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[Assistant] We'll binge on for a few weeks and then move on sort of thing, but you know, you just enjoy it while it's fun. And there you go. Like that's, that's kind of like the, the essence of gaming, isn't it? It's just those, those, those sort of like getting into something really liking it, binging through it and then.


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[Assistant] Getting to the point where you're like, yeah, cool. I'm done. I can move on to something else now or whatever. I like that.


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[Assistant] It's a, but it's a older, it's an older competitive game, right? Like, it's- We pick up Dota every time there's a TI.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it really is. I love that trip to Seattle to Valve was hilarious. It was like, holy shit, we're actually going to meet the guys who work on Dota. And it was like an office the size of my garage. It was like a cubicle the size of my garage with four people in it. It's like, oh, hey, cool. You guys work on Dota? Yeah. That's it.


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[Assistant] Listen, I wanted to come back to something we spoke about last week because I watched the Woodstock 99 trainwreck documentary after you recommending it and it was good. I thought it was good. It made me go off and read more about the whole thing. I didn't realize like how sort of, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] Dyer the whole thing was. I remember it happening, like, I remember hearing about it and stuff, but I didn't realize that it was like, you know, such a mess and stuff. But man, fuck me, the part where, in the rave hangar where the van was going through during Fat Boys.


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[Assistant] It's just, it's unfuckin' believable, man. Like, it's, uh, it's staggering that, I mean, I don't know how many, um, how many went, like, unreported, but like, the, the, the actual amount.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the, the statistics are, are insane cause it's like, you see that and you're like, holy shit, like so many people must've died that weekend. And it's like two people did. And you just think, how in the hell?


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[Assistant] And another guy overdosed. He overdosed, had heat exhaustion, and then eventually died of hypothermia while he was in a coma from, uhm, from complications doing, owing to overdosing on drugs and, uh, and like complications with obesity as well. So I'm not gonna- He was only a kid.


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[Assistant] No, no. I mean that was, that, that, I think that very much was people going, going hard and, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's crazy, there's so many people, the, the, I, I was wondering because you know, they were all, they were so uhm, they, they talked about, you know, being profitable and, and budget cuts and stuff so often, and you think, I think over the week, the weekend that it took place,


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[Assistant] They saw about 400,000 people come through. Right. Who all would have paid like, what, 150 bucks per ticket? Yea, it's crazy. So where the fuck was all their money going? But then you think of the lineup they had for the weekend. Yea, yea. And it's like, I guess, I guess that's where it all went. You're not gonna get-


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[Assistant] What are you thinking, Bush Gavin Rossdale from Bush? Like, what the hell is wrong with you? It's crazy anyway. But yea, no, he was, I love the, I love the bit where he had to go on stage with Bush right after Korn. Yea, that was so good. The audience was just amped to the fucking max. And then howdy comes without his shirt on.


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[Assistant] And I just feel like, but like a lot of the problems they, they would have had was, was the lineup was, was very specific. Yeah. But then thinking about like music in the nineties as well, you went from like early nineties.


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[Assistant] Kind of like, uh, moody, angry music, but slower.


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[Assistant] Another thing that struck me that I thought was kind of interesting was


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[Assistant] Uhm, the people speaking about the kids and stuff that were at Woodstock 99 and the way that they were behaving and how appalled they were of all this stuff going on and stuff. And it wasn't anything like Woodstock in, in 69, you know, that was, you know, peace and love and stuff.


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[Assistant] The kids who are at Woodstock 99 are the product of people who would have been at Woodstock 69. So you created these people, like what the fuck are you, what have you done?


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[Assistant] Probably, yeah. It was a, it was a, it was a interesting document, I like watching stuff like that, like, uh, especially like music documentaries and whatever, but yeah, it was an interesting one. Good shout, I'm glad I watched it.


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[Assistant] Also, while I went on a bit of a bender, I watched two other music documentaries because over the weekend the baby just had this monster nap on my lap.


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[Assistant] Uh, the kids were just like playing outside and stuff, so I was like, whatever, I'll just watch some documentaries, I guess. I watched an ABBA documentary, which was really good.


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[Assistant] Good lord, man. No, it was good! And I watched a Kate Bush documentary as well. Hell yeaah. Yeah, she's really, really interesting, and the documentary was excellent as well. I watched them both on...


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[Assistant] I think BBC4, the iPlayer, they got so much shit on there, man, it's crazy. Like it's just, uh, if you're ever stuck for something to watch, BBC2 and BBC4's like, uh, content archive is insane. There's so much stuff to watch that you wouldn't have seen because it was just on TV at some odd time that you've never realized or whatever, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, but she, um, she just, she just, um, retreated from the limelight for about 15 years. Like she.


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[Assistant] I think her mother died, she broke up with her long-term partner and then got together with the guitarist of her band.


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[Assistant] And left London, moved out to the countryside and just, just didn't do anything. She just like, she was still working on music and stuff. She had a, she had a, a child and she just decided I'm just going to raise my, raise my child and take my time and do whatever.


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[Assistant] So yea, very low key, but like uhm, you know, almost like a recluse sort of thing, but like, but, you know, some very famous.


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[Assistant] Friends who speak highly of her as well, like in the documentary, you had like Elton John and all the, all these people who were, were just like, yeah, you know, like we, we kept saying to her, you should come back and record music or whatever, but she was just like, no, I'm just, you know, I'm just doing my thing. I'm just enjoying my life or whatever. And I think it's, I think she just had such a, like, um,


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[Assistant] You know, like sometimes when, when, when musicians, artists, celebrities, they get, they get really big and they just end up being like, uh,


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[Assistant] You don't hear about it very often that people just stop to, uh, to read. Like, I know, like, uhm,


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[Assistant] Like John Lennon kind of took a couple of years off to raise, uhm, his son. Uh, but I don't know, I don't know if he actually stopped writing music at the time or anything, but like, you know, he was just, this is like post Beatles and stuff.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's another kind of like, uhm, you know.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. It's like leaving your keys in your car and then the car accidentally putting itself into gear and driving down the road by itself and all you can do to stop it is shoot a gun at it, hitting the trunk and then causing it to explode.


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[Assistant] And also a family of raccoons decided to breed and shit in their day.


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[Assistant] I think Nelly Furtado took some time off to either raise kids, or I feel like I heard that she works, she's like a school teacher now or something, but I think she's not


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[Assistant] She's, she, I, I don't think she's doing music stuff anymore. Or maybe she is still, but she's got like a, just like a normal job too or something. I don't know. I need to look it up.


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[Assistant] At the, at Disney World in Florida. And they also had it at the, uh, one in France. And, uh, I've, I've taken my son on it and he liked it too.


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[Assistant] Rollercoastery thing as well, where you bounce around at you, so it's like, that's the 40s. No, it wasn't so much rollercoastery, but the seats themselves had, um,


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[Assistant] These like little air tubes under them? So there's one part where like he spills a crate of rats and the rats


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[Assistant] Run out of the screen towards you, as if they're gonna go into the audience, right? And then these little tubes start wiggling around behind your feet, so it feels like rat tails on the back of your feet. So it's like little prop things as well.


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[Assistant] There's like a point where I think the dog sneezes and they spray like a misty water from like the ceiling on you and shit like that, you know? It's like an immersive experience. It's good for kids, right? They love that shit.


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[Assistant] God, they should have just given me that money. I know. I could have retreated from the limelight.


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[Assistant] Very lazy. I don't know why they can't just think up a new character type, you know? Like, uh, what about the lead character from Memento who had short term memory problems and had to tattoo clues all over his body? That's interesting!


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[Assistant] Yeah, for like, uh, for like six, six bucks for a small bag of, of popcorn. Like, all they do is just heat up some kernels. Like, there's nothing to it.


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[Assistant] I've never even seen a- I've never seen a John Wick movie. I'm told that they're pretty entertaining, but I just haven't gotten around to watching one.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean, sometimes, yeaah. Like, I watch action.


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[Assistant] That was what started. He went on his rampage, he got home, he had a pizza, he drank like a glass of milk and just decided I'm still so fucking angry and then like just went even more ham.


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[Assistant] It sounds to me a bit like, uh, like the premise for falling down. Remember that with Michael Douglas?


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[Assistant] What was that movie where the guy basically, the whole movie was a guy had a GoPro on his helmet and he was like jumping between trains and like fighting people and stuff?


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[Assistant] Oh, the uhm, yeaah, I can't remember his name either, but the uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean, I get the appeal, and you know what? Honestly, sometimes I don't mind just watching something like that. I feel like for me, I just gotta be in the mood, you know? Or if it's on TV, and I'm just kinda like, sat there, and like, I'll watch it sort of thing. I don't know if I'd necessarily seek it out, you know? I don't know. I just like, uhm...


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[Assistant] I say this a lot, but like, ah man, I just like documentaries. The older I get, the more I like them as well. I just like- Yeah.


