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[Assistant] Yes, there's a Japanese word for that actually. Of course there is. It's like that period of wisdom and clarity that comes after finishing.


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[Assistant] It's called Kenjitaimu. Period of clear thoughts when a man is free from sexual desires after having an orgasm.


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[Assistant] But maybe they, maybe they're gonna transcend to this higher state of being though due to like constantly wanking and just, you know, they'll eventually that five minutes will stretch onwards and they have no sexual desire any ever, you know, and maybe the wisdom, the wisdom is being put into


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[Assistant] Maybe we'll have like a whole re-renaissance of amazing creation after the pandemic, you know, because people have been locked in their homes forced to innovate. Uhm. Maybe. You know? Maybe. Is that gonna happen? No, it may be.


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[Assistant] So Sonder is the realization that every passerby, everyone else you see, has a life as vivid and complex as your own.


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[Assistant] But maybe also it's like a kind of, a bit of a wake up call in a sense, that feeling. I don't know what I would describe it as, but it's definitely the feeling where, uhm, you realise that you're not


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[Assistant] Important, because everyone else is equally as important. I don't know, it sort of takes a little bit away from your sense of self-importance. It's not like a, it's almost like a disappointing feeling.


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[Assistant] Have you ever felt, and I think this is what may be true of the baked bean guy, the realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore. Because apparently that is called nodus tollens. Apparently people feel this.


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[Assistant] Right. Well I think almost all of these emotions are things like just relief and disappointment.


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[Assistant] I don't think, I think, I think imagine you have a feeling of 25% relief and 75% disappointment. I think that is probably called, uh, ellipsism or some bullshit. Do you know what I mean? Ellipsism is, ellipsism is the sadness that you'll never be able to know how history will turn out. And I feel like that is


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[Assistant] Like I think I'd like to know, I'd love to know where we end up. I think you could like chef that together in the kitchen from two parts avocado, a tin of baked beans, a dash of disappointment and a splash of, you know.


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[Assistant] Hopefully it never does. You know, we, we, it, but, mmm, I see, I see what you're saying. And it is, I have felt this too. You know, I've, it's, it's funny because you think, oh, you know, I'm never going to live to see jetpacks, you know. First thing he goes to.


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[Assistant] Like, his, his oc, occualism is the awareness of the smallest, smallness of your perspective. The awareness of the smallness of your perspective. It's like, well, yeah, sure. I mean, that's, that's, again, it's linked to everything else, right? It's like the idea that everyone around you


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[Assistant] Has something interesting to say, but on Twitter, you know, people put their, on Instagram and all these social media platforms, people put their best self out there. And sometimes they're kind of lying to themselves when they do that, you know, as well, like they're putting this fake kind of idea of what they want other people to see them as. Cause it's very much me, me, me, me, me. And I think a lot of people.


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[Assistant] Don't really see much beyond that. There's another one on this list where, which we, we have a little bit of a habit of doing, uh, anectarchy. I think it's something you may have heard before.


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[Assistant] A conversation in which everyone is talking, but nobody is listening.


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[Assistant] Enjoy just spending time with people when it feels comfortable, when it feels easy. You don't have to, you don't really have to try. I think that's why this podcast has worked for so long, because it's not, it's a safe space as well, right? It's a safe space. I will say, like, I've been hanging out on, um, some discords


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[Assistant] Me and some different people played. So one of the discos I'm on is TTS Club which is


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[Assistant] Barrage, which is like a game where water comes down at the top of the board and it flows down. You have to build dams and then obviously when the water comes through your dam you get power.


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[Assistant] Totally taught everyone wrong. All the rules were wrong. Uhm, but I had a great time, I played a game called Smartphone Inc. Where we all had to be like smartphone owners. Wow, what a break from the norm. We played a game called, uh.


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[Assistant] So, so I've learned these board games. Another one I learned was, uhm, So You've Been Eaten, which is like, uhm,


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[Assistant] Basically, where you can, you, there's these big space monsters and you're a little astronaut mining for stuff and you get in anyway, it's quite fun. And so, so one of the, one of the people I met doing this, uhm, said, was, was odd, a little bit odd, but like fairly normal guy, sounded like a fairly normal guy, but he said to me, I hate books. Right.


