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[Assistant] Too good to go. Okay. There's this thing which I think a lot of takeaway places have done for a while, which is when their food's about to go out of date at the end of the day, instead of chuck it in the bin, they give it to like a homeless charity. Right, sure. Or something like that. But now, and also for some shops, I'm sure you can't really do that because I'm not sure


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[Assistant] You know, if you're a fucking bistro artisan bakery, you can't give away your, your 11 pound jar of pate that's going out of date to a fucking homeless guy. Why not? Well, I guess you can, why not? But instead, no, instead what you do is you,


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[Assistant] Out of date section. Everyone has a little glance when they're in the supermarket in case they can, you know, or cheap cheap people.


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[Assistant] For some reason, so I guess if you did this, this thing from the supermarket, they would give you a random bag of, of guff from there. And I think, so what I did was on the weekend, you know, this, these, these people were sort of going around to different places and getting these magic boxes of, of, of stuff. And some would have like,


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[Assistant] Croissants and tomato soup from like a coffee shop and others would have like.


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[Assistant] Uhm, one of them was like had, uh, was, um, a, a, a nine pound, uh, wheel of sheep's cheese, uh, and like a ham and cheese.


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[Assistant] So it's, it's some stuff that I can't really eat anyway because, because of the mystery of it. But I, I mean, it is like...


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[Assistant] Gotta make three, just the pittas that you make are so dirt cheap anyway. Do you know what I mean? It's like a bit of couscous, some sad looking lettuce, some grated carrot that costs nothing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, so they're selling this thing for more than it probably cost them anyway, even at, even at the magic box discount.


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[Assistant] Um, anyway, I, I, I just thought it was, it was interesting because of the idea of the, I didn't actually hate it. I actually quite enjoyed walking around town, going to these places I'd never been.


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[Assistant] I like how it works. People assume that I'm some big boss, you know, in charge of things. And you know, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, the thing is, I've always been a bit of a cheap ass, you know what I mean? I think that, I mean, not to like the extreme


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[Assistant] It's called Too Good To Go, there you go, I'm advertising this app for no reason, but I feel like it is a bit eco, right, because apparently one third of all food is like wasted, but at the same time,


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[Assistant] Do you cynically get the feeling that some of the places that I went to are literally just making more food to, to, to use this as a secondary app to sell it under the marketing guise of, you know.


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[Assistant] You're right. I think it's probably not. I don't think people are thinking about it as a viable business model. Although some shops have always done that, like Primark have always operated on these razor thin margins, you know, deliberately to kind of make that part of their thing. And every time you go into Primark it's fucking


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[Assistant] I can't believe it's so full of people. This is pre-COVID obviously, but every time I went into Primark it was like a fucking COVID, it was like a nightclub in there. I mean, it was, everyone was packed in, like fucking, you know, you'd have to like


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[Assistant] Squeeze your way in and like you pop out the door, one in one out literally.


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[Assistant] So I don't know, I'm not unhappy with the idea of it. I think it's cool, but like, and I like the, it's like filling in a gap, you know? It's like solving that problem of, because people were just dumping stuff in the bins outside. The real sufferer here is obviously those people who used to go through the bins and


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[Assistant] They, they were so delighted. Yeah, so I don't know.


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[Assistant] I think everyone should be financially like smart and stuff, but some people were just cheap. Like I remember when we were going on a holiday, a bunch of us, this was before.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I started doing YouTube and stuff, so I didn't have any money at all. Uhm, and you know, it's always a pain in the ass being that guy who organises stuff, even like when I was in a student house, because if you're the guy who


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[Assistant] Wow. Well, that's the thing, you don't want to be the guy who's making a mountain out of a molehill, P-Flex. You don't want to be creating arguments. You don't want to be that drama guy. How is it drama? P-Flex, you've got no chill, man. You're fucking, you're telling me I'm gonna get kicked out.


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[Assistant] I remember there was this time when we had like, we were going on holiday and there was like a place and it had like, it was three room place, right? So we were each gonna pay, and there were five of us, so there's two couples and one guy on his own.


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[Assistant] And he would like, uhm, so we were like, we could just split everything by five, right? And it was okay that he would get like, a double room.


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[Assistant] So it was like three double rooms, and so it was like 250 quid each or whatever, it's not very much. And he was like actively looking for other people after we'd like booked the holiday.


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[Assistant] And he was like, oh, because I can then like, I can only, I can pay you half if I, if I get, you know, I'll only pay 125 if I can get a guy to sleep with me in my room and come on holiday with us. I was like, that's, that's not how it works. You can't just, you can't just sell.


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[Assistant] The, you know, cause then we'll all have to, then everyone will pay 200 quid instead of 250. That's how it works. But he was cheap.


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[Assistant] I didn't really understand why he was so keen to bring this sixth person until I realised that he thought he'd have to pay half if he did.


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[Assistant] Do you know what I mean? People are so weird sometimes though, right? Cheap. I get it, like, you can reduce your expenses by changing your gas provider, and you can fucking bicycle to work, and you can...


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[Assistant] You know, not buy really expensive clothes. I don't know. Like, do you know what I mean? You can cancel all of your subscriptions. There's loads of things you can do. Uhm, but it's, it's...


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[Assistant] It's, uh, it just sometimes gets on my nerves when people go...


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[Assistant] Go out of the way of the sensible things and just try and like take advantage of people. I'm sure I never got all the electricity payments and stuff from people when I was in a student house. It's not because people were taking advantage of me, it's just because they were like, they didn't like me. I think they didn't like me after a while. I thought I was being cheap. That's understandable.


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[Assistant] I sort of imagine you like that guy, that gif of that guy sort of stood there with his hands behind his back staring into the distance in nature. He stood by the side of the swimming pool.


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[Assistant] Godzilla is like this very, very, very Japanese, very classic thing which has been very heavily associated with kind of animations and graphics and over the years it's had like, it's been going like 70 years now, I think it's got like 40 or 50 films and like 20 or 30 animes, like it's huge.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, I mean, here's the thing, the classic thing, I heard someone talking about this in the office, they were like, Godzilla is a terrifying mutant nuclear dinosaur that is indestructible. It's like Superman, but it has a radioactive beam. Right. And Kong is a large monkey. Well, yeah.


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[Assistant] You're right, yes, King Kong vs Godzilla from 1962. So, so this is one of the OG Godzilla battles. Yeah, I think Godzilla has battled just about everything. There's a whole series where he's fought, they're kind of like who would win.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's a- there's a wife or something, I dunno, Godzilla's wa- King Kong's wife comes out, it's like, what you been doing all day? And he's been like, I've been playing with my friend! Fuck you! God! You're always on my case!


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[Assistant] So the thing that happened was, I think when Godzilla originally came out, people said it was like this metaphor for nuclear war, right? And it was this kind of terrible destruction wreaking havoc on Japan and you know, radiation and all these things.


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[Assistant] And I never really quite understood that, but he was certainly a bad guy to begin with, right? And at least initially.


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[Assistant] When his, his initial moves, he was kind of bad, but then I think people over time,


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[Assistant] They love, they love seeing him get defeated, right?


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[Assistant] Or draws basically every movie since, and he's lost a couple of times to various bad guys along the way, just as a kind of plot device, but mostly, Godzilla is


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[Assistant] There's like an old lady throwing slices of bread out into the harbour, just hoping for Godzilla snapping him up. You know, maybe that's the hell he got so big. Just all these tourists feeding him loaves of bread.


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[Assistant] My god, what, I don't know whether that movie, I don't know whether we're allowed to, it's cause it's a new movie, and I'm sure we've now spoiled the new movie.


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[Assistant] Well all the other titans were kind of, uh, really, I think there's, there's one, they're called like,


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[Assistant] Like, I think one of them was called Muto, which is like, unidentified terrestrial, massive unidentified terrestrial object, you know, and they're just basically big fucking, I mean Mothra was basically a big moth, and there was a big hydra wasn't there, and they all looked like they were made of rubber.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, you're right, and that's, that's how to really win, right, isn't it? It doesn't matter whether you're good at fighting, it just means if you're cooler. Because if they'd accidentally designed some of him to fight that was cooler than him, that thing would have stuck around more.


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[Assistant] They can't have one win. Oh my god, so really you could have predicted the plot of this thing from right from the start, because you know Batman and Superman, neither of them are actually going to kill the other one, right? Toilers for that movie.


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[Assistant] He charges it up in a pot. He drops it on Jason. Cooks it. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my God. What's the?


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[Assistant] This, you're right though, this is it. We need to find two evil people. Cause then at least it's unpredictable. You know, people are going to be like, who, who does win? You know, maybe you even leave it open at the end of the movie, you don't even reveal who wins. You know, you just fucking really troll them with it.


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[Assistant] Well look, the thing is you've gotta consider that, you know, those buildings basically function as ways for Kong to jump onto Godzilla, as I do him, right? So, you know, they've got- Tactically uses the terrain. They've still gotta build skyscrapers in this post-Godzilla society.


