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guy welcome to episode of crazy F guy hey podcast has Rec motivation with crazy fness guy now before we get
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started I know don't usually wear a hat on this show and it's not going to be a
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trend I can promise you that but today let's just say and I'm going to keep it
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um very short and sweet let just say I'm just having a little bit of an off day and I'm keeping it at that so yeah don't
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mind the Hat it's not a promotion of any sort just it just says tough on it it's
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a school in Philadelphia uh one of my friends went to there
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so that's it it's not going to come a trend promise almost if it's crazy Fitness guy that then I then I had to uh
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say that but anyway that that's all it's gonna be said and I'm just gonna have my
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guest come out and he today's guest very special guest uh he's been on the show
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before but he has his new book out and uh
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yeah I haven't read any of his books yet but I'm going to read his books his name is Jay Rees and he's uh well
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I I haven't read met a series yet but I'm looking forward to it and uh the
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reason I haveen him come back out here come back because uh he's a very uh I've
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seen his work he's he's a great author he I don't know if he still has his
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podcast and whatnot but he's such a great author there and whatnot and he always great has great insights great
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conversation list and all around amazing person so let's welcome in out and I'll
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save my other Spiel for later if I have any so welcome J re hey J hey Jimmy yo
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you gonna make me cry with that intro man wow that was touching sweet thank
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you you're welcome and uh so before we get started can you tell us a a little
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about who you are what you do how you got started and why you got started oh well absolutely the short of
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it is is that I'm just a fun love
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vegan who writes um to spread goodness and to help hopefully motivate others to
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fulfill their dreams uh yeah my books are technically classified as young adult fantasy Adventure novels but I
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like to think of them more as Parables to just life lessons of things that are going on and yeah I'm just a guy who
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tries his best to do as much good as he possibly can without any harm to others
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that's Essen to me that's a very it's funny that's a
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very very short short way uh and a good
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thing because like you know I I had some guest who when they filled out my
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they give it like a huge big like movie introduction like or credits to I'm like
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now how do you want me to phrase this you want me to give you fireworks on the screen I I can't do this with this tool
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but oh well well Jimmy let like me and you have known each other
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for few years now and do me a favor if you ever catch me anywhere and the intro
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is five to 10 minutes long go ahead and call me out right then and there because I promise you I never want to be that
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person I always want to keep it simple happy and just I want to be of service to people and I don't think that does
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anybody of service when you're prattling off 20 million thousand accomplishments
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that nobody really cares about well that's just my personal thing uh I me I can't I'm GNA keep my
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mouth shut on that one just because uh I know many people
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but I'm not GNA name any specific names or anything because that's not what I do unless supp a company I understand what
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you're saying so um my my my first question for
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you is how I should take my second question but my second question for you
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is uh can you give us a little synopsis of your like first book uh just a broad
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one not to give any way details or anything else but just very short and
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sweet well absolutely so Legacy my first book is pictured behind me for all those
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who might be watching Legacy is a ya fantasy Adventure novel circling
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centering around zolani and Rain search for peace once they think they find it they get a knock at the door and lo and
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behold like most books there has to be some drama they get them Royal message from the King saying hey
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you need to come back and answer for everything you've done well at that point they have to figure out if they're gonna actually take their two kids and
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run or if they're actually gonna fight for the peace that they so do deserve
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and that happens to be the first chapter Jimmy that does sound that already
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caught my interest too because I'm uh before we got on here I was I was
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telling you the book about I'm reading I can't name because uh and I'm going to say the
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reason why I can't name it at the moment is because I might be getting the author on my show as
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well and if I give it away then it's gonna give away who the guest is and
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hasn't happened yet so I was like so sneak peek on that I hope you'll
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tell all fair I'll tell you all fair but uh uh but you can't tell anyone else
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just because it may or may not happen stuff is still in the works but anyway
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got it what I really like about what what I liked about her books that caught
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my attention was that I see some of the things that are
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happening in the book that happening in in real life and I was like why does this sound familiar like and I'm not
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political or anything but it is like she really right she it's like and she I
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always appreciate when an author or a writer of a TV show takes you on an
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adventure yeah and I'll give you example you may be heard of the show avatar the
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Last air bender well uh they always even though that they have like
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Po uh genocide in the series but they Don't Preach to you they you're on a
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journey and they don't feel like right they don't like preach at you it's like you're doing this wrong you're
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doing this wrong you're doing this wrong I like authors who do that and so it's like oh I'm not being talked to like I'm
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being scoll with like my par to my parents like you done this by thing blah blah
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blah yeah I thought I'm reading something to be enjoyed and entertained
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and learning some lessons along the way but not to be point fingers
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at no I I abolutely agree I've never want I personally don't
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want to talk down to anybody and I don't like it when people do it to
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me sh through story which is honestly how a lot or most of us learn anyway I
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feel we're all better for it so yeah I agree with you so my next question for you is what
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inspired you to start the
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series oh uh it was my family I used to read my daughter and kids when they were
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younger uh they are currently at the time of this recording 14 and 18 and
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they were we little tights I used to read to them all the time and the stories that we read uh they were cute
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but a lot of them didn't look like us uh they didn't hold our values and by that I mean uh the kids just got their way
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the kind of like Dopey just there just to show that they had parents in the
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story and they just they just weren't in my opinion Family Values the
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fames bicker there was arguing not to say that families don't do that but I like to think that there are worlds
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where families get along for the most part they help each other out not that they
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can't argue not that they don't disagree in my book the family does argue and they do disagree
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but I think overall that family should work together if they're healthy
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functioning and that's pretty much family so all of the drama more or less
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tends to come from outside the family versus what happens in the
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family I love that especially because uh I think everybody can relate
