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[Assistant] And M and M and Snoop and everything. It was really good.


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[Assistant] Really, really well done. I loved the, uh, like, like lots of great, uhm, tracks, but also like just the set and the dancing and everything. It was just, uh, just such a great show. Like they're just- It was a really clever set. It was really good. Yeah, really good. Uhm, so yeah, so Adele, if you're listening, maybe, uhm, you know, take some, take some pointers.


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[Assistant] An epic journey of stick, trying to find his lost hoop.


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[Assistant] The trifles podcast. Thank you. I've just woken up. Sips, how are you doing? I've also just woken up. Uhm, well, you've had COVID this week.


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[Assistant] I just assumed you'd been infected. No. That's amazing. No. Uhm, how are you P-Flex? You feeling good?


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[Assistant] It's absolutely bonkers. It's wild, isn't it? It's really weird, like, the... I dunno how much of that is just, um, bad luck, or the fact that you're talking about it.


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[Assistant] And having a, having an old, old relative like that's a little bit like having a fragile pet, you know, that you have to kind of drive them around to make sure they're okay. You have to like put them in, take them to the vet more regularly. Yeah, I could see that.


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[Assistant] Half an hour long documentary, but it's sort of dragged out to eight hours of, uhm, fairly mediocre TV.


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[Assistant] But, Julia Garner's great, as this kind of weird...


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[Assistant] Like yeaah. It's kind of like, and it's come out at the same time as the Tinder Swindler, uhm, on Netflix as well, which is this kind of thing that's sort of taken, taken on a bit of its own. Is it you? Are you the Tinder Swindler? Well no, so he's a sort of similar guy who's kind of, his thing, his scam, is a little bit like, uhm...


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[Assistant] The Ponzi scheme, right, where he borrows money from one person and then uses it to pay someone else, you see. And his sort of scam is that, oh, you know,


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[Assistant] I'm an heir to this diamond empire, and uhm, there's these people who are after me, and so I can't use my credit cards, so can I, can you lend me some money? You know, and so he funds this lavish lifestyle, but it's always relying on the next con, right? Much like a Ponzi scheme, like as soon as one of the cons falls through,


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[Assistant] He can't pay his bills suddenly and he's trapped, right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so he has to really work around and grift a bit before we can get the sort of thing rolling again.


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[Assistant] Um, and so he sort of bilked a lot of these, um, women from across the globe because he was sort of flying around, you know, living this sort of incredibly jet-set lifestyle. Um, and anyway, Inverted Anna is a very sort of similar thing where she is this person who is, is kind of


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[Assistant] She doesn't have any money, but has managed to ingratiate herself into sort of groups of people in society where...


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[Assistant] You just, it doesn't matter, you know, they will pay for you, they'll cover everything until you eventually manage to sort of get your business off the ground by borrowing and then suddenly you're independently wealthy. It's almost like the American sort of fake it till you make it mantra, you know, kind of thing where she, obviously she did obviously bilch a lot of people out of LOM.


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[Assistant] But, uh, but kind of, it was, it was in a really interesting way. But, but she, you're reminding me of this both because both of these people had fallen out with their families. And there's this sort of scene where the journalist goes back to Germany, um, and finds Anna Delvey's family and sort of talks to them.


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[Assistant] And they're just like, yep, we've forgotten about her. And then she's like, do you not, do you not call her or anything? And they're like, no. And a person I was watching this with was like,


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[Assistant] But that's, let's cast them in this kind of, they seem like nice people, but why do they not care about their daughter? And I'm like...


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[Assistant] Fucking hell, if your daughter's some sort of scam artist who's like a terrible debt, and it's the same thing with the Tinder Swindler guy, they went and found his family, and they sort of talked to him, as if they were somehow responsible, or like, I dunno, or had some sort of like... Any say in that.


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[Assistant] I think it should be the other way around, cause it's always these kids have been bullied or something by some actual asshole, do you know what I mean? Who's like, fucked them up somehow, like at a certain point. We should let bullies family, and hold them more responsible, do you know what I mean? That's always stuff you hear, right?


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[Assistant] I think that at the same time, part of the things that lead to these, you know, I guess like school shootings type things, is


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[Assistant] The availability and the cultural attitudes towards this in certain places. You know, I think having guns casually available, like I was listening to a criminal podcast the other day.


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[Assistant] about this sort of fifteen year old who, you know, him and his friends had managed to find a gun in America. They just found a gun, and they were walking home from school, and they were like, just stealing


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[Assistant] Using it to steal money out of people's, like, like, just cash out of people's pockets, kind of just, almost like casually. And obviously he went to prison for life.


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[Assistant] Yeah, totally. It's an awful thing to experience. And, uh, you know, I think that it's, it's


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[Assistant] But at the same time, you know, like, we... I think it's changed now, but up until very recently, you know, America was still putting, kind of, kids in jail for life.


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[Assistant] Which I think, I think there was a big thing that came down that said, look, if you went, if you got jailed for life, um, when you were under 16, you could.


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[Assistant] The guy's poking you, will you shoot him? Will you do it again? It's like, uh, maybe, eh. So if you're riding the bus to school...


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[Assistant] There's a Philip K Dick, um, Amazon show, um, which on Prime. Yeah. It's cool.


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[Assistant] It's called Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, um, and it's kind of like a Black Mirror-style, um, anthology series. What, is this new? No, it's a couple years old, um, it's like, I just... How did they miss this? Big Dicks fan.


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[Assistant] Does nobody mention this to me? And so he obviously, it's ten sort of hour long episodes based on his work, and obviously they vary absolutely wildly from kind of very cool and interesting sci-fi ideas to stupid.


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[Assistant] This is exactly the case in this series. In many of them, it's kind of, you're thrown into this odd universe.


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[Assistant] Where not a lot is necessarily explained to you. And, you know, like, I think the first, one of the first ones I watched was, there's like, um,


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[Assistant] There's like a lesbian policewoman living in the future, okay. When she goes to, when she puts on this VR headset.


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[Assistant] She, like, really gets immersed in the personality of a straight, male, very billionaire game designer. Okay? So she switches between being this lesbian super cop and billionaire game designer. That's crazy. Those are my two personas as well.


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[Assistant] Incredible. The billionaire game designer has designed a game that's incredibly immersive. And he's, he basically, the character, he or she, is confused about which one of them is real, but they have to take the headset off and either, and die in one of the worlds. But they don't know whether the world they're gonna die in is gonna be the one which is real.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I mean, I've just sort of spoiled it, but I haven't really spoiled it, because the whole episode is about you making up your own mind, if you like, about which one is real, d'you know what I mean? And the episode suggests


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[Assistant] Lots of different arguments about this could be, which way it could be around it. I thought it was pretty cool. But yeah, there's, there's a bunch of other ones. There's like, um,


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[Assistant] One which is like Starship Troopers style where they're engaged in this bizarre war with these aliens and sending ships to fight them and they're sort of limping back, you know, and Earth's dying, which is quite weird. And there's one, there's one that's just super weird where, uhm, where Steve Buscemi's in it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it's just fucking bonkers, like, ugh. So they're all mental little ideas, but the reason I mentioned it is because one of them is set in this sort of US school.


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[Assistant] Where basically it's kind of this futuristic idea of what a US school is, where they're constantly scared of terrorist attacks, you know, they have like blast windows on the school in case someone attacks the school. It's kind of this, it's become this kind of incredibly, but also they have this incredibly,


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[Assistant] Surveilled situation where all the kids have this little apple wristwatch, right, where it basically just tracks their heart rate, it tracks what they're doing, it tracks where they are, it tracks everything about them, who they talk to, who they interact with. And so, but in a way what it's doing is it's brainwashing these kids, right, to be a certain way. And it's very


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[Assistant] It's very clever how it's just, it's just like a couple of steps from where we are now, and you see how, like, technology could be used to kind of make people, make people, uhm, what is it, active, fundamentalised or whatever, d'you know what I mean? Like, kind of, kind of make people angry about the way things are.


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[Assistant] Just in a very simple way, you know, you give them very gentle nudges and it's so easy to convince


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[Assistant] I think they were all pretty interesting, and I mean, I will say, not great, some of them. But you're always gonna get away with an anthology, partly because there's different writers on each episode, there's different directors on each episode, you know, there's no necessarily quality checking, they're almost like, we're gonna just let ten of you make these things, and then...


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[Assistant] We'll put them out and then we'll choose which order to put them out. We'll put the best one out first, you know, we'll hide some of the bad ones in the middle and then we'll finish with a good one, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like, it's like an Uber rating or an eBay, because Uber drivers you obviously have.


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[Assistant] And also like the idea of it spiralling, like someone who's got a bad rating, you're more likely to give them another bad rating, but also people are trading good ratings for favours and things like this and like


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[Assistant] You know, it suddenly becomes this kind of... Currency or something, yeah. ...knife at your throat, right? Where you kind of have to do things you don't want to do, that are, you know, in order, or like grovel, or be a certain way in order to try and...


