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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. I am unbelievable. I surprise myself sometimes. Well, let me

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let me stop real quick and say this is story over everything over everything

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episode I'm not sure which one yet because I'm in flux. I'm a creature of

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mercurial nature. You can never tell exactly what I'm gonna do or where I'm

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gonna go or how I'm going to title things. So that's uh that's not a brag

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and that's also not a self-recrimination. It's just just me being honest and open

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with you. Just like I'm gonna be honest and open with you and tell you that I

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had planned on this Squall Charleston interview for I don't know not less than

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a week maybe three or four days and I refused to I thought about it but I

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refused to ultimately test out the recording system for StreamYard which I

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was trying for the very first time and I've been interested in StreamYard for a

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long time probably over a year and I've never tried it myself because I thought

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oh it's not for me it's too expensive but I thought you know what I'm gonna

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give it a I'm gonna I'm gonna wing it this time. It's a duck joke.

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StreamYard's logo is a duck. You think it was funny? Anyway sorry moving on. So I

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went on StreamYard with Squall. I invited him. There was no issue. Super great. He

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was great. He was on time. In fact he was waiting for me a little bit and I finally

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got there because I was like I don't know I don't know I was just distracted

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for some reason and I got there and he was gracious enough to be real cool and

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we talked. We had a good conversation. We talked about a bunch of stuff and it was

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a great conversation and at the end of it I realized I don't think I recorded

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that and he said no I'm sure you did right and I said no I'm pretty sure I

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didn't and then I hit a button and then he said oh there goes it's recording

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because it told us both that we were recording whereas it didn't tell us both

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that we were recording when I said I'd hit the recording button so yeah that

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that did not go well and it's all my fault and I should have been more

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careful and he was gracious enough to say hey you know what not a big deal

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when you have time let me know we can redo this and I said okay and then I

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thought about it and I thought I don't want to waste this guy's time. He was cool

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enough to do the interview and he was cool enough to like not waste time like

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we didn't waste time we talked about things in an interesting way I think I'll

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plan to do a little bit more of a structured conversation with him about

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the next book but this was really good it was a good talk it was a good

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conversation I you know I had fun I don't know if you would have enjoyed it

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but I think I but I know I had fun and he seemed like he had a good time so I

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thought that really sucked to just like you know have him redo this thing all

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over again especially because some of the stuff that he said in this episode I

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know he said to people previously because I listen to at least one of his

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other interviews which I'm gonna include the links to the other interviews that

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he did yeah I'm gonna include the links to the other interviews that he did in

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the show notes here and you can check those out as well those are well anyway

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I've listened to one of them already at the time of this recording and it was

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good and I do plan on listening to the other one I just had poorly managed my

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time and I was not able to until well until here we are now and I have so

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anyway without further ado I'm gonna go ahead and talk about the book based on

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my thoughts my experience with it my reading of it my reactions to it and

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then I will include the small amount of extra you know redoubled looped

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interview that I did with Squall at the end of it because I thought you know I

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owe it to this guy who at least you know not keep him for very long but you know

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have him say something so you get to hear a little bit of Squall talking

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about the book and kind of giving a pitch for it and I'm right along there

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with him saying yeah this is a good book I enjoyed it and I'm gonna tell you

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about why I enjoyed it how I enjoyed it now I'm not gonna go into spoilers in

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this discussion of the book this is another book chat I guess you could say

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it's an unofficial skimming leaves episode or I mean I just make it an

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official skimming leaves episode that's fine with me but yeah that's what I'm

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gonna do and hopefully you'll enjoy it I enjoyed talking to him originally but

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yeah it's a cool book I'll talk about some of the fun points in it and then I

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will let you hear the micro interview with Squall and actually good news for

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you we will be back in December maybe January though because it comes out

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like really late in December and I don't know what his plans are for the holidays

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or anything like that so maybe January we'll be back and there will be a