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[Assistant] I just like, uh, I just like, uh, learning about things that happened and reading about them afterwards and stuff too.


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[Assistant] There's that other one, uhm, there's that other one on Netflix which was, which was similar. The one, uh, with the, the, the girl who stayed at that hotel in, uh, in LA and they, and they eventually, she went missing and then they found her. Uhm, I felt like that one could have been probably just an episode.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I felt like multiple episodes. It just dragged it out. But it is interesting. Like, you know, I would've watched like, you know, an hour and a half documentary on that or whatever. Like, the story itself was very interesting. But to stretch it out that far was too much.


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[Assistant] On this, on this thread, uhm, I started watching this documentary, it's like a mini-series about D.B. Cooper, and that's a one.


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[Assistant] That, that is- That's one episode. Somebody does something really simple that nobody can figure out and then it's, it, it seems like five episodes of-


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[Assistant] People all coming out of the woodwork with their theories on who it could have been and how he could have done it and how he could have gotten away with it and did he even exist and uh, conspiracies and oh man. It's not, it's not, it's nothing about it.


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[Assistant] Like it's an interesting thing, it's an interesting heist, but like you gotta, you gotta remember the, the time that that took place. I mean, they didn't even have metal detectors or anything like that.


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[Assistant] Primarily how drugs were smuggled into the country as well, right? People would just pack a suitcase full of them and just travel by air. There's no security.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's, it's crazy, but then like also, you know, at the time it was this big, big deal or whatever, but you watch it now and you're like, okay, yeah, I mean, 200 grand is a lot of money, but like, man, it's, it's not so much that you would spend that much time and energy trying to figure it out, you know, like,


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's, it's just completely, um, you know, like it's taken over some people's lives. You know, they just like, you know, they go to like themed coffee shops around DB Cooper and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] It's wild. It's, it's nuts. It feels like one of those only in America things, right? Like it's, it's a bit eccentric and stuff, but I don't know. It's been, it's been kind of fun. We've been, we've just been watching it and just, you know, it's, it's interesting.


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[Assistant] No, I know, I hate, the thing I hate as well is, uh, when they do put movies on there, they'll put like, Terminator 1, and you're like, oh shit, okay cool, Terminator 3, where the fuck is Terminator 2? Like, it's the best Terminator, like, it's not there.


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[Assistant] Okay, I'll just watch these two other not-so-great terminators, uh, and try to remember how great 2 was. Thank you.


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[Assistant] If you went to any of the other streaming services, Prime, Netflix, or whatever,


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[Assistant] Oh man, yeah, it's a, it's an interesting one. I mean, I watched the Chernobyl, the, the, the,


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[Assistant] The good one. I didn't watch any of the other ones because once I feel like sometimes you watch something and it's so good that you're just like, I don't need to watch something else about this. This is fine for me. Like this has, this has ticked all the boxes. I'm, I'm good to move on sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Oh man, I could be like the, I could be like the DB Cooper of porn collecting, you know, like, uh, this man found the best porn. He jumped out of an airplane and parachuted into the forest, never to be seen again.


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[Assistant] Listen, it's, uh, I know that you guys have all done your vacations and stuff, but I'm going on one in like 10 days. We are first time away since, uh, just before the start of COVID. We have not left this rock.


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[Assistant] No, no, we'll be nowhere near London or Twickenham sadly. Uhm, but, you know, it's uhm, England. It'll be good, but we do have a baby. So it's like, you never know, right?


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[Assistant] She's good, like she's fine, she sleeps and stuff, but all it takes is like one bad diarrhea or something and, you know, that can really just, just get you, you know?


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[Assistant] Same with me. Yeah, well, I mean, yeah, anything. It can happen to us all.


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[Assistant] My, uh, my, my daughter's learning how to ride a bike and, uh, my son just got a new bike that he is, uh, is good at riding. So my kids have been.


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[Assistant] Bike riding a lot this summer, which is kind of nice too, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Remember riding a bike? Remember being excited to ride a bike? I do!


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[Assistant] My first bike was a red BMX with red tires and I thought it was so cool because when I, because I didn't have handlebar brakes, it had the back pedal brakes. I would slam those suckers on and there would just be red streaks all over the road from my tires.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know. It was just like, there was no gradual breaking. It was just the sudden...


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[Assistant] You're, you're breaking and skidding. It was great. I loved it.


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[Assistant] Did you ever put uh, like baseball cards in your spokes and stuff at the back of your bike?


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[Assistant] Did you have like rainbow streamers on your handlebars and stuff too?


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[Assistant] When you're on the road in, uh, in Canada, a lot of the rest stops, at least when I was, uh, when I was younger and we would do road trips either from Ottawa to Montreal or occasionally from Ottawa to Toronto to like visit friends or whatever, you had Wendy's, um, usually it was like Tim Horton's, Wendy's, sometimes like, uh, you know, like Pizza Hut or KFC or something like that.


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[Assistant] But Wendy's, aw man, you go into Wendy's and get a frosty and you just have a nice, like, chocolatey ice cream, milkshake-y, uh, thing to eat in the car. It was really nice. Refreshing, like, just, just really good.


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[Assistant] My brother was 6 years younger than, uh, and still is. He is 6 years younger than me. But when I was like say 11 or 10 or whatever and he was much smaller, uh, I feel like I had a very typical North American upbringing in the sense that summer vacation normally involved driving somewhere very far.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So, you know, we'd be sitting in the back of the car with not much to do or whatever. My dad would stop somewhere and we'd get a Coke.


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[Assistant] And I remember my brother would always get a bottle of coke, a plastic bottle of coke, but because he was so much smaller or whatever, if he had a snack with it or whatever, he would backwash so bad and there would just be big chunks floating around in that bad boy.


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[Assistant] Hello! Welcome everyone to a mailbag. A mailbag? I love the mailbag. Although every time we do this, it makes me never want to say anything ever again. Do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] By the way, can I just say, I occasionally get people tweet me a picture of where they're listening to the trifles podcast and it always cheers me up. Every time someone says it. Like even if it's just like a filing cabinet or like, you know, like a drab.


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[Assistant] This reminds me of something that happened over at Jingle Jam, so we worked with the


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[Assistant] Wallace and Grand Appeal, uh, was one of the charities. And we invited all the charities, uh, to, to come down.


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[Assistant] Very cool Jingle Jam building house thing. Anyway, they're great, but they brought with them their Wallace and Gromit costumes.


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[Assistant] Which are just, and then they sort of had to kind of draw, there were about four or five women and they, I think there was a guy, and they had to sort of draw straws amongst them to which one would have to go into these horrible sweaty costumes. Oh man. It's just, cause they, they, they, I think they've all


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[Assistant] Uhm, or whatever, and I'm sure it's, it must be a bit of a stressful job, but.


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[Assistant] Uhm, to make it feel like I'm being paid a salary to work for a charity, but also I do have to try and at least make my money back. You know, I need to put this work in, right? You know, you feel like you have to be, you know, I guess it's more.


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[Assistant] I think there must be a little bit of pressure though to be uhm, I don't know, to be efficient, to be effective, to be like, to feel like you're not.


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[Assistant] Anyway, yeah, I mean, if you're working for a faceless corporation, you can just browse Reddit all day. Anyway, these charity people were super lovely, like super energetic, like so excited and nice and kind of like almost like we are a bit


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[Assistant] Like Jay did an entire boring and like, you know, whereas they were just like, what you're doing is amazing. We're so, and it was like this real shot of adrenaline that we needed right before.


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[Assistant] Right. I don't know if the, well actually that, that would explain how high energy they were.


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[Assistant] Because, the Wallace, because the Wallace and Corwitt costumes, uhm, I, I assume they have to do events and stuff and things.


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[Assistant] But it's even like the senior, the more senior members of the team.


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[Assistant] Let's go mechanics. These guys are the tank maintainers and stuff. They're like basically the, um, the engineering wing of the army. I have some, um, knowledge of them because when I was in the cadets, we went on, um,


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[Assistant] Like a thing in, we went to Germany and we did like a week staying with these guys. It was like a, they organised this thing for us young, young, young lads.


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[Assistant] So, and I spent time with these guys, and I can't, I can't say they were, uh, heavily drinking wankers, uh, particularly. I thought they were, I thought they were very nice. I actually got a cat badge. I've still got it in one of my drawers somewhere. Remy, like, uh,


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[Assistant] I can imagine this, this is an army thing though, right?


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[Assistant] I reckon if, I dunno if it means something else to the army, you know? Like...


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[Assistant] Right, okay, so uhm, I think the thing is just to go with the flow, you know, uh, people have been having kids for, since ever, you know, you wouldn't exist if thousands of people hadn't had kids before you, so. That's so true, so true.