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[Assistant] When, when, in, in restaurants to get.


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[Assistant] But like, certainly like sometimes that fake niceness is so foreign to us as English people who've never had a service mile in their life, you know. It's kind of very strange to experience that.


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[Assistant] We should definitely watch Black Mirror though, it's good stuff. It's all near future stuff, whereas this is more, kind of, in the apocalypse, and in space, and you know, weird scenarios.


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[Assistant] It's not as touchable in a sense because the characters are almost as confused as you are, right?


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[Assistant] Sometimes, do you use it to like put other people in the car? Or like sometimes if you keep them waiting? No, I never keep them waiting. So I mean, I call a lot of ubers for people and put them in the car and, you know, I don't know what they're doing, uhm, and also, sometimes, yeaah.


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[Assistant] She has this odd accent. Really, really odd. It's so weird. It's like the kind of preppy American rich girl with a tinge of Russian. It's just so weird.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like got Russian sort of underneath it. Julia Gardner does a good job apparently with it, because it's such a weird, weird sound. And I think that that's maybe what made her stand out, is this kind of odd person, you know, because she was in the art world, she was sort of


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[Assistant] I didn't, I didn't, a lot of that was on my phone, I must admit.


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[Assistant] The news of that is that the network bosses, Endermol and all these people, have issued a warning to the 2022 cast to stay away from inverted commas desperate former stars. Because apparently the very first sight people are very hungry to stay famous. Of course.


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[Assistant] You're 100% right. And the issue is, is that when they're casting people for this show, they want good looking people. They don't want like... Me? Yeah, like the baldies, and the ugly ones. Uh, you know, they want, they want fucking basically Instagram stars already.


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[Assistant] Turns out that like, most people are just willing to, you reckon like, the big brother contestants or whoever, the staff, you know, they run in and they're like, trying to contain him and like, oh talk him down, you know, they can convince him through their authority. It's like, no no, I'm the showrunner, you have to stay, you have to stay mate.


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[Assistant] ...who were prisoners, the students who were guards, and it very quickly became this kind of very weird, like, horrific kind of bullying, not like, uh...


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[Assistant] The students were kind of encouraged to, they knew they were being watched, they were kind of...


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[Assistant] Beats like playing up a little bit for the camera in some cases. And I think in Big Brother and all these other things, of course they are when they're, they're gonna exaggerate themselves. They can't, they can't stop them.


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[Assistant] So eventually they get irritable or annoyed or pissed off and they, they can't sort of, they can't keep it up. And then sort of their real personality shines through. And it turns out some of them are arseholes or some of them are super nice.


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[Assistant] So what, I mean, what is that, I mean that's surveilled, I mean that's just number of cameras though, right?


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[Assistant] Code Triforce, thank you very much. Love your balls, love yourself, love Manscaped. I made that one up. I made that up. I made that little catchphrase up. Congratulations. Manscaped.com slash Triforce. On with the show.


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[Assistant] I'm glad. The problem with Sean Connery, the problem with the more famous these names, right, the more issues with them having to make their


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[Assistant] Like, um, awesome whales in that bloody movie, uh, that he did where he basically completely ruined it and it made


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[Assistant] Was it Jog Carpenter? I think it was. Prince of Darkness.


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[Assistant] Because there was Thai foods and all sorts of shit, and sorry, Marlon Brando was an absolute


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[Assistant] Holy shit, we really dodged that one. But, although he is little chubby enough, he could do it. He's huge though. He's a little chubby hobbit. I would not be able to enjoy the trilogy. I can see it, it's so, he looks like a hobbit, doesn't he?


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[Assistant] So no, seriously, I mean, there's a real thing where celebrities can pull you out of a movie, or an immersive thing, right? Like, it happened to me a little bit with Stephen Fry and the Hobbit, which, the Hobbit movies weren't good anyway, and let's just forget about them, but Stephen Fry


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[Assistant] I don't hate Stephen Fry, but it was one of these moments where it kind of, I was just like, oh, I don't want him to be in it. I don't need him in it. Like, you almost sometimes prefer the unknowns, and I think a lot of times when a big budget thing is


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[Assistant] You know, it wasn't like it was fucking Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, do you know what I mean? It was like, oh Jesus, it wasn't, it wasn't, it wasn't like, you weren't, you didn't have preconceptions, right?


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[Assistant] I like Iron Man. And the idea is, but people like Marlon Brando, Orson Welles, and you know, in the original Star Wars, it was, uhm, the guy who was Obi-Wan. God, I'm used to this today. Alec Guinness? Alec Guinness. They were used as a billing to attract people, because they thought, we can't do a movie without a name. You need like, a big name.


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[Assistant] They were awful. It's about adaptation, though, too. Like, I think Lord Loring's, the book, is a slog. It's their out-of-date. It was written a long time ago. It was a foundation of fantasy, and as a result, it's...


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[Assistant] It's aged poorly versus modern fantasy, and so they really had to bring it up today, and I think they did a great job. But it was such a huge work for old Peter Jackson.


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[Assistant] Can you imagine how much pushback he must have given for this? Like...


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[Assistant] I think the accents work so well in sci-fi, though, to establish, like, you could use, kind of, people with odd accents to put them in all sorts of weird places. Like Data, from Star Trek, right, he has this weird American accent that I've heard on a couple of other Americans, but it's a very specific, localized accent.


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[Assistant] I really, yeah, that was, I loved that. Man, anyway, no, Lord of the Rings, huge, huge fan. Uhm, I think, I think some of these casting choices are quite interesting because I wonder how, I didn't, I think the Hobbit casting choices didn't help those movies either.


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[Assistant] But also, so there is a couple of fan edits that you can download that cut the movie down to about two and a half, three hours. Yeah, they're like, you can torrent them.


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[Assistant] I haven't watched it, but Ben greatly recommends it and says it's actually watchable. They cut out all the romance between, um, Kate from Lost and the sexy dwarf.


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[Assistant] But even that's a message, right? Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Like he was, like he was insane. I think this, obviously like, I think working with kids, and this is something you two obviously know more than I do, but they, I get the impression that they have


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[Assistant] Quite a blank slate when, when, and they ask questions like, oh, you know, is everyone equal? You know, and it's like, why can that man not come in the pool with us? Do you know what I mean? If everyone's equal, you know, cause, cause as adults you're always like, well, yeah, of course everyone's equal. Of course, of course. Doesn't matter what creed you are, what sex you are.


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[Assistant] Certainly, you know, have felt like, like, there should be, things should be a certain way. And kids can sometimes...


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[Assistant] You know, almost remind them, like, oh, well if things are supposed to be a certain way, why are we still overlooking this? You know? And so I think when you're surrounded, when you're working and making content for, uhm, I wanna say blank slates, but like kind of, kind of,


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[Assistant] The future generations of people, you know, it does make you question everything around you. Question your own beliefs and morals too. I think


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[Assistant] In many ways, I think people are very stubborn or fixed on their views. I mean, certainly I'm a very anti-religion in general, partly because of the way that you can twist the words to be any way you want them. But I think if you take them in the best possible way, or examine them in all the different ways they could be interpreted,


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[Assistant] I think it does lead you to a often humanitarian kind of viewpoint. I think a lot of these things are positive and want you to look after each other and get to each other.


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[Assistant] He's taking up, he's taking up smoking. Just, uh, just, just a couple of butts per day, but, you know, he's just easing himself into a life of full chain smoking. Smokerama. All the info is out there, and he's just like, you know what? Who cares?


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[Assistant] The voice crack in the do your own research.


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[Assistant] Might not know who that is because it's a teenage Minecraft sensation.


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[Assistant] At least he probably, uh, it's less dangerous for him to get it, right? It's the perfect time to be 17, I think. Right.


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[Assistant] I think the new variant is like, ultra spreadable, right? Like, that's like, uh, that's like the key feature of it.


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[Assistant] You know, you're, you're, you're in a safe place because my, uh, at the time nine year old son also watched that one and thought it was amazing. And, uh, at the dinner table told my whole family about it and asked me why I couldn't be that good at mine.


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[Assistant] You'll probably know, right? Like, I, like, my son watches like, uhm, like DanTDM and like, uh, Squid and Stampy and all those guys, you know? Like, cause, cause I don't think they swear or anything in their videos, so it's, it's fine, it's fine for him to watch.


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[Assistant] He played Among Us with, uh, with Maybe Tubbo?


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[Assistant] Man, you know, it's not even like, uh, my, my wife was looking at like the top 10 YouTubers because I think my, my son was asking about her or, or something. Cause like, cause my, my son thinks that like, uh, I'm a much bigger YouTuber.


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[Assistant] He does like some research and production and stuff like that. He's not just churning it out like a factory, like he actually, you know, puts time and thought and effort into his videos.


