 Welcome to the Church of the Chair. My name is E. Welcome If you are confused by the lack of videos on the channel the disappearance of all the videos on the channel There's good reason for that. I'm going to talk about it right up front I Am no longer using the name that used to be associated with this account for various reasons some of them contractual I'm not going to get into that because I don't want to talk about it I talked about it quite a bit before I Put everything on stood what I will do for people is I will give you links to all the videos That I had on the channel beforehand in the discord There will be a list. I haven't created it yet, but there will be a list of videos links to playlists Certain series that that you guys have been asking for and asking why they disappeared I can't control that Well, I could to begin with but I Anyways, I'm not going to get into it. I've talked about it so much before and if you missed it I'm sorry. You just missed it. I can't I cannot reach out to everyone If they don't pay attention to the channel and I understand that you can that people cannot Always watch every bit of content read every single post on the community tab and all that stuff But I did give months and months of warning and I still got numerous comments on my last community Community post saying where did the videos go? Um, the videos are still around. They are just unlisted to gain access to them You will have to join the discord. Um, the discord will be vetted. Um, anybody who comes in Will be, you know, if if you make if you make noise, then you're gone. It's as simple as that For this video, uh, just this video alone, um, will be three month subscribers only You have to have been subscribed for at least at least three months But the discord is down there. Um in the description of the video, uh, so when I have More time that's one of the reasons why everything is gone and things are changing. I just don't have That much time But what I am going to be doing is posting for 15 to 30 minute videos every single month Uh, one book review a month one video game review a month one movie review a month And then some other video that doesn't pertain to any of those things There will be streams on the weekend Maybe not saturday and sunday both, but there will always be a stream on the weekend I'm bringing back game nights from the previous channel We will be doing that on sundays of round probably five or six o'clock I want to make sure that my uk uh friends and followers and anybody that's not in the same time zone Will be able to watch the videos Oh, we'll be able to interact with game nights We'll work we'll work these things out as we go along. I know I'm not going to be able to fit everyone in But I do want to make sure that as many people that want to play Are able to play As far as the dates and times or any of those things as far as the videos are concerned. Um, I'm not sure but I want I want to make it clear that This content is going to be few and far between Um, it'll be one a week and they are going to be highly stylized If you were a fan of my old content where I just pretty much You know rambled on and on and on all that's going to be gone All the repetition all that stuff is going to be edited out. That's another reason why I am, you know, taking my time slowly coming back to make sure I have a nice, uh catalog That's uploaded at least three months in advance. Um, I am a good ways into that I'm two months I'm two months ahead right now So when we get to when we get back to uploading all those videos will be, you know Have already been shot and you guys will have constant content on the channel. Like I said long videos, uh Anywhere between 15 and 30 minutes, um, and of course, I'm going to ramble for this because I didn't prepare for this But as you see I have a a semi new background. I know all this stuff looks familiar All the the bookshelves. We got kink stuff over here. We got some of my favorites all sprinkled about the But now it is a very tight, you know Closed up space And I really like it. I hope you guys do too Let's see or what else is on the the doc could discuss before I look at chat Um, so posting schedule the discord is very important because eventually this channel will be Pretty much locked down to discord only Um, there'll be unlisted streams and if you want to join the and and it's not about it's not about building What it's about building a community and I take that that is about building a community I want you guys to be able to talk amongst yourselves Um, I will not be the the main purpose of this is I will not be responding to comments or even looking at comments on The videos themselves if you want to ask me questions or any of that stuff Head on over to discord join the discord We will be vetting everyone who comes through um and Final note here is I want this to be a fun space So anyone who comes in with any garbage any trolling anything like that You want you're not going to get any attention. You're going to be automatically blocked. I have numerous Numerous moderators in here. There will always be at least one. I'm sure Uh, good friends of mine and the same thing is going to happen over on discord So I mean you can come in and you can try But you're not going to get any response out of anyone I've told all of my moderators to not respond to you to not bring any attention to you and I'm just going to ignore you um Now as far as the old videos are concerned I need to know from from the community and I will be looking at chat here in a minute I need to know from the community what videos you want back And I won't be posting them again here. Like I said, they'll be over on discord But I had over a thousand videos. Um, I had multiple series things like that. Do you guys want top by friday? Do you want the steven king theorist that kind of thing? I cannot make them public I can't they have to be over on discord Um, and you will see that I'm still using the name that shall not be named over on discord That will change soon also to just eat. I am still e. I am still the same person Uh, but things are changing in my life and I have to make sure that you know, those things are protected Um, and again, that's all I'm going to say about that So if you have any questions now is the time to ask now is the time to bring up any concerns that you have I will answer you guys fully here Um, any as long as you're respectful, um, and we're we're just going to jump into this and get going Um, there will be no twitter. There will be no, uh, instagram My tiktok is reserved solely for my cousin earl videos Um, I'm not going to be linking here if you want to go over to uh to to tiktok If it's still around, uh in the next in the following months, it is c u z z i n e a r l that's how you can find, uh, my content over there But again, that is solely for the cousin earl stuff because when I post it over here either I get hate Um, or it it's just jokes. It's just, you know Yes, there's a lot of southerners that are upset with the with the cousin earl stuff because I actually do sound like this This is my real voice and cousin earl is a character. It's no different from anyone else playing a character And I I try to keep it to where it is all jokes and I don't do anything serious But every now and again, I will post something serious That is everything. Let me jump over into into the comments and we can get going because we're already eight minutes into this video Thank you so much to the people who hung around. I thought for sure once I unlisted, uh, all all of the videos That I would have a huge, you know exodus from the channel, but I only lost about 200 of you and the people that I lost I'm not I'm not worried about. Um, it's the people I firmly believe that the people who care are going to hang around in the future and you guys did So love love y'all so much. Thank you for the support You guys mean the world to me and it was very nice to see that I that I only lost a small Well, relatively small number of subscribers because I was at 11,900 before and now I'm at 11,700 So thank you. Love you guys Okay, here we go Welcome back. Thank you. Hayley appreciate it. Uh, let's see here. Hey connor. Thank you Uh, hey viking. What's up? Hey tim? Hello, brian. I thank you. Um, I really enjoy this and it's it's the same office and it's pretty much the same bookshelves All that stuff will probably be changing as I get newer bookshelves and whatnot, but I really wanted a I really wanted a space for myself that that felt contained almost like a dog crate I I know that sounds funny, but I wanted something that was like it's a room within a room because I'm when when I'm not Uh, doing live streams things I come out into this office and I work. Uh, this is my workspace as well as you know Live streaming and all that stuff making videos. Um, and I literally just sit here like this With my back to the camera and I read uh, it is it is I feel really good about this space Um, and I'm glad you guys like it. Uh, let's see here. I like the new setup. It looks cozy cool and cozy. Yes. Yes Um, that's exactly how I feel about it. Uh, I'm very very I'm I'm also kind of I'm not nervous. I just it's been so long. I got to kind of get back on the horse So if I feel seem like I'm stammering rambling that kind of thing That's just how I work through, you know, trying to get back into the swing of things. Hey zeely. I miss y'all too Honestly, I missed everyone in here. Um, that's not over on the discord Even the discord I've kind of been not really ignoring but not paying that much attention to and I'm sorry for that But I have had so much stuff going on in my everyday life all good. No complaints whatsoever Um, I've had so much stuff going on. I I deleted it from my phone I deleted all my apps except for tiktok, of course because I still need to post over there. Um But uh, yeah, uh, I I've been busy and I and at some point in time. I hope to be able to talk about all the stuff that I've been busy doing um But every single time I'm on the cusp of something taking off There's a delay and it's been a delay over and over and over again and hopefully Soon I'll be able to share something but that's one of the reasons why the other name is gone hint hint nudge nudge wink wink That's why it's gone Uh, let's see here I'll moderate your patootie Thank you viking Let's say hey booktube goddess. Are you still here? Goddess, are you still here? Not too long ago. Glad to see you back. Thank thank you. Thank you goddess. I appreciate that Definitely thursday theorist back. Uh, love all those videos. Uh, they'll like I said, they'll be up on the discord I'll have an entire list here shortly. I was thinking about waiting until I had all this stuff ready to go live But I wanted to get back into the swing of things just so I could work through Again, not the nerves just try to kind of regain my flow because I've I've been It's been a very lonely space now My family's been super supportive shell and the kids have just been absolutely amazing But I I'm trying to get back into the flow of the outside world because I've been so Insular and you know reclusive and all that stuff. I'm trying to get back into Talking to people and sounds weird, but it's the truth Beavers till the end. Thank you viking. Uh, we love you. We always thank you. Tony. I appreciate that Uh, let's see here Uh, hey, lawless, um the you're not going to see any books from the old name whatsoever You will see some stuff from ward nerd low because I'm still writing with darin cap off Um, we're working we're going to start working on our third book here very soon. So the wicked wax The wicked why why'd we name it this? I I can't even pronounce the damn The damn book name the wicked wrecks of the west And uh, we our legend are still up on amazon darin is getting has full control over the books. I'm not He's taking all the money, but I gave it to him But we're still going to be working together ward nerd low is still a thing But the other name is not another thing. Um is If you try to type the after this video if you try to type the old name It's not going to let you it's not going to show up because I have that name blocked Um, and if you find some way around it, I'm just going to delete the comment Uh, let's see here. Uh Oh jazz, that's cool That's very cool. Okay. Um, so as far as the steven king content will there be steven king Content in the future. Yes, but it will be unlisted Unlisted so you will have to go over to the discord to watch those videos Um, and basically I'm creating content for fans of the channel I am not creating content for every tongue dick and harry that comes in. I'm just not Um, so the old stuff the reason I'm not going to reshoot 68 videos There's 68 videos of the steven. Actually, it's double that because I did reviews of every book that I did a thursday theorist for I'm not going to reshoot the whole thing to take my my name and references to that other to the old name I'm not going to edit those videos or reshoot them because it's a lot. I just don't have the time So in the future if you want to watch the the steven king theorist thursday theorist videos, they'll be over on discord Hey, derrick. What's up, man? Appreciate you coming in All right, uh god, it's good. I'm glad you I'm glad you caught that I'm I've I've been you know I've been away. I know um, but we're we're working ourselves back in Let's see here. Uh, I miss you a lot buddy. I'm back in you're back in birmingham. Why did you come back? Why tim? Why? Uh It's okay. I think you're brave. I'd be scared to go live on a video and would just turn red and stammer It's like I said, it's not nerves like, you know, most of you guys I mean You guys are like family to me, you know, especially everyone that's in here. Everyone is commenting. Um, hi ty by the way uh It's it's more It's almost like learning how to talk again. Um, I've been pretty Reclusive for I've been introvert. I'm usually introverted anyways, but even more so because I didn't even have the channel Um to to like fall back on and get my social, you know, media on Um, I I do want to talk about one thing before we go on and we we talk some more. Um It's it's all of I want I want this place I want this channel To be about community. I want us to talk about books and and nothing else I I want not books don't just books, but you know games and all that stuff I I want to make sure that uh That you are you are comfortable here and that I am comfortable here Um, and we build something maybe not special but something to where you know, we we feel like and that's what the discord is for Um to build something that you know feels more uh community Instead of just you know random comments, uh random Coming in or whatnot if people want to join this they they can if people don't they don't have to Yeah, a friendly hangout. Yes. Uh, yes, there will be fog. I haven't gotten a set set up yet And I'm trying to figure out the the lighting And the fog situation because as you can see here I'm kind of blocked in so wiki wiki wiki Damn it viking Hey working man. How you doing? I don't want to get is it josh josh It's either josh or justin. I'm so sorry. I think it's josh. I'm sorry Uh, let's see here, uh Hey j rod, how you doing? Lives are stressful. I understand again. It's not even the stress. It's just literally. I'm out of practice it's it's a matter of Remembering how to talk to people, you know people that I don't see every day like my family I don't have any problem talking to my family, but as far as uh this As far as this is concerned it it is a bit awkward just because I'm not entirely sure what to say Um, and also I've been talking non-stop for the past two weeks whether it be meetings Um, whether it be uh doing videos for the channel like I said I'm two months ahead Um going back to that. I hope to get you know three to six months ahead Um that way I can take time to do other things so I shoot a bunch of videos edit them Um edit all out all the rambling and repetition Unlike these lives are just going to be just you know me talking to you guys Uh, let's see here Hey, you still got your rage. Yeah, it's right here. It's cool dude. I still have mine on my bookshelf, too Well, I mean I bought the thing it was it was cheap. Yes, it was a bootleg But and like I said, I bought it to see if it would really come but yeah, it's it's nice to have on the shelf I'm not a performing monkey. I've actually said that Hey raffaella, how you doing? Oh tim, I want you to know how much of an inspiration How much of an inspiration to me My first short story is going to be published in an upcoming anthology Pro rates and everything in june I'd love to share that tweet with you Hey, you get you can email me. I'm sure you I think you have my email address But yeah, definitely, you know shoot me an email. I want to read your story I need to turn my phone on this is this is what the constant and I don't even have social media And I'm still getting constant updates So give me a second here All right, do not disturb. They're just gonna have to deal with it. Uh, hey lazy. How you doing? Uh, what is this place this place is the new place. This is the new hotness. The old busted is gone Um, okay. Another thing is I'm gonna prepare you guys up front Up front. Well, I should have done it up front. We're already, you know, 20 minutes in there. It's gonna be game streams There's gonna be video game content on here the last time I tried to post video game content Either I didn't do well or I got a bunch of words over reviews Stop it It's I'm gonna post what I want to post and that's another thing going forward is I'm going to post what I want to post Uh, if you want the old content again, you're gonna have to go to discord Thanks for the update. Will you also be writing books on your own? The near future or just the collab ones Um, the the issue with even being known as e um, and I was calling myself e even before the whole Yeah, anyways, but let let's okay I will I am constantly writing. I'm always writing. I have big projects coming up Will I be able to share those things? Maybe I don't know how it all depends and this is gonna sound really funny and maybe even terrible it all depends on how The channel behaves if I get a bunch of stuff about, um, you know Tying in the old name with new names, um, if I get a bunch of, uh Not not really threats, but a bunch of questions about I'm one of those people. Okay, let me let me say it this way I'm one of those people the more you ask me to do something unless of course you're my family Um, the more you ask me to do something the the less I want to do it Um, I know that sounds terrible, but it's the truth. I'm just being honest with you The more people ask and that's one of the reasons why the king content I had no problem getting rid of it because for so many people I had become the steven king person um, the the go-to for for steven king stuff and And it wasn't even really a wait or a burden It just got to a point where there's so much more that I care about than that and um there toward the end I was getting constant Constant stuff. When are you going to do this? When are you going to do that? Revolver, you know regarding steven king And I just stopped caring um and When when I looked back on things and I saw how much that affected my love for my favorite author of all time I don't want that coming in between my love for that for those books I don't