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[Assistant] I kinda wanna roleplay this out with you almost a little bit, like if I said to you, yeah, I hate books. Yeah.


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[Assistant] No, I said to him the kind of thing I always- obviously there's loads of choices you have, either you can sort of make a joke about it or you can- so mine is like-


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[Assistant] Mine is like, kind of, my traditional go-to is like, agree, but question, kind of thing. Like, kind of like, oh yeaah, yeaah, I know, I've read some really terrible books, but actually, there's some really good ones out there. Have you read this book, right? For example, I'll suggest something like, Brandon Sanderson. You know, I mean, people, I try and talk to people in a way that


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[Assistant] No, this is like, he, I think he's like about 25 year old, uh, like Korean guy. We spoke a little bit. So I'd, I'd kind of like, you know, I was


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[Assistant] We were, cause you, I was talking, I played with a guy from Bangladesh the other day. Right. Uhm, you know, there's lots of different people across the world I've been talking to. So I find it, like, interesting to learn these board games. What a social butterfly.


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[Assistant] Well I think maybe I would have been a little bit hesitant to do that, but I think that I still would have tried to figure out a way to draw out where this comes from, because I just, I'm interested in madness and these mad people who have these weird opinions.


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[Assistant] Because the other thing to do is like to go parallel with it. Be like, be like, oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] I hate books too. It's killing the planet. The trees are getting cut down. Do you know what I mean? The other thing is to like have a reason that you hate books that is completely weird as well. And then they're kind of like, oh yeah, I hate books because of this. So I'm not tricking him to opening up, but I like feel like I want to know more.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think the I hate women thing is one of the ones where I wouldn't be interested in poking into it. But I think sometimes when it's something, so I guess with this one, it was almost like I was so surprised because I'm such a huge reader and I just sort of my instant thought was you just can't be reading the right books, you know.


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[Assistant] Which is something I said. So that's the sort of the next thing I said. I was like, oh, you know, well, I mean, maybe you're just reading the wrong books, dude. Like, you know, and he said, no, the authors expect you to remember what happened like a hundred pages ago. I tried loads of different books and it's like, nothing happens. They're all so boring.


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[Assistant] Well this is what I thought, I mean, actually I thought, I mean, obviously there were thoughts going through my head, like...


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[Assistant] And so I, I sort of, yeah, so, I mean, we, we, I kind of, that was all I really got, but I guess I thought that he might have, um, uh, what's that called, aphasia or whatever, where you can't imagine stuff, you can't get it in your head, you know? And so I sort of asked him that. He said, I can't imagine something that I've never seen a picture of. Right.


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[Assistant] So maybe he has got some imagination like issues or something, but like.


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[Assistant] I wish books were more defined in a sense that it was either a book that you could read gradually or a book that you had to read.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I mean, I read an hour or two every day before I sleep because I feel like that's the best time to do it. And I always like just, I feel like it just, and I actually have three different books on the go. One on my, one in physical, one on my iPad and one on my phone.


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[Assistant] There's always one of them I'm willing to read because some of them I'm like, like, you know, you put it off and you're like, oh, I'm not really enjoying this, but you, you halfway through, you don't want to, you don't want to.


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[Assistant] It's the same thing with TV shows, like movies as well. Like you've, I don't like watching, I'd rather just finish a bad movie that I hate just so I know I'm done with it.


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[Assistant] It's a generational thing though, right? Ben just had his 6 year old's birthday, and they watched Avengers, the first Avengers movie together. And it was like this big event, and he followed it with the


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[Assistant] Ben explained to me that he followed it with this childlike joy of, of like actually being worried that Iron Man would die and stuff like this. Like, you know, like the whole, the wonderful innocence of a child who doesn't have years of


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[Assistant] I'm not saying you're not allowed to enjoy it, but I think that there's so much stuff made for so many different people that, you know, maybe you want something


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[Assistant] I'm sure the most intellectually stimulating thing, you know, is equally boring. I don't want to read fucking...