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[Assistant] No matter how well you do or anything, you're always going to get to a point in your life, and I find like, I can relate, like you get to this point in your life where you're older, you're hopefully wiser.


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[Assistant] But you look back on things and you think, man, if I had the knowledge I have now, I would have done that differently or whatever, but you can't, you, you can't, you can't torture yourself with that kind of stuff because you, you are who you, who you are at, at any given moment or whatever, and you're just doing what you know how to do at the time, right? Like, uh, and it all happens for a reason. You wind up where you're at.


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[Assistant] When you think about it, the, the, the sort of like, uhm, once, once we sort of like, uh, started to, like, plateaued and just started to...


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[Assistant] Uhm, become sort of like seen as like, uh, like older YouTubers at the time or whatever.


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[Assistant] It was like, it was Stampy, right? Stampy, Stampy got pretty big during that time.


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[Assistant] And even then, kids didn't have YouTube on their phones because a lot of his views came from the integration of YouTube into like Xboxes and PlayStations and stuff like that. And it was these sort of family friendly playlists that could just play over and over and over on these consoles.


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[Assistant] That, that, that was working for those guys at the time and now it's changed again and it will change again and it'll change again and it'll change again.


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[Assistant] I don't mind Marmite, it's alright, like I'll have a little bit from time to time. I tell you what, I really like Marmite flavored rice cakes.


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[Assistant] Like a, like a really athletic one, like a- That's great too! Like a Pilates or like a yoga instructor's tush. Great!


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[Assistant] What if it was, uh, Priti Patel's, uh, butt, uh, or, uh, yeah, or like, um, the cheese, the, the, the cheese MP, remember the, the MP for the cheese one? I can't remember her name. Lin Truss. Yeah, they used to always make fun of her. Liz Truss, is it Liz or Lin? Liz Truss.


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[Assistant] Ricky, it's Ricky Sunac actually. Thank you very much.


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[Assistant] I saw, yeah. It's not, uh, it's not like, done, done, done, though, like, it'll still, things will still be as they are now for quite some time, but, um... It's scary!


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[Assistant] I think once things happen and are taken over, Microsoft will be like, what, the third largest gaming company in the world behind Sony and Tencent, I think? Well, I mean, who else does...


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[Assistant] Well, the acquisition is kind of nuts, it just shows the difference though, because Activision Blizzard, the acquisition was like, what, $60 billion? And they acquired Bethesda, what, a year, maybe two years ago? I think it was seven years ago.


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[Assistant] But uhm, it's a huge gap, isn't it? But when you consider Call of Duty's gotta be one of the biggest gaming IPs out there. Sure. Uhm, Warcraft in its, in and of itself is quite big as well. Uhm, so there, you know, there's a lot.


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[Assistant] It is probably worth it and they'll make a shit ton of money off the acquisition as well.


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[Assistant] And, uh, every week you would get a part of a castle, right? And the first issue is like 50p and you get like the front door of the castle and you're like, holy shit, I'm going to get this every week. And then the second week, the magazine costs like 25 pounds and you get like the left.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I mean, there's a lot of games that I own forever, I don't go back and play again. Like, if I played it, I'm not gonna go back and play Subnautica again, for example.


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[Assistant] So big shout out to our sponsor for this week, uh, Microsoft Game Pass. Sign up today, 50 pence. And, uh, next month it'll go up to 12 pounds a month, but first month is only 50p. So, um, largest catalog of hentai games available.


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[Assistant] Well, a lot of, like, big studios, I think most of them, uh, are now under big publishers, right? Except for, notably, probably Valve, who is, uh, probably the biggest self-publishing, uhm, studio.


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[Assistant] I believe they might still be separate, yeaah. I'm not, uh, I'm not exactly sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it'll give them a lot of, um, you know, like with all like the Xbox exclusives plus owning. I mean, yeah, like Microsoft now own some, some, some of like the, the, the more well-known IPs out there, right? For games like, uh, PC and console. It's kind of, it's kind of nuts.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I think getting a PS4 for Red Dead 2 is completely worth it. It's such a good game.


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[Assistant] I actually played through all of GTA 5 on my PS4 as well. Pretty good going actually. It's like two games that I've actually started and completed on a console.


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[Assistant] That's it. It is min-max-y. That's the level. It's missing a lot of the really nice aesthetic stuff that makes base building so much fun. Exactly.


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[Assistant] You can make it look quaint and like, you know, it's exciting if you can build a room that serves like a purpose or whatever. Like if there was like a ship designing game and it was a bit like, uh, you know, like the ship in XCOM or something, you know, with like all the different rooms and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] I would be more up for it, cause it's kind of a bit like base building, but it just happens to be on a ship, but yeah. Like a grid, though.


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[Assistant] Yeah, of course. Yeah, but again, the aesthetics and stuff of some of that stuff is great, right? Like, sure, you're collecting a pair of shoulder pads that have one strength more than your old pair, but the new pair look fucking awesome. You look like a shogun when you put them on or whatever. So that's a big part of the appeal, you know?


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[Assistant] No, yeah, it looks fine. It's great. I was just joking about that. I didn't even look it up. The ultimate diss.


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[Assistant] Right, listen, moving on from this subject because uhm, it's a confusing one. I have been watching one of my favorite shows, Season 5 of the Italian crime drama Gomorrah, which is really good.


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[Assistant] And the, uh, season five, which is the current season, is the final season. So going into it, you know that this is it. This is the last season. And I'm just on the last episode. We're gonna watch the last episode tonight, probably.


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[Assistant] And uhm, I don't know if you got this with like The Wire or any other shows, but like,


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[Assistant] It's kind of sad when a show is like ending and you know it's done, you know, and you can just see like, you, you can see it all sort of coming together for like the big ending as well, right? Like, um, like, like this show, I don't think it'll, it'll end quite like the Sopranos did where it'll just like leave it open to interpretation or whatever.


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[Assistant] Because it's a pretty, it's a pretty raw show, like, you know, like a lot of people just get murdered.


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[Assistant] It's very, yeah, it is very dark. It's very good and a lot of it is based on sort of the reality of like the Kimora and stuff in Italy. It's very good, very interesting, lots of really nice character arcs throughout the five seasons and stuff, but a lot of them are now coming to an end.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, I did the same with like, uh, Squid Game, and I prefer to watch stuff, like, originally, and then sub- I watched Dark Subtitled as well. I don't know, I just-


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[Assistant] I hate dubs how out of sync they are with the movements of the characters' lips and stuff like that, it kind of annoys me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's like, it's not, they're not an excitable, uhm, uh, culture of people in the show though, you know? They're all very somber extortionists and drug dealers and stuff like that, right?


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[Assistant] I don't know, like I think there'd be probably a couple of, um, a couple of rude gestures, maybe like, um,


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[Assistant] Also, like, uh, the satisfaction you get from watching it the whole way through is kind of nice too.


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[Assistant] That's the thing that I don't understand about that, the movie though, like, that it would possibly take itself seriously.


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[Assistant] I would love some statistics on just the amount of cocaine consumed in the production of this.


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[Assistant] It did, it did look really neat, yeaah. But it just shows like how terrifying nature is, right? Like, it's the ultimate. You see like the footage of uh, some of those uh, like coastal towns getting flooded? Holy crap.


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[Assistant] I mean, fucking hell, I don't know how anybody does. I've seen some, some ballet and I've seen some opera. It's fucking awful.


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[Assistant] I don't care. I don't care what he does. Let me tell you a Michael Buble story, okay? Alright. We were, we were on holiday, uh, I'm trying to think, I think we were in France, and this was me, this is Mrs. F, the kids, and my mum.


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[Assistant] And we had a hire car and Mrs. F had paired the car to her phone so that we could play music.


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[Assistant] But something had gone wrong where when she couldn't get the internet, which was quite often in rural parts of France, you can't get, you know, 5G or 4G or whatever.


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[Assistant] So it would play the music that she had saved to her phone.


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[Assistant] And it would just play it automatically. You get in the car, you turn it on, it pairs and it just starts playing.


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[Assistant] Michael Buble's Christmas album that for some reason she had downloaded onto her phone. It's the middle summer in France. Every time we're driving, and you stop it, and it just randomly starts saying


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[Assistant] They only go to certain events, they only go on holiday to certain places. It's a very rigid life.


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[Assistant] I've been into comics forever, and when I was a kid, Marvel Comics, Spider-Man in particular was a big thing for me. But it was hard when you're a kid to get the issues in order because you're relying on, A, your memory as a child that it's come out.


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[Assistant] And be your parents to purchase it for you, so it was kinda tough. But most episodes, or most issues, I should say, of any comics, especially Marvel comics, if it's in the middle of a storyline, the first couple of pages of them running over what happened.


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[Assistant] I love it, and it never stopped. My love of comics, when I got to the UK, I thought, oh man, that's it, they're not gonna have comics. And I was super into the Beano and stuff like that. And then 2000AD came along, when I was old enough to read that, and I found it, and this was when it was still paper. Shout out to any old 2000MV fans, when it was like newspaper, print, paper, and was big. It was bigger than A4, it was a


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[Assistant] So wait, wait, wait. Have you noticed a change in your kids behaviour from when they've been on a device to when they haven't been on a device?


