
They agree. He would cast spells through the slimes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
1415
01:17:56,780 --> 01:18:01,780
So I'm sitting there like I'm sitting there like I'm like, hey, that's a whole lot of automation going on right there.
1416
01:18:01,780 --> 01:18:09,780
Pretty much. You know, pretty much. Then I'm like, hey, so I'm starting to get like, man, wouldn't it be cool
1417
01:18:09,780 --> 01:18:16,780
if I put a sense on my dough when I walk in over my door?
1418
01:18:16,780 --> 01:18:24,780
My chair turns around, my computer do wake online. Google greets me.
1419
01:18:24,780 --> 01:18:33,780
Yeah, I saw it. So I'm I started thinking like this is all possible right now. Yeah. This is all possible.
1420
01:18:33,780 --> 01:18:36,780
I have the automation skills for it already.
1421
01:18:36,780 --> 01:18:40,780
We all know I have some of this stuff I've already automated to do.
1422
01:18:40,780 --> 01:18:51,780
And all it takes is the other time and effort to do it. I'm like, yeah, I'm like, I could really be like some of these stuff that I see in it.
1423
01:18:51,780 --> 01:18:55,780
It's just it blows my mind. Just think about it.
1424
01:18:55,780 --> 01:18:59,780
Yeah, I get a lot. Like I said, let's just sum it all up.
1425
01:18:59,780 --> 01:19:03,780
Not to go too much on a tangent, like watching anime.
1426
01:19:03,780 --> 01:19:10,780
I think of some of the craziest things. Anime, video games. When I'm zoned out, I think of some crazy ideas.
1427
01:19:10,780 --> 01:19:20,780
It gives me some of my best ideas. And I have done a lot of them and I have shown a lot of them.
1428
01:19:20,780 --> 01:19:27,780
So it influences me a lot. It influenced a lot of my day to day stuff that I do in my office or do at my house.
1429
01:19:27,780 --> 01:19:38,780
Like I just told my washing dryer earlier to go start the load in the.
1430
01:19:38,780 --> 01:19:41,780
So, yeah, it's it's it's sort of like like a lot.
1431
01:19:41,780 --> 01:19:48,780
Like I said, there's something all of a lot of that stuff I see in these different things like Batman and his bat gadgets doing all this stuff.
1432
01:19:48,780 --> 01:19:53,780
You know, an amazing, you know, great sage and Rimmel, ruin them doing all this stuff.
1433
01:19:53,780 --> 01:19:59,780
You know, it's one of those days like, yeah, yeah, we're almost in that time where I feel like I'm in a real life.
1434
01:19:59,780 --> 01:20:06,780
You see, guy. And well, boy, what a time we live in when I have for real.
1435
01:20:06,780 --> 01:20:10,780
You see chat, GVT, but you see what you see.
1436
01:20:10,780 --> 01:20:13,780
You see so much, man. You don't even know it.
1437
01:20:13,780 --> 01:20:18,780
Yeah, it's man. Life is wild.
1438
01:20:18,780 --> 01:20:25,780
We are like in the golden age. Well, technically, they would say back in the day was the golden age.
1439
01:20:25,780 --> 01:20:28,780
But you know, yeah, I go with it. We are not golden age.
1440
01:20:28,780 --> 01:20:34,780
I think a lot of the things that I again, my listeners, sorry, go off on a tangent.
1441
01:20:34,780 --> 01:20:36,780
But again, this is what being a taco is.
1442
01:20:36,780 --> 01:20:39,780
You find something and you just go you go deep in on it.
1443
01:20:39,780 --> 01:20:46,780
And the egg early said, do you just I.T. aid the AI, IOT, this the.
1444
01:20:46,780 --> 01:20:52,780
All of this stuff, right, because again, I know it's speaking gibberish to a lot of my side about listeners right now.
1445
01:20:52,780 --> 01:20:55,780
You're like, I don't know what these acronyms mean, any of this stuff.
1446
01:20:55,780 --> 01:21:01,780
But for those who know, they know. And it's basically it's almost like it's like adult Legos, right?
1447
01:21:01,780 --> 01:21:07,780
You got all these different building blocks, these different things that you feel like you say you get an idea as a hunt.