want that I don't want that coming between my love for his work I don't I don't want the constant necessity to make that content Detract from my love of the stories And one of the main things that happened That really it didn't catch me off guard as much as it kind of made me take a step back and reflect Was all of the stuff regarding the fairytale review How and I even said in the review That I know there are going to be people who only like the first part of this book The the next two thirds people are going to because that's what steven king is best at small stories About real characters and once the fantasy stuff came in but I loved it and I got numerous numerous Numerous comments about how wrong I was about how overdone all the stuff that he had done That was the point of the book And I just feel like People completely missed the the point of the book, which was the title of the book Yes, he rehashed all the all the fairytale stuff, but that was on purpose um, it it drove me nuts to to see so many people just completely Disregard that aspect on top of everything else people telling me that objectively I was wrong that it was a bad book Got the same thing with billy summers, but in the opposite people saying how fantastic that book was and that I was wrong Opinions Our opinions that's all they are um When it comes down to the hate that you give someone Because they don't like your opinion. I don't play that nonsense um, it's just like, uh saying something is overrated. Um, you're you're taking away that person's experience with that thing and that's it it really it got under my skin. I'm not going to lie. Um, the uh, the idea that someone who has spent the last 40 50 years Uh, and has become an icon Just because just because he has that status Automatically means that he's overrated or or whatever it might be. Um, so I'm of two mindsets And it's you know cognitive dissonance Because I do realize that he is a fantastic author And that he you know won awards and all that other things But at the same time i'm critical of him um in my in my own opinions of things that he does uh, and The I guess at the near constant disagreement and another thing you're going to see is missing from my uh content going forward Is asking your opinion and let's have a discussion because that shit did not work um, that didn't work whatsoever. Um, it turned into It turned into people thinking that I have to I had like I have to listen to them. Um, and that drove me crazy also because it's like I don't care If you don't like Stephen King Honestly, don't care if you do like him. That's your own prerogative. That's that's your own thing It's when people say things and That and they infer that only they are right that is that's peak solipsism That's literally the definition of solipsism thinking that only your opinion matters. Um, which brings me to my next topic Which is negativity. We're not going to have any more negativity here No matter no, no matter what what it is. Um, I'm only going to be reviewing books that I like movies that I like games that I like um, I will I have never told anyone to Not consume a certain type of media because I said so I I've always said forever that you should You know do the thing on your own and form your own opinion Um at the same time I realize my opinion doesn't matter No one else's opinion really matters. The only person that that matters to is that individual um, and unfortunately the way the world is going more and more and more people are Coming coming to the conclusion that their opinion their feelings are facts and I just I don't care, uh, and that's I I think that's where I I'm coming to with all of this Is that I have learned that I I have finally realized that it does not matter What other people think about anything that you do if you are enjoying your time with that media If you are enjoying your life, it does not matter and to some extent. I've always known this um, because I you know, I'm I'm pro, uh BIPOC pro LGBTQIA all or the bit qual as tiktok is saying now um, it Whatever you're doing on your own time Do it if if as long as you're not hurting someone Do it I mean I I I don't I I guess the thing that I'm struggling with the most is knowing that so many people Are stuck in their own heads as if they're the only person that exists And I had to get away from that. I had to get away from social media and all that stuff to To you know and and argue with myself Um, it does does someone else's opinion matter to me And I finally came to the conclusion that it really doesn't because if you dislike what I like That doesn't affect what I like whatsoever. Anyways, I went off on a diatribe. Um, let's see here. What else is going on? Um, let's see I remember those days. He literally a new king book would come out and people would want your review on Yeah, sometimes even before and I tried to get Scribner to send me copies But because I'm honest about Stephen King books, they wouldn't send me the copies. Um, in fact the uh, There was one person who at A person who will not be named who sent me an email saying, um, we don't appreciate your review on a certain book Could you take it down? I'm not outing that person. Like I said, no more negativity, but I was literally told That I needed to take to be considered for Uh, advanced review copies that I would need to take down the negative reviews that I had of some of his other more recent books What if we phrase the question as a negative so So in order to not have to do that's hey, that's the best way to do it man There there is no there is no better way manly to get me to not do something Um, then to ask for it constantly Yay game streams. Is your email still, uh Whoa, I almost said the name Tony don't say the name. I'm removing your content And I mean I'm removing the comment But uh, yeah, I don't use the don't use the name that email is not going to be used in the future. No Um, we will meet anyone Yeah, I'll watch whatever you want to post. Uh, just enjoy hanging out and hearing you talk about Thank you zeely. That's That's what I want. I just want to hang out with you guys. That's it because this is my literally my only Social interaction is this channel. I don't have social media at all anymore I do have one or two hidden things and that's just so I can so I can Keep in contact with friends who either refuse to do email or refuse to leave certain platforms So I do have a lurking account and that's just to make sure Well, okay, let me tell you a little story behind that I had a friend who passed away Four years ago now four years ago. I had no idea that person died None whatsoever all because I left facebook I left facebook in 2015 they passed away And I had no idea because that was the only social media that they had So I am lurking on social media in various different forms Just to make sure that I know when something bad happens to my friends I decided for video game content. I just downloaded this game called valheim super fun. Awesome. Awesome Oh, we will be doing the first game stream I will confirm that the very first game stream will be resident evil 4 I don't you guys are going to be with me for the blind playthrough Um, I don't think I'll be I don't think I'll have chat on just because I want to do the blind playthrough So if you guys want to watch me play it you can if you don't know I'm a resident evil speedrunner So I'm super excited for this game. Um, I don't have any records in the community or anything I have but I do have like sub one hour on some games sub two hours on others I don't play on pc so I can't really do the glitches But our our first one will be the remake of resident evil 4 I will be streaming the entire game. I will not be communicating with chat for obvious reasons spoilers So on and so forth, but I will be live streaming the game. All right. Um Yeah, exactly. I understand some fans were really rude about king Like you owed them king content. Yeah, I mean, I kind of get it because you know people people subscribe Another oh, I want to talk about memberships real quick Memberships are only here The only reason memberships are here is because there are people out there who want to support me That's it over and done with I'm not making I'm not putting a paywall on anything Ever I got a rude jackass over on instagram and he followed me around to multiple different sites Complaining that I didn't post members only content because he signed up to be a member I would have gladly given him his five dollars back But he was rude about it. So I'm gonna keep the money. But anyways the The memberships if you want to help support me you can click on the membership button It'll help support me. That's great. That's fine. Whatever. I don't care But that's the only reason they're there you're not going to get exclusive content You're in fact the only exclusive thing I ever posted over on the membership channel was a review of uh Duncan Donuts's ghost pepper donut and that's because certain people asked for it And they had paid me, you know, they because they were members So I posted it only on there just for them. Uh, the patreon is dying also There will be no patreon come later in the year. I've already talked to the folks over there I've already posted over there letting them know. Um, but that is literally the only thing with the old name left on it I'm here for whatever you post. I didn't even watch your king content generally because I haven't read most of them I understand that completely Let's see here. I haven't read many king books myself either. Hey, it's whatever Uh, the the the trolls are nuts, man I had someone comment on my video the other day that I said I should burn all my books and opinions along with it Yeah, they Some people just trash. I mean, there's really nothing else to say and I've just gotten to the point where it's so easy for me to ignore it. Um, it and It's it's like For instance, I do the I post a cousin earl stuff. I literally had to change my bio on tiktok Because just because people saw that I was a, uh, uh, white cishet Southerner because you know earl has the accent, um That I I was getting all the people. I don't want to be around Um, and that that it didn't really surprise me because I understand it living in the south You get people white people come up to you all the time Say racist shit just because they think just because there's no bipoc people around They'll say something racist and expect you to agree with them And I was getting the same thing over on tiktok, but the best there was a good part about this I know who to block. I know who to ignore. I know who to delete. I know whose comments to remove So literally they're they're helping me out and also boosting my engagement because Engagement is everything when when it comes to this video content YouTube tiktok all that stuff if you are commenting and watching people's videos Those platforms don't give a shit about hate. They don't care All they want is the engagement. They want to keep you on the channel They want to keep you on the page. They want to keep you on the app So the more you interact with someone the the more you're helping them Literally making money off of bullies. It is the best thing in the world It it may it fills me with so much joy To know that I am making money off of that a person and then you get comments like oh, well I got ad block on it doesn't matter Sweetie it doesn't matter if you have ad blocker on Because all they care about are the views and the engagement you want to know you want to know why it still helps They're They are running ads on channels that are not monetized So it doesn't matter if you have ad blocker on no matter what they're going to boost that creator's content to people who actually do Watch the ads they're going to boost that content to people who are going to super chat Or donate or give bits or whatever they're going to push that content the more you interact You are literally paying that person with your time Doesn't make any sense to me, but I appreciate them now. I do. I love it. I appreciate it I appreciate all the hate no all the all the nonsense on all the trolling because they are literally boosting my engagement boosting my cpm that's clicks per minute all that stuff and they're helping me out While they are trying to spread hate nonsense If someone has to be nasty towards another person based on their personal opinions and preferences of a movie or book That person needs to just find the true reason why they are so ain't yes Yes, yes We all bring different experiences when we read we all yeah exactly. Hey akash. How you doing? Holy hell it has been a while, hasn't it? Yep Uh Looks like the email I have is for a tim. Um, I am still I'm still checking it every now and again, but don't expect an immediate response. I check it Probably every two weeks. I try to do every week, but sometimes I literally just forget Uh, thank you everybody for the well said We don't appreciate folks like you around here sexual harassment panda. What? What? What what happened? Did I miss something? Anyways, uh, what should we call you? It's e. It's still e Still e. I'm not familiar with discord. How do I get your content there? You literally just go over the the link is down there in the description derrick You click on that and I don't know should I keep doobly-doo? I don't know if I'm going to keep doobly-doo or not. I like doobly-doo. I know you got most of you like doobly-doo But anyways, it's down there in the doobly-doo And that could mean the description or the the comments, but in this one, it's the description Go down there click on that join the discord and there'll be a page coming It's not up yet But there will be a page coming that has all of the unlisted videos Well playlist not the video is just a playlist because it would be way too much to post um, but anyways, uh That's where you're going to find uh the the steven king content But here we're going to focus on big books because that's really what I love to read is big hulking tomes Um, so the series about that's going to be called time for a tome Um, and I think you guys are going to get a kick out of the stylization of the videos I think I think you're gonna like it. Uh, but yeah Anyways, I'm excited for you guys to see it. Uh, hey wane. I'm doing I'm doing well I'm doing better than I had then Ever since I created ever since the last persona started. Um, I am doing fantastic I don't have any stress or uh, well, I have plenty of stress with obligations and contracts and things like that, but as far as just Existing I am very happy I am uh, it Yeah, I have a lot of joy in my heart now And I think that's because you know, I have left social media And I'm not and that comes from a place of privilege that I understand completely If you're only if the only way that you can have, uh, Only way you can be sociable is online. That's perfectly fine. There's nothing wrong with that for me It was toxic. Um for me. I let too many things in that I should not have done I should not have let in Um, and I have I fixed that and I'm much much happier nowadays Hey pretzel head, uh, yeah all is well. I hope you're doing well, too Um, let's see here if I'm missing people. I'm sorry chat is rather busy and I'm trying to just catch the most important stuff Um, I can hardly believe I'm sitting here looking at E. I told you I would be back I'm a man of my word to some extent sometimes I don't follow through but I eventually I don't follow through right away Right away, but I eventually follow through. I don't like letting people down Um, and that's one of the reasons why I didn't just completely nuke the channel Um, because there's a lot of people here that I love talking to a lot of people here that don't want to go to discord Um, a lot of people that don't want To have any other connection with me like there's people there's not There's 32 people in here right now. There's not 32 people talking Um, there's a lot of people who just like to lurk and I respect that although I'd love to hear from you I'd love to hear why you lurk. Do you just like listening to me talk? It seems odd, but I I would love to hear from you Hey kaiju, how you doing a few minutes behind the live chat. I started to watch the video from the beginning I've missed hearing it. Oh, thank you Uh, come on every time I scroll always loved your reviews, especially when I disagreed because it gave me a different perspective And that's why I watched in the first place and I love people like that raffella I love people like that um who people who can listen to another person's opinion and I'm I'm talking about a respectful, you know a respectful utterance of an opinion. Um, I'm not talking about someone who comes in and goes Uh I'm not someone who likes someone who's like this sucks or this is overrated or you know, that's not an opinion or Let let me use let me use a or There's too much cussing in your books because I'm a child You know that kind of thing. Um, those are not opinions that I'm going to listen to those are not opinions that I'm going to Uh, like what what am I supposed to do about an opinion like that if you say it sucks? Okay, you think it sucks I'm gonna move along If you say it's good, maybe we can talk about what we find good, but I have found The majority of people who express a negative opinion just want to be angry And that's me too That was me And the reason why I was like that is because I let things get to me I would you know, I let even books movies video games all that stuff get to me And oddly enough dark souls has helped me break out of that shell I used to you know dying dying video games and I'm like you stupid an idiot I don't know why I'm censoring myself because Anyways, but stupid stupid fucking shit Yeah, I would I would call myself a stupid fucking idiot or you dumb ass or so on and so forth Um And I realized that down talking myself wasn't helping me whatsoever So I stopped doing it and now when I die in video games, which is like, okay. That's uh That's good That's good. That's good. You died. You're gonna learn you're gonna get back on the horse and you're gonna go on about your business Uh, hey cammy, how are you doing just here to see? Oh, just here to see your face and catch up on what your future holds a little late to the live, but I generally care Uh where I can catch up with you and what you're planning on doing. Uh, thank you cammy. I miss you lady I miss you. I mean, I still got I still got that copy of rage that you sent me not rage the bachman books. Thank you again Uh, it's it's really nice. I'm about to get choked up. It's really nice to see you because I understand It's just nice to see you that that's that's as far as I'll go with that Um savory donuts are better than sweet ones. Let's war Uh, let's see here. E I have to boogie kid. All right, uh have have a good one working man. Um, I don't know if you I don't know if you ever you corrected me or not. I believe your name's josh I'm I'm bad with j names just j names for some reason I always I used to get comments all the time people would come in and they'd be like, oh my god, you remember my name um, you know people who use handles that aren't their names. Um, and It was I always had problems with j names and a names So like I always get like ambers confused with like ariola It's kidding. Anyways, I would get a's and j's screwed up for some odd reason. I don't know But there's a lot of j names a lot of a