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[Assistant] Not in a- even in a conscious way, but because you are, you have the longer neck and you can reach the higher leaves, that kind of thing. So in that way, they would have had to evolve in a similar kind of way. And equally, you would have to be defensive of your own life and the life of your offspring. Because without those things, essentially, I suppose they could be like fish and just lay eggs and then fuck off.


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[Assistant] The state of our planet would be pretty embarrassing.


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[Assistant] And the popularity of a thing, you can't force that.


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[Assistant] The first one about, oh step bro, what are you doing? That kind of porn. Why is that popular now? And you're like, oh, it's the kids driving and young people watching porn.


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[Assistant] So, I was thinking, first of all, why, why now is this suddenly popular? And obviously the internet is gonna jump on trends and if there's one successful step bro, uh, porn movie, I'm sure all the other porn makers out there are noticing that and copying it. That's true. However, bear in mind divorce rates peaked


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[Assistant] Peaked in like the late 90s and early 2000s. They have declined a little bit. You suddenly got lots of people growing up with step siblings. Far more than previous.


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[Assistant] Yes, because of course, what do you covet? You covet what you see every day, as Hannibal Lecter told us, right? So, you have this stepsister, she's hot, and in your mind, it's not really incest, because we're not related by blood, she's my stepsister.


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[Assistant] Like, so my mum had me and my, my step dad has a daughter from a different relationship. Is that really incest? That's the justification. So if you're a horny dude.


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[Assistant] That's right, but I think there has to be a factor, and especially if you look at the age of people that watch the most porn is 18 to 29 and 30 to 39. So people 40 and under. So in other words, that generation that grew up with divorces and step siblings being commonplace


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[Assistant] And now we have the rise of step porn. So I'm just wondering if that might be a factor. Your thing about how we don't have any good politicians and we're shit.


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[Assistant] I think, first of all, I agree, but the reason for that, I think, if you look at the advances that we made, I'm not talking scientifically, I'm talking as societies.


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[Assistant] Moving, like, great philosophers, great thinkers, people we still look at now.


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[Assistant] So, if we were playing a video game, and one of the measures of your success as a planet, imagine you're managing planet Earth, you have this, this gene pool of brilliant people,


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[Assistant] How close are those got killed? You just got set back, like a hundred turns.


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[Assistant] So I think that we have fucked ourselves by having the most destructive century.


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[Assistant] Imaginable. And that was the 20th century, and we fucked everything up, and now we're reaping the terrible, terrible, terrible rewards of a shithole century where like 90 million, 100 million people, easy, died in wars. And these would have been like, the best people.


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[Assistant] Yeah, all these fucking idiots running things that don't know what they're doing. Cause, where did they come from? They just went to a fancy school. And their parents were fucking cowards that didn't even have the decency to go over the top and die in World War One. The brave leaders all said, follow me chaps, we'll be fine, and died. Oh I see, we selectively


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[Assistant] It turns out that if you give a platform to people like Andrew Tate, people don't listen to him and say, what a load of bollocks, and laugh at him. An awful lot of them go, yeah, uhm, and buy his merch. So it's a tricky one. It is tricky.


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[Assistant] I think, I think a lot of the time you're right. I think people, people think people won't buy that. That's, that's a load of obvious rubbish, but then... You can never underestimate the


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[Assistant] Just have like, separate countries and you're all fighting with each other and...


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[Assistant] You know, you've definitely got enough to go around and you're just keeping it for just a few people. You'd be like, well, yeah, cause that's fair, isn't it? And they'd be like, okay, uh, what about this environment thing? Cause this is your only planet, right? Like, yeah.


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[Assistant] Like, how's that going? It's like, well, you know, there's money to be made and it is a complicated issue, but okay. What is this money stuff? You're still, you're still fanning around with money. Well, yeah, cause it's not fair otherwise. But what if only a few people have all of it?


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[Assistant] I've got a, I've got an update. This is hot off the press, somebody's just let me know this. What is this, from a mailbag thing?


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[Assistant] Yeah, what sparks joy in children is making a fucking mess all the time. Imagine if you're Mary Condor. You're not just an average parent when it comes to tidying up. You are the Mary Condor of tidying up. And now I don't know how many kids she has. Even with two, she's got three.


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[Assistant] She's got three. She's like, my house is messy, is what she said. Yes, because you have three children, Mary Kondo and, or Marie Kondo, and now you need to try to maintain a Kondo level of tidiness. Not just a human level, a Marie Kondo level of tidiness with three kids and do the whole parenting thing. No wonder.


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[Assistant] We do talk about that, cause obviously living in London, the house we've got, we've got, um, three bedrooms and my office, right, which for a London house is, that's decent, right? And we had to get the loft converted and all the rest of it, which, it's pretty squeezed in, we don't have a lot of crap.


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[Assistant] So he had one room and me and Mrs. have had the other, but then of course where does the baby go? So we got the loft converted, two new bedrooms, which was massive.


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[Assistant] Bombed out house, like no part of it was liveable. Whichever room they'd finished, I lived in that room.


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[Assistant] So, I just slept wherever I could. I just dragged a mattress around and fucking slept on that. The sort of thing that I would never do now, but when I was 33, didn't feel like a big deal. So, that's, uh, we had it done. Then-


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[Assistant] It was rough. It was very lost of us, yeaah. Uhm, but uhm.


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[Assistant] Then we had the kitchen redone a few years after that because it was tiny and shit. And there was like a side return on the house, which is like a chunk cut out of the house just for no fucking reason. So we filled all that in. That was a huge fucking project.


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[Assistant] And that took about two and a half months. So the whole downstairs was unlivable for that time. So we finally got to the point now where there's no more big work to do on the house. And yet, and yet, it's like shit, we could do with some more space. There's always some.


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[Assistant] I think it's very- I talk to a lot of people like- I'm sure Sips is in the same boat when he's streaming. A lot of the people that watch are like, young.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, and they're always like, period, do you have any advice for, like, I'm, I've just finished university, what the fuck do I do? And I was like, well, first of all, don't ask me, ask someone who knows what they're doing. I didn't know what the fuck I was doing, but I said, don't worry, don't be thinking I've got to have a career straight out of the game. I don't think anybody knows.


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[Assistant] I couldn't agree more, however, however, the problem is we're also telling these same kids, good luck ever buying a fucking house. Like ever.


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[Assistant] So I think the problem is saying to them that, I mean, our experience was very similar in that we both basically did programming at a company we didn't like and then went and did something else and both got lucky and going into like all this stuff.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I've, I mean Lewis as well, even more so I think, went from, yeaah, I don't think you were miserable Lewis, were you, on what you were doing? But you just kind of got into this other thing and- Well, okay.


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[Assistant] But can, so the question is that the advice that we're given is essentially from one generation prior. So have things changed to the point now where if you're 21 and you just get out of uni-


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[Assistant] Oh, I mean also, just if anybody is interested, Marie Kondo has just quit, so there's a hole in the market right there, you can become a famous tidie. Right. Yea, you might like that. And there's always options every day, just keep your eye on that.


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[Assistant] Also young people, don't forget to like, share and subscribe. Just hit that bell and smash that like button and all the rest of it. That's all we need you for now. That's your job. Smashing bells, mashing like buttons and sharing widely on social media. That's it. That's your job now. So get cracking.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I can't just, I can't be bothered to do more. The only reason I do them really is to get over jet lag, because I wake up at 5 in the morning with nothing to do, so I think I'll fucking do that. And then once, you know, once I start having a roughly normal


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[Assistant] Oh man, it's been such, honestly, the weird thing is I know a lot of the criticism that there's been on Reddit and in person, because at the event we've had people coming up to us and complaining. Uhm, really? Like what kind of stuff?


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[Assistant] Best TI Dota I've ever seen. Like mind-blowingly good. Some incredible games, incredible series, great storylines, really high quality of play.


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[Assistant] There's so many storylines going on because a lot of these teams, it's like their whole year is boiling down to this. And for some of them, this is like.


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[Assistant] I take it with a pinch of salt as well. So, so there's that, and the games are really good. Uhm, but this year, so they had it at the SunTech.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's been no content really this year at all. There's normally like the player profile movies and all that kind of stuff. All that was missing. So a lot of people feel like if you compare this to TI's of yesteryear, it feels like an earlier TI in terms of the production. So that's been something the fans have been complaining about.


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[Assistant] No, the Valve haven't released it. Uhm, but that was another thing. The Battle Pass this year, uh, or they hadn't at the time this is going to press anyway as it were. Uhm, the, uh, the Battle Pass this year, normally what happens is the Battle Pass comes out way before TI.


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[Assistant] And then you have the casters, me, slacks and Casey. That's the only people on the ground here in, in Singapore. Uh, which is also, yeah, which is also kind of the, that's the first time they've done it that way. So people are like, Oh, I wanted to meet those people. So that's another thing that people are complaining about.