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to family drama I can also think that people can relate
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to maybe hardships with friends or other things and like for instance uh the book
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I were just telling you about as well is uh one of the characters in the book
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lately I've been seeing more and more this GNA sound kind of wrong but
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I'm not trying to sound in a wrong way but he's kind of I feel like he's kind
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of part of me too and I was like huh I can see and I was like this character
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kind of represent part of me and it's like because this
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character had extra challenges uh author
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disability and uh I was like wow I feel
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I was like he's been through people talking behind his backs saying bullying
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and whatnot and I was like Wow and it's like I really I like it's like and then
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these other characters that are friends with him uh that
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this uh basically one of them happens to be now his I'm not going to spoil it for
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anybody but let's just say that uh he really likes the character and the funny
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oh the thing I find intriguing is that I can see myself in many of the characters
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the main four characters in the book is I can get very hotheaded I can get down
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like this person I can be re really relaxed like this other person and I can be like a total
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genius at some other point like this other person it's like damn I was like I
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have like four characters and one in my whole body like it's like no wonder why I can't get any sleep at
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me no I I I get you uh completely yeah um being able to connect with a
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character I think makes any story that much worthwhile um I'm trying to think
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of the last time I really connected with a character from a story that I was reading uh none is coming to mind but I
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I understand what you mean uh particularly like if you're able to connect with more than one character
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yeah I like that I I can see that and you know to be honest I I've
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read a lot of books over the years but like mhm this is like the first one I've
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ever know that I can connect with their character deep down or like some of
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these other books like one of them happens to be um
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who's Alex Ryder from uh Anthony horrorist 14-year-old spy I like boy I
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wish I was a spy when I was 14 years old and he like got cool gadgets the hell
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where's my where's my spy gadgets I want my spy right yeah
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yeah so my my next question for you is being an
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author what what is uh what makes you continue to keep
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writing when you feel like when you hit a brick wall because I noticed for
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myself when when I hit a brick wall like I've been working on this secret project
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of mine and when I hit hit a brick wall it's been because of
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College work and then when I'm done with college for the semester I'm like yeah
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how do I get back into this thing it's like I try to go back into it and it's like still writing still writing and
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it's like and then somebody interrupt me like oh crap now I can't get back into it
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again oh wow yeah speaking of relating yeah I related to almost everything you just said So like um uh I I think it
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depends on what that roadblock is or what that brick wall is because my Approach might
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be different so um currently we have a lot of dogs on our property uh for
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various different reasons and those dogs bark uh people go past in the
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neighborhood things happening around us just the dogs bark and in my house I can hear them so a lot of times I'm trying
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my best to to write it's kind of hard to write when you got dogs barking all day long so there was a time where I would
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say you know what I'm just not going to write today but then I found that I wasn't getting any writing done
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so um luckily um I don't remember if I saw a video or just a thought popped
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into my head but I got myself some noising headphones that I have right
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here and I use those so that helped me
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get over that that block wall to write for that um when it comes to like
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distractions by family my family knows that I have a blocked writing time that
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uh from 4 o'clock or excuse me like 4:30 in the morning to roughly 11
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o'clock um in the morning from 4:30 to 11: that's my writing time unless it's
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an emergency or something just like the world's falling apart please let me write let me be creative let me get my
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stuff done um there was times where at first they weren't respecting those boundaries after that after quick we got
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it handled so I handled that wall um but then there are times where stuff happens where like you know I have to fix
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something in the house I can't write or just life happens because life is always gonna happen and I give myself Grace to
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understand that in a perfect world I could write all day any day if I wanted
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to but this isn't a perfect world so I have to understand that things are going to come up and even my
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own uh procrastination or my own self interference let's let's say um
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sometimes that gets in the way and like I don't feel like writing luckily I have a point now where I'm disciplined enough where I'll just go right even when I
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don't feel like it but there are times where you know I'm like you know what
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let me create let me get to a Zone to just
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relax to like a movie or do something that will help me go back and write
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later so sometimes walls are good is if that makes sense I agree uh
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for me when uh to be honest I used to write a lot on my
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website but I've been getting a lot of guest writers speak because I've been trying
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to get into a habit of writing for my own project and because of like if this
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could take some back seat a lot of pressure off my
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shoulders because like oh I be the only writer and it's like there's a lot of people who want to be guest writers and
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it's like I want to be guest writers on other websites and whatnot I don't want to just be me me me me I it's like I
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know as an entrepreneur I was like with mostly a lot of things of me but like I
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want to be me on other things and not just just hey I'm just G to be the
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writer of everything and be a podcaster on top of that because like and it's like because you know it's
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either because when I started everything it's like do I want to writer or be a podcaster he like
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let's do both and it's like yeah how do we do
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both well it's it's yeah like I I I understand it because um it's funny that
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I was actually having a similar conversation with a close friend of mine uh we both are creative and as a
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creative person you tend to like to do a lot of creative things like there usually isn't just one thing you want or
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need to do so we were discussing how do you do multiple things well um my work
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around usually is I have designated days where I do things so like uh currently
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and Thursdays are my Read days uh Wednesdays are usually
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my my paperwork office day I'm doing all the stuff that I really don't want to do like the unfund stuff like sending
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emails answering emails all that Love Stuff um website design like all the stuff
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that isn't creative for me um now my friend on the other hand he does it by
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hours like he has a set hour where he writes uh he has a set hour where he
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answers email like he can break it down like that me that's too much change for me I need
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like when I'm focused I need to focus um so like you uh for me to maintain my
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website that has to be a whole day for me to do I don't do anything else I do the website then there's another day