1448
01:21:07,780 --> 01:21:11,780
Is this this is pretty cool. Can I can I do this?
1449
01:21:11,780 --> 01:21:15,780
Do I have the knowledge? Yep. Do I have the skill set? Yep.
1450
01:21:15,780 --> 01:21:19,780
Do I have the materials or the components that I need? Yep.
1451
01:21:19,780 --> 01:21:21,780
Or if not, Amazon's a wonderful thing.
1452
01:21:21,780 --> 01:21:27,780
So, you know, you got all these things and you can just you can just go in and just get real creative with these type of things.
1453
01:21:27,780 --> 01:21:32,780
Right. And for and for me, you can one curtain.
1454
01:21:32,780 --> 01:21:35,780
You're not the only one who gets crazy idea while watching anime and stuff like that.
1455
01:21:35,780 --> 01:21:39,780
You know, I just I'm just lazy. I don't act on them all the time.
1456
01:21:39,780 --> 01:21:51,780
If I'm being honest, but they do when they when they hit me and you really have you ever had it where it hits you so hard that you got to pause what you're watching to really think about it.
1457
01:21:51,780 --> 01:21:55,780
I definitely understand. I definitely understand.
1458
01:21:55,780 --> 01:22:07,780
And for me, case of one, though, is really this podcast as a whole, man, because it was it was on my part to do something like this.
1459
01:22:07,780 --> 01:22:17,780
You know, whether it was podcast or something like that, we're just sharing my my love for, you know, this this culture.
1460
01:22:17,780 --> 01:22:22,780
Right. You know, anime, manga, things like that, because again, we had conversations all the time.
1461
01:22:22,780 --> 01:22:27,780
You know, we my dad had these conversations, you know, while animated, we both watch and stuff like that.
1462
01:22:27,780 --> 01:22:35,780
And it's just you when you share in that love for something with somebody else is always a wonderful thing.
1463
01:22:35,780 --> 01:22:39,780
But then I got to thinking it really hit me when I started watching Blue Lock, man.
1464
01:22:39,780 --> 01:22:44,780
It was, you know, the main character, he does this whole jigsaw puzzle puzzle piece type thing.
1465
01:22:44,780 --> 01:22:54,780
He'd be thinking and he was like, what's this last piece that I need to get to that next level to beat this opponent, to score this goal, whatever he is he's trying to do.
1466
01:22:54,780 --> 01:23:01,780
And for me, I realized that I've been doing that my whole life, man.
1467
01:23:01,780 --> 01:23:11,780
Just, you know, when I'm watching these shows, why these animes, I'm already internalizing these characters and their struggles and what they're and what they do to overcome them.
1468
01:23:11,780 --> 01:23:15,780
You know, the naruto's you believe in attitude, right?
1469
01:23:15,780 --> 01:23:18,780
Goku's incredible work ethic.
1470
01:23:18,780 --> 01:23:22,780
I mean, this man working out while he's dead, but I don't know who does that.
1471
01:23:22,780 --> 01:23:27,780
Literally got the halo on. He's still over there training, training his behind all.
1472
01:23:27,780 --> 01:23:36,780
And, you know, like each ago from bleach, his whole mindset is I remember I remember this line like the like the just like yesterday, man.
1473
01:23:36,780 --> 01:23:41,780
He was fighting one of the one of the villains in bleach and each ago was getting drug, man.
1474
01:23:41,780 --> 01:23:45,780
He was getting just beat to sleep. And the dude was like, why do you still hold on to your sword?
1475
01:23:45,780 --> 01:23:47,780
You can't possibly think that you're going to win.
1476
01:23:47,780 --> 01:23:52,780
It goes like, it doesn't matter if I think I can win. I have to win type thing.
1477
01:23:52,780 --> 01:23:56,780
Like, there's no losing is not often for me type thing.
1478
01:23:56,780 --> 01:23:59,780
Keep in mind, he was just he's getting drugged out the whole fight.
1479
01:23:59,780 --> 01:24:06,780
There's no there's no chance there's no chance anywhere that he's going to win. But that type of mentality, right?