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[Assistant] So I think that uhm, obviously we think of, I think, uh, if you think about Dota in terms of who's watching it, the biggest audience, I think for, certainly for TI broadcasts on Twitch and all the rest of it is North America, Europe,


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[Assistant] And uhm, I think South America watches quite a bit. China watches a lot, but not on Twitch. I think, I don't know, I guess they watch it on whatever their platform is. So this is a good time zone for China, uhm, because of course it's, you know,


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[Assistant] Who are the Chinese team? Then you've got, uhm, Team Liquid.


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[Assistant] Uh, honestly, that's my friend Blitz who is the coach, one of the coaches for their team. Uh, I've known him since TI3.


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[Assistant] I'll give a, I'll give a shout out and a big up. Yeah, I would like to do that. Will is a good lad. Uh, he's a really good, really good friend of mine. So seeing, and also like, I know several of the players from loads of Dota events.


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[Assistant] So yeah, so Team Liquid, they're my personal sort of, the team that I actually really want to see do well.


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[Assistant] So uhm, Liquid is, I believe Team Liquid is based in the Netherlands. I think it's a Dutch, uhm, org. Cause a guy called Victor Goossens is the one who set it up. So I think their headquarters are in Rotterdam or somewhere like that. Uhm, but a lot of the players are Scandinavian. So Matumba Man, who is a legendary TI winning player from Finland.


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[Assistant] He is, uh, he's retiring after this TI. Genuinely.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's because first of all, he's, he's made a ton of money from dotes and has probably sick of traveling and he's, he's, he just wants to sit on his boat and fish in the middle of a frozen lake in Finland. Like that's the dude's dream is just to chill. Um, I think he also, I'm pretty sure Finland still has a mandatory national service. So I assume that Matu will be.


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[Assistant] It does, yeaah, it seems like you have to spend all your time.


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[Assistant] But, uh, yeaah, so, so I really like them. There's also, uhm, team, uh, uh, Tundra Esports.


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[Assistant] Uh, and what's interesting about them is that uhm, well, they sort of, they're based in London. Uhm, so. What? Yeaah. That's the most interesting.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because that means the UK Dota has a shot at it.


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[Assistant] But, think about this, uh, Liverpool doesn't have that many English players playing for it. I mean, there's plenty of times in the Premier League that we think of Arsenal as being this great English club or whatever, and then none of the players are English or whatever. At the moment there are.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Team Thunder. Thunder Awakened. Yeah. Which is quite funny that... They were devastated, man. When they got knocked out by Liquid. So if you, if you are a casual Dota fan, uh, or someone who's never watched it before and thinks, what are these lads yapping on about? If you look up the VODs, or if you look it up on YouTube, it should be there.


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[Assistant] There was a series played, let me find the date for you. It was on October the 23rd. Uh, oh my god, hold on a sec.


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[Assistant] I think that's, that's my wife's birthday. I didn't fucking wish her a happy birthday on her birthday.


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[Assistant] So anyway, to go back to the point, if you are a casual fan and you want to know what it's all about, if you go October 23rd, Thunder Awakened vs Team Liquid, the first game of that series is unbelievable, and the third game of that series


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[Assistant] Third game is one of the best games that I've ever seen. So good. And as a series, I think this is one of the best three game series I've ever seen, uhm, especially at TI.


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[Assistant] He's the only player to have been to every TI, and of course he won the first TI with Na'Vi, and now he has a chance to win the 11th TI with a completely different team, but to have still been playing all that time.


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[Assistant] So that is Crystallis, Misha, Resolution and Zayats. Oh nice, that's a big roster change.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of it. That's the thing, at the end of the tournament, you have the after party, and the after party is essentially what they call the Great Fiend, F-I-E-N-D, the Great Fiend, because the Dota players, they call it the Fiend, I don't know why, but that's what they call it, that's when they all get together, everybody's in one room, you've got all the players that were playing at TI in one room,


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[Assistant] All of them are looking for either a team for next season or players that they can get in and boot some lad who's underperforming to improve their chances. So the post-TI roster shuffle is like unbelievable. It's really, really huge.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it's very exciting for Dota fans. And then of course, you know, you go into the next season with these whole new lineups and it takes time for them to find their feet and blah blah blah. So it's really, really fun.


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[Assistant] Uh, so that's one thing, and Puppey has always been very good at acquiring players. If you look at the former players, go to the Team Secret on Liquipedia. The team's been around since 2014. Oh, he's had every one of them. 2014. Yeah, if you look at...


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[Assistant] So, for those of you who follow Dota, these are the players who've been on Team Secret. KuroKy, who was of course a TI player and legend in his own, TI winner and legend in his own right, S4, a legend, uh, Fly, obviously big time Dota player, N0tail, who's won two TI's, that was the first team. Kuro, S4, Tal, N0tail, Puppy, which is insane.


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[Assistant] So, you know, he's amazing at finding talent, uh, but the true talent finder in Dota is Cyndarin, who's one of the casts he casts with Sunspan.


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[Assistant] For a few years there, Escape Gaming, or Forward Gaming, I can't remember which it was with him, would basically, he would go out into pub games, find players.


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[Assistant] Well, so, it's a really remarkable city.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it feels like, you know, when they have in a sci-fi movie, there's like a futuristic city and it's always got high rises with these big wide roads and then like trees and leaves and bushes hanging down off buildings and it's like they've tried to jam nature into skyscrapers and stuff like that. You know what I'm talking about?


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[Assistant] That is Singapore and it really is very, very green and it doesn't feel like it's like a token effort. It feels more like it is just a part of the way they do things and it means that


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[Assistant] Everything smells way different from any other city I've ever been to. The air smells nice. It's incredibly clean. There's no city smell. Uhm, honestly, it is just a very clean place.


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[Assistant] Which is one thing I would say, it is a very expensive city to be out and about in, but uhm, it's really gorgeous, and I know quite a few of the guys who've been here, uhm, a few times are like, man, I'm tempted to move to Singapore, but the issue is it is very, very, very costly.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and obviously the part I'm in, which is like the central, downtown part of Singapore, it would be like coming to central London and saying, wow, it's so cool and busy and built up here and everything, and not going to the poorer parts of the city. Uhm, so I really don't think I've seen enough of it. Uhm, and you're not allowed to vape there.


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[Assistant] No vaping, so I've been smoking regular cigarettes.


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[Assistant] This is what I was told ahead of time. And it is the case that if you try to bring vape products into the country, uh, and they catch you, it's a $10,000 fine. Apparently. Holy shit. And apparently they also will cane people for shit like that. So I thought, I ain't fucking about with the Singaporean authorities, I won't bring my vape stuff in.


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[Assistant] However, I've seen people walking around on the street vaping with those little pens.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and occasionally you'll see people vaping, and apparently there's a sort of an underground sort of black market supply for vape stuff. Now I asked a guy, a Singaporean lad, uhm, why this is, and he says that the best answer he can come up with, there are two, obviously, which is the one that most people assume, myself included, that it was because it's too easy to conceal drugs.


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[Assistant] Uh, in a vape pen it could be CBD oil. There's no way for the police to tell. So they didn't want it to ban it. The other reason is they can't...


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[Assistant] Yes, so the packets are, the, the, the one with the baby is, is the most disturbing picture I've ever seen. It is a literal fetus, uh, which is, which is really grisly.


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[Assistant] You know, you know, when you're buying them, you can ask the person, oh no, not the baby one. Can you, have you got any others? And they'll sort of hunt around at the back of the shelves for one that's got a less offensive picture of for you. Um, but it's, yeah, it's weird. Uh, but.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you what, the vibe that you get from smoking in the smoker's corner out the front of the hotel.


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[Assistant] You really do get chatting to people. It reminded me of being a smoker. Uhm, and you do get a kind of kinship and uh, chatting with people you wouldn't normally talk to because you just stood there for five minutes next to someone. You say, you're right, and then you get chatting. Which is nice.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like the little, the toy cigarettes that look like a real cigarette. I don't think they do them. Certainly not in the UK, I can't remember the last time I saw them, but they certainly do them.


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[Assistant] Uh, over abroad, I'm sure. I mean, jeez, you can, some of, I've walked around some of the shops, uh, around here, the sweet shops sell all kinds of bonkers stuff, so maybe, maybe.


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[Assistant] Well, I've, I've, uhm, I've been smoking on the, uh, on the balcony.


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[Assistant] I mean, cause, you know, geez, that set off a fucking alarm on the balcony. It's, it's for a start. It's incredibly warm here. It's like 30 degrees. It's very humid. Very humid. My God.