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where I just write and work on that um I do know there are people there are some
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very famous uh ERS out there who have ghost fighers and I'm not hating on
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anyone who does anything like that um and what they do is they I guess they're
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so high up in their career where they're just busy doing everything that they do they'll have an idea they'll send that
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idea off to a ghost riter that ghost riter will write the first one two
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drafts of that idea send it back to that author and their team and then that author will take it
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from there and yo if that's what somebody wants to do to get stuff done I
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don't necessarily see a problem with that because I think anybody who trying to be
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successful you have to learn what you're good at and what you're not good at and if you're getting bogged down in all the
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things that you're not good at you're never going to get the time to do what you're good at and then everybody
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suffers you're not going to be a service to anybody so as soon as you're able to
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for lack of better words pass off not good at to other people who are good at it it's going to be that much harder for
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you s to succeed um now a lot of the things that I like to do that I'm not
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really good at I like to do them so I keep doing um but maybe one point I'll pass things off I don't know we'll
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see I'm kind of like like right there with you as well uh I've cut
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down I hav say cut down on everything I spread some stuff out throughout the month because I used to have uh as a
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creative person as well I decided there's like there's some tasks that I
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did like seven days a week and like why I was like is this even serving me
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anymore because like I took a look at my content schedule I was like right I'm only posting my an article once a month
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I'm buing up a a podcast once a
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month why am I doing this one test seven six five or seven days a week and like
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that doesn't make any sense to me like it's like and I can post my podcast on the platform on there one platform it's
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only for articles and like okay let's do it once a month on the first of the
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month and then I I spread it out um other things like for me my admin test
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my admin uh Day stuff is all on Mondays just because something always I don't say
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always but most times when something breaks it happens over the weekend and
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it's like do I want to tackle that okay before the weekend on Friday and I tried
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that for a little bit it's like yeah let's go in the weekend very annoyed I like that's a great that's a great way
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to experience the weekend I like let's do that on Monday and like because it's like I mean it's not great way to start
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the week either but I'm like thinking it's like it's either going have to be Friday or Monday and like I picked
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Monday because I knew Monday was not going to be an interviewing day for me and so it's like Friday's my interviews
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day okay don't want to do it and so I had to just scrap it yeah and so I I
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like the rent I've done because there's some days are like really busy where I'm
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marketing boom boom boom boom and then there's other days like one day I had like
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32 task in my digital digital to-do list and then the next day is like 17 this
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week has been like 12 13 14 so it's kind of like more
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e than they spread out so it's like if I had to pick four days out of the whole month to be very very busy it's like
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I'll take those odds I'll take those [Music]
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numbers no I I agree with you um and I'm glad you were able to assess what you
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needed and what you were doing because that helped you alleviate or I shouldn't
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say alleviate but that helps you change the structure of everything you were doing to be able to get more done um I
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know in the intro you were mentioning the podcast that I was doing uh about a year or so ago um I had to make a
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decision to pull the plug on that because it was taking me away from other endeavors that I thought were serving me
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and serving of the community that I work with and I found a a short workaround um
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a friend of mine me and her we go live every Friday on Tik Tok uh we're taking a short Hiatus right now just because
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it's summertime but every Friday on Tik Tok is where we go live just to answer
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author questions to spread motivation have fun that whole kind of thing and that was my workaround um I don't feel
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the pressure that I was pre having from the podcast which I'm sure you can understand that completely I don't
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really have to worry about marketing as much so there were just ways that I could just get around that um I'm sure
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I'll go back to podcasting at some point it's just for that time period for That season I kind of had to let it go but I
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had to re-evaluate my situation to make that decision just like how you did with
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yours yeah right at the moment I've uh from my for my podcast I
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have I've been I hav't say this as cheating because some people some of my friends
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joke with me like oh that's cheating it's like oh please it's like I and it's like I could I don't know how to cheat
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if I could um I'll give you a quick example on that
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anytime when I got video games growing up my it was
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either my brother or my cousins who got the Cheo on and like yeah I used them
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but it's not like I came I mean they left it on the desk
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in the basement I was like this and I was like I got so I admit on that stuff when I
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was younger but it was never me it's like I'm gonna Google how to do this or how to do that that wasn't me right so
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so what I was gonna say on how to relate it to the podcast
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was uh over the years I bought some uh
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marketing tools just to help me to spread out my content and carate some
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content uh that I find interesting from other Publishers that I wouldn't
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necessarily come across just on my daily Google searches and I was like this is
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not cheating this is me working smarter not working smarter not harder and some
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of my friends absolutely absolutely posting at 3 o'clock in the morning and it's like I scheduled that out and it's
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like that's cheating it's like you think anybody like you think celebrities
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automatically are doing this here and there by themselves it's like no like do
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you think other marketers are manually across their platforms
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no I like why like right I can do it like is it can do it why can I do it
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it's like I'm only one person and it's like they have unlimited funds I do not
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yeah there's nothing wrong with having a tool that helps make your life easier uh don't get me wrong like yeah there are
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certain advantages people have just by their economic economic status or uh
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their gender race whatever but when you have literal tools that just help your
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life be easier yeah there's nothing wrong with that like um almost every social media app now has some type of
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scheduling uh filter in it where you can schedule your post a lot of people do that um I know there are celebrities
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influential people who hiring so who hire social media managers so all they have to do is give the content to that
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manager that manager will edit it make it look all pretty and post it where it
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needs to post how need post with all the Caps so is that cheating I
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mean we debate that all day but a tool is a
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tool accessible to you or you don't want to use it but school's a tool I don't see anything wrong with scheduling post
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yeah exactly of all the things that could happen oh sorry go ahead yeah I was just
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gonna say exactly it's like you know it's like it's one thing if this like to was like totally off limits to the world
