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This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work

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at MJMunoz.com. Welcome to... I was gonna do something else... Welcome to Story Over

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Everything, episode 26. This is gonna be airing July 7, 2023. The subject is

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Robugtales audiobook number three. I will warn you that the audiobook that

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you're about to hear from me is subject to change and that's because I do not

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necessarily have the story finalized. It's probably 90% close but you know if

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I find any more errors in proofreading or anything like that I will correct

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those and if anything changes in the process of me finishing my Robugtales

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book, short book, novel, I don't know what to call it, chapter book. Chapter book is a good catch-all term.

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Then I will make adjustments as needed. So this week has been kind of crazy for

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me by the way. I'm feeling... I feel slightly guilty about making this episode

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the way I'm making it but then again this is supposed to be the chronicles of an

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author, artist, and analyzer and that's what I'm doing. I'm chronicling all these

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things. So I've been for the most part for the last two weeks I believe drawing

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six to seven days a week and writing six to seven days a week. There was one week

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where I totally missed out on writing and drawing or one day where I totally

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missed out on writing and drawing but I'm trying to build the habit for myself.

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I've talked about this in previous episodes that I needed to cultivate this

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discipline within myself so that I'm becoming well more of who I want to be.

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I'm becoming the creative force that I want to be and this is the week of the

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fourth July. I don't exactly know what happened or how I ran out of time but I

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did run out of time to prep everything for story over everything over everything

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like I wanted to. I did however take the time earlier this week to record Rex and

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the Titanic tantrum and I published that on Ambiumunos.com and I thought you

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know what I'm actually going to package that into an episode here on story over

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everything. As part of my marketing and part of my plan for making myself as

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widely known as possible and as I guess in whatever market I want to be for the

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sub-genres of stuff that I'm writing I want to publish. I'm reading what I

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want to write and I'm also publishing you know podcast review type stuff in

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the fields that I want to be working in as well. So I'm talking about I want to

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do a world of superheroes and that's kind of inspired by Tokusatsu

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because that's a thing I'm into from Japan and I also have been inspired by a

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lot of anime because I think anime has a lot of the anime that I've seen has

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excellent writing in it which is based in the manga which is the comic books

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right from Japan. So a lot of my influences are there so I'm reading that

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stuff and that's informing my writing and I figure I may as well put myself in

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those markets in those marketplaces offering commentary and discussion of

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those things as well to stay relevant in that field. So I'm working in the genre

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I'm reading the genre I'm writing the genre that's that's everything I'm doing

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and Grow Bug Tales falls in a weird place with that it's kid lit I mean these

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are children's picture books but the Grow Bug Tales chapter book tells a

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bigger you know more mature story more encompassing even though it's also about

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kids but they're you know Grow Bug kids which is strange but it's still it's

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still you know it's you know it's Harry Potter it's I was gonna say young X-Men

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but I don't think it's a thing I can't think of any other examples right now

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but it's a group of young people learning to become the people that they'll go it's

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the you know the Jedi Padawan books it's that kind of thing where it's you know

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kids in school basically except they have to be grow bugs in this or the

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new magical bugs in this instance who are learning lessons and facing crises

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and learning things and growing into who they could be who they need to be so

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it's you know that's what I'm writing but you know they're bugs they

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transform in weird ways in the picture books with you know that feature them

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teaming up with kids basically and in their own book they have these magical

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powers with light that can do different things and anyway so yeah like I said

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I'm putting myself in all these different areas and part of that scheme

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is I need to make sure that the back end stuff for the podcast like I'm as wide

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as possible and is widely distributed as possible I should say I also want to

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publish wide but that's different as far as your books are concerned so as part

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of my process I need to do all this back end work and it's kind of like I mean

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it's there's a phrase buy once cry once and I think the said corollary or you

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know finishing your third element that is and never cry again you know you

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don't have to go through this again you buy once you cry once in the end then

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you're done so I need to put in the effort I need to try once and cry once

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as far as doing all the back end stuff on my podcast to get them as widely

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distributed as possible so that being said all right so that is that being

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said I also want to make sure that my grow bug tails children's fiction books

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are available I do not possess the current art skill or rather I wouldn't

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hire myself to do the art for this book that's true and her for these five books

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actually into the six with the cover so I wouldn't hire myself to do the art for

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these so I do need to hire somebody else but in order to hire somebody else I

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need to get together capital get together funds for that I would like to

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do a crowdfunding campaign however I'd like all six books to be done 100% as

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far as the words are concerned I did storyboards for books one and two I

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believe and books three four and five have no storyboards yet book six

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doesn't need storyboards however I do believe that the way I describe the

