Insights Into Teens: Episode 78 “Summer in Quarantine”

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  • Introductions
    • Welcome to Insights Into Teens Episode 78: “Summer in Quarantine.”
    • I’m your host Madison Whalen
    • And my co-host, Joseph Whalen
      

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[SEGMENT 1 (5-10 Minutes)]

• What I did 
  • Recreation
    • Games
      • I would play games on my devices like Mincraft, Gacha Club, and the Sims 4.
      • I would play games with you and Mommy like Either or, Trivia Battle, Geek Trivia, and Disney Hits Quiz.

• TV
  • Mommy and I would do movie night Sunday through Thursday.
  • I didn’t really watch T.V until it was announced that Big Brother was starting up again.
  • Every Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday, Mommy and I would watch Big Brother instead of a movie.

• Internet
  • I would spend a lot of time on youtube. I’d watch videos when I was bored as well as listen to music.
  • I don’t use social media, so youtube and music were the only things I really used that were internet-based.
    
• Social
  • Although I’m not able to visit my friends now, I still keep in contact with them. I have all of their numbers and make sure to try and talk to them on a regular basis.
  • With some of my friends, I normally just text them. But with the others, I also facetime them so we can talk and not have to wait for each other to finnish texting so we can say something.
  • I have gone out a few times during quarantine, but I never went to hang out with others. I was manly when Mommy had to pick up groceries or we just wanted to go for a drive.

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• Creativity
  
  • Drawing
    • I would sometimes get out a notebook and draw some characters. Most of the characters I drew were one I created in Gacha Life and Gacha Club.
    • Recently, I began doing digital art as I had finally charged up my pen for it. I would draw the same characters and color them in on my tablet.
      
  • Movie Making
    • You started to learn how to put together movies that you want to produce
    • You learned about script/screenplay writing
    • You learned how to edit stop motion animation using Gacha Life characters
    • You learned about working with green screens and backgrounds
    • You learned about storytelling and character development

• Project
  • Since you guys didn’t want me to just sit around playing games, you got me some kits so that I was doing something productive.
  • The first kit you got me was a Magnet kit, which was a science kit that showed how magnets can defy gravity and physics that most objects go by. Here, I have one of the experiments.
  • The second kit you got me was a clay-creating kit. It came with many different colors of clay and I made a piece of bacon and a character, and here they are.
  • The final kit you got me was a robotic and coding your own droid kit. I was able to make my own remote controlled droid and I can control it with the app that you use to build and control it. I can make him move and speak with code or by a standard remote control.
    
• Podcasting
  • You learned how to research and write up show notes for the podcasts
  • You hosted a few podcasts and ran the shows

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• Educational
  • Summer School Assignments
    • My summer work mainly consisted of reading a book called “Booked,” and needing to go onto IXL and do some ELA and math work so that when school starts again, I won’t forget everything.

• Virtual Camps
  • Mommy also signed me up for online camp sessions so I wasn’t just sitting on my bed all day. 
  • She found a website called Varsity Tutors which offered camp sessions for all ages with different subjects each. 
  • The camp sessions were zoom calls where your teacher would go over what we were going to do that day. 
  • Most of them are free and last for one-hour sessions 5 days for one week. 
  • Some of the ones I was a part of were At-home science experiments, traveling the world with Google Maps, and Minecraft Storyland.
    
• Research Assistant
  • You helped me research a new history podcast we’re in the process of producing
    

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[SEGMENT 4 (5-10 minutes)]

• The Coming School Year
  • What does the coming school year look like as far as home school/in school
  • What are you looking forward to
  • What aren’t you looking forward to
  • How do you think the school year will be with COVID-19 still going on
    

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welcome to insights into teens episode

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78 summer in quarantine

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i’m your host madison whalen and my

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co-host

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joseph whalen hi maddie how you doing

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today i’m doing pretty good how about

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you

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i’m doing all right um before we get

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are we going to be talking about today

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maddie

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so today we are going to be talking

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about what we did over the summer

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um about a year ago we actually did

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something for the summer

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a podcast for the summer which was

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summer activities and today since

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summer’s coming to a close

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and summer vacation is coming to a close

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and we’re all going to go back to school

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at some point and work

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we decided to do the podcast on what we

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did this summer

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and this summer was significantly

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different from last summer because of

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covid

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yep so you know it was one of those

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things we

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made the most of it we didn’t get any

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real trips in

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um no disney trips nothing really down

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to the shore or

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any of the typical ones so we were

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pretty much homebound

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the entire time like a lot of people

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were

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and we tried to make the most of it so

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we’re going to talk about some of the

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things we did

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some of the things we made and some of

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the things we experienced

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yep ready to get started sure thing all

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right

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so i did a lot of recreational things um

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as most kids probably do over the summer

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because

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it helps them to not have burnout like

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we talked about last week

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so um we have a few different categories

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in this segment so the first one was

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games

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you know like video games and stuff so

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i’d play games on my devices like

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minecraft gosha club and the sims 4.

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you know the typical stuff um

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so honestly so now you you were playing

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for a while that you were playing sims 3

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though

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what what prompted the migration to sims

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4

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well um i knew that the sims 4 had

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existed

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um while i was playing the sims 3. and

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although the sims 3 was a really nice

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game um i learned that you could do

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a lot more there were a lot more things

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that you can do with the sims

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4 and honestly a lot of people on

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youtube would like doing the sims 4 and

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not many were on the sims 3

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and i’m like

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so so what what do you like doing on

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sims 4 what’s the fun thing about that

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well there are multiple fun things i

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like creating different families

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and i like creat and i like building

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houses and doing

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cool challenges like the every room

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the every room is a different blank

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challenge and the tiny home for eight

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sim challenge

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so yeah now they do have that new sims

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tv show the game show have you been

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watching that at all is that served as

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an inspiration

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i mean yeah i’ve seen like i’ve seen the

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tv

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show and i’d and it’s actually a thing

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that

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in the game because there’s this sparked

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challenge

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that um was probably that was included

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in the tv show um and there’s a channel

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and the first challenge was like your

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dream wedding destination and you can

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and sims king and simmers can create

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them

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and share them on the gallery oh

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interesting

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very cool so yeah the sims has been

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really fun

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so now your minecraft let me ask you

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about minecraft

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when when you’re playing minecraft are

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you playing on a server with other

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people are you playing with your friends

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or are you just playing

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alone i’m just playing stand alone i

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don’t really know

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i mean i play it on my switch and i

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don’t know how to

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go online because that’s a whole other

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process

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so i kind of stay offline and i just

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play the game

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alone okay all right cool so besides

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video games what else are you playing

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well um

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we have um an echo and

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i’m not going to say her name but she ha

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and

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there are like games you can play trivia

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games

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and um since we have one in our kitchen

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um whenever me and mommy go and have

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lunch we

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play games like either or trivia battle

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and then a board game we actually

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recently played called geek trivia

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and then another one on the echo which

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is disney hits quiz

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and who usually wins those um either or

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is really not a battle it’s just a game

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of would you rather

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and you learn like anyone else that’s

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played you get to see the majority

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um sometimes we are part of the majority

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and sometimes we’re part of the minority

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so it’s more of a theoretical survey

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type

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thing yeah um for trivia battle it’s

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actually

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a statewide game you normally play with

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us

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as well um trivia battle you so there

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are eight questions

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every day for them and you

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face against another state and however

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many points you get

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is added to the overall score of how

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many people in your state have played

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and then you can see the state

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leaderboards and the player standings as

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well

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okay um so besides games what else have

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you been doing

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um i’ve been doing i’ve been watching a

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bit of tv so

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me and mommy would do movie night every

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s from sunday through

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thursday um we don’t normally do it on

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the weekends

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i don’t normally watch like cable tv

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i don’t know how to say that no i think

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that’s a good way of saying it

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yeah but um i do watch a show with mommy

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called big brother i’m pretty sure

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some people um know what big brother is

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um but for those of you who don’t

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it’s um i don’t know if it’s like

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how to classify it it’s sort of like a

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game it’s a reality competition

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reality competition pretty much um

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where um the house guests have to be in

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a hat

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like there’s 16 house guests and one

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gets eliminated every week

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until there’s a winner right so yeah

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um so we also changed that

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so every sunday wednesday and thursday

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me and mommy would watch big brother

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instead of a movie since it’s now on

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so right um yeah

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what about anything special you watched

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anything special

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this summer um like what well like the

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one

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big family thing we did a couple weeks

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ago

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and we got another big family thing

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coming up this weekend

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on disney plus um yeah we

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uh hamilton oh yeah hamilton i remember

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that yeah

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we watched hamilton the phenomenon of

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hamilton

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what did you think of that um i actually

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thought it was really cool

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i really liked a lot of the songs and

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the story wasn’t too complicated and it

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was

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very well put out and i thought there