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[Assistant] I-I'm a big defender of-of video games and computers, uh, but...


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[Assistant] Look, having now had kids grow up with these devices, I can be honest and say I completely agree with you that there is some huge fucking difference in their brain between when they've been on, it could be anything.


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[Assistant] Like, when they're playing something on the TV, it doesn't seem to affect them as badly, like, they can play, they will, they both play Slime Rancher, they play The Sims, they play stuff like this, they seem okay, cause they kind of chill, they're sitting back, they're away from the screen, I feel like when they've got this screen, and they always hold it like at the end of their fucking nose, it's like glued to them,


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[Assistant] So do you know what I think it is when they come off it? I think it's a few things. I think first of all, I remember being a kid, and I was bored a lot of the time. Because you're very active, your brain is very active, you want to be doing stuff all the time. So I understand why they're drawn to it. But if you think about most games that kids play, they're not particularly challenging.


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[Assistant] This is not- I'm not flaming, I'm not saying get good noob, alright, I'm just saying that's just how it is, most games that the kids play are quite straightforward, there's not much peril and all the rest of it. No, no. You're in control, you control your little person, or your control in the game, or you're dressing the people how you want. Yeah. You are the director.


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[Assistant] ...of your life when you're playing those games. As soon as you're not, you're confronted with the cold hard reality that...


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[Assistant] Life actually doesn't bend to your will, and yes, you do need to unload the bloody dishwasher, and yes, you do need to do this and do that, and they just, they get fed up, and they get frustrated with other people.


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[Assistant] Because suddenly other people are not doing what they tell them to do. You've gone from having total control to having almost no control and I think they get super frustrated and it fucks with their brain.


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[Assistant] Do you think it's given them almost a FOMO feeling about, I have to play all of these games? You know what, I fucking blame Pokemon for its disgusting message to kids, gotta catch them all. That's blue to deliberate. Gotta play them all, gotta eat them all, gotta do- Wait, that's the doorbell.


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[Assistant] Alright, so here's a question for you, and I've been trying to think of this for a while, because like you said, Sips, games originally were arcade games designed, you put Quarters in, it's fucking bastard hard, and he has pretty much carried that on.


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[Assistant] But then, I'm trying to think, what were the first games that came along that were widespread popular and were not in that vein? Uh, because even the Mario games, you had a limited number of lives. You did, but I think, I think Super...


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[Assistant] So here's my favourite part about the ticker machines, is you get a moderate score and it churns out ticker machines like some 1950s stock market ticker. Yes. It's like... And I get them and the kids are walking around.


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[Assistant] No one, no one has called them the Chi Paps. In my lifetime. That's the first one I've heard of. It makes them sound like a fucking swing band. Ladies and gentlemen, the Chi Paps!


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[Assistant] Okay. You can, you can play it right now and the controls are you use the PC arrow keys to move. A dead giveaway that it's a trash game.


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[Assistant] I spoke to an Uber driver, an Uber driver there that was also a caterer and catered for Bill Gates sometimes.


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[Assistant] I got a question for you. How often do you play?


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[Assistant] You've got to wear a special sock. Oh yeaah, so wait wait wait, I just wanted to, going back very quickly, so we were talking about the games, I reckon that the Zelda game on the NES, the first Zelda game, might have been one of the first games that got massive popularity and wasn't anything like an arcade game.


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[Assistant] I reckon that, that, that was a big thing. Cause it was more like an adventure game. I'm sure there'd been others. Everybody let's face it, Zelda was unbelievably popular. My fucking dad owned that game, and he'd never played it.


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[Assistant] That was kind of a tipping point, I think, cause then a lot of other games like that started to come out. The JRPG thing, I don't know if there'd been some before Zelda or whatever, but that was certainly the biggest one. And I just feel like a lot of games started to offer a different experience to the arcades, and realized, wait a minute, we don't need to be like the arcades, we can do something else.


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[Assistant] Uh, I can't remember them the last time I played them I was- the fucking Nintendo hotline was still going. We've spoken about this before. Alright, so-


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[Assistant] Because there are so many respawn points, and generally if you have to fight a boss, you can get to him again without having to do the dungeon, it's not like that. It's just fucking unbelievably hard, and it doesn't help you at all. Like there is no information in the game about what you're doing wrong or anything, you just have to fucking figure it out.


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[Assistant] We absolutely caned it. It's a, it's a, it's a, you know, it's a Barry Boy game. Fair play to him. But uhm, it just doesn't come naturally at all. It's taken me ten thousand hours of Dota to get moderately acceptable on a handful of heroes. I'm not good at video games.


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[Assistant] I mean, if I was a billionaire, I'd wanna fuckin' live forever as well, because you'd think, I've literally, this is the best life imaginable. I have won.


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[Assistant] I think it's a good thing, because it might lead to all kinds of interesting medical developments.


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[Assistant] I see some fuckin', like... No, no, no, but like, for example, cars were the preserve of the very wealthy. Flight, y'know, plane travel was the preserve of the very wealthy. Now everybody has a car and everybody fuckin' takes flights all the time.


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[Assistant] So, although it might seem in the short term like this is only a benefit to the rich, these developments will get out there, and people will be able to do them. It will be a positive, a net positive. Although, if you ask people that think there should be less people in the world, first of all I disagree with you.


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[Assistant] Right, they went on the fucking, the emperor, the emperor from fucking warhammer 40k is just like a shell. I think what they're saying is that you could rejuvenate people's cells so that they are able to regenerate new cells and, for example, let's say your hair's fallen out, right?


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[Assistant] We're gonna make- we're gonna extend people's lives because governments aren't investing in this shit in anywhere near the amount that you need. It's all private in- industry.


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[Assistant] So if Jeff Bezos and all these fucking super rich guys are sitting, look, I've got fucking 50 billion quid, what am I gonna do with it? If they're gonna dump money into science and fucking medical research, even if it's for their own fucking gain, and they hope to live forever, I don't give a shit. Something will come from it that is of benefit to the species,


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[Assistant] Yeah, consider this a legally binding document. When I perish, freeze my head and save my brain and then give me a new robot body in the year 3000.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, so here's my question. First of all, I must have died a very important person for them to be doing the baby killing thing to make me, uh, to keep my brain alive.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I don't know, is memory a physical thing? And you just have to run a charge through the brain and it all comes back? Or is it a question of something else? I don't know. I mean, I thought it was neurons that all connected, but then how they connect is what defines memory. It's all fucking, it's so complicated. But that's, that's I think why it would work.


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[Assistant] What if you, if you fucked your memory in some things you would remember and other things you would half remember? Like you would, cause your, your brain hadn't come back properly. Can you remember something that's just a fragment but an, like imagine a name where you can only remember the first half of an, of a thing.


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[Assistant] Could you- would you remember half of the words you'd learned? Could you- could only half of your body remember how to walk and the other half doesn't? Like, what the fuck?


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[Assistant] I am so stupidly curious about the future and the universe and all that, that I would even accept, and this is gonna be controversial, I would accept an alien invasion where the human race is enslaved and they ship us to all these other planets to do menial work just to see what's out there. And to be like, there really are aliens. Like, that would be amazing to me.


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[Assistant] But come on, you're not a character in a fucking fighting game, make a real name.


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[Assistant] I dunno, like, there's any excuse, though, to have a dress up day, as well, or a dress down day. Well, it's a bit of fun, y'know?


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[Assistant] Stuff on it, right? It's like a big chunky PC switch with the worst screen, yeah.


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[Assistant] The beats. Sounds like a medical condition.


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[Assistant] Anyone who makes the argument that if you try to do some good, there are worse things, that's called the fallacy of relative privation. One of my favorites, because you hear people use it all the time. Which is essentially that you say,


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[Assistant] Gosh, isn't it a shame about so-and-so? And someone says, well, it could be worse, and they think of something worse. So, the idea is that it's a fallacy because it implies that there's no point attempting to improve any one area because there'll always be something worse. So for example, you're trying to do something, Dogs for Autism, which might be a helpful charity, might help some people.


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[Assistant] But you could then say, well, there are people dying in Ukraine. So we should abandon all other causes and just work at the very bottom rung of, you know, of what is the worst. And everything else should just go to hell. Well, that's ridiculous.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of companies perhaps don't understand the way that sales tend to work, which is that you have your initial peak in most cases, and then you have a tail, and that tail is like the tail on the peak, right?


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[Assistant] Well, why don't they shove it up, uh, up your dick?


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[Assistant] So, you know what, I've never had that sort of, uh, horse-pissing style. It's always been pretty slow. Oh, right.


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[Assistant] He gets his ass kicked by the locals who are all part of the, what is it, the black vipers or something like that?


