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Self-awareness isn't really a one and done type of thing.

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It's a skill that we develop more and more over time, and it's something that challenges

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us to really improve ourselves.

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And today's character is someone who I honestly did not expect much from in the beginning

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of the series, but he proved himself to be a character that is reliable, caring, and

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someone that we can even model ourselves after.

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Well, to an extent.

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And of course, that is the self-proclaimed greatest psychic of the 21st century, Reigen

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Arataka.

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Hey, what's going on, guys?

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My name is Nate, and you're listening to the Ataku Liberation, a show where we help you

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break the chains that hold you back in your life by connecting biblical principles with

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themes for your favorite anime.

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And without further ado, let's get into it.

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And today's verse that kind of really highlights this episode is Proverbs chapter 28, verse

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And it says, the one who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and

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renounces them will find mercy.

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And basically what that means is if you don't confront your sins, if you don't address them,

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then they'll address you.

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And you don't want that.

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And really, you just have to be willing and open enough to admit your flaws, admit the

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things that aren't really your best qualities, and do what you can to change that.

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Of course, when it comes to our sins, things like that, we confess to God and we repent

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for him, which means to turn away so we're not going to keep doing the same things over

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and over and over again.

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But to get to that point, it takes a certain level of maturity and again, the self-awareness

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to be aware of those things and then to take it a step further and to renounce them.

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And like I said in the intro, Reagan was one of those characters I wasn't sure was ever

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going to get there to the point that I just honestly just thought he was going to be a

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trickster the entire series.

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And I will say I was pleasantly surprised that that wasn't the case.

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I mean, I love Reagan as a character, even when he was just a trickster the whole time.

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He was pretty entertaining.

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But they really get the whole story, right?

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It's kind of just break it down into some of Reagan's biggest traits, I guess.

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And the first one being not such a good one, that's him being manipulative.

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And like I said, he's a trickster.

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He's kind of like a showman.

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And basically, Reagan claims to be the greatest psychic in the 21st century.

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The only problem is he's not psychic.

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He doesn't have any psychic powers at all.

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He can't see, well, I think he can see certain spheres and things like that, but he can't

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do anything with them.

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And the funny thing is he started his business just off of a whim.

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He got fed up living, I mean, working at his corporate job and just really going nowhere.

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So he wanted to do something just different with his life.

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So he quit his job and decided to open up a psychic business.

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And yeah, he just really didn't know what he was doing.

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And he was actually about to close the business down when he first met Mob.

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And at first Reagan was just going to turn him away, you know, because at that point

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Mob was a little kid, you know, maybe first grade or something along those lines.

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And Mob was looking for somebody who understood him because Mob already knew he had psychic

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powers and things like that.

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He's been living with him his whole life at that point.

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And he didn't know that Reagan wasn't a psychic and Reagan gave him basically some generic

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self-help type thing, you know, to believe in himself and just trust his and his abilities

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and something along those lines.

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And Mob just ate it up.

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And once Reagan realized that Mob was a real psychic, then he decided to use Mob as a quote

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unquote intern to or assistant rather to help him with his business.

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Now I know he's exploiting a child for his own benefit, which is terrible.

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It's really, really terrible.

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Like I said, Reagan, Reagan is not the best, best dude at the beginning of the series,

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but I mean, he does get better.

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But until then, this is, this is who he is.

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And and is again, the manipulation, right?

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So he's reliant on Mob for anything regarding spirits and the thing and things like that.

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He's constantly calling Mob out of the blue, you know, whether Mob is at school or if he's

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hanging out with some could be potential friends or things like that.

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If Reagan calls him, Mob drops everything and goes and just goes, which it eventually

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does anger Mob to the point that he quits for a time.

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I mean, that's how far this this goes, but it takes a while for Mob to even get to that

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point.

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And and honestly, it was during this time that Mob separated himself from Reagan.

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Like when he finally was enough with his his crap and just said, you know what, you can

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do it yourself.

