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[Assistant] Um, and I'm not going to explain it very well because I'm doing it off the cuff.


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[Assistant] Did you read it on Reddit? No. Of course I did. Probably. But, I mean, we are trapped, we feel like we're trapped in this fleshy prison, okay, if you like. But that is only obviously where our localised centre is, sure, like, but we, part of our body is this thing which has got loads of bacteria in it, got loads of organisms in it, living on it.


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[Assistant] Just saying, well you have like eyelash mites right now crawling over your eyelashes.


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[Assistant] No, they're great. They are like, they're like super cleaners, right? So they don't even poop. They're like 100% efficient.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're mostly just a big, mostly just bacteria, which is fun.


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[Assistant] Basically, like, if you think about it, like, we're all covered, we're all, those bacterias and organisms and stuff is all part of you, anyway. Okay, so that, you consider those part of you. I love them! Yeah, exactly. You're attached to them. I love them for now.


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[Assistant] So those bacteria, to each other, are like brothers. They're all part of the same, they're all part of you. In fact, they're not really even brothers, they're all you. They're all the same. Right. Imagine, scale that up.


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[Assistant] You'd assume that the young mind would be able to get that concept more easily, that


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[Assistant] So anyway, the earth, okay, imagine the earth, think about it for a second. Imagine it's like a body with loads of bacteria that are part of it.


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[Assistant] That's us. We're all part of, of one big animal, of one big thing. And even the, the universe, you know, it's, it's like full of shit that is all part of one body. We're all the same. We're all brothers, is what I'm trying to say. And so even if someone comes up to you in the street and slaps you in the face, even if someone like,


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[Assistant] It's crazy. They need our help. They need, you know, it's naked running through Miami airport. They need like, we need to be there for them. We need to not judge them. Not, not be despairing. Like, you know, be supportive.


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[Assistant] Anyway, it's kind of, it's more likely, it's more likely a philosophical kind of sacred, I don't know, I'll try and explain it better next time. No, it's fine, I get it, I get it. I thought I'd give it a go, and I failed.


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[Assistant] Yeah, look after your friends. Yeah, just because someone's a boomer doesn't mean, you know, you shouldn't be nice to them.


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[Assistant] Get like the hamster wheel and the kids like exercise bike and stuff and set up to the power as well. Just get your whole house power in it.


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[Assistant] I think, I mean, this is what the future looks like according to people like Elon Musk. It's like basically you wouldn't, you buy a Tesla, right? But it would be.


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[Assistant] It will be there, uhm, and you'd, it's like, it's like.


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[Assistant] I really like the idea of, I think the future is like small little businesses that are paid fuck all probably, uh, online, right? So you get a like beep on your phone and it'd be like, there's a car driving into your driveway. Uh, you have to like plug it in.


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[Assistant] But these days, like, I saw a thing, I saw a thing which was like, I need, I need to earn money, right? And people put down this, there was this thing and it was like, pages and pages long, it was like, here's how to make some money, you know, you can make this much by filling in surveys, it's not very much, it's like, you know, a quid a survey.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's like hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of sites that you, if you're looking for like, if you just want to earn money from home, do stuff. Cause maybe like you're pregnant or you're like, I dunno, like injured or something and you want to still earn some money.


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[Assistant] But you know, not everyone can make it as a streamer or even make money. You know, I think a lot of people might put hours and hours into streaming and make pennies, whereas...


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[Assistant] They might put hours and hours into, you know, delivering food and make actual enough to live on. I think, you know, that you have to have, you have to be smart around it. I'm sure a lot of these things are very exploitive, like Uber drivers don't get paid enough and all the other problems, but.


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[Assistant] You know, at the end of the day, that's, that's the, I think that's a really interesting future. Right. Anyway, we should probably stop podcasting.


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[Assistant] I like the idea of the sips garage. You could like, you could like be like, do you want a candy bar in your tesla this morning? And you could like put a like fucking some candy bars in there. Get your kids cleaning it up, you know.


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[Assistant] Alright, bye! Bye! Thanks everyone, bye! See you next week! Bye!


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[Assistant] So here's a question about that, right? Malibu, Malibu Barbie comes out in the 80s and then in the 90s and the 2000s you have a lot of celebrities.


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[Assistant] Really? Malibu Barbie? Like the big seller? Cause Barbie in the 80s was fucking huge.


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[Assistant] You know what, it's so funny, when you think back to these businesses, all of these toys were mainly designed, made, overseen, managed by blokes.


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[Assistant] And I just imagine the Mad Men guys, but instead of doing advertising, I would like to see a version of Mad Men where they're arguing about Barbie dolls, and Don Draper gets up and gives some speech about knees and snapping, and how, you want a shorter skirt? Well let me tell you something, the American people aren't ready for a shorter skirt, you know.


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[Assistant] When I came to the UK, having grown up with American toys and


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[Assistant] And growing up there you felt like this is incredible. I came to the UK...


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[Assistant] And it was a bit like, uh, cause obviously the UK 70s and partly into the 80s were still recovering from sort of the war and it had a far more socialist feel. So it felt a bit like going from the future to some dank,


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[Assistant] It's so funny, it just felt a bit crappy, like the Barbie dolls, the Cindy, and there was another one, they just looked a bit chubbier and kind of not as well. They didn't have a tan, their clothes were like homemade.


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[Assistant] But the range of, I mean, when I came over here, action men was not a thing you got in the states. Like, at all. Like toys, back then, I was thinking about this.


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[Assistant] I think we talked about it the other week, I can't remember, about that. I was watching the original Day of the Jackal, when the characters in England, all the cars are English. When he's in France, they're all French. When he's in Italy, they're all Italian. And it was the same with toys, in that when I came over here,


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[Assistant] And I went to a toy store. There seemed to be a much smaller range of toys that I was used to seeing in huge volumes. And you just could not get.


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[Assistant] Few of the main characters, a couple of the bigger things, but I never saw like a Millennium Falcon on the shelves, or an X-Wing, but I used to see them all the time in the States.


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[Assistant] But they've taken the characters, and they've tried to make them, like nowadays, if you think about the characters that come out, the Lord of the Rings movies, any fucking movie, I go into my local comic shop in Richmond, and they've always got toys in tie-ins for everything.


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[Assistant] So every movie that comes out, because it's grownups collecting them really for their little


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[Assistant] Blast case of inceldom that they put all their things in. And these were way before that. 1992, this wasn't a thing back then. And they'd taken them and nowadays they're made loving recreations of the characters.


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[Assistant] So there's like John Wick toys or whatever, and they'll be a perfect model. It'll look just like John Wick in the movie. But back then, if you look at this...


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[Assistant] They've been like, their imagination has run wild. So.


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[Assistant] Ripley has like a gigantic cannon and like all this stuff hanging off her. Vazquez has a back-mounted missile launcher that sits on top of her head and has a giant rack of missiles. Like they've literally turned them into cheap-ass superheroes as a vague tie-in to the Aliens franchise. That's so weird.


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[Assistant] I wonder if it's like, uhm, like if you think about the, as you said, the shelf life for these toys, it's not just like what's hot.


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[Assistant] Because if you think about it, something doesn't stay hot for like five years. Yeah. It's more like kids are the right age. Yeah, that's it. Cartoons come out. This is the best thing ever. But when those kids grow up, you can't rerun the old cartoons.


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[Assistant] Because they're no longer cool. And also, when that kid's grown up too big for those toys, they give them to their younger sibling. You don't need to buy them a second time.


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[Assistant] Well, my, my eldest is some kind of, uh, trading savant. Cause she, she keeps her eye on the trends. She understands that, oh, she, she came home the other, the other week.


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[Assistant] She literally is. She came home at the start of this school year and she was like, I think some of the, uh, I think some of the year threes, cause they've moved up to the, so there are two playgrounds at the school. There's one for the year one and two kids. And then once you're in year three to year six, you're in the big playground.


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[Assistant] So the year three new intake, they see all the stuff that the year fives and sixes are playing with, and of course, they want it. So she's hustling. The year threes come into the playground, she sees them and she said to me, some of the year threes are getting into Pokemon, I think that's uh, you know, and she was basically thinking, new market.


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[Assistant] She figures out that all the kids in year three just want the cute Pokemon.


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[Assistant] And they'll trade their good Pokemon for cute Pokemon. So she starts trading for cute Pokemons, so she can-


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[Assistant] But she just, she knows that that is then more valuable to another trader. Yeah, yeah. Who does play. That's smart. You, you, you've raised, you've raised an entrepreneur. She needs a million, a million. Put me down for two boxes. For two percent of the company. I'll take, I'll take.


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[Assistant] But get this, she expanded her market further, right? She realized that there were a lot of boys that didn't have an interest in Pokemon cards, but they had some. They just acquired them somehow. Like, they had them.