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was like

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a really in it was really interesting

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story and

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um you said afterwards that it was

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actually a pretty good representation of

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what actually happened

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yeah it was i was very impressed and i’m

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not someone who

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i don’t really do musicals myself and i

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certainly don’t do

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broadway plays but this is certainly

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this was one show that would definitely

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uh swing me towards that at the quality

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the set design the scripting

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the songs um the subtle nuances where

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each character

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had a certain style of song that they

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would get and that really defined their

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personality

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yeah that was really cool it was it was

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very well done

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i was very impressed with it so

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so we’ve done games we’ve done tv

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what’s next on the hit list of things to

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do over the summer

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we’ve got internet it’s kind of obvious

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we have to have internet so

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i would spend a lot of time on youtube

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i’m one of those people that just

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scrolls through things that i find

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interesting on youtube and just

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doom scrolling we call it yeah

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um i’d watch you i’d watch videos when i

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was bored as well as listen to some

0:10:21.760,0:10:26.399
time to some songs on youtube as well

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what type of videos do you typically

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watch um normally just stuff that i find

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interesting i have been watching um

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some i’ve been watching like

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art um i’ve been watching art videos but

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i also watch

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sim videos and just weird videos that i

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think are hilarious

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and just um like art tutorial videos how

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do you do things

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art tutorials um this one youtube

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youtube where i follow um post videos

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every friday

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and um they and they just

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do art and um

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she doesn’t do tutorials with it um

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they they just um make

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do art so you just watch them like uh

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drawing or painting or something like

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that

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yeah okay kind of like a bob ross type

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thing you don’t know who bob ross is

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there

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um i’m learning more about him okay

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he was a very famous artist that had a

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program on i think it was pbs

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um and he would he would the thing that

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was always interesting was he would do

0:11:34.640,0:11:38.079
really quick paintings he was very good

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at doing these quick landscapes and

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stuff

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but he would narrate while he was doing

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it and it was the narration that was

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you know kind of hilarious as he would

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do it

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so are you learning stuff by watching

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this different techniques you’re getting

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exposed to different art test styles and

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stuff i mean yeah

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um i definitely watch

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like a bunch of edits that people do um

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and i really think that they’re cool and

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i like

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a lot of their art styles um okay

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what about music are you listening to

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music on the internet

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um i mean i listen to just songs i find

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interesting on youtube

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it’s just songs that um

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sound interesting or that i just can

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picture a scene by i don’t listen to a

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specific

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style of music but most of the songs i

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listen to

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are pop okay so what else have you been

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doing for recreation over the summer

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um um that i’m

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for social is our next category

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as social as you can be under these

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conditions yeah i don’t use social media

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so i’m not that’s kinda social

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um although i’m not able to visit my

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friends now i still am able to keep in

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contact with them

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i have most of my friends phone numbers

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and i’m able to text them and

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call them on certain occasions so with

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some of my friends i just text them with

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others i can facetime them so we can

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actually see each other and

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we don’t have to constantly wait for

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each other to text back

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so thank god for technology so you can

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stay in touch with your friends

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yeah pretty much that’s the only real

0:13:15.839,0:13:19.440
way i’m able to be social at this time

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besides you know being social with you

0:13:19.440,0:13:21.279
guys well

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and there’s nothing wrong with that

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you’re you know a difficult situation

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and you’re making the best of it

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as well as you can yep anything else

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from a recreational standpoint before we

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move on

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um honestly

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for the social thing i um

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sometimes go out with mommy to like the

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park or to get groceries just so i can

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get out and get some fresh air

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but um i don’t know if that’s classified

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on their social because i don’t really

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interact with others yeah

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i guess that’s about as social as we get

0:13:50.320,0:13:54.880
these days pretty much

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so take a quick break we’ll come back

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and we’ll talk about some more

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creativity things all right

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so the next segment me we have is the

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creativity

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aspect of everything um anyone who’s

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been with us for a while now knows that

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i have

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some like a bit of an insane

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um creativity i’m overly imaginative

0:15:28.480,0:15:31.519
and use my creativity in many different

0:15:30.320,0:15:33.680
ways

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and as long as you always use your super

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powers for good sweetheart

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yep so the first category we have is

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drawing that was one of the main things

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that i used for my creative aspect

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i would sometimes get out a notebook and

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draw some characters

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and most of the characters were people

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that i created in gosha club or gosh

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life um i sort of used that platform in

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order to

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draw characters in my own style

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um recently i actually began doing

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digital art

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um i would draw

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characters and unlike how i would draw

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them in my notebook i’d actually give

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them color because

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i never really covered colored in

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any of my art that i made in my notebook

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or that i drew

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on paper because they never really

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looked good

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and i’m a lefty and they would just get

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smudged

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you make all smeared characters pretty

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much yeah

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like it’s like shading but unintentional

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right and it gets annoying but with the

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digital art

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um i can color in easily

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and the art looks a little more fine

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although i still have to wear a glove

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because if i just do it bare hand

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then it just drags across the screen and

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draws in places that i don’t want it to

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draw

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gotta love touch sensitive screens yep

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so any questions for me for my drawing

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so what prompted you to start doing the

0:17:03.199,0:17:06.880
digital

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art was there something that you learned

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something that inspired you what moved

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you from drawing in a notebook to

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digital drawing

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well for one thing um drawing

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in a notebook kind of got annoying after

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a little while because

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it would always get smeared and my hand

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would always get covered in the graphite

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of the pen

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of the pencil um and it was kind of

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annoying and i saw a bunch of people

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doing digital art and i kind of wanted

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to do it myself

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um so now when you say digital art what

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exactly do you mean

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like art that you make on um

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like a tablet okay so you’re don’t draw

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drawing on a tablet what are you using

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using a apple pencil

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or different stylus or something to draw

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yeah i’m using um

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i don’t know exactly what it’s called

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but it but it’s basically a pencil where

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you can

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um draw across the screen and it’s

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actually really nice because

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it actually has um a

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it’s like the tip of a pencil so it’s

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way easier to draw and make thinner

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lines which is always good for like

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line art because i need it for the line

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art

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but for coloring it also works as well

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now is there a particular

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application you use on the tablet i mean

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yeah i use

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procreate um i know a lot of people use

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stuff like ibs

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paint x which um i’m thinking of maybe

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trying out but um um procreate’s very

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good because i can layer things

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on and i don’t have to worry about

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messing up

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and there’s also this one little troll

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i’m using now which

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is able for you to copy a color that you

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need

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um which is definitely good because i

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make make

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i make mistakes and i need to go back

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and fix them so

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so you’re using a stylus drawing stylus

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of some sort

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on an ipad using the application

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procreate at this point

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yep okay i just want to get that out

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there so if anybody else wants to do

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digital art

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they’ve got a head start on how to do it

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yep and i know that there are like flat

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tablets that are larger to use and

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easier to draw on

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um but i haven’t really upgraded to that

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yet so

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for now i’m okay with just using my

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tablet okay

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so what else have you been doing from a

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creativity standpoint

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so the next one we have here is movie

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making

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so um

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i i guess i was sort of inspired by the

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podcast

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i know you edit the podcast and

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i’ve also been inspired by other people

0:19:41.360,0:19:45.679
on youtube who’ve done

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similar movie making things and i’m like

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hmm

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what if i try that myself so

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i’m learning how to create a movie

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um so the movie is

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um the movie i i’m calling it it’s sort

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of a series with 12 episodes i’m at

0:20:02.159,0:20:06.799
least thinking

0:20:02.960,0:20:09.760
at least 12 episodes um called the 6x’s

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now is this a animated is it live action

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how are you shooting this

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um i’m shooting this through gosha club

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um

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because you can make scenes take

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screenshots and i’m also using

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another app to um edit it

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and make it um and like add effects and

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stuff

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um so what app is that um that’s kind

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master the only problem with kinemaster

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is that they have a watermark and you

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need to have a subscription for it

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but honestly i’ve seen a lot of people

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on youtube who don’t

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um get the subscription and just have

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the watermark and i’m like

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okay whatever fair enough so what all

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does this involve like have you

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learned stuff in the process of doing

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this have you

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come up with your own type of movie

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making are you writing scripts like what

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all

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does it does it involve well um

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you suggested that i would start with a

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script so that i knew exactly

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like what dialogue i needed and what

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scenes

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um i needed so um i first started off by

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going off with the basic idea