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[Assistant] The McDonald's monopoly scam in the 90s when all of, it turns out that basically all of the big prize winners was illegitimate, like every single one.


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[Assistant] So there were a lot of things they had to do to make sure it wasn't gambling as well though, because they had to, if you, you could always go into McDonald's and just say, can I have a ticket? And they'd give you one and it might have free fries on it or nothing. You know, so they had to just, they had to, there were these certain rules they had to take. Um, anyway.


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[Assistant] Uh, there was this great, there's this great scene, and this is no spoilers, cause I, cause the whole documentary is about the people involved, talking to them, all the different people and stuff. It's really interesting, but there was this great bit where, this is in your first episode, the FBI.


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[Assistant] It was, every single one of them was a scam, you see, in some way because


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[Assistant] And so there was obviously someone having to give them out. You know, imagine you've got all of these fucking million dollar tickets.


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[Assistant] Could you get away with this, you know, if you had a million, like multiple million dollar tickets? Cause of course in America you pay winnings tax and then the way it was redeemed as well wasn't just a million dollars all at once, it was 50,000 a year. So, you know, actually in some ways winning this million dollars was terrible for some people because


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[Assistant] So these people are even struggling to live through this thing, and especially because it's a scam, and so the Mafia guys are taking


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[Assistant] Awful! And so like, do you know what I mean? But everyone thinks they're a millionaire, and they can't tell anyone, and so they just, it's a really interesting story.


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[Assistant] So guys, does it make sense that the same company who controls half of online retail also passively eavesdrops


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[Assistant] It makes your activity hard to trade and sell to advertisers. It protects you. You can stay anonymous and avoid getting data mined.


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[Assistant] So yea, stop handing your personal data over to the big tech monopoly. You can visit expressvpn.com slash driveforce.


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[Assistant] To get three extra months free, thank you, and we'll carry on with the show.


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[Assistant] Do you know what they are? They are, I forgot the word for it here, the Velikor, which is the strange wistfulness of used book shops. That warm feeling.


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[Assistant] Listen, right, there is a benefit, you know, you wake up in the morning, you pad downstairs, you know, you head into the kitchen, you open the sort of cupboard at your waist, you get out the tin of beans, you open the tin, put a spoon in there,


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[Assistant] Headed to the lounge, kick back on the sofa, have a little spoonful of beans and bounce it on your belly while you're watching.


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[Assistant] You have to be careful with these things. I get loads of these emails every week now from people who are like, hey, Lewis, really enjoyed watching Shadow of Israfel back in the day.


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[Assistant] Can I interest you with 10%? We've increased the brand uptake of emails by 10% in our mobilisation marketing strategy. Are Yogscast Limited interested in this? And it's like...


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[Assistant] Oh shit, so there's a couple more here, uh, rubatosis is the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat.


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[Assistant] Exactly. That's why I wanted to go through with you. There is a couple, one of them is lac- lac- lacacism. The desire to be struck by disaster. For example, to survive a plane crash or to run out of a fire.


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[Assistant] Wow. That kind of bizarre, do you ever get that kind of edge of the void, call of the void kind of feeling that, like just for a split second, like a fraction of a second when you're on the edge of the cliff, you think, wonder if, wonder what it would be like to jump off this cliff. I do sometimes.


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[Assistant] I think you need to be aware of that that's what's happening as well, like you've just said. I think that you are like, you know, otherwise I think you'd just be anxious if you were at stage one of that. I think stage two is that I have a reason to be anxious. My brain is conjuring up these images to


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[Assistant] And I feel exactly the same, the same feeling you do. Like when, you know, when we went out with the kids and stuff, I was, I was, I was as paranoid as you were about, I dunno, like your kids running into the sea or something. Like tripping on a rock.


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[Assistant] Especially since they're just rushing around like crazy people, you think, oh, it's only a matter of time before one of them cracks their head open on a, on a something, you know.