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[Assistant] So I'm just like, you know what, I'll just smoke on the balcony, I'm sure they don't mind. I was sitting out there, I was on my phone, I was smoking my, my menthols like a big baby, and I hear this funny little voice like, hello, hello, and I was like, oh my goodness, I wonder what that is, and I'm like,


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[Assistant] But how much nicotine I'm getting compared to smoking cigarettes because I can smoke a cigarette and it's like, it feels like nothing.


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[Assistant] Like it feels like no nicotine has gone into my body. That's how it feels. Because it's like you've really, for a start pulling on these things is fucking annoying. It's hardly any smoke. When you're used to a giant fucking cloud of vape smoke, you're like this piddly little sort of


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[Assistant] Just tiny little plume of smoke comes out, but they stink, they absolutely stink. And I smell, I smell of cigarettes and everything.


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[Assistant] It's, you sort of lose it, but you just end up with this pool of smoke, like a little cloud floating around at floor level and gradually forming this sort of strata throughout the room. Finally, not those. You don't know it.


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[Assistant] Sort of, uh, patina from years of vaping.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's even worse. The smell is perpetual. It gets into everything. And I used to smoke Rollies and it actually stained my fingers, uhm, like yellow with the, uh, the nicotine juice. So, uh, you know, it's probably going in my lungs. It's probably not good for me, but, uh, what are you gonna do?


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[Assistant] But also very commonly saying, oh, I've gone off the rails a bit lately, but, uh, I'll get back on those rails.


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[Assistant] My wife, aka the Forgotten Bride, who I forgot to wish happy birthday to, uhm, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Do you know what here's gonna happen? I'm gonna call her and apologize and she'll say, don't you remember you gave me a present before you left? And I'll be like, oh yeah, I'm pretty sure that's what's happened, but I'm so sleep deprived and fucking... I've gone off the rails a bit lately lads, as you know, so...


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[Assistant] I mean, I haven't been clean shaven in a long time, like razor blade shaven.


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[Assistant] When I, when I cut my beard back, like after, when I shaved my head, I cut everything at the same time. And when I do, my face just looks like a fucking big fat red pudding. It's so bad. There's no definition. It's just like a big fucking slab of ham.


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[Assistant] No, but just explain to me the, just explain to me the mechanism. I would be intrigued. If anybody out there knows this, go ahead. There's a Triforce mailbag coming up soon. Why is it that we think that, oh, that comes from the mother side? Why? How? Why just this? My dad? He's got slightly more hair than I have.


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[Assistant] Next time you talk to us, say mum. I don't believe he was. I think he had a fine head of hair.


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[Assistant] But for example, uhm, you know, why that? Why would that one gene only transfer from the female gene?


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[Assistant] Well, when you decide to build a giant tunnel under LA to act for, to break down traffic, you know, kind of putting yourself out there, it's load of bollocks. If you looked at this fucking tunnel, it's ridiculous. It's a stupid idea. He had a bunch of stupid ideas. The boring, the boring company.


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[Assistant] Kieran, how dare you! He's a visionary! People told Tesla he was crazy too! Shut the fuck up.


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[Assistant] No, here's what Apple will do. You know the way they remove the headphone jack? And my current, my Google Pixel 6 doesn't have a fucking headphone jack either. What they'll remove is any means to charge the phone. So it just, when it runs out of batteries you have to throw it away and buy a new one. That would be their dream.


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[Assistant] To the Triforce podcast. We're back! The sun is streaming in through my, my morning bedroom window. And uhm, although, although it's, like last week it was snowing. You know, it's a whole mess, honestly. The weather at the moment. Still had a break in with the weather. Welcome, Purion. Welcome, Sips. How you feeling?


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[Assistant] I did get a text this week from someone, one of my friends who was on a plane and they said, I've just been sick on the plane. So maybe it's like a thing that's happening. Sick on the outside of the plane.


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[Assistant] We had these at every school I went to. My first school, we had like these demountables for sure. And then I remember we went to this, I went to a slightly nicer school, but that was almost entirely


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[Assistant] Obviously like ssss, you know, a couple weeks later, I'd be like, dude.


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[Assistant] This problem is still a problem. And he's like, oh yeah, Cal, I'll tell the cleaners about it. And then two weeks, four weeks later or six weeks later, you know, I'll be like, dude, did you ever tell the cleaners? He'd be like, yeah, they've not done anything. And I'm like.


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[Assistant] Can I get, yes, get a new square. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's just, it's one of those things that you just never gets. I reckon it would have been solved quite quickly and easily if someone had actually done it, but then there's no one's problem.


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[Assistant] That is incredible. Let me see if I can find this baby.


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[Assistant] I gave up on it, I haven't written anything on it in years. We were talking about this when you were down. I was like, how's Bodega going? And you were like, I'm not doing it. But you did say you had some ideas for short stories.


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[Assistant] I thought they were very good ideas. Yeah. I was hyped. We were all chatting. I was chatting about you. I was chatting with you about them and throwing in my own ideas and you were like, well, no, no, no, no, no. That's the problem. Whenever you tell anyone your own ideas, they're like...


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[Assistant] It's nice of them to help, it shows, but it always shows like they don't quite, they didn't quite listen.


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[Assistant] I'm leaving this interview, I'm out. Yeah. So, it was Mother's Day at the weekend, well at least in the UK, it was Mothering Sunday. It was Mothering Sunday, yeah. Holy Mothering Sunday. Now, I was sick all week, and I'd not seen anyone all week either, really, because I'd not been in since, like, Thursday, and it just so happened that


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[Assistant] Shoulda, woulda, coulda. It got to Sunday and I noticed it was


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[Assistant] Just sent her a nice long message saying, nice message. Anyway, didn't hear anything back. Next day, I get a message from my dad saying, your mom's very upset that you didn't get her a card or anything for mothering something. Okay. I'm sure you know. Anyway, I could read you the whole text, um, but it's-


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[Assistant] Pretty good though. I don't know whether I should be reading this, but I just have anyway. For those whom they care about and love, they expect, nay, need a response. Oh my god, he's going fucking Churchill on you here.


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[Assistant] So basically this is, I didn't have anything for my mum, you see.


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[Assistant] I just thought, oh it's, you know, fine, she's busy, whatever. I didn't, I, and so all sorts of stuff goes through much, what's happened really there is obviously mum not getting a card from me has meant that all this stuff has gone through her head and she's told it to dad. Probably just wants someone to listen to the rant, but then dad's like a classic


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[Assistant] I'm now going to speculate why that could be and it could be any reason. It could well be that my mom has been spending a lot more time with my cousins who are very much more family oriented. They've got two little kids. Mom and dad look after them every week, you know, and so


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[Assistant] There, I think it's possible that she is much more into Mother's Day because she's got all these kids who, and she's into Mother's Day. I don't think my mom's been that into Mother's Day before, but my mom does go to church and so mother and son, they probably went there.


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[Assistant] I think that's, I think that that is when you're with a partner, which I'm not anymore, you're twice as likely to remember these events.


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[Assistant] I dunno, like, uhm, I dunno, there's no excuse, and I feel bad. Yeah, you should. You'll get over it though.


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[Assistant] Yeah, how did it catch on? I just guess maybe it just sounds English, doesn't it? Weirdly.


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[Assistant] That's good though. Cause then you have your grandkids nicking your vertus, you know.


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[Assistant] Alright, well, expressvpn.com slash triforce, three months free, uh, on us. So yes, uh, thank you expressvpn.com slash triforce. On with the show.


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[Assistant] I do at the moment, uh, cause I'm staying up too late playing games for people on Discord. Um, but yeah, I, let's just say, let's just say normally I would make an effort to get up about 11, right?


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[Assistant] Again, when I had a partner there living with me, there was more reliability in my life. And I think maybe if I got a new partner as well, I probably would have some more structure.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I'd wake up at probably 11, I'd have a shower, I'd come down, I'd make some like oatmeal porridge with a banana in it, something healthy, right?


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[Assistant] I don't see it as a chore, I just don't see, I cannot, I have to do that like morning routine where I clean my teeth and put some like clean clothes on before I can actually function.


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[Assistant] I think I really feel guilty if I am still wearing, like, if I'm in my flat, like, and it's lunchtime, and I'm like, I'm in my pajamas still.


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, well I've got like a bunch of audiobooks on my phone, so I'll usually like, I'll usually, when I get up I'll usually, if there's any tidying up to do, after I've, like I've got like this half an hour window after I've had a shower and I'm like awake, that I can do cleaning stuff and tidy stuff up pretty quickly.


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[Assistant] You have these things that happen in your life when you're like, they kind of flick a switch and you're like, I'm just sick of it being like this.


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[Assistant] So then I guess I'll, I'll turn my PC on and sit down and be like, what should I do?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've, I turn it off because, uh, just, I dunno, again it's that little like 30 second one minute long boot time that means I can't just like instantly go on there when I wake up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, like I have to like trick myself though into the routine that I have in a sense. And so turning off is in part of it.