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[Assistant] On the Christmas sale when it's 15 quid I'll probably buy it, but when it's new at 50 quid I'll probably give it a pass, but that's kinda how I feel about some stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, me and Ben always used to describe it as like this slope where if you start slipping down the slope, you just can't, it's this snowball effect where you just get worse and worse and worse. Whereas if you can stay on the front of the losing people and like the quality of your gear and stuff, you can stay ahead of the pattern.


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[Assistant] It's like 50 quid game but it's on Xbox Game Pass which is like a 10. I'm not, this is not an advert for that either.


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[Assistant] Well, the thing I liked about Phoenix Point was that you could target specific areas of a monster. Yeah, that's quite cool. Right? And so you could shoot its legs off or shoot it in the, in the, in the head or disarm it and stuff.


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[Assistant] And in sometimes, you know, actually those choices would be quite meaningful when you think like this thing's gonna lob a fucking grenade at me unless I get rid of its grenade launcher.


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[Assistant] And this thing's going to charge me unless I try and slow it down, you know, and so you do have to make those choices on the fly.


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[Assistant] And I dunno, like I, there were, when we played it, it was buggy and we found loads of different ways to kind of break the game. Um, which was, which was its own kind of fun. But it just, it didn't, it didn't feel, I dunno, it just didn't have us very good soul to it.


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[Assistant] That was in the jingle jam bundle, so you can, you've actually probably owned that sit already. If you fancy a little sort of silly, silly thing, it's, it's good, it is good fun and it's a classic kind of evil genius simulator already.


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[Assistant] So what I've been playing actually almost exclusively over the last couple of weeks has been Factorio, believe it or not. I've ticked over to a thousand hours.


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[Assistant] And you have to kind of build these like, kind of, these machines that convert, like, get small amounts of minerals out of water and you use that and refine that over and over again until you finally get a machine that makes you an iron plate.


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[Assistant] And then, so I'm playing it with uhm, a lot of different mods actually. One of them was which, which you can actually speed up time. So it's like, it's almost like a speed hack. Right. So if you're, if you're waiting for something to happen, you can just speed up time and kind of stand there while it, you know, while, while it, while the factory chomps through all of the backlog.


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[Assistant] Man, I've built this ludicrous, ludicrous factory, the size of which I've never built before. Wow.


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[Assistant] I'm waiting for the new, so they just put a new post on the experimental for Satisfactory for the next tier, but I own Satisfactory on Epic and I do much of a cheapskate to buy it on Steam because that's the only place you can get the experimental. Are you serious?


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[Assistant] I refuse to buy Satisfactory on a second platform, so I'm just waiting for it to, waiting for the official version, and I can play that. But I also, in a sense, like, don't want to get back into Satisfactory, because it's such a time sink as well, right? It's like, it's basically a really fun, but...


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[Assistant] recent chats, I've been watching a lot of the documentaries you guys have been watching and stuff. I watched a documentary called Tickled. Did I tell you about this? Uhm, it's a good one. It's about these, these, these, these people who set up a professional world tickling championship, right? And it's this, it's this thing that sort of went viral a few years ago.


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[Assistant] Yes, it's a great documentary about going into, it's the guy who did Dark Tourist, so he's like the knock-off New Zealand Louis Theroux. Where can I watch this? I rented it on Amazon for about £1.50, after it was recommended to me by someone.


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[Assistant] Well the thing is it's not even a fetish for ordinary people, it's a fetish for one guy. It's like one guy has got a tickling fetish and has built a whole industry to satisfy his own fetish.


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[Assistant] I think it's even, even simpler than that. Like I think, I think you, all you do is you make it, you make it come, Amazon knows how much profit they made in the UK. You say, you, we audit you and say, you know, you tell us how much you made in the UK and you pay your tax on that. That's all we just, we want, you know, tax on the amount of business you got from this country.


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[Assistant] Uh, he went the whole day, I forgot about it. We didn't post episodes for a few days, but we're supposed to. And we will be posting episodes on there early to support us. And sorry as well, sorry about that. Thank you to people who support us on Patreon for so long, we do appreciate that very much. We're gonna have a look at it and see whether we want it to...


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[Assistant] So maybe we should do something like that. I'm not going to start reading out all the names of people. I know some people, some podcasts do that and I hate it, but I do love all of you individually and I want you to know that I do look at it and I do respond to the messages and see people on there. So thank you everyone for supporting there.


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[Assistant] So yea, also you can follow us on Spotify. New episodes come out every Wednesday, as you guys know. So thank you for all the support, and we will see you next week. See you next week, bye!


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[Assistant] They say, they say that you should always ask your friends, uh, if they're okay twice, right? You ask them once, they say, are you okay? And they're like, yeah, yeah, I'm fine. And then you say, are you really okay? And then that's when, no, it gives them an opportunity to open the floodgates. It's a thing, right? It's the, it's like, because the first one is automatic.


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[Assistant] That's a British greeting, yea, the alright greeting. Yea, it is. And sometimes they like chain it onto other things. How you doing, alright? Yea. Like, it's very British, yea, you wouldn't get that in America. You do get that, you do get how you doing.


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[Assistant] Man, I can play Super Mario Bros. the original more or less with my eyes closed. I played it so much when it came out as a kid. It's all muscle memory now.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we got the little, the mini NES and I was playing, um, you know, Mario Brothers and I was showing off a bit, you know, I was like running through every level. I knew where all the warp pipes were and stuff. And, uh, I thought that like my son would be really impressed.


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[Assistant] One, two, you know, like the first underground level and he was just like, he fell in a hole or died or whatever and he's just like,


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[Assistant] I have a couple of examples for you, uhm, that I'd like to share. Double Dragon 2, uh, you had three continues, you had three lives, and three continues. And when they were done, that was it. If you, if you didn't make it to the last boss or whatever, there was no save point, there was no code you could put in to just skip the last boss or whatever. You died, you had to restart from the start.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, it's, it is, it is pretty good. It is really, it's fun, it's very, like, fast, it doesn't take long to, like, I mean, coming out of, uhm, getting bored with the current, uhm, wipe of Tarkov and playing something that's a lot faster, that you can play with people,


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[Assistant] Uh, it really promotes, like, team play, you know, you can see who's on your team, you don't have to double check.


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[Assistant] So, it's a breath of fresh air from Tarkov, but one thing I've noticed about that game, holy crap.


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[Assistant] It's like, you have to kill a guy ten times to finally kill him. Like, there's so many revives and-


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? Or you can spectate the rest of the game to see who killed you, how they're doing, or if they were cheating or whatever. There's a lot of that. And it's, overall, it is pretty good.


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[Assistant] It's, uh, it's the most convoluted install process for any game I've ever known. And it's because there's basically three separate games in one. You get to a menu, so there's zombies, which is kind of almost a standalone game at this point, but you need to have, like, the base game, uh, Black Ops Cold War to run it.


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[Assistant] And then Warzone is its own install and game, which is a hundred gigs. And then there's just the default multiplayer, cause this is like the latest Call of Duty Black Ops. It has, you know, the traditional maps with the fucking...


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[Assistant] Deathmatch or whatever modes that they have as well. All in, it's gotta be like 300 gigs. It's insane. But you can install each one separately.


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[Assistant] It is good fun, it's very fast, the guns feel really nice, like there's a lot about it that's great. It is actually really good.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's a little bit sweaty at times, you know, it attracts like tweaked out, you know, 13 year olds to want to play with their mates and get G fueled up and get, you know, sick 360 noscopes and stuff like that and that's fine.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you get to hear them for a brief second when you kill them. There's like this feature where if they have their voice stuff enabled you kill somebody and all you hear is like some


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[Assistant] So you should have like, uh, like there should be a point system, like there should be like a gaming driving license, right? And, uh, you know, if you get caught doing like cheating or being super toxic or, or,


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[Assistant] So I've discovered this week, uh, and last week, we ran out of series to watch. I'm sure there's other series out there, we just haven't felt like watching anything. But what we did find is on the iPlayer, on Channel 4, they have the entire


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[Assistant] Really just not equipped for the stress and everything and ended up, uhm, kind of, uh, losing, losing the plot and having a heart attack when he was like 35 years old. But famously was used, uh, a lot of his footage was used for the OJ chase, the 92, the Rodney King riots and stuff.


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[Assistant] And, uh, it was really interesting. It was like, I think, like, the Storyville stuff's like 80 minutes or so. Yeah, they're really interesting.


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[Assistant] They're really good, but they're all on there. So, and there's a, there's a new one about, uh, Jersey as well. Dark Secrets of a Trillion Dollar Island. It's all about the, uh, the abuse style.


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[Assistant] No, I haven't watched it yet, it's a bit heavy, like I've kinda put it off, I don't wanna like, you know, you gotta, you gotta sort of be like in the right.