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[Assistant] I'll leave you with one more word. The final word is chrysalism, which is the amniotic, I guess womb-like tranquillity of being indoors during a thunderstorm.


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[Assistant] Oh, a wonderful world. I think hopefully that will leave people feeling warm and fuzzy. Thank you for listening. I hope you guys are all doing alright out there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I've, since we sort of asked a lot earlier in the podcast for people to send us pictures of what they were doing on their jobs and stuff, I felt more in touch with


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[Assistant] So tweet at us with what you're up to, um, and what books you've read and stuff like that. I'm interested to read anyway. It's great. I love it. So I hope everyone out there is doing all right and thanks for listening. See you next time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was pretty good, yeah, so uhm, no, I didn't actually go in because it's like, it's still with COVID and everything. You can go to some stuff and other stuff you can't go. It was like with the midwife or the head midwife or whatever, so like.


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[Assistant] You get the whole story yourself. You're looking at stuff that you're not even interested in just because you have the luxury of not having like.


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[Assistant] That one old lady breathing down your neck or standing in front of you, like, you're looking at something, she's not interested in it, and the minute you start looking at it, all of a sudden she's just like up in your grill looking at it and stuff, like, okay, come on, I get it, I get it. I mean, but now, she can't come in at the same time, so.


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[Assistant] I don't know though, I think it took a little while for it to stick though. I think probably at first people were like, what is that? You know, like uhm, it's like anything, right? Now you look back and you're like, oh yeah, fuck, you know, obviously, but like at the time, I'm not sure if it was something.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but like a lot of those, a lot of those were built to sell, right? And I think that's why they pumped in a lot of like,


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[Assistant] Like eccentricities and stuff like that and got like, you know, nice looking offices and everything. Cause it's just, it was all just a sort of like.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you probably, I mean, with anything at that level, there's probably, there's always gonna be some degree of like, I have to have, uh, these, uh, very certain specifications or else I won't be able to compete or whatever. Like, they have, sometimes they have like custom shoes and like custom bathing suits and shit like that, you know? Right, for shooting. That'd be


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's fucking bullshit. Like, I don't know if you've ever been shot, uh, by, well, it's like a one shot though. Like, you get hit in the foot with that thing and you're dead.


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[Assistant] Some of it becomes myth, some of it becomes legend or whatever. Oftentimes it's exaggerated or embellished to make it sound better or more interesting or whatever. People had nothing to do back then. They just sat around campfires, they died of old age when they were 12 years old, and they told stories. There was nothing else to do.


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[Assistant] There's stages of it too though, right? Like sometimes these, these empires start very small as like a revolution against a, like an existing


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[Assistant] Uhm, in some cases, you remember a fallen empire for some of the good things that it did or introduced to the world or whatever. And I think now, especially nowadays in modern times, we have that ability to look at it from all angles rather than maybe


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[Assistant] You know, centuries ago where we might not have looked at it that way. We might've just thought, oh, it's old, so it's bad.


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[Assistant] You know, what we're doing now is the way, you know, like it's, it just, I think it's just like a natural evolution of, uh, thoughts and, uh, you know, what people are willing to do, put up with, like, uh, it, it is interesting stuff for sure. I don't, I don't read enough.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, there was many times where I was like, yeah, fuck this. I don't want to do it anymore. But you get so far down a road where you're like, man, I just have to do it. You know, I don't want to let down my fans. I don't want to, you know, don't want to let down my mom. Like, you know, my.


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[Assistant] My god and everything, like I just owed it to everybody at that point just to see it through and I, I got there. I crossed the finish line.


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[Assistant] For the sake of being hard. It's like, it's like a half-baked mechanic or half-baked idea. And it doesn't make sense. Like I don't know why, I don't know who sat in a room and decided it was a good idea. When you're trying to make something engaging and ultimately fun for somebody to come back and do over and over again.