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and I like but it's like I purchased it with my own money it's like it wasn't like I went down the dark web just to
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get it it's like it was on appsumo and it's like appsumo is up to everyone it's like I just happen to like
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huh right you know what I'm tired of paying a subscription for this I'll go get the lifetime version and like this
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company still had those subscription but they were giving lifetime deals for a
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certain amount of price and I was like okay I'm not made of money but if this saves me time from posting to One
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Network to One Network to another Network it's it's like yeah I'm
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in well that's that's the thing um again this is a conversation I had with a
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family member a long time ago um because the house I was staying at at that time
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I had um I had um a m a lawn maintenance servants come and take care of my
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lawn and my friend or family me at the time like oh why don't you just do that yourself your's not that big and I just
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looked at I'm like it's it's about the time like if I do my yard it'll take me hour and a half two hours they come and
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do it I don't have to worry about it well yeah you got to pay them to do it well yeah because I value my time and my
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time for me is money that time that me cutting the grass I could have been
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writing another chapter I could have been marketing there's so many other things I could have been doing outside
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of my lawn care and my family member just wasn't understanding it they were
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like oh my well I just like just do it like you could save that money yes I could but I'm making more money by doing
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what I can be doing instead of cutting the grass if I enjoyed cutting grass and that brought me peace and helped me like
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be creative sure but it does nothing but add stress to my life so why not me pay
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someone to do it for me you know and I think that's kind of the same vein of like yeah if you bought a system that
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helps you um send your things out schedule your
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post and saves you time you can go out and do anything else and you don't have to remember oh my God I got to send this
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out at five o'clock on Friday this PO on two o'clock on
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Wednesday get rid of that headache you can have more capacity to think about
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all the things you really need to do again I think that's I think that's the win right there exactly I don't think
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your friend was knowing exactly respectfully I think of it just like he
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always teases me and everything but I was like really it's like it's like geez
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it's like it's like this is cheating it's like well fine by me I'll cheat
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them it's like like me cheating for me cheating in my definition is like
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somebody buying a bu of followers off of off of some scamming website and whatnot
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yeah yeah definely cheating I'm not doing that it's like I
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I like I'm not gonna go spend my money on that because I know that that's going to be full of bots and fake accounts and
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like yeah that doesn't sound like at all wink
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wink yeah yeah right um trust me like I used to work with oh I had a partner who
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me and her were collaborating on videos and she wanted to do that she wanted to
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like boost the engagement to buy followers and a whole bunch of other stuff and this is like when it was new
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so no one really knew what was going on you just knew like oh how did they get so many follow followers that quick they
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must have had a video that popped off and I kep asking her about it because I I didn't really know I just figured it
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was just F I figured the algorithm would show it to people who fit our
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demographic but like you're saying Jimmy no it goes to fake accounts Bots all these other things and then it actually
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ends up hurting you in the long run because on you stop paying or once
32:54
um meet so much I for like your your engagement just drops
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down and then your videos just die because it has nowhere to go because all that um inflated engagement does nothing
33:09
for you except for just to show people the numbers so I don't I agree with that so my next
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question for you is how did how did you come up with the
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name of the book did you always have the name in your head you were starting it
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and if not how did you come up with that
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name well honestly uh Le for the first book Legacy um the name just came to me
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one day while I was thinking about it um the first story was about a
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um was about about I was trying to think um a
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j and it was a very sad story to say the least um I let my daughter
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read it and she came back to me she's like Daddy this sucks thank you for the feedback I
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appreciate thank you for your honesty I appreciate that um so I had to retool everything and rewrite and figure some
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things out and where I wanted the story to go and I was trying to think of what do I want this story to hold what would
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the title be what's in the story and the time that I thought about the name
34:28
the story wasn't even finished yet but I kept coming back what do I want to leave my kids what do I want the world to know
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what is this and all I kept thinking about was like this is my legacy this is going to be my first book this is just
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what I leave to the world it's a legacy for all to see and for some reason as I was thinking I just kept coming back to
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the word legacy so I was like so Legacy yo yeah Legacy a Scion book
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series and then like the Sion a lot a lot of people don't know s on air to the
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throne references some things that happens in the book so I figured all
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meshed together so for the second book uh the Forgotten um The Forgotten of Gods and
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Men that title um this actually came when I finished the book and I was
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thinking about everything that happened in the book the story that uh I was telling and
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I wanted Legacy to still be in the title because they they go together it's like the
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series and I kept thinking about what goes on the story that I was telling
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and the story itself has a lot to do
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about the people within the world that we've forgotten about whether the gods
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the men the women the children so I was like you know what yeah that fits the Forgotten Legacy of God's in a cion book
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series and that's how we got the second title that's Cy uh I like books with
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catching names in it uh I know they say don't judge a book by its cover but uh I
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always feel like I'm always like I think what caught me like just to
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give as an example uh of the series reading each of
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the uh books had a cover of the main of each of the four characters in the book
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and I was like H I've never seen this before I mean there are someone like
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Alex Ryder books and whatnot but some of them like might be like not his exact
36:49
face but you like see his like silhouette or something but I was like
36:55
what does this character look like and it's like wow this I mean again not like
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thinking about like what they actually look like but just like I never seen this on a book before I mean to actually
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see the main characters because they always describe like in the book like this person has his black hair or
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whatnot and it's like and to see that on a cover firsthand I'm like this is interesting and and so it cut my and
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like anything with magic in it kind of just kind of like okay I'm already hooked and it's like I wish magic
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existed today like if I need to clean my bath and just snap my fingers and everything just clean like all
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down yeah yeah yeah magic would be nice
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be um but yeah I I no I agree with you um there's
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something about a cover uh I tend to be a book Dragon myself so I judge books by
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covers I cannot lie to you um a a cover will draw me over to a book every single
