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Hey, everybody. Welcome to Uncle Dad Talks. You know, it's been a long time, actually.
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It's been a while since we've done an in-line episode of Uncle Dad Talks with
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not only Uncle Dad, but also the man, the myth legend, the pickleball legend himself.
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Give it up for Mike Hampton.
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Well, I've got to actually play pickleball to be a pickleball champion.
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So I'll start working on that since that's now my new title.
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Moniker. Moniker. Sure.
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Pre-name announcement.
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Exactly, yes. You're the man of many names, my sir.
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You know, we have a very special episode today, but before we get to that,
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I want to address something that we're working on that's a little bit,
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well, it's very much close to your heart and close to mine as well.
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Mike, we are currently raising funds for people who have been affected by Hurricane Helene.
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I kind of want to hand that over to you and talk about where the funds are going
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and what we're doing for that. Is that cool, sir?
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Yeah, so many of you have been listening, hopefully listened to our On Location
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Asheville episode where we went kind of all over Asheville, North Carolina.
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And if you've been alive in the United States the past month,
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you've probably heard that Asheville was completely devastated and destroyed by Hurricane Helene.
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And one of the segments on our Asheville episode was my sister who has been
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running the Biltmore Village for 12 years or something. Something like that.
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And if you've also seen any of the news, and if not, the Biltmore Village was
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completely, completely destroyed by the floods out there in Asheville. So there's no work.
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And there's a full staff of people that all depend on their working wage.
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And now there's no one going to Asheville.
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So what we're trying to do is help out my sister who's been on the show a couple
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times, also on her Burning Man episode.
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So she runs that in and help her and her employees kind of,
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Be able to make a living and pay rent and sustain themselves through this really challenging time.
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So we're looking to raise money and we have a link where you can donate to help.
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Because folks can't work, they're not getting paid, but rent still do.
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And they still need to buy groceries and gas and all the essentials that you
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would normally get from a paycheck, which now is not coming.
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So yeah, we put that together. Yeah. So if you guys go to paypal.me forward
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slash uncle dad helps or go to our Instagram at uncle dad talks,
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click the link in the bio.
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Any amount is appreciated. Of course, anything you can afford right now. Look, we get it.
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Things are expensive all across
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the world. But whatever you whatever you can give, that'll be great.
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We appreciate any help you can give to help those who need it right now. additionally for
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every ten dollars that you donate you will be entered in
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to be represented for our special halloween
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episode as you know i always do big on halloween and
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this one is probably one of the biggest line of people i've
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ever gotten together to help raise funds and awareness
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of what's going on right now so we will have team
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alumni which will feature myself uncle dad cali
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arts and a mystery guest we haven't confirmed him yet but well hopefully
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it's a who i think it is and of course we
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have team i said team alumni i'm sorry that's not
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team alumni team uncle dad team alumni or team
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celebrity as i like to call them we will have rough and
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prentice the third back on who plays the voice of retro watchdogs 2 we will
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have minson park and teddy tenenbaum back who did hulu halloween we will also
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have professional bmx writer and paralympian kurt yeager back on all representing
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to raise awareness and funds well obviously having a good time doing it.
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And our thing is that if you donate and you get entered, you'll actually be
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represented by one of our both teams, either Team Uncle Dad,
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Team Alumni, and Mike, tell them what the grand prize is.
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Well, the grand prize is an original piece of art from, uh, from Callie Dunlap.
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And for those of you who are not familiar or haven't seen her art on any of
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the stuff that we've promoted, check her out on, uh, on our website,
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which is CallieDunlapArt.com or on Instagram at Callie Dunlap Art.
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At Callie Dunlap Art, indeed. Yes, it's going to be, it's going to be a fun
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time, you know, and it's just a great point to be, you know,
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we don't know what you got until it's gone.
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Kind of thing you know so please get out there support us
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uh support support the arts support the support local
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wages you know like i mean it's tough man it's a tough thing to go
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through i mean it's very unfortunate so me and
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mike are all about it and you'll probably be seeing a lot of this promotion
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on our instagram so please donate support help each other out because who can
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help each other out if we don't help each other out is that right mike that's
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right that's right very right oh all right oh that'll be my new moniker help each other out mike.