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[Assistant] Uhm, just to put somebody off like that, especially at such an early stage in the game, just seems like bad design. I agree. There's no other way to explain it. And if a game is designed badly, it's never gonna go anywhere. And the problem is, now as well I find,


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[Assistant] Uh, especially like in Twitch chat and stuff. I don't know if people defend bad design just to spite you or if they actually think that it's worth defending, but you know what I mean? It's not meant to be that way. Like these games are just meant to be better than a lot of them are. You know what I mean? But they're just poorly designed.


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[Assistant] You had to work with, you knew like, if you were playing a game like Double Dragon 2 or whatever, you knew that there were certain parts that were tough that you just had to really sort of like, hunker down and get through them as best you could to make sure that you had a better chance at beating the game, like after them or whatever. Like that stupid jumping puzzle with the spikes that was just a one hit and it was just designed to equalize and take your lives.


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[Assistant] And it sucks because there's no arching progression either. Like you've already invested everything in getting to that point and then you lose it in an instant to something that either you're not aware of or that you weren't aware of enough of to be prepared for.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's played the games that he's played and then he's designing a game based on his experience or whatever. I understand that, um, but I just think that like,


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[Assistant] If stuff, if certain games were designed a little bit better, or at least if they took feedback from people and didn't just like completely ignore it and think that they know better, uhm, some of these games would just do better. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well that's an area that's, that's uhm, sort of coming up now, isn't it? It's like being gentrified, and it was a little bit around, sort of like, Cabot and stuff, right? It was, it was quite a...


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[Assistant] His parents moved to New York. He was raised in New York. He doesn't even remember living in England ever because he was so young when he moved to New York. Uhm, he lived in New York his whole life. Uhm, one year he decided to go on tour.


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[Assistant] Came back to the states, didn't have documentation, and they're like, sorry, you can't come back. And he was just like, uh, okay. And then had to, actually had to move to the UK.


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[Assistant] He did, yeaah. He moved to the UK I think in 2010. Cause he had to. They just wouldn't let him back in. And he was away from his family for about two years as well. Cause his wife and kids were still in New York and they had to move over. He just couldn't get back.


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[Assistant] You know, images like child porn and everything, and he got like two years for it. And you think how, that's much more damaging than somebody tearing down a statue. You go to prison for ten years?


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[Assistant] It's an interesting point. I found out about this via the national news, like the 10 o'clock news. Uhm, but had it not been for the, for the actual violence and stuff like that, would it have been covered on the national news? I don't know. Like, I mean, it was still a fairly big protest.


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[Assistant] There's no provocation needed and you know, things get damaged and things get out of control or whatever.


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[Assistant] But I'd say, like, I would probably wager that a lot of the time, police turning up and then trying to move people along and, uh, and trying to stop them from doing what they're doing, uh, just aggravates the mob, right? And then things get out of hand off the back of that. Like, it's...


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[Assistant] Nobody wants there to be a violent protest, nobody wants a riot, you know what I mean? Like, it affects everybody at that point, even if you have nothing to do with it, you're not involved with it, there's knock-on effects down the road, right?


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[Assistant] And nobody wants that, but it's, you know, it's, unfortunately it's just one of those things that will always happen because a lot of these things are just handled so poorly in the first place. I mean, handled so poorly that people feel like they have to protest in the first place. I mean, what the fuck? We elect these fucking people, what are they doing? All the time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then the, uh, and then the, the guys who, uh, beat Rodney King, uh, not, um, there was no justice for that. You know, they all got like, uh, they got let off or whatever. And then there was the riots in, in LA.


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[Assistant] But no, it's a, it's an interesting documentary because it covers everything. It covers like the, the sort of like causes of it. Um, and then, um, you know, the, the actual riot itself, but then the knock on effects as well. I mean, it cost the city. It was, it was.


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[Assistant] Oh man, I, you know, I woke up, I had uhm, two pieces of toast like I normally do.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I put some butter and uhm, some strawberry jam on it.


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[Assistant] And I was just sitting there eating it, and then I realized, oh.


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[Assistant] I'm running a bit late here, I gotta get going. So I picked up my briefcase, filled it up with jelly beans and put my propeller cap on and ran out the door as fast as I could to catch my train.


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[Assistant] Of course I missed it. So I played some Candy Crush while I waited for the next train. And I had to sneak into the building.