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time and I judge it like if a book has a in my opinion a bad number it's very
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rare that I'll pick it up and look at the back to read to see the synopsis U if the cover is really well done and it
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fits what I feel like I'm in the mood to read yeah I judge a book by his cover I
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really do and I think a lot of people do whether they ad ADM it or not and to be honest I I mean I don't
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like do it every day in the real world or anything it just like if I'm G to
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spend my time reading something I want to be fun adventurous entertain or
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something like if it's an howto book I want to learn something out of the book and whatnot I don't want just like I'm
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gonna teach you how to do this and then I with the whole thing is like well what the hell was I should supposed to take
38:59
away from this no I I agree um I have a
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rule that it took me a while to impose so if I pick up a book and start reading
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it and by the third chapter if I'm not learning entertained or
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happy I I sto reading I I might come back to it later um maybe a few years years but I
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just figured that maybe I'm not ready for that book yet and then I don't give it a rating but that's my personal thing
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um I just feel like life is too short there's too many books out there
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and there's too many too many things to do I like like you said I want to enjoy what I'm reading I want to make sure I'm
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learning something and if I don't feel like I'm getting that within again three
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chapters yeah I'll put it down for quite a while I'll come back to it at some point but chances are it'll be a long
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time well that bring that brings me to my next point it's like there's only two
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books maybe I I've ever given like a really bad review on and I'm not gonna say the other one
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but and this is kind of maybe a little bit controversial for some
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people but uh okay uh I'm not I was a
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fan of The Lord of the Rings movies and I know they were a little bit long but at least there were some
40:34
entertaining spots got to see battles but yeah where I got annoy with
40:42
talking uh and I know he's long gone but where I got find where I got annoyed was
40:48
that there was a few I think there was like a whole chapter he would just describing a blade of grass I'm like are
40:57
you kidding me I was like I get it it's like in this area I mean it's impressive
41:05
that he he up with this whole realm but I was like it's grass if I
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want to uh see grass I'll go outside and study the the grass myself but I'm not
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really caring at the moment so so Jimmy I'm laughing about
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this because of all the authors you could have picked for all the books you
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could have picked you had to pick Lord of the Rings and tolken and the reason why I say that is because so again um my
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partner in crime Rosy we talk about this all the time because she knows that I am
41:44
a token hater I hate token I have no problem saying that y'all can hate me you can judge me all you're like I hate
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I despise toen um don't get wrong the movies I I like the movies I enjoy them they're entertaining but the book
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no I do not but here's the thing I do have an understanding of anytime a book
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is written it is nice to be able to take into consideration what else is going on
42:13
so when tolken wrote his books or his series there wasn't
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television there uh like there was no internet so he was describing things
42:27
that people had never seen before never heard of before and yeah people had heard of grass but they didn't a lot of
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people that read his books were like in cities they might not know what grass
42:39
looks like um most people who live in cities have concrete around them everywhere they've heard of grass and
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yeah if they go to a park they can kind of see grass but a field a meadow like
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token describes no they wouldn't know what that is or like I think there's one part where he described a tree for like
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27 Pages I'm like bro who hasn't seen a tree but there are there there have been
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people who haven't seen a tree like a real tree so at his time when he wrote
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all that stuff yes it was very important that he described almost everything to nauseum
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and I respect that I get that however nowadays that's not necessary so like so
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like for me instance like I'm an author and I write in my books I
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have mentioned trees but I don't go on three pages
43:37
about um I know in my first book there is a forest the lightning Force I
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describe how the trees look in the lightning Force because my understanding that lightning trees are not a real
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thing so I had to describe that but there are other trees I talk about that someone's leaning against a tree I
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didn't have to describe that because most most of us have seen trees before in this generation like in this time
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frame so token yeah personally I'm not a fan of token because like you Jimmy he
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goes on forever describing stuff however I do understand that in the time that he
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wrote those books there was a need for it those people a lot of those people that read
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his stuff didn't understand or didn't know what those things look like in his
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defense but yeah I don't ret token anymore I tried several times and I'm
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gone I don't ret token to be honest uh now that you gave
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it to me like that I kind of see I kind of understand that too now but I just
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think like I said I could get into it my my brother
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liked it my mom loved it yeah uh and I yeah and I get to the point that uh
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stuff needs to be there a little bit like for instance like but one thing I
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liked about what JK Rawling did not saying about her recent comments or
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anything because I I I I can disagree about that all day long I I don't really
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have an opinion about that but but my point is when I before any of that other
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stuff came out so this was like 2007 and whatnot
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we uh I was able to okay uh reading all the Harry Potter books I
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was what got me intrigued with that was that she described something but she
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didn't go in too much in depth but just enough so he was like I feel like I'm in
45:44
that room and so but not to where you're like I don't like the saying but to be a
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dead horse or whatnot and I just like okay I got it I understand it's like the
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project I'm working on I'm making sure like is this too much being a dead horse and I was
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like I don't think so I might I admit that maybe there's some parts in here and there I maybe expand a little bit
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but I like I'll let someone else look at it before and before I do anything with
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it I'm just getting my words down on paper I just don't want to uh yeah make
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any ctions at the moment because like if I take away it's easier to take away
46:32
than it's to add um yeah yeah a lot of times it really is
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um me personally like you I try my best not to overe
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explain things while I write um but I
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like to say that's what my editors are for because if they read it and they're like hey this makes no sense I don't
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know you're talking about here then I'm like okay I need to add more I need to be more descriptive uh because again
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like I want to give people where their imagination can take over and build
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whatever else needs to be built for them because we're all different we all want to see various different things uh case
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in point um in the second book I let a lot of Arc
47:20
readers get to it and several well no one of them particularly was like hey
47:28
what race is this person and I I just reply back I don't
47:35
know and they're like well how do you not know you wrote it and I just simply
47:41
responded with no I I know what I feel that person is however that person's
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race wasn't important to the story so you can picture that person whatever
47:54
race you want them to be but as far as as I'm concerned it their race was not
47:59
important now there are some other characters in the book whose race is
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important to their character so yes they are described as that race would be
48:10
described but for the most part if this is a background person or a person whose
