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- Hey y'all. I'm in the studio with my grandson, Jack.
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He is on the set of his show Jack Deen's Book Nook.
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And I want to find out for myself today,
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what started, where did this idea come from, Jack?
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And how did you get all this started?
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I mean, it's like a real studio y'all.
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- Yes, Ma'am. So, you know, one day in fifth grade, oh
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it took a long time of thinking about what I wanted to do.
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- Thinking, yeah.
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- So I've always loved watching you YouTube, you know and
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watching all sorts of things I'm interested in.
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- You've been coming on my show since you were like two.
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- Oh, yeah.
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- Yeah, I love getting in front of camera and stuff
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like that, but I always loved watching YouTube.
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So I really wanted to find something that I enjoyed.
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I like watching video games and sports and stuff like that,
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but unfortunately there's never really been a book
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review channel. Which is something that I like
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and so many people care about.
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So I thought maybe I could, you know,
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help start that brand and start...
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- Yes, so people won't waste their time
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and money on a bad book.
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- Yep, yep. So I can review books.
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Tell them what I think about it.
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And really it's always just been about fun for me
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and just doing what I love
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and sharing my message with other people.
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Which is "Just do what you love".
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- How many books do you read a week?
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- A week? Whew. I don't know.
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I guess on a good month where I'm not too busy
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I guess I read about one book a week.
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Because I've been reading bigger books as I get older too.
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This one took me...
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- I was gonna say.
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- It depend on how much I like the book, as well.
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This one took me about two days though.
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- I was so shocked in one of your last shows
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you reviewed a Stephen King book.
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I thought, oh my gosh, he's getting, he's getting old.
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Because your daddy has always been the biggest
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Stephen King freak ever.
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- Yes, ma'am.
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- And so I knew that it would be daddy approved.
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- Oh, yes, ma'am.
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- For you to, to do a review on that.
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So I know I just asked you how all this started,
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but I want to know really how it started and how do you
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how do you get a podcast going?
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- Well, really, I just went on to Google and I just
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created an account Jack Deen's Book Nook.
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And so really that's when it all started.
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I've held that account for a really long time and it wasn't
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until I actually started recording
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and getting a microphone and setting up this awesome set.
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- That was, I gave you that for Christmas, didn't I?
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- Mm-hmm. So it, it really all just is a technical beginning
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with creating an account, which is pretty easy.
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Then just filming videos.
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I used to edit them on my phone, but recently,
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with some Christmas money, I got an editing program
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on my computer to do it a little bit better.
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- That's wonderful. I didn't know you had that capability.
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So anybody can start one of, of these.
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- Oh yeah, of course.
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- And there's a lot of young people out there,
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I understand that have gotten very wealthy...
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- Oh, yeah.
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- From these podcasts that they've started.
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And I know you're not doing it for money
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but you're doing it cause you love it.
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But I just think there's a lot of opportunities out there
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for other people.
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- Of course.
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- You know, for your age, my age, it really doesn't matter.
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- Yeah. Everyone can do it and that's the beauty of it.
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So anything that you care about
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you can just go and talk about it, really.
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There will be people that listen, so it's really cool.
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- Well, I know your podcast is growing.
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- Yeah, it's getting pretty big.
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We're around 4,500 subscribers, which is pretty exciting.
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- That's very exciting, Jack.
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- Yes, I know. Recently we got bookmarks coming out.
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So if you wanna order one yourself
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you can go find out my channel.
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It's usually in the link in my description of most videos.
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And here is the first shirt ever made
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- Yes! Jack Deen's Book Nook.
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- Yep.
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- And it says BookWorms on the back.
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And we're carrying these in the store
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at The Lady and Sons, aren't we?
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- Yes, ma'am. That's right.
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- So, how exciting is that?
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- Super exciting.
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- And Jack works in the store, y'all.
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During his summer vacation and Christmas.
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Were you able to slip some hours in?
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- Went in a couple times.
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- Jack just loves that store.
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And I can't tell you how much his
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grandmother loves seeing him. love what we have built.
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And it's just all very exciting.
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I just love your studio
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and I know you've done all of this yourself.
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- Yes, ma'am.
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- You've thought it through.
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So tell us about all your thoughts in setting up a studio.
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- Yeah, so really in seventh grade
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I had a little studio just kind of with some
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books behind the wall that I used to read as a kid.
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And really a studio to me has always been
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what is my favorite thing.
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And I just wanna surround it with what I love.
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So you can see, I have my computer here for all my editing.
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And this microphone, which you got me for Christmas.
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I've loved being able to use it and it's really
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improved the quality of my videos.
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I got a couple of different lights back there
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to be able to, you know, improve how everything looks.
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- It's all about the lighting jack.
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- Well, so that's more the technical stuff.
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- Yes.
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- But then I have the stuff that I really like
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and that's important to me.
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The first thing is my state championship ring
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from my Raider team season this year at school.
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- Y'all, and I don't know if you know about Raider teams,
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but this is a big deal.
