1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 You know, starting over isn't the end of the world. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:07,040 Often times it can be the start of a better one. 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,720 And the anime I'm covering this season brings that idea to the surface as we take a look 4 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:15,760 at a series that literally had to build the world from the ground up. 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:19,240 And of course the one I'm talking about is the one that makes science fun, the stone 6 00:00:19,240 --> 00:00:30,600 world of Dr. Stone. 7 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:34,360 Hey what's going on guys my name is Nate and you're listening to the Otaku Liberation, 8 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,240 a show where we help you break the chains that are holding you back in your life by 9 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,280 connecting some biblical principles with things from your favorite anime. 10 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,000 And hey if you guys are listening out there and you feel like you're getting some value 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:48,400 out of this podcast, please feel free to subscribe and leave a review because that would help 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:54,040 me basically improve this and improve this pod and make it better each time. 13 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:56,840 And without further ado, let's get into it. 14 00:00:56,840 --> 00:01:07,520 So Dr. Stone is a series written by Richiro Inagaki and illustrated by Boichi. 15 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:12,080 And again as I always say at the beginning of the season, I don't speak Japanese, my 16 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:14,360 pronunciation is probably butchering these names. 17 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:17,600 Hey, I'm trying my best out here. 18 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:24,480 But yeah so the story overall for Dr. Stone is pretty interesting. 19 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:30,680 So it starts off with a mysterious phenomenon that petrifies all of humanity. 20 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,720 Like they all just turn to stone statues. 21 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:38,080 And as far as I am in the anime, we don't know why this happened. 22 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,320 We don't know how it happened in the first place. 23 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:43,880 And we just we just don't. 24 00:01:43,880 --> 00:01:49,520 You know, I haven't read the manga or anything like that, so I'm sure people who've read it know how it ends and all that stuff. 25 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:53,000 But as far as I'm concerned, I don't know what's happening. 26 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,040 But so that's the beginning of it. 27 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:03,480 And thousands of years later, our main character, whose name is Senku, he wakes up alone in 28 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:09,680 this newfound stone world and he decides he's going to bring back all the civilization and 29 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,600 revive it for everyone on Earth. 30 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:19,600 Now I don't know about you, when I think about starting something over, I don't really think 31 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,720 about the whole world starting over. 32 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:24,680 You know, that's not really the first thing that comes to mind. 33 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:28,840 You know, think about, you know, sometimes when I when I'm recording episodes, I just 34 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:34,520 start over on here if I mess up too many times or if I just don't like the way I'm presenting 35 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:35,520 the episode. 36 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:41,840 But in this case, literally the entire world is starting over. 37 00:02:41,840 --> 00:02:46,920 And honestly, it's kind of like, you know, what we've got to get with the guy did in 38 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:47,920 the Old Testament, right? 39 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:54,200 What's the great flood is, is very, very, very similar to that aspect, right? 40 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,400 Where humanity had had to start over. 41 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:58,120 We had to start over. 42 00:02:58,120 --> 00:02:59,760 We were messing up too much in the first time. 43 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:01,000 God was like, you know what? 44 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,480 Maybe let me try again. 45 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,880 Let's see if they get it right this time. 46 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:06,880 Right. 47 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:16,840 But the the overall concept that I want this season to convey is the idea of going back 48 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,600 to basics. 49 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:29,080 And what that means is to go back to the beginning, go back to the source of, you know, wherever 50 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:30,080 you are in life. 51 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:35,440 And basically what I mean by that is it's easy for us to be distracted, you know, especially 52 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:37,320 in today's time, right? 53 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:43,400 Distracted by all the advancements in the game of the entire world in the palm of your 54 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,200 hand or in your pocket most times. 55 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:46,200 Right. 56 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:52,760 I mean, these these phones are way stronger than a lot of computers we had 60 years ago. 57 00:03:52,760 --> 00:04:00,080 And but when we have all that information available to you at a moment's notice, it's 58 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:03,800 easy for to overlook the moments in general. 59 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:04,800 Right. 60 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:10,160 And we get so overwhelmed with information and what's going on, what's happening in 61 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:17,400 the world that we just we all just forget how to do basic things in all honesty. 