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Squall Charleston interview a real one an official one done here on this channel

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on story over everything and you'll get to listen to that and enjoy it and yeah

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that's the plan so that's gonna be for the second book in the Terra Valley

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series and now I'm gonna talk about the first book in the Terra Valley series

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which is called schools out for never so I'll spend the first five minutes or so

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talking about the book in a non spoiler way and then I might talk about a couple

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spoilers actually sharing some insights of stuff that I talked about with Squall

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so in the interview that wasn't recorded so yeah I I liked the book I thought it

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was good there was nothing inappropriate in it although there was definitely scary

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things that happened and people being bad another question has popped into my

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mind now that I'm thinking about it but I'll get to that later but yeah it was

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very good you know Squall talks about these books being in the vein of R.L.

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Stein's Goosebumps the at least the original 62 I don't know what makes the

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distinction of the later Goosebumps books are they you know less scary more

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scary are they more in one genre another I'm not exactly sure about that but I I

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didn't realize that there were 62 Goosebumps books and Squall says he was

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reading those when he decided that he could write this stuff and so he did

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which is which is pretty fun he and I have a similarity in that we both found

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you know Goosebumps to be interesting like it wasn't always a scary story but

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there's something you know sometimes deeper in the story something sometimes

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a really good like character story and I don't know if Squall set out to write

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this as a deeper kind of you know character study type thing and not just

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something that has you know chills and thrills and scares in it but it does

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have like a really nice emotional core to it and I really did enjoy that so for

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those who don't know and Squall's gonna talk about this too I think in the

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interview it's basically Brown Hog's Day meets what meets school I guess you could

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say it's a middle grade horror book and that's what it is this kid is repeating

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the last day of school the last day of the year before he gets to go out for

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summer which is where the title comes from which is a great title and I believe

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Squall said he came up with the title first then developed the concept so

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that's that's a pretty fun thing to do a pretty fun way to do it I think there's

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a lot of like you know a lot of energy there's a lot of enthusiasm even though

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the story was like it had sweet moments and it's interesting moments and it's

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retrospective or introspective moments rather I can feel like a lot of

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enthusiasm and a lot of excitement coming through the book the whole way

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through which is really great and it's funny well it's funny it's a funny book

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it starts out really funny a little mundane like the characters are

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interesting there's not really like boring parts that you want to skip or

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gloss over anything like that but like the setting is very much mundane it's

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just an ordinary day at school and this isn't really spoilers because you know

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it's a book that has this Grunhock's Day type thing going on and that's in the

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blurb and everything it's just a normal day at school and it's a day that sucks

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for the main character of Friday Shiner and it's I don't know it was like sort

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of homey sort of nostalgic from my school days like he captured that really

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well he captured I feel like school captured like the real aspects of school

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and then like the TV sitcom you know Wonder Years Boy Meets World you know

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whatever else you watched type of aspects of that kind of world that that

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life that kids have and I thought it did it in a really cool way and I really

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enjoyed that and I yeah I just it was like a really cozy nice book there were

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funny moments in it and it just kind of you know slid me into the mindset of a

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kind of lulled me to sleep of me in the the thinking of being back in school back

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in the day and what it was like and then there's the trigger I guess you could

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say and things start to ramp up and essentially again this is not a spoiler

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essentially Freddy dies and then he wakes up again in class just like he woke up

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again in class or woke up in the first chapter of the book and that starts the

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loop it starts the cycle it gets you into it to get you introduced to what

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exactly is going on in this world in this time and place and it's cool it's

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very effective it's not you know a groundbreaking earth-shattering concept

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we've had loops and obviously there's the famous Groundhog today which

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apparently is based off of the book I believe in a previous interview Squall

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did say that the book called replay is actually what got turned into Groundhog

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saying I think that's what he said but he talked about it in our interview but

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of course that's the one I lost so anyway yeah so that's really interesting

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it's you know it's a it's a novel concept it's something that's been done