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[Assistant] Just be, just rely on your, your, your paternal instincts. Uhm, do what your, your wife or partner says. You know, squeeze her hand when she's giving birth. Yeah. And uhm, you know, make sure you got the car, got some towels down in the car.


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[Assistant] And then like, you know, maybe limit it to like two kids max later on. I know like there's the temptation to have more, but resist my dude. Um, you know, go make sure to like just


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, just wet wipes, you know, just, just, just be prepared, just get prepared, you know, be like a prepper.


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[Assistant] Get your like, get your ducks in a row. And uhm, just be ready for the apocalypse. Pretty much.


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[Assistant] I've listened, I've listened to you guys. Advice for new dads. God, good luck to you, my man.


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[Assistant] Like Zorba. It does. I think, I think you could, Link is, Link is a boy's name anyway, right? You could, there's like, um, Rhett and Link, you know, Good Mythical Morning. I don't think, I think it's Lincoln, right? It's just short for Lincoln. So that's not too bad. And Ganon is a bit of a weird one.


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[Assistant] No, I think a lot of people changed their name away from it.


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[Assistant] It tends to be that these, these people were the, these people were the Hitlers of their time, though, right? Like, we, we talk about Hitler because he, but, but Napoleon used to be, you know, the, the real, the bad word, right? No one would name their kid Napoleon. Well, maybe in France they did. Bonaparte. You know, certainly like those, those- Man, that reminds me of-


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[Assistant] Magic Jots, did not people not think Magic Jotson was a- Okay.


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[Assistant] Which reminds me of this story that I read back in the day about the Germans who were missing in Death Valley. I think we talked about this ages ago.


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[Assistant] Man, if you never read that story, it's really worth reading. It's like, it's basically, uhm, this family of Germans went missing in Death Valley and it's really remote, right? Really, really kind of like super remote to the point where it's a day's drive out there and you, you, you know, there's no phone signal and no, you know, it's, it's just a nightmare. It's so hot.


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[Assistant] So yea, you can, if you Google up Death Valley Germans, there's a guy's blog, which is still up, where he just catalogs his attempts to find this, this, what happened to this family. And eventually, spoiler, did find some, did find out what happened. Found like a shoe.


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[Assistant] That's not the kind of place where there's uhm, something. Why else have I watched? It was quite good. It was a bit unexpected. Uhm, I don't know. But anyway, yeah, let's carry on. This is a great, by the way, it's a great podcast today. Loving, loving this. Shout out to uhm, shout out to all the little groups of people, like shout out to the


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[Assistant] The furries sweating, sweating their little furry balls off in costumes and the reamy guys sat in a greased, greased up under a tank. Oh, it's just great. And the guy in the desert.


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[Assistant] I honestly think the smartest people in the world have not figured out how to make Alexa useful, or like, anyone asks Alexa more than, Alexa, what's the time?


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[Assistant] Well, make Alexa smarter. I think a lot of people, yeah, like we said, do just use Alexa for alarms and like basic crap, right?


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[Assistant] I feel like Alexis tried everything, right? They've tried like text adventures, you know, they've, they've tried like drop in phone calls, you can like drop in to other people's, Alexis had taught them, but that's just, none of these things are


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[Assistant] I feel like, like, they've tried so, like, so much and none of it's really stuck. People aren't really comfortable buying stuff over Alexa because we never trust that she can hear us that well.


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[Assistant] Well, okay, so first of all, I've heard good things about Branston beans. They're very good. Yeah, they're good. Is this a thing, is this the truth? Yeah, they're good.


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[Assistant] I think I would assume Harry Houdini was from, y'know, Bratislava or somewhere and changed his name. Y'know, I just assumed he was one of the...


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[Assistant] I don't, I really don't. I think the world generally is, is, is, has moved on, right, a lot. And I think we, we do watch a lot of 80s, 90s stuff where maybe Wisconsin was more of a butt of a joke than it is now. I think, you know, the 30 years, things have changed a lot.


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[Assistant] Uhm, hmm, I gotta say, I feel like it's a no.


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[Assistant] I think even if it's like solves the problems of cruelty and climate change and all these issues with, with meat production, it's amazing how fascinated we are. I think something also about the idea of it being made in a lab.


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[Assistant] You know, cows that are being injected with hormones. It's pretty miserable stuff, generally the food situation.


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[Assistant] So would I, would I eat it? I mean, I guess I don't, I don't miss meat. I guess when I say meat, I mean, this is what I mean when I say meat. I mean chicken, which has a very


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[Assistant] They were, they are very overly salty. The same way I don't like overly sweet things either. Uhm, I think my, my palate is like...


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[Assistant] And some people really, the thing is, it's about what you grew up with, right? Like too, like if you, if you were a kid and you grew up eating these pretty awful sounding foods, like tongue or, you know, haggis, which is basically, I found that haggis is just lungs, basically.


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[Assistant] Well, but it's like, it's like something like 50 or 60% lungs. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I dunno. So, so would I lab grow meat? No. Sips? Would you? I dunno.


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[Assistant] I wonder whether that's just like a more complicated sound to make in your mouth.


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[Assistant] Or don't have specific vowel sounds in their language naturally. So, or like, a great example would be the clicking, right? In, in African, some of the African languages. Where, where they, where we never even, or even like just like, um,


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[Assistant] The, the, the, the, the Welsh, you know, all the, the, the sort of Dutch, uhm, hacking and stuff, you know, or, or fanning it up, you know, that stuff is so natural to people in certain languages that we just don't...


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[Assistant] And I can't, I can't, um, can't unthink it now. So I just want to share that with you, and that's out now. Oh god, that's out of my head.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's kind of disgusting.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, so, checkers is like connect four or noughts and crosses. It's, it's computers. You can play it perfectly and force a droid. So you basically, it's a game where you cannot lose. Right. Basically.


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[Assistant] Like, especially, uhm, Bobby, Bobby, what's his face? Uhm. Fischer. You know, Fischer. He. Bobby, what's his face? He wanted to play.


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[Assistant] Different versions of chess, right? He would, he would modify chess to be different pieces, different spaces, different, different things, different ways of playing. Yeah. And so, I mean, checkers is really only a modification, I guess, of that. You know, checkers, you could imagine it as


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[Assistant] A series of sort of semi-bishops, right? Like kind of, do you know what I mean? Like that can, that can.


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[Assistant] You know, so, so it's, I guess you could, you should look at checkers as a version of chess that is simplified, but, um, but it is played by,


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[Assistant] I think a lot of the board games that we play are also probably solved. I wonder if monopoly and risk and, you know, a lot of these other games are inverted commas like solved.


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[Assistant] But I wonder whether, like, even given the chance element, like, is that simpler to learn than Checker's strategy, right?


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, I don't, I'm not like a big cheater. I suppose I used to cheat in things like Minecraft or Fallout or games where


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[Assistant] You are like, something, single player. I don't mind cheating in single player if I could justify the karma in my mind, right? Like if the game's broken or something's not working or I've


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[Assistant] I have to grind up 2000 wood or something incredibly tedious. I'd rather just cheat that in and be like, yeah, okay. Just pretend I did this. You know, if I'm like basically just having to do some tedious job, like when I was a kid, I would, um, when I had a newspaper around, I would


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[Assistant] I have to pack the newspapers full of the fucking leaflets and I'd like to do that in front of telly for like three hours, you know.


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[Assistant] Doing, doing that sort of stuff in video games, if I can avoid it by cheating, I usually will do, or I'll make a macro or something, and that's, a lot of people would consider that cheating as well. Like, anything repetitive, I, I almost


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[Assistant] We'll refuse, I find it fun though to, to find a way to cheat, right? To find a way to, to macro, uhm, tedious tasks. But, but that's, that's by the by. I, I think that we, I play a lot of games, I can play a game of Twilight Imperium tomorrow, which is this huge day long, 8 hour slot.


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[Assistant] Exactly, exactly. Yeah. Well, uh, you're welcome to join us for the next, but yeah, it's a, it's a long day and it's, I'm sure. That didn't seem sincere. I wonder how complicated a game needs, you know, I just wonder where, where checker sits on the actual level of complexity, right?


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[Assistant] But I think it's about perspective though too, right? Like checkers, I think you sit there and you think, fuck, this is actually very, very complicated very, very quickly. At least with chess I do. Whereas with a board game, you're


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[Assistant] Board games are designed, and video games too, for simple decisions that don't feel overwhelming, because otherwise they're not really very fun, right? So humans are quite good at picking between two options or three options, but as soon as they're given like,


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[Assistant] Eight options or nine options, like in chess, you're like very overwhelmed suddenly on like what, what you can keep in your mind, right? Right. I think oftentimes most board games provide, uhm, at least try and keep good ones that I keep coming back to keep having simple choices.