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[Assistant] Class action lawsuit that was filed by like seven different towns, uh, because of the amount of this, uh, of this like C8 chemical that was found in their drinking water and it was giving people cancer left, right and center. It killed a bunch of cattle. Oh my god, yeah, it was awful.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was all, it was all settlements, you know, they, they, nobody, nobody from that company went to jail. There was not, nothing done to them. They had help from the EPA, like the EPA fined them like 16 million, which is just like a grain of sand compared to the profits that they were making every year.


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[Assistant] And in the end, because the look of the company was so bad because of this chemical,


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[Assistant] They made some big announcement that they were gonna stop using it, so everybody's like, oh great, the big corporations changed their ways or whatever. They, uh, developed a new chemical that's exactly the same, they called it something different, and now it's turning up in waterways.


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[Assistant] It's like, but this is like everything though. It's babies growing, uh, being born with like tons of deformities, uh, it's cancer, it's, oh my god, it's, it's just ravaging, it's just ruining people's lives.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, they just, they take it in their stride. It's just amazing. They had to dish out. How could you live with yourself? It was like 650 million dollars worth of lawsuits, and they, it was just like, whatever.


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[Assistant] But the worst thing is, this is just one example of like hundreds of companies who have been doing this all over the place, you know, like, uh, the more sort of ones that we're aware of are probably ones in America because it's so well documented.


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[Assistant] Because it's in the structure of a corporation, there's just no accountability. Everybody just says, well he told me to do it. Everybody can just wipe their hands clean of anything and sleep like a baby every night.


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[Assistant] It's crazy, the whole, uh, yeaah. So, so, and sorry, this, so the Storyville stuff, definitely, if you like, uh, documentaries and stuff, I mean, some of it's heavy, but it's, uh, it's really well done. And, uh, I didn't realize that it, it was such a long running thing, but there's tons of, tons of it on it. So, it's a treasure trove of content.


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[Assistant] There was a lot of, like, crossing over long arcs, wasn't there?


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[Assistant] Different writers, but they're all a part of a team, right? So they get the same brief for like, you know, okay, write the, like, let's do this, but then we're going in this direction with this character. Like there's definitely like guidelines and stuff in there.


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[Assistant] That would feel so shitty, eh, like if you were on that, you know, part of that production and the whole thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean Fox, Fox axed a lot of good shows, like when they were kind of at their best as well, right? Like Arrested Development got cancelled, then Futurama got cancelled at one point and then came back later.


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[Assistant] That was Fox. There's a whole bunch, there's a whole bunch of shows that were, were, were, were cut early for what, for whatever reason.


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[Assistant] So and so slept with so and so's wife or something. He hates him and he did everything he could to make sure that his show got canceled or, you know what I mean? Like there's, there's tons of crap like that that happens as well, I'm sure.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but you just, obviously a lot of that stuff you'd like never hear about.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so there's yeaah, so there's politics, there's ratings, but then again, some shows where the ratings aren't great, they'll just move it to like some dead slot. And some shows that are doing well, where there's like, you know, some, some,


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[Assistant] My god. He was a- and, uh, and another one was, uh, was Tom Sizemore. Remember? He was always the, uh, the sort of-


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[Assistant] When you describe this, that to me sounds like fucking homework. You know, like it just sounds so fucking tedious. Like, you know, oh, I gotta get a Christmas song out this year. Like, Jesus.


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[Assistant] Weird bald. Weird bald. Weird bald Santa. Poor bald people, I mean it's bad enough they're bald in the first place, but just the toxicity around them. With fair game apparently.


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[Assistant] I think it was like a dating show or it was one of those reality shows where, you know, like, uh, married at first sight or something like that, you know, and, uh, and the woman said like, oh, um, I really don't like, uh, bald men or men who are balding.


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[Assistant] No, I just, I'm wondering like if, you know, cause she said she doesn't like bald men, but maybe she just doesn't like nerds. Maybe she hasn't met the right one. Maybe she doesn't like Milhouse Van Houten's dad. That kind of bald man. Right. Kurt. The ring. Kurt Van Houten.


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[Assistant] I hate them. I hate FaceTime and all that shit. It's the worst. You know what the problem is? There's a delay. You know, your mom says like, how are you doing? Yeah, we're fine. How are you guys doing?


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[Assistant] I hope one of the things that we learn from the pandemic is how important it is to be face to face with people. And hopefully once the restrictions are lifted and it's safer to be around people, I hope people


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[Assistant] Uhm, use these FaceTime stuff less and actually just go and visit people, uh, more so than they have ever done, right? Because it's something that we kind of take for granted, right? But it, I think all this is shown at least


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think people, I've seen people say like tweeting and stuff saying like, oh, I've, I've just felt so weird recently or I felt down or I feel, feel miserable. And I think with a lot of this, like, you know, being locked down and stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it has just taken a toll on a lot of people in a lot of different ways, and I think people just need to give themselves a break and realise, not blame everything on that, but like, it has been pretty tough, right?


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[Assistant] It's just been such a weird time and it's, it's thrown everybody off so much and uhm, I think it's one of those things where you kind of realize it later that like how, how it has affected you sort of thing. Like if you look.


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[Assistant] Rolling out vaccinations to people in Jersey, uhm, between the ages of 40 and 50. So I think I'm, I think I'm due for one like fairly soon.


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[Assistant] People, uhm, people commented that it was nice to see sips from a different angle, because I think...


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[Assistant] Cause I didn't wanna, you know, infect your family, sips, and then I had to do one when I landed, and I had to self isolate for a day when I landed in Jersey, while I was waiting for the test results, which is a bit...


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[Assistant] So I woke up this morning, and I was like all snotty, and I've got like a runny nose, I've got like a sore throat, I've got like a headache, and I'm like, oh god, I've, but I've had this for the whole week, so I've had like hay fever and stuff, so it's not like a new thing, I've just, I'm just constantly like this, so this is, I'm the bubble boy, you know, my life is just, you know, teetering on the edge of mild sickness permanently.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and obviously, so I'm like, because I've seen my dad today, I was like, I better have a Covid test, so I had another one today, and I'm negative still.


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[Assistant] It's true. Yeah, so that's what's happened. I don't know whether I should go and see him, but I guess I will.


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[Assistant] I'll just keep a distance, and try not to spit on them too much, you know, the usual, when you're around your parents. Just don't yell in their face, I guess. Try not to, at least.


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[Assistant] Those are safe, or at least like, you can still get like a, but apparently that's the thing, like this Delta variant has slightly different symptoms, which is why I was a bit worried this morning, because like, apparently like, cough and fever aren't in the top, well, I don't know if they're in the top five symptoms or whatever. Jeremy, have a look. Do your own research, I'm not your dad. You're not? Well, as far as I know.


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[Assistant] It was really good, and the weather was nice enough for us to catch the sun. I don't know if you got a little bit red sips, but my face was like a bit red after we sat in the garden. Because of course it was cloudy, so we didn't really put any sunscreen on or anything, but you do have to like, watch out for that.


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[Assistant] I saw Sips's garden, and his is, uhm, I want to describe his greenhouse as a green cupboard. It's more of one of those sort of, it's up against the wall and you can kind of open the doors to it. And it's like got shelves in there, it's like a


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[Assistant] The worlds and I guess it's wonderful too.


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[Assistant] I don't know if you remember when you were sort of that age, like discovering, I mean, I was, I was just this thing for some reason the other day that George RR Martin was talking about, but it was the same for me. And he said, you know, I remember, you know, things that happened in Lord of the Rings when I read it, when I was like 10 or 11.


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[Assistant] You know, iconic moments from stories and like these worlds that I...


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's funny as well, like as well, he gives uhm, I dunno, he must get it from you, like he just, he's making little jokes, like little sideways jokes about stuff, like I dunno, like you had a, you put up a jersey flag.


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[Assistant] And torn, as well, as torn. Who's just that flank? That he was like...


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[Assistant] The balcony's sounds like very good. So yeah, like stuff like that. Like even your son is now kind of trolling me a bit, which is, which is, I guess, like father, it's like the way, isn't it? You know? So it's just going to happen to me throughout my life. I'm going to get trolled by the, the sips dynasty forever.


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[Assistant] I might give you a few months until you've settled in with the new baby though, because I don't know how you're going to handle three. It's crazy the handling too, honestly. So hectic.


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[Assistant] Wow. It's like you're playing a mobile game. Just grinding and paying money. It really is. So, interestingly, I don't know if this is actually interesting at all, I played a game this week called Strangeland.


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[Assistant] Which is from Wadjii Games, who made, uh, who published


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[Assistant] Point and Clicks, Retro Point and Clicks, mostly, is what they publish. Uhm, they, they published Unavowed, which is uhm, I think they even made it actually, which is uhm, one of my favourite games ever. It's a really good point and click, last year. I recommended it to you guys, I don't know if you've checked it out, but it's really good. Really good story, really good point and click, really good game.


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[Assistant] Really good universe, really good voice acting and writing. Just really enjoyed it. Anyway, they made a new game called Strangeland and it's made by these three guys.