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Now we got that out the way but again one last time go to that link paypal.me
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forward slash uncle dad helps or click the link in the bio at uncle dad talks
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on instagram all right mike now that we got that out the way let's talk about
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fun things yeah that's heavy,
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that is heavy it's heavy but there is some fun out there
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and right now there's a new product coming out from hunter products now
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i got to speak to the product manager
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from this australian toy company now i'll
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just give you a little guys a little back backstory they're called hunter products
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hunter products is a global company that designs develops and manufactures a
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wide range of products including toys sporting goods fitness equipment and aquatic
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accessories now we all know mike loves aquatic accessories yeah that's part
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of my moniker aquatic accessory mike.
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What are your top three aquatic accessories yeah snorkel yeah snorkel flaps and a fin,
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hunting products also has a diverse portfolio of products that cater to various
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markets and age groups now here's a cool thing uh not only are we going to talk about the harajuku,
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sorry not the shiba juku sorry let me phrase that the shiba juku doll they actually
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also have and arguably one of the best players in the NBA and,
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you know, ex-NBA players, a legend in his own right.
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They have the official Shaquille O'Neal Shaq ball basketball.
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Mike, what's your thoughts on that?
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Well, you know, I'm a big NBA guy and also a big Sacramento Kings fan.
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And, you know, Shaq is one of the longtime hated, even though he did come back
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for a while, was like some kind of minority owner of the Kings.
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He's still an enemy but I think it's great because you know Shaq's really dipping
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his toe into a lot of different merchandising things I think there's Shaq,
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I saw Shaq meat at the grocery store. You're kidding. You're kidding.
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Is that true? I'm not kidding. That's absolutely true.
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So you can eat some Shaq meat while you play with your new Shaq ball from Hunter.
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Oh, my God. I love that. Okay. Well, they got the Shaq basketball collection,
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so please go check that out.
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What we're talking about is the Shiba Juku anime doll. Now, the Shiba Juku line came out in 2017.
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It was always like fashion forward affordability, a great thing.
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And you'll learn all about that in my interview because I spoke with Madeline,
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or she likes to go by as Mads from Hunter Products.
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Now, Mike, this is actually a family owned and operated company in Australia.
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So how cool is that? This family owned company is making deals with Shaq in
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Australia, giving the Americans some awesome stuff.
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I mean yeah that's a globalization right there
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if i've ever heard of it but awesome well you know and the nba has
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done a lot to like really really have a global audience so it looks like it's
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glad to hear it's working absolutely and also they're making dolls about japanese
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culture and it's australia you know what i mean it's amazing and this doll you
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know and again we talk all about it in this episode but mike i'm curious you're
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not really a big anime guy but I do believe you like toys.
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I've collected toys. I, you know, I was just moving stuff around in a storage
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today and I've got a lot of ridiculous toys that I don't know if I can really
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get rid of. I just, I just have them.
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Yeah. What is your favorite doll you ever had?
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Yeah. You know, like I was always more of an action figure guy.
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And so they're not really dolls i guess
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people could probably look at them and say they're dolls to
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if saying you have a doll is something that
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you would want to make fun of i don't know but i
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was always more about more of action figure guy could you consider action figures
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dolls i think some people would but like remember the old gi joe's right those
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were dolls technically they weren't action figures they were big ass dolls you
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know and then like the six million dollar man that was a doll right yeah Yeah,
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there was the Spider-Man that was more like a doll with the fabric of suit. Yeah, the Migos? Yeah.
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Yeah. I didn't have any of those.
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But you know what I did like to do with dolls? So my sister was a couple years
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younger than me, and she was a big Barbie gal, as I guess most girls are at some point.
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Anyways, I used to take her Barbie heads off the Barbie dolls,
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take the can of heads off the Ken dolls and switch them so that the Ken head
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was on the Barbie body and vice versa.
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And that would freak her out and make her cry.
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I don't know. But you know, you're kind of a forward thinker.
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Yes, you're right. Yeah. Yeah.
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This is, this is okay. This is what's going to, this is what's going to happen.
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What a cute story that is. I hope, I hope you listen to this and like, remember that.
