Uncultured Podcast //Videogames/ Isekai // Boba Tea Shop Book Review

Danlock, Lucille, and Pickles discuss the 1st book of the series Demon World Boba Shop by R.C. Joshua. Spoilers for the 1st book.

Meet Arthur. An overworked, underappreciated Earthling ready for change and actually given a second chance at happiness. The catch? He lands in a world full of demons, where the people around him range from 400-pound infernals to lanky tree elementals. Luckily, Arthur is exactly where he needs to be, surrounded by a group of friendly demons as he finds solace in brewing tea, forging friendships, and living the tranquil, cozy life he always wanted. His journey takes him through heartwarming moments, unexpected friendships, and soothing opportunities. Join Arthur and his new friends in a nice, relaxing world. Follow their journey as they wind through gentle adventures, low-stakes challenges, and enchanting encounters. Follow them as they learn to love, to belong, and to truly live. And above all else, as they drink lots of boba tea.

Episode Transcript

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This is the Young Cultured Podcast, and this is your host Dan.
Unlock the Gray and with me are my co-host, Lucille Brown and Jolene Pickles over there.
All right.
Now we can talk about.
De a World Boba Shop Book.
One clarification.

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'cause there are five books.
Book one.
If you think slice of life, other world stories are boring. 11 00:00:30,513.673469388 --> 00:00:31,713.673469388 Here on cultured. 12 00:00:46,863.673469388 --> 00:00:50,783.673469388 first we will try our boba 'cause I know it's gonna go bad. 13 00:00:51,23.673469388 --> 00:00:54,383.673469388 So anyway, I got three kinds. 14 00:00:54,693.673469388 --> 00:00:55,893.673469388 I don't know which is which. 15 00:00:55,893.673469388 --> 00:00:59,343.673469388 So we have Thai Classic and brown sugar. 16 00:00:59,673.673469388 --> 00:01:01,953.673469388 We got all milk teas. 17 00:01:02,448.673469388 --> 00:01:02,988.673469388 Okay. 18 00:01:03,78.673469388 --> 00:01:10,368.673469388 You think this is brown sugar or, I actually think that the one I currently have is brown sugar and one seems very non sugary. 19 00:01:10,473.673469388 --> 00:01:12,843.673469388 This is more like the classic or either Thai. 20 00:01:12,973.673469388 --> 00:01:14,23.673469388 That's definitely brown sugar. 21 00:01:14,23.673469388 --> 00:01:15,133.673469388 This is the brown sugar one. 22 00:01:15,613.673469388 --> 00:01:20,373.673469388 So at this particular place, it's a ramen place, but they also sell Boba. 23 00:01:20,718.673469388 --> 00:01:27,303.673469388 So I had never been there before, so I actually was so enthusiastic. 24 00:01:27,303.673469388 --> 00:01:37,893.673469388 They have this little animatronic outside their place that looks like Noodle ramen noodles are coming up from the bowl being by chopsticks. 25 00:01:38,43.673469388 --> 00:01:39,273.673469388 It's really cool. 26 00:01:40,83.67346939 --> 00:01:44,938.67346939 Okay, so I had a mango Boba. 27 00:01:45,628.67346939 --> 00:01:47,338.67346939 Strawberry popping. 28 00:01:47,608.67346939 --> 00:01:56,818.67346939 Bobas in it, I think maybe, I don't know if they're different from regular ones, but a mango one with bobas in it. 29 00:01:57,578.67346939 --> 00:01:58,688.67346939 And it's really good. 30 00:01:59,18.67346939 --> 00:02:02,318.67346939 It I know that some people don't like to do the popping. 31 00:02:02,903.67346939 --> 00:02:06,763.67346939 Bobas because they consider those to not be real boba. 32 00:02:07,283.67346939 --> 00:02:08,123.67346939 Which fair. 33 00:02:08,543.67346939 --> 00:02:14,753.67346939 But this book is also showing us that boba can even be bread balls. 34 00:02:14,933.67346939 --> 00:02:20,913.67346939 So I think that, one can do whatever one wants past that. 35 00:02:20,913.67346939 --> 00:02:24,453.67346939 I got the Boba themselves from Starbucks. 36 00:02:25,203.67346939 --> 00:02:28,953.67346939 And then I made the Boba drink with the mango myself. 37 00:02:29,433.67346939 --> 00:02:38,28.67346939 So actually Mango Peak actually, but I just mango's the main flavor profile, anyways, let's set the scene here. 38 00:02:39,558.67346939 --> 00:02:42,558.67346939 I'm gonna need somebody else to do the summary for this book. 39 00:02:42,678.67346939 --> 00:02:46,68.67346939 I can do it up to a certain point, but then I'm clueless. 40 00:02:47,958.67346939 --> 00:02:49,158.67346939 Okay. 41 00:02:49,158.67346939 --> 00:02:50,172.67346939 'Cause I dropped the book. 42 00:02:50,592.67346939 --> 00:02:51,672.67346939 He dropped the book. 43 00:02:51,732.67346939 --> 00:02:54,752.67346939 I actually finished the book, so I did not Dan. 44 00:02:54,752.67346939 --> 00:02:59,482.67346939 Luck has problems on slice of life, and this is definitely slice of life. 45 00:02:59,542.67346939 --> 00:03:01,612.67346939 This is a hundred percent slice of life. 46 00:03:01,672.67346939 --> 00:03:03,142.67346939 So yeah, it's Slice of Life. 47 00:03:03,142.67346939 --> 00:03:06,502.67346939 Dan Luck is Fantasy, is not a huge fan of that cozy fantasy novel. 48 00:03:06,997.67346939 --> 00:03:09,427.67346939 Which I'm not like totally enthused. 49 00:03:09,427.67346939 --> 00:03:12,362.67346939 If you love slice of life, you will like this. 50 00:03:12,392.67346939 --> 00:03:12,682.67346939 Yeah. 51 00:03:12,727.67346939 --> 00:03:14,377.67346939 This is definitely a hundred percent back. 52 00:03:14,377.67346939 --> 00:03:15,877.67346939 It's cozy fantasy is what it is. 53 00:03:17,142.67346939 --> 00:03:17,532.67346939 Yeah. 54 00:03:17,952.67346939 --> 00:03:19,482.67346939 Okay, so I'll set the scene. 55 00:03:19,542.67346939 --> 00:03:21,372.67346939 We have our main character, Arthur. 56 00:03:22,152.67346939 --> 00:03:25,342.67346939 Arthur is transported into another world. 57 00:03:25,402.67346939 --> 00:03:33,652.67346939 He doesn't know where he is or what's going on, and he meets these people and they say that everyone here is a demon. 58 00:03:35,332.67346939 --> 00:03:37,522.67346939 And they go, this is the demon world. 59 00:03:38,122.67346939 --> 00:03:39,352.67346939 And he goes, okay. 60 00:03:39,482.67346939 --> 00:03:49,172.67346939 So I've been now transported to a demon world from my old place of nce, and he adapts pretty quickly, honestly. 61 00:03:50,232.67346939 --> 00:03:58,752.67346939 They set him up with going to, they start to explain the social programs for basically transport to another world people. 62 00:03:59,172.67346939 --> 00:04:01,602.67346939 Because apparently this happens a lot. 63 00:04:01,812.67346939 --> 00:04:03,72.67346939 He's not the only one. 64 00:04:03,522.67346939 --> 00:04:10,122.67346939 They have people who have done this before, so they've created a program for it for new people, basically. 65 00:04:11,892.67346939 --> 00:04:13,32.67346939 But no humans. 66 00:04:13,122.67346939 --> 00:04:16,932.67346939 It's usually just other demons transferring from one dimension to another. 67 00:04:17,92.67346939 --> 00:04:20,272.67346939 We'd like to point out that he no longer looks like a human. 68 00:04:20,432.67346939 --> 00:04:30,552.67346939 So I just thought they made him slightly pink along with that 'cause they said that some of his features were changed so that he wasn't exactly the same. 69 00:04:30,602.67346939 --> 00:04:33,962.67346939 He just said that he could adapt to him walking like that. 70 00:04:35,572.67346939 --> 00:04:35,862.67346939 Yeah. 71 00:04:36,567.67346939 --> 00:04:37,197.67346939 I don't really know. 72 00:04:40,47.67346939 --> 00:04:42,507.67346939 So I don't know how much he's changed. 73 00:04:42,507.67346939 --> 00:04:49,717.67346939 They just said that they did change some of his features, so he may look like a pig demon to everyone. 74 00:04:49,767.67346939 --> 00:04:50,517.67346939 A pink demon. 75 00:04:50,517.67346939 --> 00:04:50,757.67346939 Yeah. 76 00:04:50,847.67346939 --> 00:04:51,27.67346939 Yeah. 77 00:04:51,247.67346939 --> 00:04:53,797.67346939 I don't know what the pink demons look like, to be honest. 78 00:04:53,847.67346939 --> 00:04:54,177.67346939 Yes. 79 00:04:54,207.67346939 --> 00:05:00,987.67346939 And he's like tall, right? He's, everyone said that he was tall. 80 00:05:01,37.67346939 --> 00:05:06,997.67346939 He is not as tall as I couldn't tell whether they were just saying he's tall 'cause they're naturally shorter creatures or what. 81 00:05:07,47.67346939 --> 00:05:08,157.67346939 They said he was tall. 82 00:05:09,217.67346939 --> 00:05:11,617.67346939 He's not like the tallest or anything. 83 00:05:11,677.67346939 --> 00:05:17,847.67346939 I think that other guy named the big demon who was the strong demon is still taller than him. 84 00:05:17,847.67346939 --> 00:05:19,497.67346939 The one that jumps around. 