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[Assistant] A writer who's written this really kind of odd game, this artist who almost looks like, um, like H.R. Giger stuff, like the alien guy, right? Right. Like the, um...


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[Assistant] Uhm, and man, the story is great, uh, I really enjoyed it, it's not super long, but I just had a great experience with it. Uhm, and so I recommend it, but the guy, I was checking out the Steam page for the guy, and he wrote this whole kind of


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I'll check it out because I'm really enjoying playing through these pointing clicks actually. Uhm, I didn't find it that, that, that overly hard. You know, you didn't have like 30 items at once and you had to use the mcguffin on the forguffin or you know, you didn't have to fuck around too much with it.


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[Assistant] Man, I wish I, maybe I'll go back around and see if I can play again. Cause I think when I played it I was about 10 or 11 and I didn't really understand it. I mean, I was watching Sipsysun play Game Garage or something on Switch.


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[Assistant] So yeah, so basically it's like, it gives you these, it's basically just a game making engine and it gives you these tutorials, right, where you have to just follow the tutorial to make a game. But watching your son


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[Assistant] Follow this like 30 minute or hour long tutorial where he was not taking any of it in. He was just following the steps, dragging the boxes where they needed to be. It felt, well when he was doing it, it didn't look like he was learning anything from doing it, right? At all, almost. Like it was just...


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[Assistant] It was so bizarre like watching someone follow this tutorial but not take any of it in. Just go through the motions of doing it. And it reminded me of being that age and doing these tutorials and doing these things in these games and just not taking anything in at all and just being hopeless.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it like has, cause it had like barks and meows and oinks and stuff as well. Yes. Do you remember? It had like, and it had like a bass drum represented by a mushroom. Yeah, it did. I remember this. You see it all the time, right? Yeah. Well, you used to.


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[Assistant] And end up making really creative things. Yeaah. Yeaah, so anyway, relationship between developer and player. I just read this article and it was so well written, uhm, on Strangeland. I'll read you a little bit of it.


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[Assistant] Time and money. Which of these resources is most valuable depends on the player. Which of these prices is steepest depends on the game.


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[Assistant] So yeah, so basically he's saying that like, you know, despite having been burned by games that have bored you, frustrated you, disgusted you, you push past your reservations and hope and look for something engaging in strange land.


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[Assistant] We are asking you to spend several hours searching for a game that fulfills that beauty and engagement, and we want you to pay us fifteen dollars for this work.


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[Assistant] So he talks about how, you know, it's really, really, it's just a great article and it talks about, I just really recommend you read it, rather than me reading the whole thing out. It kind of talks about how


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[Assistant] It's a little bit like, uhm, he feels like a lot of developers have got the wrong endless stick and they feel like they're milking the players for as much as they can get.


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[Assistant] Followed by skinner box designs, microturn actions and the like. We think this is a literally obscene way of viewing the player developer relationship.


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[Assistant] It is cool, like it feels like, the way I sort of played it a lot was, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out where the good combos were. You know, what worked, what didn't work, what


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[Assistant] I guess it's not. Other than like in the sort of idea that it gets just loads of waves and waves and loads of zombies and you're trying to like...


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[Assistant] Everyone's going to restaurants and all the shops are open and no one's wearing masks anywhere. Like, it's, it's like everything is just...


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[Assistant] It's like, okay, so, I don't know, it was kind of weird, uhm, you know? It still feels like hard to do anything here, everyone's taking it quite seriously, uhm, still sort of making sure to be careful and stuff, so, hmm.


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[Assistant] I think like a clown mode, like game mode for it, like ability draft, you know, softens it too, and it becomes this sillier, more, more kind of...


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[Assistant] But like, it wasn't like he was coming out of the, as part of the All-Star match, you know? Right, right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, it was just fun, right? I don't know why they...


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[Assistant] They did it or thought it was, but it wasn't, it wasn't like a serious thing. His trick shots are magic.


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[Assistant] Well, the algorithms say that this is the best move here, uhm, because of this, this, and this. It's almost like it's become the analyst, the AI has become the analyst, and then they're just kind of commentating for flavour, really, which is kind of weird.


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[Assistant] I find it like, so interesting to see how far along it's come, right?


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[Assistant] It's just unbeatable, uhm, and I think like now, it's the same with anything, like even like a weird game that you think, like an RTS, like anything, like a turn-based game, that AI would just kill you at that so, so quickly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess that that's the way that a lot of these bots learn is by playing against people so much that they learn all of the possible options. As long as there's a game


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[Assistant] Or a situation where there's always room for creativity, uhm, which I don't know if there is any situation like that. I think it's hard for a machine to be creative actively.


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[Assistant] I think it is possible when I think that you do see it.


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[Assistant] There is this, uhm, mind games kind of attitude to some games where, you know, especially in Formula One or something like that, you know, you do have to be able to read


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[Assistant] This other driver, and what you think they'll do, and I mean there's only so much study and programming that you can put into a machine to...


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[Assistant] Give that the ability, you know, you could say, you could code into the machine, oh this driver's done this thing at this corner this many times, you know, you could just fill it full of data. Right. It crunches it and then it will make the best mathematical decision, you know, but is that decision, you know, does that take into account all of these micro things at that


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[Assistant] This is how my, this is my life now. In future it's just, originally it was being trolled by my peers, now it's being trolled by my peers' children, in future I will be trolled by machines!


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[Assistant] It's great. So one of the things that Sips told me was that when he put, he used to put like a load of pile of leaves and Terry would be really picky which ones he'd eat and he'd eat like, eat some of the leaves and leave some of the leaves, some of the other leaves.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but what Sipsis started to do is like, cutting them up together so they're like, uhm, in more of a... It's like a salad, yeaah. So Terry can't tell which one he doesn't like.


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[Assistant] I think she may have forgotten that this was being filmed.


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[Assistant] I get the impression she likes him though, because he's a bit of a silly doofus.


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[Assistant] It's good to draw attention to people who are just embarrassing themselves on, on social media. I think it's a good idea. Yeaah. Uh, no, Jem's tweets are hilarious. I love her. I mean honestly, I actually read


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[Assistant] Alright, that is enough. Thank you for listening. As always, we, if you want ad free, we're on Patreon, Triforce Broadcast. You can also get new episodes every Wednesday on Spotify. Oh my gosh. That is that. I can't believe it. Thank you. Thank you. We'll see you all next week. Goodbye! See you then, bye!


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[Assistant] Good morning, hello everyone, welcome back to the Triforce pod.


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[Assistant] Nice. It's fine. Well, there you go. You could support us on Patreon and follow us on Spotify where there are new episodes every Wednesday. Thanks for listening. We'll see you next week. Bye!


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[Assistant] Once we started talking about a street fighting woman, street fighting woman, she was like they're talking about me on the podcast again, this is unacceptable.


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[Assistant] No, she, uh, she stopped commuting because of Covid. Uhm, and she set herself a goal. She found this thing, it was a list of a thousand albums that were considered like the best albums.


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[Assistant] That's huge. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, all of those bands, you know, I mean, like a huge number of influence. And then the setup for all the big bands.


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[Assistant] You know, guitar based music as a mainstream thing that loads of people listen to is, is dead, sadly. It's all, it's all mumble rap and uh, dance music.


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[Assistant] He does, loves him. I listen to that on Spotify as well. I listen to the indie thing that chucks up new indie music and sometimes there's some good stuff in there.


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[Assistant] Uh, photogenic and they have to be very good at social media, they have to be able to project an image, and it's, I think that the 80s gave us that, and it's just lingered, in all honesty. Like it's all very, I feel very, very cynical about it all, in all honesty. Oh yea, you're totally right.


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[Assistant] My playlist that I've got is songs that I like, or like if I hear a song, uhm, let's say I'm just letting Spotify play through.


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[Assistant] I listen to quite a lot of new music, and if I like it, I stick it on my playlist.


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[Assistant] We're up to 128 songs now, that's on the main playlist that if I'm driving somewhere and I want to guarantee that the songs that come on are ones I actually like, I stick that up. Well, the thing about that is... It's a big ol' mix, it's got all kinds of...


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[Assistant] And in this, this one line, the one line that said so-and-so was a female player but she never played against men. And she's livid, uh, that, uh, that this, uh, slander has been allowed to persist. Well she got mentioned, you see. Yeah, by name. They mentioned her by name.


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[Assistant] But then, but then why Hughes, a real person's name dropped in the mix there?


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[Assistant] She's, she's Georgian though, like, and she was angry about the fact that they said that she was Russian. She was like, I'm not Russian, I'm Georgian. So I think it's a bit like, if you said someone was English and they were Scottish, maybe it's a similar kind of thing, where they go out there, you know.


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[Assistant] Was like pocket change and to them was like a decent take for the day if they make five bucks, you know? And there would be people running alongside the coach.


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[Assistant] With these huge carved horses. That's like a full sized horse carved from mahogany. And they're like, a dollar mister, I'll give it to you for a dollar. And you're like, ehh, maybe 25 cents, ehh, you know, so fucking just give them the money at price.