62 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:24,280 And what I think this kind of helps portray is that, you know, technology can be used 63 00:04:24,280 --> 00:04:30,280 as a as a tool for our survival and not the only means of it. 64 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:36,680 And really, we take a step back and we just we have to remember who we are and where we 65 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,560 came from. 66 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:43,680 And so and then throughout the season, as I'm going through each of the characters and 67 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:49,560 show how they convey the theme of going back to basics during our own way. 68 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:50,560 And what does that mean? 69 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:52,560 And how does it mean? 70 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:57,840 If we have to start over, if we have to, you know, go go back to the beginning, because 71 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:01,760 sometimes starting over isn't isn't a bad thing, right? 72 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:03,240 If that is not the end, I'll be. 73 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:09,360 Oh, sometimes you have to go back to the beginning to remember, you know, where you came from, 74 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:15,640 essentially, because I know for me, often when I'm working on something, whether for 75 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:20,600 my normal job or if I'm working on working on this pod or in my other business, things 76 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:25,400 like that, is that if I get stuck and I'm just kind of beating my head against the wall, 77 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:28,920 I take a step back and go back to, OK, what did I do before? 78 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:32,720 What did I you know, how did I get to this point in the first place? 79 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:37,360 You know, it's just kind of reverse engineer what I'm doing to see if something new jumps 80 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:38,800 jumps out at me, right? 81 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:44,360 And it doesn't work all the time, but it's part of my process and it helps. 82 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:50,280 It helps keep me on track and not become so just bogged down. 83 00:05:50,280 --> 00:05:56,320 And so in in regards to Dr. Stone, right, they want they didn't have a choice but to 84 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:02,080 start over because again, like I said before, for unknown reasons, the world is essentially 85 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:07,560 sent back to the Stone Age because all of humanity was returned to stone statues for 86 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:09,240 thousands of years. 87 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:13,920 I think the I can remember the exact amount of years is over 3000. 88 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:20,160 Like is thing is closer to 4000 years have passed since they all were petrified. 89 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:25,560 And you know, nature has taken back over and humanity has to start from scratch again. 90 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:30,640 I mean, they they're all out in the woods and nature now. 91 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:35,880 So they have to reacclimate themselves back into the world. 92 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:41,400 And it's kind of funny because I'm just thinking about, you know, what what do you need to 93 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,080 reset in your life? 94 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,480 You know, what do you what do you need to put? 95 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:51,040 Just pause on it, just say, you know, and let me go back and try this again. 96 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,120 I don't think for me it was just a lot of different. 97 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:59,640 Yes, side hustles are the best way to describe them, I guess. 98 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:03,520 I mean, they're just trying to figure out different things. 99 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,400 Basically I want to do to leave my mark on the world. 100 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:07,400 Right. 101 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:12,040 And at first it was just strictly to make money because, you know, you need money to 102 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,200 live. 103 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:15,520 And I'm just being honest. 104 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:19,240 I guess that was the main reason why I was doing the vast majority of things I was trying 105 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:20,240 to do. 106 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:21,240 Right. 107 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:26,080 You know, you learn how to trade, start a couple of other business ventures and things 108 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:27,520 like that. 109 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:31,160 And one, it wasn't fulfilling, fulfilling to me. 110 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:35,920 And two, it just didn't it just didn't it just didn't make me happy. 111 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:37,680 That's why I didn't they didn't pan out. 112 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,000 That's why I didn't keep doing it. 113 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:44,760 And it took me starting over three, four or five different times to manage before I found 114 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:46,720 something that I just enjoy doing. 115 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:48,440 It's not even about money. 116 00:07:48,440 --> 00:07:56,200 It's just about me feeling fulfilled and doing something that I love while also helping out 117 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,920 as many people as I possibly can. 118 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:04,440 And so for me, it was resetting my mindset about what it was that I was doing, what it 119 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,600 was that I was striving to do. 120 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:13,120 And and I was like, like I said before, oftentimes the only way forward is for us to go back 121 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,160 to where it all began. 122 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,400 And that's been in for me. 123 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,640 It was just going back to my why. 124 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:21,920 Why am I doing these things? 