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[Assistant] He's not turning out champions, he wants Cobra Kai to win at all costs, even if that cost be other members of the dojo. They have to sacrifice, so he's not turning out champions, he's turning out people who are enslaved to his will.


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[Assistant] It's, uh, it's a good alt-history drama. It's got some bits in it because they've obviously dragged this out into a lot more episodes, so there's some bits where you're just like, can we get on with the good stuff, please? Like, they could cut it out.


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[Assistant] No, listen, Mandalorian wasn't gritty by comparison to this. Mandalorian was, like, had a fucking baby Yoda.


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[Assistant] I enjoyed Mandalorian, but here's the thing. Mandalorian episodes were like...


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[Assistant] Story. Beautifully shot. Really well acted. Episode 3 is, in my opinion, the best thing that Disney has done with Star Wars since Rogue One. I really love Rogue One. Along comes, uhm, all this other shit that they've done. It's like, eh, it's good, eh, it's okay. And some of it's like, fuck me, this is terrible. But then this comes along, and I was like, this episode alone, with the buildup of the previous two, is so good that I was fucking hooked immediately. Just watched the fourth yesterday. Very, very, very, very good. Love it. Other show to recommend.


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[Assistant] The, the sisters are brilliant. He's brilliant. He was the guy who was Dracula in that BBC Dracula thing, which was good for two episodes, and then the third was abysmal. He's, he's really, really good. I can't remember the actor's name, unfortunately. He's Danish, I think.


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[Assistant] I recommend Bad Sisters. It is so fucking good. If you haven't seen it, see it. It's very good. Nice. I've been watching the, uh... I do also have an ethical question for you guys when you're finished.


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[Assistant] So, it's not real- I wouldn't say it's like a moral dilemma so much as I was immediately realized what I'd said and thought, oh my god, I hope this guy doesn't take it the wrong way. Right. Oh man, I have- I had those all the damn time.


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[Assistant] And then, I, I mean, I'm, I'm, it was a question of pure innocence.


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[Assistant] But it could have been, you'll understand when I tell you why. If you look at what I look like, and what this guy looked like, you'll understand immediately why he could have just told me to go fuck myself. Okay.


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[Assistant] He helps me get my bags in the car. He says, how you doing? We have a little chat. He says, going all the way into London. I said, yes, please. I get in the car and I said to him,


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[Assistant] Are you from Africa? Because of his accent was incredibly African. And I, Mrs. F had been to Africa recently, I wanted to chat to him about that, I was hoping he was from Ethiopia, which is where she'd been, and I wanted to ask him about Ethiopia a bit. And he said, he sort of turned for a second, he goes, yeaah, and I said, your accent gave it away, he goes, oh!


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[Assistant] Guess which part? And he took it very well. Like, it felt like I was just going to say, you from Africa mate, to a black cab driver.


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[Assistant] Because he was listening to country music, and I'm talking 1970s American country music, all the classics, Dolly Parton and all that, that's all we listen to, the whole drive.


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[Assistant] Dude, it's a classic university challenge answer.


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[Assistant] I'm pretty sure anyone that wanted to get the fuck out would come to the UK, that seems like a reasonable bet. And he was like, close! Like, he didn't say, not how dare you, like, you know. Right, right, right. And also, I'm sure there are plenty of people from the DRC, as I know it, uh, who are perfectly happy to talk about DRC, I don't know, you know.


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[Assistant] So I went, I went for like Zimbabwe and I went for Kenya and some places like that. And I, I, I gambled South Africa and he was like, no, no, no, you're way off. I was like, hmm. So I had to think. But anyway, he didn't take my question the wrong way at all. If, if he hadn't spoken,


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[Assistant] So, it was just, it was funny because the country music thing, I really wanted to know more. Why he was listening to just country music. And he said it's really big. All his friends back home listen to country music. He loves it.


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[Assistant] And literally all we listened to, and when I mentioned it, he turned it up. So I just had to listen to like proper old... Like country music. Like really old school country music.


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[Assistant] I've got an email. This is a personal email, as in that a friend of mine sent me directly. Oh, right, okay. It's a good one. This is worth reading. Right. It's actually a Discord DM. It's just from my friend Enthused. He's one of my Dota stack regulators.


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[Assistant] You know the guy. So, uh, here is, this is the time the police broke into his house. I remember this happening, but this is now the full story.


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[Assistant] Came home around 11pm after being out and the door was completely smashed in. And he sent me a picture and his front door is completely smashed in. Just imagine it.


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[Assistant] I had no idea what had happened when I walked in, but there were police outside so I was worried someone had broken into the house and attacked someone. My brother is downstairs, he says the police broke in because they had a distress call to the house. No one in the house had made a distress call, by the way.


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[Assistant] They both somehow didn't notice all this commotion until the door actually got smashed in, which prompted my brother to come downstairs and find six policemen charging up the stairs. After a bit of confusion, the situation cooled down and most of them left.


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[Assistant] My brother also informed me that the police were not the only unwanted visitors that night.


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[Assistant] Somehow a fox had made it into the house and had hidden himself in the conservatory. The police actually saw the fox before they came in and apparently said,


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[Assistant] Do they keep foxes in here? Probably due to the fact that we had a dog cage there with no dog around. So they look in and see a fox in the house and a cage, and they think that there's a fox in there. So the police didn't seem to think that a wild fox being in someone's house


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[Assistant] So, how did this all happen? I thought it would be fun for you guys to come up with theories on what happened because what actually happened is really funny. Just a couple of extra tidbits of info before we try to crack the case. When the police came in, the phone was on the floor. The phone that made the distress call was on the floor.


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[Assistant] My friend does own a dog, so Sips is going for dog flap.


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[Assistant] So I said, well, we're gonna need to get tetanus shots, you know, or whatever. Went to the doctor, they were like, it's fine, there's no tetanus thing.


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[Assistant] Our original idea was that because foxes, um, the noise that foxes make sounds like someone who's actively dying, someone must have heard the fox, thought someone was in trouble, and called the police. Because if you've ever heard a fox, they go like,


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[Assistant] So this theory was put out of action when we called the police and they confirmed that the call had come from our landline. After this call with the police, there was really only one explanation. The phone was knocked on the floor, so clearly the fox had been walking around on the table next to it.


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[Assistant] Knocked it off its ringer and unbelievably dialed 999 and pressed the call button. And this put the fox through to the police who obviously heard nothing but a bit of rustling.


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[Assistant] So we went for the unlisted and we still get it because I must've in the past put my phone number onto some fucking website and of course they sell that data.


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[Assistant] So, it could have been Facebook or anybody. And the thing is, if they sell it to someone, you don't know who they're gonna sell it to and all the rest. So, I mean, I get a lot of spam, emails, a lot of spam calls. My email address is publicly visible on my Twitter profile, so that's fair enough.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but the, the mobile phone number, you know, you have to put it on some website. And they sell the data. They always fucking sell the data. And you don't know who to. So, that's what it is. So, it got so bad with the landline.


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[Assistant] Seeing a fox, I would think that this house might have been broken into because you might think the back door might have been kicked in and that's how the fox got in. That would be my first assumption.


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[Assistant] You know the way there are male and female versions of names? Yeah. I feel like Nigella is like the lowest effort female version.


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[Assistant] Well, there's a lot more to it. I mean, Christine, Christina, you know, they have their own kind of ring, I feel. Yeah. Nigella.


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[Assistant] No, Alice is ridiculous. I don't know where, you know, you could go for that. There's a lot of really dogshit names out there. Honestly, no offence, but mainly coming out of fucking America.


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[Assistant] There are already names. You don't need to make up shit ones. The names you're making up are not as good as existing names. Just use one of them. Morgan. Billion of them.


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[Assistant] Here are some, uh, some names. These are apparently names that are coming out in the states. Uhm, this is from 2012, so there might have been some even worse.


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[Assistant] Tice. That's T-Y-C-E. Tice. T-Y-C-E, oh. Yeah. Zayden. That's also dreadful.


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[Assistant] There's a bunch of dravens out there. Harvest, uh, Courtlin, C-O-R-T-L-Y-N.


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[Assistant] Damn, Daniel! At it again with the biblical...


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, welcome back to the Triforce Podcast. With me, Luis, also Pyrrhon Flax. Nope, and me.


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[Assistant] Lewis Imperius. Yes. Uh, your hottest gaming takes and news. Just general guff that we've been up to this week. Meandering thoughts. Informed takes.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think it was Todd. Oh yea Todd, yea I went to school with Todd.


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[Assistant] He was, he was ask, he was in r slash like ask UK or whatever and he was like, so do you guys go camping in the UK? You know, can I get a caravan? You know, I'm used to camping in Canada where we have like 40 foot long caravans.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's, it's, camping, well this guy seemed to have the idea that camping was caravanning, which is not the same. We think of camping as tents, and obviously, in the UK, we don't really have any wilderness left, you know, it's been


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[Assistant] You know, tomato soup out of a can and, you know, try and dig a hole and take a shit. But, I mean, even that is like very, like, this is like 10 square meters of forest, it feels like. You know, there's not, there's not a lot of dedicated, like, wilderness, like there is in, I'm sure, Canada.