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[Assistant] Do you think it's like John Wick? Is that what you think it's like, where Lawrence Fishburne controls all the homeless people?


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[Assistant] Alright, Gran Torino is every old white man's fantasy, every old racist white man's fantasy, who wants to go out there and stop those goddamn coloured folk


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[Assistant] So go ahead and watch it, and you tell me, and this, I know for a fact that Clint Eastwood is incredibly Republican, like, entrenched. He did that awful thing where he appeared on stage with an empty chair, which was super embarrassing.


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[Assistant] The dude is like literally appealing to that gruff, old, concealed, Carrie, Republican, white, American, old dude. That's his whole fucking fantasy. He loves it. He loves it. So if you want that experience, go watch a Clint Eastwood movie. Go for it.


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[Assistant] Is the fantasy for these old action stars that they could fight a load of much younger men who were much fitter than them and still kick their arse because GRR, I'm Jason Statham or GRR, I'm Dolph Lundgren and I'm 70 fucking 8.


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[Assistant] I'm Eric Roberts and I'm 104. I'm Steve Austin and I'm 307 years old. But I've got a few trips up my sleeve. It's just fantasy. It's just old man fantasy and I wish people wouldn't fucking whack off to it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, why do you think Dolph Lundgren has one recurring line in the Expendables series?


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[Assistant] Yeah, they could, they carefully work it in so that I must break you is contextually appropriate for everything he's gonna do. He's got a KitKat. Dolph, you gonna eat that KitKat? I must break you.


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[Assistant] Well, I got a solution for you, Chris. Grab yourself a manscape ball sculptor and go to town like someone who's just been released from prison and has realized that their hairy ball sack is no longer welcome in polite society. Get trimming, get sculpting, get scaping with...


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[Assistant] It was an interview with a whole bunch of these young women, a lot of them students or just, you know, they've just graduated or whatever. And uhm, do you remember, I think we talked about this previously about maybe we considered it too spicy for triforce, I can't remember. It's about uhm,


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[Assistant] Instagram women, models if you like, that you'll see sometimes on Instagram.


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[Assistant] Men, wealthy men can hire women as a sort of sugar daddy thing. There are very popular websites where this is a thing. Go ahead and look this up if you don't believe me, I'm telling you. You go and look it up and basically you can advertise yourself as, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, I think they're called kittens or something, I can't remember what they call themselves. But basically, the baby, I think it's the baby, is the woman's role. And the man is the sugar daddy. And you say, I'm the sugar daddy, here's all my money, this is what I can offer you. And they say, cool, my rate is X. And you go out there, I know people who've done this.


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[Assistant] I know both sides, the daddy and the baby or whatever they call the woman. And they basically pay them 10, 20, 30 grand a week, sex is a part of the deal, a certain number of times, blah blah blah, and you get to take a hot young woman away on holiday with you and have sex with her, and she in return gets a load of money and posts pictures on Instagram.


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[Assistant] Anyway, I think one of the issues would be, dare I say it, uh, when it comes to having sex with someone for money, forgive me for saying this, but when it comes down to the simple mechanics of it, that young dude's still gotta get a boner to fuck a granny. That's gotta be tough.


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[Assistant] How long can you live that life? You'd be waking up at three in the morning with a bonus, they'll just go, what am I doing? And there's this old lady sleeping next to you, like that, her teeth in a glass next to the bed.


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[Assistant] But do you think, do you think part of the fantasy for these men is that they're sending this fantasy directly to the woman? Exactly. Which must be what gets them off. I don't know what it is. It's like flashing almost. It's flashing by text. It's like sending a dole.


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[Assistant] Sending someone a s- a sexy text and it might very heavy air quotes there around sexy, okay? Uhm, it is, you know, they're getting off while writing that.


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[Assistant] We spoke about in Hollywood, it's always a big ol' age gap between the man and the woman.


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[Assistant] They were mainly, I think it was things like mining towns where the stuff that they were mining ran out. Or they were digging and they unleashed some, uh, some hideous force of nature. Yes.


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[Assistant] That, that's the town, I'd love that if that was the movie. Yeah. If it was like, you know, pitched as like a horror. Townspeople band together to combat an ancient evil and they just have, the ancient evil reveals itself, kills Steve the Baker.


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[Assistant] You know, do you, do you wonder if hell is very bureaucratic? Because everybody hates bureaucracy. If hell was kind of a free-for-all where everybody kind of did what they want, I think that might be kind of liberating for some people. Hell has to be.


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[Assistant] When they get here, give them this form, and these two, you'll need to fill this out, and they hand you like a huge booklet. You're just filling out forms to have your guts ripped out and displayed on a big metal frame.


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[Assistant] If you've ever looked, like people often post comments on the Daily Mail website as like, uh, like there'll be an image of, you know, there'll be the news story and then these are the comments on the Daily Mail website. He is the personification of that. This doesn't affect me, I don't care about it, therefore it's bad and I want it to stop. That's him in a nutshell. I hate everything that isn't


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[Assistant] You know what, I've never had hay fever, but this year, whenever I've gone outside, I've had a couple of sneezes. A couple of big ol' sneezes. Which isn't unusual, because there's fucking pollen everywhere. But I can't imagine, like, I've never had hay fever. Is it just, literally, your eyes are just like, swelling up and just everything's going out?


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[Assistant] I'll be honest with you. I mean, Ukraine are a beast to watch, uh, and they should beat North Macedonia. There should be some goals there. Denmark, Belgium, this is Denmark coming off the back of what happened to Christian Eriksen. I don't know if you guys... Yeah, yeah, I heard a cardiac arrest on the... It was terrible. So I was, I was watching that with my youngest and we were watching the game. I was like, you're going to watch some football with me. Why did I make her watch that game of all the games? Cause it was genuinely,


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[Assistant] And we're watching this guy being given CPR live on television. It was horrible. At the same time, I couldn't take my eyes away because I thought, please let him be alright. Like, it was so horrible to see. Uh, so anyway, they're playing at 5, and they've gotta somehow come back.


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[Assistant] From that, I mean, honestly, who cares? You know, no one's gonna care about how Denmark do at this tournament, uhm, because, you know, as long as Christian Eriksen's alright, but it was dreadful, it was absolutely dreadful.


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[Assistant] Uh, and it's been a weird tournament other than that. Uhm, last night, uh, with the, for the Wales game, the footage is all over the place, because it was in Baku and they had all kinds of problems with the broadcast equipment and the sound. Oh, right. Cut and A was terrible.


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[Assistant] Just one of those games you just want it to be over, but you, you know, you're stuck watching, you're watching it, you're gonna see who wins. Oh my god, it was dull. Two really pedestrian boring teams. Uhm, Switzerland were awful, Turkey looked awful.


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[Assistant] So this year for the competition they've expanded it, so there's more teams in it than there would normally be. So some of these teams wouldn't normally have qualified, they've just expanded it. So Switzerland don't need to be there, no friend Switzerland, you guys suck, like you are boring and shit to watch, Finland are boring and shit to watch. Get those teams out, we don't need them, it's not a celebration if half the games are wack.


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[Assistant] Rome and Italy's next match is in London. So, you know, there will be some travel involved, but yeah, it's uhm, it's, I don't know, I guess they've done it that way because of Covid, but uhm, it's also some of the groups.


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[Assistant] I mean, I assume they'd be flying like on just the team on a plane sort of thing. Cause sometimes like I've been on a plane and you'll see a team of, of athletes flying out somewhere. I know Mrs. F flew when she flew from, she was in Ethiopia for work when she flew back to London, half the plane was


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[Assistant] Very skinny guys that looked like they were all, and they were all wearing like athletic gear. So yeah, they were there for, they were coming to London for the, for the marathon. Uhm, so yeah, I mean sometimes they do fly just regular plane, but I think for this, I would assume that they're like charter a plane or something like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so they just jammed him in there, you know. He's a bit of an oddball to say the least, uhm, and he's kind of a piece of shit, but uh, in fact I think he is a piece of shit. But it was, it was honestly hype to have that.


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[Assistant] There's, like, the players don't even look like they care. And they're just jogging about and you think, what, what is this? Like, sport without a crowd? It's sort of like, is this that important that we have to have it even if nobody's watching? It's kind of stupid. I mean, at least we got TV footage, but it's just, I don't know, it sucks all the life and soul out of it.


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[Assistant] So he had, so Coca Cola is one of the sponsors, of course. Ronaldo sits down for his press conference after the Portugal game and there's two bottles of Coke in front of him and a bottle of water.


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[Assistant] And he picks up the balls of coke, and he goes Coca-Cola, ugh, and shakes his head, and slides them out of shot, and then he picks up the bottle of water and goes, Agua.