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[Assistant] And then, I don't know, like usually on Sunday. So on this Sunday, for example, I'm doing a games, a games thing with some friends coming around. So, so, so that they're coming around to your house. Yeah. They're coming around here like one or two.


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[Assistant] No, they're not really. They're my board game friends. Um, so people I know who I play board games with.


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[Assistant] Well, it's not so much that as, as just like a bottle of diet sprite, a bottle of diet coke, do you know what I mean? And a bottle of, um, and something like crisps, do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Well, they bring their own booze. I'm like, they'll bring their own thing. Everyone's got their own fucking thing. They'll be like, oh, I only drink this white wine or am I drinking this thing? Do you know what I mean? Everyone, if people want booze, they bring their own booze. They just bring their own stuff. They're not picky, they're not picky, unpicky like you, you know, who drink anything that's going.


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[Assistant] I have like a porridge and a burger for breakfast.


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[Assistant] Cheese sandwich sounds good. Perhaps a perrier. I don't go shopping on Sundays normally, whereas like, so my fridge will be full of stuff, so I usually have got some stuff in on.


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[Assistant] Yes. But I tend to use it and people hate that though, because I tend to like, when I'm running out, I start making weird stuff when I've got not much left over.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. And occasionally, so, I mean like this week I've been playing various games, and you know how like


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[Assistant] Both of you played XCOM and you would get to a point where you would just rage quit. Like something would happen in the game that triggered you and you were like.


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[Assistant] I'm done. I'm never playing this thing again. And then half an hour later you'd come back and boot it up again. I get that. I've had that a couple of times with a couple of movies or TV shows or like games lately. I think that, I think I need, we're always saying this, that we're looking for something to draw our attention in.


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[Assistant] So of course on this Sunday, I will constantly be feeling a low level of guilt because I'm not doing any of the things that I should be doing.


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[Assistant] I'll be, be like avoiding doing anything that I feel is more like productive. You know, I've got like, I want to do some artwork. I've got like all this stuff. I've got all these like supplies for painting Warhammer guides. I've got like little airbrush I've never used. Jeremy, I've got all these projects that I'm like desperate to start, but like those Warhammer.


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[Assistant] Well there's a couple of things. One, for the last 15 or 20 years, or even longer, even when Ben worked there, they aim at dads. It's not for kids, it's for dads.


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[Assistant] The second thing about it is that they will price it at what the market can bear and they've found over the years that the market can bear an extremely high amount.


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[Assistant] In a sense what they want though is for it to feel exclusive, for it to feel special, for it to feel like it's the only way, where, place you can get it. It is a piece of fucking moulded plastic. It's pennies of plastic, literally pennies of plastic. It's like the most markup on something from, you know, cost of manufacture to cost of sale, anything.


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[Assistant] We think as well that most people who go into these Games Workshop stores and buy stuff regularly, and it is a lot of regular customers, they already have lots of stuff that they feel guilty about not painting and not doing. And so therefore you don't want them to be buying too much, but also


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[Assistant] Oftentimes you have these people who need, need to complete their collection, right? They need to be able to buy that last thing. They need to buy that one last hero or that, that unit that's good in the tournament or Germany that people are talking about online.


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[Assistant] So uhm, yeah, it's not for kids either really. It's for big kids. It's for dads to play with their kids.


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[Assistant] We always used to have like tons of snacks, like crisps and, uh, stuff. Yep. Keep telling him. You tell him. And Daft was like, we're switching it to...


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[Assistant] I think what's happening lately, is that we've got, everyone's been much more paying attention to, to things. There's always some fucking thing every day, either someone's birthday or someone's leaving or someone's joining or someone's having an event or it's some sort of fat day or thin day or women's day or black history day.


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[Assistant] It's fine, like I don't, I love having all these celebrations, but as a result, there's always some sort of donut or cookie or cake.


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[Assistant] Now, okay, I've got one other thing that happened this week, related to birthdays and events and things like this. Okay, so here it is. I don't know whether to read this out. I won't identify the people. I feel like I shouldn't have identified my parents, but I want to identify the people here. It was funny. We would have figured it out anyway though, right? Yeah, we would have.


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[Assistant] It would be great if you could share a picture of you and him together, or just yourself.


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[Assistant] Or anything that reminds you of him in the worst case scenario, you should be able to look something up on the internet.


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[Assistant] He's a celebrity along with maybe a little story or a note. Uh, please do not say happy birthday and do, and do share a story or memory instead. Uh, it would be also good if you could provide some advice. Uh, so please give some advice, deadline for submissions, blah, blah, blah. Here's my email phone. And so I didn't.


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[Assistant] I sort of just, uhm, I sort of didn't notice it and I, I missed it. And so, but there were a couple of reminders.


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[Assistant] I don't want to say, say, say, say nags, cause you know, it's, it's, how much effort is it for me to write a nice message to someone, find a phone, find a picture of me and them, send that through, come up with some life advice.


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[Assistant] Now look, it's hardly an imposition, okay, but, A, I know this person quite well and I like them, but I feel like I've never done this for anyone else ever. Even people that I love a lot, like my mum.


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[Assistant] I spent probably like 20 minutes going through trying to find a fucking picture of me and them together. Finally found one. Uhm, so I had to send that through. Then I had to think about writing a nice birthday message. Now, I have to write birthday messages to quite a lot of times people and I'm like, I don't know this person that well, but I know them pretty well. You know, you should, you know what I'm saying, PFLEX. They're like,


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[Assistant] There are a lot of factors here as well because that partner clearly loves that guy so much that she's done this special effort thing that I've never seen. I'm super jealous, do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] But there's so many layers to this thing that's given me, you know, it wasn't just the effort and the concentration of the thing, it was like, it was this whole afternoon of like, mental trauma.


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[Assistant] Just get one done, like I, I can't have another kid, I'm just gonna get one done. You just think, okay, well I mean, there, there's other ways, like you don't necess-


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[Assistant] Uh, no, I don't, I'm not sure. Is it, um, no, I don't know if I have actually, but.


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[Assistant] No, no, just the end of April. I, I, wait, so first of all I wanna say to everyone that emails in, thank you. A lot of your emails are just not something that I'm gonna read out because they're just people saying, I love the podcast, which is really lovely, thank you for that.


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[Assistant] I could go through and might read and pick out the very best ones, but some of them are quite referencing things we recently did. Anyway, I'll get right to it. I'll start off with this one. This is from Lucas.


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[Assistant] Although I had briefly searched the website of Argos, I assumed it only dealt in electronics and was unsure how it might offer a swimming.


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[Assistant] I think with your history of social interaction with normies, avoiding interacting with them is probably the play. I'll be honest with you.


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[Assistant] I've heard this before where people will ask you, do you know where the so and so is? And it's tempting to say I don't work here, but if you do know, why not take a minute out of your day?


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[Assistant] Alright, let's change the vibe. Uh, this is some classic haikus from the 17th, 18th and 19th century. Right. And these are all fantastic.


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[Assistant] Basho, who is considered the father of haiku. Oh yeaah. And some by a guy called Issa. Uh, so these are classical haikus.


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[Assistant] First winter rain. Even the monkey seems to want a raincoat. That's one.


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[Assistant] Okay. Right. Year after year, on the monkey's face, a monkey's face. That's another one. Wow.


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[Assistant] I like that one. Naked! Naked on a naked horse in pouring rain! I mean that just sounds like a great Sunday, in all honesty.


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[Assistant] That's not, I think it's 575, but so the reason some of these were not 575 or that format was because of the translation. So they've lost a little bit of the, these were all written in Japanese and then translated into English, so they've lost a bit of the, would it be pentameter, I don't know, whatever the meter is.


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[Assistant] This was the episode where Puriam was discussing his freshly shaved balls.


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[Assistant] I walked back into the office to some very concerned stairs. No direct comments yet. It appears no one wants to ask a middle-aged woman why she was listening to people talking about testicles whilst working.


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[Assistant] Uh, Mrs. H, I'm sorry. I'm very sorry.


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[Assistant] That's fair, never apologize. Uh, this is an interesting one, I can't believe this is true, but apparently it is. This is from Meredith from Montana.


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[Assistant] I know some people with kids called George, like their kid is George, but I don't know an adult George. If I do, if I do know a George and you listen to this, I apologize, I've just forgotten you in the heat of the moment.


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[Assistant] I think if you went for George, George Von Gontard, you'd be George Von G. That's quite cool. GVG. That's a nice nickname right there.


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[Assistant] I once per hundred years roughly, and dino-killer asteroids are once every hundred million, so my work will probably not get used while I'm alive.