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[Assistant] But also, it's a lot fucking colder, I would imagine, in Canada. Like, most of the year.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's like driving the entire length of the UK- well, at least driving to the north, isn't it? It's like, six hours is a fucking long drive for it. I mean, it depends on how fast you go, right?


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[Assistant] Basically, they still have, I think, a constitutional monarchy there, which is not, um, ideal.


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[Assistant] Again, the thing is, like, it's all, in principle, the idea is that the Queen or the King might well have some say, but in reality it's not necessarily the case. It's not necessarily the case, yeah. But I think that it's a very old idea, it's the same in Australia and New Zealand I believe as well, they're sort of saying they'd like to change to a republic, and it seems like a sensible idea, right? Sure.


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[Assistant] But they're a little bit like Nordic countries, they are, they're smaller in size, with a, you know, less of a messy cultural divide in their population, you know. The North and South still are very culturally different places, you know.


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[Assistant] I think that in Canada it's at least more, I'm sure it's such a big country there's going to be a big divide between the east and west.


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[Assistant] Wow. From my understanding. It's like, you know all those polls, why are polls like this always so close? It was fifty eight point, sorry, fifty point five percent voted no. Wow. They only carried it by about thirty thousand, well actually fifty thousand votes.


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[Assistant] So it's a colonial attitude, basically. Well, I guess we're saying, look. You've got oil,


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[Assistant] Well look, I'm a big fan of the idea of independence of everyone. I think they should be able to self-govern themselves within smaller and smaller groups. Sure. Where does it end?


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[Assistant] Let's move on. Let's move on. There's been a story this week, I don't know if you heard, Rithian told me this, about, um, Chess Grandmaster who played in X-Factor


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[Assistant] So what happened was, okay, this is a guy who's 19 years old. As far as I know. I haven't really looked into it too much, but this is what I understand. He played a chess game against Magnus Carlsen. He's been accused of cheating before.


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[Assistant] And he's cheated before. So he beat Magnus Carlsen, but I think Carlsen did a thing where he basically had to do at least one move, and so he just did that one move and then left. Which is a tournament that he owns.


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[Assistant] And so basically, I think, again, he was, he was, I mean, he's only 19, and obviously he was accused of cheating, he admitted to cheating when he was 12, on chess.com, not in a live game, not anything like this. But now he's obviously, you know, an established chess player, but people don't know how he's cheating, they assume he is, and they assume he is because Magnus


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[Assistant] Was, was, did an opening that he never ever does against him. Well someone did an opening that he never ever does. And he responded like, like, not immediately, but like, perfectly.


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[Assistant] So anyway, uhm, the reason this is news is because someone on Reddit or someone somewhere said, I know how he's cheating, he's putting vibrating anal beads up his ass. And this is apparently the news story.


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[Assistant] Um, everyone has now accused, the public has now accused this guy of putting anal beads in his ass, and cheating using vibration signals or whatever, right? Now of course, there's no evidence for this, it's just basically slaughtering this poor guy, and it's now popular, the internet is


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[Assistant] Is, is now just assumes this is the truth, okay, to the point where...


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, there's like webcam sites sending him, offering him like a million dollars to play nude and stuff like this, right? It's basically embarrassing this guy into the ground, with no evidence. Now, obviously, we think he's cheating, but again, no evidence.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's, it's, it's mental, okay, but, I mean, the thing is chess obviously these days, computers are just better, so you could very easily cheat, right, you could just have, you could just be told what you are. People, it's just a fact.


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[Assistant] It's not that it's impossible to cheat, it's just that it's, in fact it's easy, but it's harder to do it in real life, without signals. I didn't need a computer to beat that.


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[Assistant] Part of me is like, seeing all this news happen, and be like, oh isn't this a funny story, but part of me is like, why is the internet just...


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[Assistant] I think it's pretty disgusting that we've just jumped to the idea that this guy's using anal beads and everyone's reporting it as normal. This guy's, he's 19, right?


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[Assistant] I've got one up there right now. I'm not, I know I'm not 19, but I'm enjoying myself here. This is awesome. I love this.


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[Assistant] I'm just, I don't know, for some reason that really annoyed me, like, and it was, I just didn't want to dive in. I'm sure a lot of creators and other content creators are loving this, and doubling down on it. Oh, it's made a ton of vids! Just feels like bullying to me, man. I'm just not cool with it.


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[Assistant] You know, everyone's been fucking bending over backwards to put a blackboard around everything for the sake of the Queen for the last two weeks. You know, the Pringles are- I'm kind of sick of it. Um... Pringles printed pen?


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[Assistant] You know, as, as, I just, I just think that there's some, it's, people seem to have this very selective idea of when to be respectful.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and only if it fucking benefits them. You know, they're respectful when it benefits them and they're disrespectful when it benefits them. Like, people love to jump on a bandwagon, whether it's a good, sad bandwagon or a fucking, fucking abuse bandwagon. It's fucking awful. And I think, you know, people should look at themselves more carefully.


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[Assistant] I think the worst thing is when these companies are doing something that they can try and fucking spin to be respectful to the Queen, or when it's clearly not. Like making a pop figure for the Queen in her casket or some shit, do you know what I mean? And they're like, this is in memory of Queen Elizabeth, it's like, not really, you're just clearly cashing in.


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[Assistant] In a really scummy way, but you've spun it into a way that is like-


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it's, it's kind of, it's, it's always gonna be the case, right? You can't have everything going, but there's always gonna be a line, and who polices that line? It has to be one guy. You know, there's this, there's this lot of fuss on YouTube where


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[Assistant] Some creators are playing these games, like the Mortuary Assistant, and some of them are being, you know, adult-flagged, and others aren't, you know, and it's like, well, it's like, where are the standards, and like, who's, who's policing this, you know? And it's also, like, so close to the line of, like, there's, like, this scene in the Mortuary Assistant in the game at the end where there's, like, a hanging.


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[Assistant] And obviously all the big YouTubers have played it, fine, you know, they're all non-ad, age-restricted, nothing like this, you know, not even, not even, no one's blinked an eye at it at all, you know, whereas obviously


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[Assistant] Logan Paul going to the hanging and, you know, everyone on the internet has this terrible outcry and he gets demonized and whatever, you know, and I'm not saying I'm on his side or not, I'm not saying I'm on the YouTuber's side or not, but like, this is a tricky thing, right? Like, kids are watching these YouTubers.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, it's context related too, I mean his blasé attitude to it, like, lol look at that guy, he's very different to, you know, someone


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[Assistant] I feel like these games do have age restrictions on them anyway, you know, but then again you could be doing like some RP in GTA which is totally fine, you know, they're not shooting anyone or doing any strippers, does that get


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[Assistant] Age restricted just because it's in a GTA, which is an 18 game. It's a tough one. Or Minecraft, you know, if you're doing some weird sex fucking Spider-Man Elsa roleplay shit in Minecraft, does that not get age restricted because it's in Minecraft? I feel judged. Where are the rules?


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[Assistant] Well, listen, the gambling industry, they refer to what they do as gaming. Yeah, they do. You know, you guys come to our casinos and play games, it's gaming.


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[Assistant] They've always said that it's gaming and I think that that has allowed them to infiltrate a little bit into, you know, sorry, go on.


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[Assistant] Now here's the thing that's the difficulty, right? Because I went through this when I was at uni.


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[Assistant] The difference is that when you're in a brick and mortar casino and you're dealing with real people and you're, you know, actually having to put money down or you're doing something like in a bookies where you have to wait, you know, you bet on a horse race and then you have to wait and watch it happen. That's very different.


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[Assistant] Almost like if you put a tournament in, you've invested a certain amount that you know you're investing immediately, and you're getting x amount of gameplay back. And sure, it's gambling, it is gambling, but it's not as potentially poisonous as re-upping yourself at a cash game for another 200 quid.


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[Assistant] I think wher- I think where's the line though between


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[Assistant] Go fish. Go fish. What about like, what about like snakes and ladders? No, I'm trying to think of a really shit board game. Monopoly. Cluedo. Monopoly, there's a strategy.


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[Assistant] Maybe if it's got a world championships of it, then it's not gambling, right? Because you can imagine a world championships of Scrabble and Monopoly, right?


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[Assistant] And katana and poker, but you couldn't imagine a world championships of roulette.


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[Assistant] Uh, there is a new, uh, Monkey Island, I just got sent, um, the, it's called Return to Monkey Island, published by Devolver.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's playing it yesterday, it's good. It's okay. Uh, I love Monkey Island, it makes me wanna go back and play the old ones. Yes. I got sent a game, uh, I haven't played yet, called Isonzo, World War Two Italian Front. Oh, that looks good, actually.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, a lot of them want to do their... Fair enough. Any reason that anyone replies is fair enough, right? Because I don't know what's going on with them. I don't know if they have like...