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It's a real big deal.
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Y'all came in second nationally, didn't you?
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- Fourth, it was fourth, but we got first in the state.
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- First in the state, fourth in the entire nation.
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And do you want to tell them what that is?
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- So basically it's...
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- Let me see it on your hand, please.
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It looks like a college ring, doesn't it?
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It's beautiful.
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- Yes, ma'am.
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- So tell them about this particular sport that you do.
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- So, since I go to a military school, they have
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certain offerings that are in the genre of military.
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So Raider team is really, it's always hard to explain.
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But it's really, at its core,
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it's like military physical training,
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turned into a competition.
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So we do plenty of things.
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Every competition takes about eight hours and just back
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to back to back.
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We run 5Ks, lift weights while we run.
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Just a ton of stuff like that.
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And it's been my favorite sport I ever did,
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but about a hundred of us on the team.
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- A hundred of you?
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- Well, the top 12 of us went to state.
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We won, went to Nashville, got fourth,
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and it was an amazing experience.
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- And just you 12 got the rings?
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- Everyone got a ring, but I guess us 12,
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There's special engraving in the middle that says
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"Everything Matters".
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- Oh. Oh.
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- So that's pretty cool.
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- That is way cool.
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- Yes, ma'am.
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So I also, you can notice, my whole background
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is built up of these pop figures.
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And really these are just a way to express
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like the things I care about, you know.
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I love superheroes, Disney World, Harry Potter of course.
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You can definitely tell that by everything else, probably.
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I've just been collecting these for a long time.
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And I just think it looks cool
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to be able to have a wall in the back.
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Have something for the audience to be able to look at.
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- Right, right.
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- So there's that.
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- And you have always loved Harry Potter?
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- Yes, ma'am. Yeah, that's my favorite book series.
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That's really what I read the most.
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I haven't reviewed Harry Potter yet, but I think I'm
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I'm gonna make a review soon about why I love it so much.
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- Oh, good, good.
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- And up here, these are just some childhood
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books that I've read.
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Really these are just ones I keep up here for my brother.
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If he ever want to read anything.
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- Yes. And you can see you progress. Your books progress.
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- Yes, ma'am.
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- In age, just like yourself.
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- Yeah. So like, I started out reading, you know
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all these like Diary of Wimpy Kid books in first grade
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and now I'm reading Stephen King.
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- You started this in the fifth grade,
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but then you took a little break from it.
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- Yeah.
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- Well, I...
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- Do you wanna explain to us why you did that
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and how long it took for you to get it
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kicked back off again?
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- Sure. So I started in fifth grade
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and then it took me you know, production,
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trying to get it all ready and together, get set,
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get all the technical aspects together.
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Then I started really filming the first
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concrete video in seventh grade.
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Which, you know, what was that, four years ago?
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So now where? Yeah, so now this...
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- Seems like three years ago.
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- Yeah, three years ago.
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That's where I was trying to remember the exact time.
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So, then I filmed from seventh into a little bit of eighth.
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Filmed a couple videos, but then, you know
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in middle school I got a little bit shy of what I did.
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I was embarrassed that some people would pick on me.
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I decided to quit, which, you know,
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turned out to be a really big mistake.
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- Yes.
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- But also, it was a huge learning opportunity in my life.
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So I was able to realize that it doesn't matter what
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anybody else says, as long as you do what you love.
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And that's why one of the mottos
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on the channel is "Stay true, be you".
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And that's really the most important thing.
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- And I love that. Stay you, be true.
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- Yep. So that's always been the most important thing
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to me, is just getting that message out there and hoping
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that it can affect someone.
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And if even through all my subscribers,
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if one person is affected by that
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then you know, that's what really means the most to me.
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- I know exactly what you're saying, Jack.
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- Yes, ma'am.
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- If I can just help one person, you know,
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get through the day or whatever they're going through,
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it's worth it.
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So, I understand that you're fixing to do a
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book nook podcast, right?
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- Yes, ma'am, right now.
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- So we can maybe stay and and watch you do that.
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- Yes, ma'am.
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- Do you know what book you're gonna be reviewing?
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- Yes, I'm doing something a little bit different this week.
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So, I just decided to take a compilation of sorts
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of books that I read in the past March, which there's four.
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So, instead of just going into one book in great detail
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like I've done in the past, I hope to be able to go
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through all of them and touch a little bit on each one.
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- Okay, so you'll spend like maybe five minutes per book?
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- Maybe around that, yes, ma'am.
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- Well that's great, because as fast as you read
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those books, it is gonna be tough.
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It's gonna be tough.
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So, I'm just so proud of you son and the fact that Jack
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at 16 years old sits here and says, "Be true, be you".
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You know, I have known some adults that,
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they never learned that.
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And the fact that at 16, Jack has got that kinda wisdom.
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It just makes me very, very proud and I love you grandson.
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- Love you, too Guinny. Thank you for coming on the show.
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- Uh-huh, and I hope y'all will tune into his
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- Yes, ma'am.
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