0:21:15.360,0:21:18.480
of the main characters and the main

0:21:17.280,0:21:22.159
storyline

0:21:18.480,0:21:23.280
after that um i would then put it into a

0:21:22.159,0:21:25.120
script

0:21:23.280,0:21:26.400
and then we figured out like what the

0:21:25.120,0:21:28.640
title will be

0:21:26.400,0:21:29.760
and all that so i actually have the

0:21:28.640,0:21:31.760
script for the first

0:21:29.760,0:21:34.000
episode only i’m hoping to make it like

0:21:31.760,0:21:35.919
a small series of movies

0:21:34.000,0:21:37.840
and the first episode is basically an

0:21:35.919,0:21:40.480
introduction to

0:21:37.840,0:21:41.120
um some of the some of the characters

0:21:40.480,0:21:44.320
and

0:21:41.120,0:21:46.320
um starts off the story now are these

0:21:44.320,0:21:47.440
original characters or are these

0:21:46.320,0:21:48.400
characters you’re borrowing from

0:21:47.440,0:21:50.799
something else

0:21:48.400,0:21:51.760
um i’m making them original characters

0:21:50.799,0:21:55.120
trying to give them

0:21:51.760,0:21:57.919
like good personalities um

0:21:55.120,0:21:59.039
and i actually have an idea of how to

0:21:57.919,0:22:00.960
create characters

0:21:59.039,0:22:02.159
like some of the most important things

0:22:00.960,0:22:05.200
that i think for

0:22:02.159,0:22:05.760
the personality for their personalities

0:22:05.200,0:22:08.080
is

0:22:05.760,0:22:09.520
how they interact with others how they

0:22:08.080,0:22:12.000
react to things

0:22:09.520,0:22:13.360
and um what actions they take in certain

0:22:12.000,0:22:16.720
situations

0:22:13.360,0:22:18.880
so i’m i’ve been using that and

0:22:16.720,0:22:21.280
um i have an interesting way on how to

0:22:18.880,0:22:22.000
have 12 episodes so the reason i have 12

0:22:21.280,0:22:24.720
episodes

0:22:22.000,0:22:27.280
is because there are 12 main characters

0:22:24.720,0:22:29.280
6 heroes and six villains

0:22:27.280,0:22:30.320
um and i want them to switch

0:22:29.280,0:22:32.480
perspectives

0:22:30.320,0:22:34.559
so the first will be one of the heroes

0:22:32.480,0:22:35.600
the second will be like the vice versa

0:22:34.559,0:22:37.760
of the villain

0:22:35.600,0:22:39.520
okay and the whole twist and another one

0:22:37.760,0:22:40.000
of the toy i’m having a lot of twists

0:22:39.520,0:22:41.840
okay

0:22:40.000,0:22:43.520
a lot of choice you’re like an m night

0:22:41.840,0:22:46.720
shyamalan movie yeah

0:22:43.520,0:22:47.919
um one of the twists is that well it’s

0:22:46.720,0:22:49.280
going to be introduced in the first

0:22:47.919,0:22:51.840
episode that

0:22:49.280,0:22:53.520
the villains and the heroes are actually

0:22:51.840,0:22:56.480
ex-partners

0:22:53.520,0:22:57.120
so like that’s where the six x’s come

0:22:56.480,0:23:00.240
from

0:22:57.120,0:23:03.600
yeah so um the three female hero

0:23:00.240,0:23:06.559
characters are the exes of the three

0:23:03.600,0:23:08.159
male villain characters and the male

0:23:06.559,0:23:11.280
heroes are the exes

0:23:08.159,0:23:14.240
of the female villains it’s all very

0:23:11.280,0:23:16.000
uh well balanced there yeah that and

0:23:14.240,0:23:16.640
that’s basically the entire thing it’s

0:23:16.000,0:23:19.760
like

0:23:16.640,0:23:22.240
all about balance sort of interesting

0:23:19.760,0:23:24.080
so in the process of doing this and let

0:23:22.240,0:23:25.600
me just tick off a couple of skills that

0:23:24.080,0:23:28.960
you’re polishing here

0:23:25.600,0:23:31.280
so in the process of doing this you are

0:23:28.960,0:23:32.960
learning how to write scripts in

0:23:31.280,0:23:35.200
screenplays

0:23:32.960,0:23:36.720
you are learning how to edit stop-motion

0:23:35.200,0:23:38.640
animation

0:23:36.720,0:23:40.000
uh you’re learning how to you know

0:23:38.640,0:23:41.360
generate fortunately the

0:23:40.000,0:23:42.720
the application you use helps you

0:23:41.360,0:23:45.440
generate the character so you’re not

0:23:42.720,0:23:47.039
hand drawing every single frame

0:23:45.440,0:23:49.600
you’re learning how to work with green

0:23:47.039,0:23:51.200
screens and backgrounds

0:23:49.600,0:23:53.840
and you’re learning really about

0:23:51.200,0:23:56.960
storytelling and character development

0:23:53.840,0:23:57.679
so this is kind of a a long-term summer

0:23:56.960,0:24:00.640
project

0:23:57.679,0:24:02.000
of how to make a movie pretty much very

0:24:00.640,0:24:04.159
cool i think

0:24:02.000,0:24:05.679
i think when you get to the other side

0:24:04.159,0:24:06.880
of the tunnel on this and you get done

0:24:05.679,0:24:08.880
with everything

0:24:06.880,0:24:10.000
i think you’re going to have a very good

0:24:08.880,0:24:12.000
set of skills to

0:24:10.000,0:24:13.440
continue to work on moving through

0:24:12.000,0:24:15.919
school

0:24:13.440,0:24:17.279
so i think you make a very promising

0:24:15.919,0:24:20.080
cinematographer

0:24:17.279,0:24:20.559
yep i have another career that i could

0:24:20.080,0:24:24.640
do

0:24:20.559,0:24:27.200
great right so what else have you been

0:24:24.640,0:24:30.799
doing from a creativity standpoint

0:24:27.200,0:24:32.080
so now we have some project stuff that

0:24:30.799,0:24:34.559
i’ve been doing

0:24:32.080,0:24:36.559
so since you guys didn’t want me to just

0:24:34.559,0:24:38.000
sit around playing games even though i

0:24:36.559,0:24:40.880
was doing other stuff

0:24:38.000,0:24:42.159
you got me some kids that showed that i

0:24:40.880,0:24:44.000
could do so i could do something

0:24:42.159,0:24:45.600
productive and not just sit around

0:24:44.000,0:24:46.320
watching youtube and playing games all

0:24:45.600,0:24:48.159
day

0:24:46.320,0:24:49.600
okay do you have any of those to

0:24:48.159,0:24:52.000
demonstrate yep

0:24:49.600,0:24:53.200
um the first was a magnetic kit which

0:24:52.000,0:24:55.760
was assigned

0:24:53.200,0:24:58.640
which was a science kit that showed how

0:24:55.760,0:25:02.320
magnets can defy gravity and physics

0:24:58.640,0:25:03.039
um that most objects go by so i have a

0:25:02.320,0:25:06.159
few

0:25:03.039,0:25:07.200
so i have a few um experiments give me

0:25:06.159,0:25:10.480
one moment

0:25:07.200,0:25:13.200
so these were kits that i happened to

0:25:10.480,0:25:13.679
just do a quick step a search for stem

0:25:13.200,0:25:17.760
kits

0:25:13.679,0:25:20.159
for your age group uh on amazon

0:25:17.760,0:25:21.520
and the kits ranged in price anywhere

0:25:20.159,0:25:24.320
from like 15

0:25:21.520,0:25:25.760
i think up to 30 was what i got one on

0:25:24.320,0:25:28.240
sale for

0:25:25.760,0:25:29.200
and they’re really designed for uh

0:25:28.240,0:25:31.520
teaching you

0:25:29.200,0:25:32.960
about science and technology and

0:25:31.520,0:25:36.080
engineering and

0:25:32.960,0:25:38.880
math which obviously is what stem is for

0:25:36.080,0:25:40.640
um but you know it’s a couple of hours

0:25:38.880,0:25:42.159
of learning things and experimenting and

0:25:40.640,0:25:44.159
playing around with them so the first

0:25:42.159,0:25:47.600
one that you have here

0:25:44.159,0:25:49.360
is the magnetic set yep and i have

0:25:47.600,0:25:51.200
an experiment so let’s see if this

0:25:49.360,0:25:54.000
camera angle works best for that

0:25:51.200,0:25:55.279
um maybe well the other one is that

0:25:54.000,0:25:57.600
angle and that’s not going to work so

0:25:55.279,0:25:59.760
well so let’s go with this angle here

0:25:57.600,0:26:01.120
all right you’re over here yeah i know

0:25:59.760,0:26:05.600
sorry

0:26:01.120,0:26:08.799
so this is a way on how to make a

0:26:05.600,0:26:11.279
scale so um there’s our so

0:26:08.799,0:26:12.880
over here we have the base plate of it