names. So I feel that you know, I uh, I'm okay there um Hey, alex alex. Sorry. Hello alex. See alex alex. Your name is literally on the screen alex and I called you alex Uh, let's see here. Get your fingies ready. Yes game nights are coming back Uh, what kind of tomes are you reading? Okay? So, uh, the first one the first review that you're going to get is right here Amber gray from uh, jeff van demir and then uh, john erving's the last chairlift spoiler alert I fucking loved both of them. They were fantastic amazing all that good stuff. I can feel your happiness. It makes it makes me happy too Uh, good to see your face. Thank you, terry. Thank you. I know I've been quiet, but I I cannot express this enough I've been so busy and I'm not really paying attention to the phone that has like text messages and Stuff from like friends and family because I have to focus on what I'm doing I had some big shit coming up in my life. I gotta make sure my family is, you know Financially secure so I cannot screw this up Uh, I'm semi lurking because I'm drawing this definitely go draw. There's plenty of chat here. Trust me This is plenty of chat for me to get through the only reason I hate big books is because it messes up my good re3 challenge Okay, akash. I need to talk to akash for a minute. Akash sit down. Let's let's talk for a second Good re3's reading challenge Is only good if it motivates you to read what you want to read If it is keeping you from reading something Based solely on whether or not you can finish it It is a detriment to your reading. It is a detriment to your education It's just an all-around detrimental thing. The good re3's reading challenge is nothing But an arbitrary number that you set yourself. That's your own goals There is something to say about meeting your reading goals But if you are not enjoying the reading is a hobby If you're not enjoying your hobby, what the hell good what the hell uses it It's the hobbies are things that you do to get away from the world to relax to decompress Hobbies are not meant to be forced if you don't like doing it find something else to do And stop letting social media Tell you what you should be doing Do what you enjoy doing akash Do what you enjoy doing I could read a huge book. That's the size of three to four bigger books But as gimley said that's only counts as one. That's fine. This isn't this isn't a competition The good re3's reading challenge you're in competition with yourself You're the one who said it said it for two read three And have a fucking celebration, right You're you're you're giving yourself a constraint That should not exist It's like people who only who absolutely force themselves to get to a certain word count that that's arbitrary numbers. They don't matter whatsoever, they don't you're setting your goals Set something small so that you can achieve small goals Big achievements small goals equal big achievements. Remember that Shortly after one of these was posted it has 280 views. What are you talking about? One of these Isn't it people coming in watching the first part of the video just for the schedule and whatnot If you're talking about how many views this has had I can share my screen on discord if anyone wants to look Yeah, another thing is we can share our screens. We can chat. We I've been doing voice chat with everybody Like we just hang out and chat sometimes. It's amazing. It's great. It's like going down to a coffee shop with your friends See I'm balding. Look at all this. Look at all this baldness. Look at all that. That's redonkulous. That's what that is Uh, good to see you too, Alec Let's see here I die a lot. Yeah, me too I love you and thank you. I can tell you finally get why I left and you sir one of the good ones Let's catch up sending big warm hugs. You still have my email I check it like every once or two weeks can't every probably every two weeks. Let me not give you Any hopes or dreams? I'm kidding It's about every two weeks at this point that I check the old email So if you want to go over there and check and send me an email definitely do definitely do Um, I understand E proud of you. Do what you have to thank you. Terry. Hey, what's up, Lee? How you doing? Uh, I'm gonna do readathon from march and I'm not enjoying it all but I am getting through my tbr You guys want to know why What the the first thing that made me disappear if you remember last year I had an entire row of books behind me that I was supposed to read four books a month. That was it I felt obligated and I just stopped reading. I stopped reading for nine months. I didn't I I've read a couple things for, uh, hollow, what was it? What's it called? Halloween 31 days of halloween um And I didn't even enjoy that. Um, I enjoyed the books but knowing that I had to create content solely because people expected it It drove me absolutely that shit. So I started the writing streams because why not, you know And then that became an obligation. So I stopped doing that someone and so forth it gets Obligate I'm not good with obligations Unless it comes with a big paycheck Upside that's terrible. But uh, if if I'm forcing myself to do something and it literally has no payoff Um, it to me once again, I am doing something that I used to just do on my own and enjoy I'm forcing myself to do for other people And that takes all the fun out of it. But I've said this I'm re I'm reiterating everything. I've already said He is back and it's a great thing. The world needs e the real honest truth I like honest content creators who are true To who they are. Thank you camp. All right, let's see here Re-read a shortest sort of Shinara. I can never get into Terry Brooks I think the only book of his that I finished was the hook Novelization I stopped setting reading challenges on Goodreads. Good. That's good I've been uh, re-reading my Miracami collection. Yeah, look at that an entire shelf. Well, there's some Andrew Dubois The third over here, but all from here All the way over is Miracami I find if I put too much Pressure on myself to do things. I just don't want want to do it exactly Yeah, but if I'm like, yeah, I want to draw today. I'll do it same with reading books. Also If you were over on discord, you probably saw that I've been sculpting There's a lot of cool stuff over on discord. There's a lot of very creative people over there Hayley nettles lee all different kinds of people creating stuff just to show off amongst friends It's a really cool thing. It's a cool community Definitely click on click click click click the discord thing down there and come hang out I only started the Goodreads challenge to compete. See Akash. This is this is We we about to go to therapy here in a second Couldn't read much last year because of poor mental health and failed it so hard still feel guilty That is something you imposed on yourself Stop imposing things on yourself. Stop making yourself feel bad For not achieving goals that are completely arbitrary that mean nothing Aim low succeed high. There's so many ways I can say this But also, I mean, yeah friendly competition is fun and all good and all that stuff, you know I host game nights here. I know friendly competition is fun. Don't get me wrong But if you're not enjoying it, where the hell is the fun? You're you're doing this for fun Do it for fun Basically, I love the year in books montages and Goodreads is kind of nuts the first year on Goodreads I read 108 books than 52 Yeah, that's that's what I noticed too, Alec. So if you don't know my Goodreads is gone completely I don't even have a Goodreads anymore because Why? It's turned into basically twitter about books and while that might sound cool All I'm seeing are what other people all I saw on Goodreads for the past two years were My friends liking other people's Stuff I didn't actually see my friends content. I saw them. It was just an entire thread Of that of that friend liking other people's content. I don't want to see what I don't want to I don't want to see that I want to see what you like. I want to read your reviews and I couldn't find them I literally had to go to my friends pages to be like, okay. Did they like the book or not? Someone or so forth whatever Oh by J. Rod Bye I'm sorry. Sorry. I missed you Uh, can I pin this? Yeah, pin message. All right. Um There you go. Uh, lee lee posted the the link. Um I'm hoping I'm hoping it works. I don't know Let's see here. Anyways Uh, you're kind of right though setting low Goodreads standards and achieving them motivates me to read more There you go. Um, but here's the thing. What a gosh, let me ask you a question and this is an honest question What what does it matter? If you take a month reading a long book Or if you take a month reading 30 short books What what what's the what's the issue with that and I know we all all of us readers all of us You know bookworms get stuck on this idea That we want to read as much as possible But you're still reading as much as possible when you're reading a long book That it takes longer now if you like shorter books, that's different if you like shorter books Read shorter books if you like longer books read longer books if you like them in the middle you get what i'm saying My thing is you're never ever Never going to be able to read your entire tbr If you're if you're a book not like me You're never going to be able to read all those books So why not just read what you enjoy and focus on the things that you enjoy Instead of chasing the dragon because that's what we're doing if we're honest We're just a bunch of junkies and you know, we the the big book is not an instant payoff so you read shorter books and you get instant dopamine kind of thing um, but I want to stress this again do whatever you like to do if reading a bunch of short books is your thing Definitely do that But if the only reason you're not reading long books is because you want to be number one on on the goodreads charts There's always going to be someone better also It's always going to be someone better Yay tim welcome to the discord I sometimes don't conflicted if I should count comic books on goodreads. Yes, it's all reading. Stop it Stop it count your audiobooks count your comic books count your manga count your your regular books Count the back of your fucking cereal box for all I care. It's all reading Read it Fuck off By the way, I read rosemary's baby by ira levine levin levin levine. I thought it was no adam levine ira levin Objectively the most intense terrifying and traumatic fiction based experience of my whole life It was like an open-eye nightmare. Cool. I hear you loud and clear clear e. Yeah, and again you know All I'm trying to do is make people Understand that if you're doing something that you don't enjoy and you do not have a financial obligation to that thing You're not paying the bills with that thing and you don't like it. Stop fucking doing it Period stop it unless you're a glutton for punishment and then rock the fuck on do you do your kink? That's fine, but but If you're not enjoying it Why are you doing it? Simple as that I'm not talking about going to work. That's not what i'm talking about. Everybody's got bills to pay We would all love to get out of this capitalistic nightmare We would all love to get out of it and just live our best, you know flower child narrative out in the fucking wilderness We would all love to do that, but it's not realistic right now I would love to have a place out. I do have a place out in the country that is completely Isolated and what I do have those things, but I got lucky. That's a privilege um, it's the same time I It's another thing of cognitive dissonance You know, you got people working to live And people living to work, you know, it's the same thing with with over-eaters and and Under-eaters Yeah, people who live to eat me my chunky ass, you know, I'm dropping weight exponentially And then you have people who live to eat because they love the taste of food And then you have people who can just eat a boiled chicken breast with absolute no seasoning for the protein I can't do that. I can't choke that shit down. I'm sorry people who only drink water You know people who live healthy lifestyles because They derive no real joy from eating me. I get all the joy from eating I love eating just like I enjoy movies books video games all that stuff Um, but I I've learned especially here later in life That if you're doing something that you don't enjoy And you don't have an obligation to do that thing If it is a self-imposed obligation, there's no reason to do it Live your best life. Have fun. Do what you want to do as long as you're not hurting anybody As long as you're not out here Well, I'm not going to go down the list because I probably will get shut down but As long as you're not hurting anybody just go do your thing on your own or with people who enjoy the same thing Have fun Have fun. I don't yeah. Anyways Um, let's see here Speaking of book link. I've noticed more novellas being put. I I have a reasoning for that goddess Since I don't look at page count. I've been surprised getting short works When I think I'm buying a novel. Let me let me read you something. I recently got a rejection letter It was a very upsetting Rejection letter, but I'm going to read you one one part of it I'm not going to name the the the person who sent me the rejection letter But I am going to read it to you verbatim um, I'm going to Let's see here. Hang on. All right Unfortunately, the market for long epic saga style Fiction has become increasingly difficult and we will not be offering representation representation at this time Okay Literally the only reason they didn't take the book is because it was 200,000 words because it was 650 pages That's the only reason they didn't take the book Do I sit around and blame Do I sit around and blame tldr crowd? Do I sit around and blame tiktok youtube shorts uh instagram reels facebook? Do I blame all that stuff? No, it's where the culture is Progressing it's where the culture is leading into more and more short form content, corn, yeah, short form content. And that's not because people's attention spans are smaller or shorter. The reason for it is because there's so much goddamn information. No, it's very few people want to read longer books. You got a cost, doesn't want to read it because of, you know, a good reach challenge. You got multiple people who don't want to read it because they don't want to time sink. Multiple people, just the majority of people saying, no, I don't want to spend all the time that I have left because everyone has this existential crisis going on right now. We feel like we're running out of time and we damn well may be. But people are still reading long books. People are going back and reading, you know, Stephen King and Rice and Peter Straub and the later Robert McCammon stuff. People are going back and hunting out these big books because very few people are publishing them. There's two things I've learned doing what I'm doing now on this big project. The first thing is publishers only want trending topics. That's the only thing they want. As long as it's already popular and that you have a built-in fan base for that thing, you're fine, okay? The second thing I've learned is that they want, the only way you're going to publish a long book nowadays is if you already have a fan base. If you're Stephen King, if you're John Irving, if you're these people who have proven themselves, that's the only way you're gonna get into it. Going back to it, and I'm still looking for someone to prove me wrong here, I believe that this is nothing new. If you go back and look, check Stephen King and Rice, any of the people that I mentioned, how long was their first book? Probably under 300 pages, definitely under 400 pages. And why is that? Because the publisher does not want to throw a bunch of money at something that is not going to do well. The only way they do that is if it's a niche market and people are actively hunting books about that subject. So take those two things with you. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Hey, John, John, John, John, John, John. I know I missed a comment from John. I'm trying to find it. I recommend comic books for an autistic friend as she finds books too overwhelming. Oh, that's good, John, you're a good friend. I love that. Speaking of book length, yeah, I already read that. Anyways, that's why I got this. That's exactly why, yeah. Okay, Akash, once again, I got another point. Okay, so I'm gonna read Akash's comment. I'm gonna comment on that. I generally feel guilty about not reading enough because of YouTube. Like, there was this one guy who said he could read 200 pages in a single sitting and I can't stop thinking about equaling him. Stop valuing yourself based on the metric of someone else's abilities. Stop it, you are not that person. As much as you would like to be, you're not that person. You, that whole saying, you do you, boo. That's exactly what that means. You do you, you find what you can do, how you can do it and you do it to the best of your ability. This is such a great live. Thank you, Kaiju. Jude, hey Jude, hello. I'm sorry if I missed you before that. I just got on Discord. I have no idea how to use it right now. Neither did I. People have been helping me out. I still don't know my way around. If I'm not too active on it, oh, you're fine. Jacob, I mean, okay. How active would you be if you've been here? You haven't been active at all because I haven't been here, right? So there's no reason to feel bad if you're inactive. We all have our lives. I'm happy to have you back Eve, whether here or there. I mean, it was one of my all times phase but it took me like six months. But it's your fave. It's one of your favorites. What's the issue here? I'm not seeing a problem, Akash. We get so bogged down in expectation. And that's another reason why the channel kind of died because expectations. Expectations mean that's another thing that's arbitrary. If you're not getting, again, unless you have a financial obligation to do something, unless you were doing something to make sure you are safe and secure and all that stuff, it doesn't matter. All that stuff is arbitrary. None of that stuff means anything. You set your goals. You do what you wanna do. Everyone needs a hobby. Everyone needs something to do that is not work, that is not existential dread. Everyone needs something to forget about the state of the world, the state of their own lives. And if your thing is making you feel anxious and making you feel like you're not good enough, you need a new thing, period. I'm considering, haven't you already published on Kindle? Alec, I'm sure you had some stuff that you posted on Twitter or something. Comparison is never a game you win. Exactly, you're never gonna be anybody else. And if you do become someone else, we were gonna call you an imposter, they're gonna call you a fake, they're gonna call you all different kinds of things. So if you're doing it for other people, stop. I never spend one second on how long a book is, don't care if it's 20 pages or 1,500 pages, exactly. Yeah, only care of it's something I think I'll enjoy. Right, yeah, that's exact, exactly. Akash, you bring you to this world, yes. There is only one you. Be the you-est you there is. You are perfect just as you are, yes, exactly. Oh, let's see here. Life is not a competition, yes. Hey, what's up, King? How you doing? See here, if anyone's curious, I just had a story accepted. Yeah, good job, Jacob. You took them all down, why Alec? Why? Bet you can't give me one good reason. Bet you can't. I bet you can't give me one good reason why you took all those things down. Hey, Mudge, how you doing? I missed you. Good to see you, E.M. Just home from rehab. Oh, no! You are a resilient motherfucker, though. I'll give you that. I love you so much. Like, just keep trying to take you out and you just keep bouncing back like, fuck you assholes, I'm still here. It's been a fast recovery, but it was a lot of work. I bet, man, I love you, love you to death. As a booktuber, I'm constantly juggling how I read in order to balance enjoyment of reading and having content for videos. It's not a great place sometimes, but I do enjoy having a channel, so exactly. I've always loved your content. Even before we started being friends and talking and all that stuff, God, I absolutely adored your content. Anyone who is out there being whoever the fuck they wanna be and just living their best lives, that's just, I mean, you're a fucking inspiration. If I'm completely honest, you're an inspiration. And you're one of the reasons why I kept doing what I did for as long as I did. I don't want this to sound bad, but I was miserable for a long time, but I would look at creators like you and top the librarian and certain other creators I would look at and I would be like, if they can do it, I can do it, period, over and done with it. I guess I should just publish my novel. Well, you should edit it and clean it up and make sure it's as good as possible, but yeah, who the fuck stopping it, really? 