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[Assistant] Dude, look it up, please. Okay, man. Before we- you're gonna generate emails I'm gonna have to respond to. Please just look it up. Ben Affleck is the guy. He's trying to sleep with- with Bruce Willis' daughter. Liv Tyler. Liv Tyler, yea. And he's trying to prevent this because he doesn't think Ben Stiller's up to it. Uh, but Ben Affleck's up to it. Ben Stiller. Ben Affleck's up to it. Ben Affleck's up to it. Ben Affleck's up to it. Ben Affleck's up to it. Ben Affleck's up to it. Ben Affleck's up to it. Ben Affleck's up to it. Ben Affleck's up to it. Ben Affleck's up to it. Ben Affleck's up to it. Ben Affleck's up to it. Ben Affleck's up to it. Ben Affleck's up to it. Ben Affleck's up to


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[Assistant] I think the government had a real chance, all the governments in the west actually had a real chance to help with so many issues that are faced by people still insisting on going into offices. Number one, you would cut down on commuting, road traffic, overuse of rail networks, the prices, all the rest of it.


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[Assistant] If people didn't have to travel as much as they do, you would also cut down on the congestion when it comes to house prices. Everybody needs to live within a certain radius of the place like London or wherever in the world you are. If you could just go and live in the country in a very cheap, nice big house, you would spread everything out.


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[Assistant] You could spread the country out so that we're not so congested. Services aren't so overworked in key areas. Spread us out. We got all this land. We're not using it. All these properties that are just cheap and underused. Spread it out. Everybody works from home. Problems solved.


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[Assistant] First, he made a bizarre argument about low percentage of population deaths in World War II. I would snarkily invite him to look at casualty figures for the USSR and Yugoslavia!


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[Assistant] Second, there is a fascinating field called paleo-sociology, where academics study what kind of societies existed within tribes and between tribes in the pre-settled period. There is scant evidence of warfare, as, considering tribes were relatively small and there was plenty of space to mob up, versus fighting a neighbouring tribe would be nonsensical.


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[Assistant] Instead, there is plenty of evidence for trade. Uh, in summary, settled agricultural societies appear to be considerably more violent than hunter-gatherer societies. And World War II led to immense poor portions of population loss in many countries. That's Joseph being extremely unhappy with you.


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[Assistant] They're not listening to us saying, please don't email them with your corrections. We state openly that we don't know what we're talking about. You do not need to correct us. We know we're wrong. Every time we do these, and yet still I get about 50 emails from curious experts.


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[Assistant] We're gonna get one shot at this, because of the timing window, if they wait too long. So let's build two. Yeah, because if they wait too long when it blows up.


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[Assistant] Mothballs and denture wash. You might like to purchase something too. And you can do it on your computer. Or even your iPhone, whatever that is. So you can save money on the go. I got a, I got a computer address here. Hold on.


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[Assistant] Alright, this is a, this is a, an email. This is a, I would say a moral quandary that's easily solved. Uh, and the question is advice. Right. This is from Johan. Uh, hey, uh, I'm going, I think I'm going insane after I moved into my new uni flat.


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[Assistant] I've walked in on him doing it several times since, but I just have to wait for him to finish so I can go about my day. What do I do? I honestly, I think that is fucking disgusting, and there's no way that you should have to put up with that and build your day around


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[Assistant] If he's doing that in the shared area, think about other things he's doing that also he considers no big deal.


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[Assistant] I guarantee this is a guy that doesn't wash his hands after having a big old shit. That's the kind of character we're talking about here. If they're willing to do that in, essentially in public in front of all of you, whatever they're doing in private, I don't wanna fucking know. Get gone.


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[Assistant] I just think he's got degen housemate-mate is what it is. Get rid.


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[Assistant] I mean, if the argument is he doesn't want to watch porn on his little phone screen, I've got no sympathy. Sorry. Everybody's got a computer these days, what you gotta do on the TV?


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[Assistant] A flight from Sydney to Edinburgh would take 55 hours. Yes, you read that right. Two whole days, either on a plane or in an airport somewhere. Some flights had an 18 hour layover in addition to another different layover somewhere else. That's twice as long as 10 years ago. Might as well swim.


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[Assistant] Instead, I'll fly to London and then train up north, which would be quicker. I will try to keep my tiny pecker up. My question is, what are the longest slash worst journeys you guys have endured? And I have the pleasure of a 10 hour train trip every time I go to visit my parents. A trip which doesn't even span half the length of New South Wales alone.


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[Assistant] I would agree, whenever I fly business it feels like a little mini break. It is, yea for sure. Flying economy still does feel like shit.


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[Assistant] Right. This is a good one. This is from, from Max. Uh, these are, this is, this is some Triforce trivia. Though it might seem a little bit self-referential, but this is, this is like some throwback trivia about things that happen in old episodes.


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[Assistant] Uh, what home installment suggestion was period appalled by when the builder suggested it?


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[Assistant] I know. Uh, and then this one, the topic of men fucking power stations, bicycles and pavements. Yes. Was the first discussion of its kind on the podcast. How long into the series did it take for this topic to come up?


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[Assistant] If it stays mostly whole, like if it's a very solid bullet, like an armor piercing round or something, it will go right through you and make a hole. And if it doesn't hit something important, it's a grave wound, but it's not like


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[Assistant] Anyways, when this unit was built, the doors were built with anti-flood protection. What this means is if it floods, the doors would unlock so as not to drown whoever was in the cell. This proved to be a massive flaw, as one inmate was able to pee into the lock, tricking it into thinking it was flooding, and unlocking


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[Assistant] As he gets to the end of the hose, he realizes he's still three stories off the ground, and below,


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[Assistant] Just a very quick one from Sam. Here, try for us. I'm an estate agent. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Compared to my kids who were walking around with like a t-shirt, shorts, no socks, no slippers, and they're just like, who's hot in here? And I'm like freezing cold.


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[Assistant] I just want, for anyone who's not aware and just wants to be clear about where you are. Yeah, they might be looking St. Pete's. Right. And I'm sure they would find it.


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[Assistant] Is that right? Then you went straight to Disneyland, or World or whatever it is, and then you went from there to St. Peter's.


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[Assistant] And did it rain a lot when you were in Florida, because I always find boiling hot during the day and humid, and then in the evening there's always a thunderstorm, but that might be a coastal thing, I don't know if that's the same inland.


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[Assistant] I wonder if it would have been a number one hit if it had been called Pussy Rain.


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[Assistant] Oh, I thought she was an inland Floridian, which is like the scary Floridians, but she's coastal. That's not as bad. Okay.


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[Assistant] Cause there's not like a couple of them, you fucking chuck them in there like a pit of snakes, you know what I mean? I think if they're reptiles they can just bump along, they don't need a huge amount of space, they chill most of the time anyway. And then they had a big stash of the biggest alligator they'd ever had and this thing was like the length of a car, it was enormous.


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[Assistant] But it was like, after two hours, first of all, they're quite smelly, and second of all, they didn't really do much. Like, once you've seen them go NOM and eat something, and the guy shows you that a toddler could hold an alligator's mouth shut, like you barely have to hold it shut, they have no opening muscles, it's all closing muscles.


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[Assistant] So they can open their mouths, but they're very weak, which is why you can literally put a rubber band around them.


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[Assistant] You know, I think it's nice for kids, because first of all kids are very touch-oriented, and second of all I think it does teach them that these are living things, and not just, like, decorations.


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[Assistant] Food touches their tentacles and that's it? I mean, they don't- do they propel themselves?


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[Assistant] I mean, does the man of war, what is it, the Portuguese man of war, just floats on the top of the ocean, his tentacles dangle down, does it steer, or is it just like, wherever I go, I go? It's, philosophically, fair enough. But I think as an experience... Dolphins look like they have fun. They look like they have fun, I think.


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[Assistant] I think a killer whale would be pretty, pretty cool to be. They communicate quite a lot.


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[Assistant] He puts like instructions with it, how to reassemble the, the glass.


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[Assistant] Like, it's just, it's like, Mrs. F watches the sewing bee and the pottery show and all the rest of it. Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] They're all the same, like unless you're really into pottery or sewing, it's essentially the same thing every single episode, which is comforting and nice and there's slight variations and you could say that about cooking, but the difference with the cooking shows is


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[Assistant] I can copy that quite easily by getting the ingredients and following a recipe. Most cooking is something that you can replicate yourself, but I ain't gonna fucking suddenly get a potter's wheel and a bunch of clay and a kiln and all that shit, and I'm also not gonna get all the stuff you need for sewing.


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[Assistant] So there, there are your aunts. Hey! I got a story for you guys, talking about mystical stuff.


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[Assistant] He's not even though. No, he does things, I think what he does is when they, he's very good at PR, somehow, where he's able to, people I think for a laugh will tack him onto the end of a news story, like we asked Yuri Geller, or he would put out a statement, I did this, the reason that-


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[Assistant] Yeah, he was friends with Michael Jackson, he's like, meant to be this quite spiritual guy. He's got a museum, apparently. So, see, he has a- the new Yuri Geller Museum, this opened a little while ago, he's 75. He's opened a museum, uh, this is in Israel, it has the world's largest steel spoon.


