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Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello, and welcome to episode 431 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Daniel Green.

He runs a popular YouTube channel with almost 200,000 subscribers,

which focuses on fantasy authors such as Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson, and Jim Butcher.

He also has over 800 supporters on Patreon, and last year he was able to quit his job as a software engineer

and make YouTube his full-time job.

He also just launched a new podcast, a fictional conversation, with his friend Bobby O'Donnell.

And now here's our interview with Daniel Green.

All right, so we're here with Daniel Green and welcome to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

Okay, so how did you first get interested in fantasy and science fiction?

So my interest in sci-fi fantasy kind of started way back before I could even read. My dad would just read to me non-stop. I like to call it brainwashing, but it was very effective. And ever since since then it's just kind of been a part of my life and I was fortunate enough through the hobby of YouTube to kind of make it my full-time job.

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