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scenes it'd be pretty you know it wouldn't it'd be minimal work to go

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through and make storyboards from that or he just left the artist do it we'll

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see how the first two books go but anyway because I need to have the books

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completely done I've decided to read them aloud and record that and put them

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out as audiobooks and when I've done this sort of thing in the past I found

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that reading aloud your writing enables you to discover terrible mistakes that

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you made in the writing and fix it so the Ava and the grow book book which

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that's no longer what it's called was written and recorded months ago it was

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written a long time ago but it was recorded and put up on the website

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months ago Rex and the Titanic tantrum is going up or has gone up this week and

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it will be included there included in this recording the next couple weeks of

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story over everything I will see how much time I have I will try to over the

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course of the next three weeks and hopefully by that last well I hope for

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the next couple weeks to release one by one if I can if I have enough time the

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other the remaining books which no I won't have enough time I'll have to

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double up somewhere but anyway I will double up somewhere I'm gonna release

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all four or sorry by the time July's over I will have published and released

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to the website all of the girl book books in fact you know I'm gonna call

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an audible right now I'm gonna put grow bug book one and grow a book two in this

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recording grow book book three is the longest so it might be on a solo

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episode next week and then two weeks from now which will be the third Friday

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of July I will have published hopefully by then four and five and then the final

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week of July I will go ahead and do my children's I will do my skimming

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leaves casual book chat about George McDonald's the princess and Kirti which

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is I believe it's called the first book in his duology there is called the

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princess and the Goblin the second book is called the princess and Kirti and

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it's well the first book is excellent my daughter has read them both she says

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they're amazing and that the second one is so much better than the first so

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here's hoping that you know I enjoy and you enjoyed as much as she did or more

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and it's that much better than the princess and the Goblin but anyway so

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yeah that's the plan and after that long preamble I'm letting you know that I you

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know to recap I'm letting you that I've you know how much I've been working on

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writing and I'm almost done with chapter 8 of grow bug tales which is the chapter

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book telling a larger story of the grow bugs it includes cameos basically of the

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five heroic grow bug guardians from the grow bug tales books that near the grow

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bug picture books and then it has its own cast of characters as well who are

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exclusive to this chapter book and who have a bigger story it the more I'm

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doing the better I'm liking what's going on and the more I'm liking this pair of

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antagonists or protagonists that I have sharing this grow bug tales chapter

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book story and as soon as I'm done I'm almost done with chapter 8 but in in

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this last in the last stages of chapter 8 I'm setting up kind of the rest of the

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book and I'm really solidifying that this cricket and moth grow bug who are the

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stars of it basically I'm really setting them up and like presenting them and and

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putting them in a position of prominence and then the following chapters there's

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going to be basically a war and invasion by these things that want to kill the

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grow bugs and it's a fight for survival and it's gonna be really exciting stuff

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so I don't know somewhere between a quarter and a third of the book I guess

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there's only 12 chapters and there's five so okay almost half of the book is

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kind of it's retelling the story of the grow bug picture books from the

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perspective of the grow bugs that are featured in each one of those books and

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then they're imparting wisdom and lessons learned to the grow bug cadets

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like I said who are the focus of who are the actual focus of this book but it's

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all kind of an ensemble type thing and I'm feeling really good about that so

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anyway without further ado I'm gonna go ahead and present to you grow bug book

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one which is Rex and the Titanic tantrum and grow bug book two which was formerly

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called Ava and the grow bug but is now called Ava and the radiant rescue so I

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hope you enjoy those and I hope you look forward to hearing the rest of the grow

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bug tales books from me as soon as possible and if you enjoy them I hope

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that you will come back and support the crowdfunding campaign so I can get an

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awesome artist to do really cool drawings for the book I am calm I am

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calm Rex squirmed and kicked and yelled as his mom struggled to set him in the

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bedroom I love you and I'm going to make sure we all stay safe I need to go check

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on your sister I'll be back soon Rex's mom released him from her hug with a

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kiss on the top of his head I don't need love Rex grumbled and scratched the kiss

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off his head I need everyone to go away he flopped on the bed and screamed into

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a pillow yes you don't need them a voice whispered as threads of silk streamed

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around Rex a fat worm wriggled out from the back of his shirt and inched toward

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his head Rex brushed at the worm but it stayed stuck to him while he groaned and

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squawked in frustration a sleek mantis zipped back and forth snapping the silk

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and threads with its arms and knocking the worm loose be gone foul creature the

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mantis chirped the worm wrapped around the mantis and bit it Rex turned toward

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the sudden noises he squeezed his eyes tightly closed as a bright flash filled

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the room the mantis is light pulsed and dimmed Rex screamed and threw a pillow