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[Assistant] You're right, well, she found out that they were into match attacks, like the football cards.


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[Assistant] So she traded, and we bought, she was like, I need to buy some match attacks. I was like, oh, you're getting into football? She goes, no, I still don't care about football, but the-


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[Assistant] Alright, so let me ask you guys, this is a moral quandary, if you like. Uhm, this is a friend of mine. Their son.


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[Assistant] I'm sure he has, but the point is that they've run the rule over this kid and decided he's not up to scratch. So what, what do you say if that's your child who says, I really want to play football. I didn't make the cut. What can I do? What do you do? All the other kids in your class, all the other boys in your class are playing football. You can't. Do you like missiles?


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[Assistant] What about being a header? Let's move off football. Let's move off football. Because this is actually triggering.


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[Assistant] About the 1990, uh, football team, the Italian 90 England team, around that era, that's when Kenner were at their peak, you would have had Gazza with a jetpack.


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[Assistant] My thing is that these were clearly toys aimed at kids for a franchise of movies that are 18 plus.


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[Assistant] Alright, so what would, what would be the least appropriate toys to release based off a video game? I'm thinking Amnesia would be a pretty, pretty bad range of toys.


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[Assistant] Did he kill anyone in Terminator 1? No, but in the first film he did kill people and he was gonna kill people in 2, but John Connor stopped him and said, what are you doing? He's gonna shoot this guy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he tried to kill her. But when they sent a different one back to protect John Connor, he was in an argument with some guys in a car park and he pulled out a gun and he was gonna shoot them.


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[Assistant] The thing is, you may as well tell them not travel, I think, because I'm, by the time this comes out, I'll be there. I'm in Kiev next week.


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[Assistant] So I'm, I'm going via Munich airport. I'm going to Kiev. What are you going there for? A Dota event. All right. Me and Sips gets GDC next week.


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[Assistant] That's a good thing. There are three games that I'm into at the moment. Obviously Dota, I'm gonna exclude because that's been a permanent fixture of my life.


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[Assistant] Um, just had a big update, uh, three big updates since I last played it. It's amazing. It's very, very cool. It's very difficult, but it feels very cool to be flying in helicopters. You can call in artillery strikes. It's very cool. Hell let loose. I still want to play that as a new map for that. I want to play that. Tarkov.


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[Assistant] Tarkov. I've been playing Tarkov and it is very fun. It's very tense, very nerve wracking.


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[Assistant] People were asking me in chat, do you think Sips was like this? I was like, I think Sips would fucking hate this.


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[Assistant] What I've found is, certain maps lend themselves to pure fighting, you don't really need to worry about anything else.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I get lost on the maps an awful lot. Some of them are very big. And once you know them, I think that's half, half the game, maybe more than half the game. A bit like Counter-Strike. If you play CSGO, if you don't know the maps,


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[Assistant] You're out of this run, that's it, there's no respawn for you, and everything you had on you, apart from the stuff in your little special case, I'm taking that.


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, but you can put the really valuable stuff, the really valuable stuff, like special keys and things like that, you can put in the case.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I was watching like, um, Sacrile stream it. He has like 200 million


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[Assistant] Very frustrating. Like you get people camping the exits, which is the lowest of the low. I mean they literally lie in a corner waiting for you to try and exit the map and then they shoot you and take your stuff. And people will run to the exit to camp the exit. Like the match will start and they will just run to the exit to camp it. That's it. And I'm thinking, what a desperate piece of shit you are. Fuck you.


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[Assistant] But then the additional, the additional adjustment, which I think is so clever is that there are also AI units on the map. Yes. But players can also be controlling the AI units. So you can do a run where you spawn in.


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[Assistant] I will say this, I've streamed it a bit. It is the most backseated game I think I've ever played. Everything I'm doing is wrong.


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[Assistant] No, don't put your screws there. You need the bolts and the screws. No, don't sell that. Oh my god, what are you doing? It's like constant. Yeah. Oh, don't put that ammo in that gun. You need the, the PP1748B rounds, not the C rounds, you noob. You're like, come on. Oh man, there's like, there's like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I think the thing is the mods can only, they can change a little bit, but they can't change the underlying code. So whatever happens with a mod, it's still basically building on the base game. So any DLC that the actual devs release, they can change the game.


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[Assistant] Some of these games are games for masochists. Like a lot of people that dive into games like that, like, you have to grind, like Battle Brothers is a prime example of a game I really want to love.


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[Assistant] But if I lose one more guy to a random headshot from some unarmored archer with a bow and arrow, and this guy's, it's like 20 missions I've had to do to get this guy leveled up and get geared up, bam, dead. I'm like what the fuck, like my archer just died, and it's gonna take me hours and hours and hours to replace him. I can't even afford to replace him, and he just dies?


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[Assistant] Like, there's nothing I can do. There's nothing you can do. I mean, it's just like, I honestly think it's a, it's, there are a lot of games out there where the devs are appealing to a niche crowd who like that. Of psychopaths. Yes. They enjoy the suffering and pain of randomly losing a guy.


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[Assistant] People don't wanna stick their necks up and say, this game was too hard for me, cause it's like admitting failure. I also think with a lot of those games, what you end up with, if it's that brutally hard, people are gonna min-max it, and it turns out, oh, this is the only build that's actually any good.


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[Assistant] Don't do this, don't do that, this literally boils down to, this is the only thing that actually really gives you a decent chance. And I like games that give you a bunch of different ways to win. It annoys me when a game doesn't have that.


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[Assistant] Do you know the first, the first game I can remember being like that, I think it was called Dragon's Lair, and it was an arcade game, and it was very expensive, because it used, instead of just graphics, it was almost like watching a cartoon. Yea, it had the cartoon.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it was Ralph Banshee was the artist, I think. But it was really fucking impossibly hard.


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[Assistant] Like impossibly hard. The game gave you no feedback. There was no idea of what you had to do. You just had to learn by playing it. And there were trading cards that came out to go with Dragon's Lair. I remember having them. I remember I'd play the game, I'd put my money in, I would die almost straight away. Because there was no internet guide to look up.


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[Assistant] A way better way of doing this. Yea, like Dota is hard. And the better you get at it, the harder it gets. But you can always, there is always a way to win. Yea. That's what I like about it. And yes, there are some games you just think, oh my god. But it's like you got outdrafted or, you know, you made a fundamental mistake. Yea, there's meta games.


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[Assistant] It's, it's stupid. Like most games, let's say you know those puzzles where, I think Mario, that's why Mario did this really well, is you generally know, okay, something's about to happen. Like if there's a platform that's gonna collapse, it wobbles a bit and you think, oh shit, this is gonna collapse and you jump off it.


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[Assistant] I mean the thing is, by putting that in, what you're doing is saying we don't want save scumming. Like we want that kind of rogue experience. But it's like, but, but, that's like, if you don't want to save scum, just do an Iron Man run.


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[Assistant] I have a heart condition and I have, I have anxiety. There's no way I'm playing a game where I die and that's the end of the game. No way. Too much for me. Too much.


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[Assistant] As soon as I left the house, I'm off to university, she's like, fuck this nerd, I'm gonna snap the heads off all his action men. What the fuck?


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[Assistant] But to me this is like, like she loves looking through this stuff.


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[Assistant] And I like the fact that I've kept it because I know she's gonna be into this stuff when she's older.


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[Assistant] So I've kept it, honestly, because I know that one day she will get value for it. Also, I'm still desperate to play the original Car Wars with someone at some point. I reckon Batman 3. Car Wars? Yeah, Car Wars, mate. One of the best board games of all times. And Starfleet Battles. Any Starfleet Battles fans out there? Yep, there will be. There will be. Couple of nerds. Couple of nerds. Bless you.


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[Assistant] The rulebook for Starfleet battles is like a tax manual. It is insane.


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[Assistant] You'll be in the middle of dessert. I'm gonna say, actually Lewis, according to rule 14b.6.01 clause 3, you cannot launch a wild weasel shuttle on your turn after you've done your energy allocation, but before you've done life support or something. It'll be like that, of course.


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[Assistant] I'll do a solo pop- or I'll- how about this? How about...


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[Assistant] The week you guys are away, I do like, uh, a special triforce where I talk to other people and record those conversations and we put it on.


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[Assistant] And they're bringing out a long War of the Chosen, which is like a sequel that incorporates War of the Chosen. Yeah. And that's, they said 200 to 300 hours for the playthrough. That's as much time as I have in XCOM. That's insane.


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[Assistant] So, and there's Phoenix Point is coming out later this year, which is made by Julian Gollop. So people call it an Xcom-alike game. I just want to point something out. Julian Gollop


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[Assistant] It was, it was absolutely groundbreaking. And laser squad in games like that. That...