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Yeah. That's so funny. But yes. So, you know, really, I don't really got much
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else to say, but cause we talked about all the episode, but Mike,
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you know, you weren't there for this one because you're you're busy you know hooting and
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hollering and uh but uh
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we've had a lot of great fun coming up i do want you
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to announce uh that we will be at designer con mike how
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excited are you about that super stoked yeah i've always
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wanted to go finally going can't wait yeah
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it's been a lot of fun if you are going to be at designer con you listen to
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the show uh please email me at uncle dad uncle dad talks.com
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i would love to see if we can set something up for they would do an
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interview with you and talk about your art at designer con
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because we're going to be basically there or we are just there for press and uh
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we have the full team there because last year it was
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just me but we got the full team there so it's
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gonna be a it's gonna be a good time mike we'll talk
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designs we'll talk yeah we'll talk designs right
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and i guess that's all i got mike mike do
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you got anything else well just just you know
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thank you everybody for listening yeah please if you
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listen to our talk earlier about the ashville benefit that
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we're doing please check that out you know it'd be really great to have you
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help us and my sister also who was also not just traumatized by the hurricane
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helene but also traumatized by my head swapping doll action in the late 80s
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early 90s the original hurricane mike yeah.
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Swapping heads cool but yeah swapping swapping heads Mike yeah swapping heads Mike,
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how many monitors did you guys count in this episode oh,
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but alright everybody enjoy the interview and we'll see you all next week and
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next week we will record our Halloween special which will come out on Halloween
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of course but please again like Mike said go out there please support the cause
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help us out and you can be a part of this episode and have the opportunity to
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get some really great stuff out of it as well.
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So thank you guys. And remember, we're not uncles, we're not dads.
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We're just someone you can talk to. We'll see you all next week.
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Hey, this is Dan Brerton, creator of The Nocturnals, the spookiest comic this
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side of the cemetery hill.
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And you're listening to The Uncle Dad Talks Show.
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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Uncle Dad Talks. I am a solo Uncle Dad,
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just Uncle Dad himself, hanging out with somebody very cool who works in a very cool industry.
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Let's give it up for Mads of Hunter Products. Hunter Products, correct?
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Yes, that's correct. Thanks for having me. Yes. Thank you for being here. Let's just kick it off.
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How cool is it that you get to work in the industry of toys?
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It's pretty cool it's really cool it's very
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weird sometimes but it's awesome
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just like i'm just a big kid and grew up
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love it and like
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how surreal must it be sometimes right when you're like wow this is what i do
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for a living you know i mean i get to you know work on these these these these
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properties and kind of bring people's imagination to life that must be something
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that you never thought i mean i guess in your particular case it might you might
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have thought that would happen but But it's a family-owned company, right?
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It is, yeah. No, it's crazy because a lot of my job, I'm allowed to sort of
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come up with what I just think of at nighttime or something.
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So, you know, one day I'll be working on like a giant llama that eats and talks and poops.
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And then, you know, the next day I'll be working on something like Shaquille
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O'Neal basketballs or something.
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So it's weird when people say, oh, how was your day?
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What did you? what it has work going and i have to say oh the llama's going
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well and you know hanging out with shack.
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That's amazing so specifically today we're talking about a very specific toy
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line that to my understanding hasn't been brought back since 2017 is that correct
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that's correct yes yes and that is the she is it pronounced shibajuku shibajuku
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yes very good yes awesome and they see The Shibujuku doll,
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I guess if you can just kind of tell our audience what exactly is this doll
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and what is the style of the doll?
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So originally the doll seven years ago was based on Harajuku fashion in Japan.
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So the name sort of is a bit of a merger between Shibuya and Harajuku,
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which are both places in Japan.
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And it was all based on all the different kinds of crazy fashion you see,
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you know, from Sweet Lolita to Gothier to Decorah.
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We had five key styles that we identified.
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And from then on, it was a huge success back seven years ago.
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Nothing like what we ever imagined. So that was really remarkable.
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From then on, we approached Walmart.
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We're always meeting with them regularly now, which even sounds surreal to say.
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But they said to us, you know, we loved Shibajuku.