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race is not important like it it holds no merit to their character then there's
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there's no reason for me to describe them at least in my opinion I agree that I agree
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with that to extent too because like uh the book I shall not name uh they uh
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author I mean I mean this sounds like the uh Lord Voldemort again like the wizard
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who not must not be named but anyway the U uh this author
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she there's some race in the book but it's very slight
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where it's like I want you to see beyond the person be Beyond this I want you see
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hey there's friendship amongst everybody there's this and that I I just it's come
49:12
together like I I had to say it's been
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like I have many favorite authors
49:23
and and even though I I love like a a lot of the authors I I had on the show
49:30
but then but even just more to the point of the authors um I just read for for
49:37
fun and everything else the I haven't read the book like this since like Harry
49:44
Potter where there's some nights that I'm was up until like 11 o'clock and
49:49
some people's like yeah and there's times where my parents when I was reading Harry Potter
49:55
to uh late at night it's like well at least you weren't watching TV I was like
50:01
that's true and it's like and so even though I'm TI like the next day I'm like
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huh I was like I just read my book and like I want to know what happens like I
50:11
was there's one point where I was like worried that that these main characters
50:16
were gonna uh have something bad happen to them and I was like I got to know what happens and and every time when I'm
50:23
like about to find out what happens I had to like leave for karate think I do this I did do this like damn it I just
50:29
want to know this freaking and like I can't put it
50:34
down yeah that that is the sign of a really good book or when you're really
50:40
interested in the book when you feel like you just can't um there's a few books that I've read recently like that
50:48
um however there is one book that I've been trying to read and it's about to get dnf did not finish um because
50:56
because it's about witches werewolves and vampires and the main character
51:03
doesn't know that she's a witch she finds out uh through the death of family
51:08
and I'm not spoiling anything it's like on the back of the book when you read it um so um the
51:15
first I don't know two and a half three chapters it's just her talking about her
51:21
situation like she doesn't know what's going on and it's very very boring and and like I said earlier after three
51:29
chapters I put it down I might come back to it later but I put it down so I'm
51:34
intrigued enough because um there things have happened in the
51:39
book where I'm like okay I want to see where this goes but you got to give me some more You Gotta Give me some more so
51:45
chances are I might give this one a fourth chapter but chances are I think
51:50
I'm really going to like sit it to my to the side and come back to it later just because it's such a slow burn to begin
51:57
with and I'm not a fan of Slow Burn books well unless they're romances that that that tends to be a little different
52:03
but action books or action books fantasy books or um just fun books yeah I don't
52:10
need those to be slow I want my action like bam bam bam bam bam yeah pretty
52:16
much like maybe like the third or fourth page in this of the series I mean
52:25
uh it literally just became like super interesting it's like oh this is this
52:30
big monster like what is this thing it's like I need to know what else and then
52:36
like all sudden like from the fourth book just like from the fifth into the
52:42
fifth book they it was just like a continuation it wasn't just like hey
52:48
here's a recap of everything it was just like here you are there like a new TV episode it's like what's happening and
52:56
of course when I found this author she has like 50 other plus books and like yeah I guess I know who I'm going to be
53:02
stuck for a while that's the best thing too is like
53:07
when you're able to find an author who has like a a plethora of a black log
53:12
like they just have so many books and it's like that's great I'm gonna be with you for quite a while I I appreciate
53:19
that too and uh no offense to anybody out there uh who are James Patterson fan
53:26
I like him but there's a point where it just like a lot of his a lot of his
53:33
detective books are just like solved solved solved where one my uh
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author that I met on Twitter my very first few of my first like 10 Twitter
53:47
followers he followed me on years ago when I first start sorry now X oh wow
53:53
that's cool yeah funny thing is I don't think I'll ever call it
53:59
that are you sure I thought it was a really great name oh
54:05
crap was making um uh this guy this guy uh what I really
54:12
liked him uh I called him like the young James parison because like even though
54:18
when you think something is solv he leaves you on a cliffhanger for
54:24
the next one I'm like I didn't see that coming like was like oh I like I wish
54:30
sometimes jange P did this it's like it's not that I'm like bashing James Patterson because I've read a lot of
54:36
James Patterson books especially all time in high school I was always in the library reading his books and I I was
54:44
just like yeah I was like you know sometimes you just want more and not
54:49
just like it's like the show Bones where it is after there a while instead of
54:54
having a continuation or uh something that they can't solve
54:59
yet it's like you can't just solve solve solve solve everything is just perfect
55:05
and like in what world can you solve this case in
55:10
like in 300 Pages well no I I know exactly what you
55:18
what you mean um because like you I like if there is if you do solve it I need it
55:25
to be so many twists and turns inside that I feel the solve is Justified um
55:31
when it comes to James Patterson I feel like he's in a hole right now because he
55:38
every series he comes up with like you said it's usually solved by the end of the novel and that's what his fan base
55:45
look for that's what they like so for him to put out a book where the ending isn't solved I don't know if his fan base
55:53
would tolerate that and I think that's the hard part when you write series or when you're an author who's
55:59
known for something uh look at uh what is it RR Martin he has himself in a hole right
56:06
now for various different reasons but uh one of the things that his readers love about his books is that
56:13
like he's able to take particularly European history and
56:19
twist it to fit this world of Game of Thrones uh and his last book which is
56:26
taking quite a while um is another hole that he's had like I feel like there's
56:32
so much pressure on him right now I don't know if we'll ever get to see that last finished book which also is another
56:38
reason why a lot of people won't start a series like if they know your book is a series they won't touch it I've had many
56:44
people come to me or not come to me but like I could be talking to a new
56:49
reader and one of their first questions is oh is this a series yes it is oh when
56:55
you finish the series I'll be more than happy to pick it up I don't finish it until I know the series is complete and
57:01
that's that's right for them to do because they want to make sure they're going to get the payoff that they deserve because if they go through with
57:08
this whole series and if they're left on a cliffhanger like's say like so right
57:14
now I have book one and I have book two published heaven forbid if something
57:20
where to happen to me and book three doesn't come out there are going to be people out there who are wondering
57:25
what's going to be happening in book three that won't know and I get it I mean I hope they still pick up the books
57:31
anyway but I get it they just know that the books aren't going to be done but
57:36
again RR Martin there's people out there waiting W that book but it's gonna take
57:42
a while but James Patterson he ties everything up in a nice little bow and that's what his readers like so yeah I
57:50
think I mean and they're get me wrong I like his books too and because like I uh
57:56
posted on social media with a few of his books and so not I'm not bashing him
58:02
whatsoever it's just that he's because it do sound like
58:10
you yeah and it's like and there's like because like there's times where like if
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I'm in between books like or series I might go pick up a another James PM book
58:23
digitally from my uh library and what not it's like it's like it's a it's a good filler into
58:31
like he he does have this one series um at least I think it's a Ser I
58:39
mean it's called NPD red and there like up to like book Seven now and I haven't
58:46
read like I think I read six or seven yet uh I forget where I stopped at but
58:52
at least I keep track of my books that in the book reading up so I can go back to see which ones I finished but uh
59:01
there's some I think sometimes there's like a little bit continuation or
59:06
something new happens at least in with the family in the book of this
59:12
detective and so it's it just like it
59:18
sometimes I like that stuff is tied up into a bow but then there's sometimes it just like I I want I want some twists and
59:26
turns and not just like oh there's four bodies in the book and it's like I know this is a detective book but
59:34
it's like what what I really like about um the author I had on my show Luke
59:41
Murphy yeah he he leads you with them like he he he doesn't tell you exactly
59:48
what happened until like you the end is like when the like one of the characters
59:54
go to sleep at night and he he remembers in this head of what the one of the the
1:00:01
one of the person's body that died right before his eyes said to him and then that's where how he ends it it's
1:00:08
like I'm not saying exactly how it exactly how it ends but it's like
1:00:14
right not telling you the wordage of it but I was like huh it's like and then
1:00:19
he's like I want to know what happens I like you I was like you end it there I was like how dare you uh
1:00:26
but yeah I like authors just like twist turns it's like keep me up your night
1:00:31
please I mean I need my sleep too it's it's no it's funny that you mentioned
1:00:38
that because um there's been a few other projects that I've been I've written on
1:00:43
and I've helped other authors and we'll end it on a cliffhanger and the loving hate mail
1:00:51
that we'll get like how dare you end it this way how could you when's the next book come
1:00:59
out so like people like it like they say they don't but they really do they really do like it like
1:01:07
so you should write back to them and like I'm getting mix singles
1:01:13
[Laughter] here no a lot of times I just simply
1:01:18
write back oh I'm U I'm sorry you feel that way but um you know for the story
1:01:24
we were telling we felt that was the best resolution at the time or something to that effect that's usually how we
1:01:30
respond or I will respond makes sense uh so my NE myh next
1:01:38