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in a lot of things and I think squall did a really good job of it it never got

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boring it never got tedious the ways that Freddy dealt with it and branched off

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were novel interesting and again it was entertaining the whole way through

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there's a mystery where there's like a monster or creature or a bad guy after

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Freddy too in this world and you kind of have to figure out how that works as

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you're reading the book and most things become clear but there was something

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happened at the end of the book that I hadn't even really noticed and there was

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something he explained to me I can I can go into to spoiler territory here

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there was something that's called explained to me and I didn't really

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catch it at first but then as I you know let him explain the whole thing I

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understood what he was going for and it made sense and while it didn't hit me

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that way it still worked because while I didn't understand the author's intent

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the effect of what he showed not the motivations behind it but the effect of

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what he showed in the book was scary and did add a level of threat and a level of

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suspense and then actually this same character who I didn't realize

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who I did not realize was the same character ends up again this is a

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spoiler section so if you want to hear it then listen away ends up going after

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Freddy and trying to kill him even if it kills them and that was really

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interesting and even at that part of the book like stuffs on fire there's a knife

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being brandished like Freddy's very obviously going to die if something else

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doesn't happen and gosh that was really interesting and like I don't think I

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don't know if technically that would be the climax I don't think it is the

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climax but it was like a very climactic set of events and then it after that

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it's not like I guess maybe that is the climax and then there's a denouement because you get

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some revelations and you get to understand a little bit better the nature

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of the world and how it's moving and how it's going and it's really interesting

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and exciting and I don't think he went too far with it I definitely think this

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is something a kid could handle especially you know in a book maybe

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seeing it on a TV show or depicted a movie you're seeing it depicted on

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screen visually with real people might be too much seeing a cartoon might be

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okay and that was something that's well I talked about too like you know reading

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it processing it through a book through through the medium written word it's a

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lot different than it is to see it and like you can have a little more

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wiggle room you can have a little more leeway and I definitely feel like he

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pushed the envelope but again it I didn't I don't think he went too far and

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I enjoyed everything that he he put in there and it was creepy and a little

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scary and not like I was scared that something was gonna happen to me but I

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was just you know that Freddie really felt like he was in danger and that was

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really interesting and really fun so it was good in that respect

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excuse me we talked a little bit about how the intricacies of the looping

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thing worked and I thought it was really fascinating how he planned it out

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basically you know he started off with the idea and then said well this is what

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I wanted to end and then what do I have to provide in the beginning or

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throughout the story for it to work that way and while he doesn't really plan on

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doing sequels to these books he as he was nearing the end of Terry Valley

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book one which is again Sword of the Never he said I should add some things in

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that could be potential sequel bait and he told me that he was actually gonna

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add an additional looper into the story and that I picked up on a character

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being potentially having gone through these loops as well and anyway it was

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really cool cuz like I was telling him I don't like I almost exclusively want to

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write series and you know I'm I think I find it commendable that you are able to

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take an idea that's so cool take a such a neat fun idea that you could really

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play with and something that I in fact thought about after I was done reading

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the book I thought huh you know is there a plot hole here is there a bottle there

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how do these things work out with each other you know who is this character

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what are they what kind of monster is it whatever and like you know how many more

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stories could you tell just at this school just at this class just with the

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fifth grade just with whoever else was involved or their stories from the past

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that you could tell would you want to do that why would you that what was the

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motivation be if they're all looping them you know how exciting can that be

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but even so I thought maybe you could make it more exciting by having the

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loops and maybe you do a kid looping in every era or you know you could do you

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know just fifth graders loop and just do a whole long series of just fifth

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graders looping different days of the school year even like that would be

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super interesting but you know so I'll saw that opportunity he said I'm gonna

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put that away I'm not gonna do that with this book but I am going to add in some

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things at the end here that could open it up for a sequel if I wanted there to

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be one and I thought that was really interesting and you know he mentioned