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We want to bring it back, but we want to bring it back a bit more moody and
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a bit more, you know, darker and a bit, you know,
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Wednesday Addams kind of anime feel to it
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because that's obviously really trending at the moment as
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well as all things Japanese like Hello Kitty's coming
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back so they thought it was a great time and
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we thought that is you know brilliant idea so
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together we developed the new range of
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Shibujuku anime dolls and they're
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reinvented slightly so we've done the eyes a
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lot darker and heavier we've done like a
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heavier lash and darker packaging and
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more cooler sort of you know olivia
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rodrigo style outfits as well so just
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being a bit almost going a little bit older with
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them i think yeah you know i and
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that's kind of what i've noticed too it when looking at the older ones and to
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what you have guys coming out now is that there does seem to be more of a modern
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gothic adult look to it and i hope that's not like a bad thing to say but it
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does feel very much like a it feels like a like an upgraded collectible in many
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ways and And I think that's going to really just show very well for those who
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collect that type of thing.
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And, you know, we cover a lot of different subjects, and anime is one of those.
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And I feel like anime fans are very big on eyes specifically.
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Right? The eyes are so specific.
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And the thing that caught my attention about this doll here is that it uses
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real eyelashes. Is that true?
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Yes, real fake eyelashes.
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Okay. Sure, sure, right.
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Not everyone these days. Right. Yeah, but I think that's such an important detail, though.
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I mean, it elevates everything, right? Like it makes it more,
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I don't know, like a premium product more so than it was before.
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I don't know. Would you agree with that?
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Definitely, yeah. A lot of dolls just have painted on lashes.
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And these dolls, I keep looking to my left because I've got one sitting here,
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but these dolls really have a more realistic sort of look to their eye.
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And they're also very articulated. So they have 11 points of articulation,
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which means you can sort of do all the little poses with their hands,
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which is very popular in Harajuku as well.
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So it does definitely have that collect-a-doll feel, but at an affordable price,
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which is very important these days.
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Yeah, and can we say what that price is?
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Yeah, so they're currently available at Walmart and it's 1998,
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maybe, I think I want to say, at Walmart USA. It sounds about right, yeah.
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So yeah, really affordable compared to the sorts of dolls like this that you do see in the market.
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Totally, and I think what's great about that too is that since it's such an
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affordable price, do we have accessories available for purchase as well?
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We are doing mini little shibat
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chibis they're called and so they're like
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a six inch doll that will be coming out and we're
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working on some fashion packs as well to go alongside because
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that's you know the funnest part and we
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did did launch fashion packs the first time around so keep
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an eye out for those definitely that's amazing
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and i think this this should really be like one of the biggest properties
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or biggest toys for the holiday right the holiday is
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getting close for us here and you know i'm
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curious do you think people are going to be interested in
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it because they're they're fans of anime anime culture japanese
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culture or just straight up because it's a well-designed product
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i think a little bit of both actually probably
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a little bit more of the whole anime trend at the moment definitely but i think
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one of the reasons we were able to sell this doll in so well the first time
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around is it's very striking the minute you look at it is sort of like captivated
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mainly by the eyes, I think.
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And so I think grandmas or parents who might not know much about the anime trend
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will also look at it and say, oh, that's a beautiful doll.
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And hopefully pick a few up. I love it. And are you a fan yourself of Japanese
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culture or anime specifically?
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Absolutely. Japanese, everything Japanese. I've always loved it.
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I studied Japanese at school. It was my favorite subject.
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And I just love Japan. I love Japanese food, Japanese people, everything.
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So that's where I came from. So I have to ask you this then.
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What is your favorite Japanese dish to eat?
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Well everything sushi,
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great handshake i'm i'm actually pregnant and i'm not supposed to eat sushi and i'm just like.
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What do you do right that's amazing uh
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and we're going to talk about the toys that you have those two are the
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ones that are next to you i just can't see but the ones that are next to you those are
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currently available those are named two different dolls
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can you describe the dolls to her audience at all like as
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far as like the different packages yes we've got kiki and
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akira so walmart wanted to
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go with both sort of the darker style clothing so
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you know akira has a beautiful
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sort of like gothic lolita dress on
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which is really a lot of detail in in
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and a lot of prints like little skeletons and little lace
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trims and she's got black white stripy socks
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she's got bright green hair which is really cool um
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and her eyes are very blue and then
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we've got kiki who's more of a yellow and black sort of school almost like a
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school girl outfit she's got a little tie and she's got you know a frilly skirt
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with the lace trim as well and she's got these little angel clips in her hair
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angel wing clips which are very popular as well.