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[Assistant] So that old man Nelson when you see me coming in late, he saw me. Uhm, and now I've got another written warning, one more and I'm outta here.


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[Assistant] You think you know somebody briefly just from interacting with them on a daily basis at work or whatever, but it's like Jekyll and Hyde. Like these people, a couple of pints in there, it's just like, who are you? You're insane.


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[Assistant] Even then I think you gotta be kinda careful, right? Like, people can turn on you without any notice whatsoever, you know?


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[Assistant] Think of all the companies and all the countries and all the, all across the world, there's definitely...


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[Assistant] Places and companies that are, that are about 20 years behind everywhere else or more, you know what I mean? Like, they, they for sure exist. They might not be like, you know, sort of like at the cutting edge forefront of like wherever you live, if you live in a big city or whatever, but they're definitely still out there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that would be useful for a lot of people. I think a lot of people want to block 5G waves out of their brains and stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know if they should really, uh, do that. What do you think about people who are like, um, scared of taking or, or like, um, apprehensive about taking like the, like the COVID vaccines that are available now that they've started rolling out?


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[Assistant] So she's right. You know, to put it like in simpler terms, like with like all like sort of.


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[Assistant] Most science aside and stuff I would say, like, if you think of all of the things that people have ever injected into their bodies, uhm, in the past, uhm, a lot of those things you would think would be worse than, you know, this, this vaccine, which probably won't.


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[Assistant] The worst, the worst that injecting a vaccine into you can do is that it won't immunize you properly, right? Like it's not like it's gonna like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, or maybe just like a word to sort of sum up what he is mumbling about.


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[Assistant] Invest your emotions into something worthwhile rather than a movie, you know?


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[Assistant] I thought, back to the future is kinda classic, like simple but good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and he gets to fill a car with garbage for fuel. I thought that was awesome too. I love that.


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[Assistant] There's like that, they have stuff like that in Dark, the series Dark, which is, which also did time travel really well, um, in my opinion. Another good time traveling.


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[Assistant] Yes, and people can get stuck in the, uh, in those periods of time and, and then age in real time there and stuff as well, right? Which is like really weird. I don't think that's too much of a spoiler. No, no, it's just, it's cool. It's really well done.


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[Assistant] What are time travelling movies? What else? What other movies is there like, some time? Oh, the best time travelling movie ever, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, that was terrible. That was the one where they, they got the whales and put them in the water tanks, right? What were they fucking thinking? Holy shit.


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[Assistant] It became sort of like a, like a classic eighties movie, I guess that you, you know, if you saw it when you were a kid, you look back on and like me remembering it being great.


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[Assistant] I mean, if I watched it today, I don't know if I'd find it great. There'd be nostalgic moments. I remember loving it. I remember loving it. Yeah, I loved it too, man. Same with Back to the Future. And here's another movie.


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[Assistant] I feel like I've seen it 20 times, but I don't remember it pretty much at all. Like I have seen it a bunch of times, but it's not like one of those movies where I could sort of like quote, um, you know, like a famous line from it or even really remember the plot of it or anything.


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[Assistant] I'm not a strong, I'm not a strong quote guy when it comes to movies. Like I've seen Goodfellas a lot of times I would say in my life and even then the quotes and stuff are hazy at best for me. You know, like I remember certain scenes and stuff I couldn't recite.


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[Assistant] It's one of those, it's one of those ones where it's like, at the time it was really good, kinda like Bill and Ted's, and you're just more nostalgic for it than anything, right? Looking back on it, like, I don't know if you watched it for the first time now, with no context whatsoever, if you would really enjoy it much.


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[Assistant] Planes, trains and automobiles, I watched a whole bunch when I was young. Uncle Buck, Weekend at Bernie's, Home Alone, the first one when I came out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but a lot of movies in the 80s were like that, but they were good. Like there's so many of those movies were, were, were really good, right? Cause they didn't try to do too much. They didn't really try to be too funny either. Like they were just kinda.