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you know that it would kind of be cool for people to one day say oh I really

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like Terra Valley or you know schools out for never that's my favorite Terry

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Golly book you know are they gonna do another one can they do another one

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where's the next one that kind of thing and then he'd say well actually I have

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these little seats planted here so he mentioned that he was gonna do that for

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his next book which is coming out December 19th 2023 it's called you're

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not my sensei and I'll I'll let him give the pitch in the interview but that

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sounds like a fun book I think it's cool that his first book stars a boy and the

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second book stars a girl and that while Freddie's dealing with regular school

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angst or whatever you know I don't imagine that Remy who's the girl in the

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next book is gonna be looping but she is kind of dealing with a totally different

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environment it's you know similar it's a definitely a kid environment but it's

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not it's not just another story set in school so that's that's fun and that's

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it's nice already that schools kind of planning things out to have them branch

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out and be you know each thing be its own thing for now and I think that's

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good and I told him I look forward to reading the next one and I do and I look

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forward to successfully recording an interview with him at that time to

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discuss that book that second book and then we'll just have schools out for

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never be the last episode except the mini interview that I'm gonna have with

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him here at the end so anyway it was a good book I recommend you go out and get

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it now you can get it on Kindle Unlimited or you can buy it paperback

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you buy digital I bought a digital copy of it just cuz I'm like trying to

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protect the earth man and yeah so anyway I again I advised the book it was a good

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read it was a fun read Squall talks about how he wanted this to be like a

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movie and I ended up calling it a movie at some point in our interview and he

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was like oh there you go it's a movie you're even saying it I said yeah you're

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right and it does feel like a movie it's got that good kind of pacing and gosh

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it was a lot of fun it was a lot of fun I really enjoyed it and there was

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nothing I mean like I don't know I it was definitely kid appropriate you don't

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have to be worried about giving it to one of your kids and that was one thing

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squall said he's been working with kids recently or as of late I guess you could

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say and he doesn't he wanted this to be something that would be great for kids

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to read and that you know other than the interesting people who say you know

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everything's the devil that probably nobody would have much of an issue with

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him or with the content of the book and I agree as a concerned parent is a

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concerned father who's I've I know I have advised my kids to read the book

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and I think it would be totally appropriate and I think there's something

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to learn there's something to benefit from in reading this book

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yeah there is there definitely is not only the entertainment but there's a

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secondary thing with you know Freddy's character arc and his growth that

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happens in the story that's really cool and I'll leave it at that I'll leave it

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at that you should go check it out it's a cool book fun book scary creepy

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suspenseful but also like poignant poignant makes you think and yeah I

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just I really enjoyed it I've said that a few times so I'm gonna stop saying it

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now anyway I will let the interview play now and I think I have an outro attached

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to that so I'm not gonna do an outro here so one issue with the audio is that

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my volume is very low so I brought squall down to my level literally and

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you're just gonna have to crank it up so you can hear the episode well for the

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interview it's about six minutes long so go ahead and do that and enjoy I will

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test out my microphone next time before we record so we're back hello we're back

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but wait a minute we never put an episode out to begin with no we didn't

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because I am a fool and I failed to test things properly and I touched one

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recording button that wasn't really a button and I thought we did a whole like

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45 minute long thing of recording and we didn't and I apologize to you a thousand

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apologies for wasting your time we've all been there so yeah actually the guy

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named dropped or didn't name drop earlier I was accidentally an hour late

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to him because I like didn't understand the time zones and he was like hey it's

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no big deal I understand let's just do this and we had a really good

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conversation so yeah I don't know what to say other than I'm so sorry this will

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be a lesson for me a lesson long remembered for me because yeah I totally

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botched this and again I'm sorry but squall we had you here to talk and we

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talked about your book terror Valley we talked about your history well we talked

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about a bunch of stuff that we won't go into right now if we do a re-recording

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great if not why don't you just tell us like three minutes to Rovelli it was a