0:26:11.279,0:26:15.760
and then there’s

0:26:12.880,0:26:16.640
one of the sticks um is it better than

0:26:15.760,0:26:19.919
bacon

0:26:16.640,0:26:21.760
like yoda stick seriously so you

0:26:19.919,0:26:24.640
put it into the base plate and then

0:26:21.760,0:26:26.480
there’s also

0:26:24.640,0:26:29.440
a piece of plastic that you felt that

0:26:26.480,0:26:31.600
fell off yeah this piece of plastic that

0:26:29.440,0:26:32.559
actually is used to measure the grams

0:26:31.600,0:26:36.080
for the weight

0:26:32.559,0:26:38.240
okay and the interesting thing

0:26:36.080,0:26:39.679
the interesting thing with the magnets

0:26:38.240,0:26:42.320
is that

0:26:39.679,0:26:44.559
so the magnets have two sides to them

0:26:42.320,0:26:46.320
the red side and the blue side

0:26:44.559,0:26:47.760
uh one represents that it’s like the

0:26:46.320,0:26:48.720
force it’s like the light side in the

0:26:47.760,0:26:51.679
dark side right

0:26:48.720,0:26:52.159
pretty much okay um so the cool way on

0:26:51.679,0:26:56.000
how

0:26:52.159,0:26:57.120
so this uses the um ability of repelling

0:26:56.000,0:27:00.240
magnets

0:26:57.120,0:27:01.440
to make the scale so first you have two

0:27:00.240,0:27:03.440
magnets that

0:27:01.440,0:27:05.120
um have the blue side facing up and the

0:27:03.440,0:27:08.000
red side facing down

0:27:05.120,0:27:08.640
you put them on the pole and then you

0:27:08.000,0:27:11.440
decide

0:27:08.640,0:27:14.080
so um basically the whole thing with

0:27:11.440,0:27:16.720
magnets is opposite to track so

0:27:14.080,0:27:18.640
red and blue attract each other but blue

0:27:16.720,0:27:20.799
and blue don’t attract each other

0:27:18.640,0:27:22.000
so there’s another magnet that you need

0:27:20.799,0:27:24.559
to use and you put

0:27:22.000,0:27:25.039
the blue side towards the other blue

0:27:24.559,0:27:27.440
side

0:27:25.039,0:27:28.240
and it sort of floats you can’t put it

0:27:27.440,0:27:30.640
down it

0:27:28.240,0:27:33.279
can’t touch so you made a shock absorber

0:27:30.640,0:27:35.840
yep and then there’s this plate which

0:27:33.279,0:27:37.600
represents the weight and it can and

0:27:35.840,0:27:39.360
there’s this little thing at the end

0:27:37.600,0:27:40.720
i don’t think anyone can see it but

0:27:39.360,0:27:44.080
there’s this little thing

0:27:40.720,0:27:48.080
there yeah a little notch that um

0:27:44.080,0:27:50.159
goes um around the plastic thingy so

0:27:48.080,0:27:51.679
okay so that’s the indicator for the

0:27:50.159,0:27:55.360
weight yep

0:27:51.679,0:27:57.039
um and to demonstrate the weight of an

0:27:55.360,0:27:58.880
object i got this weird thing

0:27:57.039,0:28:00.480
i don’t know what it is but it’s

0:27:58.880,0:28:03.679
colorful and people can see it

0:28:00.480,0:28:06.799
yep so if we put it on the scale

0:28:03.679,0:28:09.840
it is about 20 grams

0:28:06.799,0:28:10.720
interesting yeah and if it falls off the

0:28:09.840,0:28:13.840
scale

0:28:10.720,0:28:13.840
gravity still works

0:28:14.000,0:28:17.679
uh yeah great demonstration of how

0:28:16.240,0:28:21.200
gravity works and how this

0:28:17.679,0:28:25.520
completely defies it so that kit itself

0:28:21.200,0:28:26.799
that was one of what like a half dozen

0:28:25.520,0:28:27.600
different things you could do with the

0:28:26.799,0:28:31.919
kit

0:28:27.600,0:28:33.919
um i’m about there were i think

0:28:31.919,0:28:35.120
six or seven projects that you could do

0:28:33.919,0:28:37.520
another one

0:28:35.120,0:28:38.240
that was around the same thing as this

0:28:37.520,0:28:41.200
was a

0:28:38.240,0:28:43.039
spring so you make all of the magnets

0:28:41.200,0:28:47.520
there are multiple ones in the kit

0:28:43.039,0:28:50.080
and you make them all repel each other

0:28:47.520,0:28:51.039
and that’s the red side and it makes a

0:28:50.080,0:28:54.000
cool little spring

0:28:51.039,0:28:54.000
that is pretty cool

0:28:54.799,0:28:59.440
so there’s that then there was the

0:28:57.279,0:29:00.720
perpetual motion machine where we took

0:28:59.440,0:29:02.399
the pencil

0:29:00.720,0:29:04.399
we put magnets on either side we

0:29:02.399,0:29:05.200
levitated that and that you could spin

0:29:04.399,0:29:08.240
that

0:29:05.200,0:29:11.520
and because it was a frictionless

0:29:08.240,0:29:14.000
cylinder it would spin for a ridiculous

0:29:11.520,0:29:16.799
amount of time

0:29:14.000,0:29:18.080
right so so that was fun with magnets

0:29:16.799,0:29:20.320
what other kits did you

0:29:18.080,0:29:22.320
did we get you uh the second kit you got

0:29:20.320,0:29:26.000
me was a clay making kit

0:29:22.320,0:29:29.360
um since i liked creating my characters

0:29:26.000,0:29:31.440
and drawing them you decided to um have

0:29:29.360,0:29:34.080
my characters created in

0:29:31.440,0:29:34.720
3d so that’s why we got the claymation

0:29:34.080,0:29:37.520
kit

0:29:34.720,0:29:38.880
so the the clay itself was an acrylic

0:29:37.520,0:29:41.039
clay

0:29:38.880,0:29:42.320
and what you would do is it came in all

0:29:41.039,0:29:44.240
different colors

0:29:42.320,0:29:45.679
you can mold it to whatever shape or

0:29:44.240,0:29:47.200
whatever you want

0:29:45.679,0:29:49.919
and then once you hand it to the shape

0:29:47.200,0:29:52.880
you want you bake it there’s a

0:29:49.919,0:29:54.000
quote-unquote recipe you bake it and it

0:29:52.880,0:29:57.360
hardens it up and

0:29:54.000,0:29:59.039
it makes it solid solid and not

0:29:57.360,0:30:01.600
malleable anymore did you have any

0:29:59.039,0:30:05.279
examples of that

0:30:01.600,0:30:07.760
yep i do let’s see so the first was

0:30:05.279,0:30:08.880
a character that i had made let’s give

0:30:07.760,0:30:13.679
you this camera here

0:30:08.880,0:30:17.279
okay so i made this character

0:30:13.679,0:30:17.279
i’m trying to angle it here let me see

0:30:18.240,0:30:21.279
i really should have set the other

0:30:19.360,0:30:24.159
cameras up yep

0:30:21.279,0:30:25.760
so that character um it looks a little

0:30:24.159,0:30:26.960
dead in the face because i haven’t

0:30:25.760,0:30:29.039
painted on it

0:30:26.960,0:30:30.880
um it looks dead in the face because

0:30:29.039,0:30:32.480
it’s not happy

0:30:30.880,0:30:36.000
it’s soulless we haven’t given it its

0:30:32.480,0:30:40.320
soul yet yeah um this is actually

0:30:36.000,0:30:43.279
um a character in my new series

0:30:40.320,0:30:44.080
um this is really one of the elemental

0:30:43.279,0:30:46.399
forms

0:30:44.080,0:30:47.600
um basically the entire series is just

0:30:46.399,0:30:51.200
about how these

0:30:47.600,0:30:53.520
high school kids um find these necklaces

0:30:51.200,0:30:55.120
and don’t plug them don’t plug the movie

0:30:53.520,0:30:57.600
yet okay

0:30:55.120,0:30:58.799
okay that comes later and then you made

0:30:57.600,0:31:02.480
a piece of bacon

0:30:58.799,0:31:04.080
bacon because um that is a convincing

0:31:02.480,0:31:06.080
piece of bacon there yeah look at the

0:31:04.080,0:31:09.760
back it actually looks toasted

0:31:06.080,0:31:11.600
and it’s super shiny i liked that aspect

0:31:09.760,0:31:13.440
i just saw that i could have like the

0:31:11.600,0:31:15.279
colors of bacon and then like

0:31:13.440,0:31:16.640
we were joking about bacon earlier i

0:31:15.279,0:31:19.679
think you had just had

0:31:16.640,0:31:20.880
um bacon for breakfast and i’m like why

0:31:19.679,0:31:24.559
don’t i make bacon

0:31:20.880,0:31:26.240
so i did nice so yeah and then there was

0:31:24.559,0:31:29.600
one more that we did right

0:31:26.240,0:31:32.640
yep yep which one was that one

0:31:29.600,0:31:33.600
that was the robotic and coding your own