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[Assistant] It is weird how some brands, like Coca-Cola is just a sugary drink, but there is nothing that tastes exactly like Coca-Cola. And whatever they put in it, it is genuinely


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[Assistant] So here's a question, when you had a packed lunch, uh, did your mum or dad, who made your packed lunch? My mum made mine, uh, and she would always-


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[Assistant] What I wanna know is, right, what I wanna know is, at my kid's school, at the primary school, there's no peanuts, no chocolate, there's a couple of other things. When did the peanut thing become such a big deal that you can't take peanuts into school?


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[Assistant] So apparently they're saying that, uh, in infants with a family history of peanut allergy, consuming peanut proteins at 4 to 11 months has been shown to reduce the risk of developing an allergic response by 11 to 25%. Right. Uh, so the American Academy of Pediatrics rescinded their recommendation to delay exposure to peanuts in children.


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[Assistant] Also stating there's no reason to avoid them during pregnancy or breastfeeding. And they're saying that during pregnancy, uh, they're not sure. They don't know whether penis exposure or not is a good thing or whatever. So it's weird to me that we're not sure why


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[Assistant] Uh, there's peanut allergies. I mean, presumably it's increased. I mean, I understand asthma increases because of, like, air quality has gone down in the last few years. Whereas peanut allergies? What, have we suddenly got bad peanuts? Did something happen to the peanuts? What happened to the peanuts?


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[Assistant] So it's actually gone down from 1992, the UK annual mean concentration of PM, which is bad.


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[Assistant] Has gone from 35% in 1992 down to 15% in 2020. So it is going down. But obviously the kids that were in the middle there still got asthma, right? And then when it gets lower it gets better.


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[Assistant] I mean, I've definitely met, um, new parents, like, with their precious firstborn, or PFBs, who, before the kid sits down anywhere, they're wiping surfaces down, and I'm thinking, come on, like, your kid's gotta get some grime on him at some point.


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[Assistant] I might think twice a bit, I'd probably eat that. So yeaah, this has actually happened to me.


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[Assistant] Well, if it's covered in dirt, I would consider the grass to be in all likelihood cleaner than my garden where the dog does her business. Like, I would think the grass is probably good. And the chance of an animal peeing exactly where I've dropped my sausage is unlikely.


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[Assistant] So what if, what if you have a chance, cause I've done this before where I'm going to cook dinner and a sausage falls on the kitchen floor, I will wash the sausage, I'll wash it, and then I figure it's going into searing hot oil, so that should kill it.


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[Assistant] Well here's one for you, this didn't need to touch the ground.


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[Assistant] I mean, you'd eat this cider lolly. So, when I ordered it, she sort of gave me this look, like, the cider lolly? Really? And she's sort of fumbling around about there for ages. Produces this cider lolly, and sort of hands it to me suspiciously. Why I unwrapped it?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that is honestly, when I see people riding, you don't see it as much now, uh, in the UK. Whenever I go to Florida, there's people riding around on motorcycles, no helmet, shorts, no t-shirt, flip-flops, and you think,


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[Assistant] If you come off that thing, like I think, uh, I think that at 40 or 50 miles an hour, you lose like an inch of skin and bone for every second that you're in contact with the asphalt traveling at that speed. Oh my god. Yikes. It's so, so bad.


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[Assistant] Because it's, there's something happens to your brain when you're in your car, where it's like an, uh, an impenetrable bubble is how you've built it up in your head. Because I think how else can we cope mentally with the idea of driving on a motorway? Like you're all driving at like 70, 80 miles an hour in these little metal boxes and you're just hoping


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[Assistant] So I think when it's suddenly not fine, people freak the fuck out and they do not know how to handle it.


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[Assistant] People not recognized, read the room, or in this case, the car. I'm trying to fucking concentrate, like for me it's in really heavy traffic on the motorway, and there's yapping and arguing going on. I'm like, ready to flip, because just let me concentrate on this shitty situation.


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[Assistant] Oh, I just remembered something. Uh, there is a show. This is a complete change of subject. There's a show on the BBC iPlayer at the moment called, uh, Time. It's got Sean Bean in. Oh, yeah, we were impressed. You can watch that, yeah. Oh, it's great. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] They put sugar in the kettle so the sugar melts and it gets all sticky and then they jug you. It's grizzly.


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[Assistant] It's just, it's, it's amazing to me when you, when you have, uh, when you have kids as, as, as you have, uh,


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[Assistant] You have now three, uh, and it's reminding me again, listening to what it's like. It's amazing how much basic stuff brings you joy again, like getting to sleep, your kid eating something. Cause now I'm just, I just say to my kids, make sure you have some breakfast and they go, all right.


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[Assistant] And they either do or they don't. And if they don't, they'll be alright. They'll wait till lunchtime and they'll have something. It's on them. Sometimes they're not hungry. I can relate to that. But with babies, you do not have any of that kind of choice. It's all on you. And yeah, it's amazing that the joy that you get, you're like, oh.


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[Assistant] We've been together like since we were 18, and like Sip said, grown up together in a way, like it's all very well, like when you're 18 you're not really an adult adult, you know, you're legally an adult, but you've got so much adulting to do.


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[Assistant] And there's so many things you haven't done yet that you're gonna need to learn the hard way about all kinds of stupid shit and like all those responsibilities and stuff like that is what really comes with adult life. Getting a job and worrying about bills and shit like that, your 20s and your 30s, uhm, I think are the harder bits.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but because you've experienced so much together, maybe you've changed in the same ways. So it's, it makes you sort of compatible. I definitely noticed.


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[Assistant] My whole life, David Bowie's been there. I love David Bowie, love his music, and it's just like, how, how has this happened? You know, cause you, you kind of want them to go on and on and then as they get older, they sort of fade into obscurity and retire and then maybe they die and you're like, oh, that's sad. But when they're still going and still making music and they still seem so young and vital,


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[Assistant] If there was a scene in a movie where they were like, we've, this is the class that we're sending in as astronauts. That's the kind of, like, just pure, like, physically, bam, absolutely on it. Yeah, 100%.


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[Assistant] They're just, they're so good at seeing what the other person's doing and joining in. It absolutely looks like they're a team and very together. And it looks like they plan stuff, but they haven't. They just, they go along with it and they're brilliant. They work so well together. And they're fucking top lads, let's be honest.


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[Assistant] He's, he's on. Like he's as his character. He's appearing in the pub. And this is in a meeting with...


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[Assistant] Another thing that you see pop up, another thing you see pop up, if, let's say, uh, they have to go to someone for some assistance, and this guy's like, he's a criminal, but he's not one of the bad criminals, you know, he's not one of the guys that's like murdering people and stuff, he's just vaguely a criminal guy that they know.


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[Assistant] So what I wanna know is, what is this intelligence network that exists on the street? That this guy who previously had no knowledge of their situation can make a phone call or talk to a mate, suddenly they know everything.


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[Assistant] I tell you what, we need to come up with a segment and I think we should start naming it after the first week when we start to figure out what kind of problems people are having and shape the title around.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone and welcome back to the Triforce Podcast. We return with me, Louis Brindley, the very luscious


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[Assistant] He's back, he's back. How you doing? Oh yeah, I'm back too. Welcome, welcome everyone. Uh, you had a good week, you had a good time. Oh man, yeah. Gosh, we're really in the throes of it with the baby.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, the cycle continues. I saw my parents this week. I went down to, uhm, I met up with them at Chooksbury Abbey.


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[Assistant] Which is this really old parish church, like the oldest or the biggest parish church or something. It was basically a Benedictine monastery, a couple of hours drive out of Bristol. Right. And a really cool looking place, uhm, but my parents obviously like walking around old churches and things and


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[Assistant] They're older, richer, better dressed, you can see them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I answered one of the questions. So I just noticed there's, uhm, Isaac Asimov wrote a guide to Shakespeare. And one of the things he said was, there's a story about a woman who read Hamlet for the first time and said, I don't know why people admire this play so much. It is nothing but a bunch of quotations glued together. Which is so...


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[Assistant] Interesting. So yes, uhm, Hamlet's really, really cool. All of them are. And I think a lot of people, like you said, nowadays, deliver them in a more, because actually the English is quite thick and hard to read in places. It is quite hard to understand. I think a lot of people try and


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[Assistant] I think a good actor, like I've noticed, good actors can make comprehension out of bad script, do you know what I mean? I'm not saying she's bad, but I think that it's, I think if you just read it you wouldn't understand it.


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[Assistant] You know, that one, oh, that would be on there a bunch of times when someone got stabbed. It would be like, oh, oh, yeah, it would just be.


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[Assistant] People, I mean, there's always some Shakespearean movie or remake, some of them are, you know, bonkers, back in the 70s, you know, where they'd turn into a rock opera halfway through or something, do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Rebooted these things in weird ways. You know, they'll be... It's like Sherlock, how many times has that been...


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[Assistant] Rebooted in different formats. You know, Robert Downey Jr. did some movies on it. I think it's no different here. I think the stories are, I think even now a lot of people don't know a lot of these Shakespeare stories. And you know, if you read the plot to them in a couple of sentences, they wouldn't recognise it. And probably I wouldn't either.