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[Assistant] There's obviously some issue there that I can never overcome, that I don't know, and I don't want to cause, uh, don't rock the boat, right? And other people like to run their own charity initiatives and they have time or whatever, or they've got some other prior...


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[Assistant] I'm exactly the same. I wish I was better, but uhm, I've got a news article here about floppy disks, right? Uhm, apparently all the floppy disks are about to sort of start losing their magnetic, uhm, whatever's stored on them.


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[Assistant] They're starting to go. And people have obviously stopped making more and it's starting to become like an ancient technology, right?


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[Assistant] I don't know, like, you, you might have to like, start putting them onto other stuff, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I think a lot, I read recently that Japan had this new minister, um, who had like never used, he was like the head of like, digital business or whatever, a Japanese minister. I have never used a computer!


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[Assistant] He actually said that, and it was one of these moments where he was like, he said, you know, if I ever need anything doing, I ask one of my many assistants to do it. I'm too important to have to use a computer.


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[Assistant] Uh, but no, he's, I think he's trying to like modernise


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[Assistant] Um, because even now, like, talking to Nintendo, we have to fax them things, and it's like, the fuck? What year is this, you know? Um, and texts, floppy disks are still very prevalent there, but obviously there's only one company still making the fucking things, apparently. Jesus. I don't even have a fax.


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[Assistant] And a lot of people just have their contact information posted, you know, publicly.


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[Assistant] Um, and then obviously it gets spammed to death and they never reply to it. But if they, if they've got it like, a lot of people have it hidden somehow, like either through like a capture, or you have to fill out like a web form, or they've got it like, contact in brackets, A-T, close brackets, so then I have to type the fucking thing out. Right. You know, it's like every different


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[Assistant] One that you've ever experienced. Some people, even like big studios,


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[Assistant] Don't have a public way for you to contact them at all. And I have to like, go through some weird backdoor, I have to join their Discord, I have to send a message through a mod saying, oh, have you got a way I can contact the, the, the guy. You know, I have to like, do all this like, detective work for some stupid, you know, three quid platform game, you know.


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[Assistant] He won't even put it in the collection anyway. It's such a lot of like, hassle.


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[Assistant] One time, Sony Ericsson didn't pay me for two years for a thing I did at Minecon 2011. I don't get it man.


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[Assistant] Some people you work with have, I don't know how much I can talk about this because of NDAs, but I can insinuate.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's a popular thing hap- show going on, on, on.


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[Assistant] Just have fun showing off our thing, play our thing, do our thing, you know, maybe shout it out and be nice about it, and don't talk shit about it. You know, that's like the thing they're most concerned about, is that. But, some people have had the most ludicrously long


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[Assistant] Requirements. So say for example I was playing The Witcher, right? Witcher 3. Yeaah. And they s- but this is not the case, it's just an example. Uhm, and they said, you can't talk anything about The Witcher 2.


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[Assistant] You can't talk about Geralt, you can't talk about Ciri, you can't talk about- No, you can't compare or anything. Yeah. You can't say anything about anything that happened in The New Witcher. Even though this one has Geralt in, you can't say that, you know, you can't talk about things that Geralt did before, you can't, you shouldn't really mention him, cause, you know, he's so by a different company, and


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[Assistant] We didn't really talk about Dad's Army and actually talk about who they are. Because I realised after this that not everyone's gonna ever have fucking heard of this show. We just sort of went into it assuming that everyone knew as much as we did and I'm a bit concerned now that people aren't gonna get it.


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[Assistant] Um, but I might have to do some extra bits. Yeah, have you heard of it? Do you know any of the characters?


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[Assistant] It was going out in the UK when Seinfeld was going out in America. It's made around that same generation for time, except it's obviously the British Mirror, which is, instead of, you know, rich New York apartments in the middle of the city living, and, you know, written by a comedian, it's the long-suffering British sitcom


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[Assistant] In a very British situation. I like it a lot.


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[Assistant] We did a podcast. We accomplished that at least. We are doing stuff. I can't stop doing stuff. Just doing stuff.


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[Assistant] So in uh, in your average serving of coffee, there's nearly a hundred milligrams of caffeine.


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[Assistant] She's had it for about three days now. I've tested negative, uhm, I don't know how, uh, but, you know, I basically haven't got it. The kids haven't got it.


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[Assistant] What else have I had? Um. Leprosy. Leprosy, I was gonna say the one that makes bits of you rot off. Yeah, it's... Uh, MRSA Superbug riddled with that, I'm sure. I'm just one of those people. Germs love me.


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[Assistant] Are you sure that, does it, does it regenerate them in, in hideous and twisted new forms?


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[Assistant] Do you reckon they're gonna start giving people leprosy, just as a way of regenerating tissue?


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[Assistant] Drink your leprosy tea, uh, it's caffeine free, don't worry about it, and sit back and relax. Take a deep breath of that leper air that we've cultivated here at Leprosy Pilates. And then downward dog and into upward dog. Oh, sorry, Mr. Jones, your leg's falling off, I'll get that for you. It will grow back. It will grow back.


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[Assistant] It's not Pisces. You are a Libra. It's not Germany. You're right on the Libra Scorpio cusp. Would you like today's horoscope? This is incredible.


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[Assistant] It is, but, but that one didn't apply to me. Uh, Scorpio, the person who is most organized and stable will win the race, so let it be you.


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[Assistant] It's intriguing to me that they're both about work, eh? They honestly sound like they're both about work, which is funny because if I'd read either of those to you, you might have thought that they were applicable, which is of course the whole point.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm Aries, so I got there's an advantage to joining people in a social or family situation if possible Aries. Your role today is to bridge communication gaps. Be aware of details that need doing, but don't feel like you have to do them all yourself.


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[Assistant] Gemini, you've reached a climactic time of year regarding love and romance.


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[Assistant] Scorpio, today's gonna suck, no cap, for real, for real, on god.


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[Assistant] No, but so he would do that, but then they would cut to a wide shot of him literally levitating like 5 feet off the ground with a wire.


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[Assistant] No, come on. You can't just cut between the two. That's silly. Like they show the reaction of a very simple trick. If you look, they're all looking down at his feet. Whereas on the wide shot, it looks like he's fucking floating in midair. He's a bit of a nutter. He was an incredible magician. I just wish he stuck to the magic and not the I'm gonna live in a box for a month shit. Just do magic.


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[Assistant] Right, but so he should stretch the bounds of magic, not do these big, sort of, I'm gonna live in ice enc- I mean, it's amazing PR.


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[Assistant] You just feel like you're being tricked and it's almost certainly that he swaps out for someone else. I mean, when he lived in a glass box, I don't know what, how he did it, where he just lived up there with no food or whatever, but it's just like, who cares? It's not...


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[Assistant] I mean, you saw it. What did people think of it? We know who gave us shit.


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[Assistant] Nobody gives a shit. People threw stuff at him and shone lasers at him and shouted abuse. Like, it's just, don't hang yourself there like, look at me, look at me, just do the fucking magic tricks. There have been a ton of these magicians out there.


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[Assistant] Who are legends and amazing magicians, and you don't need to suspend yourself in a fucking box. At that point, I think it's ego more than stretching the bounds of what you can do with magic. Personally speaking, I found them dull.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's a magic trick. It's a magic trick under a different name. I guess so. Which I like. But there's, you know, there is suggestion and stuff like that that you can do. I mean, there's also just, there are certain tricks that, that, uh, that people use. Uh, let me see if I can find one for you guys. You guys talk amongst yourselves for a sec.


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[Assistant] It is, I'm a big fan of that kind of sleight of hand magic because it's just like anything when you're witnessing the results of literally years of practice and expertise and I think it's exciting to see


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[Assistant] I mean, if you see someone who can do the long jump really well, it's impressive and you're rooting for them, but I don't really know how hard it is to do the long jump. But when you see someone able to do all kinds of card tricks, I've shuffled cards. I can do the riffle shuffle. I can fumble.


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[Assistant] And when you see them do it, you're like, holy shit, how have they done that? You think, well, cause I know that when I learned to do the riffle shuffle, it took me quite a long time just to learn that. And they're learning to do that thing where you hold the deck in one hand and rotate different parts around.


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[Assistant] But you don't anticipate that as being the case, you just think you've been given any number from 1 to 50, but of course you have not, it's much, much sneakier than that. So a lot of the mentalist tricks are things like that, where they, they guide you. There's a certain...


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[Assistant] He taps him on the shoulder or he sort of, he just, you'll just notice if you watch him, he touches you. And that changes the way you're thinking and you're more open to suggestion when someone touches you.


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[Assistant] So, it's weird. It's sort of not hypnosis, but that sort of planting an idea in someone's brain with the things that you say. He also does things where he puts giant fucking billboards outside their house that have something on it that they're meant to think of later in the day.