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[Assistant] So he met a lot of famous people and he would bend a spoon in front of them and that's how he got started, really. Uhm, stopping clocks with his mind, bending spoons, all these little tricks that he would do, like he's just, he's always been that guy who


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[Assistant] You know, cheats, basically, and lies. Uhm, so apparently he suffered a crushing humiliation on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He had prepared a table with silverware on which Geller proved unable to demonstrate his mental powers convincingly, something he blamed on the hostile atmosphere.


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[Assistant] So he sort of went on TV to show that you can bend spoons and none of them could, cause of course it's a trick, right? Of course it's a trick. So I don't mind if it is a clever trick. And I remember when I was a kid, I was very impressed by it and thinking, wow, he can bend spoons.


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[Assistant] Of course he can't. Anymore than, than, you know, uh, a magician can just guess your card from a deck of 52. It's a trick. It's a trick. If you want to dress it up as, as mental, sort of, you know, gymnastics or say, oh, it's, it's all my psychic powers.


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[Assistant] That's the kind of shit that drives me up the wall, is when he has to say, if this is a magical island, and we still haven't figured out how mystical it is, please collect rocks from it so I can display them in my museum in Israel, and these people volunteered to do it, and they swam out, apparently it was a very dangerous swim.


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[Assistant] And I thought there had to have been some kind of mistake, I felt bad taking two War of Frames, but they were like, no, please feel free to give them to your friends. We gave one to my father-in-law, so they came up at the weekend, we gave one of us bare ones to them and said, please, enjoy this War of Frame, you will love it.


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[Assistant] That is fucking, like I had not typed the J yet, I just typed war of and it immediately


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[Assistant] I was reading an article about it the other day, uhm, I just found this article and it said, Ted Lasso has ended. Thank God. Yes, I know the article. That is exactly what I thought, yeaah. You can't help but yeaah.


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[Assistant] All I wanna say about it is, it felt like a band that had come out of nowhere and had an amazing first album.


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[Assistant] The first series of Ted Lasso. And it had started off as adverts for Premier League football on I think ESPN. Yes.


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[Assistant] Edge, I think, but a piece of casting I never understood. Is it Keely? Is that her name? Yea, Keely Jones, yea.


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[Assistant] For me. I did, I even did a thing on Instagram where I went and took pictures of


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[Assistant] You know what, there's a little, there's quite a few forts in Florida.


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[Assistant] This river towards, I think towards St. Augustine or somewhere like that. So it's like a little guard fort that had like a cannon, because you wouldn't be able to sail a big ship up there, but equally if you sailed a little sloop or some little ship up there, you could presumably make it or a landing craft or whatever. So they, they're a little fort with a couple of cannons in there to sort of dissuade people from doing that.


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[Assistant] And I imagined how fucking shit a posting that must have been, given that they would have had to wear those old wool uniforms all the time with their fucking hats and they're just living in the swamp, there's no AC, there's no bug repellent, you're just getting bitten to death by mosquitoes and there's nothing to do, you're stuck in a fucking swamp.


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[Assistant] I mean, these were British soldiers, so they're not gonna tan well. A lot of them are just gonna turn pink. What was the turnover rate for- for tru- it was like, I'm gonna post you to the river fort. No, please sir, please, I'll do better. You know, it must have been a miserable bloody posting.


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[Assistant] Is anything that prevents scurvy. And he realized, they didn't know the science of it, but other sailors had done this and he'd studied a lot of other sort of sailing and the way other crews were and he was one of the first British officers to insist on bringing barrels of sauerkraut and the men hated having to eat it.


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[Assistant] But he was like, no, you're eating it. And he didn't lose a single sailor to scurvy his entire career.


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[Assistant] I mean, here's your success proof, right? I make you take mercury, you recover from whatever it is that you had through natural means, not because of the mercury, and I say, fucking mercury worked, didn't it?


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[Assistant] And second of all, my, my youngest, she had a bunk bed that wasn't really a bunk bed. I think they call it a cabin bed. Yeah. So it's like a bunk bed top and then underneath you can have like a little desk. Storage. Yeah, my kids had those.


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[Assistant] Exactly, exactly. So, how do you do this? What you have to do is unscrew the top bit from the bottom section, which is big and quite heavy, and then hold the bunk bed up where you slide all that other stuff out, and then lower the bunk bed down. This is harder than it looked because the whole thing was in the corner, and we built it there.


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[Assistant] Like it was too heavy to drag around the room and there isn't really enough room to do it anyway. So I had to get Mrs. F and my eldest to hold the bed up at one end and then I unscrewed the other end and


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[Assistant] My birthday is on the fifth of June. Okay, fifth of June. I'll put a Google calendar reminder on that one.


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[Assistant] It seems one of those things, isn't it, that you have to do with family as well, and family's supposed to do with me, is they'll let me know of the upcoming event in a subtle way, and


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[Assistant] Put the seeds, sow those seeds, you know, it's like, it's like if you want a present, you know, you can point out, oh, I really like that, um, that bracelet there. Yeah. That's lovely, that bracelet.


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[Assistant] It's not a huge thing for me. Some people it's really important to them, but for me it's not really. Some people have a birthday week where they go shut the fuck up about it and get very angry if you don't do things. And also they do this thing where they're like, but it's my birthday week.


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[Assistant] This is like, what do you mean? It's like, that doesn't mean that I have to like, be your slave for this next whole week. No, that's true. Give me a break. Come on, like, fine, I'll take the bids out, fine.


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[Assistant] You're killing aliens in Wexar. Oh yea, yea, of course. Isn't that the point of the game? Yea, yea.


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[Assistant] Sometimes it means a cup of coffee. Some people, uuuh, get crazy without my coffee.


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[Assistant] Well, this is, I was going to say, how do you feel about like EastEnders, right? And like soaps in general, right?


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[Assistant] Just, just, yes, how many episodes do you think there is? 20 years? 4000?


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[Assistant] Like much many things that I'm not really that familiar with, I've just got my knowledge through osmosis and being alive. You know who Pat Butcher was though, right? It's the same thing with the World Cup. Peggy Mitchell.


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[Assistant] I've always been like very kind of impressed with the ability to turn around stuff.


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[Assistant] Real quick, right? Like, like, like the newspapers, right? How they would basically come in in the morning, write all the articles, get everything together, send it to the guys who would then have to redo the whole thing with typeface. You'd have to set the whole, jumping back in the day when newspapers were done.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they'd have to get the metal plates, you know, re-


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[Assistant] Every letter would have to be a metal little, so they'd have to basically, a guy would have to type the whole thing out, then another guy would have to copy it into metal and then make a print of that and then do it overnight and then rush it out for the next morning. It was like, I just, I have, I mean it's different, I'm sure it's a bit different now, but it's still similar in the sense that you still have to, you've got a day.


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[Assistant] Genius. There's also no time to deal with like, these actors who are like, dramatic or, or divas, you know, or like, don't turn up or, you know, want a holiday or, you know what I mean? Like, they just, they've got, like, their schedule must be so, like, tight to actually get this thing out and get it edited and ready in a decent quality. But I guess at some point they must be like,


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[Assistant] Fuck it. We're just gonna have to use what we've got. Like, this is, this is bad, but who cares? You know? And also like, in a sense like, the relentless pace of it means that there's no chance really to have good story, right? In a sense, it just has to be, it's kind of unchecked, free-form averageness, right?


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[Assistant] Well, it is the same, isn't it? Because I guess that's the reality TV shows are supposed to replicate the working class, you know, life of these people as they just every day doing their stuff, right? Whereas the, I guess the reality TV shows are usually more exaggerated because they cast meados. But I think like,


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[Assistant] This is, that is amazing. Well done. I love it.


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[Assistant] That was beautiful. Man, that was pretty good, Flax. That was really good. Yeah. That was impressive. At first I thought it was gonna be one of these, um, AI chat GPT poems. No, it feels like it, but it's not. It's mine. But no, it really was, it felt more real, more pure. It's Flax GPT. More human. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's split into three parts and each one represents a different virtue, power, wisdom and courage.


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[Assistant] Well what's the point of courage if you can't beat anyone up? It's not about fighting, it's about standing up. What's right?


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[Assistant] So if I rob a bank, I could get the Triforce of Power? That's- I guess that's not the kind of action or deed they mean, Sips.


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[Assistant] But look, there's a second one here in the chat and I posted this and this is a different one to the one I thought you meant.


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[Assistant] I'm pretty well, thanks. So, what's been going on in your lives this week? Well, I've been playing a lot of Valheim recently. Such an addictive game. Trying to build a giant fortress, but it's taking forever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's definitely worth watching. So, what are we going to talk about on this week's podcast?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, same here, I've had some real stinkers.