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[Assistant] Because it's been so long since I, um, was, was, was forced to study this stuff at school.


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[Assistant] I never did. What historical- because Americans and Canadians do other, other literature, don't they? Like the scarlet letter or something.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess it's definitely more of an English thing. Probably. That we're expected to do that. So no, Chickspear Abbey was really, really interesting, just walking around this, it's almost like...


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[Assistant] We've just casually got this thousand year old building just hanging out nearby. Do you know what I mean? I feel like a lot of English people are like that, that they've got...


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[Assistant] Yeah, and so I think if you've planted it in the earth, it can grow to the size of the earth, I think that's how it works.


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[Assistant] For next time, I guess, which is pretty cool. Um, I think, yeaah, there's a lot of like that sort of stuff going on. I saw that in Japan a lot. Like, a lot of, when I went to Japan, a lot of the places that you visit, you're like, wow, this is amazing. And then it's like, this was rebuilt in 2004 because it burned down. Cause they, most of them were made out of wood.


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[Assistant] And you read these little plaques that they've got and they've got, you know, this was originally built in 1350 and it burned down in 1360. Uh, you know, they, they, they constantly like, they were rebuilding and rebuilding. And the same thing happened with this abbey. Originally it had this wooden roof that eventually either


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[Assistant] Any, any buildings that are still going a thousand years on though were old 900 years ago, and then someone loved them, right, and rebuilt the roof, and then a hundred years later they were even older, and this is still 800 years ago, and someone else spent a huge amount of money to keep it going somehow.


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[Assistant] Do you know what I mean? And even now, you know, I'm sure, uhm, cause I think it was originally a monastery and then...


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[Assistant] And then there was a thing during the War of the Roses where some men were hiding from a nearby battle. There was a battle of Cheeksbury I think in the War of the Roses. And then some people fled there and then they were all killed in the monastery. I can't remember.


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[Assistant] It was some, there was some disaster that happened there. And, you know, when you have something that's that old, and obviously a huge landmark, it's gonna be involved in things like the fucking War of the Roses, which seems like this kind of fictional event, you know. It was like before, I think it was before the English Civil War, in like fourteen


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[Assistant] 70 or something. Uhm, and it's kind of the part of history which was heavily inspired Game of Thrones and stuff like this, these kind of, it's kind of rival...


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[Assistant] I wonder, I haven't read it, there must be loads of biographies and books about him, but I wonder if he just had, in my head he's just a ballsy guy who's like, I'm just gonna fucking sail this way and hope that I, you know, don't run out of food before we get to land, do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] It's weird though, I think recently that, recently the Flat Earth idiots have been replaced by the Anti-Vax idiots. That's the new idiot thing to have.


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[Assistant] It is Darwinism though, isn't it? It's finally come round to them actually, that these anti-vaxxers, one of the things I read, which is amazing, is that they now think that everyone who's vaccinated


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[Assistant] Is causing the virus to become like MRSA, like a super bug, like a super virus. So because you've been vaccinated, you're creating this super virus, right? And as if, as if they're, they're still saying, well, I'm not getting vaccinated.


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[Assistant] Anyway, so Columbus knew that the world was, uh, round, but he thought the distance from, uhm, Spain to, I think, actually it was Africa to Japan was about, I think he thought it was a quarter of what it actually was.


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[Assistant] Impossible. I mean, I'm not saying the world is one generated civilization, but on a different, on a different planet. What, we're like a pangea? Yeah, on a different planet with a pangea, he would have still been going probably now. To this day, just going around and around.


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[Assistant] There's some bad colonisation, there you go, you'll find it. Anyway, uh, let's tell you something that happened to me.


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[Assistant] Two things happened to me, actually, that were weird. So, one thing that happened was, I was walking to the train station. I'm not dawdling, I don't walk slowly or anything, but there was a man who was obviously in more of a hurry than me, and he sort of walked, power walked past me as if to like, overtake.


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[Assistant] And obviously I didn't see him there. And so I was, cause at that time I happened to like swerve to the right. And obviously he, we collided in the street. Oh my god. Oh my god. Okay.


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[Assistant] Then I sort of turned around and was like, oh, sorry, you know, and he, he sort of, he was like, look where you're going! And I was like, I don't have any wing mirrors! That's what I said to him.


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[Assistant] Because it was like I was driving a car and he'd hit me from behind, right? And it was clearly his...


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[Assistant] Get your dash cams out, come on. That's one of the common things that happens on the dash cams exposed, uh, YouTube things that I very occasionally watch.


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[Assistant] I don't have wing mirrors, I just sort of said that to him, and he just sort of looked at me like I was an idiot, and uh, just sort of walked off, but ahead of me, and I sort of followed him to the train station, sort of slowly dropping back as I went, because I didn't want to confront him again. But yea, that was weird, and then on the train,


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[Assistant] Uh, I took the train there, all fine, I had a mask and stuff.


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[Assistant] But I noticed that the train conductor, and the train inspector, the ticket inspector weren't wearing masks, so I was like, oh, I guess I don't need a mask, right? So on the way back, I'd actually somehow lost my mask, of course, because this is what happens, but I thought, it doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] I don't need a mask. The train is wearing a mask. It's fine. The actual staff are wearing a mask. I'm not going to get into trouble. So, felt a bit bad about it, but not that bad. If I got on the train, it was all full. Uhm, I walked down the end and I saw some empty seats, but there was like 10 empty seats, but they were all just like, there was a train conductor there without a mask.


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[Assistant] Who said, oh, you can't, you can't sit on these seats. They're reserved. I was like, sure, whatever. So I, but of course there weren't any other seats. So I, there was a random woman there who didn't have anything sat next to her. So I sat down next to her and she turned to me and said, do you have a mask?


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[Assistant] And I said, no, I don't, sorry. Um, and she sort of, sort of grumpily, uh, looked at me and sort of mumbled some things. I didn't hear what she said, but she was obviously really grumpy and really mad about it. Okay. So I sort of, I didn't s- I sat like as far away from her as was comfortable to see anyway. I sort of forgot about it.


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[Assistant] And then we got to the first stop, uh, which was only about five minutes. Right. And got her bag up and got to, went to stand up, so I, so I stood up and I stood in the corridor and she stood up and then sat back down again and put her bag down next to her. Right. WHAT?!


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[Assistant] I was half impressed and half stunned at this move, right? And so then I had to, you know, ask someone else to move their bag so I could sit down next to them, cause I'm not going back to that same woman.


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[Assistant] No no no, it was very deliberate, it was the whole process of gathering up the stuff, putting it all away, you know. Amazing. It was the whole process, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I reckon it was like an old person email chain, do you know what I mean? They'd had it go round, how to get, you know, how to get your seat back on the train. It looked practiced. It looked expertly done. She did it with the confidence of a veteran swindler.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what you need. Be like, no, it's like unethical life hacks. You need to know these things. Don't tell that to that woman though, cause she'll start bringing an underdog jumper on the train.


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[Assistant] I couldn't get into it because of the game. The setting didn't bother me actually, for Final Fantasy's sake. I think there's a lot worse.


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[Assistant] You know, they're having, I guess MMOs are the open world games these days to some extent, uhm, because this...


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[Assistant] There is a lot of choice on your direction and you're not just repeating the same thing over and over again, uhm, or starting again. You know, a lot of these roguelike games where you're basically just trying to do the same thing with a different skill or trying to do the same thing a bit better. It is that in MMOs, of course, you're doing the same quest in different locations, etc.


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[Assistant] It's a bit of everything, and I dunno, I, I can see why people like it. Certainly everyone in Yorx is enjoying, uhm, Final Fantasy at the moment. Are you playing with Rithian or anyone? Yeah, yeah, I'm playing with all those guys.


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[Assistant] My top pick, by the way, from this week is 12 Minutes, which has got Daisy Ridley and James McAvoy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like a, it's like a Groundhog Day sort of 12 minute, um,


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[Assistant] Time loop story thing. It's not very long, but it's really kind of gripping for the first few hours. And uhm, yeaah, I recommend you check it out. Like honestly, these games


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[Assistant] I love, I love like these Annapurna narrative short form story games where it's like watching a cool movie, but you know, that's what, you know, it's a, it's more, it's a pure game. I think I prefer Annapurna. Annap, Annapurna.


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[Assistant] I reckon that Darryl Hannah could marry someone 20 years younger than her, be fine, no one would bother, no worry about that. She's gorgeous and famous, right? Even at 60.


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[Assistant] I hate that as a kid when someone would mess up my hair. I was very particular about my hair. I don't have, I never had curly hair so it wasn't really very mess upable and it just felt a bit weird. Yeah. Yeah. But if you're not a fan, gotta say, felt intrusive.