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And Reagan finally realized something about himself.

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You know, he at first it was just a kind of like a transactional type of relationship

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where Reagan would give Mob hope, essentially for his abilities and basically tell him that

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he's not he's not weird or anything like that.

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And Reagan got somebody who can essentially do his job for him, because again, he can't

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do anything with these spirits.

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But it was during Mob's absence that Reagan realized that he always wanted Mob around

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because Mob was Reagan's first friend.

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Yeah, he was the first person who didn't expect much from Reagan.

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He didn't expect him to do these big things.

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He just enjoyed he enjoyed working with him, enjoyed being around him, and they bonded

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in just in that friendship type of role.

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And I mean, that mentor mentee type of relationship.

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And Reagan didn't realize that because he was just so blinded by his his his greed and

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the way the business was running.

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And of course, Mob was bonded by that, too, by his own naivety.

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But when they had the time apart and they actually had time to reflect about why they

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were partners in the first place, they both realized this is the reason.

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And it wasn't it wasn't the easiest thing for Reagan to even come to terms with.

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I mean, he really didn't understand it until he had his birthday during the time that Mob

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was away.

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And he realized that the people and the people didn't.

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It's a sorry.

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The people in his life didn't really care about him as a person.

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And not in the sense that he, you know, like they didn't think anything of him or things

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like that, it's just that they liked Reagan because of the stuff that he could do for

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them.

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And it just mirrors his own relationship with Mob for the longest time.

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But when he had to basically celebrate his birthday alone, he just realized, you know,

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hey, this kid means more to me than I even do, even I realized.

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So in this kind of bring back this whole thing is, you know, the manipulative side of of

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Reagan is something he kind of developed as a self-defense mechanism, something to get

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him through the days.

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So my question to you is what dark side of your personality do you keep hidden from others?

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You know, what is that quality of yourself that you may not be very proud of and not

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many other people even know?

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And how would you change it if you could?

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I mean, let's just pretend for a moment we all have the amazing superpower of hyper self

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awareness and we can just change who we are, change aspects of ourselves on a dime.

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What is what is something about yourself that you would want to change or to improve?

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I mean, not maybe not change completely, but just get better at or not do as much.

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For me, it was a long time, a very sarcastic type of humor, and that doesn't always translate

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well when I'm talking to people who don't or who don't get it right.

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And as I've gotten older, I've kind of realized who I can joke with in that type of way, who

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I can't.

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But before it was like that all the time.

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I was pretty much always sarcastic.

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You know, and just that type of way, except with my parents, obviously, because I don't

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I don't want the smack down, but when I'm with my friends and other people like that,

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it's when you know, it came it came out.

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But as I got older, I realized not everyone gets that and everyone finds that funny.

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Not everyone appreciates that in that type of way.

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So I had to learn how to just tone it down.

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You know, you can be serious and in just straightforward at a time.

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And then there's time for the other thing.

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You got to not super extreme, not super bad, but it's all in the context.

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So what what is that for you?

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What is that that you want to improve in?

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Now the next aspect of kind of rain that can make them this whole the whole character that

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he is his social skills.

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This man has charisma maxed out to 100 percent.

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I kid you not.

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That's part of the reason why his business is so successful that he can talk his way

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into and out of any situation.

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And it's honestly funny.

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It's funny to watch.

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And this actually has some really cool applications just beyond his trickery.

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Can be Reagan's able to read a person within minutes of meeting them due to his very observant

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nature.

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Most of that is due to because, again, he's a trickster.

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He knows how to how to not really get at people's weaknesses, but he knows how to navigate a

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conversation to go the way he wants it to go.

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And the probably one of the biggest flexes of his charisma is that this man infiltrated

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an evil organization because they all the grunts thought that Reagan was their top boss,

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which is hilarious because man, just think about it.

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It just makes me laugh because, again, Reagan's incredible charisma.