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[Assistant] Like, these XCOM games should really be called Laser Squad style games, but of course Laser Squad is a game that has been lost in time. People have forgotten about it, but it had turn-based combat, and on the Spectrum, you had to aim with like a cursor, and so the bullets wouldn't travel in like...


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[Assistant] For the time. And it was just, it was really tense. It was one map, you started on the left, you were humans, and you had to get through this jungle area, across a river, to the dropship, and get on the dropship and escape.


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[Assistant] And if you, if you could, you needed to go into the alien hive, steal some eggs and take them with you for extra points. Now you could play it two player. One person plays as the humans, one person plays as the aliens.


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[Assistant] My eldest daughter yesterday, my kids are talking about farting because they tease each other about farting a lot and my eldest was teasing my youngest that when she's drifting off to sleep she farts a lot because they share a room at the moment.


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[Assistant] So, she was, uh, defending herself, but they were kinda laughing and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] And then I said to them, look, everybody farts, even the queen. And my oldest daughter's head sort of snapped around. She said, what? She goes, you told me that the queen didn't fart. And I said, when did I tell you this? And she said, you told me that they have to do a special test to see if you can become the queen. And if you fart.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think one of the things is with cards and card games, of course, you would have had to have a consistency.


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[Assistant] So you would have had to have, for cards to be widespread like the playing cards that we have, you'd need to have consistency of game. Because you want to go, when you play poker in Texas, you want it to be the same as the poker that you play in London, barring whatever minor local changes there would be. So I think maybe that required a bit more


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[Assistant] Well yeah, I mean, otherwise it's not a game. Like, there are, there are, there are certainly, there are games that don't involve, that are pure skill, like chess and poker and stuff like that. Yeah. That people play for serious money and treat almost like a sport. Because I think any time that you arrive at a, at a game where it's like, we can actually play this competitively, the main thing that's missing


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[Assistant] Printing technology, woodblock printing means that you can have a consistency. So the cards are the same. So when you go play with someone,


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[Assistant] Well sing really well, I'd just do that all the time, like that would be great. But because I can't do anything, I play games. And it's just, it fills my time, it entertains me. It gives you a chance to hang out with other people and do something, because otherwise you're just sitting there and I think night after night after night talking to people.


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[Assistant] It's just, just, you just have to stand at the side and hope it all works out and, and you know, that's pretty much the best we can do. But I don't even think about it. I find it very stressful.


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[Assistant] My wife's, uh, my wife's grandmother said to her one time, uh, cause she loved Scrabble, both, both of my wife's, uh, grand, grandparents, like the, they loved Scrabble. And I remember one time she said to me, do you play Scrabble at home? And I said, oh no, Maddie doesn't like it. And she, she turned to her and said, if your husband wishes to play Scrabble, you must play Scrabble. See that's one of those


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean it's literally Mrs. F and like a handful of other women and then they, I think the rest of them, the message, you know, news got out. This guy's hideous. Ignore him. He's uh, he's ugly. He's definitely gonna go bald. Probably a nerd.


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[Assistant] Man, you know, you know what, I actually, uh, I wanna talk about streaming in a tiny bit. It's funny we should talk about Twitch. Last night, uh, I got really angry playing CSGO with a guy I played, his name is Bob, I play games with him all the time.


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[Assistant] He's a really nice lad, played games with him for years. Really got angry with him, and I feel like, I mean, first of all, I apologize. And anytime I get angry with people, I apologize. I play games like Dota and CSGO, they're very intense.


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[Assistant] Concentration based games and you're not really, I'm not myself when I'm playing those games. Like when I'm playing XCOM and I'm alone.


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[Assistant] Way more chill because it's just me and the computer and I don't care if I lose. It's not that bad. It's often that it's funny and the story that emerges is funny and I like that.


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[Assistant] Sometimes when you're playing a single player game, I feel like the failure is part of the story. Whereas when I'm playing multiplayer games, I get very competitive and my brain switches and I stop.


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[Assistant] But it's like tiny little attacks on your brain, I think. That's the only way I can explain it. That's exactly what it is, yea. It's just like little micro- what are they called? Microaggressions, right? But it's not aggressions, it's just people laughing the way they would at anything. I wouldn't- I wouldn't stream if I di- if I couldn't handle it, but my brain is obviously having trouble with it. It's like this for everyone.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just feel like part of it is uhm, it's weird because from a viewer's perspective, I find that when I'm watching Twitch streams, I fall into the same attitude that viewers generally do. But when you're doing it, it changes your mentality a little bit, even if you don't realize it. Especially depending on the game you're playing.


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[Assistant] But the main thing is time. For me it's time. The reaction time in XCOM is as long as you want. You can sit there and plan out your turn and think and you can take your time and look at whatever he's got and plan everything. And I like that. Whereas in Dota there's no time. You have no time.


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[Assistant] He used to tell me I hadn't heard before, I'm sure other people have heard it, it's like time to reward. Right, I've never heard of that. So how much, it's like an equation, like time over reward. So how much time


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[Assistant] It's like opening a loot box or opening a mystery envelope or something. You don't know what's in there.


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[Assistant] Suddenly you can end up with a level 3 slark or whatever or, you know, a key unit you've been wanting appears. The time to reward is very short and in World of Warcraft it's the same. Every time you kill something, you open that little loop thing and there might be something cool in there.


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[Assistant] Like that's, that's the stress of it. With CSGO, it's a bit easier because you can win a round, even with pistols against full stack guys, you can win. So the, you know, the reward is round by round. You're getting a win.


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[Assistant] And when you win, you get more money, you can get the guns you want and all the rest of it, you pull off a sick shot on the next round, alright, you might die the next round, but in two minutes you'll be back on your feet and you can play again. So it's quite, it's faster time to reward to Dota.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's great now. I've actually got a new computer coming, uh, before the end of this month. It's a, it's a beast. It's an absolute beast. I got overclockers to build it for me and I got my friend JJ to design it. So it's like a proper monster computer. Nice. Cause this one is like three and a half years old now and it's starting to creek a little bit. Yeah. And I can't stream.


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[Assistant] Because there's nothing like the spread of skill that you get on the pubby service. There'll be a group of three or four lads that are like elite Rust players, god gamers at Rust, and taking them down with 30


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[Assistant] That's pretty funny. We had like, we had two crews, we had the day crew and the night crew was all the American guys that would log in and play until, so you'd wake up in the morning and they'd be like, oh, pflux, quickly, before I go. And they'd, they'd built some new tower or they'd acquired some new blueprint or something like that. And it was, it was, it was almost like you log in and


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[Assistant] Just execute her on TV. You were not supposed to talk about the storm.


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[Assistant] Oh man. I reckon kids are getting more splinters and stuff because everyone's at home. Do you reckon people are falling off ladders and drilling themselves in the hand and stuff? You know, do you reckon like households?


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[Assistant] I got my bike out, I pumped up the tyres, and while I was doing it, I uhm, cause one of the tyres was like, it's really awkward to get the little, you know that stupid little clip thing.


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[Assistant] Well, once you've pumped the tire up, you want to pull that thing off as quickly as possible so you don't lose all the air that you just added. Anyway, it wouldn't come off and I yanked it and then I managed to pull it too hard and I stabbed my knuckle on the gears. And so now I've got this big cut on my knuckle.


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[Assistant] And I was like, was bleeding quite a lot. And I'm like, I, I, I, that's just as very stats of something I could treat with plasters and Savlon, but you know, if someone had actually, you know, even me stuck at home, not even stuck


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[Assistant] Oh no, no, you're gonna have to screw that together. You're gonna have to get the drill out.


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[Assistant] Couple of people out pushing prams around and like, you know, just trying to like looking frazzled or having like to wrangle kids and stop them, you know, stop them from like, like don't touch the railing too much.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. Okay, first of all, I can imagine like day one, you've finished, you're, you're a dad, right? So you managed to get a whiteboard or a blackboard from somewhere and you've written on the, on the, on the blackboard, Mr. Mr. Dad. Mr. Dad.


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[Assistant] That's entrepreneurial. Like all of the pro players, well not all the pros, but a lot of the pros are like, start playing the game when they're like 8 or 9, right? And then by the time they're 14 or 15, they're like the best.


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[Assistant] Some of like the best Starcraft players are like teenagers. So like you need to like put those, put your kids, yeah, think about it. I reckon they'd be better stock traders than like the pros.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Well, they're all lizards, so yeah. Yeah. It's, it's all, it's all, it's the economy is a, is a gambling game, isn't it? And for us, certainly, you know, we shouldn't, there's a classic thing like that, you know,


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[Assistant] That's my indicator that if it's, if people are talking about something being that like, if, if people in the street are telling you a type of rest of the stock market is not the type of stock market.


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[Assistant] I don't know, like, but investing is all about 20 year time horizons anyway, you know, so it's not hugely important unless of course your pensions coming up, in which case, um, for UP flex much more important. Oh man, that reminds me.