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[Assistant] Yeah, oh I mean. I guess that's the point of it. Yeah. Uh, oh my god. Welcome back, uhm, into the 20th of May we're recording this. I've got my jab booked at the weekend.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, get my, get, I need to connect to some of the, some of the wifi. Incidentally, a friend of mine has had a magnet implanted in his finger. For what reason? No, his ring finger. For, for, in order to detect magnetic fields. What do you mean?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's quite like a common thing, apparently, where you implant like a tiny neodymium magnet, and you can do- some YouTubers have done it, like uhm, I see Cody's Lab, who's this guy on YouTube who


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[Assistant] A few YouTubers have talked about it, and I don't know if it's very, oh that's strong. I don't think you can like, I think you can probably pick up a paperclip, uhm.


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[Assistant] So I dunno, like, there's a lot of these weird ideas out there. I think the idea really was that it was this, uhm, f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-f-


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[Assistant] Scan it, and it's like, it tells you, oh, this is Agnes from 33, you know, Wheelbottom Lane, or whatever, you know, take her home.


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[Assistant] Well that happened to me in New Zealand. I booked a place to stay in New Zealand, and, um, drove to it, and I drove to the wrong fucking tower heights worth tower road, and it was the other one was like a hundred miles away.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, we turned direct to, like right or whatever, we turned the right directions to get there. We went into the place. It was like.


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[Assistant] And so it took a while for us to think, for someone to come to try and make that logical jump of, are we actually at the wrong hill road or whatever?


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[Assistant] I mean, then again, like nowadays, I don't know why they didn't have like some sort of postcode system like we do in the UK, because nowadays you just whack a postcode in and I'm so fucking lazy with it as well. Like, you know, yesterday, um, I went to the, to Hat Films' warehouse. Right. They own a warehouse? They rent a warehouse. Oh wow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, so, Smithy's birthday today, so we recorded Smithy's birthday video yesterday. Thanks, for Smithy. And the idea was to cover him in... You're welcome, Louis.


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[Assistant] Thank you. So they put down some paper, some plastic and a paddling pool, like they're preparing for a murder scene. And then got a bucket full of a six pack of baked beans, attached the bucket to a gigantic plank of wood.


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[Assistant] And then wanged that over to like a pole that would, you know, stop the bucket before it hit his head, but it would spray all the beans down and they brought themselves, you know, two extra six packs of baked beans in case first one missed or whatever.


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[Assistant] Um, and so, you know, what's this, they hadn't been to the warehouse since Christmas either really, but I was there for Jingle Jam. We did the painting stream there and stuff.


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[Assistant] I noticed there was like this big dead spider, um, like in the corner, right? But not, not on the floor, like on the shelf. So it's like, it's like basically there's like, it's like a bathroom with nothing in it. It's just a toilet and a sink. It's like empty and a loo roll sat there on the shelf, right? But next to the loo roll was this giant dead spider. And when I looked closely, I noticed it was like surrounded by


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[Assistant] Like, like, what, like gravel. And I was like, oh, but I looked closer and I realised.


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[Assistant] You can find out by watching the hat films video, which is probably out now, it's probably coming out today actually, because it's his birthday video, right? So uhm, so yea, you can buy the paint, you can buy the Bob Ross paint set, officially Bob Ross branded paint set, which is the stuff he uses.


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[Assistant] I watched a documentary about the Bob Ross sort of support team and all of his art, and it's kind of, it was all like, all of the art that he did on the show.


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[Assistant] A couple of very all-American, nice ladies I think in there, who basically run the whole thing. And it was very mom and pop, very wholesome, very strange.


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[Assistant] Um, and I'm assuming it's still similar now, it must be, right? But they had all of the paintings because there was this huge, there is this huge demand, this idea that


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[Assistant] People love Bob Ross, they want his paintings, right? Um, so there was this documentary about, yeah, where are all the Bob Ross paintings? It's on, um, New York Times, actually, I've just found it again. I recommend it if you're interested, because it's just so interesting to like, see the little behind the scenes of his, his, what his life I guess was like, you know, with the people that he knew and...


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[Assistant] of PR. There's an element of good PR. I think people can be quite clever and put on a face that people make them out to be this, you know, are such a super good dude, blah blah blah, when they've just done the right things when they needed to. Yeah. But at the same time, I think


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[Assistant] You know, with Bob Ross, like you said, Sips, like he was uninterested in the value of the paintings he was doing and the business idea. He just wanted, like I think he never wanted


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[Assistant] His paintings to become like a commodity. He wanted to teach people how to paint. He wanted them to get invested in the journey and the process. He wanted to give them a chance to do the experience that quite relaxing.


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[Assistant] You know, tried his best to open and give people not, it's not cheating, but it's like techniques that it's strangely interesting, like how you can.


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[Assistant] He did 10,000 paintings. No, 30,000 paintings in his lifetime. 30,000. And


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[Assistant] So there's at least 2000, or no sorry, 1165 in cardboard boxes in the company's nondescript office. Oh my gosh, that's crazy. It's really interesting because yeah, he probably, but his, his wasn't about looking at something and copying it.


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[Assistant] It was about using brush techniques to create a, not, like a, like a just, like something that looks like a natural world, because a natural world isn't.


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[Assistant] It's the canvas, you know, and, and you know, I'm sure that you, the ones that you paint aren't, even if you're copying him, aren't going to look.


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[Assistant] And I also felt like I didn't know whether people really did copy along because I felt like I identified it like quite quick.


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[Assistant] We weren't pausing it or stopping it at any stage and he does move quite quickly and it's


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[Assistant] He dropped out of school, uh, in 9th grade, which is quite young. Yeaah, that's like 14. Yeaah, and then he worked with his father, who was a carpenter, but then joined the army, or air force I think, and moved to Alaska, where he spent 20 years as a drill sergeant.


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[Assistant] So he was yelling at new recruits in the fucking frozen north, and he was such a hard ass apparently, that he earned the nickname, Bustem Up Bobby. Oh my god, can you imagine?


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[Assistant] It costs like ten quid to get the fucking, fucking Bob Ross paint set. Any art supply store sells it. Bob Ross painting make hundreds of millions a year.


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[Assistant] But I think after a couple, you know, he's done, he's done 10,000, you know, you're, you're going to have to catch up, you know, you've got a lot of work to...


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[Assistant] It was very fun, surprisingly fun to follow along and surprisingly interesting to create something with the way he does it. Really interesting.


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[Assistant] Totally, totally. I feel like old folks have taken it though as their own and made it a stigma, right? Like it doesn't feel like, it feels like gardening is this thing that you do when you retire. And obviously the old folks have found that it's good, it's relaxing, it chills them out. Cause otherwise the old folks get very crotchety, you know?


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[Assistant] This helps them, you know, mellow out a bit, you know?


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[Assistant] Or Minecraft, you know, it feels like, oh, it's for kids, I'm not playing, I'm not playing that game. And as a result, it gets this kind of attachment to it. And the same thing with gardening, like, it feels like something that...


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[Assistant] We do still have that, like in our apartment complex, you know, we have a compost bin.


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[Assistant] Like, fear though, that you're gonna fuck it up. Cause I feel like every time we bought a house plant or whatever, it's died, and so everything's, oh, I don't have green fingers, I don't, I wouldn't be able to keep something alive. But actually, nature is pretty tough, and like, you know, if you were to pot some cucumber seeds and manage to remember to water them every other day, they'll probably grow.


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[Assistant] No one's learning anything bad. No one's getting anything. It's not causing any trouble to anyone, is it? Like it's only helping people. Like, I mean, unless more kids are drinking


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[Assistant] One thing I read was uhm, I think if only the birds in the forest who had any talent were singing, the forest would be silent. Something to that effect. It's beautiful.


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[Assistant] Make it up. You get the gist of it. So, yeah, uhm, but the point is that, like, just fucking, just try your hand at this stuff, man, and you might find that you quite like it, and you don't have to be, you don't have to have green fingers to fucking-


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[Assistant] Don't worry it won't be perfect, don't let other people tell you not to do it.


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[Assistant] But maybe like surgical enhancement would give them this like kind of edge, you know, they could like do like additional, if you like cyborged up their like their hands, you know, to like play guitars better or do like, the magnets could like, I don't know, give them some additional control.


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[Assistant] It looks nuts. They're like an animal. It looks like one of those old puppet shows, like the wooden puppet shows that they used to have in those, um, strange like wooden casings in the street, you know.


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[Assistant] Like, like you get a magnetic field when you have uhm, like a high ampage or like voltage going through a electrical cable. So for example if my, if I had a magnet in my finger and I moved it close to the AC wire for my uhm, for my, my computer down here.


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[Assistant] No, I've never had a piercing, or an implant, or a fuckin', uh, uh, I've never had a tattoo, do you know what I mean? I'm as, I'm as white as it gets.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I don't know. I guess you just can't- you can't go through life stepping on- worried about stepping on eggshells, pflax.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but like we had a chat and I sort of gauged that, you know, I, I, I obviously, I just didn't, it was fine. You know, there were just, it was just, you make these mistakes, don't you?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, you guys are bigging this up to make it more than it was. You know, there is, I'm not going out doing that, provoking these things. You know, it is a considered