85 00:05:19,827.67346939 --> 00:05:20,157.67346939 Yeah. 86 00:05:20,407.67346939 --> 00:05:28,207.67346939 So what I was thinking about the main character was that he was potentially. 87 00:05:28,717.67346939 --> 00:05:31,357.67346939 Not as tall as people think like that. 88 00:05:31,627.67346939 --> 00:05:41,377.67346939 That big demon was pretty big, but I considered our main character to just be an average height of a teenager, if that makes sense. 89 00:05:42,457.67346939 --> 00:05:52,247.67346939 Because yeah, he might be a little bit on the tall side, but he's meeting like bird demons and hedgehog demons. 90 00:05:52,277.67346939 --> 00:05:55,967.67346939 They don't seem to be especially tall, if that makes sense. 91 00:05:58,22.67346939 --> 00:06:01,922.67346939 So I just considered him to be around a regular teenage type. 92 00:06:02,762.67346939 --> 00:06:10,152.67346939 And yeah, he was called a pig demon by a couple of the demons who he encountered. 93 00:06:10,152.67346939 --> 00:06:17,362.67346939 So I thought that potentially meant that he was very pink as in a very white person. 94 00:06:18,362.67346939 --> 00:06:21,692.67346939 But I'm pretty sure he's just white because he acts like a white guy. 95 00:06:22,892.67346939 --> 00:06:22,952.67346939 Oh. 96 00:06:22,957.67346939 --> 00:06:23,492.67346939 Oh, for sure. 97 00:06:23,492.67346939 --> 00:06:30,857.67346939 He's white, usually they're told to be pale, he knows what Boba shops are because I think he previously worked at a boba shop. 98 00:06:30,857.67346939 --> 00:06:34,367.67346939 He didn't previously work at a boba shop. 99 00:06:34,457.67346939 --> 00:06:34,907.67346939 Okay. 100 00:06:34,957.67346939 --> 00:06:40,849.67346939 He feels like a guy who previously might have maybe worked at a boba shop for two days. 101 00:06:40,949.67346939 --> 00:06:45,599.67346939 He seems like he has a lot of knowledge for someone who has never worked at a boba shop. 102 00:06:46,409.67346939 --> 00:06:47,639.67346939 I'll be perfectly honest. 103 00:06:49,569.67346939 --> 00:06:55,539.67346939 Yeah, because he was able to make the boba he knows how to make the boba balls, and he knows what they're made out of. 104 00:06:55,824.67346939 --> 00:07:02,104.67346939 For someone to know what taro is made out of is shocking for someone who just tries boba. 105 00:07:03,104.67346939 --> 00:07:21,514.67346939 actually I do not believe so, and that is because I have read other books by this same author RC Joshua and I have read he one of the other series that he wrote was Dead World Ithaca, and the other one that he wrote. 106 00:07:21,879.67346939 --> 00:07:30,499.67346939 That I read was I think it was something about the end of the world, like something end of the world. 107 00:07:30,599.67346939 --> 00:07:38,49.67346939 So both of those books have the being character doing extremely specific things. 108 00:07:38,224.67346939 --> 00:07:41,859.67346939 For example, dead World Isaka, he wanted to be a gardener. 109 00:07:43,144.67346939 --> 00:07:56,114.67346939 And in the end of the world, one, he was just like a guy who got stuck in a scientific accident, but he was a janitor. 110 00:07:56,414.67346939 --> 00:07:59,354.67346939 And so when he gets stuck at the end of the world. 111 00:08:00,704.67346939 --> 00:08:12,334.67346939 And he is having to fight monsters and things like that, but he's capable of creating weapons out of like duct tape and like glue. 112 00:08:12,334.67346939 --> 00:08:14,884.67346939 And he is trying to form brand new weapons. 113 00:08:15,434.67346939 --> 00:08:18,134.67346939 So he is just a scrappy kind of guy, if that makes sense. 114 00:08:19,244.67346939 --> 00:08:31,924.67346939 In this one, he has a ton of knowledge about Boba, but I think that it just means that the author himself researched a ton about how to make Boba, if that makes sense. 115 00:08:32,794.67346939 --> 00:08:35,884.67346939 Like he wanted to give all of us an authentic experience. 116 00:08:36,424.67346939 --> 00:08:47,264.67346939 I wouldn't put it past him to even, have like maybe tried to get a part-time job at a boba shop because I feel like that's the kind of author that this is. 117 00:08:47,684.67346939 --> 00:08:51,994.67346939 He wants to make the reading experience as authentic as possible. 118 00:08:51,994.67346939 --> 00:08:56,374.67346939 So I don't doubt that he probably drank quite a few bobas. 119 00:08:56,764.67346939 --> 00:09:01,504.67346939 Just while making this story, I just, I don't know if he himself. 120 00:09:02,524.67346939 --> 00:09:03,934.67346939 Worked in a Bova shop. 121 00:09:04,354.67346939 --> 00:09:13,354.67346939 I feel like potentially he's the sort of author who would have mentioned it in like his forward or at the end, if that makes sense. 122 00:09:13,574.67346939 --> 00:09:22,344.67346939 My thought process on it is that there was a girl that worked at a shop that he liked and then she told him everything about working there. 123 00:09:22,494.67346939 --> 00:09:23,399.67346939 That is my thought process. 124 00:09:23,399.67346939 --> 00:09:24,564.67346939 There was a girl he liked. 125 00:09:25,564.67346939 --> 00:09:27,514.67346939 I just can't see this guy. 126 00:09:27,684.67346939 --> 00:09:29,354.67346939 I just can't see this guy like, oh. 127 00:09:29,489.67346939 --> 00:09:30,599.67346939 I may be entirely wrong. 128 00:09:30,599.67346939 --> 00:09:37,199.67346939 There are four other books and we haven't heard about this other girl, but that was my assumption. 129 00:09:37,379.67346939 --> 00:09:42,29.67346939 I just figure he was always bad with women because he doesn't seem like he's good with them. 130 00:09:42,129.67346939 --> 00:09:46,734.67346939 You haven't even seen them, you didn't even hear about them gang together, did you? No. 131 00:09:46,734.67346939 --> 00:09:49,419.67346939 Because you didn't get there? Yeah, I did not. 132 00:09:49,729.67346939 --> 00:09:51,854.67346939 It's so bad at romance. 133 00:09:52,394.67346939 --> 00:09:57,504.67346939 It is so funny, he consistently, oh, Lucille, you can back me up on this one. 134 00:09:57,564.67346939 --> 00:10:21,774.67346939 He is really bad at picking up her cues, despite the fact that she like, gave him an extremely special flower despite the fact that they say that she has zero emotion as a water demon, it's so clear that she has emotions for him, I find it humorous that's all. 135 00:10:23,214.67346939 --> 00:10:30,674.67346939 Anyways as he is traveling around, they start to show him buildings and things like that, and they're like, everyone has like a class here. 136 00:10:31,154.67346939 --> 00:10:33,874.67346939 They choose a career life plan thingamajigger. 137 00:10:34,774.67346939 --> 00:10:37,54.67346939 And he's oh, I don't know what I want to do. 138 00:10:37,399.67346939 --> 00:10:41,359.67346939 And I'm like, okay, that's a pretty normal thing that everyone goes through. 139 00:10:41,509.67346939 --> 00:10:43,739.67346939 And he is but everyone here knows what they want to do. 140 00:10:43,739.67346939 --> 00:10:47,144.67346939 And then 10 minutes later he knows what he wants to do. 141 00:10:47,604.67346939 --> 00:10:49,389.67346939 No, it's more no, it's two chapters later. 142 00:10:49,389.67346939 --> 00:10:49,659.67346939 No. 143 00:10:49,959.67346939 --> 00:10:58,939.67346939 It's more like five to six hours later because he meets this buddy at the training class that he went to at the training class. 144 00:10:58,939.67346939 --> 00:11:04,679.67346939 He meets all of the other new people they're just young people trying to get into the workforce basically. 145 00:11:05,189.67346939 --> 00:11:08,729.67346939 So they have like a training class for everyone new to the workforce. 146 00:11:08,729.67346939 --> 00:11:20,579.67346939 So everyone goes there, he meets a couple of people and he meets, happens to meet this one dude who's like a kid who does smithing and the smithing kid. 147 00:11:20,629.67346939 --> 00:11:22,369.67346939 They become like fast friends. 148 00:11:22,924.67346939 --> 00:11:27,514.67346939 And he says, yo, I'll take your smithing knife with me on my expedition. 149 00:11:27,514.67346939 --> 00:11:30,874.67346939 I have to go later to, and he is oh, hey, thanks. 150 00:11:31,84.67346939 --> 00:11:35,194.67346939 I definitely want that because he needs it to be tried out and tested. 151 00:11:35,194.67346939 --> 00:11:37,324.67346939 And then he gets levels in smithing. 152 00:11:38,14.67346939 --> 00:11:43,354.67346939 And so he takes his knife and he goes out on the dumb expedition journey that he asked to go on. 153 00:11:43,864.67346939 --> 00:11:54,664.67346939 And he goes with the really strong guy who was there when he transported into another world, and one other person who was like a trainer sort of guy. 154 00:11:55,174.67346939 --> 00:12:00,934.67346939 They go and they beat some monsters up and he gives the knife to the other guy and he breaks the knife. 