260 pages, nowadays, that's about the average length of a novel. Counting down the days till my surgery, reading helps a lot and puppy cuddles. I knew that was, yeah, I knew that was coming up. You're amazing and I adore you and your content. You are one of the good ones too. You're unique and that's so valuable, oh. Though for book length, Jonathan Livingston's Seagull, you can read it in lunch break and has sold millions of copies, not my cup of tea, but who am I to judge? Yeah, also, John, of mice and men is 90 pages long. I think it's the most in its longest form, I believe, don't quote me, 112 pages. They sell that as a novel. In every standard known to the publishing world that is a novella, some people even consider a novelette, but they put a novel on there because when we consume this content, it's how we feel after we've read it that denotes the labels that we give it. If that makes sense, I hope I made sense. And that's literally an honest question, if that makes sense. So you guys let me know if I made sense there. But it all depends on when you get done reading something. If you felt like you had a full experience and you don't need anything else from that, we tend to feel like that as a novel, like that as an entire story. Of mice and men is just as good as Stephen King's it, to me anyways. One is 100 pages long, the other one is almost 1,100 pages long. But I get like the same feeling out of both of them. I can consume one faster, of course. Actually, that's a lie because I've spent months reading of mice and men because I have broken down every single line and the importance of every single line in my own head. Like why is this so good? That's why I read it 18 times. That's why I read the Goldfinch nine times because I sit there and I study these things. I'm like, why do I like this so much? And I'm not questioning whether or not I should like it. I'm asking myself, what makes this so damn good? And then I can take that information and I can replicate it. It's the same thing with reading a bad book. If I read something I don't like, I'm like, ooh, I don't like that thing. Let me never do that thing. It's kind of like my father. My father was a perfect example for how not to be a father. Sometimes, and even Stephen King said this at one point in time, read the good books to find out what you should do, read the bad books to find out what you shouldn't. So yeah, everyone should read whatever and take something away from that thing. Even if it's like a seething hatred, take that thing and do better. If you find something good, take that thing and figure out why you like it and how you can recreate it in your own way and in your own words, that kind of thing. That's why there's a hundred million fucking vampire novels out there. Yeah, Of Mice and Men is an amazing book, yeah. Yeah, Of Mice and Men seems like it's 500 pages. You know, I don't like it, but that's another thing. Some people feel that it's longer than it is because they adore it and they love it and they never want it, you know, or they feel it's too short and they never want it to end, so on and so forth. Then there's some people who hate reading it because I don't know whatever your reason is. I'm biased here because I can't think of a single reason why anyone would not like the book. But anyways, we're not here for negativity, so I'm not asking you why you don't like the book. If I did, I didn't mean to. I'm not asking you why I don't like it. That's fine that you don't like it. Who knew a book about men with a mouse infestation was so good? Hey, Zoop, how you doing? Oh, I need to give Tim a moderator. Anybody else? I give. Give Terry some moderation. Who else we got in here? Yeah, King's getting some moderation. Anyways, that's three for the day. I do three a day and that's it. You're welcome, Tim. Thank you for being here for so long. Yeah, man, both my real dad and stepdad could have written a wiki house series on how to be the worst possible person. Yeah, yeah, not bowing to peer pressure. Yeah, of mice and men is the, you know, it's funny because when I first read Blaze, I hadn't read Steinbeck's book. And when I went back to Blaze, after having read of mice and men multiple times, when I went back to Blaze, I absolutely loved it. Like it's one of my favorite Bachman books now. You're welcome, Terry. I should have done it ages ago. I don't, sometimes I just, it completely, I mean, now it's pretty obvious because going down the list, I see gray names instead of blue names. So it's obvious why it's obvious to me now who's a moderator and who's not, whereas before it was kind of like, you know, there's a couple of blue wrenches in here. What would you say the major difference between Bachman books and King books are? Never read Bachman. Bachman books have no hope whatsoever. There's absolutely no hope. Stephen King's books have hope. And that's literally the only difference. That's why I say Pet Cemetery should have been a Bachman book. Misery literally was supposed to be a Bachman book, but he got outed, so he released them to King. All right, Lee, deuces, have fun. I'll probably wrap up here shortly. Okay, I got a question for you, for everybody that's still here. That's still quite a good people here. Hi, by the way, for those of you lurking. Love you, I'm glad to be back. Do you want me to take a break and come back and hang out for another hour, or do you just want me to sign off? Because you know me, every hour I have to get up and move around. Lazy, when I got here, a huge sign said, you are a moderator. I was like, so is everyone else here. Yeah, Revival should have been a Bachman book too, Jacob. Yeah, in fact, I think I have a top five King books that should have been, I'm pretty sure, that should have been Bachman books, King books that should have been Bachman books. Yeah, and Revival's on that list. More. Do you think Revival could have been? Yeah, you were literally typing that out. Revival was good, but it felt like a short story surrounded by a ton of filler. I don't wanna argue with whether or not you like it, but I would like to point out one thing, Alec. The reason it feels that way is because King was shooting for the fleeting nature of life. It was supposed to give you this man's entire lifespan in 400 pages to show you how quickly time goes by, how much we forget, how much stuff in our life is not important, how our defining, how certain moments define us and become memories, whether they be good, bad, or indifferent, well, not indifferent, good or bad, traumatic or joyous, whether it be one of those two things. He was trying to show you all of the major defining moments in this man's life and literally nothing else. Yeah, Revival's a character story. Do you get the feeling King has a trunk full of book? Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm positive. In fact, I know for sure he does. I don't think a lot of them will be released, but there's a whole like the house on Maple Street. So there's one about the famous kidnapping that he never finished that's in like the University of Maine in Orno, I think it is. It's a book he got 200,000 words into and never finished. I'm pretty sure he has an entire file not pretty sure. I know he's got a bunch of stuff he hasn't published. Nowadays though, he publishes just about everything he writes. Let's break for lunch, cool, cool. All right, so I am seeing, no, I think Billy Summers is new. I honestly think it is because he wanted to write a Jack Reacher story. And so I'm pretty sure it was, yeah. All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and take my break. Everyone in here, let everyone know that comes in. Why are we just staring in a chair? Is that what Churchill the chair is? No, just let them know I'm on break. And I will be back very, very shortly. I'm muting myself, so y'all tell me when I get back if I'm taught, well, you're gonna tell me anyways. But yeah, I'm muted. Okay, I am back, I am unmuted. Are the Bieber t-shirts gonna be available? Yes, I'm working on all that. Basically when the channel gets up and running again and I start posting content, I will roll out merchandise. Haley here in chat has made numerous amazing things. And they will all be available. There'll be a Halloween, a limited supply drop of Halloween stuff, all different kinds of stuff coming. Thank you for all the welcome backs. I appreciate you. Would it be impossible to design a poster of all the Bieber's? That would be cool. What if we did like a, everyone submit on the Discord their pictures and then I can put them all into like a collage? How about that? Yeah, Haley, I'm going, I got, I have to, I'm sorry, I got to delete your comment, but yes, we need to do that. If you guys want to reference the old name, you can put EL, just EL. Yeah, Haley's fantastic. Haley is just ridiculously talented and she works quickly, professionally, all that stuff. I love it. Yeah, you're all right, Haley. It is okay. I'm not going to be able to catch all of them, but anyone's that I do catch, I'll be able to get rid of it. I enjoyed the Institute, thought it was a throwback to his early works. Me too, Goddess, me too. I mean, it's, like I was saying earlier, I don't know if you caught it or not. It's just, if I did it to myself, I asked people for their own opinions, not realizing how ugly certain people could be. And it's just a hate for no reason is what gets me because it gives me this feeling that we're fucking doomed as a society. Like humanity is doomed. Like if we can't get over simple stuff, like entertainment, like our opinions, our opinions can be different as long as they're not hurting someone, as long as marginalized people aren't being affected by it, so on and so forth. You can believe whatever the hell you want to, you can do whatever the hell you want to, as long as you're not harming someone. It's the people who want to impose their own beliefs and say, this is the only way that you can do things. This is the only way that you can live that I take umbrage with. I take issue with that. Is umbrage even the right word? This is the author in me. Yeah, offense or annoyance. Yeah. That's what, yeah. Yeah, not enough basic kindness. And another thing I would like to do, and some people might balk at this, but I don't really care. We are in, especially here in America, we are definitely in an economic crisis. Eggs like, no joke, like 18, not 18, eight bucks for a fucking dozen eggs. I wanna do a community fund that is run by someone other than me so that I don't have control over that money, so that we can help each other out. We can do a community fund, like everyone donates whatever they can every single month. And we, I don't know how we would do this because I don't want any favoritism involved, but something to where people can, you know, band together, our community can band together to help the people that need the help. And I'm not talking about doing this for recognition or any of that nonsense. I don't wanna control this. I don't wanna be a charity. What I wanna do is build something to where people can come together and either do go fund me's or whatever to try to help people out. And that money would go directly to the individual without them having to wait on it. So it would be like a collective, not really collective PayPal, but if you have PayPal or Cash App or whatever, you could send that person money directly. And I would like to do something like that eventually also because we just don't, people don't care enough anymore. Basic empathy has been kind of erased. I don't, I personally do not give a shit what someone believes. Yes, I'm not religious. I'm an atheist. I find it in my own personal opinion to be rather goofy and silly, but that's me. And if you take offense to that, I am actually going to apologize. I'm sorry if I offend you, but that's how I feel. That doesn't mean I'm going to tell you not to do it. I don't care what you believe or what you do. Where I do care is when someone comes into my space and tells me that I have to do something based on their beliefs. That's what I take umbridge with. I use it right. I'm very proud of myself. Every now and again, I get a word right. Y'all should be proud of me too. Be proud. Cause I am. Yeah, Dolores Umbridge, yeah. From the author that shall not be named. People are the same taste as you are your competition. They will, they will get the concert ticket you wanted. This is true. That's a funny, that's a funny way. Yeah, so proud, very proud. That's a funny way to look at it though. I think there would be a lot nicer people out there, kids had parents like you and Shell. I don't know. We just, we, we, here's the thing. So many people claim ownership of their children. Um, and, but I look at it and it's like the same thing where some people like authors will consider their projects, their babies. Eventually your baby is going to go out there into the world and you have no control over that. You're not going to be here forever. Hopefully you, your, your children outlive you. Um, and you're not always going to be there for them. But I think that starts very, very young. You know, you want to make sure that they have the tools to do for themselves without you imposing your own beliefs on. And that's why I take Umbridge. It's the word of the day. Everybody, word of the day is Umbridge. That's why I, that's why it annoys me to see people indoctrinating children, you know, church, politics, all that stuff. Let them believe whatever. I'm pretty sure my youngest believes in God. And that's completely fine with me. I don't care what, what, what he does. Um, but if, but as I've even told him this, as long as that's your belief, you can have that belief. You can believe in whatever, you can believe in fucking fairies for all I care. You can believe the earth is flat for all I care. I don't, I don't care. I, it does concern me. It would concern me, you know, if that were the case. But at the same time, they are going to have to find their own way. And all you can do is give them tools. You don't build for them. You just give them the tools so they can build for themselves. You send us two and a half. Oh, that's, that's that age. That's a, yeah, kids aren't robots and they're not property, period. So your grandkids will call it the Umbridge years. Yeah, where everybody's just annoyed and pissed off about everything. It does, it does concern me. Yeah, it does concern me. I mean, if I, I guess, but, but my concern, okay, going back to what I was saying about opinions and stuff like that, it doesn't matter what I feel about what my kids do. It, as long as they're not hurting anybody, right? Once again, I keep, I keep reiterating that. I feel that way. As long as they're not hurting anyone, they can do whatever the fuck they want. Even if God forbid, even if that thing hurts them, I am going to always be there for them no matter what. I think the only thing that could make me turn on my children would be some kind of heinous crime. And I won't go into, into that, but my, so my love is conditional. I don't think there's any such thing as unconditional love. My love is conditional only to the extent that I am not going to help someone who has completely ruined someone else's life. And you guys get what I'm saying when I say heinous stuff. I am not going, I am not going to support that, but literally anything else, I will support. As long, I mean, I just don't see, and the people who, I'm not, I don't want to get political here, but the people who are upset about gender affirming care seem to be more focused on, I don't, I honestly, I don't understand it, so I'm not going to talk on it, but what the hell does it matter? The people who are worried about the sex or gender of their children, why are you hung up on that one thing? Why are you hung up on that? Like your kids aren't hung up on the nooky you and your person are doing, so why are you hung up on that? And I've had it explained to me that, oh, society's going to look at them differently. Who gives a fuck? You cannot always be there to protect them. But I remember something that someone told me that absolutely just utterly pissed me off. It was a family member that told me, I just worry about your kids, because if you don't know, I'm pretty sure everybody in here knows, but if you don't know, my wife's black, I'm from the mountains of Caucus, and my kids of course are mixed. And there was so much discussion in my family, and only one person had the audacity to actually bring this up, is like, aren't you worried about how your kids are gonna be treated? It's like, that is the problem, that you see that they are gonna be treated differently and that people will treat them differently is the problem. It's their problem and your problem, it's not their problem, it's the other person's problem. And I think if more people worked on themselves and concerned themselves with their own business, I think the world would be in a much better place. And it's funny because we live in America, Atlanta the free, home of the brave, all that shit, right? But at the same time, there are numerous, numerous politicians who want to invade people's lives and people's privacy. And so far as to take children away from parents, so on and so forth. And it just, I don't understand it. I really, really don't, because if I were to come into their house and tell them that they could not raise their children the way they're raising, when it's not affecting me whatsoever, I'd probably get shot, and deservedly so. Well, maybe not deservedly, that's a little bit of an extremist standpoint, but keep your nose out of other people's lives and people's business, it really is that simple. Yeah, land of the free, home of the brave, yeah, land of the brave, home of the free if you're a white male, yes, I'd