1480
01:24:06,780 --> 01:24:13,780
Where I have to do this, I have to achieve this, I have to overcome this because there is no other option for me.
1481
01:24:13,780 --> 01:24:20,780
And that spoke volumes to me because kind of tied back to what we said earlier about being comfortable.
1482
01:24:20,780 --> 01:24:27,780
Right. When you when you grow to be comfortable in your situation, your surrounding, that's when you start to get lazy.
1483
01:24:27,780 --> 01:24:32,780
That's when you the drive starts to die down a little bit.
1484
01:24:32,780 --> 01:24:36,780
And that's why we're I'm not afraid to.
1485
01:24:36,780 --> 01:24:41,780
But, you know, we're less likely to try new things to develop the things we already have.
1486
01:24:41,780 --> 01:24:47,780
Right. Because we're comfortable. We just don't want to we don't want to mess up our routine and our flow.
1487
01:24:47,780 --> 01:24:53,780
And but that's where creativity thrives in you stepping outside of your comfort zone.
1488
01:24:53,780 --> 01:24:58,780
You actually doing and acting out the things that you're thinking about. Right.
1489
01:24:58,780 --> 01:25:05,780
Like you for the automation and things that you're working on in your home lab and the stuff you're learning now in your new position.
1490
01:25:05,780 --> 01:25:14,780
And like for me, you know, taking some already do with anime and putting together on a podcast for other people to listen to and try to, you know,
1491
01:25:14,780 --> 01:25:19,780
pull what they can from it and maybe create some more anime watches out there. Right.
1492
01:25:19,780 --> 01:25:24,780
And if the watch on these other different anime besides the mainstream one. Right.
1493
01:25:24,780 --> 01:25:36,780
And just really take these things and apply it to our own life and just say, hey, don't be afraid to try new things and don't be afraid to fail at new things, too.
1494
01:25:36,780 --> 01:25:40,780
I think that's the biggest thing is if you're afraid to fail, you're never going to succeed at it.
1495
01:25:40,780 --> 01:25:43,780
I mean, that's plain and simple. Right.
1496
01:25:43,780 --> 01:25:52,780
And again, me and Kurt understand this because, you know, we work in IT, we do the whole lab and stuff all the time.
1497
01:25:52,780 --> 01:25:59,780
I don't know how many times I've broken something in my own house. I'm like, I got to go back and fix that.
1498
01:25:59,780 --> 01:26:06,780
I mean, you just had a conversation yesterday about you trying something new and you took out your internet for three days.
1499
01:26:06,780 --> 01:26:13,780
I think it's stuff like that. And but you fixed it and now you know more than what you did before.
1500
01:26:13,780 --> 01:26:17,780
And then you are more confident doing that type of thing again.
1501
01:26:17,780 --> 01:26:23,780
And you would have never known you were capable of doing something like that if you would have never tried. You would never even attempted it.
1502
01:26:23,780 --> 01:26:34,780
So, again, for my listeners out there is for this whole hour plus long call we just had, we just talked about, you know, the things we love and anime and how it's affected us.
1503
01:26:34,780 --> 01:26:41,780
The point is to one, don't be, don't be ashamed of who you are and what you like.
1504
01:26:41,780 --> 01:26:45,780
You know, people can call you nerds or whatever, you know, who cares, right?
1505
01:26:45,780 --> 01:26:53,780
Let them live their life. You live yours and really open up your mind to the possibilities that are at that you have a ring with you.
1506
01:26:53,780 --> 01:27:04,780
Right. The people you know, the things that you are, you know, into and the different opportunities that may that are coming down the pipeline in different situations like that.
1507
01:27:04,780 --> 01:27:08,780
And even from the very shows and games that you play and watch. Right.
1508
01:27:08,780 --> 01:27:13,780
It's knowledge is out there. You just have to be willing to do something about it.
1509
01:27:13,780 --> 01:27:18,780
And when you fall down, because you will, we're all going to fail at something.
1510
01:27:18,780 --> 01:27:23,780
Don't say that. Right. Learn from it. Learn what you like. OK, what didn't work this time?
1511
01:27:23,780 --> 01:27:28,780
What can I do to do better next time? And get up and do it again.