155 00:12:00,964.67346939 --> 00:12:04,454.67346939 But he got a lot of levels in fighting. 156 00:12:04,554.67346939 --> 00:12:06,384.67346939 The other guy has a lot of levels in fighting. 157 00:12:06,384.67346939 --> 00:12:07,764.67346939 So when he uses the knife. 158 00:12:08,139.67346939 --> 00:12:11,799.67346939 The guy who made the knife gets some levels in smithing and stuff like that. 159 00:12:12,99.67346939 --> 00:12:16,729.67346939 So it's a good deal for the smithing guy and he seems really happy about it. 160 00:12:16,729.67346939 --> 00:12:30,19.67346939 So he invites him over to his family's house and he meets his mother, who's like a level 300 billion cook and the level 300 billion cook sits him down and is yo, I could help you figure out your class. 161 00:12:30,19.67346939 --> 00:12:31,819.67346939 We could try out cooking and stuff. 162 00:12:31,819.67346939 --> 00:12:34,249.67346939 And he is yeah, I like cooking. 163 00:12:34,279.67346939 --> 00:12:36,409.67346939 Maybe potentially. 164 00:12:37,99.67346939 --> 00:12:46,999.67346939 And so he just starts cooking things and he has the idea to use bread balls as like a boba thing. 165 00:12:48,349.67346939 --> 00:12:54,319.67346939 And he gets like a sort of vision of boba and he's yeah, this is my life goal. 166 00:12:54,349.67346939 --> 00:12:54,859.67346939 Boba. 167 00:12:55,744.67346939 --> 00:12:57,664.67346939 So that's that initial start. 168 00:12:57,664.67346939 --> 00:13:00,814.67346939 If somebody else wants to take over, I don't actually know. 169 00:13:01,24.67346939 --> 00:13:01,474.67346939 Yeah. 170 00:13:01,474.67346939 --> 00:13:12,334.67346939 So I read more of it, but sure he makes, he eventually perfects those bread balls, but in the process people essentially say, Hey, you need to shop. 171 00:13:12,364.67346939 --> 00:13:19,844.67346939 And they find him a spot in like the middle of the center of town or something, and they're like, yeah, you need this spot. 172 00:13:19,844.67346939 --> 00:13:29,204.67346939 And they convince the mayor that he needs that spot, but then he has to do all these things that he's never done before, like start running a business and stuff like that. 173 00:13:29,414.67346939 --> 00:13:35,774.67346939 So he gets people to help him with making cups and ceramics and stuff like that. 174 00:13:36,44.67346939 --> 00:13:40,394.67346939 So that he can have all the materials he needs, and so people are helping him out. 175 00:13:40,484.67346939 --> 00:13:44,214.67346939 He also has this crush on this ocean water. 176 00:13:44,214.67346939 --> 00:13:45,444.67346939 Water girl demon. 177 00:13:45,444.67346939 --> 00:13:46,69.67346939 A water demon. 178 00:13:46,129.67346939 --> 00:13:46,349.67346939 Yes. 179 00:13:46,494.67346939 --> 00:13:47,604.67346939 Water demon girl. 180 00:13:47,784.67346939 --> 00:13:57,594.67346939 And she helps by bringing fresh stream water, which is apparently the best water everyone ever, everyone has ever tasted in their entire life. 181 00:13:57,624.67346939 --> 00:13:58,789.67346939 Yeah, so I was a little confused. 182 00:13:58,789.67346939 --> 00:14:02,619.67346939 So you can use that for the boba, but I guess it's like a rare item. 183 00:14:03,309.67346939 --> 00:14:03,729.67346939 Item. 184 00:14:03,994.67346939 --> 00:14:07,874.67346939 I don't know how you would be able to tell, maybe you know, Bob more there. 185 00:14:07,874.67346939 --> 00:14:08,954.67346939 Yoing pickles. 186 00:14:09,4.67346939 --> 00:14:20,244.67346939 Do you know more about that? But he found a personal, like water source for his stand, if that makes sense. 187 00:14:20,724.67346939 --> 00:14:20,904.67346939 And. 188 00:14:21,904.67346939 --> 00:14:25,24.67346939 Obviously that's how much she cares for him and how much he's a Dumbo. 189 00:14:25,24.67346939 --> 00:14:34,834.67346939 But also I think that's how she gets experience as well, because you would have to have a water demon gain experience somehow and it's purifying water. 190 00:14:34,834.67346939 --> 00:14:38,734.67346939 So I think she's just putting a lot more of herself into this particular water. 191 00:14:39,234.67346939 --> 00:14:41,664.67346939 so everyone's drinking her. 192 00:14:41,694.67346939 --> 00:14:44,994.67346939 It could be Magica, right? She could be putting Magica in it. 193 00:14:45,994.67346939 --> 00:14:46,384.67346939 Yeah. 194 00:14:46,534.67346939 --> 00:14:51,274.67346939 Using the magica to do yeah, that's what I think yeah. 195 00:14:52,24.67346939 --> 00:14:54,379.67346939 Oh yeah. 196 00:14:54,484.67346939 --> 00:14:55,648.56235828 She's magic in it. 197 00:14:56,548.56235828 --> 00:15:04,200.36546939 Is the Smith guy also the one that's making the machinery like, so that he doesn't have to hand make the boba? Yeah. 198 00:15:04,400.36546939 --> 00:15:15,30.36546939 So what I was thinking more about this is that he's like basically creating a business where he can help other people level up, 'cause it's not so much about him. 199 00:15:15,30.36546939 --> 00:15:17,340.36546939 He's really building up the community around him. 200 00:15:17,340.36546939 --> 00:15:17,400.36546939 Yeah. 201 00:15:18,540.36546939 --> 00:15:19,530.36546939 That's what he is really doing. 202 00:15:19,530.36546939 --> 00:15:26,440.36546939 It's not that the boba is all that important or anything like that, it's that it's building up the community of people around him. 203 00:15:26,580.36546939 --> 00:15:31,820.36546939 So as he's doing that, he does come across an owl girl that he's helping out. 204 00:15:31,820.36546939 --> 00:15:35,660.36546939 He essentially adopts her during part of the book. 205 00:15:35,710.36546939 --> 00:15:37,240.36546939 That's what I take it to be. 206 00:15:37,240.36546939 --> 00:15:41,110.36546939 It didn't say the words adopt, but he's the only one she cares about. 207 00:15:41,110.36546939 --> 00:15:50,740.36546939 So he definitely adopted this owl girl at a little kid at, she's his now she also works at the shop. 208 00:15:50,740.36546939 --> 00:15:52,790.36546939 She's his first employee. 209 00:15:52,790.36546939 --> 00:15:52,850.36546939 Yeah. 210 00:15:52,910.36546939 --> 00:15:54,840.36546939 Anyway, Oh yeah. 211 00:15:54,920.36546939 --> 00:16:02,460.36546939 And this might be a bit more of knowledge, so with the Owl girl, but this might be a little bit more because I have read book too. 212 00:16:03,600.36546939 --> 00:16:15,980.36546939 But for sure in Book one and also in book two and everything, he really did need somebody who knows the streets and knows like places where everything is. 213 00:16:16,530.36546939 --> 00:16:19,200.36546939 'Cause again, he is a brand new person here. 214 00:16:19,560.36546939 --> 00:16:26,810.36546939 Honestly, having the Owl girl helping out at its store was a method of getting an assistant, but. 215 00:16:28,700.36546939 --> 00:16:32,180.36546939 He for sure is her adopted dad. 216 00:16:32,210.36546939 --> 00:16:35,820.36546939 There's no way, like she adopted him essentially. 217 00:16:35,820.36546939 --> 00:16:43,630.3654694 You know what I'm saying? Like I know that he was trying to reach out and help her out and stuff, but she essentially shows him as her family. 218 00:16:44,140.3654694 --> 00:16:45,460.3654694 That's what I think of it is. 219 00:16:45,730.3654694 --> 00:16:58,730.3654694 Which honestly gives it such a I guess he might, not necessarily, but like In every non-legal sense, she is his adopted either sister or daughter. 220 00:16:58,730.3654694 --> 00:17:01,450.3654694 I'm not sure which one we're going with there. 221 00:17:02,370.3654694 --> 00:17:11,220.3654694 But definitely he would not be as successful in his store if he did not have her just in every way. 222 00:17:12,930.3654694 --> 00:17:31,400.3654694 Very useful for him and like I can't believe how great their relationship is because it also shows, hey, you can have a relationship with somebody that is not romantic and you can just found family kind of thing, but I think he's his daughter. 223 00:17:31,400.3654694 --> 00:17:32,420.3654694 I think he adopted her. 224 00:17:32,420.3654694 --> 00:17:35,660.3654694 I don't think they have any formal adoption things and I can't remember. 225 00:17:37,745.3654694 --> 00:17:39,35.3654694 My memory might be a bit off. 226 00:17:39,65.3654694 --> 00:17:45,35.3654694 I don't know if he actually gets money from people to take care of her. 227 00:17:45,455.3654694 --> 00:17:56,780.3654694 So I don't know if it's one of those things, but everyone definitely noticed that he took, he is basically the father figure caretaker of the tiny warfarin that doesn't want help. 228 00:17:56,975.3654694 --> 00:18:00,125.3654694 So that also is quite a few marks in his favor as well. 229 00:18:01,675.3654694 --> 00:18:02,190.3654694 It is true. 230 00:18:02,400.3654694 --> 00:18:03,60.3654694 She does. 231 00:18:03,870.3654694 --> 00:18:04,170.3654694 Yeah. 232 00:18:05,170.3654694 --> 00:18:10,980.3654694 Now she gets sick and he basically learns that he can make medicinal tea for her. 233 00:18:11,220.3654694 --> 00:18:14,400.3654694 And so he starts his medicinal tea section. 