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[Assistant] I can relate to that. I worked at McDonald's for a while and it was terrible.


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[Assistant] Well I worked as a telemarketer for a few months, uh, actually. It was soul crushing. I had to make hundreds of cold calls every day. And most people, they just hung up on me. That sounds horrible.


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[Assistant] Alright, well I think that's enough job talk for now. Let's move on to some listener questions. Cue the music.


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[Assistant] If you replace the word Valheim with the actual game I've been playing, if you replace the word Bondavision with the thing Sips has actually been watching, it's basically kind of, kind of there, do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] But I see what they're saying though, right? Because it's almost indistinguishable from a real script or a really badly written script. And there's a lot, most of the stuff that's out there is badly written, right? So I think in a sense they have to either, it's gonna get to the point where they're gonna have to start dumbing themselves down.


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[Assistant] At the moment, like, it's regurgitating a lot, right, but I think that that again will change and be kind of to the point, because there's so much now being posted all the time by so many people, it's...


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[Assistant] So this is, I guess what this is, is it's starting to get into animation and AI generate video. I mean, that's the next thing, right? There's tons of Twitter profiles that post like weird AI stuff. There's like, I saw one yesterday was like a concrete eating contest. Do you know what I mean? And it was exactly as you would imagine.


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[Assistant] Um, a bunch of guys, you know, chowing down on big blocks of concrete, kind of very, like it's, it is immensely creative and interesting to see what, what it generates, right?


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[Assistant] It's the same rules with cars, right? If you crash into the back of someone else, that's your fault, not their fault.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Oh, it's, it's, it's a fright, it's an absolutely frightening future with AI. You know, in some ways it's good. Really, really good because, you know,


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[Assistant] It greatly enables people who are like, I dunno, like AI audio stuff will allow more, more content for people who are blind or like, you know, like, like there's loads of ways that it can help and enable, make more things productive, right? Save you a lot of time. You know, it can create, help create content with people rather than, but yeah, like, like the billionaires are worried that it's gonna


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[Assistant] Gwyneth Paltrow's story is, is, is fascinating because I don't know if you guys have ever been skiing, but there's people crashing to each other all the fucking time on the ski slopes, right? And obviously a lot of those do cause injury.


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[Assistant] Um, and I've done it. I've crashed into people when I was out of control.


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[Assistant] Or not on purpose obviously, or where they, people are crashing to me when they're out of control. It continually happens and there's always, there's a lot, it's like when you're driving, there's a lot of people driving normally, but there's always that one fucker who zooms past at 150 miles an hour and you're like, that guy's driving like a fucking cunt. And it happens every time you drive.


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[Assistant] And it happens all the time on Skislave as well. There's always some lunatic, uhm, skiing dangerously. Why is that?


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[Assistant] Whether that's, should we get sucked into working or something or sucked into a TV show or a book?


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[Assistant] A lot of people just, just don't think about what they're doing. And until, until something bad happens and then they're like, oh, okay. I, I realized I shouldn't have done that and killed that person, but now I'm in prison. You know how? Shit. Um, you know, and you see it, these people, they just don't realize what they've done.


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[Assistant] In a sense, it's nice that this, this court case has brought to light some of this pretty shitty behaviour on ski slopes. I mean, I've seen it happen. And I think it's, again, it's a he said, she said situation.


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[Assistant] joinhoney.com slash trifles. Thank you very much. Thank you.


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[Assistant] So we are basically smashing our heads into things and making ourselves dumber, whereas the AIs are getting smarter.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I feel like it's inevitable, but there is a little bit of a...


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[Assistant] A vogue around AI stuff at the moment, right? Like everyone's talking about chat gbt and AIR and everything and it's like, it's in focus and as a result, there is this push to do it. Google's racing with


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[Assistant] You know, Chinese tech companies are doing it, you know, and Microsoft's doing their own. It feels like it's suddenly accessible and we have technology to have this, whatever it's called, deep learning or whatever. I don't really understand. And I gotta admit,


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[Assistant] It's gonna get to the point where I think that's the only way we can tell if something is AI generated, right? Is if, like, it's telling you something that you


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[Assistant] It has got red flags in it, right? At the moment, we just have to look out for red flags. We're like, okay, that, that, that doesn't make sense. Or that AI is saying something that's patently wrong, right? You know, like, like for example, someone asked Chachi Patelia the other day and it was like, um, you know, name all the exoplanets, you know, and when how far away they are and stuff.


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[Assistant] And so, you know, it would talk about this exoplanet, it would be like, oh, you know, Betelgeuse 761A is 47 light years away from Earth. If we were traveling at half the speed of light, it is unknown how long it would take to get there, Jeremy. And it's like, well no, you've literally just said how long it is, right?


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[Assistant] But you've not done the basic, you've not put together those connections, you know, and as a result, you could see, okay.


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[Assistant] There's, it's made some weird bad error. It looks like a copy paste or something, right? So that must be AI generated, right? But it's only a matter of time before, or maybe I'm just stupid and I didn't know that, right? Cause if I'm, if I'm stupid and I didn't see that red flag, I wouldn't know that it was AI generated. Do you see what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] I guess, I guess until, until, until, I can see where, what they're scared of, right? They're scared of this idea of the singularity, right? The idea that AI can self-improve. But these AIs are already spouting out code, they're already spouting out, you know, original, or at least inverted commas, as original as anything is original.


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[Assistant] They're already being able to use the tools that we use. And so when does it start happening that the AI starts generating new AIs, right?


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[Assistant] We think it's quick to make an episode of EastEnders in a day, but an AI could make a million new AIs in that time. And it can iterate itself into...


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[Assistant] I think it's hard to know what the threat is without taking the example of like thinking what are the steps, right? Is it going to replace all?


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[Assistant] You can make a thing that puts an algorithm into an iPhone that does, that makes a little app or something, you know, that helps or maybe a language thing or maybe something else, right? Some little thing.


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[Assistant] People are constantly looking for that stuff and improving on it and using it in their technology.


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[Assistant] Well, exactly. The idea though is that we have this, the AIs would increase productivity much like industrialisation did, but what that ends up doing is not changing things too dramatically for society, right? Like even, you know, sure we're more productive, but then money gets concentrated


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[Assistant] In the hands of fewer people, that's kind of how we've done it in the last.


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[Assistant] 70 years. But the money doesn't necessarily mean there's more stuff.


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[Assistant] Like if you print a load, it's like a coat check thing, right? If you have a coat check and you give out and make a print a load more coat check tokens and give them out to people, that doesn't mean more coats appear.


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[Assistant] That's kind of the same thing with money. There's a limited amount of resources on the planet. If you give a lot of money to people, they will go out and spend that money and they'll buy things that they were, new things won't exist suddenly just because they've got money to spend, right? There'll be a problem and that the people will have, if everyone wants an 80 inch plasma TV,


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[Assistant] Having this big reaction about, about pension age, right? That is an older generation of people who are angry. We would have thought it would be the younger generation of people.


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[Assistant] If you end up with a situation where you've got this groundswell of angry people who've lost their jobs, I think there's this fear, especially in the elites,


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[Assistant] The current system is a disaster and I think it needs to change and I think the best way to do it is to just try it. Try it some low level thing, you know, roll it out gradually. I think that a lot of people are scared that it will have


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[Assistant] And America are raising it to 70 and no one's saying anything. And I think America has a less life expectancy than France.


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[Assistant] It's like when you, it's like a job interview, where it says like, oh, you know, this job you're gonna get to work in a fast-paced environment, you know, you get to thrive under pressure, you'll be part of a dynamic team. And it's like, these are all cons, right? Like, these are all like...


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[Assistant] You could go out for burgers as well. You do whatever you like man, just so you turn up and go out for burgers. Take everybody out for a burger. Why not?


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[Assistant] Really good, yeaah. Hey, before we start, can I just say that uhm, after our session of Baldur's Gate 3,


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[Assistant] I've gone on to play it on my own, just to get to grips with the game and everything. And man, I'm having so much fun. It is great. It's a great game. It's genuinely one of the greatest games. It has to be, right? It's just, it's so well done. It is amazing. It's so much fun.


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[Assistant] But I think we talked about it after, and I think it'd be more fun, uh, for us to all have played the game even a bit. Right, that was the mistake. Be familiar with things, and then we can kind of...


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, really treat it like a sandbox because like from, from your guys point of view.


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[Assistant] Both of you played it. I've never played it. And if, if, if she was on the other foot for me, if I was playing with somebody who hadn't played it, I would be like, come on, let's just, you know, this leads nowhere or this does nothing. And I don't really care too much about your wonderment either. Let's do stuff. Like I would be, I would be like that.