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[Assistant] You know, it's Penn and Teller, isn't it? I'd say they're probably some of the most famous sort of classical magicians.


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[Assistant] I would say that there are certain giveaways that, like, for any magic trick, it's almost always either a fake whatever they suggest it is. A fake ball or a fake deck of cards or a fake gun or whatever. Like, that's number one. They have trick versions of pretty much everything.


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[Assistant] It's true, but, but, there is a whole wealth. So have you ever watched, uh, uh, Fool Me with Penn and Teller?


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[Assistant] Right, so on there the guy goes on and the magician does the trick and Penn and Teller watch and then they come up and they say


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[Assistant] We think you used the, uh, we think that there was some, um, uh,


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[Assistant] Sask, Sask, Saskatchewan Shuffle taking place, if you know what I mean. And they're like, yeaah. So they're like talking about some specific technique that other magicians would know. And then if they say, was that part of the trick? And they say, no it wasn't.


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[Assistant] Let's see, but if you have amazing slight of hand, if you have amazing slight of hand, there is still a sequence in the trick where you do that.


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[Assistant] And I think some of those things they will mention as being like techniques. And this guy may do it better, but the main thing is these magicians coming up with new ways of doing old tricks. So they'll say, ah, this is this technique. And when the guy says, no, it wasn't that, they're like, well, then you fooled us because we didn't see how it was done other than that.


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[Assistant] So that's the clever part, but some of the people that go on there, like, you can look up on YouTube subsequently, how was this trick done?


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[Assistant] And I always watch those videos because I really want to know how it's done. And there are, there are, there are people that like the whole magic circle thing, as soon as the internet came around, it was done. It was done because, you know, anybody can just anonymously reveal how magic tricks are done and remain in the magic circle. No problemo.


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[Assistant] Because previously, in order to explain how tricks are done, you had to put a book out.


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[Assistant] And everybody would know who wrote the book, and you'd be booted out of the magic circle, and these secrets are not allowed. But you can look up how any magic trick is done now on YouTube. Which has kinda taken some of the fun away from it, but uhm, I still enjoy the skill.


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[Assistant] It is, it is, but that's the thing is like the classic magician style with the, uh, the beautiful assistant wearing the tutu or whatever is kind of a really dated style of magic. I don't, I don't think you see that so much anymore. No, not anymore.


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[Assistant] Jasper Maskeline was a British stage musician. He was also used by the military during the Second World War, claiming to have created large-scale ruses, deception and camouflage in an effort to defeat the Nazis.


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[Assistant] Uh, he claimed to have done a lot of things. Uhm, his contributions are either absolutely central, if you believe his account on that of his biographer, or very marginal, if you believe the official records.


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[Assistant] Uh, he claimed all kinds of things. He claimed he, um, made, like, boats disappear, he conjured up, uh, uh, surprise submarines that tricked the Germans and all kinds of daft stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, they, they, cause the, uh, there was a lot of, it was all part of a big intelligence scam. Someone will write in and say that I'm wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure I'm correct.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they had this big scam where they basically fed misinformation to the Germans for a very long time that the attack was gonna come somewhere else. That it would be from Dover to the nearest point of France.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and of course it didn't come there. I think they were expecting Calais and they had a lot of forces around Calais. Uhm, but the Germans were completely convinced that this was an assault taking place somewhere else. And they even had inflatable planes and inflatable tanks on the ground so that when, and like with camo netting over them,


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[Assistant] So that when the, uhm, German spy planes would go over, they would see this and go, ah yes, the invasion force is in Delphi, it's just like Hitler said it would be. But it wasn't. They were much further down the coast preparing to invade around Normandy, of course, and around there. So that was a real deception. There was a lot of deception.


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[Assistant] Uh, in the war, uh, operation mince meat and all this kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] They made a completely fictitious life for him. Everything on him you would look and you would think, yes, this is a real person's life. Everything. Pictures of his sweetheart.


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[Assistant] Uh, postcards, uh, his bag was like weathered, uh, you know, his handwriting was a specific way, everything. So that you would not look at it and think, this is a clever ploy, but it's a British. You would think, oh, we fucking got lucky here. And they dumped him off the coast of Spain in what looked like a plane crash. And of course he was recovered by the Spanish, and the Spanish, apparently, according to the movie that I recently watched, were determined to give him back to the British.


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[Assistant] They were like, don't worry, don't worry, we're remaining neutral in this, here's your dead officer, and of course the whole plan was the Germans would take it, so they had to go in there and convince the Germans somehow to go and get this body, and they managed it, and they were sold, they thought it was real, and they thought the intelligence was real, and uh, yeaah, apparently it helped in some way.


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[Assistant] No, but they also weren't actively in the war. Like, they weren't sort of, I mean, they'd had their own civil war and all the rest of it. They were fascists, but I don't think they were like, yeah, we'll help Hitler. They were sort of trying to remain relatively neutral.


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[Assistant] Which is about the Alan Turing movie with Benedict Cucumber in it. Which is, it's a really good movie. And the problem that they hit, of course,


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[Assistant] Is that, once they crack Enigma, they can't actually use it. They have to use it as infrequently as they can get away with. Because if you used it all the time, the Germans would know it had been cracked. So they crack it and then they realise, ah shit, we can't intercept every convoy and every U-boat and all the rest of it.


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[Assistant] Because then they'll know. So we actually have to continue knowing that something bad's gonna happen. Let it happen for the greater good. Those are the decisions where I think...


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[Assistant] I mean, yeah, it's like, can you imagine for D-Day, the Germans didn't know it was coming, right? They knew some kind of attack was coming, but they didn't know where or when. So you suddenly have this huge drop of paratroops and you have all these ships and all these things and they're calling up saying there's an invasion. They're like, oh, it's a feint. It's a clever ploy. They're going to invade somewhere else. Like that was a big thing.


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[Assistant] That the Germans didn't commit all their forces to Normandy because they thought, oh no, it's a, it's a feint. They've been tricking us because all their intelligence for some time have been pointing to it being somewhere else, which was a big part of the deception, was convincing them that the intelligence they had was wrong.


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[Assistant] I mean, the best thing you can do is give the enemy the real information and then think it's false. Like, then they ignore everything that points to that.


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[Assistant] They think, no, this is all part of that deception, you know, it's, it's very, it's all mind games. Uhm, but yeaah, I think it was, uh,


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[Assistant] It's interesting that uhm, how many of the deaths are just artillery, very long range artillery and missiles and rockets. It's hardly any actual people being shot. It's almost entirely, unbelievably long range, like dozens and dozens of miles away.


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[Assistant] Super pinpoint accuracy, artillery and rockets and stuff. That's the number one way that people are getting killed. Uhm, I don't know if that was always the case in war. Maybe it's always been artillery. But I certainly feel like there was a lot more, uh, people getting shot in World War II than there is nowadays. It's all just long range, crazy technology.


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[Assistant] Um, and that had, like, I think it was the one that Gus Grissom died in. It might have been Apollo.


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[Assistant] Apollo 1 or something like that. There was some mission where they burned up on the launch pad.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that mission, in real life, that didn't slow them down. And they didn't say, we're gonna have to be ten times more cautious. Because in the, the whole point of the first episode of, uh, For All Mankind, no spoilers, is that it opens with the moon landing and it's, it's, this is in the first five minutes, so this is not a spoiler. The Russians are landing on the moon.


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[Assistant] And all the Americans are watching and this guy turns to the camera and he's holding the Soviet flag with the hammer and sickle and he's like,


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[Assistant] Well, there's gonna be more, uh, in the next few years. Artemis 1 launched the other day, it's on the way, sent a picture back of Earth.


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[Assistant] So can they, can they, are we at the stage where there's any way to make the fuel on the moon? Because I know that was a, that was a thing in the show where they were talking about they can dig stuff out from the, from the moon and make fuel so you can have a much more fuel on something that has to take off from the moon because it's one eighth gravity.


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[Assistant] You don't need to use so much fuel just getting into space. You hardly have to use any.


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[Assistant] So, I mean, I think for a long time the dream has been to build...


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[Assistant] Everything, either in orbit or on the moon, and, I mean the moon would be easier because it's, you know, on the ground.


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[Assistant] Like, they, they, they could do it. So you wouldn't need to schlep all the fuel up into water.


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[Assistant] I mean, I, I like to think that even though, I, I do think he's a, he's a nut. Uhm, I know that I, I, I think people go overboard either way. I don't think he's the end of the world. I don't think he's a genius. I think he's just kind of a putz. Uhm, he should just not.


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[Assistant] He needs to stop talking, that is 100% of the thing he needs to do. Stop, stop talking, stop tweeting.


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[Assistant] Uh, so Kristallnacht was obviously, especially for German Jews, is like, you know, not something you want to commemorate with, say... Cheesy chicken. A big bucket of chicken.