234 00:18:14,660.3654694 --> 00:18:21,730.3654694 But along with that then there happens to be a war that they occasionally fight. 235 00:18:21,870.3654694 --> 00:18:24,30.3654694 The only occasionally fight this war. 236 00:18:24,130.3654694 --> 00:18:27,380.3654694 So First it is a monster wave. 237 00:18:27,810.3654694 --> 00:18:29,820.3654694 Nobody's fighting anybody else. 238 00:18:30,70.3654694 --> 00:18:31,570.3654694 It is a monster wave. 239 00:18:31,660.3654694 --> 00:18:42,980.3654694 So occasionally in this world, monster waves go up and then the towns all band together and they fight against them But Monster Waves happen. 240 00:18:43,280.3654694 --> 00:18:47,715.3654694 Oh, it's a monster, but it only comes at certain times of the year. 241 00:18:48,250.3654694 --> 00:18:48,540.3654694 Okay. 242 00:18:48,545.3654694 --> 00:18:49,95.3654694 Okay. 243 00:18:49,95.3654694 --> 00:19:03,430.3654694 That makes a lot more sense because I was like, who in the world are they fighting a war against? Because I was like, there's no one because as you read through the book you'll find out that just no one is all that evil. 244 00:19:04,690.3654694 --> 00:19:06,941.3654694 There's actually no evil people in world. 245 00:19:06,941.3654694 --> 00:19:08,404.3654694 That's because it's place of life. 246 00:19:08,404.3654694 --> 00:19:10,804.3654694 So everyone is just a normal person. 247 00:19:10,924.3654694 --> 00:19:13,294.3654694 Even more normal than you'll meet in real life. 248 00:19:13,324.3654694 --> 00:19:13,714.3654694 Okay. 249 00:19:14,444.3654694 --> 00:19:19,34.3654694 But it's like a demon world and there is no bad people in it. 250 00:19:19,34.3654694 --> 00:19:20,774.3654694 It's really kinda weird. 251 00:19:21,254.3654694 --> 00:19:23,784.3654694 But I guess that's what they wanted to go with that setting. 252 00:19:25,734.3654694 --> 00:19:36,504.3654694 During the monster wave, he is fighting alongside them at first, but then he realizes he wants to give them some extra energy and he thought maybe his drinks would help. 253 00:19:36,924.3654694 --> 00:19:45,84.3654694 So he tries it out and he finds out they will help give people extra energy in fighting the Monster Wave. 254 00:19:45,474.3654694 --> 00:20:02,354.3654694 So he proceeds to do that with every one of the soldiers on the at the wall, his medicinal teeth don't take away from anything they've taken, so any sort of medicine they're currently taking, it doesn't take away from that. 255 00:20:02,354.3654694 --> 00:20:08,604.3654694 Oh, so it's, oh, that's interesting because it's not like a like a weird like it'll add on properties. 256 00:20:08,604.3654694 --> 00:20:10,524.3654694 It's just a different benefit. 257 00:20:11,864.3654694 --> 00:20:24,479.3654694 So he's just spending time making a whole bunch of bobas and of course, he also gets a ton of recognition because he made a ton of bobas and people rank those Yeah. 258 00:20:24,529.3654694 --> 00:20:26,299.3654694 He's their support in the back. 259 00:20:27,299.3654694 --> 00:20:28,904.3654694 So they actually give him a building. 260 00:20:29,84.3654694 --> 00:20:31,214.3654694 And they gave him a lot of supplies. 261 00:20:31,664.3654694 --> 00:20:33,554.3654694 Like tons of supplies. 262 00:20:34,594.3654694 --> 00:20:36,814.3654694 So he got to keep all those supplies. 263 00:20:37,364.3654694 --> 00:20:51,859.3654694 so the water girl got hurt during the monster wave and he was he mentioned it occasionally, but eventually they realized that it was something actually really serious and. 264 00:20:53,749.3654694 --> 00:20:58,839.3654694 He is basically at the point of death like he is really close to dying. 265 00:20:58,909.3654694 --> 00:21:01,969.3654694 So he is gotta create like a cure-all boba or something. 266 00:21:04,369.3654694 --> 00:21:13,959.3654694 He's hanging on by a thread and so they bring in the priestess lady who is actually married to the big demon guy, which is hilarious. 267 00:21:13,959.3654694 --> 00:21:17,589.3654694 But that actually just shows why he's a bit of a dumbo as well. 268 00:21:17,619.3654694 --> 00:21:18,729.3654694 'cause he didn't realize that. 269 00:21:19,389.3654694 --> 00:21:29,499.3654694 And then they also brought in the apothecary alchemical people. 270 00:21:29,979.3654694 --> 00:21:34,719.3654694 And so they made something and he is been blessed, but he's still really hanging on. 271 00:21:35,769.3654694 --> 00:21:46,639.3654694 And he's if I can level up my healing boba, then I should be able to like just give her a little bit of an edge. 272 00:21:47,329.3654694 --> 00:21:49,204.3654694 So he begins working super hard. 273 00:21:51,14.3654694 --> 00:22:07,289.3654694 At trying to find a cure, or not a cure, but just like something that will give her strength because the other ones work on an internal, like how much energy does she have? And then it like converts that into like fighting the poison that she's got. 274 00:22:07,349.3654694 --> 00:22:11,279.3654694 But his sort of works an extra thing on top. 275 00:22:12,554.3654694 --> 00:22:18,104.3654694 Giving her the energy from his, he and honestly he. 276 00:22:18,659.3654694 --> 00:22:38,709.3654694 He fails and he can't seem to make it, but through the power of other people, through the power of friendship he manages to make the tea and he brings it to her and she's secured and then they are dating and it's fantastic 'cause she says, you're a little bit of a dumb, we are actually dating. 277 00:22:38,769.3654694 --> 00:22:41,649.3654694 And he goes, oh, okay. 278 00:22:44,704.3654694 --> 00:22:45,844.3654694 He is pretty bad about that. 279 00:22:48,244.3654694 --> 00:22:51,574.3654694 He had one conversation before she went completely sick. 280 00:22:51,624.3654694 --> 00:23:04,104.3654694 And before then she was actually saying that they were dating, but he didn't understand that he is one of those semi, he does water demon and she doesn't say much. 281 00:23:05,14.3654694 --> 00:23:07,54.3654694 He's a bit dense, I'm not gonna lie. 282 00:23:07,84.3654694 --> 00:23:08,104.3654694 He is dense. 283 00:23:08,654.3654694 --> 00:23:09,194.3654694 It's fun. 284 00:23:09,194.3654694 --> 00:23:11,174.3654694 It's such a cute little romance thing. 285 00:23:11,564.3654694 --> 00:23:15,944.3654694 I think I honestly am reading it like for the romance, if that makes sense. 286 00:23:16,814.3654694 --> 00:23:27,434.3654694 Because it's such like a pure, like gentle romance, and I really appreciate the fact that the romance does like it does happen during the first book. 287 00:23:27,614.3654694 --> 00:23:28,544.3654694 Like we're not. 288 00:23:30,904.3654694 --> 00:23:38,699.3654694 We're not forced to wait for a whole bunch of books to go by before we get the relationship that we want. 289 00:23:39,389.3654694 --> 00:23:40,319.3654694 Yeah. 290 00:23:42,884.3654694 --> 00:23:43,244.3654694 All right. 291 00:23:43,244.3654694 --> 00:23:45,884.3654694 So I wanna, I want to get out our initial thoughts. 292 00:23:45,934.3654694 --> 00:24:03,194.3654694 What were your guys' initial thoughts reading the book? Like what kind of stuff do you guys like the most from the book? Or what did you dislike? Okay, so my initial thoughts of the book are, I just had so much fun reading it. 293 00:24:03,674.3654694 --> 00:24:04,724.3654694 It was cute. 294 00:24:04,784.3654694 --> 00:24:07,274.3654694 It was, it had little humorous, tiny parts. 295 00:24:07,274.3654694 --> 00:24:12,224.3654694 It did not take itself too seriously, like things would happen. 296 00:24:12,224.3654694 --> 00:24:15,734.3654694 And it's not that big of a deal. 297 00:24:15,734.3654694 --> 00:24:20,174.3654694 And it's nice when, and you know what really, I think I had read so many. 298 00:24:21,494.3654694 --> 00:24:36,184.3654694 Stories that were like gritty and dark and really serious, and it was just nice to relax and be able to enjoy a story the romance is well written and the world that they're in is super interesting. 299 00:24:36,184.3654694 --> 00:24:59,529.3654694 I wouldn't necessarily read a story about a guy setting up a boba shop in the real world, but this is very interesting how he's able to make various different kinds of bobo and also just the fact that the, that, if you just think of it in a straightforward fashion of just, oh, you've made a drink that is a bubble tea drink. 300 00:24:59,619.3654694 --> 00:25:07,689.3654694 You wouldn't have thought, oh, now he's making, he is making bread balls and now he's making them in out of the actual bobas and stuff. 