uh questions are uh how many books do you
1:01:44
see in the series just as like a rough estimate
1:01:51
or wow I can't give that I can't give that away Jimmy that's that's like a secret I can't that
1:02:01
man I can't tell you what the plan is for the book uh no I don't mind I don't
1:02:06
mind telling you um so I honestly I planned nine total but here's the thing
1:02:15
so each three books will be its own story so I have one there's two and then
1:02:25
the third one hopefully will be out by next year um those will all be one story or
1:02:32
one continue story and then my characters will age there'll be a time
1:02:39
Jump and then we'll move into the next set of challenges that goes on for these
1:02:45
characters within the next three books and then there'll be another time
1:02:51
Jump and continue on I can see that right now there's nine that's what I'm
1:02:56
planning I mean that might to less might go higher but right now nine is where I'm
1:03:02
going I can I kind of dict that at the moment because
1:03:08
uh there's some TV shows I've seen uh Tom jump and uh but but I mean they
1:03:15
don't do it like in like a necessary like a bad way or wrong way it's like
1:03:22
okay there's a there's some different like differences but like as long as you can tell me a great story wrap it up and
1:03:32
um like for instance uh you probably heard of the show stranger things uh yeah on Netflix well there's a
1:03:41
point to me where like so far it's been it first came out
1:03:47
2016 and the they saying that the last one's going to be wrapped up by like end
1:03:54
of 2025 give her to and I'm like it took you
1:03:59
that long to do this and it's like no wonder why people are just
1:04:05
tired well well they had the first problem of being on Netflix because Netflix is notorious for taking so long
1:04:13
to bring a new season um or bringing the next season of a series in and by by time they dropped
1:04:21
the season most of us have forgotten what happened um even like right now like like you I watch stranger
1:04:29
things there are a few things that I remember but overall story I don't
1:04:35
remember um there's been a couple other shows that I remember really really liking and for life of me I know what
1:04:42
season two or the next season is coming out I don't remember the last season I remember enjoying it but I'm like what
1:04:49
happened here what was this character's name I don't like um I'm trying to think
1:04:54
uh would be a good ex oh um there's an animated series that I was watching with
1:04:59
my kids called the dragon Prince it was a very good show um but they were taking so long with each season I right but
1:05:07
they were taking so long with each season we would have to go back and rewatch the whole thing to remember
1:05:12
everything that happened for the last season and I don't think anybody really
1:05:17
has time for that so you know well one thing I've uh uh do realize like
1:05:27
um one thing I had to say though uh not a CRI criticizm criticism of uh of
1:05:34
stranger things but if if the Harry Potter movies that like two and a half
1:05:40
hours long or two hours long however yeah long each movie is because I think
1:05:46
each movie became a little bit longer towards the end uh if you can all do it
1:05:51
between like a year to a year and a half and that's a fullblown movie this is a
1:05:58
TV show and it's like it consists of Eight Episodes and like you're probably
1:06:06
familiar with coper Kai on Netflix too well at least one thing that they're
1:06:11
doing yeah I haven't watched it but I've heard of it well well what they're doing for the last season is that
1:06:18
they're putting it out like five episodes five episodes five episodes and five episodes because it going to be 15
1:06:25
toal episodes and some people say oh why don't you just give it to us all at once
1:06:31
and I have to say well you know maybe this is GNA work for this last season
1:06:36
because you people want to see something because the way that they're going it could have been all the way where
1:06:42
stranger things is G until the end of 2025
1:06:48
yeah well so it's it's challenging so I have a
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acting background so I have knowledge on the industry not because like I know
1:07:01
people but because U so like when TV shows used to get made I don't know how much you know Jimmy I don't know how much the audience knows so like season
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used season used to be 22 Episodes right everybody remembers the new shows would
1:07:13
come on they would start in the fall they would get green lit for like one
1:07:18
episode like a Pilots or two episodes three episodes maybe at the most they
1:07:24
would see how the show tested on this first few openings if it did really well
1:07:30
it would get uh green lit for um for another 13 maybe 14 episodes to last
1:07:37
till Christmas they would come out once a week and then they would see where they are at Christmas and if they were
1:07:42
really good they'd come back if they weren't so good they wouldn't come back um but also if a show was really good
1:07:50
like say it was already on for like I don't know two maybe three seasons
1:07:56
and the first season didn't do as well as expected they wouldn't cancel it but
1:08:02
what they would do is they would retweet the show they would either write in new storylines or they would just completely
1:08:08
change older ones so then for the next season you might have a GI different
1:08:13
tone and that was the 22 season or the 22 episode for the seasons right so now
1:08:19
with the model of what a lot of streaming services are doing they've gone to an eight episode model which in
1:08:26
my opinion is very horrible because that is barely enough episodes to tell a
1:08:31
great cohesive story for uh streaming but there is no testing the
1:08:38
audience anymore it's them filming whatever and then they drop it on a streaming services like Netflix they
1:08:45
usually drop it all in one day now Disney plus and a few other streaming services like Amazon they have they they
1:08:52
still do the days of dropping it once a week because they know that creates the buzz that that helps the show last
1:09:00
longer the longevity because people are talking about it Netflix is like yo we're just gonna
1:09:06
drop Kai and I think there might have been a few other series that they dropped their episodes a little bit by
1:09:13
little because again they're trying to test that water so I don't know if Cobra Kai is going to do re-shoot or tailor
1:09:20
things differently because they're spacing all those episodes out or if it's just a simple fact of they want to
1:09:26
keep the longevity of the conversation of Cai because it is a very popular show I'm not sure what all that stuff is but
1:09:34
I have a feeling that Netflix is changing a lot of their policies and it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of their
1:09:41
shows stop dropping all at once if they start doing either a weekly thing or uh
1:09:48
kind of like how they did with Bridgerton or um there was a show they did a while ago that they dropped half
1:09:54
of it in the beginning of the year and then they dropped the other half a few months
1:10:00
later um it's all a preference me personally I like shows that come out once a week
1:10:06
like one episode a week maybe because that's what I grew up with but I feel like there's something to long for
1:10:12
there's something to wait for versus having to b or not having to but instead of binging it all at once but you know
1:10:19
mean I'm more of a old school person I'm kind of a little bit both if that makes sense Jimmy
1:10:26
I'm kind of mixed of both it it depends like if I if the sh if the uh if the
1:10:33
podcast it I mean if the show rolls it out once a week or every
1:10:41
couple or five here here here and there I'm fine with that uh sometimes I like
1:10:48
to bench it but it depends on like what the show is like if it's like behind the
1:10:55
whole season like let's say for NCIS fans let's say for instance like okay
1:11:03
you don't have cable you can't watch all the new episodes well if you're behind the season then drop it all at once
1:11:09
because you know you you you're watching on streaming and it is
1:11:15
all old episodes It's not like hey this is new where it's because it's still on
1:11:20
cable television holy crap C still exist yeah
1:11:27
yeah it hasn't gone away just yet which um a lot of the streaming services are doing bundles now so it won't be long
1:11:32
before we're doing some form of cable anyway um so we'll
1:11:37
see so exactly exactly so my last my last few questions
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for you are who who's your favorite author and why
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um I feel like this answer always changes because I'm always finding new
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Authors um I started reading late um not because I couldn't read it's just to be
1:12:09
honest I didn't like to read when I was a kid like um and I think that's because used to have to read a lot of
1:12:15
old and like like you know like when you're in school they make you read all these books that are educational and
1:12:22
Classics but you can't to them or the English in it isn't what you how we
1:12:28
speak now so like I just wasn't comprehending a lot of those books so I got into reading later in life and now I
1:12:36
love reading I mean I don't read I love reading um so I'm always
1:12:42
finding new books and new Authors to read but currently right
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now I would say my favorite author would
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be Josh Joshua medf uh he is a
1:13:01
um I don't know if you'd called his book self-help but they usually tend to be in the self-help section um just because
1:13:09
like uh like I was saying earlier about my books his books tend to be Parables so he'll tell a story uh he has a book
1:13:19
called uh pound the stone which is about this kid who has anger issues and he
1:13:26
loves basketball so he gets kicked off the team and on the way he get back on the team if he's go through if he goes
1:13:33
through this program that tees him all these different life lessons but he has to get a sponsor so he ends up getting a
1:13:40
sponsor and he ends up going through these different life lessons perfect book well I shouldn't
1:13:45
say it's a perfect book I don't think anything's perfect but it's a great book I love it because inside the book you
1:13:50
get to witness all these sto or all these stories like all these instances of he goes through and it helps you
1:13:57
understand like oh maybe I should think this way oh I can see that uh that in fact he has another book
1:14:03
called shine in the dark which is all about doing the work that we all should
1:14:08
be doing when there's nobody else around so we've said it multiple times on
1:14:14
this episode I have two books out right I'm
1:14:19
currently writing my next books I'm in this office
1:14:26
anywhere from 40 to 60 hours a week doing
1:14:31
everything I need to do to get my books ready no one seen me do this stuff I
1:14:37
mean yeah my family comes here every so often but they don't see what I do not all the time so I have to constantly put
1:14:44
out this do this work while there's nobody around and in that book there is
1:14:49
a character or yeah there is a boy who is learning how to um tight tight rope
1:14:57
walk um because of his grandfather and he's having to learn how to do all this
1:15:03
work and how to do it while there's nobody around and he's the kind of kid who