0:31:32.640,0:31:37.760
droid kit

0:31:33.600,0:31:40.880
okay um so

0:31:37.760,0:31:43.200
you can make your own r2 by

0:31:40.880,0:31:46.799
coding it um so i’m going to give you

0:31:43.200,0:31:48.720
the wide angle shot on this one here

0:31:46.799,0:31:50.960
we’re going to give you that shot there

0:31:48.720,0:31:55.120
okay i might need to move this

0:31:50.960,0:31:56.159
you might yep so so tell us about this

0:31:55.120,0:31:59.200
one

0:31:56.159,0:32:02.559
so uh this one is

0:31:59.200,0:32:06.320
a very complex kit and it’s probably for

0:32:02.559,0:32:06.720
more older ages um since there are so

0:32:06.320,0:32:09.279
many

0:32:06.720,0:32:10.399
like well it was age appropriate for you

0:32:09.279,0:32:14.159
yeah i know

0:32:10.399,0:32:15.679
so inside of our he just ripped his

0:32:14.159,0:32:19.039
chest right off huh

0:32:15.679,0:32:21.919
yeah uh this is so you can better

0:32:19.039,0:32:24.320
fix the controls so there’s a battery at

0:32:21.919,0:32:27.519
the back of this that powers it

0:32:24.320,0:32:30.159
um right right there all right

0:32:27.519,0:32:30.559
let me give you this shot here there we

0:32:30.159,0:32:32.880
go

0:32:30.559,0:32:33.919
yeah so there’s a battery in the back

0:32:32.880,0:32:37.120
here that

0:32:33.919,0:32:39.919
um you have so that’s a 9-volt battery

0:32:37.120,0:32:42.320
yep and at the front there are pieces

0:32:39.919,0:32:46.320
that connected magnetically

0:32:42.320,0:32:48.080
um so you could code and wire them

0:32:46.320,0:32:49.519
there’s also wheels at the bottom that

0:32:48.080,0:32:52.880
are used with

0:32:49.519,0:32:55.440
um some of the coating blocks

0:32:52.880,0:32:58.640
so what can he do okay let me just turn

0:32:55.440,0:32:58.640
him on he’s going to speak

0:33:00.320,0:33:04.799
that certainly sounds like r2d2 yep uh

0:33:03.120,0:33:10.320
one moment while i put his chest back

0:33:04.799,0:33:14.720
on he’s naked

0:33:10.320,0:33:14.720
okay um there’s actually

0:33:15.600,0:33:19.600
it’s easier said than done yep

0:33:20.399,0:33:24.000
there you go so there’s actually an app

0:33:23.120,0:33:26.960
you can have on your

0:33:24.000,0:33:29.120
phone that um has the controls for uh

0:33:26.960,0:33:30.640
let’s just hope this is enough area for

0:33:29.120,0:33:32.799
him to go

0:33:30.640,0:33:33.840
so you can so it’s sort of like a remote

0:33:32.799,0:33:38.159
control but

0:33:33.840,0:33:39.919
it’s coated so you can move him

0:33:38.159,0:33:42.320
and you can tie a string to him and play

0:33:39.919,0:33:44.240
with the cats with him yeah we did that

0:33:42.320,0:33:47.440
sadly we don’t have any video but you

0:33:44.240,0:33:47.440
know maybe we can post it

0:33:47.679,0:33:52.399
so this is you controlling him directly

0:33:49.600,0:33:55.440
but do you have the ability to program

0:33:52.399,0:33:56.799
commands into them to do things yep one

0:33:55.440,0:34:00.000
moment please

0:33:56.799,0:34:02.559
let’s see um

0:34:00.000,0:34:04.880
we’re going to do the personality one

0:34:02.559,0:34:04.880
okay

0:34:05.519,0:34:09.359
and he makes different sounds he

0:34:07.600,0:34:10.480
obviously lights up he’s got some lights

0:34:09.359,0:34:13.919
on the front of him there

0:34:10.480,0:34:16.399
yep uh let’s say he’s in the death star

0:34:13.919,0:34:17.599
oh i don’t think that was the thing i

0:34:16.399,0:34:20.079
needed

0:34:17.599,0:34:20.720
oh well it’s fine we’ll make them talk

0:34:20.079,0:34:24.800
okay

0:34:20.720,0:34:27.679
uh one moment alrighty so

0:34:24.800,0:34:29.280
god loves live podcast yep you gotta

0:34:27.679,0:34:32.839
love them

0:34:29.280,0:34:34.639
alrighty so we’re going to get him to

0:34:32.839,0:34:37.040
talk

0:34:34.639,0:34:38.560
so there are many differences hang on

0:34:37.040,0:34:39.200
there are different sounds that you can

0:34:38.560,0:34:42.079
give him

0:34:39.200,0:34:44.720
i’m going to give him this one oh he

0:34:42.079,0:34:49.040
doesn’t seem very happy there

0:34:44.720,0:34:52.159
it’s literally called scream nice

0:34:49.040,0:34:54.480
and that’s with the coding all right

0:34:52.159,0:34:55.679
so you can program him to do different

0:34:54.480,0:34:57.280
things obviously we don’t want to do

0:34:55.679,0:34:58.480
anything up on the table here because we

0:34:57.280,0:35:00.880
don’t have that much room

0:34:58.480,0:35:02.480
yeah but you know the sounds are fun so

0:35:00.880,0:35:04.400
so let me let me ask you a couple

0:35:02.480,0:35:08.240
questions about the projects that we did

0:35:04.400,0:35:11.920
that you did so um

0:35:08.240,0:35:15.200
were they fun first of all

0:35:11.920,0:35:16.640
yes did they help to keep you occupied

0:35:15.200,0:35:19.359
and pass the time

0:35:16.640,0:35:20.880
i mean yeah um i really liked a lot i

0:35:19.359,0:35:23.520
really liked all of them

0:35:20.880,0:35:24.400
um and i definitely think that the droid

0:35:23.520,0:35:27.440
kit was my

0:35:24.400,0:35:29.119
favorite out of all of them though okay

0:35:27.440,0:35:31.119
oh i should probably turn them off

0:35:29.119,0:35:32.560
probably otherwise he’ll sit there and

0:35:31.119,0:35:33.920
talk through the whole thing and steal

0:35:32.560,0:35:38.480
the show

0:35:33.920,0:35:41.760
yeah so did you find

0:35:38.480,0:35:43.599
that you learned anything from these

0:35:41.760,0:35:46.320
projects or were these just

0:35:43.599,0:35:47.200
you know things to do to keep you

0:35:46.320,0:35:50.160
occupied

0:35:47.200,0:35:51.280
i mean with magnetic kit i learned more

0:35:50.160,0:35:53.920
about magnets

0:35:51.280,0:35:55.359
and gravity and physics which was really

0:35:53.920,0:35:57.119
cool and how i could even make my own

0:35:55.359,0:35:59.280
perpetual motion machine

0:35:57.119,0:36:00.400
okay so i liked that with the clay

0:35:59.280,0:36:04.160
making kit

0:36:00.400,0:36:06.079
i learned how to mold i think you did

0:36:04.160,0:36:07.440
i was really impressed with the level of

0:36:06.079,0:36:09.280
detail

0:36:07.440,0:36:11.440
that you were able to come up with from

0:36:09.280,0:36:15.200
the molding of the clay i really was

0:36:11.440,0:36:17.119
yeah um the hair was actually kind of

0:36:15.200,0:36:19.599
hard to get but i like how i did the

0:36:17.119,0:36:22.240
front and my hair is probably like the

0:36:19.599,0:36:23.119
my favorite part of it the entire thing

0:36:22.240,0:36:25.920
um

0:36:23.119,0:36:26.560
and with the jord making kit i learned

0:36:25.920,0:36:30.000
how to

0:36:26.560,0:36:32.480
code and how to wire

0:36:30.000,0:36:33.280
a robot and did you have fun with all of

0:36:32.480,0:36:36.640
it

0:36:33.280,0:36:39.119
okay so besides that what what’s the

0:36:36.640,0:36:42.400
last creativity thing that we had here

0:36:39.119,0:36:42.960
it was podcasting coincidentally another

0:36:42.400,0:36:47.599
plug

0:36:42.960,0:36:50.000
a so i learned how to research and write

0:36:47.599,0:36:52.400
up show notes for the podcast which is

0:36:50.000,0:36:55.760
why i’ve been hosting the last few

0:36:52.400,0:36:58.560
because i’ve been doing the notes so

0:36:55.760,0:37:00.240
i learned how to come up with subjects

0:36:58.560,0:37:03.359
and how to research on them

0:37:00.240,0:37:05.760
and i think you did a bang-up job so far

0:37:03.359,0:37:06.839
yep and i’ve hosted and run a few

0:37:05.760,0:37:10.720
podcasts

0:37:06.839,0:37:12.640
awesome so that was it for creativity

0:37:10.720,0:37:15.220
yep that’s pretty much shall we take a

0:37:12.640,0:37:20.839
break and go to the next one

0:37:15.220,0:37:23.839
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so the final segment we have what we