301 00:25:07,689.3654694 --> 00:25:08,169.3654694 You wouldn't. 302 00:25:09,354.3654694 --> 00:25:20,724.3654694 Have thought of all those different things, you would've just thought, okay, now he's got a tea shop, basically, and this goes past that and gives him interesting skills that he can actually help other people out with. 303 00:25:22,314.3654694 --> 00:25:23,694.3654694 So yeah, I really enjoyed it. 304 00:25:23,904.3654694 --> 00:25:26,244.3654694 I like written slice of life. 305 00:25:26,244.3654694 --> 00:25:26,724.3654694 There's. 306 00:25:27,864.3654694 --> 00:25:33,654.3654694 Some that can get really tedious, and this one didn't feel like it was getting tedious. 307 00:25:33,654.3654694 --> 00:25:43,394.3654694 I do understand that Dan Locke doesn't like slice of life, and that's of course a personal choice, not a big deal, a little easy, solid, cute little romance. 308 00:25:43,424.3654694 --> 00:25:47,834.3654694 Not too serious of a romance, just a little teenage romance, that kind of thing.. 309 00:26:51,734.3654694 --> 00:26:55,169.3654694 And then is his other books. 310 00:26:56,204.3654694 --> 00:27:03,344.3654694 There's, so this is for sure a slice of life, right? His other books are a little bit different. 311 00:27:03,974.3654694 --> 00:27:12,854.3654694 Edward Isaka is, I would say it's obviously, it's an isaka. 312 00:27:12,914.3654694 --> 00:27:20,324.3654694 It's a little bit slice of life in that our main character is the only. 313 00:27:21,434.3654694 --> 00:27:22,634.3654694 Person there. 314 00:27:22,634.3654694 --> 00:27:28,394.3654694 And so there's not an awful lot of, he's progressing, but he's progressing at his own pace kind of thing. 315 00:27:28,694.3654694 --> 00:27:32,204.3654694 But I would say maybe more adventure, if that makes sense. 316 00:27:32,234.3654694 --> 00:27:40,214.3654694 Like it's an adventure isaka where he goes up on a planet and there is no one there. 317 00:27:41,384.3654694 --> 00:27:43,424.3654694 There's actually just no people. 318 00:27:43,664.3654694 --> 00:27:44,954.3654694 They have all died off. 319 00:27:45,224.3654694 --> 00:27:47,744.3654694 There is no plants, there is nothing. 320 00:27:47,744.3654694 --> 00:27:50,864.3654694 There is nothing here on this planet. 321 00:27:51,44.3654694 --> 00:27:57,944.3654694 So he has to navigate that and explore that and potentially garden that planet somehow. 322 00:27:58,244.3654694 --> 00:28:05,714.3654694 At the end of the World Book, it is definitely like an action monster, fighty adventure kind of story. 323 00:28:06,104.3654694 --> 00:28:13,214.3654694 I would, I only read the first book of that and for Dead World isi, I read the two books. 324 00:28:13,544.3654694 --> 00:28:18,644.3654694 You know what's interesting about Dead World ISI Book two, he actually goes to a different planet. 325 00:28:19,4.3654694 --> 00:28:26,534.3654694 I hope that doesn't spoil too much for everybody, but he meets this demon bear there and demon bear. 326 00:28:26,924.3654694 --> 00:28:28,364.3654694 I'm getting beat up by him. 327 00:28:28,424.3654694 --> 00:28:35,954.3654694 Just every time he encounters like a, like the bear runs off and then he encounters a new group of demons and the bear is coincidentally there. 328 00:28:36,344.3654694 --> 00:28:39,164.3654694 So the bear is like super unhappy with humans. 329 00:28:39,164.3654694 --> 00:28:43,484.3654694 Somehow that bear gets transported to this planet. 330 00:28:44,789.3654694 --> 00:28:47,789.3654694 And the planet of the demon world boba shop. 331 00:28:48,939.3654694 --> 00:28:50,469.3654694 And there's only demons here. 332 00:28:50,469.3654694 --> 00:28:55,359.3654694 And so he sees that all the demons are fighting and he's, we shouldn't be like humans. 333 00:28:55,719.3654694 --> 00:28:56,979.3654694 We should all band together. 334 00:28:56,979.3654694 --> 00:28:58,689.3654694 Demons should be happy together. 335 00:28:58,689.3654694 --> 00:29:03,489.3654694 And so he beats all of the demons up and tells them that they have to work together. 336 00:29:04,209.3654694 --> 00:29:08,379.3654694 And so that's why everybody works together and is happy together and. 337 00:29:08,829.3654694 --> 00:29:16,629.3654694 That's, I don't know, it's a very fun like meta thing that you would only know if you had read Dead World Akai or you listened to me and then you know about it. 338 00:29:16,989.3654694 --> 00:29:24,279.3654694 But it is fun because they do see the like giant bear statue and talk about how he unified everybody. 339 00:29:24,519.3654694 --> 00:29:27,909.3654694 So it's pretty interesting because had our main character showed up. 340 00:29:29,604.3654694 --> 00:29:34,854.3654694 A couple hundred years ago, then everybody would've been fighting everybody else and it would've been a really difficult world. 341 00:29:34,854.3654694 --> 00:29:42,594.3654694 But actually the demon bear unified the whole world, and now everybody works together and it's actually the story that we know today. 342 00:29:42,864.3654694 --> 00:29:45,24.3654694 Making it a very chill and gentle story. 343 00:29:45,74.3654694 --> 00:29:53,954.3654694 For my rating, I was having a really fun time reading it and I was actually really excited to hear that there's actually five books. 344 00:29:53,954.3654694 --> 00:29:54,854.3654694 'cause I didn't know that. 345 00:29:54,884.3654694 --> 00:29:56,384.3654694 I thought that there was only two. 346 00:29:56,804.3654694 --> 00:29:59,994.3654694 So I'm actually really excited to read the next one. 347 00:30:00,24.3654694 --> 00:30:03,564.3654694 Book two, he actually travels outside of that town and that's, I. 348 00:30:03,984.3654694 --> 00:30:04,494.3654694 Really fun. 349 00:30:04,494.3654694 --> 00:30:08,994.3654694 You get to explore the world more with your main character and it's just a lot of fun. 350 00:30:09,624.3654694 --> 00:30:13,474.3654694 And so I guess I would give this a nine. 351 00:30:13,534.3654694 --> 00:30:15,274.3654694 I was having such a fun time. 352 00:30:15,274.3654694 --> 00:30:18,514.3654694 I was very excited when chapters were coming out. 353 00:30:18,904.3654694 --> 00:30:37,84.3654694 'cause I was reading book two when the chapters were coming out and so I was very excited when I saw that story was updating and so yeah, I, yeah, I would give it a nine just because I was having so much fun and it really was like a breath of fresh air from the other stories that I was reading. 354 00:30:38,14.3654694 --> 00:30:51,64.3654694 Yeah, and so if you like Slice of life or you're looking for a really good slice of life that you haven't read before, or you're just trying out a slice of life, I say give this one a try because. 355 00:30:53,389.3654694 --> 00:30:54,679.3654694 It's a really one to end it. 356 00:30:54,739.3654694 --> 00:31:02,529.3654694 And you know what, if you haven't read a book in a while as well, I think this is a really easy one to ease you back in. 357 00:31:02,529.3654694 --> 00:31:07,779.3654694 It's just trying to lead you through a really fun, easy to read story. 358 00:31:19,244.3654694 --> 00:31:20,114.3654694 I liked it. 359 00:31:20,164.3654694 --> 00:31:26,754.3654694 I would say that definitely while I was reading the book, I was like, this person has made boba before. 360 00:31:26,754.3654694 --> 00:31:35,424.3654694 They had to have, they can't just, they can't just go into all these details without trying to make boba. 361 00:31:35,514.3654694 --> 00:31:39,204.3654694 So I assume that this person has personally made Boba. 362 00:31:40,59.3654694 --> 00:31:45,799.3654694 I have read a boba shop story before it was an exo fan fiction. 363 00:31:46,99.3654694 --> 00:31:51,919.3654694 And they were explaining how 30% and 70%, and they were going into all these details. 364 00:31:51,919.3654694 --> 00:31:54,439.3654694 It was obvious that she worked in a boba shop. 365 00:31:54,489.3654694 --> 00:31:57,579.3654694 There was no way that this author didn't work in a boba shop. 366 00:31:57,759.3654694 --> 00:32:04,249.3654694 'cause she was like, oh, I can mix this tea, and I was like, okay, so one of your jobs while you're going to college. 367 00:32:04,279.3654694 --> 00:32:08,589.3654694 'cause it felt like a college student anyway was at a Boba Tea shop. 368 00:32:08,589.3654694 --> 00:32:10,629.3654694 So that was my assumption there. 369 00:32:10,669.3654694 --> 00:32:14,119.3654694 Having read that book, I would say this is. 370 00:32:14,734.3654694 --> 00:32:19,984.3654694 Because she wasn't having to make boba the boba balls and he was having to make the boba balls. 371 00:32:20,164.3654694 --> 00:32:21,454.3654694 This is slightly more in depth. 372 00:32:21,454.3654694 --> 00:32:30,724.3654694 So this person had to probably do some research besides working at the Boba Tea Shop because most Boba tea shops do not hand make their balls. 373 00:32:30,754.3654694 --> 00:32:31,624.3654694 I'm sorry. 374 00:32:32,224.3654694 --> 00:32:41,14.3654694 Most shops just buy them because it's much easier and waste a lot of time in the morning if they spent all their time making the boba balls. 