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[Assistant] And I, I, I get it. So I'm not saying that you are like that in, in a negative way because I, I thought it was fine. I thought you were fine. I thought the, the, the session we did was really fun.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I'm looking forward to doing another session when we, now that we've all played the game, uh, and then we can really just like screw around, make, you know, characters and, and try to do stuff that neither, that none of us have done because the game is big enough. There's so much content. There's so many ways to.


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[Assistant] I want to also say, flex, I got something that's gonna send you into a even worse downward spiral. In my playthrough, I call her shadow fax. What's her actual shadow heart?


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[Assistant] Shadowheart has permanently left the party. She got so pissed off with me.


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[Assistant] And then maybe like, well, what felt like five minutes later, realistically, it was probably like an entire act later.


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[Assistant] She turns up and she's like, I can't forgive you, I'm leaving. And then she permanently left the party.


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[Assistant] WOMEN. WOMEN. Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it? Like, uh, you gotta treat a mean to keep him keen.


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[Assistant] When, uh, the guy who is actually a pilot himself, he has to take over the commercial airliner and attempt to land it. Uhm, the air traffic controller is not giving him instruction. They have to get some other hotshot pilot in.


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[Assistant] Nah, I was, it was like, I think, I think they just banned it like, right before my time.


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[Assistant] Okay, I don't remember, I mean, I'm talking about like the 80s, uh, flying out to, this is Air Canada, flying out to British Columbia, where my grandparents lived.


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[Assistant] And I remember all of the armrests had ashtrays, but distinctly remember not ever smelling cigarette smoke on a plane. I'm pretty sure. Yeah, I remember it really well.


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[Assistant] I think when they're doing the interiors, depending on the company that does the interiors and the contracts that they have for specific airlines or whatever,


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[Assistant] Some of the interiors they use for uhm, you know, like everyday commercial, private, all sorts, right? And I think sometimes it's just like standard to have them. Uhm, you know, I'm not exactly what you mean.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, some might like, depends, like, you know, if you, I mean, I'm not speaking from experience. I've never chartered a plane before, but, um, I'd imagine that it's much like, um, you know, uh, hiring, uh, like a car or, or, or, or whatever, you know, some, some places might say, please no smoking and other places might say you can smoke, but we'll have to charge you because we'll have to like,


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[Assistant] Put some air freshener in there after or something like that. I'd imagine it's the same, especially for a jet. I don't think they're going to fuck around with you too much if you got that much money. You know, I think you can pretty much do what you like in, you know, some of those social senses. So.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, but one of my good childhood friends, he was a, uh, he did like interiors for airplanes, like on an assembly line pretty much.


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[Assistant] He used to say that, uh, they would, you know, like some of the, it was all standard stuff, you know, they had like whatever it was like six or seven things that they did. Uh, but those things would be used, you know, they'd be applied across the board to all sorts of different things. So like sometimes commercial, sometimes private, whatever. So I think.


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[Assistant] You know, if they have like a standard, um, armrest or whatever, they're just gonna use it. It doesn't matter. Even if, even if the, the policy is no smoking, it'll have it anyway, sort of thing. But then some of them might be old too.


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[Assistant] That's amazing. That's good. We are out there. Our faces are accessible for sure. Uhm, very much. That is, that's amazing that you don't know what we look like. You know what?


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, I would just like, as a joke, do a fart or whatever. And, uh, my wife grew up with, with two brothers as well, who are probably doing a lot of farting and a dad and stuff too.


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[Assistant] No, but like to this day, my wife is like sometimes, oh god, that's really disgusting. I wish she would stop doing that.


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[Assistant] I fart, uh, in front of the baby, um, cause she can't say much, uh, she looks over at the spawn and she says, oh, da da.


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[Assistant] My son, uh, my son like adds some flair to his farting now. He's, he's a little bit older. He's at that age. So he'll, he'll kind of like.


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[Assistant] Run into the kitchen and scream and uh, and just fart like really, really loud. And sometimes it sounds like he's shitting his pants, but he, he doesn't, but I don't know. It's, it's, it's weird, right? You don't hear a kid like,


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[Assistant] You're, you're inconvenienced by weird things, right? As a kid. My, my, my kids hate going for a poo. Like they just think it's, it's just way too much time out of their day or whatever.


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[Assistant] I don't need to go. I'd go if I needed to go. I don't need to go. Alright, fine. Go when you're ready to go. And then you put them to bed and, uh, 20 minutes later, you can hear them rummaging around upstairs taking a shit. And you're just like, well, you could have just taken a shit before you went to bed. But, but no, you had to wait until you were asleep.


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[Assistant] And I really like the, the, the charming persuasion, you know, I like getting out of stuff. I like to roll my way out of stuff. Like, uh, there's a big fight. I don't want to spoil anything, but there's a big.


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[Assistant] Potentially big fight, I'm not sure if it's actually big because I didn't do it. Uh, and I managed to persuade the guy that we were potentially gonna be fighting and all of his m- So first, I got him to kill all of his minions.


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[Assistant] And then I persuaded him to kill his pet, and then I persuaded him to kill himself.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. So I feel like I, I feel like I saved myself a lot of hassle with a big fight just by rolling pass. And I like that. I go in for that big time.


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[Assistant] The alternative to that, I played Fallout 1 years and years and years ago.


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[Assistant] And I gave my, I gave my guy, I wanted him to be unarmed. I wanted him to go around punching stuff and I gave him no intelligence. And the, and the whole game adapted to the fact that I had no intelligence. All of my dialogue options were just like.


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[Assistant] I just couldn't say anything. I couldn't communicate with anyone. Everybody was like taken aback by how dim I was and stuff. Like it was.


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[Assistant] Nice. I love that you can talk to dead bodies.


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[Assistant] It's so good. It's so fucking cool, man. It's really good. Like, I just, you feel like such a detective, you know? Like, you're just figuring out the story with this, like, vast toolkit. Like, it's just great. That's so good.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't know what the deal is. I've heard a lot about it as well. There was a picture in our local news the other day where there was a massive nest in a, in a,


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[Assistant] In an abandoned house, they found this huge nest and it was, it was like something out of Baldur's Gate or whatever, like this thing looked.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, uh, I mean, it hasn't been an issue, but I think locally they're just sort of like, we can't let this get out of control because it will be a nightmare. And they seem to be on top of it. I don't know. I don't know if they actually are, you know, they might just be saying that they are, but yeah, there's definitely been rumblings about it. There's been bits and pieces.


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[Assistant] Okay, what happens when you've been stung in 2023?


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[Assistant] Yeah, is that right though, or do you have to go get like a shot?


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[Assistant] That was the one that caused, um, I don't know if the term is, is, is correct to use anymore, but I remember from the eighties they called them- Don't say it then. Okay.


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[Assistant] But you'd be scared to live on another planet though, right? Because what if uhm, you know, what if there's like some big, uh, big event that you're unaware of that's about to happen, you know, like-


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[Assistant] Deep in the core of the, well it could be yea, but we're here already so it's tough shit.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, which would take uhm, you know, uh, a long time to ever get to, right?


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[Assistant] Really fast. Get there. In the near future. No. It's interesting. It is interesting though. I like reading about that kind of stuff. I think it's, I feel like uhm.


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[Assistant] It just feels like some sort of Wild West or something, all that stuff, you know? Like, we can't get to these places, they're so far away.


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[Assistant] But there's just little bits of information that we can, we can get from them and, and, and we can study them through that and stuff. I don't know. It just feels like, uh, it feels exciting. I wouldn't want to be doing any of it myself, but I'm glad other people do it.


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[Assistant] But I mean, even when, uh, even when the, um, even when some of the early ships were going to discover the new world or whatever, it sounds exciting, but I bet you it sucked big time.


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[Assistant] Oh god, I was like, I was there, man, I was right in there, holy shit. Well done, Carl, oh my god, I'm so glad that that didn't actually happen to you, because that is a nightmare, oh my god.


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[Assistant] Do you know, like even when he said he lived in a rough part of the UK, the visuals were all there. I was like, I can picture every fucking step of this journey in, in the UK. I was there. I was, I was, I was in there. Crazy.


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[Assistant] I want to say as well that for the most part, when I see a Range Rover, there's a type of person that drives that vehicle. They all seem to me to be the same person, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it definitely has a demographic that it really appeals to, right?


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[Assistant] They're expensive, but they're probably quite spacious inside too, right? If you steal one of those, think of all the paint cans and whatever else you want to transport around, you can fit in the back.


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[Assistant] But their infrastructure lends itself to bigger cars as well.


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[Assistant] No, I get that side of it, but in general, their roads are much bigger. Their cities are planned around traffic and roads and stuff.


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[Assistant] The UK is a nightmare in, depending where you go, because a lot of it is, a lot of the, a lot of the road layout is what they used to use when they had like horses and carts and stuff, but they've just paved them. But a lot of those roads are still.