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[Assistant] Have, sure they have maybe as much complexity as the other games, but they don't feel like they do. So it feels like the choices you're making are more fun than serious. Like I think checkers, playing checkers can very quickly go quite serious, right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and also that, that's an element of playing with one person and playing with four people. When I'm playing with one person, I definitely feel very competitive. Whereas as soon as I've got four people around the table, I'm just playing for fun. Uhm, and it's weird that, that,


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[Assistant] Everybody's already done the, the, the 2022 death count. My favorite part of a new year, everybody looks back and you get that big Sergeant Pepper style montage of all the famous people that passed away in 2022. More prominent ones right at the front wearing, you know, bright blue and bright, bright red.


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[Assistant] I think the outcome is always going to be, you're going to injure yourself. So I would say the best thing to do is to do like a cross my heart and hope to die, you know, like a really quick one, you know, like people do like on a plane or something and it's turbulent and then just hope for the best. Hopefully that's just enough, you know?


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[Assistant] I think if you're popular through superhero movies, that's, that's, uh, I can understand that. Cause myself, I don't watch many of them. So if somebody is famous just through playing a superhero, the likelihood is I will not know who they are.


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[Assistant] He did talk gear for like a season after Clarkson and his, his goons left.


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[Assistant] Well, whatever, they got, well, Clarkson himself got, uh, got fired. And then more recently he was, he got in some more hot water, didn't he? For some, um, he, he wrote like an article about, uh, Meghan Markle, I think saying that they should shooter or something. Yeah.


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[Assistant] We chucked out our Christmas tree today, and that's that. Fuck yeaah. Another one, another one down, baby. Now we, now, this is like, uh, it's, it's like a full year before I have to be hassled by Christmas again, so I'm happy.


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[Assistant] It was kind of nice because while we were away, we just, we felt like we avoided a lot of like the mayhem of the, the season, you know, we'd already done all of our shopping. We'd already wrapped everything ready for when we got back because we knew it would be tough to get back and still have a lot to do. So in, in some ways it actually organized us a lot more. And while we were away, we actually just.


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[Assistant] Enjoyed being away and resting and stuff like that. The baby went on a plane for the first time.


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[Assistant] Which is pretty good. Uh, she hated it. But on the way back, she slept. So it was, it all worked out. It was pretty good. It was nice. And we rented a, uh, we rented a car. And the guy's like, oh, I've got a treat for you.


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[Assistant] I thought, you know, I just rented a dad mobile because I just need the space, you know, like I wasn't after anything fancy or whatever. And he's like, uh, guess what you're getting. I was like, uh, I don't know, like a scenic or something. He's like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know. Secondhand electric cards, you gotta wait for a bit, right? They're so expensive.


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[Assistant] Did you let, did you put it in automatic mode? You can't.


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[Assistant] Oh, I think it, I think it holds, and then it expends over the course of about 200 miles, they tell me.


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[Assistant] You get some top-ups because some of them have solar paneling to help top-up and also you get a top-up because everything is integrated into the brake so when you're braking it produces a little bit of a boost for the battery as well, I'm told.


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[Assistant] So I think it gives you like a little bit more juice, but like, like for long trips you'd have to, um, you'd have to charge up.


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[Assistant] Then you have the added benefit of parking up at your house and just plugging it in overnight and, uh, and you're fully charged, you know? I think, uhm, I think it'll get better in bigger places, but for smaller places, it seems like a really, really good proposition. Like for where I live, for example, would be perfect.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, okay, for all that, that's, that's all fine and dandy, but is there, uh, is, is there a lot of these videos on, uh, Pornhub?


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[Assistant] New Year's resolution. I'm gonna stick to the same New Year's resolution I've had for some time now and I'm gonna stick to not exercising or looking after myself because I do that really well.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, I think it applies across the board. But I think the primary implication is the forbidden one though. The more forbidden one, right? What's that? Well, it's like, as if to say like, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, any hole is a goal, right? Like if you're talking about adults, that's one thing. But then if you extend that to say exactly. Oh my gosh. Sheep. Yes. We'll see.


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[Assistant] You might like a, um, a documentary that I watched last year. I think it was last year. It was a, um, documentary, I think they're, I think they're all on, uh, on, on iPlayer. Could apply to a week ago. No, no, they're all on iPlayer and it's, um, it was called like,


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[Assistant] I have to look it up but I think it was called like the Mole Man or something and what they did was they sent


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[Assistant] An old man, he was like, he's an old Spanish man, he was like in his 80s, and they sent him into a care home, undercover, to like, to do a reporting for them.


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[Assistant] And then, but he was, he was quite lonely. Like his, his, his partner had died and, uh, I think his kids were had, were like, were, were quite a bit older and they just didn't visit him that much. And he was quite lonely and it was kind of twofold. It was like, we need you to do this secret mission, but also while he was in there.


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[Assistant] I need a setup, like my son is at the age now where he wants to watch movies that are just not, they're no good for like my two daughters. I need to get like a home theatre or something set up in the garage.


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[Assistant] There's some classics, like the Indiana Jones Trilogy, Back to the Future Trilogy, The First Jurassic Park, like there's so many movies I want them to see, Terminator 2, like oh man.


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[Assistant] I feel like the, I feel like growing up in the, I know we talk about this a lot, but growing up in the eighties was different to kids growing up now, I feel like, for sure. Oh, you think? Yeah, like I don't know. I think we got, I think we were subjected to more stuff ahead of our time sort of thing than, than, well, maybe not actually. That's probably bullshit because of the internet, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I mean, some of the best stuff out there is a result of just, you know, stealing somebody else's idea or whatever, you know?


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[Assistant] I think anybody who's done any YouTube content has done it by default, right? Like, uh, you just, you copy other people's formats and ideas and stuff all the time. So we're all guilty of it, probably.


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[Assistant] And timing is important as well, which is the very fluky part of it. Cause nobody can really say when the best time for something to come out is, but there is a timing element to some of this stuff too. Something will have come out.


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[Assistant] And just swept the nation and it's just because there was nothing else like it at the time, but it was a simple idea, maybe so simple that people had thought about it before and just thought, no, it's kind of dumb. I'm not going to do it. But then somebody's gone and done it, done it well enough.


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[Assistant] I don't know, get into like the hype of what people are wanting at the time. And it's just, it's just dumb luck a lot of the time, I would say.


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[Assistant] This is the whole plot to the movie Coco, by the way. The guy makes all those famous songs, but he doesn't have what it takes to go national with them or whatever. And then all of his songs get stolen by a very charismatic singer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, kinda like Michael Buble. And then, uh, and then his, uh, his nephew has to rescue him from the afterlife and convince him that he should take ownership of these amazing songs that he wrote and, uh, and call out the guy who stole his material.


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[Assistant] Right? That is, that is Coco. That's the whole thing around Coco. And that applies to a lot of what you just said as well, you know, coming up with an idea.


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[Assistant] Not, uh, not going through with it and then somebody else coming along and saying, I'll take that idea, I know what to do with this.


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[Assistant] Well, ideas can be pretty creative as well, like there's big IPs based around people's creative ideas, so it's kind of the same.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, some music is like that too, like some original songs, it doesn't happen often, but rarely you'll have a song that the original version of it is not that great, but it'll be picked up and covered by somebody who makes it amazing, right?


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[Assistant] You can, though, and people are. Like all the time. All the damn time they are.


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[Assistant] Because your ego prevents you from it and there's some people out there with just out of control egos that will not allow them to be happy for another person. They just need it all, right? They need all the fame and the glory and the attention.


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[Assistant] I think people probably start off reasonably nice because they have to be, because they won't get anywhere otherwise, but the minute they're in a position to truly just be themselves, immediately they turn into that person, right? Like, uh, I think, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Apparently some, some people, like, uh, I was reading, uh, there's a big Reddit thread, take it with a pinch of salt, cause it is Reddit, but it was people's, uh, first-hand accounts of whether a celebrity was, uh, was, was a shitty person.


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[Assistant] Well, from what I read about Mariah Carey is that a lot of this stuff is not really Mariah Carey. She had a PR agency who were mental and kind of, um, had this image idea of her that they-


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[Assistant] I like to think, look, I'm just trying to make my point here, I like to think that he could get on stage, his piano would break down and he would just wing it and it would still be really fucking awesome to watch and entertaining and stuff, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] And he wouldn't really mind so much either, you know. He would just kinda roll with it. Because he is pretty talented and he can do this.


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[Assistant] For me, I like to think, and I know this might not be the case, but me personally, I like to think that it's a case of


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[Assistant] Uh, the less talent you have, the more emphasis you place on these dumb things, right?


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[Assistant] Don't matter. They'll still get out there and they'll just smash out a good show. No problem.


