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Hello, Kakos Industries shareholders, it's

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Conrad again. This is not

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a cover story, it's an AMA. I

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asked Patreon patrons to ask

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me anything, and we're about to do that.

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Why did I do this? Because it's an excuse

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to mention the Patreon. Head to

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KakosIndustries.com slash

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Patreon to contribute to this project,

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and I will be forever thankful.

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I know that is tight for

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everyone right now, but it really helps

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me out a great deal and makes this

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project possible.

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The monthly total has fallen a bit

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recently. I have not been pushing

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things, because I know that the pandemic

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was hard on everyone, but

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I am asking again. Please,

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let me know what you want from me. It's

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because of all of you that I

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do this thing, and I am at your

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disposal.

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Question 1.

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Where do you see Kakos Industries

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and future projects taking you? Do

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you feel burned out on Kakos, or

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have you rediscovered your passion for

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it?

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So, I thought a lot

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about how I wanted to answer this question,

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and I think that I keep

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getting caught up on my thoughts about audio

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drama and the media industry

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at large, but I get further up

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on not really feeling like

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I'm fully qualified to comment

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on those things. You can let me know if

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you really want to hear those thoughts. I'll

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try to keep my answer short. I

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want to start by saying that I am incredibly

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lucky and thankful to have

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you listening to this thing that I do, or

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watching it on YouTube now that I've started

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doing video. Not everyone who

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comes up with a funny idea for a story

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ends up with an audience for that story,

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and I am extremely fortunate for that. I

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was curious, so I looked into it, and

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as of right now, Kakos Industries is about,

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three days long? 72 hours. That's longer

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than Gilligan's Island by

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about 24 hours. I

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don't have an exact word count for Kakos

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Industries, but it's probably in the 600,000 words

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range. That's almost three times

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the length of Moby Dick. That's

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longer than the complete works of

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HP Lovecraft.

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Obviously,

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these things can't be directly compared,

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but I thought it was interesting

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all the same. I think sometimes

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about the length of Kakos and how it's been

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going for almost a decade, and I wonder

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all kinds of things about it. How long

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should it be? How long should it run

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for? But I think the truth

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of the matter is that there are no rules for

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a story like this. It is a new media

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product that exists because of the

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internet. There isn't much

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in its category to compare it

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to either.

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You can go for as long as I want

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it to, and it can go for as long as all

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of you are willing to tolerate my foolishness.

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So the reality is that I don't know where it's

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going to take me. It is

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far more difficult to get an audience

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doing audio drama stuff now

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than it was in 2014 when

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I started. It is likely

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to remain difficult, though I do know some

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incredibly smart people who are working on ways

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to change that. I'll name drop

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one Evo Terra's The End

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.fyi is a great list

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of completed audio drama podcasts. The

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irony is that he can never feature

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Kakos Industries because it is ongoing.

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It's really, really hard to get

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your audience to check out your second

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or third projects in this medium

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with the same excitement they have

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for your first project. For that

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reason, it is very difficult for me

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to invest a lot of myself in new

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audio drama projects. I

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think going forward, at least for the

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time being, my focus will have to be on

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Kakos Industries and writing

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for other formats. Though

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I do have one more audio drama

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project I'm working on that's going to be pretty

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rad, I think. As

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for burnout, dog, I've been burnt

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out since I was like four.

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I'm trying to take better

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care of myself, though. The

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support of you Patreon patrons

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definitely makes things a lot easier.

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Question

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two. Who is your favorite character in Kakos

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Industries? And a non-Kakos question

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if I'm allowed to. Favorite song.

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Okay, so superlatives are always

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difficult, but I'm a big fan of

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anything Anwar Newton does. You

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also have to love soundmen and

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violet. As for

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favorite song, that's a really difficult one.

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I'm going to go with The End of the Tour

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by They Might Be Giants. That can't

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possibly be correct, but I said it.

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Question three. How is the

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character of Korin Death

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the Third grown with you over time? Well,

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the convenient thing about making a character

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exactly your age who starts doing a new

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thing and is a little bit awkward at it to start

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with is that the character evolves exactly

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as it should. I know that I've gotten

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a lot more confident in my portrayal

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of the character alongside Korin's

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growing confidence in his role as CEO, and

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probably at about the same pace.

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It took me some time to find

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the character, but I really enjoy playing

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him now. Question

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four. How big is it? It

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is so unimaginably

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large. You cannot fathom

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the sheer gravity of it. It

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is everywhere, always,

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and in everything. You cannot

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escape it. It is so heavy

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that it weighs down everything. It

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slows everything down.

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Even the knowledge of it takes

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a toll on you. For the

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rest of your life. I'm

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sorry, what were we talking about? Question 5.

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How many yous do you think you would need to

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get all of the things you want to get done,

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done?

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Well, you see, this is a trick question,

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because if there are more me's, then

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they will also have ideas and hopes

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and dreams, and this number will

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spiral out of control exponentially. Assuming

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that all of the additional me's are strictly

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yoked to my will, then

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maybe Until I get greedy,

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I would probably run out of ideas around 10-15

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subjugated Conrads. Okay,

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and those are all of the questions I received.

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I'm definitely not against doing this

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again soon, so please let me know

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if you have any more questions. Let me know

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on Patreon if you want me to feel really special.

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Until next time, thank you for listening.

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If you feel so inclined and you are able to do so,

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I'd really appreciate you going to KakosIndustries.com

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and pledging a bit to help

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me keep this thing going.