125 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,200 Why do I want to do these things? 126 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:31,080 What what benefit am I getting out of it and what benefit can other people get out of it? 127 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:36,840 And once I understood that, then Eridanger became a lot clearer at that point. 128 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:41,920 And you know, so you can just apply it to to your own life, your own mission, your goal, 129 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:43,520 your skills, really. 130 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:44,520 All right. 131 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:47,520 You just kind of really understand the why. 132 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:53,920 Think why the question of why is the root to all of this. 133 00:08:53,920 --> 00:09:01,200 And sometimes it takes going back to your why to remind you and to help you push, push 134 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,920 through whatever roadblock obstacle that you're facing right now. 135 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,920 Because, you know, sometimes starting over doesn't mean completely doing a pivot. 136 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:14,280 It's just, again, like I said, reminding yourself as to why you're doing something to give you 137 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:18,000 the extra to to get through. 138 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:25,440 And you say for people, Dr. Stone, right, they have to essentially recreate all the 139 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:31,520 modern advances that we have today, you know, like medicine, clothes, even travel, because, 140 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,600 again, there's no cars in the Stone Age, right? 141 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:37,520 There's nothing there. 142 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:45,080 And throughout the story, you see how the the people from the old world, you know, modern 143 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:51,360 day people and then people from the stone world, how they interact with each other and 144 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:55,200 the things that they learn from things that they learn from each other, too. 145 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:56,200 Right. 146 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:01,880 Because the the people who turn the stone statue, they're not the only people there, 147 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:09,360 because as you find out in the story that there are astronauts in space, you know, from 148 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:12,600 the various countries, you know, Japan, America, things like that, there are people who weren't 149 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:16,080 on Earth when the petrification happened. 150 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:24,080 So when they came back to Earth, they essentially established different villages and whatnot 151 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:27,280 in in the opposite. 152 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:29,080 They had they had a community, right? 153 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:33,760 They're having having kids and descendants and things like that over the course of the 154 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:35,520 thousands of years. 155 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:40,040 So when Senku and the rest of the modern day people start to waking up, there are already 156 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:41,040 people there. 157 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:51,760 And it's interesting to see how the future past people interact with the modern day stone 158 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:52,760 people. 159 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:53,760 Right. 160 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:58,840 It's that whole dynamic is it's funny to watch because, you know, simple things like colored 161 00:10:58,840 --> 00:10:59,840 fire, right? 162 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:04,920 You throw different different chemicals into a fire, the the fire's color. 163 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:06,560 And that's just like witchcraft to them. 164 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:09,200 So it's a little funny. 165 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:10,680 Sorry. 166 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:22,160 But so it is really again, Dr. Stone, the show, the overall show is pretty much a tale 167 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:27,600 about what do we do when we find ourselves back at the beginning? 168 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:28,600 Right. 169 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:29,600 How do we handle that? 170 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:34,400 I mean, seriously, I'm asking myself, how would I handle that? 171 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:40,400 I would wake up one day and all my accomplishments, all my advancements, all my achievements that 172 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:47,880 I've ever had in my life, you know, professionally, academically, personally, if they were just 173 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:54,600 erased, why not wipe and swipe away and start over, start over learning something new again, 174 00:11:54,600 --> 00:12:01,200 or learning something as if it were new, you know, where the programming, general IT work, 175 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,800 you know, learn about finances again, learning how to do math again. 176 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,160 You know, and just things like that. 177 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:09,880 How will we go about it? 178 00:12:09,880 --> 00:12:16,320 Because the video like this on YouTube all the time or somebody who is a professional 179 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:22,040 in what they do, whether it's, you know, someone who's in the stocks or there are day trading 180 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,960 or someone who is learning a different language or things like that. 181 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:31,980 Sometimes they put out videos saying, if I were to start over in whatever year this is, 182 00:12:31,980 --> 00:12:32,980 how would I do it? 183 00:12:32,980 --> 00:12:33,980 Right. 184 00:12:33,980 --> 00:12:37,360 And I think that's a good exercise that all of us should go through. 