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[Assistant] That's such a good example though, because like some people are like that, but, and it's just a little thing, but it goes such a long way. You know what I mean? Like you'll have these stories about like Elton John or like Dave Grohl or whatever, where people are like, oh, you know, such and such wasn't working and everybody's getting mad or whatever, but he was just like,


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[Assistant] Drinking water and chatting to people at the front and it's like, it's excused because people can be reasonable as long as like the other person is also a bit reasonable too.


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[Assistant] But these people always do, and you've seen it, even with other like YouTubers and stuff, because it's not even that these people are sought out in the first place, they seek out these people and think that they're


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[Assistant] One of the times you can have the front facing person is like the nicest person you'll ever meet and then they're, whoever manages them or is like responsible for just like taking care of them. It's just a total arsehole. Like you just, you can't believe that the two of them would even.


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[Assistant] Oh man. No, but it's, uh, like you know what I mean, right? Like there's, there's definitely an element of that. It's like, uh, I don't know, these people that want to like manage


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[Assistant] Talented people, they seek them out, right? Like it's not the other way around. A talented person isn't looking for some arsehole to manage them. It's the manager that is so incessantly trying to get in and manage the person to be part of it or whatever. He was the successful arsehole in a previous job.


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[Assistant] I've got a very, very impressive resume of being an asshole. Shouted at a lot of people. Hey, speaking of resumes, today is the big day, by the way. Uh, everybody's favourite TV show, The Apprentice, is back on. Oh my, really? Fuck off.


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[Assistant] I have no ill will towards mango whatsoever. I think mango is pretty great, actually.


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[Assistant] You gotta, you gotta play it down a little bit. Uhm, but, uh, no, I don't hate women at all. What are you talking about? I love women. I, I, I love, I love, I love all sorts of women.


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[Assistant] No, I'm not even saying uh, male presenters, but I'm just saying like, why not just get like, just get fuckin' Tess Daily on there or something, you know what I mean? I can handle Tess. I like Tess. I like Tess a lot, actually.


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[Assistant] Wait, are you talking about Claudia Winkleman on BBC Traders? I love that show.


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[Assistant] As is well documented, I don't actually like The Apprentice, okay? I hate watching The Apprentice.


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[Assistant] It feels too gamey though, I saw like a bit of it and there was like people really hardcore conspiring and I, I, I, like I just, I don't know. Can you get that into?


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[Assistant] I started watching, uh, black books. I had never watched it before and we've been watching it and it is quite funny actually.


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[Assistant] Well, Bill Bailey, there's a thing about Bill Bailey just recently where he was saying, like, he hasn't talked to him in years, but he is a great comic writer and people are, like, upset that he even sort of said that he's a great comic writer. Like, people are very much like, do not.


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[Assistant] I'd say people don't really change that much. They do a little bit.


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[Assistant] You have to really want to change, and most people can't even stick to a diet, let alone changing their entire mentality or evolving their thought process or anything like that.


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[Assistant] Easily, easily become them. Because when you're, uh, when you're a small child, the impressions that you have from the world are, are, are so long lasting, right? Like, uh, there, there are things that you,


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[Assistant] At the time don't think about, you just accept as the norm. So when you grow up and become an adult, they become comforting norms.


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[Assistant] It's important to have like that unconditional love. It's important to have the safety. It's important to have routine and all these things. And if you don't have them, uhm, it fucks you up as an adult for sure.


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[Assistant] Wow. Yeah, there you go. A classic. You gotta break the cycles.


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[Assistant] That's the thing, that's the key thing and it's work and it's hard work to do as well because you're breaking the cycle not only for your kids, but you're trying to break yourself out of the same cycles as well too, right? And it's, it's non-stop work and most people do not want to do non-stop work and that's why


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[Assistant] Thank you everyone, we'll see you next week.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone and welcome back to the Triforce Podcast. Uh, here is the third of our little bonus episodes for you as we will no doubt be recovering from the New Year's celebrations and, uh, not able to record the podcast this week.


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[Assistant] Or there's some reason why there is no podcast. But who knows? Uh, please enjoy this fun, interesting podcast that we prepared in advance in case we weren't able to record over the new year, which has happened. Please enjoy!


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, welcome to a Triforce bonus episode. A Triforce big, big boner. Hello. Bonus. Good, no? Okay. How's your eye? Sips woke up this morning and his eye was bleeding. I have a bleeding eye. What?


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[Assistant] And then I had to explain to him who Le Chiffre was, and he said, the number? And I was like, I don't know what the, apparently that is the French for it, or the cipher. Le Chiffre. Yeah.


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[Assistant] This isn't the doctor's surgery, we're just interested. You are worried about it, you should go somewhere. I think it's fairly normal. Did you, like, strain? Did you, like, lift a cupboard? Or do one of those dad things? Did you have, like, a specifically, like, a big poo? Like, a really strenuous one that can do it?


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[Assistant] This was inspiring because I didn't have a topic for today's, uh, thing where we decide what the best thing we do is. Right. But, uh, I thought, well, cause Zip said I feel like a super film. What about Top Ten?


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[Assistant] This isn't top 10, this is the best, we have to decide together amongst ourselves what the best superhero or supervillain is.


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[Assistant] But he's not, he's not good enough. He can't, he's not gonna be, he's not gonna win. We shouldn't be really even talking to someone about, unless they're in consideration for best villain of all time. I mean, you started by saying Darth Vader, who is arguably


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[Assistant] So, if we've got categories, let me just go, is there any other sci-fi bad guys that you feel like need to be, like, up against Emperor Palpatine? Like, is like, um, fucking Kylo Ren? Like, any other, like, alien?


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[Assistant] Oh no, no, no. What about the Terminator, like the T1000?


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[Assistant] Like, I don't know if you can make all of these characters not a good villain because they had a bad second movie, or had some origin story where they turned good.


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[Assistant] The big purple guy. The big purple guy, yeah. So, okay, sci-fi, alright, fine. What about alien though? The alien? The alien, from aliens, and like, do you know what I mean, like, what about, like...


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[Assistant] Let's leave sci-fi then, if you want, actually, let's just make sure...


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[Assistant] Yes, but we need to trim it down to 8, and I feel like we're gonna have hundreds if we don't. We just hit 8. Yes, but-


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[Assistant] It's gonna get too silly, yeah. No, no, we should, well, if we're not doing reality, yeah, cause who's gonna beat Hitler?


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[Assistant] Emperor Palpatine. How? Are there any more contenders? Immortan Joe probably would have to go in there.


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[Assistant] You know, I think you could zap him as well. I don't know how good the lighting would be about good against liquid metal though.


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[Assistant] I genuinely, I think Pennywise is the...


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[Assistant] Having seen the recent It movies, I mean, we gotta catch this in both, we are 40 and we have a long history with this stuff, right, and there was movies that terrified us as kids for sure and they stand up, but those recent It movies have been brilliant. And It scared me when I was a kid too, so I'm-


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[Assistant] Well, it's an easy way to tell, right, because the title of the movie is the name of the horror villain, right? That's how you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, to the point where these horror movies of the 80s and 90s, I'm sure they're supposed to be scary, but they kind of aren't. People laugh at them now. And it's sad.


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[Assistant] But it takes- but they haven't had a reboot, do you know what I mean? I feel like we- I feel like it did happen to it a little bit. What about the drum teacher from Whiplash?


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[Assistant] Well, actually the video nasties was, was, I think it was more, more kind of...


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[Assistant] But yeaah, like, I think, you know, I mean, we live in a world now of, of...


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[Assistant] You know, a completely different world where anything kind of goes if you want to find it, uhm, and you sort of have to self-police, but I think there was a time certainly


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[Assistant] The moral panic idea that we needed to protect, certainly children, from just having access to this stuff, or it being shown on TV. Yeah, child's play!


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[Assistant] There's always gonna be, like, things that are at the edge of what's allowed, and they do well. You know, the things on the fringes do well. Look at things like the human centipede, and how, you know, that just awful concept.


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[Assistant] Big, um, big thing because of how, you know, over the top it is. And kids are, kids, teenagers certainly are one that challenge themselves with the grossest and the goriest and the, the worst things, you know, to try and...


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[Assistant] Yeah. Right, okay, it's time to move on. Uh, P-Flex, what's the next category? Uh, we, we've definitely agreed, Pennywise. Fantasy? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.


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[Assistant] No, actually, you know what, I was terrified by the pinhead guy, so, and I've never seen it, so maybe it, just because I don't know about it, it's even scarier.


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[Assistant] I don't even think like, our consciousness is


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[Assistant] I just, I just don't think that, I don't think you, I don't think it can exist. Unless we are all a bit computer simulation, and there is Elon Musk, the arbiter of the computer system, has decided that you have calculated.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, of course, not just Voldemort though, a lot of people would argue that, um, that woman is, is a worse bad guy. Not JK Rowling. Uh, what's her name? The, the, the pink, the lovely, the lady.


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[Assistant] Yes, uhm, oh, what's her name? I can't remember her name, so probably not.