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[Assistant] Whatever. And like, and you're like, yeah, I, this, this guy's style, I recognize it or whatever. And then another guy and then another guy, but that's just kind of how it was like back then. And I guess it's sort of still kind of like that, but there's, there's much more, um,


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[Assistant] So back then it was all movies, right? But now you've got like all these streaming services, paid subscription services that people like, you know, write stuff for like Netflix, Amazon Prime, like all these like longer running


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[Assistant] Most of the shows are written by like the same two or three guys, like as, as like the lead writer. I'm not even joking. It's just like.


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[Assistant] They just have like probably a staff like anywhere else would where they're just like, okay, we've got this idea. We, we want to have four heroes that are, um, you know, sort of like, uh, distinct enough in themselves so that we can make toys of them later on. And they have to have these fun adventures and go for it. And you know,


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[Assistant] Paw Patrol comes out or, you know what I mean? It's, but that's just, it's, it's like a, it's like a assembly line. It's like a factory for like shows, movies, all this stuff.


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[Assistant] Historically they get a far bigger budget too, right? So it's like, I guess that helps.


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[Assistant] I was, yeaah, that's why I said what a podcast. I thought that Lewis was going to be like, oh yeaah, well that's all we got time for today because I've made it awkward now, I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] I just generally try to stand up more now. Like I eat standing up and like pacing around my kitchen and stuff. Like, you know, just trying to get extra little bits of exercise wherever I can because I don't really do much exercise. I don't really like exercising either.


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[Assistant] Hilarious pranks. You know what? Most


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[Assistant] Yeah. What's next? Well, I just thought it was funny because they were sort of stood off at a distance, like, you know, to police who weren't quite sure why they'd been sent there, or like whether they needed to intercede. So they just, you could see them on satellite just hovering, like, at a safe distance.


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[Assistant] And Barry was like, oh, you know, where does Sips live? And I was like, here. And he's like, oh.


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[Assistant] It was quite fun. So like, yeah, I thought, I thought, I thought you could, obviously it's, it's, it's quite, a jersey's like this croissant shaped, right? Um, and so it was like, you could


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[Assistant] There's that big central sort of bay at the, at the bottom of Jersey. That's where all the Frenchies were blockading. Which is where people like to walk along. And it's quite, it's quite nice there actually. Uhm, but yea, it's not far from you, is it? You could probably, probably walk down and have a look at the boats. If you wouldn't, they might have gone now actually. I thought they all left as soon as we set


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[Assistant] We've rediscovered these books through Jingle Jam, so me and Simon obviously do a Choose Your Own Adventure every year on Jingle Jam.


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[Assistant] And we have an artist draw alongside and it's fun and it is one of my favourites.


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[Assistant] I hugely remember, you know, we... I guess we're unpicking something now, and sort of identifying where the problems are. I think mostly the problem comes with, you can't really develop a character very well when there's alternate routes through the story for people to take, right?


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[Assistant] But the other problem is that you do have to kind of railroad them down a certain route while telling them it's their choice to do it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and the other thing is you have to sort of keep track of your life, you have to roll dice. There's all the awkward things that, when I was a kid, I...


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[Assistant] Multiple fingers in the book in case they hit one of these endings where, you know, it's just arbitrary often, you know, suddenly you'll get eaten by an anaconda or fall into a pit of spikes or, you know, you'll go, and sometimes those traps will be two or three deep, right?


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[Assistant] By which I mean, you know, you make a choice and then all of that choice, inevitably leads to death anyway you go from there, but you don't know that that's a dead end, right, until


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[Assistant] Like, the way these books are often designed is that, you know, you can see how they made them on a big whiteboard of post-it notes, you know, kind of thing. With these bits where it's like, well this branch here leads to death, this branch here leads to him getting the MacGuffin that he needs, this branch here


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[Assistant] You know, leads, leads to him carrying on, but not getting the MacGuffin, uhm, so he can't complete the book anyway. So I mean, it's often choice A, choice B or choice C.


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[Assistant] I actually spent quite a long time writing a Choose Your Own adventure book last Christmas.