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He gets on anyone's good side or at the very least gets them to lower their guard.

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So the evil organization Claw, you know, I think I spoke a little bit about it in previous

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episodes.

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They're trying to make these psychic soldiers more or less to take over the world and then

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show psychic supremacy.

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All that typical, typical anime stuff.

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So the the soldiers at Claw, the low ranking officers, thought Reagan was the big boss

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just by the way he carried himself, just the way that he commanded the room, the way he

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commanded the presence, the audience.

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And in that couple with the fact that the grunts have never seen the big boss, they

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don't know what he looks like or even sounds like.

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So those two things together just made it so he Reagan literally walked in to this highly

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secure enemy facility, found mob and the rest of the guys and then almost just walked out.

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It was it was hilarious.

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But here's the kicker is even after being revealed to be a fraud, Reagan still had the

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respect of the soldiers because of his kind and well spoken nature.

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So this I kind of want to touch on here because again, just like how we're not all not everything

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is good, not everything is bad about who we are, who we are as people.

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We have our flaws, we have our insecurities, the things that we're not really proud of.

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But on the other side, we have skills and abilities like this that show and just shines

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who we are.

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This charisma that he has, that he's able to put people at ease.

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That end of itself is a gift to be able to walk in and just have command over over a

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room of people, right?

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Or to barely just have the respect of the people in the room, whether they like you

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or not, that's a different thing.

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But just to have that type of respect.

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So just like I asked you before, what is something that you could change?

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You could.

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Now, what's something that you know you're proud of?

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What is something that other people have said about you that really, you know, one, lift

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your spirits up, obviously, but just really speaks to who you are as a person.

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You know, is it that you know that you're smart, that you're that you're funny, that

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you're charismatic, that you're just friendly, right?

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You're just a good person to be around and your support.

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I mean, what are these things?

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What do you think that people say about you?

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And the reason why I say that people say about you because oftentimes it's hard for us to

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see these things in ourselves because we are quick to put ourselves down.

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We're quick to see the negative in the thing that we want to change, the thing that we

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want to fix and things like that.

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So oftentimes it's good to get an outside perspective on the good qualities that you

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have because you do.

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You have some we all do.

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You know, I mean, I'd be good to everybody, but I'd argue that the vast majority of people

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just just love you, right?

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They just love you for being you.

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So what is it that makes you you?

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What is it that that when people walk in the room, they say, hey, that's my guy or hey,

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that's my girl.

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You know, what is it?

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What is it that they say?

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And once you find that out, or maybe you already do really take that to heart, take it to heart

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and just realize that, hey, not everything's doom and gloom and everything's not sunshine

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and rainbows either.

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Let's let's make the most of what we have and let's see how we can just kind of minimize

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minimize the bad and maximize the good.

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I mean, Ozzy, that's pretty much what life is.

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This is just trying to do what we can when we can the best we can.

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And this last point I want to go over with Reagan is just the fact that he honestly is

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a genuine person.

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Even though he's a con man, again, he's a pretty bad con man.

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He is actually a genuine person that does care about the well-being of other people

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because even though he's essentially finessing his clients out of their money because he's

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a fake psychic, they always leave refreshed and encouraged even if the help they got wasn't

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exactly what they asked for because Reagan goes above and beyond to to serve his clients.

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Now they may be asking for some actual real spirit to be dealt with or maybe not.

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Maybe they think it's a real spirit.

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He just says, yeah, yeah, yep.

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I think I see the spirit right there.

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Let me massage your shoulders a little bit.

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And with some special spiritual technique or whatever it is, he tells them.

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And though that's wrong, it's wrong, it's still he still makes sure that the customer

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satisfied when they leave.

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And I think that thing that speaks volumes to who he is, because it's not just the customers.

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He does this with mob constantly.

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He constantly encourages mob to just live the life that that he wants, one where he

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doesn't have to rely on his powers and that he can live a normal life if that's what he

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wants to do.