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[Assistant] Um, Umbridge, Dolores Umbridge, oh, a great villain, you know, with that lovely middle class lady, pink hair, pink sort of dresses.


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[Assistant] Yes, just a really, really good villain.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of people would say so, just because of how insidious she was, and kind of... I guess she was a servant of...


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[Assistant] You know, how about that guy from Ghostbusters? Uh. Gozer. Vigo. Vigo. Vigozer.


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[Assistant] You are right about, uhm, see, Alan Rickman's done some good- I mean, obviously Lance Gruber from Die Hard. Yeah. He was so good.


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[Assistant] Um, yeah, so alright, well, let's stick to fantasy. Who do we think then? Like, there's a lot to pick, honestly.


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[Assistant] Anyway, uhm, I think that we- I think Sauron is definitely the more- but let's just put Gozer on, cause I think this is a group organisation.


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[Assistant] But honestly, like, the ring is more of a villain than Sauron. Do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Let's not worry about the kids movies, let's just do the topics we know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he was just an absolute- Oh, and by the way, can we actually also have on here, uh, Grandpa Joe, from the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.


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[Assistant] He thinks I've got a golden ticket, doesn't he? He says it's ours, Charlie, I think. Oh, well, either way, he's a piece of shit. He's staying in bed waiting on hand and foot, right? And then suddenly, as soon as Charlie gets a golden ticket, he's fucking doing it. Unbelievable. He's leaving everything behind.


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[Assistant] He teaches his bad habits to Charlie, both by example and direct instruction. He's bedridden for 20 years while his daughter is working to support a family of six. He demonstrates little respect for women. He's a lecherous pervert. He spends his days in bed with two women and another man. Right?


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[Assistant] The other children, he has no empathy for them when they all start drowning and getting turned into blueberries and all that shit. Yeah, but do you have empathy for them when they start drowning and turning into blueberries? Like, those kids are assholes. He's vindictive towards the other people, and selfish, he puts himself ahead of other people often, right?


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[Assistant] And sci-fi, we didn't even say Khan himself. From the wrath of Khan. Yeah. It's true.


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[Assistant] Okay, fine. Fine, fine. Let's get on with it. Alright, for historical drama, um, Bill Butcher from Gangs of New York, uh, that, that, you know, the... Oh, yeah.


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[Assistant] Oh, I can't think of any more. That's enough. That's enough. We've got such a huge list now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, she's bad and good, uhm, but mostly good. She's kind of, you know, one of those, she's, she's a kind of, uhm,


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[Assistant] Harrison Ford-esque, kind of, you know, Indiana Jones, kind of good and bad, mostly good, kind of cheeky bad guy. How is Indiana Jones bad? Well, in everything Harrison Ford plays, like Han Solo, you know, he's kind of a... Like wrongfully accused. Kind of a roguish, a roguish guy, right? Air Force One.


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[Assistant] I think it's more, I think it's more, uh, worse to have someone who's insane though, because that, because they, they, they, you don't, it's the unpredictable horror nature of they don't have any concept of good anymore. At least Thanos had some twisted reason why he was doing it. He did have a logic.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Okay, we'll go with, we'll go with what we've got. Lombard? What's, no Biff, what's the next one?


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[Assistant] Okay. Who's worse? Uh, I think Immortan Joe is, is probably worse just because of the, the keeping the pregnant women around.


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[Assistant] But he could just be a force, an evil force ghost forever, you know? He could ghost around. He's got a lot of powers, old palpy. He does.


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[Assistant] It must become a point where you die. Do you think how many things you could get done though, in all that time? You could like, get through, you know, you could complete all the achievements. You can't, there's


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[Assistant] It's all gone. Oh right, at the end of the Heat Death universe. What are you saying? There's gonna be nothing except a force ghost of Palpatine. There'll be other force ghosts around, all the other bad guys they'll be able to hang out with.


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[Assistant] Are you saying that in order to continue you're going to have to go into some sub-universe like hell, which is continuing on after the heat death of the universe?


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[Assistant] Very good. Uh, what do you think, Sips? I'm going palp, obviously, period, and he's going pinhead. What's your...


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[Assistant] Awful evil empire raiding, and obviously, whereas Palp is more, he's corrupting an entire galaxy too.


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[Assistant] Is he more Tadjo, just a milk-loving skull fetishist, kind of, like, do you know what I mean? Is he just a pervy- He's a milk drinker, for sure. A pervy edgelord, do you know what I mean? I don't know. Like, are we-


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[Assistant] He's got a sweet fuckin' ride, though. He does. Can I just say that Immortan Joe's third son, his name is Scabrous Scrotus.


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[Assistant] As much as Immortal Joe is nauseating and awful and grey.


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[Assistant] Are we saying that Joffrey can't win this greatest villain of all time, because that would just be too smug about it? He would, yeah.


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[Assistant] But then again, it was the ultimate betrayal for us. Game of Thrones turned out to be so awfully punishing, you know, and was ruined in our minds. It was such a villainous piece of work, in general.


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[Assistant] But, he didn't kill the gas station guy who correctly guessed the coin flip, right?


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[Assistant] Oh man. So good. So what's, what's that mean the final is? It's Palpatine versus Anton.


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[Assistant] Honestly, we have to. After you're absolutely spot on, like, live for life remembering that movie and bringing it back so vividly to me.


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[Assistant] And the top recommendation, if you've not seen the movie, uhm, you're missing out. It's a good one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we'd love to see him kill more people with that stun rod or whatever he uses.


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[Assistant] She's, she's back to school, she's feeling better, she's, it's all clearing up, so, uh, she's on the mend. There's still a ways to go, but, uh, but she's doing, she's doing good.


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[Assistant] Oh, unavailable too, yeaah. I try to be as available as I can. I mean, I still am available-ish, but it is a lot of extra overhead, you know.


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[Assistant] I know, well I mean it's, it'd be good, uh, I think this summer we're gonna try to, uh, to all come out to Bristol because everybody in my family does really enjoy Bristol.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we're gonna bring the whole, the whole clan over maybe for like, uh, you know, like a week's vacation or whatever and just stomp around Bristol a bit.


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[Assistant] No, it's a weird one, but like when you're, when you're the person who's organizing the trip.


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[Assistant] If you're familiar with the area, if you're familiar with the accommodation, the food and stuff isn't a problem because it's all food that you're used to having or your family's used to having. It takes away a lot of the hassle. It's not something you'd normally need to think about if you didn't have an army of small


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[Assistant] When you're a young whippersnapper and you're planning a vacation, you want to go somewhere new, you want to go somewhere exciting, you want an experience. But when you're older and you have kids, you're not so much after the experience for yourself, you're trying to provide your kids with an experience, but you're trying to make life better.


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[Assistant] I feel like that's, that's a thing that like, cause my parents do that a lot. Like they'll say, we're going to this.


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[Assistant] It's a little bit different to like when you're 20 and you're just embarking on this, you know, exciting.


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[Assistant] Sword is impressive. I mean, like the scale of it, like some of the, the theming of it and stuff, you know what I, like, uh, we went to the one in, uh, in Anaheim a couple of times, right?


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[Assistant] That's a massive place. It's like, I mean, I went to the one in Florida in...


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[Assistant] 92, I must, it must have been like 92 the last time I went. I was just like, uh, I was still a kid and I had a younger brother who, who was just.


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[Assistant] Lapping it up. And even back then there was just the magical kingdom, the Epcot center and


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[Assistant] Uh, it was called MGM Studios back then, but I think it's Disney Studios now, but that's it. That's all they had back then. And, but now there's like the animal safari kingdom and there's like water parks and there's like, there's just a shit ton of stuff. If you look at the Google map of the whole resort.


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[Assistant] It's enormous, like fuck, it's incredible what they've built there. It's in a swamp as well, it's nuts.


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[Assistant] And they keep getting new stuff into it as well, right? They've got Marvel, they've got the Muppets, they've got Star Wars, all that stuff that they can leverage off of as well to make.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's mostly just like, because it's in France, the accommodation and then the food situation over there is not always amazing either, um, especially because we're vegetarians and, um, and so on and so forth. They frown upon that. They do frown. Well, it's not too bad. They just like the cheese. It's probably a bit better now, but, um.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's just uhm, when you're at the resort, you're kind of isolated from anywhere decent that you could go and get stuff that you need, right? Like I remember last time we were there, one night I just had


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[Assistant] Tripling heartburn, like it was unbelievable. I went down to the desk and I was like,


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[Assistant] Is there anywhere here that I can get anything like, like any sort of like antacids or anything like that? And they're just like, nah, there's nothing like that.


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[Assistant] There's no pharmacy. We'd have to send somebody away like to the town to pick up a prescription or something if you had a prescription, but like.