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as hard as he could moments later the weird bugs were in the trash and Rex was

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hiding under the covers creeped out by the strange happening not long after

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teeth prayers and songs Rex was fast asleep buzz thump buzz thump thump buzz

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Rex stirred as the sounds grew closer and louder the furious buzz stopped and

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something thudded against his door I know where you are little one a voice

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hissed now which Rex bonked his head when he scrambled to get out from his

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hiding place under the bed Rex ducked and swiped at the glowing mantis

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darting around and rushing at him he jumped to a pile of toys and threw

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everything he could at his attacker with a toy sword he whacked the mantis

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against the wall scared it would come back again he stomped on it until it

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stopped glowing you won't come back this time Rex chuckled and closed the

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bathroom door behind him Rex tiptoed to the kitchen and said I think I deserve a

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little snack after all that Rex hummed himself as he busily worked on finishing

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the last expansion of his dinosaur jungle the palm tree leaves he was

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holding suddenly grows so big and heavy that he dropped them then he fell splash

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into a sticky orange puddle he ran from the puddle of orange juice and climbed

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over a giant chip how did this happen Rex talked at the life-sized shiny

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plastic jungle that surrounded him the whole jungle shook and toy dinosaurs

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jumped and jiggled as something big came tromping towards Rex he dove between

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boulders and held the palm leaves in place over himself as the enormous

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thing click clack clicked closer each moment a shadow fell over Rex the jungle

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was still and quiet suddenly the palms pulled up and away he panicked and held

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on as tightly as he could Rex dangled in front of the snapping mandibles of a

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gigantic blazing mantis he let go and fell hard to the green plastic floor

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silken threads wrapped around him and he bumped across the ground a spider sailed

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overhead and landed in front of the mantis what happened to you ya the

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spider called to the raging mantis the two giants tangled knocking almost every

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block dinosaur and blockman in the jungle Rex watched in disbelief as ya

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shot fire at the spider the spider circled ya faster and faster until the

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mantis was trapped in the web kill it kill it

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Rex shouted no the spider answered why not Rex pleaded something the spider

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struggled with the writhing mantis is wrong ah in a flash the spider darted

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in bit ya hey Rex cried out in shock thank you twang ya said to the spider

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what's wrong with him Rex asked it must be the vexivore ya answered as the

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spider reeled and stumbled I removed it now it is trying to control me twang the

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spider fell be strong don't give in the mantis glowed shining a warm light on

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the spider your light gives me strength twang answered what's happening Rex

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wind now concerned for twang and no longer afraid of ya the mantis turned

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to Rex and after a moment explained a vex tried to hurt you I came here to

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stop it but the vex controlled me my friend twang knew we were both in danger

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and came to save us what is a vex what did I do to it

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Rex asked staring at the floor of X eats anger and hate they can use people like

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farms to grow and harvest enough to feed many of their kind Rex looked over at

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the spider look the vex cannot live because twang is so full of the light of

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love love burns away the anger and hate twang vanished like a candle burning out

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actually normal selves Rex and ya talked until the boy was falling asleep

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remember what we talked about ya said I will I will be strong like twang Rex

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yawned I know you will you're a good kid Rex and you're a good grow bug ya I'll

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be praying for you and your friends Rex waved and closed his eyes ya flew off

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looking for another little boy or girl to help face the night like the grow bugs

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always had and always would the end much to learn I still have so in the process

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of making this episode I realized that I do not have an audio only backup of Ava

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and the grow bug I can access it through my podcast distributor but it doesn't

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seem like I can download it from them so I'm gonna need to make sure I keep

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backups for all of this for all these recordings that I'm making because I

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can't always rely on them and I even looked on the YouTube channel apparently

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I did not put even the grow bug on YouTube I only have it here on the audio

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podcast format and that does not help me at all because now I cannot access it I

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think I'll have to do a re-recording of Ava and the radiant rescue so lessons

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learned and I guess that's a something to share with all of you make sure if

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you're doing something like this you keep backups of all your data because now

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I'm kind of lost and I can't I gotta go back on my word and I can't do what I

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wanted to do if I want to release this in the timely manner so here we are

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again I hope you enjoyed Rex and the Titanic tantrum and if you have any input

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on it I'd love to hear it from you and please look forward to me progressing

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and becoming a better content creator content producer and presenter as well

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so anyway until next time folks take care this is MJ signing out I hope you

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enjoyed that go to MJMunoz.com to leave any questions comments or other

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feedback you might have there you can find all of my analysis art and fiction I

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cover books tokusatsu comic books anime and more look around you're sure to find

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something else that you'll enjoy as well this has been a story over everything

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production