0:38:29.599,0:38:32.480
have

0:38:30.000,0:38:34.400
for what i did over the summer is the

0:38:32.480,0:38:36.240
educational aspect

0:38:34.400,0:38:39.040
and i can tell some people we’re

0:38:36.240,0:38:40.800
groaning at this

0:38:39.040,0:38:43.040
at least the kids because they know

0:38:40.800,0:38:43.839
about how they have to do summer work

0:38:43.040,0:38:47.520
over the

0:38:43.839,0:38:51.040
um over this uh summer

0:38:47.520,0:38:53.200
and uh that’s exactly our first topic

0:38:51.040,0:38:54.240
well and i don’t think it was as

0:38:53.200,0:38:56.240
grueling as

0:38:54.240,0:38:58.000
some kids make it out to me because you

0:38:56.240,0:38:59.520
have a very unique approach to it let’s

0:38:58.000,0:39:01.440
talk a little bit about your approach to

0:38:59.520,0:39:03.680
doing your summer project

0:39:01.440,0:39:05.760
so i had a few things i had to do for

0:39:03.680,0:39:06.720
summer work one of them was of course

0:39:05.760,0:39:11.200
summer reading

0:39:06.720,0:39:14.800
i was reading a book called booked

0:39:11.200,0:39:16.160
coincidentally and it was actually by

0:39:14.800,0:39:19.680
the same author that

0:39:16.160,0:39:23.040
um i had to read my last summer book on

0:39:19.680,0:39:23.920
um so the books were kind of related in

0:39:23.040,0:39:27.200
a way

0:39:23.920,0:39:30.720
so um and the way i took

0:39:27.200,0:39:33.440
it the way i approach um summer reading

0:39:30.720,0:39:35.200
is that i figure out how many pages

0:39:33.440,0:39:37.359
there are in the book and how many days

0:39:35.200,0:39:40.400
i have to finish the book

0:39:37.359,0:39:41.359
like because um when school starts

0:39:40.400,0:39:44.640
you’re going to have

0:39:41.359,0:39:46.960
to answer stuff about the book to um

0:39:44.640,0:39:48.160
so that everyone so that your teachers

0:39:46.960,0:39:50.240
know that you read it

0:39:48.160,0:39:52.000
now some people decide to do it in the

0:39:50.240,0:39:54.079
beginning and some people

0:39:52.000,0:39:56.720
um save it to the end and those aren’t

0:39:54.079,0:39:58.320
really the best approaches i think like

0:39:56.720,0:40:00.000
if you do it early on then you’ll

0:39:58.320,0:40:01.119
probably forget some of this stuff and

0:40:00.000,0:40:02.720
if you do it too

0:40:01.119,0:40:04.319
late then you might not be able to

0:40:02.720,0:40:06.000
finish the book in time and not

0:40:04.319,0:40:07.920
get all the information that you needed

0:40:06.000,0:40:11.119
from the book

0:40:07.920,0:40:14.400
so my approach to it was to

0:40:11.119,0:40:16.319
take how many pages um and

0:40:14.400,0:40:18.480
that there were in the book and how many

0:40:16.319,0:40:21.760
days i had to finish it

0:40:18.480,0:40:24.079
i i think divided them

0:40:21.760,0:40:25.520
and then i got how many pages i needed

0:40:24.079,0:40:27.440
to read per day

0:40:25.520,0:40:29.359
and every day i would read that number

0:40:27.440,0:40:31.599
of pages

0:40:29.359,0:40:32.400
or more if i needed to okay so you

0:40:31.599,0:40:35.119
basically

0:40:32.400,0:40:35.760
took how much time you had to do the

0:40:35.119,0:40:37.359
work

0:40:35.760,0:40:39.440
how much work you had and then you

0:40:37.359,0:40:43.119
divide it into

0:40:39.440,0:40:44.640
slices that you can do at a regular pace

0:40:43.119,0:40:46.079
so that you’re bringing that you’re

0:40:44.640,0:40:47.440
absorbing that knowledge but you’re

0:40:46.079,0:40:49.040
absorbing it over the course of the

0:40:47.440,0:40:51.280
entire summer

0:40:49.040,0:40:52.880
so you’re not forgetting it and you’re

0:40:51.280,0:40:53.839
ensuring that you have enough time to

0:40:52.880,0:40:56.560
get it done

0:40:53.839,0:40:59.040
yep and is that approach working for you

0:40:56.560,0:41:02.079
i mean yeah it’s been working for me

0:40:59.040,0:41:04.880
since i started it i remember

0:41:02.079,0:41:06.319
the book and if i need to if i think

0:41:04.880,0:41:08.480
that there are important parts of the

0:41:06.319,0:41:11.040
book i can write that down

0:41:08.480,0:41:13.440
or um put notes in the book so that i

0:41:11.040,0:41:15.920
know that i need to come back to it when

0:41:13.440,0:41:18.160
if i ever forget it so now are you on

0:41:15.920,0:41:19.920
pace to get all your work done

0:41:18.160,0:41:21.440
i mean yeah i’m almost finished with the

0:41:19.920,0:41:22.000
book and since i’m almost going to go

0:41:21.440,0:41:25.359
back to

0:41:22.000,0:41:28.160
school it kind of checks out perfect

0:41:25.359,0:41:29.440
well another another well-run project

0:41:28.160,0:41:31.520
for school there

0:41:29.440,0:41:32.960
yep besides your schoolwork there are

0:41:31.520,0:41:34.079
some other things that you did what else

0:41:32.960,0:41:37.119
did you do

0:41:34.079,0:41:37.119
um well

0:41:37.280,0:41:40.560
the other thing was the virtual camps i

0:41:39.440,0:41:44.000
was doing

0:41:40.560,0:41:47.280
um what go ahead

0:41:44.000,0:41:49.680
okay um so um

0:41:47.280,0:41:51.040
mommy since she thought that the

0:41:49.680,0:41:52.560
projects weren’t enough

0:41:51.040,0:41:54.800
she decided to sign me up for some

0:41:52.560,0:41:56.720
online sessions so i once again wasn’t

0:41:54.800,0:41:59.920
sitting on my bed all day

0:41:56.720,0:42:02.160
which i still kind of was okay

0:41:59.920,0:42:02.960
so she found a website called varsity

0:42:02.160,0:42:06.560
tutors

0:42:02.960,0:42:08.800
and um they offered camp sessions for

0:42:06.560,0:42:11.839
all ages and with different subjects

0:42:08.800,0:42:15.359
each most of the classes were free

0:42:11.839,0:42:17.760
and um they were and

0:42:15.359,0:42:19.680
from the experiences i’ve had they were

0:42:17.760,0:42:20.400
basically week-long most of them were

0:42:19.680,0:42:23.440
week-long

0:42:20.400,0:42:25.760
zoom meetings um they were hour-long

0:42:23.440,0:42:28.400
sessions for five days a week

0:42:25.760,0:42:30.640
so so you know not to throw out a

0:42:28.400,0:42:31.599
hamilton reference but it was the zoom

0:42:30.640,0:42:36.160
where it happened

0:42:31.599,0:42:38.240
oh my god oh my god

0:42:36.160,0:42:39.920
so so what did you learn what type of

0:42:38.240,0:42:41.200
subjects did you work on with these

0:42:39.920,0:42:43.599
virtual camps

0:42:41.200,0:42:45.520
um so some of the ones i worked with the

0:42:43.599,0:42:47.280
first one i did was at home science

0:42:45.520,0:42:48.160
experiments and since i really like

0:42:47.280,0:42:51.280
science

0:42:48.160,0:42:54.560
and doing experiments are fun

0:42:51.280,0:42:57.359
um is fun i ended up with that

0:42:54.560,0:42:58.960
and basically we did five different