1512
01:27:28,780 --> 01:27:37,780
Because I mean, because you touched on it before, man, you the stuff like we're watching these anime or, you know, the DC movies and the video game and stuff like that.
1513
01:27:37,780 --> 01:27:43,780
When we're doing the self reflection, we're enjoying it. That's the key. That's really the key part.
1514
01:27:43,780 --> 01:27:53,780
We're enjoying the process because we're enjoying what we're doing. And for me, I want us all to live life and not just survive it.
1515
01:27:53,780 --> 01:28:02,780
Right. I want my goal at the end of the day, man, is to every day that I get up that I wake up, I'm enjoying my life, doing whatever it is that I'm doing.
1516
01:28:02,780 --> 01:28:11,780
And that way, you know, it just goes by smoother. I think, you know, we're doing something that we love together with our friends and family.
1517
01:28:11,780 --> 01:28:16,780
And you're doing something that you're truly passionate about and you truly believe in.
1518
01:28:16,780 --> 01:28:25,780
Then, hey, yeah, that sounds like a good life to me, man. I'll be honest with you. That sounds like a good life.
1519
01:28:25,780 --> 01:28:31,780
Yeah, I definitely agree, man. Definitely agree.
1520
01:28:31,780 --> 01:28:45,780
Oh, man. All right, McCurdy, I know you are a busy, busy man, so I'm going to let you cut out of here. But before you go, man, one, I just want to thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to hop on here with me, hop on here with my listeners.
1521
01:28:45,780 --> 01:28:52,780
I'm sure they enjoy hearing somebody else besides me for once and sharing your life and things like that, man.
1522
01:28:52,780 --> 01:28:57,780
Do you have any socials or anything that you want to plug in for everybody listening?
1523
01:28:57,780 --> 01:29:06,780
Well, first, before I do that, yeah, I want to say, you're welcome at any time. If you need me for another episode, I'm always here. I make time for you.
1524
01:29:06,780 --> 01:29:15,780
I enjoyed this hour, hour and a half, almost two hour conversation. You know, we do this, we chop it up like this all the time.
1525
01:29:15,780 --> 01:29:22,780
You know, I love talking about anime, love talking about just life, things in general, whatever we can do, whatever I can do.
1526
01:29:22,780 --> 01:29:34,780
For the socials, I do do a lot of streaming on Twitch. You can follow me on Twitch at Quick Underscore Draw X on Twitch.
1527
01:29:34,780 --> 01:29:47,780
You can also follow, I do stream also on Facebook. Facebook, sorry, Facebook gaming, same thing. It's a Quick Underscore Draw on Facebook.
1528
01:29:47,780 --> 01:29:59,780
And that's pretty much it. I do a lot of different video games. I play Call of Duty, really heavy into Warzone 2 right now with the launch of Street Fighter 6.
1529
01:29:59,780 --> 01:30:07,780
I'm doing a lot of streaming over on my Twitch for Street Fighter 6. I'm a big GIF player, GIF and Kami.
1530
01:30:07,780 --> 01:30:17,780
Thank you for those who know. That's who I'm going to be maining in this Street Fighter 6. If you want to see some good high level GIF play, some Kami play, come on over to Twitch and come see your boy.
1531
01:30:17,780 --> 01:30:25,780
You know, support us over at Quick Draw. And yeah, I think that's pretty much it for my socials.
1532
01:30:25,780 --> 01:30:32,780
Awesome, awesome, man. All right. So again, I'll have those linked down in the description somewhere.
1533
01:30:32,780 --> 01:30:37,780
So, Kari, you want to send me those right after this? I'll make sure it's in there.
1534
01:30:37,780 --> 01:30:47,780
And again, man, it's always a pleasure. Like you said, we have these conversations all the time. I just decided, hey, let's record it. Let's record at least one of them for my people.
1535
01:30:47,780 --> 01:30:56,780
So again, guys, again, like always, just hope you guys learn something new today. Learn something new about yourself and really take these questions to heart.
1536
01:30:56,780 --> 01:31:03,780
And again, just always remember, you know, you are the main character of your story and that story doesn't end until he says so.
1537
01:31:03,780 --> 01:31:30,780
All right. Be blessed.