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So they're very detailed. She's got yellow eyes to match as well,
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which is something different. We didn't really do that the first time around.
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We did have one doll that had two different colored eyes, like one green and one blue.
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But the colors themselves weren't eccentric like yellow eyes,
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which are a bit more of an anime look and feel.
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Yeah, for sure. So what would you say is the biggest challenge or what was the
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biggest challenge of bringing this property back? Oh, pricing.
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Pricing is difficult. I mean, just with what's going on at the moment and all
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the years that have passed, you know, there's a certain ceiling that you can't go over at retail.
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And so just working with a new factory and just, you know, looking at all sorts
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of different things, fabrics, materials,
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like the hair quality, all of that, to see what can be done to hit the price
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that people will be willing to pay.
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So definitely a lot of interest. okay and
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you know i i think i feel like i would do
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you think we'll ever see the shiba juku jaws maybe
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with some licensed material at all oh definitely
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be open to it we that would be amazing yeah
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that would be very very cool that i just think that'd that'd be amazing and
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we have a big licensing portfolio at the moment yeah it's always something where
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we've got our eyes peeled for so definitely definitely open to it maybe you
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guys can do a shiva juku shack doll.
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That'll be that special limited edition run,
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well mads before we wrap up i i just wanted you
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make sure like i i really can't stress enough to our audience
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how cool this thing is i mean it really is something that you
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know i don't think it matters what gender you are i think as long
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as you're you are into whatever you're into it's awesome go get
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out there and support that this this doll specifically has
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such a vibrant life and look to it and i really think
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it's going to hit so well with with any audience and any
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gender and i i hope that we can
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see more of dolls like this with that unique
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anime type style with but also with
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the big thing to me is like you're making it at an affordable price
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point so everybody it can be included and i
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think that's so important so thank you for doing that and i
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guess my last one of my last questions for you is what do you hope like what
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do you hope to see online with people buying these toys do you want to see them
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like just being played with do you want to see them like people taking photos
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like and doing like their own like fashion shoots what would you hope to see online,
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Well, the first time around, I just spent so much of my life online,
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like, reading what people were saying.
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And I loved it. They were actually removing their makeup and redoing their own looks as well.
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Like, I don't know how, I don't know what they were doing with,
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but that was really cool to see.
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But definitely, you know, playing around with the outfits, mixing and matching
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them and seeing what different styles they can come up with.
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And and also just posing them they
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had the cutest poses the first time around like you'd
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see shibajuku girls dressed up for halloween you'd see them you know having
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a little coffee or you'd see them at the eiffel tower there were just so many
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cute things that people did with the dolls that i'm hoping happens again because
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it was just really fun to watch the passionate fans out there.
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I love that and creativity is so endless with like
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in today's world too with like figures right there's so many
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people taking these like in-depth photos of
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like photo shoots with their figures and i think you know
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that's one thing that draw me to this too is that i feel like shimajuku
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has so much endless possibility of what you could take photos
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with it in like you know you could bring it to you on vacation and make a whole
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vacation shoot you go to las vegas you can make a casino shoot right there's
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so much you can do with this figure and this doll and i'm so excited to see
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the creativity that comes from it i guess before we wrap up like one more time
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can you tell audience where they can learn more about your guys'
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products and where they can buy the Shibajuku doll.
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Yeah, so the Shibajuku dolls are available at Walmart exclusively in the US and they're $19.98.
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Don't 100% quote me on the scent there, but I'm pretty sure.
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And you can find out more about us as a company on our website,
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which is www.hunterproducts.com.au for Australia.
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Awesome everybody go check it out really i think
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you guys are going to love this product and if you don't check it out i'm gonna be very
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sad because we all want to support all creators of any type and this is one
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that you should support so mads thank you so much for your time i really can't
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tell you thank you enough i'm so excited to to get our doll maybe take it on
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some photo shoots ourselves you know we do a lot of conventions so maybe that's
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our convention doll you know,
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that'd be awesome well thank you so much for having me as well you're very fun
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to talk to so thank you i absolutely appreciate that and everybody go check them out.