185 00:12:37,360 --> 00:12:44,480 At least I probably start doing it every year, you know, just once a year to say, okay, if 186 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:52,000 I were to start over now, start over this now, if I was to start podcasting over and 187 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,840 in 2023 or in 2024, whenever, how would I do it? 188 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:02,400 Because a lot of the times the things that are available in now in that time weren't 189 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:04,240 available back when you started. 190 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:10,640 So it might, you know, change the way you think about, you know, doing it now. 191 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:17,160 Again, so for like for this podcast, for example, let's say, let's say I started this back in 192 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:20,160 2015 or something like that. 193 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:21,160 Right. 194 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:25,400 So let's say it's been going on for a couple of years and I decided in 2023, how would 195 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:31,120 I, if I had to start over, how would I, what tools would I use at my disposal? 196 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:36,840 Like, you know, the, the audio editing software that I use here, the microphone that I have 197 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:42,120 now wouldn't have been available back then, or if it was, they weren't as up to par as 198 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:43,400 they are now. 199 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:48,000 So in now I just had to figure out, okay, so how would I incorporate it into what I 200 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,000 already have? 201 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,920 How would I, what would I change? 202 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:52,960 What would I improve on? 203 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:53,960 What would I keep? 204 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:58,560 Because again, for me, just because something is new, doesn't mean it's better. 205 00:13:58,560 --> 00:13:59,560 Right. 206 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:03,880 Because sometimes you changing something up might actually make it worse because of the 207 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:07,280 learning curve, we just might not mesh well with your system, you know, whatever the case 208 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:10,560 may be, but it's still an interesting exercise. 209 00:14:10,560 --> 00:14:16,800 In fact, at least you are aware of it and you can apply it in any way that you see fit. 210 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:23,160 And just doing that exercise, even if you don't change anything, even if you don't find anything, 211 00:14:23,160 --> 00:14:27,920 really still opens up your mind to just different possibilities. 212 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:32,880 And ultimately it's kind of what the whole back to basics thing is, is just reminding 213 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:39,440 yourself, remind yourself of your why, and then open your eyes up to the different possibilities 214 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:44,720 that are available to you and not being so blinded and overwhelmed by what you're currently 215 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:51,200 doing because it's either become tunnel vision and so focused on one thing that you forget 216 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:56,200 about everything else and vice versa, where you just, there's just, there's so many things 217 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:58,800 going on at once that you can't focus on one thing. 218 00:14:58,800 --> 00:14:59,800 All right. 219 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:05,340 So in either scenario, going back to your why, going back to the beginning and starting 220 00:15:05,340 --> 00:15:09,300 over is really beneficial. 221 00:15:09,300 --> 00:15:15,600 So overall, the concept of going back to basics is pretty much throughout the entire story 222 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:20,000 of Dr. Stone, I think it's pretty much what it's based off of. 223 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:27,520 And in my opinion, it helps, it helps prompt us to reflect on, you know, reset, rebuilding 224 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:33,840 and reconnecting with, you know, our why, the foundation principles of our lives in 225 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:34,840 general. 226 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:36,720 You know, why do we do what we do? 227 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:42,160 And I also encourage us to embrace, you know, the simplicity of it all. 228 00:15:42,160 --> 00:15:51,120 Don't overcome the innovation to really take the new things and see how we can, and what 229 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:53,320 we can create out of it. 230 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:59,600 And you know, just say to get the pursuit of knowledge, but it's not just to the betterment 231 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:06,840 of ourselves and our craft and just really strive to be better each and every day. 232 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:12,240 And then the next couple of coming weeks, as I take a deeper dive into some of the characters 233 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:19,400 of Dr. Stone, we'll really see how they embody these aspects themselves and how even though 234 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:25,240 the the way they embody it is different, how it all ties back together. 235 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:31,040 So I hope you guys stick around because I mean, hey, these, I've never been more excited 236 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:35,160 about science until I started watching this show. 237 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,520 And it's a blast. 238 00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,480 But hey, I just want to thank you guys for turning for tuning into today's episode. 239 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,000 And I pray that you get what you needed out of it. 240 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,840 And hopefully you learn something new about yourself. 241 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:51,400 Join us next week as we take a look at the boy genius elf who uses everything he knows 242 00:16:51,400 --> 00:16:56,840 about the past to develop this prehistoric future and you know, that's the main character 243 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:02,200 Senku and hey, always remember you are the main character of your story and that story 244 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,560 doesn't end until he says so. 245 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:21,800 All right, be blessed.