375 00:32:41,44.3654694 --> 00:32:41,524.3654694 Okay. 376 00:32:41,884.3654694 --> 00:32:46,174.3654694 So it would be a lot of time, I bet it would taste like 10 times better. 377 00:32:46,414.3654694 --> 00:32:47,584.3654694 Oh yeah, no doubt. 378 00:32:47,584.3654694 --> 00:32:51,724.3654694 It would definitely taste better if the hand made them fresh for that morning. 379 00:32:51,784.3654694 --> 00:32:52,954.3654694 I don't doubt that. 380 00:32:52,954.3654694 --> 00:32:59,884.3654694 I'm just saying most Boba shops, at least in the United States, don't have time for this. 381 00:32:59,884.3654694 --> 00:33:06,984.3654694 This whole thing where they make the boba from scratch in the morning, which is why when he finally got that machinery. 382 00:33:07,269.3654694 --> 00:33:07,659.3654694 Going. 383 00:33:07,659.3654694 --> 00:33:08,919.3654694 I was like, thank goodness. 384 00:33:08,949.3654694 --> 00:33:24,84.3654694 'cause how on earth is he gonna waste all of his time making fresh boba every morning? So thank goodness they made machinery for him and he didn't have to wait till the second book for something like that to happen because I was like, oh man. 385 00:33:24,444.3654694 --> 00:33:31,224.3654694 He like, what? He has one employee by besides himself and he's having to hand make all these boba. 386 00:33:33,834.3654694 --> 00:33:35,214.3654694 He hand makes a lot of items. 387 00:33:35,214.3654694 --> 00:33:35,844.3654694 I'm not gonna lie. 388 00:33:35,904.3654694 --> 00:33:35,964.3654694 Yeah. 389 00:33:36,44.3654694 --> 00:33:40,244.3654694 I like the setting and I don't have any problem with slice of life. 390 00:33:40,294.3654694 --> 00:33:42,784.3654694 I, no problem with slice of life here. 391 00:33:43,24.3654694 --> 00:33:46,984.3654694 So I really do enjoy something like that. 392 00:33:47,14.3654694 --> 00:33:50,74.3654694 I'm the person watching and Shirley every single time it comes out. 393 00:33:50,284.3654694 --> 00:33:52,534.3654694 So no problem with slice of life. 394 00:33:52,534.3654694 --> 00:33:53,704.3654694 I like slice of life. 395 00:33:53,754.3654694 --> 00:34:00,434.3654694 I would like to say that there was a surprise because they were like, oh, this is actually a couple. 396 00:34:00,434.3654694 --> 00:34:07,114.3654694 And I was like, what? Huh? And 'cause our main character didn't figure it out, so they didn't help us figure it out either. 397 00:34:08,114.3654694 --> 00:34:15,104.3654694 When he finds out close that they're like buried, he was like, what? How did you how did I not know? And they were like, yeah. 398 00:34:15,104.3654694 --> 00:34:17,364.3654694 How did you not know? Yeah. 399 00:34:17,364.3654694 --> 00:34:17,365.3654694 Yeah. 400 00:34:17,939.3654694 --> 00:34:18,229.3654694 Okay. 401 00:34:18,259.3654694 --> 00:34:21,259.3654694 I expected nothing less from him, to be honest. 402 00:34:22,259.3654694 --> 00:34:28,319.3654694 There was that other, what was it? The what was that? That cook book where he is like a cook at a castle. 403 00:34:28,919.3654694 --> 00:34:32,219.3654694 And I got super annoyed with that book to be honest. 404 00:34:32,219.3654694 --> 00:34:35,769.3654694 But you read a lot more than me yoing pickles. 405 00:34:36,359.3654694 --> 00:34:39,539.3654694 It was the book where he's like a cook and a castle. 406 00:34:40,299.3654694 --> 00:34:48,499.3654694 He's like a castle cook, but he's also a super powerful wizard like his spells were like, cook. 407 00:34:49,769.3654694 --> 00:34:53,49.3654694 I hated that story, he is like a hospitality guy or something. 408 00:34:53,259.3654694 --> 00:35:03,529.3654694 Anyways the part, the thing that I hated about it is that he would just, that he had a girl that he liked and he let that girl get taken away by an evil empire. 409 00:35:03,529.3654694 --> 00:35:07,609.3654694 Like he could have stopped them, like he legit could have stopped them. 410 00:35:07,939.3654694 --> 00:35:13,189.3654694 Instead, she was taken away and I said, I was like, oh, okay. 411 00:35:13,339.3654694 --> 00:35:23,709.3654694 I didn't mind reading it at first, and eventually it turned into an Acton story, but you need to quickly go back into the slice of life portion of it. 412 00:35:23,739.3654694 --> 00:35:27,489.3654694 Like you can definitely have exciting things happen in the story. 413 00:35:27,489.3654694 --> 00:35:28,389.3654694 I'm not against that. 414 00:35:28,819.3654694 --> 00:35:31,489.3654694 But he was not using his powers. 415 00:35:32,644.3654694 --> 00:35:48,694.3654694 After 50% of the way through the book, he stopped using his hospitality powers and he began using like other powers he had, which to me was extremely disappointing because the point of his powers is those are extremely useful powers. 416 00:35:49,214.3654694 --> 00:35:55,274.3654694 So yeah, I don't recommend that one necessarily, but I can't quite remember the title of that one. 417 00:35:55,824.3654694 --> 00:36:00,84.3654694 And then he had a chance to kill like the evil Lord of the other world. 418 00:36:00,114.3654694 --> 00:36:03,114.3654694 And what does he do? He just is eh, let him go. 419 00:36:03,174.3654694 --> 00:36:13,534.3654694 And I was like, what is going on in this book now? And then people are like, oh, you can't do this, even though he's like the most powerful magician in the entire kingdom. 420 00:36:13,864.3654694 --> 00:36:16,144.3654694 And they were like, oh no, you can't do that. 421 00:36:16,564.3654694 --> 00:36:18,934.3654694 And I was like, dude, he's more powerful than your king. 422 00:36:18,994.3654694 --> 00:36:22,144.3654694 You realize that, right? Your king has got nothing on him. 423 00:36:23,434.3654694 --> 00:36:26,764.3654694 You realize Mike does make right. 424 00:36:26,794.3654694 --> 00:36:27,454.3654694 I'm sorry. 425 00:36:27,514.3654694 --> 00:36:28,384.3654694 He's in charge. 426 00:36:29,14.3654694 --> 00:36:30,274.3654694 He is your king now. 427 00:36:30,334.3654694 --> 00:36:33,644.3654694 Like what? Anyways, let me do my thoughts on the book series here. 428 00:36:33,884.3654694 --> 00:36:34,514.3654694 Let me on the book. 429 00:36:35,864.3654694 --> 00:36:38,684.3654694 And so I did drop the book. 430 00:36:38,684.3654694 --> 00:36:39,974.3654694 I wanna make that very clear. 431 00:36:40,304.3654694 --> 00:36:44,204.3654694 I dropped it because I was bored, I was really bored. 432 00:36:45,494.3654694 --> 00:36:46,634.3654694 Nothing was happening. 433 00:36:47,4.3654694 --> 00:36:50,569.3654694 And I'm not very excited by cooking Boba. 434 00:36:51,654.3654694 --> 00:36:53,184.3654694 Balls, I'll be honest. 435 00:36:53,234.3654694 --> 00:36:56,474.3654694 And the action was not actioning. 436 00:36:56,834.3654694 --> 00:37:04,364.3654694 And I'll be honest, maybe I just really wasn't feeling a slice of life at the moment, but I'm not feeling a slice of life usually ever. 437 00:37:04,454.3654694 --> 00:37:06,104.3654694 So I don't know. 438 00:37:06,134.3654694 --> 00:37:09,94.3654694 Maybe it's just I don didn't wanna read that book or whatever. 439 00:37:09,524.3654694 --> 00:37:10,754.3654694 The writing's not bad. 440 00:37:11,114.3654694 --> 00:37:12,554.3654694 I actually think the writing is good. 441 00:37:13,184.3654694 --> 00:37:21,314.3654694 I think the story, it's a good concept, but I got really annoyed by the fact that no one was evil in their world. 442 00:37:21,644.3654694 --> 00:37:23,474.3654694 That everyone was just a good person. 443 00:37:23,744.3654694 --> 00:37:28,214.3654694 And it felt so unrealistic to me that I was just like, I don't understand. 444 00:37:28,244.3654694 --> 00:37:34,824.3654694 Where's all the jerks? What They just disappear? What no one ever has a bad day. 445 00:37:35,364.3654694 --> 00:37:37,479.3654694 Like what? I don't understand. 446 00:37:38,469.3654694 --> 00:37:43,129.3654694 There was a day where he thought people were having a bad day around here. 447 00:37:43,159.3654694 --> 00:37:53,459.3654694 And then it turned out that everyone was just thinking that his drinks were all also food because he told them that it was a whole entire meal. 448 00:37:53,729.3654694 --> 00:38:04,334.3654694 And so they didn't come until dinner I also didn't understand how the world, he got a boba shop up and running with so little work. 449 00:38:05,294.3654694 --> 00:38:11,354.3654694 He has a boba shop, right? This is a new creation, right? So the demon world people should be. 450 00:38:12,314.3654694 --> 00:38:15,464.3654694 A little bit fearful of trying his product. 451 00:38:15,554.3654694 --> 00:38:16,814.3654694 Let's be honest here. 452 00:38:16,924.3654694 --> 00:38:21,784.3654694 They shouldn't be like gung-ho, like being crazy about it. 453 00:38:21,814.3654694 --> 00:38:27,724.3654694 But the first time anyone ever tries it, they are just like, oh, amazing product every time. 454 00:38:27,904.3654694 --> 00:38:28,864.3654694 Amazing product. 