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[Assistant] Lots of people use an alternative to their, to their, to the, to the pension idea. Um, you know, then it's not, it don't feel guilty about not putting money into it necessarily. It's not right. Well, don't because.


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[Assistant] Well, but you've bought, have you been paying off your house, I assume, and things like that? Like, that in a way is saving for the time.


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[Assistant] All of these things are terrible attitudes, PFLAX. You know, your kids will be fine without you and shouldn't need to live, you shouldn't need, shouldn't need to live on your handouts. If, if, if they are, then it's unfortunately a unfortunate situation.


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[Assistant] No, but I never expected my parents, and I don't think your parents, your kids, if you ask them, if you, if you say to your kids, you know, do you expect, you know, half a million pounds when I die? They were not, well, they won't say yes.


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[Assistant] Step one, you better like, you better live like a pauper to pay, you know, to give me a free house when I'm, you know, when I'm 40.


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[Assistant] This is like dad at home. This is like Mr. Dad teaching them though. It's like go to the Eiffel Tower and write an essay about fucking Germany. It's like go to the cathedral, go to the Vatican and fucking, you know, look at the tomb, read the, read the inscription and write 300 words, post it under my, under my coffin.


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[Assistant] Yeah, going on a mission to like earn there.


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[Assistant] Maybe they, maybe they will, maybe they won't. I'm, I'm not saying that I haven't helped to look after my parents, you know, to some extent, you know, um, and I'm, I'm glad to.


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[Assistant] I think, I think, I think, you know, it's, it's all, it's very easy to be, to contribute. Who was, I was speaking to someone the other day and they said that, you know, they've got something like someone who's been affected by this crisis. And they said that they had, you know, about 20 grand in savings or something, but if their mom needed it more than they did, they'd give it to their mom. And I was like,


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[Assistant] I don't know. I don't, I think this is, it is, it is like, I don't know. It's not very nice to think of your kids as an investment in your future.


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[Assistant] I feel like most of the time kids are a sacrifice that you are willing to, almost like they become more important, from what you two have said anyway, sort of they become the priority in your life. You know, your selfishness goes away.


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[Assistant] Um, and you that, and they become the priority. And I think like you said, you know, make sure you want to leave something for them is, is a much, is a very common thing that, that, that a generation feels like they have to provide for their.


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[Assistant] But at the same time, I feel like you end up with, at the rich end of the spectrum, uhm, you end up with Walmart as, you know, taking over or, you know, even companies being led by their son or, it's like the monarchy, you know, back in the day, they were not the best


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[Assistant] The family members were not the best people. Sometimes you get a good king, sometimes you


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[Assistant] He's, he has clout. Like, I mean, I don't have any respect for, really, for Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg, let alone their kids, do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] We need some Game of Thrones up in here. We need like a war. Like Harry is Stannis Baratheon.


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[Assistant] There needs to be like some sort of sliding scale on inheritance, right? Where Jeff Bezos' idiot child doesn't inherit, you know, 70 trillion dollars in order to completely fuck the world up with it. Do you know what I mean? Like I feel like, I feel like we need some sort of sliding scale. If you're going to inherit more than


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[Assistant] I think that actually P-Flex, P-Flex is 100% right about inheritance because there's this issue where some communities like black communities in America were never made like right. You know, they were never brought up to the same kind of wealth standard as the local white folks.


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[Assistant] So anyway, sorry to interrupt your lesson, PFLAX, about inheritance.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's been like, it's been a couple of hundred years and the sort of, the black community is still much worse off and it's, it is due to.


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[Assistant] It's a shame that our society is set up like that, and that's one of the reasons I think that maybe if inheritance taxes were higher, and I'm sure they are high anyway for some people, but if they were higher for the higher end, maybe the wealth would have been transferred more equally around society and not been


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[Assistant] You know, for hundreds of years kept in the same communities. So that was my point that I was trying to make earlier.


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[Assistant] It is really tough and I think the vast, vast majority of families are just making do. They're not, they're not, they're not, they don't sit on a big nest egg or something to pass on to the next generation.


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[Assistant] I think that a lot of people have, certainly of this generation and the last generation, you know, we, we were past the baby boom. Our population is growing older.


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[Assistant] I don't know though. I don't know about these days, whether certainly in the West, the middle class has, has, has grown or grown wealthier in the last sort of 20 to 30 years. I don't think it has. I think actually we've seen, you know,


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[Assistant] From a time when in the sort of 60s and 70s, you know, you were able to support a family with one person employed and housing was a lot cheaper. Now, you know, it feels like everything is, is a lot, the middle class are being squeezed.


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[Assistant] I guess the point I was sort of trying to make was that I think it's a bit of a shame.


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[Assistant] Anyway, P-Flex, I think what I was trying to get to was that I don't think you should feel bad about not leaving a castle to your progeny.


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[Assistant] Maybe they can. I don't know. I think it made the jump from bats to cats to people. I don't know if dogs can get it or something like that. Something like that. Holy crap. It's a funny old time, isn't it?


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[Assistant] I think a lot of people I speak to are very anxious. I think a lot of people are very stressed about this whole situation. And there's certainly, you know, the media doesn't, doesn't really help in terms of, so if it does feel like we've watched zombie movies for years and years and suddenly like, I don't know, all that's unconscious


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[Assistant] So your characters have got very strong personalities. Did you ever find out you were reenacting them when you were writing?


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[Assistant] We're back, we're back, we're back, but I don't know any other languages, so.


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[Assistant] That's the shitter. If you get stuck somewhere in a foreign land and you're quarantined and you can't get back home, that's a bad part of it, right? I mean, getting the virus would be pretty bad too.


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[Assistant] Because the thing is, with toilet paper, there's lots of alternatives. Lots of alternatives. Get an old pillowcase, you wipe your ass with that, no problem.


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[Assistant] If you have like an old duvet or whatever, just cut it up into little squares. Wipe your ass like a million times with that, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and if you're, if you're really ahead of the times, you'll, you'll have a bidet in your, uh, in your bathroom and you'll spray warm water into your ass to cleanse it, you know, just kidding.


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[Assistant] They're very popular on the continent, right? France and Italy have them and other places like that. I think Japan is quite popular with them as well. They like to spray water up their asses in Japan.


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[Assistant] I feel like the bidet should be like an all in one, you know? After it's done spraying your ass, it should gently blow some warm air into your ass to help it dry.


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[Assistant] Well, I think, uh, washing your hands is the more, more important one. I think, uh, no matter what happens, if your hands are in your ass for some reason or whatever, just wash your hands. Like, I think, I think that's, that's the big takeaway from all this is people should just wash their hands more, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it seems like a weird thing to stockpile toilet paper. Like you said, like gas, I can understand people stockpiling like gas, you know, things like things that they would need for a generator to keep like electricity going and stuff like that. But like, you know, stockpiling a bunch of toilet paper and ketchup and stuff, you know, it's.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're just talking, talking. There's more to talk about, really. I mean, this is a-


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[Assistant] I think the thing is, is most people feel like if there is an outbreak in their local area.


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[Assistant] They're just gonna hunker down and stay home and not have any guests over and wait it out, which is, you know, sensible. Like, I mean, you could pretty much, you could pretty much do it. You know, you just need a lot of antibacterial gel, good hand washing and stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you'd probably be fine. So, I guess people are stockpiling things that they need to just live ordinary life in their house without going out for like a couple of weeks.


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[Assistant] You'd think that there'd be more with all the stockpiling going on, but I guess like- Like has Netflix done well out of this?


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[Assistant] I don't know, it doesn't feel like they'd be affected somehow, like I think, I think, you know, like retail, especially like,


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[Assistant] Like grocery supermarkets and stuff like that will probably see more money coming in. But then, you know, like travel, the travel industry will probably see a huge slump, right? Because a lot of people


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[Assistant] Well that's the thing, people will be super conscious of it now because of this going around, but if this wasn't a thing right now, uhm, people would be touching the rubber on the escalator, no problem, not washing their hands and stuff, generally I don't think people think like that, they don't think about that, some people do.


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[Assistant] 2020. Those ski slopes are steep. Real steep. Dangerous. I think, I think zorbing can be dangerous for sure, but.


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[Assistant] Alright, listen to this. Listen to this. Okay. Well, let's see if you can top this, actually. This is a strange one. I had pancakes for, uhm, dinner yesterday. I think this might be the cause of the story I'm about to tell you. I had some pancakes for dinner. They were really good pancakes. Like, I liked them a lot. Had some blueberries, fresh blueberries.


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[Assistant] I think the source of this story that I'm about to tell you is because of pancake eating, uh, somehow. I don't have any proof.


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[Assistant] We'll see. We'll see what you think. Anyway, I uh, I do the usual. I watch a bit of TV. My wife, it's getting late. My wife's getting ready to go to bed and I'm like, all right, I'm going to go out and play some, some Tarkov for a bit as I normally do. So I snuck out and played.