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[Assistant] There's nothing like that. So I was just, just had to suffer with crippling heartburn like all night. So there's just nothing I could do. And even the next day we would have had to take a train away from like the Disney resort, like into, into a town or something to just be able to get anything. You know what I mean? You ate too much.


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[Assistant] So you go to this, like, you go to like, uh, you know, the Pirates of the Caribbean cafe, and it's all themed up, and there's little animatronic pirates greeting you and stuff, but all the food is just McDonald's. Like, it's the same food everywhere in the park, but it's just themed up different.


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[Assistant] See what happens and god, it's an experimental time when you're on vacation too, right? You just, you're mixing and you just don't care, right? You're just like, you're not at home. You're not really that comfortable. You just gotta, you just gotta try a couple of combos out and see what works. Usually nothing works.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I remember that time they, they, they bamboozled me into thinking I met Mickey, but I didn't actually, and it was, uh, augmented reality. I'll never forget that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think, uhm, I feel like, imagine the most utterly disappointing scenario possible, that's what's gonna happen.


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[Assistant] Yeah, pretty much, yeah. Imagine you made contact with them and you're like, oh my god. And then they just turned around to you and they said, yeah, we've been monitoring for you guys for a long time. You're idiots. We don't want anything to do with you.


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[Assistant] You have nothing of any sort of value whatsoever. We don't even wanna waste our anal probes on you.


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[Assistant] We got, we got a whole stockpile of probes here revved up and raring and ready to go, but you guys just aren't worth it. Yeah. I think that's what's going to actually happen. There's so many people that are just so fucking crazy about all this stuff. And, uh, I don't know. I feel like.


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[Assistant] I feel like time and time again, the more hyped up and crazy people go about stuff, the more just utterly disappointed they are with the reality of the situation.


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[Assistant] So listen, here's a question for you. Let's say we did make contact with an alien race and let's say they were interested in opening up some form of negotiation with us or, you know, they were about to enslave us but they just wanted to talk to somebody to see if we could


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[Assistant] Who do you think who is on earth and alive right now would be the best person to be our ambassador to the aliens?


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[Assistant] It's not the exact same thing, but I think people who tend to believe in aliens, I'm sure there are aliens out there, I'm not saying that they don't exist, but I think stereotypically the way that we think about them and believe in them and stuff is sort of like, it's almost like an escapism, right? We feel like we're gonna be


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[Assistant] Kidnapped in the middle of the night and taken on a UFO and then whisked away from the earth and anally probed and all this like other weird stuff that


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[Assistant] Is unfamiliar with the world. Okay. And every generation, like we've seen an ET in the eighties, the kids of the eighties had to try to explain to ET certain things. What, what, what do you think if an alien landed today and you were in charge of explaining to them things that they might come across in the modern day, what things would you struggle with like awkwardly to explain?


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[Assistant] Just a rolling device on a string that's meant for fun. What? Just try it. What? Just roll it. What? With the string. Oh. I figured it out. There's nothing to them. That's the thing.


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[Assistant] Her tennis instructor or karate sensei or something, you know, it was very simple stuff.


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[Assistant] Well, there's nothing else that I can get Wutang skins in, so uhm, it's got that going for it at least, right? No?


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[Assistant] Sure, I get that. I get the technicalities, but I guess it's the situations that fantasy comes out of or whatever, right?


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[Assistant] I don't think anybody knows what they're doing at that point in their lives. When you finish school, you're not even thinking about what you're doing after school most of the time while you're at school, right? You're just getting through school, hanging out with your friends, going to parties or doing whatever it is that you do during school and not really


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[Assistant] Well hello there, and welcome back to the Triforce? Question mark on the road? Question mark in the morning? Uh, P-Flex, let's hear how bad this microphone is.


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[Assistant] No, it's bad, but I mean, it's classic though. It's like old school, uhm, gaming mic chat, you know. Exactly. It's fine. I'm sure it'd be better if you just filmed yourself on your camera like you do for your vlogs in the morning. It's lovely quality.


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[Assistant] Fair enough. Uhm, I s- I still love seeing you in your dressing gown. And uhm, you know, with your thoughts on the world. It does seem like jet lagged, p-flags. I feel a little bit like that right now because obviously you're there for Dota. I've been staying up and completely ruined my sleep schedule watching some of it.


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[Assistant] It is funny watching these 15 year olds talk about retirement. I always, it always gives me a laugh because it's such bullshit as well. Cause they keep coming back and back and back. Everyone who's promised to retire is still playing, still coaching, still seeing all the fucking time. And they're taking over. It's funny, but yeah. Anyway, carry on with retirement.


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[Assistant] Is it like those, um, rotating like toilet, toilets or whatever that you'd see on the, in movies back in the day, there'd be some toilet or something and it would, on a stage and it would rotate and they'd, they'd, you know, it would, it would be like a guy and he'd be like, oh, read the newspaper. Sure. And then it would rotate back around again. What am I thinking? Oh, that's great. I don't know.


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[Assistant] It's interesting to hear this stuff because bear in mind, like, it's a weird time.


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[Assistant] You know, so the games for me are between like 3am. I think the grand final actually starts at 8am, 7 or 8am. And I got an invitation on my phone yesterday from Alex and Brian. It's the weirdest invitation. It was like, Hey dude, do you want to come around on Sunday at 3am in the morning?


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[Assistant] And I was like, fuck. And the thing is, when I read it, I thought it was actually like, so I think, I think Alex actually said Sunday night. So I thought that meant Monday morning at 3am.


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[Assistant] And all the hosting. It's just crazy that they can, it's truly international though. It's got like international players. They've, uhm, and they've done some interesting stuff to try and get people in. They've given, uhm, I think, I think they, they're aware that the community is not the happiest. So they've decided to, to,


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[Assistant] They are hyper aware of their audience and stuff. And I don't know, sometimes it's like when I'm organizing Jingle Jam, I'm sure some people will be like, oh, where was that thing I liked from last time? You know, and we were like, well, that thing didn't seem that popular at the time. So I just, we didn't think it would matter if we didn't do it. I'd like to make them hyper aware of, uh, my balls.


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[Assistant] Can I not? Alright, can I just tell you the big up and then you can tell me if it's the big up or not? You can propose it. So I was in, uh, Cheltenham in an art gallery and I was, I was, I think I was walking around and then when I left, a gentleman came up to me, handed me a note. He said, here's a note. I was like, oh, right. Uh, I opened the note and it said, I have a tiny penis.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, it was on, like, that classic, um, waiter pad, like, notepad paper, you know. Not like a sticky one.


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[Assistant] You know how sometimes things in the UK, you've seen them a million times before. It's like there's one company still making them and everyone uses that same notepad paper for being a waiter or whatever. It's very specific, um, for all the orders in the kitchen. It's that, that stuff.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yeaah, recognizably, anyway, carry on Pflac, sorry.


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[Assistant] He's probably like just last hitting those fish, you know, he's probably like, you know, pop into the bait shop and secret bait shop.


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[Assistant] No, I, I think it's, I mean, I like that though. I like that the international has that mixed in it, right? You've got these kind of more worldwide teams and you've got teams that are clearly, you know, playing together in the same language. Like this, there was the Peruvian team that got pretty far. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] It's definitely showing its age in both the design of the game, the length of the game, and the game itself, the client. Um, it's definitely like, it's definitely tired.


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[Assistant] It's obviously huge. It's Ben Brode's new game. Basically he designed Hearthstone, you know, which, and then left it to make this, which is great. It's obviously got a lot of money behind it and it's, and it's the PC client is terrible, but apparently they're going to make it a little bit better. It's kind of, kind of hard to play, but


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[Assistant] Simplified it from three screens down to one vertical screen. And managed to actually make it fun.


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[Assistant] And quick, that's the other thing. So quick, like, cause you both play at the same time. So there's no waiting for the other player to take the turn, which, which honestly is so


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[Assistant] If you took Hearthstone, you were like, okay, how do we speed this up? What's the worst things about Hearthstone, right? Waiting for the other player that's gone, you know, playing on, you know, playing around stuff, that's all gone.


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[Assistant] Uhm, being able to, like, it's almost got this poker mechanic, so it's called Marvel Snap, because at any point in the game, you can basically double the wager, right? And say, I'm gonna lose two, uh, or ga- or win two squares, cosmic cubes, whatever the fuck they are, uhm, instead of one.


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[Assistant] If you're, but your opponent can just fold right there. They can just retreat and only lose one cube. If they play on, they're playing for two. If it goes to the end of the game,


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[Assistant] Then you're playing for four and if they want to, they can also snap and double it again. So essentially you can play for eight. Yes.