agree with that. The irony of these politicians who invade everyone's lives yell the most about freedom, yeah. But none of us are free, none of us are free. No matter where you live, none of us are free. And what do I mean by that? I'm not free to go out and buy heroin. That's probably a good thing, but still I'm not free to do that. I'm not free to go out and do heinous crimes. And I'm using heinous crimes. I hope you guys realize what I'm talking about. I'm talking about certain types of assault, certain deviant behavior, that kind of thing. I think we're all on the same page, but I wanna make that, we are not free to do those things. There are consequences for your actions. And right now it's getting to the point where people think that freedom of speech, well, actually it's been this way for a while, is freedom from consequences. All freedom of speech means is that the government cannot come in and tell you what to say and do, or what to say. That doesn't protect you from the consequences of you saying horrible shit. Sorry, yeah. Basically it's saying what if people, hang on, but what if people are assholes? Well, they be assholes. There will always be, there will be, there will be. The older I get, the more I wanna be left alone and the more I want to leave people alone. Leave them alone, leave them alone. That's it, that's all, really. Okay, I wanna go back to talking about the channel. So the channel, what content do you guys want on the Discord? Because if you're here, you're obviously a fan of the channel and you've been here for an hour and a half, you sat through my break. What content do you want over on the Discord that was already up? No, not at all, Tim. No, it's not horror. What I'm doing is gender, oh my God, I'm sorry, my gender and all that stuff, but is genre neutral? It will have aspects of literally everything, everything. I am not writing in one genre. I am pulling a Stephen King only in the idea that I will be the person writing something like it and I will also be someone writing the Shawshank Redemption. Hopefully I'd never write in elevation, but in that essence, yes, there will be spooky stuff. There will be sci-fi, there will be fantasy, there will be all different kinds of stuff, but it will, every single one of those stories will be every single genre because I'm writing in literary fiction and that encompasses everything. It's just the way you write it more than it's about the themes and the characters more than it is about plot and happenings and things like that. It's all about the characters because that's what I think I do well is I write characters well. So I am focusing 100% on the characters and I don't care about trends or scaring you or any of that thing or any of that stuff. I am looking to entertain people. That's it. Yeah, well, Kaiju, I'll be doing book reviews here. If you missed it at the beginning, I think you went back and looked at it, but there'll be time for a tone. I'm only gonna be reading really big books because that's where I find, that's where I get the most joy and pleasure. I'm currently reading The Tale of Genji which is labeled by many as the first book ever written and I think it's awesome because the first novel ever written because it's by a female author, Chinese, and it's very interesting to read this book and see where all these other stories came from because it was one of the first of its kind. And of course this is like the first marketable novel I guess because people were telling stories well before this, but it's like the first novel. I'm learning as I read it more about what that book meant. So I'm reading that one and it's 1,200 pages long. If you go and look and you find copies for three that are three and 400 pages long, those are the horribly abridged editions. So I'm reading the full thing, the full manuscript, it is translated, I don't speak Chinese but it's the best I can do because I have problems with Asian dialects. I've never been able to learn them like I've been able to learn French and Spanish and Swedish and all that stuff. I'm not fluent in any of them anymore but I could never wrap my brain around like the inflection. What is it? Umbasa? I think, I can't, I probably getting that all wrong but it's a thing in Asian cultures where it's the same word but it's all about the inflection and if I'm getting that right, wrong, y'all can let me know but it's all about the inflection. So I'm reading that one. I'm also reading this one right here, Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez and I'm reading Owen King's new one which is The Curator and I'm fucking loving it. I can't believe it's the same person who wrote Sleeping Beauty's or Half of Sleeping Beauty's. Yeah, Royal Tyler, it's Royal Tyler, Mudge. I think we need a federal fund to pay healthcare including cycle, yeah, yeah Mudge but that would require heavily taxing the super rich, yes and we should be doing that. I'd like to see the book recommendation reviews on the Discord. They're my main source of book discovery and did you listen to King's Finn? Yes I did and there will be a review eventually. I am trying to wait until he releases a new collection because he has Willie the Weirdo, Finn. There's so much stuff that he has floating around that's unpublished in one thing. I try to wait for things like that I try to wait until they're all collected in one space before I review them. Yeah I know you, trust me I know you guys want Thursday Theors. I know that but is there anything else? In Mandarin she has 100 meanings depending on that's what I'm talking about John. The poem lying eating poet in a stone den is interesting because of this. I know I got, now I gotta look that up. Damn it, now I gotta look that up. Oh by the way, thank you to all you awesome mofos out there that just flooded the Discord. I love you guys. I love you, I love you, I love you. Thanks for coming in and made me feel good to see so many of you already jumping over there. I promise I will get the list up very soon. My oldest they're helping me with organizing it. Also Lee, Lee Pickett if you're here I need a couple new tabs if you could do that. You want cooking videos too? Yeah I'm thinking about that but I'm talking mainly about the videos that I've already done that need to be linked over on Discord. That's what I'm talking about right now. But yeah I do want to do the eatery. Yes it'll be the eater dash E and I do want to do cooking videos. In fact this is why I, hang on. This is why I have the new background so that I can conserve space so that I can have a streaming area and I can have a cooking area because I even bought an induction, a whole new set of pots and pans and everything. All that stuff for new videos. So I have all this stuff it's coming eventually. Yeah I think Nettles over on Discord she's the person I've known the longest on the internet. I think she came up with the name I can't remember. That Tyler translation is super it is. Well I don't know I've never read the original but it's amazing. There's such a debate about that beginning the first that being the first novel. The golden ass by Pulius might be the one though. Whatever it is I am really excited to go back and learn more about what I'm doing with my life. I'm a storyteller so I want to go back as far as possible and grab as much information as possible please add from the desk back to. Yeah I will okay Tim. So from the desk I'm making a list. From the desk of course we all know you guys want Thursday theorists and the any Stephen King content. I get you I hear you it's coming back it'll be on the Discord. Is Lee still here? Yeah a lion eating a poet sounds interesting. I just imagine when I first hang on let me let me type this when Mudge I think it was Mudge. Who said oh no it was John Smith sorry. But as soon as I was like I want to eat that I'm a very visual person. That's why I find it so there's like vagina tentacles and all that stuff all that stuff I used to do. I'm a very very visual person. And is so when I as I automatically saw someone with a pen and notebook writing like sitting on a rock in the Serengeti or whatever then they're just writing and all of a sudden well not all of a sudden but there's a lion stalking up behind them. Yeah all right okay got that from the desk come back. One hand of typing is exhausting. There's no more spoons in my drawer so I'm out but I'm delighted your home on the tube. Thank you Mudge love you. Take care of yourself please. Please take care of yourself. That's as far as I'll go with that. Yeah I know I'm live on YouTube. Why are you notifying me? Am I subscribed to myself? Was I that vain that I subscribe to myself? Man it makes me happy to see all the new folks. Not all new folks but the people coming in and whatnot. Makes me very happy. And I hope to get everything added. I love your book reviews in general. I put those back on if you're up for it. I think I have them all in a playlist. If not I will go back so I'll post the book reviews. Let me add that. Let me add that, hang on. Okay so book reviews from the desk and Thursday theorist. Let's see here. Listening to Lion Eating Poet being read out loud is a trick. I will definitely go check that out. Like when YouTube used to recommend my own videos to me. That's how I knew I'd made it though. When they started recommending, because I hadn't, I don't even know that I'm subscribed to myself. I don't think I am but that's how I knew I met it. When my made it is when my videos showed up in like the little bar next to other people's videos. Are there any others that you love like King? You would do in-depth reviews of all their works. Yes, I'm currently working on Jeff Vandermeer. He's my new favorite author, Hands Down. I also want to do TananaReeve.do, TananaReeve.do. If I can get her name right all the time. I want to do her because I absolutely love her work. Motokami, I would love to do a Thursday theorist series on Motokami but I like tackling like huge catalogs. Clive Barker, I've been thinking about that one. The only problem with Clive Barker is I don't enjoy his longer books. And again, I don't want to force myself to read something I'm not enjoying. But I would love to see someone else do a Clive Barker theorist. If you guys see anyone talking about them wanting to do that, like, you know, rip off, I don't think it's rip off. I think it'd be cool to see someone else do it. If they want to do a Thursday theorist or a theory series on Clive Barker, I would watch the shit out of that. Yeah, Vandermeer is not only a phenomenal author but a truly good human. Yes, yes. And I have everything from here over is Vandermeer. So have you read P.J. Knight's Creep Over? No, I don't read Middle Grade at all now that I think about it. I think the only thing I've ever read that's Middle Grade is like Arl Stein books, like the Fear Street novels. And that's when I was, you know, Middle Grade. What's a good intro to Vandermeer book? I think Ambergrie, they have this version for about 30 bucks. It has all three of his, all three of the Ambergrie novels, all in one. And it's absolutely fantastic. It has City of Saints and Mad Men, Shriek and Afterward and Finch. X Trilogy was the start for me. I have the special edition of that too. Oh, come back here. Hang on. The Southern Reach trilogy. I got that one. Y'all look, look, look. Okay, so you guys know I'm not heavily into fantasy, right? Not heavily into fantasy. Not heavily into fantasy. But I, when I find fantasy that I like, I fanboy, kick this out. Elric of Melniborne or Melnibony, I can't remember. They have them all collected. All the Michael Morkock, stop it. Stop it. It's the man's name. He likes Morkock, he can like Morkock. But anyways, Elric of Melnibony, whatever it is. Okay? All right. First one, six months later they released Stormbringer, which is volume two, Elric. And I'll probably end up doing an Elric series also eventually. But this one is Atombra. It is Atom, what is it like 800 pages? 920 something. All right. The White Wolf, volume three. Yeah. And then finally, we have The Citadel of Forgotten Myths, which is the shortest book in the series. But yeah. And if you don't know, if you are not aware, I have always been a huge collector of Morkock. Stop it. These are all the old Daws and the Lancer ones that were heavily edited. All that, all that. The Eternal Champion series, all that. Yeah. I'm a big, big fan of Michael Morkock. Yeah, I love Neil Gaiman, Tony. Yeah. I've read the graveyard book. Yeah, Vandemir is amazing. I mean, I was so upset. I was so mad when I found out about Vandemir. When I started reading, I just happened to find Ambergrie at Second and Charles Used. And it was only like eight bucks. I was like, I've heard good things about this and I liked Annihilation. Even though that book doesn't have Annihilation in it, this one does, The Southern Reach Trilogy. I started reading it and I was a full-blown fanboy after like the first three pages. My favorite Neil Gaiman, I think, to this day, is The Ocean at the End of the Lane, only because it is so good. The twist at the end, if you pay attention, you find out who the narrator is and he never names them. Yeah, Elric of the Black Blade. I remember so... All right, let's jump in the way back machine real quick. So when I was probably at eight or nine, I went over to my uncle's new wife's, their new house, right? And she was a huge, huge fantasy nerd. Epic fantasy, any kind of fantasy, loved all of it. I picked up, I'll show you the exact book I'm talking about. This is the only one I have in this edition, but it's this one and I got it because it was this dude right here, crazy long fingernails and this massive sword. I was like, I wanna know more about this person. And I just started reading and I was instantly, now he's not very literary. He's literally like the pulp or the noir writers of his time, but for fantasy. In the sky, a cold moon cloaked in clouds, sent down faint light that fell upon a sullen sea where a ship lay at anchor off an uninhabited coast. That sets the scene perfectly and it's one sentence sets the scene perfectly. Like I could see and I can still see that so perfectly in my head, so clearly. Yeah, Terry Brooks, the only thing about Terry Brooks is I just get bogged down in how much he's like Tolkien. And I hate, I'm not trying to crap on your one of your favorite authors, but it's seem kind of like a whittled down Tolkien. And I just, I don't know. There just wasn't enough in there that may, it's the same thing with, who is it? Robert Jordan. It just feels like, I don't know, man. It just doesn't do it for me. Let's see here. Yes, Tim, city of saints and madmen, yeah. Yeah, it's a connect, okay. Here's the thing about Jeff Vandermeer. For those of you who don't know what Jeff Vandermeer does is he writes series, but they're not all written the same way. For instance, city of saints and madmen is a mosaic novel that has six books in it, basically six novellas. And each one of those novellas is from a completely different character. If any of you have read my previous name series, the big one that I did, that's what he does. So you know I'm an automatic fan because of that. Every single one, it'll have other characters mentioned, like the main characters will either be, the main character of the first book will be like either a supporting character in the second book or they'll just be mentioned kind of offhandedly. Mostly what he writes about are areas and locations and whatnot and the entire history of all of that. And that's what Ambergrie is. And, but that's really the only one that I've read. So I can't, but I know for a fact that that's the kind of stuff that he writes. So like Annihilation is like a first person story or something like that from a group of women. And then the second book is completely different cast of characters. Third book, completely different cast of characters. And it's not, the whole point of it is not the characters as much as, or the characters are fantastic, don't get me wrong. But it's as much as telling the entire story over a long period of time where people couldn't have survived because so much time has passed kind of thing. My pre-cry reading her anytime, she introduces a character I love. Right now it's Night Eyes, I'm on book three. Who are you talking about, Kaiju? I'm having to go back to, oh, Joey Abercrombie. I couldn't get into Abercrombie or Hobb. I couldn't get into either one of those. But that's not to say that it was bad. I couldn't get into it. And this is gonna sound terrible because I like Michael Morkock but I tend to stay away from pale fantasy authors. Like my favorite series is Ken Liu, the Dandelion Dynasty series right here behind Sally's head. Yeah, that's my favorite fantasy series of all time. But yeah, Morkock is more about nostalgia because I grew up reading him and because he writes like a pulp novelist, they're so easy to consume. You can just blow right through it. He doesn't have any superfluous information. None of his books are like over three or 400 pages. It's crazy. Well, the bind ups are of course, the bind ups over here. Night Eyes might be one of the best characters ever. This chat and live is the highlight of my day, aw. Hugs, bring it in, Kaiju. Bring it in. Bring it in. Love you, love your faces. Yes, I have read Jemisons and I actually do enjoy those. I have them all on Kindle because they were free to read at one point in time. I liked them, but here's the thing. I didn't like them as so much that I wanted to buy them. I was more enamored with... I was more enamored with Marlon James. I think these are better. But, and obviously I bought them in hardcover. I was more enamored with these. Octavia Butler, love Octavia Butler, Victor LaValle. Going down that road anyways. And I absolutely love it when Colson Whitehead does magical realism like the Underground Railroad. I did it good, Kaiju, good. Yeah, I kind of felt you hugged back, but I didn't want to, you know, assume anything. I have the Marlon James books. Yeah, they are the craziest part about the Marlon James fantasy series. Like I read, what is it? Nightwomen or whatever it was, fell in love with Marlon James. But the coolest part about the series that I find, and I didn't know before I read them, I read them in order, supposedly you can read any of the books, even when the third one comes out, you can read any of the books and not be spoiled for the other books. Like you can read them in any order. If you want to read two, three, one, or one, two, three, or three, two, one, or three, one, two, you can read them in any order. And that to me is just absolutely fucking brilliant. Yeah, stunning covers, they are gorgeous. That's the reason, come in close, come in close. That's the reason I bought them because the covers. I am a believer that books are not just art because of what's inside of them, but they're also art because they should look good on your shelves. Look at Murakami up here, man. That is a beautiful, beautiful thing. Look at Blake Crouch, how it goes from orange to yellow to blue, so good. So good. A good cover on a good book. Do you mind, camera? Do you mind? Thank you. Anyways, a good cover on a good book is so good. So good, it's so good. Y'all want to know a secret? It's not really, well, probably a secret. I keep adjusting myself in my chair so that right here, I literally measured this out to be equal on both sides so that my head is in