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Reagan has never been one to encourage mob to do something that he doesn't want to do

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or to really stand in the way of something that mob does want to do.

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I mean, Reagan even Reagan even went so far as to help mob train for this marathon that

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he wanted to run at his school, knowing mob's physical ability is way below average.

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This man struggles on the track, but and Reagan did too, because he just doesn't work out.

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But even still, he he not only encouraged mob to do it, he actually went out there and

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ran part of the race with him and just gave that that uplift and encouragement that that

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true friends would do for each other.

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And it just again, it doesn't mitigate all the the heinous stuff that Reagan does sometimes,

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especially to mob.

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Reagan has been manipulating this kid for for years at this point, but it does show

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that it's not all bad.

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It's not it's not all bad and deep, not deep down, but just he is a good person.

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So I can just kind of want to really, really let that sink in is that we all all of us

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have parts that we aren't really proud of.

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Let's be honest with just certain things about myself that I'm not really proud of.

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But those parts are all that defines us, defines us.

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We are all just a mixed bag of, you know, again, the good and the bad.

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And part of this superpower that is self-awareness is being one aware of those things, of the

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good and the bad.

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And then we are choosing to improve the good and do what we can to to adjust the bad and

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not being held down by a particular label or something like that from either side, because

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it is one thing to to say not don't let the negativity go to get to you or anything like

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that.

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Don't put yourself down.

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But it's equally as important to not get a big head either from any accolades or, you

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know, or things like that.

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People is pumping you up because too much of a good thing can turn into a bad thing.

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So we have to find the balance where, you know, hey, I know I'm not just a terrible

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person, but I also have to realize I'm not all that either.

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I'm not I'm not better than anyone else.

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You know, we're different.

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We're all unique, but we're not above.

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No one's above each other because at the end of the day, we were all born and we're all

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going to die.

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There are deaths.

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Those are the two facts of life, man.

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Like we were here, so we were born and one day we're not going to be here.

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And to me, that's the greatest equalizer.

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So it's important that we remember to stay humble and not to get so much into our own

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head on either side of the spectrum and just really do our best to honestly just be more

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like Reagan, right?

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To be a more genuine person.

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Just be real.

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You know, take the good, the bad and the ugly and just put it out there.

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Yeah, because in the day and age of social media, people put literally everything out

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there.

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But oftentimes it's just the highlights, just the good, just the best parts.

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But I say, hey, if you're going to do it, then you can just do it.

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Do it all the way.

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Do it 100 percent.

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The good, the bad and the ugly.

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And then now that doesn't mean just go start posting everything and about everyone.

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And all that fun stuff.

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But I just encourage you to be more mindful of your interactions, be more mindful of the

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things that you do and just to make sure that not one thing is defining you, but the culmination

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of who you are is just on full display for everyone to see.

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So again, just kind of summarize this whole spiel.

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I just did Reagan's growth and self-awareness.

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Ozzy is best seen in his evolving relationship with mob, his ability to read people accurately.

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And honestly, he's just as genuine care for others.

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And it is his personal journey of self-awareness helps recognize his own shortcomings, understanding

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the impact of his own actions on others and just striving to be authentic and empathetic

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to other people around him.

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And just to keep moving forward and never stop growing.

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So hey, if you like what you heard today and you want to take a deeper look into today's

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episode, head on over to the otaku liberation dot net where you'll find a blog article that

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covers today's episode in more detail.

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And you'll also find a link to our YouTube channel.

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That's right.

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We're on YouTube now, guys.

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And well, hey, that's the end of season six.

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Man, one just one season after another.

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Man, but hey, tune in next week for a special episode where I'm going to cover an anime

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movie that showed me honestly what it means to grow up and to move into new seasons of

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life.

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And that movie is Digimon Adventure Last Evolution Kazuna.

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And all right, guys, always remember, you are the main character of your story and that

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story doesn't end until he says so.

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All right.

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Be blessed.