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[Assistant] Put a bit Tarkov, it was good, I had a nice time and everything, and uhm, didn't like listen to any music or anything, this is an important point to note. I wasn't listening to music, I didn't do anything out of the ordinary, you know, like, in fact, another, another, uhm, point to note.


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[Assistant] I don't think I've had anything to do with Paul McCartney for quite some time actually. Like, I mean, I listened to The Beatles a lot like last year, but recently nothing, you know? So anyway.


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[Assistant] No, I haven't spoken to him, I haven't seen anything with him in it, like nothing, okay? Like, Paul McCartney is just a distant memory for me.


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[Assistant] So anyway, I close my eyes, I hit the sack, I go to bed. I have this dream that I'm in my backyard, I'm in the garden with like my kids and my wife, and uhm, we're just doing like family stuff in the garden, you know, the kids are playing and having like a barbecue and stuff, and Paul McCartney's there.


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[Assistant] He's just standing there. He's not like talking or anything. I'm talking to my wife, I'm talking to my kids and stuff and Paul McCartney is just like, it's like he's not there, you know, he's just like,


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[Assistant] No, he didn't, he didn't say a word. He didn't say a single word. So at some point in the barbecue, I turned to my wife and


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[Assistant] I get to have this like cardboard box. It's like this little tiny cardboard box with a, with like a,


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[Assistant] Almost like a, it's like a big hole, like the side is missing from the box. So it's like, you know, it looks like it could be like a little stage or something like that. You know what I mean? Like there's, there's a completely missing. So inside the box I'm putting in.


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[Assistant] Some like straw and, and some other stuff. And then I find a whole bunch of like weeds on the, on the lawn like, you know, dandelions and whatnot. So I put a whole bunch in there so that it's like facing like the front of where the hole is like outward.


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[Assistant] And I turned to my wife and was like, I wonder if Paul McCartney will like this. And she's like, yeah, try him on it. So I hold the box really close to Paul McCartney's face and he starts nibbling on some weeds, like, you know, just some dandelion leaves or whatever and looks like he likes them.


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[Assistant] And I turn to my wife and I say, yeah, he really likes this. And then, um,


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[Assistant] Just as I, just before I'm, I'm waking up, like my kids like wake me up about two minutes after this, uh, my final thought in my dream is I'm gonna put this box on the ground and then I had this vision of Paul McCartney on all fours down on the grass eating leaves out of this box in my backyard and then I woke up.


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[Assistant] I just fucking, I didn't feel creeped out by it or anything. I just woke up and I was just perplexed. I just couldn't believe it. I woke up and I just thought...


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[Assistant] Lewis, remember that time we went to that zombie burlesque show?


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[Assistant] And we weren't even sitting like at the front and they were heckling us big time. That was uncomfortable. I didn't like that. That was great. No, I hated that. Yeah. There were, there was lots of- They were mocking all of us. Man, all of us. Yeah. But I didn't like the tone, the implication that it was like five guys. So they just assumed that we were all gay, which was-


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? Like what? We were on a trip together, like, but that's the thing, when you're getting heckled, uh, or like roasted like that, you can't explain the situation, you know? Like, you can't go into detail, like they don't care.


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[Assistant] Diet's a huge part of like, uh, health and, and, and health problems, right?


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[Assistant] Great. Is there any, any like, cause who was, who played, uh, Betty in the, in the live action movies? It wasn't Ricky Lake, was it?


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[Assistant] She was, yeah, 90s especially, I remember. She's 51, she looks fantastic. She's got a podcast.


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[Assistant] What's that? What was that offspring song again? Pretty fly for white guy. There's a mention of Ricky Lake in there.


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[Assistant] You know, you can always go on Ricky Lake. It was a big thing in the nineties.


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[Assistant] Don't worry, don't worry, we're here to help you through it. We're gonna get you through this flax, just like we're gonna get you through everything else, by going plant-based, that's it.


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[Assistant] The movies that made us? Oh no, last time was The Toys That Made Us, but there's a spin-off series called The Movies That Made Us.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, they got, they had, uh, the making of, uhm, Die Hard, the original. Right, right. Uh, Ghostbusters, Home Alone, and I think Dirty Dancing, which I didn't watch, but I watched the other ones.


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[Assistant] There's only one series though, there's still time for them to do Terminator and stuff.


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[Assistant] Let's turn Paul McCartney into a household pet for this guy's dream. That'll be hilarious. It's like inside out, I've got like a team.


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[Assistant] Just like, you know, controlling my brain in a control center or whatever.


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[Assistant] Hey, so I also watched on Netflix recently the documentary about Aaron Hernandez, you know, the NFL football player.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I didn't really want to watch it at first, because I appreciate the recommendation, but it was just like, I don't know, I find...


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[Assistant] It's a bit depressing. Just like the whole, the whole sort of like, uh, angle on, you know, repeated sort of concussions and, and potential brain damage, turning people into like these.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. So anyway, I didn't want to watch it based on that because it's just like, I just don't know if you know.


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[Assistant] But, uh, no, it was really well done. It's, uh, it's interesting. It's pretty, it's tragic too. Like it, no matter how you look at it, the whole thing is fairly depressing, but, but no, it was good. It was interesting. Oh, Lewis.


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[Assistant] And that was the end of the game. Ben, I don't know if you know much about Ben, but he doesn't make a lot of eye contact, like he looks down a lot. And uhm, at this point, Ben lifts his eyes and realizes that he's playing against Sir Paul McCartney.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Ben told me this story before as well. I'm familiar with it. And, uh, it's just like, it's the, it's that guy. It's, it's the same. It's the dungeon master who just like makes up the rules and is, is airtight at like as he goes sort of thing. You know, it's the, it's, it's like the gatekeeper of fun. It's, it's that guy. Yep.


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[Assistant] She might like, uh, my son has been doing this thing at school. It's a, it's a Microsoft product. It's called, uhm, like Kodu or something like that. Kodu? K-O-D-U, I think.


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[Assistant] And it's a, it's like a, like a kid's programming, like you can make like games, you can make whatever in it, but it's just like really simple sort of like.


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[Assistant] Mario Maker style animation-y stuff and whatever.


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[Assistant] She might like that though, like if she's into that sort of stuff, like I thought I'd mention it because I know my son's like super into it. He came home yesterday. He's like, hey, you tried that.


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[Assistant] That game saved Hasbro at some, at one point, you know? Hasbro almost was, was dead in the 80s. And if it wasn't for Hungry Hippos, Hungry Hungry Hippos, they'd be fucking gone. It's amazing to me when that happens.


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[Assistant] You think of these huge companies and how they make so much money and they have so much power and they can never do wrong, but if you look in their history,


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[Assistant] Fuck me, it's such a gamble, like all the time. Like so many of them have made dumb mistakes. Like Lego, same with Lego. Early 2000s, Lego almost went under. They had like IPs with Star Wars and Harry Potter at the time and there's no new movie.


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[Assistant] Like in 2004, I think, and they were, they were just like, ah fuck, we're dead. Like we. Wow. Yeah. We're, we're like.


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[Assistant] If a company is about one thing, like toy companies are interesting because they, they have lines of, they have like product lines, right? Like they have like IDs and whatever.


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[Assistant] Wait, games companies are the same, yeaah, there's a factor to that I think, like I have a theory on this, and it's that if a company is around for a long enough time,


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[Assistant] The people that it ends up hiring are diehard fans of their company, like that grew up, you know, like, look at blizzards like that now, to some extent, valves like that now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, certainly toy companies are like that, you know, I grew up playing G.I. Joe's and stuff, but all they have to offer the company is like their


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[Assistant] Their nostalgia and the feeling of love for the toys or the things that the company used to do, but...


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[Assistant] I don't know if they're necessarily like the, it's almost like you need somebody who like doesn't fucking give a shit but just has these insanely good ideas or something, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] They just do batteries now, I think. Film and stuff is just...


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[Assistant] Yeah, sometimes they just, they get it wrong. They, they, they just like, uh, and frequently as well. It's not like, uh, like, so like, don't get me wrong. Some, some companies just like seem to like seem like they can't, they could do no wrong, but even Apple at one point was just like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, nobody fucking gave a shit about Apple. They made lots of fucking dumb investments and dumb mistakes. And then it's really just like phones and tablets.


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[Assistant] I'm always super interested in stuff like that, but I think my theory stands, but I'm sorry if it doesn't really make much sense. I'm not saying that like,


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[Assistant] Everybody who joins a company because they're a fan of the company is bad for the company, but I feel like there's, there is a saturation of people like that who may not necessarily be like the best fit for the company, but they end up getting taken onto the company because they're so passionate about it before they even work there. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] But I, like, I don't know if that's a great hiring practice.