the middle. When I could easily just come over here and it'd be just as good. Y'all see, my McCarthy collection is finally complete. My McCarthy collection is finally complete. And you've got Polynyk, Polynyk? It's Polynyk, it's not Polynyk, it's Polynyk. Polynyk, we got our Marisha Pacell, we got Caroline Kepnis, we got Donna Tart, we got Jesmyn Ward, oh, she's fantastic. Toni Morrison, Victor Laval, and then a bunch of random favorites down here. Then over here we have Haruki Murakami, King of course, King's all over here. Then over here is some of my favorite weird fiction, sci-fi, weird, whatever you want to call it, Lovecraft Country right there. Shout out to Lovecraft Country. This is all fantasy. And then down here is a bunch of literary fiction that I enjoyed. And then over here we got Colson Whitehead, got Junji Ito all the way across. Got a bunch of literary fiction down here, a stack of books I want to read. And then up here we have The Gargoyle and numerous other things. Ian Banks, original covers were amazing, awesome. Most of King's covers are awesome. I will say this about that, Toni. Sometimes the US does well, sometimes the UK does better. So, but no matter what, there is no such thing as a Stephen King book with a bad cover. Whether it be the good one across the pond, whether the good one be in China or Egypt or anywhere else, he always has good covers. I haven't read him yet, Jacob. Now I'm trying to read his stuff in order of publication and I haven't got to it yet. I haven't read the Secret History either, Kaiju, but The Goldfinch is not like. It is my number two favorite book of all time. It is just absolutely perfect. Yeah, Classic Terry Pratchett covers are amazing. I agree with that. Oh yeah, the original stand? My God. It looks like a fantasy novel. Like these two characters are not in this book whatsoever. Why? Why? Double Day did King so wrong with these first editions? So wrong. I'm trying to think if I got anything new that you guys don't know about. I don't think so. I do have a stack of books. Me and Sheld went out on a date for the first time in years. We went out on a date and I bought a stack of books, this highs for me to read to her. And we've been having so much fun. Now we're waiting on Caroline Kepnis' next you book, You and Only You. You ever think about building a bookshelf? Yes, I have. In fact, you guys are about to see the side of the office that I haven't completed yet. This one right here, no, this one right here I built myself. That one. Oh, now I have to measure again. This is gonna annoy me. God damn it. Ah, that's better. That looks better. Okay, that looks better. But that's not the only bookshelf that I've made. I have one in the house that I made also. It's the first one that I've made and I don't have it out here for that reason because it's really, really bad. It has no stability. I have to put cinder blocks across the bottom of the shelf just to keep it up. I get the feeling the cover was done by someone that had not read any of the book and was just told, you know, that's 99% of the covers you see. No shit. No shit whatsoever. 99% of the covers you see, never read by the artist. Hey, Landon. And it's sponsored by Nike. It's like the only shirt that even remotely fits me now. And even it is loose. Hey, what's up, Nick? How you doing? Hey, Ryan, how you doing? James Patterson book covers are insane. They're just like, James Patterson title. Hey, thank you, Nick. Thank you. Bring it in, bring it in. Bring it in. We're gonna be doing more and more of that. I'm gonna just be hugging. Hugging it out. Yeah, but James Patterson, yeah, those covers are just the most. Did you forget about that book? No, I told you and everyone else on Patreon, it's gonna be a while. I will get them out eventually. I'll be at AuthorCon too this year as a vendor. Really? Well, that's cool. Big hugs for everyone. Yes, Hailey. But no, Ryan, I mean, I posted on Patreon. Go back and read the most recent post. It says it's gonna be a little while before I can get any of this stuff out. Whether it be, you know, what are you waiting on? We are legend. I think I have a whole box of them sitting over here. I just haven't had a chance to get out because they will not come and pick up my stuff here. And it's not, okay. It's not as easy as me just, you know, running down to, because I live 20 miles from town. Also, I can't have them come pick up things here because you can ask nearly everyone else on the Patreon, stuff gets lost all the time when I have them come pick up the books. So I will get them out as soon as I am able. I promise you, it is coming. I'm not going to forget about you. But also, I saw you change your pledge. You need to delete your pledge entirely. Entirely. Don't give me no more monies. No more monies. Ah, okay, yeah. Okay, that one, I have it. In fact, I can show it to you. But, I mean, it'll go out. I haven't read any of the Patreon messages. I haven't updated over there since the last time. But anything that you, whatever you're waiting on, I will get to it eventually as soon as I have the time. All right, cool. Let's see here. You're doing live shows again? Well, yes, Boggle, once this is done, make sure you go back and watch the beginning of it because all the updates are at the beginning. Boggle, I miss you so much. I miss your word salad. Your word salad is amazing, and I miss it. Please never change that. Oh, in fact, Ryan, I got you a hardcover of South of here also. So I upgraded you. It's not just any old copy. I found Lulu stop making that size, but I found the original files and I was able to go to another printer and have it made. So you're getting a first edition hardcover. You want to see it? I'll go get it if you want to see it. I got to go in the house, but I'll go get it for you. Missed you all, yeah, missed you all, yeah. But yeah, Ryan, please go delete your pledge. I cannot delete my Patreon account until everyone gets, and there's still like, still like 30 people that are still signed up. Delete the pledge, the books are coming. I promise, don't worry about that. The books are coming, I promise. Don't worry about that. The books are coming, but yeah. Hey, what's up, Tundra? How you doing? I'm gonna do that right now. Thank you, thank you. And thank you for all of the support over the years. I am super sorry that it is so, but that's why I'm canceling the Patreon because I can't keep up with it. Good God, Nick, thank you. Holy shit. Damn, Nick, come on. Bring it in, bring it in, bring it in. We're gonna be doing more of that. All the hugs. You know what we don't do as a society enough? We don't hug each other. Some people think it's weird, whatever. I'm not talking about kissing and tongueing your tonsils. I'm talking about a hug, just nice. And okay, if your love language is not touched, I'm not gonna hug you. But if you wanna be hugged, I will give you the biggest bear hug, period. You may not, Ryan. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. The thing is, I cannot publicly announce any pin name with this face attached. Can't do that. Without Patreon, it is, it's probably, there's stuff, I wish I could tell you, there's stuff coming, okay? I just ask you to be patient. I have, okay, I have all of your emails saved. If that helps, does that help? I'm working on the new face. I'm working on the new face and the new body. That's why I have shrunk. Have you guys, they're not up now, but have you guys went back and looked at my old videos at how big I was? I'm pretty sure you guys remember. I have lost so much goddamn weight. Not really trying, I'm just trying to be healthier. You know, I'm trying to live longer for my kids. But all right, Alec, have a good one. Take care. That's an idea I had, Lazy. But I'm not gonna do it that way. That's all I'm saying. Well actually, I will say, you know how I said I wouldn't do any more negative reviews? Hint, hint, nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Will you, will you be the new bee, traven? What? Am I missing a joke there? You're doing good. Thank you. Thank you, Nick. You gotta go. All right, Ryan, if I can remember, I will try and send you, yeah. I will send you a picture of South of here that I'm sending you. It is a first edition hardcover. It's also a limited edition. It was never sold to the public. That's what you're getting. Yeah, I don't do negative reviews anymore either. I haven't done any reviews recently, but I'm not gonna be doing them. I know you've lost a lot. Absolutely proud of you, buddy. I need to do the same thing for myself. I let myself go for 40 fucking years, dude. It's never too late to start. I'm not worried about it, but I want you. Okay, let it be a surprise. If you want it to be a surprise, it'll be a surprise. Did you, wait, Ryan, before you go, did you get We Are Legend? Did you get the We Are Legend? I am a hugger. I will hug everyone who likes to hug too. I hug so hard, you making voluntary noises in a broadstrap piece. I find that funny because I once fractured someone's rib on accident. No joke, it happened. It was a friend of mine that I hadn't seen. In my defense, I hadn't seen him in five years. But I did one of those things where I grabbed ahold of him and I went like this and I heard it crack. I heard it crack. Ever since then, I'm more of a gentle hugger. Hugs are great. My boyfriend makes sure to give our little guy all the, oh, I even get my boyfriend flowers. Yes, get more men flowers. As long as they're not one of these toxicly masculine dudes, get your dude flowers. You wanna know why? Because usually the only time men get flowers, wait for it, is at their funeral. Get your person flowers. Get shown the man, get him flowers. If you see a dude in a bad mood, give him a fucking flower. I don't care if you cut it off as you're walking by the library or something and you see some, maybe don't. Maybe don't steal flowers from the library. But, but get your dude flowers and see how he reacts. See how he reacts. Hey, Brad, missed you too. I just gave horrible reviews to two new books because I rage read them. Didn't want other readers to have to suffer. It's on Google Play though, so all you rich iPhone people won't see it. Rich iPhone. My Android costs more than my iPhone. So I don't know where that comes from. I always hated that negative reviews got more attention. Yeah, I want a gut. But the funny part about it is I'm kind of a hypocrite because I don't read positive reviews. I only read negative reviews because they're usually the most honest. The pin name of the unknown author of the treasure of the Sierra Madre. Y'all ever wonder who Scott Smith is? Y'all ever wonder about that one? I only read negative reviews for books I hate. That's kind of the issue with posting negative reviews for me is that people, how can I say this right? You bring in whatever you put out into the world is what you receive. So if you are with negative reviews, you're attracting people normally who unfortunately tend to be hateful. So when people come together over shared negativity, it's not as pleasant of a community as people who come together. Now, fandoms have their issues too. Don't get me wrong. But when fandoms have their issues, it's usually based on negativity. But if people worry more about the stuff that they enjoy and there's something to be said about protecting your friends and people who agree with you is like, don't buy this piece of shit because it has these things. It has your triggers. It has so on and so forth. There's something to be said about that. And I'm not saying I will never do that but what you will never see from me again is a rage review because the only thing that that brought in was hate. People actually got mad at me, like, like, pissed that I wouldn't do rage reviews anymore. And that just blew my mind. It's like, if you're only here for negativity, I don't want you around. I get robbed, different. God, Nick, all the hugs, all the hugs, Nick. Am I yelling? I'm yelling because I'm right next to the camera and I don't have my microphone. Thank you, Nick. Love you. You just bought me a new book, bruh. You just bought me a new book. You're amazing. Love of Mystery King Edition. I think even saying negative review is kind of misleading. It can just be a review. Yeah, yeah. But what I don't like is bad review. I actually, I prefer negative review because bad review sounds like you're talking about the review itself. Like, they wrote a bad review. Early YouTube and present YouTube revolved around reviews about why this 30-year-old movie not aimed at you suck. Oh, that is the truest thing I have heard in a long time. And a perfect example of that is Superman 2, I think it is where he flies around the earth and makes it go backward. People got so, like, there was a whole rash of reviews about that movie, why it sucked because of that scene. Superman's not real. He can do whatever the fuck he wants to because he's a fictional character. Shut up. I couldn't get into it, Brad. I could not, I was very disappointed in Midnight Club. I was very disappointed in it. Nick, you're amazing, thank you. You're amazing anyways. You ain't got to give me money, but thank you so much. And hold on, don't do it again. I will give you free hugs. I will do that. I was like, yo, E, I need a hug and I will hug you. Yeah, Brad, The Fisherman, I remember when John was first shopping the book and he said literary establishments said it was too, too much of a horror novel and horror publishers said it was too literary. That's the problem that I'm having right now because, yeah, the reviews can't be responded to though. Wait a second. Remember when Chad had no idea what Google Play was? I'm completely out of touch. I have no idea what you're talking about, Lazy. I bought a copy of Misery at the library. It's a Viking, yeah. But it's like a red and yellow crosshatch leather back. I can't find one online to compare. I don't know what you're talking about. That sounds amazing. Kaiju, bring it in. Bring it in. I'm trying not to holler at y'all. I need to get my other microphone of the house because I've been using it for game streams. Thank you, Kaiju. Book money, yes. If I stick to paperbacks, I can buy two books. I read The Fisherman shortly after my husband passed so I really loved it. Having another widow, oh, that's so good. That's so good. I love it when books mean more because of what you're going through in life. For those of you who think I might be insensitive and not say sorry, I've told Tai numerous times that it was terrible what happened. I just feel like, I don't know, it's just the constant... I can't speak for Tai, of course, but after so long after my mother passed and that's the person, that's the closest person, that's the only person in my life who died that I was extremely close to, at some point I got tired of people saying I'm sorry. And that might sound horrible and probably not how Tai feels, but yeah, land in. Come on, bring it in. Bring it in, yeah. The wing train has left the station. Duh, duh, I can't talk to you guys if you keep sending me money. Hailey, come on, Hailey, come on. Thank you, thank you, everybody. Good, bravy. Is Landon... Yeah, I need to read the stuff that you guys are sending. Some of them just have stickers, but Landon says I finally hit, I thought, oh, hell yeah. And I'm making a comeback because I'm bored nowadays. How's school going? Are you done? No, you can't be done, right? Hugs from me too, good to see your face. Yes, Hailey, always, always. Ah, yes. Yes, no, it is. Zoop just went fine, duh. That's funny. You don't get a hug, but that's funny. That is funny. God damn it. Oh, y'all are killing me. Go buy some books. All right, so here's one. And then I have to like move away and then come back in and be like, I hug you again. I guess, is it $5 for a hug? No, it's not, it's free, but Zoop, Zoop, you wanna hug? I just feel like it's nothing, this stream has turned in another of my titties on the camera. Y'all fucking rock. Y'all are great, thank you so much. It's tiring, I know. Yeah, I think, yeah, when we lose someone, like when we start, I guess the thing, and of course, no shade to anyone who tells someone that they're sorry for their loss, but after so long, it's like, it's that reminder of what we lost. And I'm not saying don't do it, don't get me wrong, it's just me personally. Like after so long, it like hurts. It's like reopening a wound, like tearing a scab off of it. And it's like, yes, it was a terrible thing and I appreciate you. I do appreciate you, but it gets to be a little much after a while, I guess is the, yeah. This feels like a very specific only fans. Hey, Jimmy, how you doing? Not sure if you answered, but will you be streaming? Yes, that'll be the first game stream I do after the reboot of the channel. I won't be paying attention to comments because of spoilers and all that stuff, but I will be streaming it live on the channel until I finish it, and then I'll probably be streaming my speed runs after that. I saw your video, Landon, saying that you are back. Good for you, man. I will be watching your videos. I didn't even know YouTube is, ooh. I'm going into my third year of college as well. How's it going, Landon? Take this thousand, I am not giving you 500 hugs. Lazy, I'm gonna tell you that right now. I'm not giving you 500 hugs. I'm not gonna do it. I love you so much, but I'm not gonna do it. Brad said, five dollars for a hug, 10 for a kiss, seven for a half. Why'd you go full prostitute? Why? Whoever it was who wanted a purple zebra, or should I say zebra? Because that's how y'all say it. It's coming, awesome. Can't wait to see it. I gotta go back and look at the, hey, Jayrod, welcome back. It's not real money, yes, but it's a thought that counts. So what the fuck were you thinking? Y'all got me over here. I'll do that. Y'all send me 30 dollars. I'll do jumping jacks for you. You'd watch my belly flop around. It's also, I'm also gonna cause an earthquake in Alabama, so, but you send me 30 dollars. I used to say I'm not a dancing monkey, but you send me 30 bucks, man. Seven dollars, damn, you're the working man, sucker. Please don't send me 30 dollars. I do not want to do jumping jacks. You can read me a book. What do you want me to read you? I'll read you a couple things. Book one, the torment of the last lord. And then did Elric leave Johorkar in pursuit of a certain sorcerer who had, so Elric claimed, caused him some inconvenience, the chronicle of the black sword. From the ship a boat was being lowered. It swayed in its harness. Two figures swathe in long capes, watch the semen lowering. Okay, I'm done. I'm done. I've been thinking about story time, but the problem with story time is I'm a huge supporter of copyright and intellectual property, and I do not want to, I don't want to like, accidentally steal from someone. You know what I'm saying? And I can't read that was getting too charged. It was. Had one in the chamber, buddy. Okay, but I don't want to step on anyone's toes. I definitely don't want, you know, anyone to feel like I'm using them for content. So yeah, maybe switch some words around like mad lips. How the fuck does every live stream devolve and to talk about, I don't know. I don't know. It's late this time, we're two and a half hours into it. And yeah, two and a half hours. Usually it's right at the hour mark. You know, it's funny because I did the final Edward Lorne interview over on Twitch