455 00:38:28,969.3654694 --> 00:38:30,784.3654694 And I was like, dude, it's boba. 456 00:38:30,784.3654694 --> 00:38:31,624.3654694 It's pretty good. 457 00:38:31,714.3654694 --> 00:38:33,354.3654694 But I'm not going crazy. 458 00:38:34,194.3654694 --> 00:38:38,54.3654694 This is pretty good boba, but I'm not, I'm not like insane. 459 00:38:38,114.3654694 --> 00:38:39,944.3654694 I think this is insane, or anything. 460 00:38:41,24.3654694 --> 00:38:42,584.3654694 But maybe that's 'cause I tried it more. 461 00:38:42,584.3654694 --> 00:38:58,574.3654694 Anyways, all I'm trying to say is in a world like the demon world where everyone levels up by like cooking or things like that, the cooking should be so crazy that his boba, they should just be like, oh, okay. 462 00:38:58,574.3654694 --> 00:38:59,264.3654694 It's okay. 463 00:38:59,324.3654694 --> 00:38:59,984.3654694 I don't mind it. 464 00:39:00,34.3654694 --> 00:39:02,134.3654694 Like their cooking should be insane. 465 00:39:03,454.3654694 --> 00:39:08,14.3654694 That lady who was a Master Coke or whatever, her food is tasting better than Hez. 466 00:39:08,14.3654694 --> 00:39:08,404.3654694 Boba. 467 00:39:08,454.3654694 --> 00:39:09,534.3654694 Let's be clear here. 468 00:39:10,164.3654694 --> 00:39:11,64.3654694 Her food is better. 469 00:39:12,64.3654694 --> 00:39:21,514.3654694 So when a niche product opens a whole store in a town that's never tried it before, I just feel like it wouldn't do well at all. 470 00:39:21,514.3654694 --> 00:39:28,74.3654694 The first at least week and a half, they should have given him like at least a good month of no business or something. 471 00:39:29,74.3654694 --> 00:39:35,34.3654694 The thing that I wanna make clear is this a small town, like the demon world? Town didn't sound small. 472 00:39:36,34.3654694 --> 00:39:37,984.3654694 It sounds like a city. 473 00:39:38,984.3654694 --> 00:39:47,924.3654694 I wanna say though, he told everyone it was food and I just wouldn't say it was a food like, or I would say it's a dessert instead. 474 00:39:48,104.3654694 --> 00:39:49,424.3654694 I wouldn't say it's a meal. 475 00:39:49,424.3654694 --> 00:39:53,714.3654694 He said it's a meal, and I would've said it's a dessert drink. 476 00:39:54,359.3654694 --> 00:39:58,972.3654694 And I would've said that because it's like opening like a dessert shop. 477 00:39:58,972.3654694 --> 00:39:59,182.3654694 Yeah. 478 00:39:59,182.3654694 --> 00:40:04,622.3654694 That's basically what it's like opening a coffee shop and then telling everyone that it's your whole meal. 479 00:40:05,127.3654694 --> 00:40:14,597.3654694 But the weird part was I also found that people acted like it was like part of a meal. 480 00:40:15,927.3654694 --> 00:40:22,97.3654694 To me, this is just like a drink, and in their world, they were acting like, Hey, this could be partially a meal. 481 00:40:22,97.3654694 --> 00:40:24,667.3654694 And I would never consider this a meal in my life. 482 00:40:25,237.3654694 --> 00:40:26,467.3654694 This is not a meal. 483 00:40:28,557.3654694 --> 00:40:36,7.3654694 But now that I'm thinking about it, his boba wasn't originally made from Boba because he didn't have that. 484 00:40:36,7.3654694 --> 00:40:39,667.3654694 He had to start off with the bread balls, the original Boba. 485 00:40:40,287.3654694 --> 00:40:52,227.3654694 And so maybe it felt more like there was a meal in there because these were bread balls and not specifically boba balls because he didn't have boba. 486 00:40:53,127.3654694 --> 00:41:01,257.3654694 And had to make it from bread when he was starting out, so maybe it felt more of a meal at this time. 487 00:41:05,56.3654694 --> 00:41:05,746.3654694 That's true. 488 00:41:06,46.3654694 --> 00:41:06,286.3654694 Yeah. 489 00:41:07,336.3654694 --> 00:41:07,666.3654694 Yeah. 490 00:41:07,996.3654694 --> 00:41:08,961.3654694 Because he didn't have boba. 491 00:41:09,961.3654694 --> 00:41:12,661.3654694 Even though it's just mostly bots of balls. 492 00:41:14,266.3654694 --> 00:41:14,716.3654694 Okay. 493 00:41:14,716.3654694 --> 00:41:17,666.3654694 I could see how you're saying that with the bread balls there. 494 00:41:17,726.3654694 --> 00:41:18,446.3654694 Yeah, sure. 495 00:41:18,501.3654694 --> 00:41:20,691.3654694 I do have a mention on that. 496 00:41:20,691.3654694 --> 00:41:25,371.3654694 He also was the talk of the town, because he is a new guy in town. 497 00:41:25,371.3654694 --> 00:41:27,441.3654694 Think of it, they don't know who he is. 498 00:41:27,621.3654694 --> 00:41:33,726.3654694 He's the top of the town, but, so they might come for gossip, frankly, before they would come for his drink. 499 00:41:33,726.3654694 --> 00:41:43,626.3654694 So I could understand if we were in a small town, people coming for gossip, but we're not, we are in a food district city, so no one should be coming for gossip. 500 00:41:43,656.3654694 --> 00:41:45,906.3654694 They shouldn't have heard of him at all. 501 00:41:46,636.3654694 --> 00:41:57,706.3654694 If it was a small town, you come to the first opening week and then you drop off after a month and no one else comes, and then only the niche people go back to it. 502 00:41:58,756.3654694 --> 00:42:04,16.3654694 You know what I mean? I could see the other food district people like checking out the competition. 503 00:42:04,946.3654694 --> 00:42:19,225.3654694 I could see other shop owners coming by to check them out, I can see why he did well on, now I can see why he did well on like his first week or first month or whatever, but after that he should see a drop off. 504 00:42:19,315.3654694 --> 00:42:20,305.3654694 He really should. 505 00:42:21,355.3654694 --> 00:42:38,685.3654694 I think that the food district people might have come by to see his shop, and I don't know if we actually knew those people, but I think a couple of people came in because he wasn't detailing all of his customers. 506 00:42:38,745.3654694 --> 00:42:39,975.3654694 That would actually be boring. 507 00:42:40,365.3654694 --> 00:42:44,540.3654694 It was just a couple of different customer examples and. 508 00:42:45,675.3654694 --> 00:42:49,185.3654694 I think they probably would've come by like a new food stall. 509 00:42:49,455.3654694 --> 00:43:06,675.3654694 And not to mention he's a new guy starting out, and I think that if you're like new, I think that people would like drop by, find out what your kind of food is, not because it's their favorite food stall, but just because you want to try out a new thing and help out a new person. 510 00:43:07,285.3654694 --> 00:43:09,655.3654694 Because he's got in a couple of levels. 511 00:43:09,715.3654694 --> 00:43:17,455.3654694 I don't think that everyone would have actually continued to come to his store, but I'm sure they probably dropped by to check out what he. 512 00:44:02,220.3654694 --> 00:44:16,820.3654694 I think maybe the issue is that he fed all of his drinks to all the soldiers And because of that, then maybe everyone's oh, I remember that. 513 00:44:17,60.3654694 --> 00:44:21,620.3654694 I remember while we were fighting the drinks and stuff and they tasted pretty good. 514 00:44:21,620.3654694 --> 00:44:22,880.3654694 I'll go check that out again. 515 00:44:23,480.3654694 --> 00:44:23,510.3654694 I. 516 00:44:23,510.3654694 --> 00:44:37,65.3654694 So maybe it's because of the monster wave that he became more of a staple, because everyone got to try his drinks on the wall free, and so then they would remember that and then come back for that. 517 00:44:40,909.3654694 --> 00:44:43,39.3654694 He would become more of a staple after that point. 518 00:44:44,29.3654694 --> 00:44:44,239.3654694 Yeah. 519 00:44:45,239.3654694 --> 00:44:49,169.3654694 You were given like a really good energy drink, but it's boba. 520 00:44:49,349.3654694 --> 00:44:49,919.3654694 I gotcha. 521 00:44:49,949.3654694 --> 00:44:50,279.3654694 Okay. 522 00:44:50,279.3654694 --> 00:44:56,99.3654694 I can see how he built his business, but I also it at the same time. 523 00:44:56,99.3654694 --> 00:44:59,819.3654694 It feels so unrealistic to be able to build a business like that. 524 00:44:59,819.3654694 --> 00:45:01,199.3654694 Then I'm like, I don't know. 525 00:45:02,199.3654694 --> 00:45:06,759.3654694 He was able to make actual like a boba that tastes like boba. 526 00:45:07,674.3654694 --> 00:45:14,994.3654694 Because I'll be honest, with bread balls, boba, I probably wouldn't go back if it was bread balls. 527 00:45:15,54.3654694 --> 00:45:15,924.3654694 I'll be honest. 528 00:45:16,144.3654694 --> 00:45:16,834.3654694 I'm sorry. 529 00:45:16,834.3654694 --> 00:45:22,919.3654694 I looked it up and it was like, oh, the first bubble was made with bread balls, and I was like, shocking. 530 00:45:23,279.3654694 --> 00:45:24,899.3654694 But also, this is great. 