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[Assistant] You look at some of the stuff that's been popular in the past so randomly, like after watching these like toy documentaries and movie documentaries and stuff. And it's oftentimes just people that have nothing to do with anything. You know, it's just like some fucking weirdo in a basement somewhere who has this idea.


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[Assistant] That is then chopped and changed and made for market and it just works. You know what I mean? Like it's crazy. It is much like this podcast. It just works. It just works and now it's done. So peace. Thanks for listening. Bye. Bye. Bye.


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[Assistant] Okay, well I, it's hard to say, because this is a bit of a halfway answer for you. I have played Starfleet Battles before, about 20 years ago.


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[Assistant] But I do remember it. That's right, I've got a funny story about Starfleet battles. Get out! Oh, sorry.


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[Assistant] Birds like women? You mean birds, Lewis? They've never done nothing, have they? Never made nothing! According to my mate Lewis, women are useless!


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, welcome back to the Triforce podcast coming at you from week, god knows, of the great lockdown.


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[Assistant] Your wife's prepared for the doomsday. Who's laughing now? All those doomsday preppers on their ranch isolating themselves before it happened. Now they're just still isolating themselves, I guess. It's the same. Same life.


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[Assistant] Scientists have looked at global catastrophic risk. Okay, it's like...


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[Assistant] This hypothetical future event that could destroy civilization, right, you know, completely and basically.


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[Assistant] There was this thing done relatively recently and they put a number, so by 2100, scientists estimated a 20% chance that humanity would have gone extinct. Right. Okay. And this was like our best guess.


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[Assistant] How long are their jars of pickles gonna fucking keep them going when they're fucking supervolcano?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I reckon you'd die if you ate a fucking hundred jars of pickles. Christ.


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[Assistant] You're, you're, you are the two people at the start of the metro or whatever, who are like, going to a bedroom and there's like two old folks on the bed holding hands, they're skeletons.


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[Assistant] Well, you've got to understand though, right, that the, the, the, the, there's loads of different things that could happen, obviously. Like, like this pandemic that's happening right now, it's kind of a, it's kind of a natural pandemic, and apparently a natural pandemic has a 0.05% chance of wiping out humanity in the next 100 years, okay?


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[Assistant] Four. So what's number three? Four is engineered pandemic.


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[Assistant] Uh, I'll give you five first. Five is nuclear war. Okay. That's only one percent chance of happening. Right. To wipe out humanity. And then...


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[Assistant] Number thr- third on the list is all wars. Uhm, one, a war, a future, some sort of future war. Right. Okay, using, I guess, technology that we don't know now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that may lead to global extinction.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then number two on the list of likely to cause us to go extinct is super intelligent AI.


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[Assistant] Babification of, of, no, it's, it's, it's, it's molecular nanotechnology actually. Really? Is the most likely to wipe us out.


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[Assistant] I mean those do have a thing. So a super volcano can knock out everyone and that can happen every couple of hundred thousand years.


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[Assistant] Yeah, apparently Mount Toba almost wiped out humanity at the time of its last eruption, about 50,000 years ago. But they are a one in a million event by, in the next 100 years.


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[Assistant] We are just moss growing on the top of a fucking giant super volcano. Yea, we're just waiting.


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[Assistant] Processing power can figure out ways to make it, you know, AI can build better AIs.


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[Assistant] Uhm, which will lead to this explosion in artificial intelligence and it's very unknown the impact of that. I think like, this futurology is so interesting because you look at like,


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[Assistant] Let me just think about how many people you could just do without. Exactly. That's a very serial killer thing to say. Yea that is a very serial killer thing.


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[Assistant] What about if you brought a little AI into the world? What if you like nurtured and grew a little computer baby?


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[Assistant] Ascend to some sort of, you know, mechanical...


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[Assistant] No, first of all, you can see, we can't, when we're stargazing, when we're looking at stars, okay, and different, certainly different other planets outside our solar system.


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[Assistant] We have only a pixel, if that, to look at. And there's no way from that, even if you could see a planet in another solar system, first of all it's only a pixel and it's probably a gas giant, because that's how big it needs to be to actually see it from where we are.


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[Assistant] But if you can, or what you have is you have a star flickering as like a planet like, you know, something goes across.


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[Assistant] You know, across the corona and blocks it for a second. So we know there's something there. We certainly haven't seen a life-giving or earth-like planet ever. And probably won't because we need so much magnification that we just don't have.


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[Assistant] Um, at this point, uh, it's just, it's just incredibly unlikely to be able to see that stuff. And getting there is such a daunting task. They're so far away.


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[Assistant] This is why we need to be like, we need to be, we need to replace our fleshy bodies with mechanical exoskeletons and transport and upload our brains into the cloud.


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[Assistant] Yeah, can't wait for that one. So yeah, so molecular nanotechnology is the main thing that people are scared of.


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[Assistant] Grey goo, yeah, it's called. So you have these self-replicating nanobots that just gets out of control. That's the scary idea.


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[Assistant] Not long. Well it's not long because it's exponential, isn't it? You know, it's like a, like a, like a, it's like a cell.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I, I, a lot of that sort of very unlikely stuff is very instant, like a gamma ray burst would just like, splat us pretty fast. And a lot, a lot of things would, you kind of, but some of them are a bit more drawn out, I suppose.


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[Assistant] The Death Star would be a quick, quick way to go. Yeaah, that's, that's, I feel like that's a, that isn't, it's a non-zero percent chance of happening though, that's the thing.


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[Assistant] You know, an alien civilization coming over and zapping us.


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[Assistant] You know, it's a non zero percent non zero charge.


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[Assistant] But then imagine it consumes like all of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, right? And which obviously we need some carbon dioxide to, to, for the, for the plants to like keep going and stuff. So we don't want to cause problems. So we have to then burn like loads of fossil fuels to keep it going.


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[Assistant] Chopping down wood, like, chopping down all the forests, like burning everything, like sucking all the oil out of the earth. Like, oh, that, that would be a cool idea. For a free universe. Someone write that. That's the Bodega Future episode.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like the bio version of the Grey Goose. It just talks about, don't worry about it.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's just not- I think the big thing is actually to do with change. So even if change is a positive thing, like World War II, for example, ending,


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[Assistant] That was obviously an incredibly good event, but it actually was incredibly difficult for a lot of people who had had their lives uplifted by it. And it completely, not ruined, but like,


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[Assistant] Turned everything upside down in a way that was incredibly up, um, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, this list that I said, it seems, it seems terrifyingly high that, you know, there's a 20% chance of extinction before 2100, but, you know, that doesn't say what the percentage chance of, you know, being on life support is at 2100. You know, if we've knackered the planet, you know, by that point, that's, that's obviously a problem.


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[Assistant] This is an excuse to make some changes, you know, to try and, you know, shift some...


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[Assistant] Well, people have short memories, but also people are selfish, and I think we have to elect people in charge who act for the greater good of everyone, but we don't necessarily like those people, because they don't make promises that we'll get free doughnuts for everyone.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, there was a lot of like, a lot of, uhm, we always have this idea in the alphas and we learned it from wolves or something or monkeys, but actually a lot of that research was discredited.


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[Assistant] There is the act like you belong thing though, like if you exude this false confidence, people can believe it's real confidence. Confidence is important, yeaah. But being confident is convincing because people want to believe you, believe that you're right. Uhm, I think the more you listen to people,


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[Assistant] The more suspicious you get of them, right? When you meet someone for the first time, and you're like, oh wow, this guy's really convincing, I believe everything he says. And then the more you get to know him, or speak to him, occasionally he'll say something weird. I dunno, generally like, I really like, uhm,


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[Assistant] I'm really, I'm really interested in wearing my fursuit at the weekend or something like that. And then, you know, from then on, like, you don't, you just, you haven't got any respect for them anymore. It's just gone out the window.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of these people aren't self-aware though. I reckon this guy doesn't even understand that, you know, people are, people are, these people are paid stooges, you know. He's so stupid, unfortunately, that he hasn't, he's just not aware. I just thought it was interesting. He doesn't, he doesn't get it. Ignorance is bliss, P-flags.


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[Assistant] And I'm very happy. There's this beautiful thing about how there was this study done about, cause I'm vegan, obviously. Hi guys. Uh, uh. Hi guys! There was this thing.


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[Assistant] Uh, and so I fucking, I saw this study, I don't know if it's true, but it's like.


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[Assistant] Something like, uh, 50% of people believe that the meat they eat is from sustainable, like organic, nice, you know, what's it called, fart, what is it, um, free range sources?