on gaming grandma's channel. I think she called it the final demise of Edward, that name. And I found it funny because we even, even when I'm a guest on someone's show, it still devolves into that after about the hour mark. I think it's hilarious. There's a guy on YouTube that does his own audiobooks of Game of Thrones. Yeah, but he not supposed to, unless he got permission, which I doubt he did because Roy Detrice narrated those. And I know Roy definitely 100% wants his money. So yeah. And at the end, you can give me props and critiques. Wait a second. I'll write some stories for, I'll write some stories you can read. Now, if you guys want to do that and give me the okay to read your stuff. I mean, I've done it before. I did it with, I still need to read Jake's and I've read Haley's. So if you guys want to do that, that's fine. I just can't guarantee when it'll happen, that kind of thing. Crab hands and vagina tentacles, yes. Oh, it's okay to be different. Stand tall and be yourself. That zebra is amazing. Who else joined? Yeah, King joined. Gotta make audiobooks for stuff from the 1700s. Yeah. Well, it just has to be, what is it? What's copyright law? 120 years? When does something enter public domain? If something was published before 1923. So it's gotta be 100 years old. If it was an unpublished work and the author died over 70 years ago, it's in the public domain. If it was written by an anonymous author over 120 years ago, it is in the public domain. So 120 years is like the baseline. All right, it's time for me to get it. Do you guys wanna stop or do you guys wanna go longer? If you guys wanna go longer, all I have to do is get up and move around. It's up to you. I mean, you guys just threw like 40 or more dollars at me. I wasn't doing the math, I wasn't keeping up. But I will stay longer. I can go longer, that's what he said. Yeah, longer, longer. All right, that's enough people. All right, let me take a break. I will be back very, very shortly. Fun Winnie the Pooh fact. Winnie's first name is actually, okay. That's what she said, yeah. I'll share my purple, perpzeb, perpzeb. Anyways, I'll be back. Hang out, let everyone know as they come. There's 25 likes on this video? That's madness. I don't think I've ever done a live stream where I got over like 15. That is absolute madness. All right, let me take my break. I'll be back in about 10 minutes, all right? All right, all right, all right. Your favorite chunkwrap Supreme is back. How y'all doing? The comfiness of the chair knows no bounds all seeing all knowing we praised the chair. Hello, Dune, the almighty radiant chair. E-45, E-42, I ain't 45 yet. All righty, how ya? Hello, hello, hello. Do I know you, Dune? Do I, does I know you, did you change your name or something? I can't really tell the, yeah. So it's, I was able to open the picture, but it's like pixelated, it's like a, you got on a metal t-shirt, like a black metal t-shirt, a beanie, a rad goatee, holding your phone, got your finger up. Best part of waking up is the chair on your stream. Best part of waking up, the chair on your stream. You look about 30. I don't know about that. See how the baldness, your boy is stressed. I gotta get hair cut. Everything is all furry. How lovely is thy sitting place? Yes, yes. Once again, I feel like this is Catty Wampus. I'm gonna have to get my tape measure back out again. What do you call a magic dog? Labrador cat Dabra. You know, I went to, I went to apply at a moisturizing facility. You know, one of the places to make lotions and whatnot. I didn't take the job because they told me I had to apply daily. Nope, fresh one here over chats, been around, enjoying your, thanks Dune, appreciate you. If you don't know, you can probably go, you can scrub back, watch the beginning of the video or not. I'll just tell you again. All of the old content will be back. It won't be back here, but it'll be over on Discord eventually. I'm gonna have all the playlist for all of my book reviews, The Thursday Theorist and my From the Desk series. Lazy said funny. What are my faves? For Polynyk, I would say Haunted. My favorite of all time from him is Invisible Monsters. They got Invisible Monsters. Really, really love diary. Rant is another one. And then everything past here kind of just turned me off. How do you find, I've heard this one, Nick. How do you find Will Smith in the snow? You look for fresh prints. So stupid, but I love it. One of my favorite dad jokes of all time usually goes right over people's heads. What is a word with four letters? What? J-Rod, what is a word with four letters? Stupid! Yeah, so stupid. It's so good though. What? J-Rod, what is a word with four letters? It's a statement, not a question. Read those two, but it's been ages. Survivor was my, oh yeah, was it Trevor Branson? I will never forget that dude's name. I hope, oh I hope I didn't hang up. Ah! My heater. Oh, Tender, sorry, Tender Branson. I knew it was an interesting name. ought to do rereads. I can't reread, Paul and Nick. I don't know why. His stuff is great the first time around, but rereads, I'm like, I know all the twists. I know all the, we're up to 30 likes. Y'all is ridiculous with the super chats and the likes that appreciate you. You know, I used to get comments all the time. And this seems strange to me because it was never a motivating factor for me. People would always say, I love how you don't ask us to like, subscribe, share and all that nonsense. It just never, I figure if you like the content you're gonna hang around. There's nothing that I can say to make you do that. And then other people would be like, you know, it'd be nice to give us a reminder to like, comment and subscribe or whatever. At the same time, you're already commenting. If you like it, go ahead and like it. If you wanna hang around, subscribe. It doesn't mean, you know, it's just not something I'm focused on. My girlfriend was sad because her dog died. I asked what I could do to cheer her up. And she said to get another dog like the other one. Now she's even more depressed. She yells, what am I supposed to do with two dead dogs? That reminds me of another dad joke that I like. And you really have to be in the presence of someone to do it. Well, you point at the sky and you say, look, a dead bird. So dark but so funny. Holy quack, holy. Oh, that was a good one, Lazy. That was a really good one, yeah. Another, another favorite of mine is why can't chickpeas sing us a song? I don't get the dead bird one. Dead birds don't fly, Haley. Look at the dead bird. Dead bird, it's not, it's dead. It's not flying through the air. And if they look, ha ha, you know. Oh, oh yeah, it's a good one. I get everybody. Oh my God. Anyways, why can't, I would have looked, hey, I did it, I did too. That's why I like it because I fell for it. But why can't chickpea, holy shit, Derek. Y'all done bought me like a whole shelf of books today. Derek, you mind? I mean, bring it in, Derek, bring it in. I love you, man. I mean that. It has to be long and awkward now because you sent so much. You did this to yourself. You did. I'm sorry, Derek. No, you can't go yet. Hang on. We got like another whole 10 seconds. This is what you did to yourself. You see this? You see this? My titty meat all up in your face. You see this? You see? Oh my God. Oh my God. Okay, you can go now. You dropped your pocket. That's a good one. God damn, Derek, God damn all of you. Like holy shit, like not God damn you. You know, not like Sky Daddy, damn this person. But holy shit. Yeah, y'all are something else. You take my love and you like it. Anyways, Chick Peas can't sing us a song because they can only hum us one. Hum us one. I know you do, CJ. You keep commenting that. It's all gonna be on the Discord. So if you wanna join the Discord, the videos aren't gone. And I warned y'all a lot, a lot. That one was so lame. It is lame, yeah. But I warned y'all. But if you wanna join the Discord, all the playlists will be up over there. And you can save them. You can quit the Discord after you save them. I don't care. But all the new Stephen King content will be up over there. You're welcome. It's not up yet. It's not up yet. I'm working on it. I'm behind as hell. I got Patreon books to send out. I got all different kinds of shit to do. I'm working very, very, very diligently to try and get my family set up for basically the rest of their lives. And I just, yeah, it's a lot. But what I'm gonna do is maybe Lee will be able to help me. Maybe my oldest will be able to help me. Basically I'm gonna post links to all the playlists that everyone requests. And it'll be over there. And you'll be able to click on that and go over there and watch the entire thing. And then you can save. If you don't wanna be a member of the Discord, you can then leave the Discord after you save the playlist so you can go back and watch it any time you like. What's the difference between a green bean and a chickpea? I've never paid to have a... That is foul. It is funny. But that is foul. That is absolutely foul. I agree, chickpea crust pizza is good. Yeah, I like chickpea, everything. Hummus, just roasted chickpeas are good to eat like peanuts. What's the difference between... They already read that. My favorite joke is my dick was in the Guinness Book of World Records. Then the library told me to take it out. I've heard the chickpea one. I've heard the chickpea one. But I've never heard the librarian one. That reminds me of all the tests they ran on the library copies of 50 Shades of Grey and how it came back positive for like every STD in the world. Like they took a bunch of 50 Shades... Well, they took a bunch of books, but the ones that had the most STDs on them were library editions of Erotica, but mostly 50 Shades of Grey. I have some, but I didn't really know what to do with them. I usually just eat pinto beans or black beans. I love chickpeas. Chickpeas are great. They're full of protein. They fill me up when damn near nothing else fills me up. Not even my mans. Look at this, y'all. Y'all see this? The muscle? Look at that. I mean, anyways, but I'm bragging at this point, but yeah, I'm in best shape of my life, literally. I roast a can of beans, too, with some olive oil in the oven and spices. So good, oh yeah, yeah. Not even your mans. How sad. The worst part about losing weight at a quick rate is all the extra skin. Like I got, look at this. Look at this flabby titty. I gotta save that for the only fans. But anyways, you have earned, thank you, Hailey, thank you. I've been working hard, trying my best, trying my best. So, and I got this little turkey waddle down here where it used to be like, damn, I don't even have much of a, I mean, it's there, don't get me wrong, it's just empty. Ooh, wow. Anyways, thoughts on Radiohead? I like Radiohead. I really have no thoughts about them though. I mean, I like their music. Your arms are taught, yeah, I got, yeah, I'm doing well in that, only fans. Thank you, I wasn't asking for praise. Thank you guys, thank you. I just, I'm just shocked that I actually have like definition, like see the line. Anyways, but that's beside the point. That's beside the point. My favorite band right now, I think it's Harry, Cats and the Pistachios. Hang on, let me check. If you guys don't know about Harry, Cats and the Pistachios, go check them out. I'm gonna make sure I get the name right. I am taking on, this is taking too damn long. Yeah, Harry, Cats and the Pistachios, cats is K-A-T-Z. This is the things I get for working overtime. Overtime? What a fantastic name, it is a fantastic name. They're so much fun. It's like if Tom Waits and the B-52s did a collab, so good. Homeless baby girl is my favorite song from them. Yeah, I'm a Last of Us fan. The games, I didn't love part two, but I super, super fan over part one. And the show, I've seen so many side-by-side comparisons that they're like one-to-one. And I know there's new content, but how close it is to the video game that I kind of lost interest in watching it. Also, we discontinued HBO Max, so eventually I will watch it, but I don't have any opinions on the show because I haven't seen it. I like Harley Poe, I'll write that one down. Let me look up some Harley Poe. Oh, Nick! Nick, you wait, wait right there. I got something I wanna show you. Where did I put it, there it is. Nick, are you ready? If anyone ever has any doubt that I keep literally everything anyone has ever sent me, this is proof, okay? Nick, I gotta cover up the name. Look what I found, look what I found. I was going through my office and I just happened to come across it. Anyways, but I keep everything anyone has ever sent me. Oh yeah, I'm super excited for Holly. That's my favorite Stephen King character of all time. Hey, exactly, Nick. I'm on a diet too because the restaurants have gone up too much and I do not cook. The only reason I'm losing weight is because I'm exercising. I didn't do a diet. I have not changed the way I ate whatsoever. I've just been working it off. Hey, what's up, Mike? How you doing? Yeah, the Holly cover is beautiful. I really like it. It's very reminiscent of the Institute. That kind of shit. I really, really like it. Not really fairytale as much. Same old, same old. I miss you, brother. Absolutely miss you. Also, I found Event Horizon if you want to send that Charlie Parker. Just shoot me an email. I don't check the old email. Can't say the name on the channel anymore but I don't check that email very often but I do check it probably once every two weeks. Men like to cook. I do like to cook. I love to cook. Love to cook. Hey, Patrick, how you doing? Holly is your favorite, yeah. With me, it's just like a gender swap me because I'm the exact same way. Not to generalize. Hey, I like broad statements because I like broads. Ha, ha, ha. Badoons. Someone's gonna clip that and I'm gonna be all over the internet. This fat fuck is canceled. He called women broads. I'm sorry. Call me an asshole if you want to. Cooking is great, cleaning after not so much, yeah. My mother-in-law once told me is like, because I was like washing up dishes after I was done cooking for her. We were over her house and I cooked dinner. And she told me something that I pretty much lived to this day. No matter what gender, it doesn't matter. Man, wife, it doesn't matter. If someone cooks for you, wash the dishes. That's it. So she's like, I don't mind washing the dishes because you cooked dinner for me. So yeah, also if you wanna, you know what's really, really hot? You know what's really cool? Cooking together, cleaning together and then having dessert together. I call females chicks. Oh, you got two for one there. Females and chicks? Ooh, you're canceled, Lazy. You're canceled. Cooking is great, cleaning out, yeah, I already read that. My favorite king character is the cook. I think you've said this, I think you've said this a couple of times and I never, never want you to stop because it's always funny, no matter if you're serious or not. I'll need to get your address since all our DMs went bye-bye onto it. Okay, all right, I'll shoot you. I'll go ahead and shoot it to you now, Mike. Give me a second, y'all. Give me a second. Ooh, Lord, look at the, y'all, I got 624, 624 emails on the old account. Oh, what's your name? What do I have, there you are, okay. I know your name, but you know I know two first names for you. Bookable, where's Bookable? Bookable, hello Bookable. Surely you can relate, yes. You think I'll like Harley Poe? I would listen to Poe right now if it wasn't for this being monetized. Because I'm pretty sure if they demonetize you, they also send back your super chats. So if I get demonetized, not only do I lose that, but you guys get your money back, so you know, and also I could get content violation. Yeah, yeah, Derek, I can't, it's the old, Derek, listen, it's the old last name, okay. The old last name followed by complex, C-O-M-P-L-E-X. Shoot me in, oh no, I have it on private. I have it on private. Give me your name and I'll add you. Oh, hello Lupin, how are you doing? Hope you're doing well. I am a man of many names. Oh, that's what you were talking about, I'm sorry. I thought you were talking about the, nevermind. Yeah, I'm a man of many names. Sure you can relate. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, Mike. How rude of you to assume such things. Hey, welcome back, Brian. I wanna tell you all something. I appreciate Brian so much because no one, no one is more positive and more of a hype person for video games on this channel than Brian. If I make any kind of series with video, which I am, I'm in the process of doing that, if I, it's all because of Brian. I have you, dude, Mike, I have you, don't I? Alaska double underscore blue. Why did you auto correct the Daryl? My man's name's Derrick. It's just the truth, Brian. Thinking of changing your pen name again? Okay, let me ask you why. Just answer that, why? Okay, it is hot in here. I gotta turn off my heater. I tried to add you for Elden Ring shenanigans, but it didn't work. I could have swore I had you on there. Anyways, I will, I'll put this in here also. Mike, Mike is, no. Slay in 666. You're going to hell, Mike. You know that, better change your ways. I'd hate to see you burning down there with me. Excited for a RE remake four play through? Yeah, I'm excited for it too. Like I said, I will not be, oh, I will not be chatting. I will just be playing it blindly. I'll have comments turned off. Oh, you're one of those tree bugs, not like cockroach, but you know those like beetle looking things that are like the color of tree bark? Because I feel my work is improved and is much different than my older stuff. That's a good reason. Okay, I want to disconnect myself from my older writing plus my family knows this. Yeah, that's all good reasons. Okay, I was just thinking if you're going to change genres or whatever, that's not a good reason. But yeah, that's a really good reasons. Really good reasons. Because honestly, that's why I changed like my first couple of pin names, even though one of them was a fucking New York Times bestseller. I was like, I don't like these books and these books aren't good. Everyone who likes these books are idiots. And I know that's a terrible way to think, but it doesn't change the fact that I thought it. So it's like people who like Bay's End. I am so confused. I'm not knocking the book. Oh shit, I just fucking, god damn it. Well, this video is going to have to go private after. Shit. I knew I was going to do it. I knew I was going to do it. I knew it. I knew I was going to do it. If you're out there watching, the book's unpublished. Please don't take my money away. God damn it. Fuck. Anyways, okay, let's move on. Let's not draw too much attention to that. I just did. Just played Hogwarts Legacy, starting to pull me in a couple of hours. And cool. I'm glad you're enjoying it. I must know the title of that book before I leave this earthy realm. Which book? Which book should you talk about? I don't know which book you're talking about. We all love you. I hope they understand you're human. Well, we're not talking about normal people here. We're talking about filthy rich people. So we're not talking about normal people. Moving on, moving on. So beavers, what is up? Built any new dams today? Cause damn it, I fucked up. People right now out there in the comments going, he on delete comments with that name and then he's going to blurt that shit out. Go upside his head