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[Assistant] It's kind of interesting. Yeah, because in a sense like, well, the big problems people had to complain about with, with Hearthstone was, oh, you know, it's a digital online card game, right? So you, sometimes there'll be a location that says,


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[Assistant] You can potentially bluff them off it. You know, you can snap and they'll be like, oh god, I think I might actually retreat here. Which is really a cool idea. Now, I will say, uh, I have won, I think about, I've played probably about 100 games of it. I have lost, I think, three?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so I feel like that's the signal, right? I always say, I always emote hello just to see if it's a player, but no one has emoted back. And I just feel like playing for three or four hours.


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[Assistant] I, I, I know why, because all of the, all, everyone's doing this, uhm, now, because they, they found that people don't want to play a game that they feel bad at, they don't want to come and, come and play a game and lose. Like, Fall Guys have added this, they basically found that, I, I might have talked about this already last week or whatever, but they basically added this


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[Assistant] I'm gonna keep playing and that is very addicting, is very alluring, keeps you playing. Even though I knew I was playing it, I kept playing it, because I was on that.


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[Assistant] I almost did it as a morbid winning streak. I was like, how many fucking games of this can I win in a row? You know, coming from Dota where I lose 50% or more of games, you know, and you go on a big losing streak in Dota 2 and those games are an hour long. It's painful when you're on a six or seven game losing streak.


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[Assistant] It's kind of fun to see the interactions as well. It's cleverly done. So yeah, it's huge. And I mean the other mega huge game that is disappointing is Overwatch 2. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] I think it, I think it, I think it, I think I'm almost spent, but I just, you see what I mean? But, but I think that like,


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[Assistant] It's not deep, maybe not deep enough, but it is throw away fun. And I think another nice thing about Marvel Snap is that your deck only has 12 cards, right? So, it's really easy to do a little bit of deck building yourself. Like with Hearthstone, you have to put 30 fucking cards in there. And it's a whole mess.


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[Assistant] From a game design perspective, it's good because people enjoy making decisions about two or three things. Um, you know, and so, you know, you've usually only got two options of cards you're going to play and you've only got three places to play them or sometimes even only two or sometimes you only got one card and you have to play it there, you know, so a lot of the time you're not able to think massively.


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[Assistant] I gotta say, as much as terrible smoking is, the, the, the smokers that I know are some of the coolest people I know. I dunno, still, it always has had that stupid, cool, they advertised it in the 60s, you know, the cool cowboy. It is, it is, uh. I tell you what.


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[Assistant] I mean, of course you're both imbibing, you know, addictive drugs that are chilling you out. Like, you know, it's, I guess it's like medicating the interaction as well.


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[Assistant] Medicating and lubricating up the interaction a little. As a, as a weirdly asthmatic nerd, I've never really been able to privy to these kind of cool, cool, cool kid interactions. Uh, just watching from afar, um, you know,


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[Assistant] Pretty good. Yeah. Just, I, I did have those when I was a kid actually. That was, that was, I, do they still sell those? They can't. Imagine if they had a picture of a dead baby on it.


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[Assistant] Popeye Tasty Candy Sticks, maybe they do? Maybe they've renamed it from Candy Cigarettes to Candy Sticks.


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[Assistant] I think they are generally banned, you're right, actually. Pretty much everywhere.


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[Assistant] This is the big, this is what Tom always said about vaping is that he didn't want to get into vaping because he only smokes like one or two cigarettes a day and they're always like these tiny little roll ups.


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[Assistant] If he, if he, if he got into vapes, his nicotine consumption would just go through the roof and it'd be very hard to, to drop the, to quit the vape.


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[Assistant] Uhm, or maybe Ready Player 2, I can't remember. But it was definitely one of those things that was, yeaah, it was okay. Well, it wasn't made into a movie.


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[Assistant] I mean, I guess we're talking about, I mean, wow, there's a really cool article actually, I just googled it on agronaut.com, but it talks a little bit about the EverQuest thing and then the Dark Edge Camelot system as well, because he played


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[Assistant] These designers both played EverQuest and Dark Edge came on. So did I. Um, before playing WoW. And it was a really, it was obviously the founding system for


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[Assistant] We've done little sponsor bits over time, but yeah, I mean, I can't, I can't not do something that I've spent so much of my life.


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[Assistant] You know, interested in, and I know so much about the world. I've actually had some, uhm, little taurans and orcs 3D printed. I'm, I'm painting them up. Nice. Uhm, I've got little, cause I'm making like, uhm, a miniatures game rule set and I want to be able to play in the universe. So I think cool, like the witch, uh,


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[Assistant] And stuff like this, you know, really cool to have like a little, cause 3D printing is this incredible tool now that we have. Um, sorry, I just throw this all away at the end of the podcast, but, um, I just feel like there's so much opportunities to make.


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[Assistant] Really cool little miniatures games, miniatures models. Oh god, that sounds really nerdy actually. I think miniatures are my modern crack.


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, you're right, I do need to fuck my ideas up. This is the problem though, I've been hanging out on Discord for a while. Yeah, sorry, I'm single now, and as you may or may not know, but it's uhm, it's none of your business. Maybe that was too soon.


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[Assistant] You guys know, but you know, it's my personal life, you know, it's, it's fine. Um, but yeah, I've been hanging out with the old crew, but, um, I think having it, having a long-term partner gave me a lot of stability and now I'm living this weird bachelor life where I stay up till


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that was World of Warcraft 2, and that's, there's so many things like that. We are driven by...


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[Assistant] Pleasure, we're Pleasure, we're Pleasure, Pleasure apes, you know?


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[Assistant] We are like fully driven by these, but we have to-


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[Assistant] I've just, I've got off the rails a bit recently, uhm, and you know, that can happen, but I'm looking forward to getting back on.


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[Assistant] I went, I was, the reason I was in Cheltenham when I, this, and I just got, you know, was, was on my birthday. I went and hung out with my parents on my birthday. We went and did a mini golf. We did like, we had a meal. It was nice. My parents are great.


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[Assistant] I think maybe if I was, if I was, if I was, if I said I had a partner, I think we probably would have done something, but it just felt like, um, you know, I was on my own. Maybe your wife's gone off the rails on her birthday as well while she, while you've been away. My wife doesn't have


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[Assistant] Well, I think you've been a little bit off the rails this year with your new babysits. Cause three babies has, I think from, from my point of view, you have been oftentimes a lot less this year, willing to do stuff or come over or do events. I can't, I just can't.


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[Assistant] And I totally understand that's totally, totally the right thing to do. Um, but I think that when you had two kids, it was, it was almost like you were on the rails. You were able to like take a couple of days off to go and do a thing in a car. But now it's like, there's either ballet or the horse riding or the karate.


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[Assistant] Need to get them their own like, uh, addictions, like get them some candy cigarettes and e-scooters. They'll be off spraying graffiti on old Auntie Mabel's, you know, shed in no time. You know, get them out of your hair.


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[Assistant] Well then, get some cross-stitch in there. One of the things that we've got happening is, obviously Jingle Jam is happening the first two weeks of December, that is. I think this podcast, we're a bit delayed because


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[Assistant] Well, you know when this is go, this is being recorded, but, um, jingle jam is coming up pretty quick. It's the first two weeks of December. We've got a really good bundle.


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[Assistant] I've prepared it all, it's pretty sorted. There's a bunch of people who are going to drop out, but it's currently over a thousand dollars, which is our biggest bundle ever. I'm not announcing that here, but just for hype reasons. I'm very excited about it. Everyone's really excited. We're going to do all the good stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm super hyped about everything. Yogg's just doing great. Everyone's really happy.


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[Assistant] Playup's a big success, you know, everyone's, it's a great year for Yogs, generally. Oh, the new update for Playup.


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[Assistant] Yeah, gotcha. I think sometimes it's easy to remember people's names if they sound a little bit like their name, you know, if they begin with the same letter. Well, Harry, Harry's an easy one. Chris and Sips. Yeah, Harry. Um, it's, it's, it's, yours is a bit harder.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I've just given up trying to have an online name at all at this point.


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[Assistant] If you're growing a mustache, it really has, you can't have the beard as well, right? You kind of, I don't like the look of like the stubbly beard and mustache or like, or even like the really trimmed goatee, like the really trimmed stubble with mustache. I don't think that's a good idea.


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[Assistant] God, gotta be looking like a fucking thumb with a moustache for the next month. You know, not that I was planning on, you know, going dating or anything anyway, but uhm. I hate myself. Man, I just had a thought.


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[Assistant] I think it's just the dark, the dark, the dark eyes, the big, um, eyebrows, the dark hair, you know, I think that'll change though, because, you know, I was talking to my dad and he was like, Ooh, the turning point's coming.


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[Assistant] I've only got half of his jeans though, so, and apparently, um, you know, my mum's side, all of the men, they had male pattern baldness obviously, but, but they did have black hair, at least dark hair.


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[Assistant] This week he changed his profile to ChiefTwit and walked into Twitter carrying a sink. Uhm, you know, he's like, he's probably gonna buy it. He's an odd fella for sure.