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[Assistant] Even if like, you know, 50 or even if like 20% of people think that the meat they eat is, you know,


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[Assistant] In like, what people think and what reality is. Uhm, and it's, it's in every walk of life. I mean, this is one, I'm using this vegan example, but in every walk of life, from regard to like,


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[Assistant] We kind of go through life in this, like people who smoke, you know, people who smoke will, will know that it's bad for them. Okay. But there's still like this, this odd discrepancy that they like, they kind of can't join the dots in their head or they just don't, they just quite happily are willing to push it away. And it's part of who we are to.


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[Assistant] If we're gonna, if we're gonna make it into space, we need to get rid of this stuff, you know? We need to like, we need to just be robots. I'm, I'm saying let's put out, let's get robot bodies going!


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[Assistant] And, and we all, we all fail, and we all fall, and we all make mistakes, but wanting to change is like where it starts, right? Quit smoking, guys, come on. What about vaping?


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[Assistant] That's true, that's, you're in a tricky situation. And I drink cider. Take one step at a time. Uh, quit dover. I hate taking one step at a time.


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[Assistant] Which is pretty nice. Fuck me. What depressing podcasts this is being. I'm so sorry everyone.


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[Assistant] I'll have like scabies, long hair, sips will be dead and you're gonna be like the new world order. I'm not sticking around for that. I don't want a new world.


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[Assistant] I had a dream that I had an absolute blowout argument with Steve and I threw a chair at him.


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[Assistant] You know, all the people in the buildings and the, all the central heating and everything. It never gets that cold, but then sometimes...


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[Assistant] There's like a big snap, but then I go and it feels cold, but when you go to another part of the country that's a bit more rural or much more coastal, the cold ramps up.


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[Assistant] New York City winters are the worst because you've got those long avenues.


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[Assistant] And it just, the wind, when it picks up, it's so, so bad. I remember winters in New York as being fucking miserable. And summers as well, as being unbelievably stiflingly hot. So yeah, it's like the worst winters, the worst summers, but he's still gotta love New York.


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[Assistant] I love New York, but I don't understand the love for Central Park other than...


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[Assistant] There's nothing else, like that's, it's really, it's not a great park, in all honesty, and I say that as a, as a former New Yorker and a lover of the city. Central Park is massively overrated. Right. If you go to, there's a ton of parks.


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[Assistant] Just in my area, that, that, uh, fucking way better than Central Park, but it's all you've got when you're on the island, that's like, there's no option. This is as green as it gets, so I get it, but they could make it a little bit.


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[Assistant] I mean when you're out in the countryside at night, you do feel the heat drop off, like it just, it just vanishes. Especially if there's no cloud cover. That's it. That's why I never go camping. Why the fuck would you do that to yourself? You ever go camping?


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[Assistant] There are, I know a few, uh, obviously, you know, got two kids, like Sips, lots of birthday parties.


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[Assistant] It does start to Peter out. As they get older, they get more of a group of friends. What's wrong with Peter?


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[Assistant] Hey, very good. They start to diminish in frequency because the kids start to get like a select group of friends. So rather than just, which early on,


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[Assistant] Reception year one, year two, kind of year three, the entire class is invited to every party.


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[Assistant] So every party you're looking at like 25, 30 kids.


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[Assistant] So you've got to plan exactly the trampoline thing or we're going to hire a massive hall with a magician or something like that. Like that's it. But then it starts to get easier and it's like five kids. It does slack off. You just take them bowling or some shit. But it is stressful. It is stressful, especially the parents that turn up


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[Assistant] Drop their kid off, and then fuck off. And you don't see them again for like, until half an hour after the party's finished and they roll up. Alright, you know, pick up their kid, you're like, why the fuck didn't you, you know, just come and get them when everyone else does. The parents that hang out and help out, they're the saints, they're the real saints.


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[Assistant] I mean, they just squeeze the kids in, give them some cheap old pizza and bingo bango bosh, you're done. I mean the kids eat so little pizza you could probably just reheat it afterwards and give it to the party in room two. Easy.


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[Assistant] You know, that would be the meal. People would be high all the fucking time.


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[Assistant] I read an article about this guy who reached into his fruit bowl and was bitten by a poisonous spider and almost lost his arm and almost died from the poison of this.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no, no, no. This actually happens. There was a news report, a guy working at a supermarket went to move the bananas and a fucking spider fell on his face in the store room. Bit him on the face. Big old tropical fucking spider.


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[Assistant] Uh, what do you call someone who's uh, I don't remember, but anyway. So it's just like, what the fuck do we do? You know, we don't know what he's been bitten by. We're just gonna have to watch and see what happens. How necrotic is it? You know, and just trying to treat that as like fucked up. So I get the bananas and I'm like, I check them inside the bag and then I carefully undo the bag and I'm like poke, looking in for any holes where a spider could be.


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[Assistant] Like I'm genuinely, it's a thing we, we don't anticipate is the idea that fucking crazy ass big spider could sneak over in a banana.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, what do they call it, uh, banana sundae? Do you remember those? You get the banana, cut it in half, lengthwise, ice cream. That's a, that's a real good banana split. That is one real, real good split. That is a humdinger of-


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[Assistant] So, it's, it's similar, but imagine, so you, this is, this is great. If you, if you want, you've got some bananas, you want to make some stuff with it. The slightly older bananas that are mushier, like you're saying, are perfect.


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[Assistant] So you get some sugar and you caramelize that and then you break it up and you add nuts into the, the, the mix and it's sort of, uh, like, uh, one of those big fan of Brazil nuts are real good for this. Okay. And then you, you smoosh them up and you mix them up. So you've got like this sort of hot pan, hot, uh, sugar.


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[Assistant] He was, at least Indiana Jones was respectful. I'd say most of the other Brits you get going to India back then were just like, I say, you know, do this.


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[Assistant] Alright, who in the world, who in the world do you think that he's not downstream of anybody? The West. The guy- The West. That's not a person. I need a person. Oh, a person. Do you think it's just literally, there's nothing upstream?


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[Assistant] Jeff Bezos has 131 billion dollar net worth. Net worth, yea.


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[Assistant] If he can go through 131 billion dollars doing drugs, that's some pricey drugs.


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[Assistant] He would have to have a cocaine habit where he just has pounds and pounds of it mainlined into his body every second of the day.


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[Assistant] If you haven't heard about it, I urge anyone listening to this to look it up.


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[Assistant] This guy had to spend a year in an apartment with nothing.


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[Assistant] You remember Noel Edmonds House Party, do you remember that show? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mr. Bobby. So before he had the house party, he did another show called something like, oh what the fuck was it, Noel Edmonds Friday Night Takeaway or something like that. And, uh, they did a stunt where a guy was in a cargo container and they dropped it from a crane attached to a bungee cord.


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[Assistant] So, any time you have a show where people are doing dangerous shit, there is no fucking way that there is any excuse for a TV company putting anyone in actual danger, which is why they're that careful, because people have died. So, I hate all these shows where people have to do stupid stunts and shit, it's insanely dangerous to name them. I mean, this show doesn't- Fuck off, because they're just doing it for money.


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[Assistant] And when they loaded that into the gun in one scene, when they unloaded it, the prop end of the round was lodged in the gun.


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[Assistant] So when they put the blanks in, you had a blank with a bullet on the front, which is essentially a bullet, which is apparently how it happened. That was the, the rumour. So it was like a prop malfunction and somebody not checking. But, but uhm, there was a, what the fuck was it? There was another...


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[Assistant] It was the Twilight Zone movie, this was back in the 80s, and this was, who was it, was it, it was like a really famous director was making this scene and the actor, Vic Morrow, and the two kids in the scene were killed when the helicopter malfunctioned, but they still used


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[Assistant] The rest of the stuff they'd shot and he was, you know, said, oh no, no, it wasn't me and all the rest of it. No, that was just an accident. But there was all kinds of stuff that came out about how they weren't


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[Assistant] I think Clive James, rest in peace, uhm, used to show clips of it and like, let's, you know, I'm pretty sure it was on that. The British TV shows used to look at...


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[Assistant] But you know what they did when he won? He did the first goal. You know what they did to him? They took him to a surprise location and he thought he was going to get a big prize. But they took him to another apartment, this time in South Korea. And he wasn't allowed back until he'd earned enough money


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[Assistant] To get home on a flight with Japan Airlines. And then he got back to Japan, they blindfolded him again, took him to another apartment, and he gets there, looks around, just sort of sighs, takes off his clothes, thinking that's it, and then the walls of the apartment fall away, and he's in the TV studio.


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[Assistant] Stuff you can do, how much freedom of movement you've got, how much time alone, how much time together, all needs to be understood before we do that. And there's some people saying, oh, I'd go on a one-way trip to Mars, yeah, sign me up. And I'm thinking, no, you fucking wouldn't. You have no idea what that would involve. That isolation.


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[Assistant] Like you think you can be alone in an apartment in Japan for 15 months like this poor aubergine guy was. Or eggplant. It's looking ridiculous. Imagine spending the rest of your life on the surface of Mars, just hoping that things work out. And you know, anything goes wrong, you're fucked. It'd be terrifying.