531 00:45:27,399.3654694 --> 00:45:40,689.3654694 Of course at the end, his boba tea shop turns into more like a coffee shop 'cause they can mix and match the flavors and some creatures won't like certain flavors and stuff like that. 532 00:45:40,689.3654694 --> 00:45:43,539.3654694 So he learns how to stereotype them correctly. 533 00:45:43,989.3654694 --> 00:45:50,749.3654694 And how certain demons don't like those sweetness factors. 534 00:45:50,749.3654694 --> 00:45:54,199.3654694 They like more savory items or whatever, but everyone looks. 535 00:45:54,709.3654694 --> 00:46:04,29.3654694 Learns how to do a mix and match, like a coffee shop with your own specialized drink and style and details and a list of things you want in it. 536 00:46:04,328.3654694 --> 00:46:09,768.3654694 Makes sense For a boba, I'm sure there was mix and match when you got these. 537 00:46:09,773.3654694 --> 00:46:13,608.3654694 I'll be honest I didn't ask her for mix and match. 538 00:46:13,608.3654694 --> 00:46:16,908.3654694 I just said, get me these three types of milk teas. 539 00:46:17,673.3654694 --> 00:46:18,543.3654694 And that was it. 540 00:46:18,573.3654694 --> 00:46:35,253.3654694 I guess I could have probably said because the lady who was running the Boba tea shop, who decided to write an xo, fan fiction about it she went into details about how all the people could come into the shop and say, I want my Bobo without any sugar. 541 00:46:35,343.3654694 --> 00:46:39,183.3654694 I want my Bobo with 70% less sugar than you normally do. 542 00:46:39,213.3654694 --> 00:46:42,3.3654694 I want it with 30% less sugar than you normally do. 543 00:46:42,3.3654694 --> 00:46:42,63.3654694 Yeah. 544 00:46:42,193.3654694 --> 00:47:03,312.3654694 And she had coconut milk and almond milk and all this range, I would also say that I am confused about how in the worlds, because it just feels like everyone in this entire industry, or everyone in the food district and other districts should be getting levels like crazy, with the amount of food that you pass out. 545 00:47:03,342.3654694 --> 00:47:06,882.3654694 The lady who's like a master chef or whatever. 546 00:47:07,692.3654694 --> 00:47:15,72.3654694 Like all I'm saying is she should be able to do the equivalent of what he can do with Boba, with her food, yeah. 547 00:47:15,72.3654694 --> 00:47:15,757.3654694 I think she can. 548 00:47:16,757.3654694 --> 00:47:24,617.3654694 She feels the lady from Encanto she can like the mother could feed food to people and they would just be completely healed. 549 00:47:25,742.3654694 --> 00:47:26,732.3654694 And I was like, okay. 550 00:47:27,732.3654694 --> 00:47:35,197.3654694 So what I am questioning here is if someone else made straws, would they also gain those levels or would they Not anymore because that guy did. 551 00:47:36,347.3654694 --> 00:47:50,197.3654694 But would they get the same amount of levels or does the benefit of being first to make it you get a benefit? Because he's like the first one inventing a machine, he gets a larger amount of experience for it. 552 00:47:50,197.3654694 --> 00:47:53,587.3654694 So the thing that's a different is. 553 00:47:54,232.3654694 --> 00:48:02,332.3654694 Is, yes, other people could also start making metal straws because that's not a thing that they wouldn't be able to make. 554 00:48:02,332.3654694 --> 00:48:11,667.3654694 But because he's the one making these straws and people are using them and he's the first one to make these, he's getting a greater amount of experience for it. 555 00:48:12,292.3654694 --> 00:48:17,602.3654694 It actually might have been like revealed later in book two, so I'm just not quite sure. 556 00:48:20,272.3654694 --> 00:48:23,242.3654694 Also gaining them a ton of levels as well as him. 557 00:48:23,242.3654694 --> 00:48:34,42.3654694 So every like new Boba, he invents and people start buying, gets him experience or the amount of bobas that he's selling is getting him experience. 558 00:48:34,402.3654694 --> 00:48:46,902.3654694 So the same thing happens when people use your tools and because he's making, like his smithing friend is making these straws and he's making these machines to make boba and everything like that. 559 00:48:46,932.3654694 --> 00:48:49,452.3654694 Then he's getting a ton more experience. 560 00:48:49,842.3654694 --> 00:48:53,592.3654694 And then the same with the other friends that he's also using their abilities. 561 00:48:53,652.3654694 --> 00:48:57,342.3654694 But other people can also use metal straws as well. 562 00:48:57,372.3654694 --> 00:48:58,212.3654694 I think most. 563 00:48:58,752.3654694 --> 00:49:07,422.3654694 Experience that people would be getting would be, of course if you are a Smith, you would be making swords and then someone would go kill monsters with it. 564 00:49:07,812.3654694 --> 00:49:10,602.3654694 And that would give you a ton of experience, obviously. 565 00:49:11,382.3654694 --> 00:49:16,152.3654694 So I think most people were just focused on that rather than making straws, if that makes sense. 566 00:49:17,342.3654694 --> 00:49:17,622.3654694 Yeah. 567 00:49:17,962.3654694 --> 00:49:21,592.3654694 To be fair to the book, I will give it credence. 568 00:49:21,862.3654694 --> 00:49:29,612.3654694 It gives a whole lot more explanation for a cooking story than I've seen in a lot of other cooking stories. 569 00:49:29,712.3654694 --> 00:49:30,792.3654694 For cooking stories. 570 00:49:30,792.3654694 --> 00:49:34,602.3654694 They're very like transport to another world cooking story specifically. 571 00:49:34,992.3654694 --> 00:49:36,552.3654694 They're very iffy. 572 00:49:36,912.3654694 --> 00:49:40,272.3654694 On how they have someone invent foods. 573 00:49:40,332.3654694 --> 00:49:48,552.3654694 Like boba tea seems like something that you could perceivably, invent for a medieval world, which is usually what you're transported into. 574 00:49:49,92.3654694 --> 00:49:58,652.3654694 But as I've read in other books not to tarnish it too much, but the Wandering Inn has someone inventing ice cream. 575 00:49:59,492.3654694 --> 00:50:06,272.3654694 And the dumb part of it really is that they already have frozen desserts. 576 00:50:07,327.3654694 --> 00:50:08,387.3654694 So they have gelato. 577 00:50:08,732.3654694 --> 00:50:13,802.3654694 So the only thing they're really doing is the process itself of making ice cream. 578 00:50:14,312.3654694 --> 00:50:22,832.3654694 It was like something that they were so on the cusp of having that it shouldn't have been surprising or shocking at, at all. 579 00:50:22,952.3654694 --> 00:50:27,542.3654694 And gelato is not that different tasting than ice cream, right? I'm sorry. 580 00:50:27,547.3654694 --> 00:50:28,232.3654694 It's not, it's really not. 581 00:50:28,811.3654694 --> 00:50:37,1.3654694 Anyways, because they brought, because there were frozen desserts on their northern continent, and they were brought to where they were. 582 00:50:38,171.3654694 --> 00:50:46,451.3654694 So it's not that they couldn't do it, it was just, I don't know. 583 00:50:47,451.3654694 --> 00:51:06,771.3654694 I was a little bit bored by the book, but if you do like slice of life and that kind of genre and that cozy fantasy sort of feeling, this definitely has that, and it's definitely not going to scare you, frighten you, or give you a bad time in those aspects. 584 00:51:07,531.3654694 --> 00:51:13,981.3654694 To be perfectly honest it's not as good as like my favorite cozy fantasy, but it's still good. 585 00:51:14,951.3654694 --> 00:51:17,831.3654694 I'd say a five out of 10 for me personally. 586 00:51:17,861.3654694 --> 00:51:20,321.3654694 'cause I just dropped it 'cause I was bored. 587 00:51:20,531.3654694 --> 00:51:24,876.3654694 So yeah I would say I had a good time with it. 588 00:51:25,146.3654694 --> 00:51:26,586.3654694 So a 7.5 589 00:51:26,586.3654694 --> 00:51:27,876.3654694 and at times an eight. 590 00:51:28,696.3654694 --> 00:51:29,506.3654694 7.5 591 00:51:29,506.3654694 --> 00:51:30,166.3654694 out of 10. 592 00:51:30,586.3654694 --> 00:51:35,176.3654694 And at times and moments in the story, an eight out of 10. 593 00:51:35,366.3654694 --> 00:51:37,91.3654694 'Cause I pretty much enjoyed it. 594 00:51:37,141.3654694 --> 00:51:46,681.3654694 I only had a brief time period where I wasn't listening to it, and then when I got back on the story I was like, oh yeah, I really like this. 595 00:51:46,801.3654694 --> 00:51:54,931.3654694 I don't know, maybe there was like a boring part slightly in it for me when he was discussing how he was literally making the boba. 596 00:51:55,291.3654694 --> 00:51:59,11.3654694 But other than that, I actually think it was pretty good. 597 00:51:59,11.3654694 --> 00:52:01,821.3654694 And I really enjoy a slice of life, all right. 598 00:52:01,991.3654694 --> 00:52:03,791.3654694 This has been the Uncultured podcast. 599 00:52:03,971.3654694 --> 00:52:04,601.3654694 Swines out. 600 00:52:05,651.3654694 --> 00:52:06,141.3654694 Goodbye.