0:42:57.359,0:43:00.720
projects each day

0:42:58.960,0:43:02.800
and it was one of the only camps where

0:43:00.720,0:43:05.920
we needed supplies

0:43:02.800,0:43:08.800
and um one of them was of course a

0:43:05.920,0:43:09.440
mentos and a soda but the lessons

0:43:08.800,0:43:11.440
weren’t just

0:43:09.440,0:43:13.119
all about the experiments like we didn’t

0:43:11.440,0:43:13.920
just do the experiment and then we were

0:43:13.119,0:43:16.319
done

0:43:13.920,0:43:18.160
um we actually learned the science of it

0:43:16.319,0:43:21.200
and how

0:43:18.160,0:43:24.240
and how um like we learned the

0:43:21.200,0:43:27.520
science of water on one of the days

0:43:24.240,0:43:30.640
and um

0:43:27.520,0:43:32.960
we learned a lot about how

0:43:30.640,0:43:34.640
we basically learned why things happen

0:43:32.960,0:43:36.720
for experiments

0:43:34.640,0:43:39.119
and um i think it was really cool

0:43:36.720,0:43:42.079
because not only did you get the fun

0:43:39.119,0:43:45.520
experiment part but you also got the

0:43:42.079,0:43:47.280
but you also got the um the reasoning

0:43:45.520,0:43:50.480
behind it and the

0:43:47.280,0:43:50.960
um intelligence or the learning aspect

0:43:50.480,0:43:54.800
of it

0:43:50.960,0:43:57.839
so it was entertaining and educational

0:43:54.800,0:43:58.319
yeah pretty much okay are you glad that

0:43:57.839,0:44:00.400
that

0:43:58.319,0:44:02.720
mommy signed you up for those i mean

0:44:00.400,0:44:05.839
yeah most the ones i had

0:44:02.720,0:44:08.960
i had picked myself um

0:44:05.839,0:44:11.440
like the minecraft storyland and the

0:44:08.960,0:44:13.359
um science ones but there were ones that

0:44:11.440,0:44:15.440
mommy signed me up for

0:44:13.359,0:44:16.400
because she still didn’t want me to sit

0:44:15.440,0:44:18.400
around and i

0:44:16.400,0:44:20.880
apparently didn’t get enough so she

0:44:18.400,0:44:24.560
signed me up for a google maps

0:44:20.880,0:44:28.480
um i travel with

0:44:24.560,0:44:31.680
traveled the world with google maps um

0:44:28.480,0:44:33.920
class and then she also signed me up for

0:44:31.680,0:44:33.920
um

0:44:35.280,0:44:42.000
uh science in the kitchen

0:44:38.480,0:44:43.599
okay one i remember that now is it

0:44:42.000,0:44:46.400
something that

0:44:43.599,0:44:47.520
you would want to do next summer if it

0:44:46.400,0:44:50.319
was available

0:44:47.520,0:44:51.200
i mean sure um if there were like new

0:44:50.319,0:44:53.680
stuff

0:44:51.200,0:44:55.119
yeah i’d totally do it okay well what

0:44:53.680,0:44:55.680
about during the school year if they

0:44:55.119,0:44:58.640
have

0:44:55.680,0:44:59.760
uh continuing programs and stuff like

0:44:58.640,0:45:00.880
that is it something you’d want to

0:44:59.760,0:45:03.680
continue to do

0:45:00.880,0:45:04.000
i would depend on how much schoolwork i

0:45:03.680,0:45:06.319
have

0:45:04.000,0:45:07.119
i mean i am now in three advanced

0:45:06.319,0:45:10.240
classes

0:45:07.119,0:45:11.839
and i’m struggling to and i’m

0:45:10.240,0:45:13.599
still debating on whether i should even

0:45:11.839,0:45:16.160
stay in my band class

0:45:13.599,0:45:18.560
so i’m not entirely sure so we’ll see

0:45:16.160,0:45:21.680
how things go and then maybe we’ll

0:45:18.560,0:45:23.839
we’ll look into it yeah so we’ve got one

0:45:21.680,0:45:25.200
more thing from the educational side i

0:45:23.839,0:45:27.119
threw this one in here because i think

0:45:25.200,0:45:30.319
it was worth mentioning

0:45:27.119,0:45:33.520
and that is a research assistant

0:45:30.319,0:45:35.839
and so we’re working on developing

0:45:33.520,0:45:37.760
another podcast for the network uh

0:45:35.839,0:45:41.200
insights into history

0:45:37.760,0:45:43.040
so in in doing that we have a lot of

0:45:41.200,0:45:44.640
research that has to be done

0:45:43.040,0:45:46.720
to get all the episodes where we’re

0:45:44.640,0:45:50.000
trying to write all the episodes before

0:45:46.720,0:45:51.440
we start production on the podcast

0:45:50.000,0:45:53.119
and this is something that i had asked

0:45:51.440,0:45:56.000
you to help me with

0:45:53.119,0:45:57.680
and the one podcast the the one episode

0:45:56.000,0:45:58.720
of insights in the history that i had

0:45:57.680,0:46:02.880
had you

0:45:58.720,0:46:06.240
research for me was regarding

0:46:02.880,0:46:09.599
some revolutionary war um

0:46:06.240,0:46:10.000
battle sites um and you did a very good

0:46:09.599,0:46:12.000
job

0:46:10.000,0:46:15.280
you gave me a great summary that served

0:46:12.000,0:46:18.079
as the basis for the entire episode

0:46:15.280,0:46:18.800
describe to me how that was for you how

0:46:18.079,0:46:21.280
how

0:46:18.800,0:46:23.040
difficult was it to do the research how

0:46:21.280,0:46:25.920
much time did it take

0:46:23.040,0:46:27.520
that type of stuff well um there were

0:46:25.920,0:46:28.720
two different areas that i was

0:46:27.520,0:46:31.359
researching

0:46:28.720,0:46:32.400
one was kind of easy to do and there was

0:46:31.359,0:46:34.000
a lot of

0:46:32.400,0:46:35.440
good information there was a bit of good

0:46:34.000,0:46:37.359
information on it

0:46:35.440,0:46:39.680
but the other one was kind of harder to

0:46:37.359,0:46:41.680
research there were very few sites that

0:46:39.680,0:46:42.000
i could find and i noticed that i had

0:46:41.680,0:46:44.560
less

0:46:42.000,0:46:47.040
information on that because i really

0:46:44.560,0:46:49.520
didn’t have many sources to look up from

0:46:47.040,0:46:51.440
so and i definitely and the whole thing

0:46:49.520,0:46:53.680
with our history podcast

0:46:51.440,0:46:55.040
um you know is looking up stuff that not

0:46:53.680,0:46:57.599
many people know about so

0:46:55.040,0:46:58.720
right that is the theme of the new show

0:46:57.599,0:47:00.960
is it’s

0:46:58.720,0:47:02.400
kind of the obscure history that doesn’t

0:47:00.960,0:47:05.520
get the

0:47:02.400,0:47:06.880
uh spotlight that a lot of more common

0:47:05.520,0:47:08.400
things do but i think you did a very

0:47:06.880,0:47:09.359
good job and i appreciate the work that

0:47:08.400,0:47:11.920
you put in on it

0:47:09.359,0:47:12.560
thank you so let’s take a quick break

0:47:11.920,0:47:14.880
come back

0:47:12.560,0:47:15.680
and i want to take a look at the coming

0:47:14.880,0:47:19.359
school year

0:47:15.680,0:47:22.559
and and what we can expect

0:47:19.359,0:47:25.280
what it looks like how crazy it is and

0:47:22.559,0:47:27.040
and talk about you know any

0:47:25.280,0:47:28.710
apprehensions you might have

0:47:27.040,0:47:32.650
all righty

0:47:28.710,0:47:32.650
[Music]