with a cinder block and you have every right to. Fucking hell. Okay. Ugh. Like I said, I'll just make this stream private afterwards. No, I can't because, ugh. Stop it, Nick, stop it. I can't because it's a channel update. I mean, I guess it could be like, fuck the people who didn't show up for it, but that's kind of rude, don't you think? Yeah, but anyways, yeah, my New York time, oh yeah, I think you've already read it, Lazy. I think you've actually mentioned it before. So there. For some reason, YouTube stopped giving me updates about your channel, so the Patreon thing was the first I heard about all this, really, really. In fact, I'm 100% positive you've read it, Lazy. And the craziest part about it is there's someone in chat right now that knows about one of them. And that's the funny part. I got the YouTube notification for this. You wanna know why? Because I haven't posted it in forever. YouTube only likes, if you make a lot of content, YouTube will not send your notifications out to everybody, but if you make like content like every now and again, you actually show up in people's notifications. Take, all right, doomed, have a good one. Finland, really? Awesome, I think I've only had like one other person ever from Finland. That's awesome, that's awesome. Thanks for stopping in, doomed. Have a good one. Blah, I am back in work tomorrow after being off with flu since, I think you did, Lazy, I think you did. Being off with flu since Tuesday, I didn't know you had to flu, I need to pay, did you mention it on Discord? Because I haven't paid attention to Discord. Not that I need to know all your medical updates, but I like to know. 32 likes, look at y'all, y'all are wonderful. Y'all are wonderful. Yeah, I don't ask for those, I don't ask for likes, comments or subscribes, but it is nice to see that people, legitimately like the content. And I think it's, I think it means more to me when I don't ask those things and people do it anyways. It just makes me feel good, like when my mother was like, I really love your writing. And I'm just like, you're my mother, of course you fucking do. But the first stranger, the very first review that I got from a stranger meant the absolute world to me. And it just means more to me when strangers like what I'm putting out in the world, more than, you know. Yeah, you know you earned it and it's genuine, exactly. Your content is great. Will you play, do you want me to play Doom? I can play Doom, like the reboots or the old ones, because I don't have the old ones, except for on my computer and my computer is not good enough to run a game and string. You got the notification, that's good. I got the alert about this since you've been streaming, but a few moments ago you mentioned warning people, old videos were being delisted and I had no idea. Yeah, I don't have a single video up. There's not a single video up on this channel. I even deleted the shorts that I was doing just because they were just goof off stuff. I didn't want people to think, I didn't delete them because I got hate or anything. I deleted the shorts that I was posting as Earl, because I didn't want people to think that that's the only content I was gonna be making from here on out, but I'll probably be posting Earl content here on shorts or maybe I'll just, no, I think I'll just do church of the chair stuff. Like I'll clip my, I'll be doing a lot of editing of the new videos in case you guys didn't watch the beginning of the stream or you're not gonna go back and watch it. The new videos are gonna be highly stylized with editing and all the rambling and everything gonna be taken out of it. I've been doing multiple takes to get the perfect take, that kind of thing. So no more, I'm leaving the rambling for the strings. Pretty late here in the UK too. Yeah, I'm sure. It's like what, 1138? I played the demo and if you're talking about Resident Evil 4, Brian, no, Doom, you're talking about Doom. I'm sorry, took me a second to get back on track. But yeah, I really like the new ones and if anybody wants to watch me play Doom, I'd prefer to play the new ones, the reboots. Yeah, nearly, nearly 11? Really? Yeah, Doom, yeah. Yeah, I'll play some Doom Eternal. Let me get done with Resident Evil and we'll do Doom Eternal. I love that game. I have both of them. I have Doom and Doom Eternal. Doom 2016, I think it is. As long as we do get the ramble, thank you. What happened to the turkey bottle? Oh, the turkey bottle still exists but I only use it rarely because I can't take it out in public because people look at me strange. So I have this one and I have the turkey bottle and I have a couple other ones. You haven't played Eternal yet? It's good but I think it's unnecessarily hard in some sections. Like there's no reason we should be doing platforming in a Doom game and it is loaded with platforming. There's this one section toward the end of the game where you have to jump from like coffin to coffin to coffin and it is the most annoying section of any game I've ever played. Almost ruined the game for me. It was so bad. Hogs of War was my favorite PS game. Really old school though. Why do I know that? I love the second newest game. Yeah, Eternal is good but that one, the platforming sucked. Hogs of War video game. Wow, no, I never played this one. That game looks goofy as fuck. Oh boy. Yeah, I don't like Mirror's Edge is a great game. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to look at. I just couldn't play it. I don't care and dishonored. I can't get into games that are first person parkour for platforming. Like the platforming in Turok on N64, it was the yes, yes. That's a perfect example. So bad. I got a moustache heritage. Ooh, look at the curly. I love my sexy motherfucker. How is it though? Hang on then, won't stay. If it won't stay, it's a twirled. I'm so fucking goofy. Yeah, I keep going like this because I need to trim my moustache. All right, I'm gonna give you guys till, you guys wanna go for another 15, I guess? Put some Brill Cream in it, it'll stay. I can't do it, zoop. I can't, my dad used Brill Cream and talk about trigger effect. Oh my God. That's what's stopping me from playing the Dying Light game. Same here, same here. Like the original Dead Island games, Dead Island and Dead Island Riptide. I liked those, but I couldn't get into Dying Light because it had so much parkour. It's like a shadow at a distance. Oh, no, I thought you were talking about mine. That's why I was laughing. I'm sorry, Ty, but I'm starting. Yeah, you're starting to get it. Yeah, yeah, cool. It's funny because for a while, my oldest had a thicker mustache than I did. Now they get rid of it, but yeah. Yeah, New Dead Island out soon. I'm thinking about playing that one. Not playing it, streaming that one. There's a whole bunch of stuff I wanna do. It's cool and cute. Yours is more than the shit. I know, but it's still like, what was that one person that trolls that said the wispiest beard on the internet? It is, look at this, patchy ass shit. Look at this. It's the indigenous in me. Maybe for those of you that don't know, my dad was a quarter. His, no, my dad was half. Grandpa was full-blooded Native American. And I have like no arm hair to speak of whatsoever. None. I'm just like, it's like I wax and I don't. The men in my family can grow a good beard. So hopefully in time, so will I. I hope you can too. I, someone also told me to go to Brazil and get a transplant. They take the hair off of here and then they put it on your face. And I'm like, no, I don't care. Literally the only reason, we're all adults here, right? Okay, we're all adults. The only reason I even grow this out, it's not because I look good or because I look like a pedo with no facial hair. None of that stuff. It's because Shell likes the texture of it. If you get what I'm saying, thighs, you know, you get what I'm saying, I'm just saying. That's the only reason. And since she's the only person whose opinion really matters to me, the beard stays. Sorry, my mom said the Italian is coming out. That's cool. I'm half Spanish and Native American. That's cool. I usually don't tell people that because every single white person on the face of the planet, especially the racist ones, are like, I'm part Indian. And I specifically said Indian because that's how they say it. But yeah, they're all, you hear it, everything. And what's the, here's the question. It happens so often, I'm gonna ask you guys, what is the tribe that they always say they're part of? Always. What tribe is it? Come on, don't let me down. You guys know what it is. No, I don't get, yep. Yep. No, I don't get what you're saying, please elaborate. Yep. Every single time. Every, k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k. Kaiju, Kaiju, Native American. There's, first off, Nick, there's no group of people as a monolith. So some actually like Stephen Graham Jones still uses the term Indian, like an only good Indian, his novel, some of them like Native American, but most of them prefer indigenous, but they're still working on what they want to be called. You're fine, Kaiju, that was fucking hilarious. That was so good. Navajo? The worst part about it is, and this is why I don't say it, the worst part is my grandfather was chief of a Cherokee tribe in Oklahoma. That's why I don't talk about it because I have actual documentation that I do, but because all these stupid white people have come out and claimed that they're Cherokee, all of them, I'm just like, I'm not saying this to anybody, I do always say Choctaw because yeah, it's offensive. They are also, yeah, I mean, that's another thing. Like some black folks, Shell prefers black, she doesn't like African-American whatsoever. Like don't call her African-American because she'll literally tell you, I've never been to Africa, I'm black. There's some people, it's just a personal preference thing, but at the same time, like I said, no group of people as a monolith, so you can't really please every single group of people. It's like the majority wins, the squeakiest wheel gets the grease kind of thing. So anyways, but that's my whole diatribe on that one. I don't wanna go any farther. But yeah, I don't think anyone's getting offended over Native American though, Nick. I think it's just the fact that they want to be able to name themselves, like they should be able to. So it's, but then again, like who gets to choose that name? It's like, I was thinking the other night, who the hell decided to call us the United States? Because when we became the United States, when we came over, stole the land, all that shit, killed a bunch of people, spread pestilence and disaster and all that shit. When we came over here, it wasn't multiple states. So at one point in time, and I'm not a huge history buff, but at what point in time did everyone band together and say, we are the United States? I figure called them what most of them want when, it's kind of like pronouns though, right Ty? Cause it's like, you just ask, what would you prefer? And there are some people who was like, I don't give a fuck what you call me. Just don't call me late for dinner. That kind of shit, I don't think this bunch gets it. I know, but people, I don't want to offend anybody that might, I don't want to unintentionally offend people. So anyone who comes across this, just know that, I understand, whatever you want to be called, I'm perfectly fine with it. So, well, before the revolution, war, really. Okay, I didn't know that, Mike. See, that's what I was talking about, American colonies. Okay. Yeah, I'm definitely not going to put my two cents in like what people should be called, because I am the most pasty pale, white cracker motherfucker. I am mayonnaise melanated. That there's no melanin, no pigment to the skin, whatsoever. The only reason it's relatively pink is because I have thin skin and you can see the blood literally coursing through my face. Yeah, people are complicated, yeah. I like to look at it this way and y'all can steal this if you want to. In my point of view, there's seven billion type of people in this world and almost eight billion at this point. Like everybody's different, man. Everybody's different. Man, I can't believe y'all. I'm still blown away by all the super chats I got. That's fucking nuts. I'll need Jesus. I can't be reached, I can't be reached. I've got the same complexion, go red as fuck if I'm out in the sun. Yeah, I go red just like thinking. Like, I literally, I'll just turn red. Hey, vamp, how you doing? Holy shit, I'm so happy to see all the people I ain't seen in so long. How about we call everyone by their name? That's preferred, but even then, we get into arguments as a society. It's like you see someone who looks like a Jane but wants to be called John. You get what I'm saying? There's an issue with that. Call everybody what they want to be called. Yeah, Ty, like, I got in trouble on Twitter very quickly until I had to, I literally showed my, you know, my back. I took a picture and I posted it on the thing that got in trouble because I retweeted something and they had the hashtag Crip Lit, C-R-I-P-L-I-T and I retweeted it with Crip Lit. I am disabled. I've had five back surgeries. Sometimes I have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, have trouble walking. Sometimes, and this might be TMI, I have trouble cleaning myself after going to the bathroom. I am disabled, clinically disabled, but people took offense with it because I seem outwardly to be normal. I've got the same, yeah, I already read that. That's true. Dinner time. All right, Mike, I'm about to get out of here too. I think I'll give you all the next five minutes. Five minutes. True, I started a new job and been sick but doing better now. How is everyone? I'm doing fantastic. I'm so happy to be back. Finally got some time to myself after months and months of edits and new projects and trying to keep the bills paid and all that stuff. Yeah. What's your favorite animal? How dare you assume that I have one favorite animal? How dare you book invisible illness? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well, I mean, if you actually seen me walk, you'll be like for any amount of time. I'm not talking about getting up out of the chair and moving. And even sometimes that is hard to do. But if you see me walk for any period of time, like more than 10 steps, you can see how I'm affected by it. It's beavers. I have multiple disabilities and if I'm clothed anyway, I can't look abled. It's actually annoying. Yeah, yeah. I was just accused of being able. Beavers for me. Did you do a review on the shiny? Yes. And that'll be up on the Discord in the next couple of days. I don't know how to use Discord. Other people are helping me do this so I have to wait on them to have time but everything will be up over there as unlisted videos. I can't make them public because the old name is gone and I can't have it up on the channel. Gotta play Evil Dead. Or if we do, Brian, I'm waiting on you, sir. I am waiting on you. You tell me when you want to play. I'm waiting on you, babe. I'm waiting on you. I got into Evil Dead the other night and I really enjoyed it. I didn't know you could fight back. That's really cool. I thought it was another Dead by Daylight where you just run away from the monster. I really need to read The Shining this year. I've been wanting to read it for so long. It's a good book. It's very slow-starting like most of Stephen King's stuff but it's a really, really, really good book. Yeah, it's more action-based. Yeah, I enjoyed it. I thought it was cool that you got all these different weapons. You have legendaries. You have mid-range. You have bad weapons. I thought that was really cool. I bought the quarry but I haven't played it yet. That is a one-play-through game for me and I know it has multiple endings and multiple ways you can do things but I didn't try to enjoy it. Now, until Dawn, I played numerous times to try to get all the achievements. The quarry, not so much. I'm just noticing viewpoint changes in it. I mean, I understand but it's a... Stephen King's early stuff was more omniscient than it was like any direct viewpoint. Yeah, character depth definitely tie. Yeah, Jimmy, I really liked that when I hate that all the copyright bullshit happened and that the game pretty much died. Didn't like the characters as much? What do you mean? I'm talking like several different people about several different things. I guess that's why it was $15 new. Nowadays, yeah, but I spent 60 bucks on it when it first came out. Anyways, everybody go ahead and start saying your goodbyes because I'm gonna let you go. The three and a half hour stream is nuts. I've never heard of Catherine Foxfield. It's behind you, tag you're dead, come out, come out wherever you are. That sounds very much like something I'd stay away from and just to explain real quick why I say that there's anything that seems like it's a... I'm not saying it's James Patterson clone but it takes like nursery rhymes or things like that for titles. I don't know why I just stay away from them. So if I saw that on a shelf, I would stay away from it and the covers for me are a little generic too but if you're recommending, then I might check her out. Bye, Ty, bye, Nick. Thank you again, thank you everybody for all the support, all the super chats, all the hugs, all the awesomeness today. You guys made my damn week. All right, bye, Hailey, bye, Zoop, bye, Jayrod. Bye, Vamp, I missed the writing streams. We're gonna have them again. We're gonna have them again, those are coming up too. Okay, everyone go listen to Harley Poe, I'm about to. I got it queued up on Amazon Music right now. Such a great live, thank you so much, E and everyone as well, good stuff, good people, definitely. All right, y'all, I don't know if I'm keeping the old outro and intro and outro but if I do, just don't be upset if I change literally everything. It'll probably end up being something like, welcome to the church of the chair, I'm your host E, so on and so forth. RJ, thank you for being here, I appreciate you. All right, everybody, until next time, it'll be next weekend and you should have a video this week, you should, I don't know when but once I get done editing it, we should be good but I've shot two months worth of content. One last time before everybody goes, you're getting one video a week, maybe, but you're getting four videos a month, okay? I might take a month off, like months that have like five weeks in them. Love y'all too, thank you. Go eat a delicious dinner, I am. We're having Bertoli, tortellini, sausage and four cheese mixed together and grilled chicken breast. Anyways, so look forward to like one video a week, so on and so forth, maybe two videos in one week but there's only gonna be four videos max every month. Anyways, and then we're gonna have streams on the weekend, game nights on Sundays are coming back, keep an eye on the community tab and the Discord, especially the Discord, it's much easier to find the Discord. The link is in the description of the Discord, go join, be a member, all of the videos will be up there, eventually, they're not up there yet. Yeah, and if you have any other questions, go back to the very beginning of the video and watch like the first 10 minutes, I discuss everything there. But y'all have a great, wonderful night, day, whatever you've got over there where you are and I love you, love your faces, I'll talk to you later. Bye.