1:15:09
likes the attention so it's it it is just a very uh good book and he has some
1:15:15
other books too that are in the similar vein of just him he tells you a story
1:15:20
but there's all these different life lessons while you read it like um I feel like his most famous book is chopwood
1:15:27
carry water which is about this individual who wants to be a samurai
1:15:33
Archer I didn't know that was a thing but it is so he wants to be a samurai Archer so he has to go and be with all
1:15:42
these uh mentors and gurus and he's trying to learn how to be an Archer but
1:15:48
they're teaching him all these life lessons as well where he literally has to chop wood and carry water and do all
1:15:54
these different other things so um I just love what he does I love the way he
1:15:59
writes phenomenal uh individual I've talked to him online through email a couple times and he's just a really good
1:16:05
guy and yeah so he's my favorite author right now and that's why I say
1:16:14
uh I have to say current my favorite current author right now is the one I'm
1:16:19
reading at the moment which I can't say it might be a CH word
1:16:26
uh it's like it's like saying Bloody Mary into the mirror three times holy
1:16:32
crap I'm kidding let's not do that but uh yeah
1:16:40
uh one thing I was gonna piggyback off of there real quick is H okay I like
1:16:47
what you said that um that yeah I like what you said that
1:16:54
that there's many uh there are a lot of authors that about
1:17:00
about I didn't like reading as a kid either there okay let just say my school
1:17:07
district made me read some stuff that I wouldn't say was age appropriate
1:17:13
for uh okay maybe a little bit age appropriate but but but there was like
1:17:20
some instances where like I was in special education growing up
1:17:25
and they were making me read something much lower than my reading level and
1:17:31
that's and so so basically while everyone else was reading a book like
1:17:38
this like a like a pamphlet I'm in seventh grade my my special education
1:17:45
teacher challenged me and say Jimmy you should read something that is
1:17:51
more of your at you're reading level if you don't understand something come to me
1:17:58
come to your mom I think Google was around back then uh I mean I didn't have
1:18:03
my first cell phone back then at the moment or I mean smartphones didn't exist back then gee I feel like I'm old
1:18:14
uh but but basically uh she helped me got into liking reading because she's
1:18:21
like she she basically said who what the school district is making us read and
1:18:27
it's like go challenge yourself to read this or whatever book you want to read
1:18:33
and so I chose Harry Potter because you know I I will joke with my mom because
1:18:39
she's like I could get into those books or the movies it's like how are we related I was like how dare
1:18:48
you with you what the hell is wrong with you
1:18:54
I always have on T when they're on TV in the summer I'm like how can you not like
1:19:01
har Potter like I just thought they were overhyped
1:19:06
yeah overhyped and so when when she stopped
1:19:11
reading me those books um she couldn't get into them I like I'm gonna take it upon myself and read it and I admit that
1:19:19
there was a lot of things that were from the movies from the books uh but right
1:19:25
yeah but I was like well do I want to see a five hour movie or do I want to
1:19:30
see a two and a half hour movie because when you just drags something like d it
1:19:36
I can't do it um yeah but honestly my I would say my favorite author is the
1:19:43
current one I'm reading and I just think and this one of the book that I I
1:19:49
agree with you that the old literature from uh that they had us reading skulls
1:19:55
were not my favorite I'm not going to get into one of the names because it will just bring up nightmares for me
1:20:01
right it had this very graphic scene and I don't mean like battle scene because
1:20:07
because because I I I know like oh this is make believe
1:20:15
or this is just part of my imagination but this got like so I just say not even
1:20:22
graphic like like SE uh
1:20:27
like like sex graphic this was like very very like full blown for like I mean
1:20:35
this book I was I was reading in in high school but I don't think in my opinion
1:20:41
the English special education class should have been reading this and because like for my it's like on an
1:20:48
instant replay so when I had to read that it kind of stuck in my
1:20:56
many weeks and I had nightmares every single night about it like oh like bad
1:21:02
for the character in the book going through this but it was just soly awful
1:21:07
and like okay and I was like I'm never reading this book ever again uh I'm not
1:21:15
gonna name the book because I'm maybe some fans really really like book and I am not trying to pick books but this
1:21:22
book it's stay in my mind for like so I can't say it out loud or I'm
1:21:27
just G to bring it back up in my real of memories in my brain uh it took me a
1:21:35
while to get rid of that give me the hey jeepies so my last two questions for you
1:21:43
is uh one my last two questions for you is where can people find your books buy
1:21:49
them purchase uh are there in libraries as well
1:21:56
absolutely uh so yeah um my books you can go to Amazon Target Walmart bronze
1:22:03
and& Nobles books a million anywhere on Washington say anywhere but most major retailers have my books online my first
1:22:10
one and my second one uh my first book are in a fair amount of
1:22:16
libraries on the East Coast uh can't sit here and say every Library have but it
1:22:23
never hurts to ask your they can get a copy um I'm sure they
1:22:29
would be more than happy to if they have space on their bookshelf and in fact also uh yeah if you would like a sign
1:22:35
copy please head to my website ww. jes.com j a y r a CE and yo I can get
1:22:43
you a signed copy uh and my my next question for you is where can people follow you and learn
1:22:50
more about who you are and what you do oh oh yeah of course I'm on I mentioned
1:22:58
earlier I'm on Tik Tok the most assuming Tik tok's gonna be around much longer but I'm on Tik Tok the most I'm also on
1:23:06
Instagram and I have an author page on Facebook all of them are I all of them
1:23:11
are I am J Reese that is my handle on all play oh and I'm also on Twitter I am
1:23:18
chries all X [Laughter]
1:23:26
I'm sorry for those people who are like the platform I mean I don't hate it necessarily but I just hate the name of
1:23:33
it that's that's my only it's such it's such a odd it's such an odd
1:23:40
like if he wanted to Rebrand it and rename it fine there's nothing wrong with that but I'm like X you couldn't
1:23:47
think of like an actual name you just want to name it x i I don't understand
1:23:52
why I maybe there's an article said why he chose X because I got to understand why he chose X there has to be a meaning
1:23:59
behind it I I don't get it yeah I'm like
1:24:05
X you could come up you couldn't just like use AI to come up with a creative brand name like
1:24:13
really something I I don't know it's just it is what it is and my last
1:24:19
question for you is who's your favorite podcast and why and feel free not to say me
1:24:26
[Laughter] see what I did there oh I can't I can't
1:24:33
I can't say I can't say the crazy Fitness guy oh man okay let me think
1:24:38
[Music] of well I hold Jimmy in great regard
1:24:46
Jimmy is definitely one of my favorite podcast um but let me get some shine to
1:24:51
another podcast uh actually there are um there
1:24:59
are there's two that I hold like very high
1:25:05
like there's I listen to a lot of different podcasts um but the first one will be the growing in marriage podcast
1:25:12
um even if you're not married and you are in a relationship or you'd like to be in a relationship uh there's nothing
1:25:19
wrong with listening to this podcast rich in Indiana they are a wonderful couple they have been married for 20
1:25:26
plus years they share their experiences and I'm talking about like their real
1:25:31
experiences like this is the madeup stuff um they share the ins and out of their relationship they have two
1:25:38
wonderful children well they're adults now but uh they keep it where they don't
1:25:43
talk about the kids they talk about how they work together everything they do so
1:25:50
if you are a person who is looking for somebody and you want to be happy
1:25:56
healthy and learn how to communicate I suggest listening to them it's a wonderful podcast growing in marriage is
1:26:03
it's one of five recommended to anybody and everybody um my other favorite
1:26:09
podcast would have to be um the plant-based News podcast um they
1:26:16
are kind of like Jimmy they are a health I mean they're should I describe it
1:26:22
anything in the world of plant based is what they cover um anything from the
1:26:29
laws to um health and fitness to new studies that are coming
1:26:35
out U I just find them and as I said at the beginning I'm vegan so anything
1:26:41
about helping the world helping people and helping animals that tends to be my heart spot
1:26:49
right there and that show covers all of that so yeah those would be my two favorites outside of Jimmy of
1:26:56
course I think my two favorites would be uh Louis house the school of
1:27:02
greatness and the other one is called braving the element part oh yeah I like
1:27:08
that uh think I heard that one I was on I was on the braving of the elements
1:27:14
podcast uh I got to meet Janet vanney voice cor Legend of cor she was actually
1:27:20
on the show too uh so go take a check a take wow yeah and
1:27:28
um and and I like some actually was on my show uh not too long ago he actually
1:27:36
met met LS house and it's like how dare you I like oh wow I didn't get a an
1:27:43
opportunity to ask him but I was like hook me up I want to I was like I want to meet him
1:27:49
too right right oh my God like because you know like he does those conferences
1:27:55
every year and I would love to go to one of his conferences I just uh haven't been able to put space in my calendar
1:28:01
for it yet but I'm G get there yeah definitely like I want to go
1:28:08
to one of his conferences too uh right now just the pricing is like just high
1:28:14
from my budget at the moment oh yeah yeah that's that's the
1:28:19
other part of it yeah people was like you don't have really seem to have good budget at the
1:28:25
moment it's like no I don't I me that totally every time I'm paying a bill for
1:28:32
my business I'm like I'm always reminded andbe like some other people remind me
1:28:37
like trust me hasn't slipped my
1:28:43
mind but anyway absolutely but anyway thank you for being on the show and I hope I didn't take up too much of your
1:28:49
time uh I was enjoying of course uh having you on the show
1:28:57
oh I I enjoy being here I'm just sorry that it took me so long to come back you
1:29:02
know it took me a while to write the next book so hopefully uh like I said the next one will be out next year I'll
1:29:08
be back within a year I'm gonna hold you to because I I I love having you on my
1:29:17
show oh thank you Jim I appreciate I love being here man well I look forward to staying in touch with you and um I'll
1:29:24
let you know when this episode drops and if you stay a little bit after I'll tell you exactly when it will
1:29:31
drop and I also give you a sneak peek
1:29:37
of O Yay and tell no one else I'll see you in
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a few
1:29:49
minutes so that's all there so that's all the time we have for today if you like it please subscribe share leave a
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