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[Assistant] Is that what it all comes down to? Is that when you go to a ren fair, that's what it all boils down to? Just to be clear.


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[Assistant] I have no idea. I guess it's like it's a fashion thing, right?


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[Assistant] My perception of a Ren Faire or at least the imagery I've seen surrounding Ren Faires in the past has been like more sort of like, it looks like people dressed like for a Shakespeare play, uh, out in, out in a forest somewhere with like tents.


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[Assistant] Right, I've got some, I've got some cold hard facts on a renaissance fair for you here, if you, if you care to listen.


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[Assistant] Some are permanent theme parks, while others are short term events in a fairground, winery, or other large public or private spaces.


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[Assistant] Many renaissance fairs are set during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England. Some are set earlier during the reign of Henry VIII, or in other countries, such as France.


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[Assistant] Fantasy elements such as centaurs are welcomed at some renaissance fairs. So there is an element of fan- well I mean the whole thing is-


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[Assistant] It got popular in the US after World War II apparently during the 1950s. There was a very strong early music revival and out of that came folk musician and traditionalist John Langstaff.


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, there's a Bristol renaissance fair outside of Chicago. It's uh, American. Oh, I see. I think, I think it's a good.


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[Assistant] Man, how like, how, how nervous would you be? Like, you know, you get invited somewhere and you're just like so...


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[Assistant] So pleased to be invited somewhere by somebody to go to like a Japanese, a traditional Japanese like meal or whatever. And they're going to sing songs, but you don't know any of the songs. You'd be really nervous, right? You wouldn't have any time to practice or learn one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what it would be like, I guess. How do you think a Japanese person coming to an English meal, what kind of songs would English people sing at a meal? I feel it would be like, am I cutting off?


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[Assistant] So what treasure trove of knowledge did you have prior to like the last 10 years?


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[Assistant] For some reason you stumbling over shape shifting shape shifter and stuff made me think of how much wood could a wood chuck chuck and I was thinking in my mind how many shapes could a shape shifter shape, if a shape shifter could shape shape. Like I was trying to like formulate that in my, in my mind and then I was not listening to what you were saying.


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[Assistant] There's a lot, we went to, uhm, when we went to Seattle, Louis, remember we went to that Star Trek exhibit thing?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, the Kurt Cobain one was really cool. The Star Trek one, not so much, but it was interesting at the Star Trek one, how they showed a lot of things that featured in Star Trek that then sort of became, um, you know, common.


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[Assistant] Design of that product and there's a couple of other things too that was really interesting, but it just shows like how, how much of an impact that show had on.


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[Assistant] Not only popular culture, but like, uh, you know, just people in general, the new generations coming up and then developing products that look like that.


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[Assistant] I used to wish that they would invent teleportation because I remember when I was younger.


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[Assistant] Uh, I hated going on car trips. Like I hated going to visit my aunt in Montreal because it was a two hour drive. I hated it. Like I just couldn't.


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[Assistant] I couldn't handle the two hour drive. It was too long and I used to just like wish and hope that they would invent teleportation so that we could just be there immediately rather than have to sit through the two hour drive.


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[Assistant] But now, now that I'm a bit older and I've spent a lot of time on the internet and you know, I've, I've done a bit of trolling on the internet and I've been trolled on the internet as well. And I just think now with teleporters, there's, you've,


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[Assistant] I've got a friend who likes to, to play jokes and pranks and stuff like that. And I just know that he would use that to prank me. You know, like you're just sitting there like watching a movie or something and all of a sudden he just teleports you into his bathroom while he's taking a dump or something. You know, you just appear and you're like,


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[Assistant] Imagine you teleported like, uh, either into the room where your wretched, cursed, cheating wife was having an affair with another man, or you teleported the man and your wretched, cursed, cheating wife into the room you were in, and you were like, gotcha! You know what I mean? Like, there's lots of options there.


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[Assistant] I tried to watch that. I tried to watch that. I didn't really, I didn't find it that funny to begin with. I only watched about maybe 10 minutes of the first episode, but it just didn't.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I just don't know if I like the setting much, and I, like it had a lot of actors in it that I've liked in other things, like Putty from Seinfeld was in it, and there's a bunch of other guys that I recognize in it, like Steve Carell obviously and whatnot, but.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it just didn't seem that funny really. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Maybe I need to get into more or something. I don't know. Cause some people are saying it's really good, but I don't know. I just struggled a bit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was, I'm the same. Yeah. I was like, no, maybe not as aggressively. Like I wasn't, I was angry. I just switched it off. I was just like, yeah, I've got better things to do really.


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[Assistant] I really like him. I didn't think I would like him in the US version of The Office. He was great. Yeaah, he's really funny.


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[Assistant] My, my initial sort of, I started watching it recently because a lot of people said that it's really good and I should watch it. And I always just sort of brushed it off saying, I think the British one's better. Like I, I prefer the, the more subtle sort of like, uh, humor, not like the exaggerated, like Steve Carell for me, like,


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[Assistant] I always just see him as, as loud. You know, he was always making like weird noises or whatever and stuff. And it's funny enough. Like a shit Jim Carrey. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And so I, so I sort of dismissed the US version of the office thinking it was just going to be like that, but actually it is very funny and he's very good in it too.


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[Assistant] It is very, yeah, it's really funny. I'm glad I started watching it. Very funny throughout. But, uh, but Space Force, I just couldn't get into. I actually made the effort to try to watch it and I just couldn't get through it. So.


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[Assistant] I can't really, I can't think of too many things that I've watched only a bit of. Like most things, if I, if I go to start watching it, I'll get into it and start watching it. But I think Space Force is one of the only things that I've-


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[Assistant] I saw that in theaters back in the day when it came out.


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[Assistant] There's that scene in the Mandalorian, you guys remember that? Where the two, uhm, the two stormtroopers, the speeder bike troopers are like outside of the city waiting for orders and they try to shoot like a tin can on the ground or whatever.


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[Assistant] I hope they make more movies like Rogue One, just little side, uh, things to, you know,


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[Assistant] Force Awakens was, yeaah, I thought Force Awakens was pretty good. I think it just had a really nice mix of sort of fan service. It had a nice mix of callbacks to older stuff, older Star Wars stuff. And it was just super exciting, right? Because it was just a brand new Star Wars.


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[Assistant] I felt like that about the prequel movies as well. I liked them at the time. The prequel trilogy, I saw them all in theater, but once each, like when they came out. And so my memories of them were pretty vague, and I was like, yeah, they were alright, like it was cool to see a new Star Wars movie.


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[Assistant] But now that I've gone back, my son's getting into Star Wars and he's been watching some of the prequel movies.


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[Assistant] And man, they're really hard to get through. It's pretty bad. Yeah. Oh, we've lost Lewis by the way. Oh, he's back.


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[Assistant] It's overloaded. Everybody is trying to watch Horse Fisting. Space Force. Yeah, Space Force. Everybody's trying to stream it at the same time.


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[Assistant] And don't forget to bubble this weekend with, uh, with a loved one, you're allowed to know.


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[Assistant] You can bubble. You can bubble with a loved one now. Didn't you guys hear the announcement yesterday? If you're a single parent or if you're a single person, you're now allowed to bubble with a person.


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[Assistant] A social bubble, are you guys stupid?


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[Assistant] Horseplay. That's what I wanna know. Horseplay. Oh. Horseplay. Tomfoolery. When can we get back to just- That's banned. That is banned. Chicanery.


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[Assistant] The thing is when you get into your thirties, or I mean I would say even sorta like most of your twenties.


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[Assistant] Like, who gives a shit about a birthday, really, you know? Like... Mrs. F, that's who. Well, I mean, some people still do, but, I mean, like, my wife and I, we both just, like, stopped giving a shit about birthdays a long time ago. Which has been nice.


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[Assistant] I mean I try to say happy birthday to somebody on their birthday, but I mean what else can you do really?


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[Assistant] I don't know, like, I don't really know, like.


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[Assistant] A couple of people, I'll remember their birthday and on the day I'll just like send them a text or something that says


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[Assistant] Happy birthday. But for the most part I don't remember anybody's birthday. Like I think I, like I know my wife's birthday, my kids' birthdays, my parents' birthdays, even then I still get them mixed up.


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[Assistant] I'd say three or four of my friends, I remember their birthdays and that's about it. I don't think you need to remember that many birthdays really.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think it's a bit different for you. You employ people. So like, there's, I think-


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[Assistant] I think there's extra pressure on you to sort of remember things like that, or to at least appear to give a shit about somebody personally, like when maybe you don't? I don't know. I mean, it's a tough one.


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[Assistant] Imagine it was like, like, like Black Mirror or like, like the Twilight Zone or something where like,