0:47:33.119,0:47:37.359
so the coming school year

0:47:36.240,0:47:40.880
you know it’s going to start in a few

0:47:37.359,0:47:42.880
weeks new jersey

0:47:40.880,0:47:46.079
our school district at least is doing

0:47:42.880,0:47:48.640
the first month entirely remotely

0:47:46.079,0:47:50.640
we kind of knew you would be doing it

0:47:48.640,0:47:52.480
remotely already at least until

0:47:50.640,0:47:55.520
probably the first of the year because

0:47:52.480,0:47:58.559
of covid19

0:47:55.520,0:48:00.640
how do you feel about that um

0:47:58.559,0:48:02.079
you know we kind of did the whole school

0:48:00.640,0:48:05.119
at home thing

0:48:02.079,0:48:07.920
the last couple of months of last year

0:48:05.119,0:48:10.400
and to me and i’d like to get your

0:48:07.920,0:48:12.400
opinion on but to me it seemed like

0:48:10.400,0:48:14.480
it was rushed it wasn’t very well

0:48:12.400,0:48:16.720
thought out wasn’t very well planned

0:48:14.480,0:48:18.160
and everyone was just kind of sort of

0:48:16.720,0:48:19.520
doing what they needed to do to get

0:48:18.160,0:48:23.040
through the motions

0:48:19.520,0:48:25.760
to get to the summer and the

0:48:23.040,0:48:26.160
the documentation that’s been put out so

0:48:25.760,0:48:28.400
far

0:48:26.160,0:48:29.839
on the new school year has me thinking

0:48:28.400,0:48:30.960
that at least they’re thinking it

0:48:29.839,0:48:32.480
through a little bit more

0:48:30.960,0:48:34.079
and they’re a little bit more organized

0:48:32.480,0:48:37.440
what are your thoughts on that

0:48:34.079,0:48:40.160
i mean yeah i’d say that the um end

0:48:37.440,0:48:41.680
of the last school year was kind of

0:48:40.160,0:48:44.800
rushed no one really

0:48:41.680,0:48:47.359
knew what we were going to do for being

0:48:44.800,0:48:49.839
online but luckily most of my classes

0:48:47.359,0:48:50.240
already had like google classrooms on

0:48:49.839,0:48:53.359
them

0:48:50.240,0:48:55.280
so it wasn’t too entirely hard one of my

0:48:53.359,0:48:56.480
classes was like entirely based on

0:48:55.280,0:49:00.000
google classroom

0:48:56.480,0:49:02.800
so it wasn’t too hard to adapt to them

0:49:00.000,0:49:03.839
but definitely a lot of students um at

0:49:02.800,0:49:06.640
the end of the year

0:49:03.839,0:49:08.480
were like didn’t feel like doing it

0:49:06.640,0:49:11.599
because they had lost the motivation

0:49:08.480,0:49:12.400
and i can definitely agree that being

0:49:11.599,0:49:15.119
sick at home

0:49:12.400,0:49:16.000
for so long makes you lose motivation i

0:49:15.119,0:49:18.160
used to be

0:49:16.000,0:49:19.359
trying to be active doing just dance in

0:49:18.160,0:49:22.319
the living room you know

0:49:19.359,0:49:22.640
trying to get my body active and now i

0:49:22.319,0:49:26.000
just

0:49:22.640,0:49:28.240
you know kind of sit around

0:49:26.000,0:49:30.400
so is there anything in particular that

0:49:28.240,0:49:31.440
you’re looking forward to in the coming

0:49:30.400,0:49:34.480
school year

0:49:31.440,0:49:35.200
i mean i’m hopefully looking forward to

0:49:34.480,0:49:37.600
the fact

0:49:35.200,0:49:39.119
that um

0:49:37.600,0:49:42.160
[Music]

0:49:39.119,0:49:43.680
we realize that we don’t have any cases

0:49:42.160,0:49:48.000
of

0:49:43.680,0:49:51.680
and like um hopefully covid

0:49:48.000,0:49:52.720
is dialing back down and i’m looking

0:49:51.680,0:49:56.000
forward to

0:49:52.720,0:49:58.400
seeing how my friends coping or co

0:49:56.000,0:49:59.680
cope with it and hoping that they’re

0:49:58.400,0:50:01.760
doing well because

0:49:59.680,0:50:03.599
i don’t know if they’re some of them are

0:50:01.760,0:50:04.160
going back to school and others are just

0:50:03.599,0:50:06.800
gonna do

0:50:04.160,0:50:07.520
fully remote is there anything that

0:50:06.800,0:50:10.559
you’re not

0:50:07.520,0:50:13.119
looking forward to well with the fact of

0:50:10.559,0:50:15.440
if covert does end up taking up and then

0:50:13.119,0:50:18.640
everyone has to do remote learning

0:50:15.440,0:50:20.800
it might not be the best and i’m not

0:50:18.640,0:50:22.559
really looking forward to

0:50:20.800,0:50:24.480
all the chaos that’s going to be

0:50:22.559,0:50:27.839
happening and

0:50:24.480,0:50:28.480
any you know and no and like if anyone

0:50:27.839,0:50:30.240
does get

0:50:28.480,0:50:32.160
end up getting covered and there are

0:50:30.240,0:50:34.960
stronger cases

0:50:32.160,0:50:35.520
no it’s sort of a halfway point at that

0:50:34.960,0:50:37.280
point

0:50:35.520,0:50:38.880
yeah it’s kind of scary it’s kind of

0:50:37.280,0:50:40.400
scary so

0:50:38.880,0:50:42.480
how do you think are you feeling

0:50:40.400,0:50:43.119
optimistic about the new school year are

0:50:42.480,0:50:46.960
you

0:50:43.119,0:50:48.240
still wait and see uh because you’ve got

0:50:46.960,0:50:49.680
like you mentioned you’ve got a couple

0:50:48.240,0:50:50.480
of advanced classes that you’re going to

0:50:49.680,0:50:51.520
be taking

0:50:50.480,0:50:54.160
and you’re going to be doing them

0:50:51.520,0:50:56.000
remotely do you have any concerns

0:50:54.160,0:50:58.000
about taking on that kind of

0:50:56.000,0:50:59.200
responsibility and not being physically

0:50:58.000,0:51:02.319
in the classroom

0:50:59.200,0:51:05.440
i mean i really don’t know what

0:51:02.319,0:51:08.240
is going to happen with like

0:51:05.440,0:51:10.640
online classes sure like by the end of

0:51:08.240,0:51:13.200
the school year i had done it but

0:51:10.640,0:51:14.800
i was never really homeschooled i always

0:51:13.200,0:51:17.599
went to public schooling

0:51:14.800,0:51:18.319
and i never really stayed home and

0:51:17.599,0:51:21.839
learned

0:51:18.319,0:51:24.720
but i can understand that some people

0:51:21.839,0:51:26.319
especially with parents with younger

0:51:24.720,0:51:27.440
children that they would want their kids

0:51:26.319,0:51:29.680
going to school

0:51:27.440,0:51:30.800
for the older kids it’s more of a

0:51:29.680,0:51:33.119
they’re able to learn

0:51:30.800,0:51:34.640
online so it’s not as important to get

0:51:33.119,0:51:37.680
them into the classroom

0:51:34.640,0:51:41.040
so um i i mean

0:51:37.680,0:51:43.680
i had a few rough bumps with the

0:51:41.040,0:51:45.200
um with the end of last school year and

0:51:43.680,0:51:47.599
having to do full remote

0:51:45.200,0:51:49.040
for probably the entire school year not

0:51:47.599,0:51:52.640
entirely sure

0:51:49.040,0:51:55.920
um you know it’s still going to be rough

0:51:52.640,0:51:59.359
and already going into having three

0:51:55.920,0:52:01.040
advanced classes i was not used to

0:51:59.359,0:52:04.000
i’m not entirely sure what that will

0:52:01.040,0:52:07.680
bring if i can no longer

0:52:04.000,0:52:08.960
be a part of like any extracurricular

0:52:07.680,0:52:12.240
things like band

0:52:08.960,0:52:15.440
um i’m worried about that so

0:52:12.240,0:52:17.440
yeah well you know what like like like

0:52:15.440,0:52:19.040
we have done with this so far we’ll make

0:52:17.440,0:52:19.680
the best of it and you know we’ll get

0:52:19.040,0:52:23.040
through it

0:52:19.680,0:52:24.880
yeah so that was all we had for our

0:52:23.040,0:52:26.160
coming school year segment let’s take a

0:52:24.880,0:52:33.599
quick break we’ll come back and we’ll

0:52:26.160,0:52:35.839
get your closing remarks

0:52:33.599,0:52:38.240
go for closing remarks so i’m not

0:52:35.839,0:52:41.280
entirely sure how to

0:52:38.240,0:52:44.400
put this but i’ll just go up

0:52:41.280,0:52:46.079
come up with something so i just want to

0:52:44.400,0:52:48.079
say that

0:52:46.079,0:52:49.200
through these tough times try and stay

0:52:48.079,0:52:51.760
optimistic

0:52:49.200,0:52:52.240
try to look on the bright side it’s hard

0:52:51.760,0:52:55.920
yes

0:52:52.240,0:52:56.640
but i mean it is possible um try to have

0:52:55.920,0:52:59.119
fun

0:52:56.640,0:53:00.880
any way you can even if you can’t go out

0:52:59.119,0:53:02.720
or do things that you normally do and if

0:53:00.880,0:53:05.040
you do have to go out please wear a mask

0:53:02.720,0:53:07.280
and please stay away from people

0:53:05.040,0:53:08.480
because a lot of people don’t do that

0:53:07.280,0:53:10.559
and it

0:53:08.480,0:53:12.839
and it can get you and it can get you

0:53:10.559,0:53:15.839
sick and you don’t want that

0:53:12.839,0:53:19.839
so just

0:53:15.839,0:53:22.800
just have fun but uh stay safe

0:53:19.839,0:53:24.880
sounds good that’s good advice before we

0:53:22.800,0:53:26.400
do go i do want to invite you once again

0:53:24.880,0:53:28.319
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0:53:28.319,0:53:32.000
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0:53:31.040,0:53:34.480
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0:53:32.000,0:53:35.760
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0:53:34.480,0:53:37.359
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0:53:35.760,0:53:39.720
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0:53:37.359,0:53:41.520
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0:53:54.839,0:54:00.160
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0:54:03.920,0:54:08.160
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0:54:08.160,0:54:25.839
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0:54:09.920,0:54:25.839
books bye everyone

0:54:36.839,0:54:39.839
do

0:54:40.799,0:54:42.880
you