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great book I read it I enjoyed it it was like a movie in my mind reading that

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book why don't you tell us a little bit about it and where people can find you

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and we'll see what happens next well let's start the timer hey I'm squall

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Charles and you may know me from a different few different places but

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primarily it's probably gonna be Tokusatsu where I did a lot of content

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back in the day through different official mediums through my own YouTube

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through you know all this other crap but basically my passion my dream has always

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been since I was a child to become an author and I've been trying to write a

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book for a few years now and just having a full-time job just doing all this

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stuff in between it's just been really really hard to sort of continue that and

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to sort of keep it up and so I thought you know what I'm gonna write something

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a little bit smaller something for younger kids who I work with or in my

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life all the time just kind of do something fun for them so I wrote a book

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series called Terror Valley and the first book schools out for never is

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available now and it's about a young boy named Freddie Shiner who on his very

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last day of fifth grade finds that once the day comes to a close as soon as the

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school bell rings his day repeats over and over again and you know he starts

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noticing things here and there like there start to be harder questions on

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tests yeah I know who does tests on the last day of school the teacher seemed to

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be a little bit meaner his friends are different and that he might not be the

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only one looping if you want to check that out it's pretty good it's like a

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two three hour read you know it's meant for like middle grade young adult

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goosebump theme goosebump vein horror I don't know what else to say you know

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like go check it out it's fun you can find us over at terror Valley calm you

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can buy the book on Amazon if you type in terror Valley or my name's Squall

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Charleston and get yourself a copy for you know the young one in your life or

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you know you know indulge yourself a little bit go back to those golden days

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of Goosebumps and tear into something that's just as fun back I am not the the

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62 book Goosebumps reader like Swell is I read my fair share of Goosebumps back

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in the day and I enjoyed those a lot and I really enjoyed this like I said

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earlier and it's ironic in a weird cosmic way I've made you into a little

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bit of Freddy Shiner today with I'm so sorry once again but it was a great book

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I really enjoyed it I want there to be I think there's sequel potential although

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we talked about that and yeah I hit a few things in there yeah and that's good

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that's excellent you want to have those open loops that you can come back to if

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need be if you know I just replace the exact same book again that's a great

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idea underneath you can just call it the quest for more money right yeah so yeah

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that was great and I enjoyed our time talking but unfortunately for the

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listeners this is where it ends so in in our own way we got our horror

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experience of looping and the audience if they wanted to hear more about it

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they get a horror show too and that they just they're not gonna get what they

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wanted because that's all like this sometimes right yeah we've all been

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there but hey if you want a full episode let us know we'll come back we'll do a

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full one maybe just save it for me know the next book number two that's coming

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out it's called you're not my sensei and it's about this young girl named Remy

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moves to a new school and new town and her favorite hobby is karate so she

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joins the only karate dojo that's in the area and finds out that it's full of

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karate zombies you'll want to check that one out comes out in December

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give me talk I love the this one released October 6th and the next one's

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gonna be December do you know what you get 19 19 okay cool so like barely three

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months in between them right hmm trying to do on every other month okay that's

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fantastic I love that it's great so mostly cuz my wife said you shouldn't

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do one a month which I was going to but she's like no just you know give yourself

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a little bit of a break all right listen to your wife she's always yeah all right

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well once again folks that's it for now we'll probably just come back and do the

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next one because I'm sure I'll enjoy that one and we'll have even more to

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talk about but there are already great interviews out there with at least two

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other channels I believe so I'll leave links to those in the description as

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well as everything to help help you find squalls where he is and his page so you

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can buy the book yourself and get it it's also in Kindle Unlimited if you

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want to go that but I say just buy the book it's great do it I mean I'm gonna

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look at a great deal it's free might as well yeah why not all right well once

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again Squall thank you so much and until next time folks this is MJ signing out

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take care I hope you enjoyed that go to MJMunoz.com to leave any questions

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