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[Assistant] Um, and also there's loads of other writers other than sort of Ian Livingstone, Steve Jackson, or classic ones that we remember. And they cover all sorts of genres, but they're all...


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[Assistant] A lot of the readers are very protective of the style, uhm, and of that dead-end, and the literal dead-end, uhm, where you die, you know, as you reach for the riches, the golems hand slams shut around your neck.


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[Assistant] This pathway has no need of those, only out for themselves.


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[Assistant] As you struggle to free yourself, the roof collapses, burying you alive. Yep. You have died. Exactly. Um, that's, it's a, it's a standard element of these books and, and I, yeah, I, I don't like it, but...


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[Assistant] I think most people treat that as a continue in a video game. They just go back a page and they're like, oops, well guess...


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[Assistant] Guess I'm just autosloading my last autosave. It's funny how that culture influences how people


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[Assistant] Perceived games, right? Like, like D&D did so much for modern day RPGs and modern day gaming, right? It really established


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[Assistant] The idea of, of what we now see in video games and having played so many video games, going back to these things with that knowledge changes how we see them and they look very basic and they look very simplistic to us. So in some ways that's necessary.


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[Assistant] Is like a incredibly simplified version of the game, because you have to teach it to someone new in 20-30 minutes. You can't be, you can't do an hour or two hour long tutorial for a...


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[Assistant] Okay, I found, I found the thing I wrote. Do you wanna hear page one of my funny fantasy book?


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[Assistant] At last, you turn a corner to see the great dwarven stronghold stretching out before you. Am I a dwarf? Well you'll find out. Nestled deep in the heart of the flame-spewing mountain,


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[Assistant] What about the lava? Yea, what about the flame spewing mountain? Where's that now? Who knows?


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[Assistant] Fearing and knowing that something was terribly amiss, as you turn onto the main thoroughfare, Stoneheim appears deserted, but your keen senses catch glimpses of dark, sunken eyes.


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[Assistant] As you reach the centre of Stoneheim, you see a lone dwarf kneeling in front of the High Forge, looking up at the roiling lava, churning up through the great pipe. You have heard that many of the dwarves of Stoneheim revere the magnificent construction as some holy relic.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sometimes more bushy and luscious than the man, you know? I'm not into that.


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[Assistant] If you look, then you will see, you know, if you look at the nature, if you keep looking enough, you'll see all sorts of stuff. All sorts of, there's little tiny details everywhere. That's one of the meditative things you should do, is look, but really look, you know?


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[Assistant] Anything to say before I cut you down? She says. If you would like to reply, you can turn to 280. If you would rather draw your weapon, turn to 21.


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[Assistant] Oh, like, I was writing it for a couple of weeks, but I, I've, I've finished, uhm, I didn't finish it. I've got about, I got about a third of the way through, I'd say. I'm about a third of the way through. I broke it into three bits.


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[Assistant] Okay. Sensing your aggressive movement, there is a blur in the air and suddenly a bear is lunging at you.


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[Assistant] But this is when you're gonna pick your class, right? Oh. But you are no ordinary dwarf. What is your history? And so this is, this is when you are, this is, I basically wanted to have it, you choose between three, like, types, three backstories if you like, that then define what your abilities are going forward, right? Give you some different paths through the book. So here's the, here's the three choices. I wanna be the one


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[Assistant] If you traveled with the burned ones to the deepest of the deep mines and stared into the core light where the intense heat burned your body to ash and your very soul was scorched and charred until it was nothing more than a windblown ember and then


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[Assistant] You were pulled back from the abyss and blessed by the mountain, reforged as an ash dwarf with the ability to read fire runes, then turned to 87.


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[Assistant] In viewing you with the strength of 100 dwarves, if you are a stone turned, then turn to page 6.


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[Assistant] Or felt the sting of the lightning sprites on your fingertips that you have mastered the arcane art of engineering and turned to 22.


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[Assistant] The other thing I wanted to do was I wanted to add keywords, right? So rather than keep track of your life through, through like the score or life or numbers, I wanted to add keywords. So for example, if you got burned, you'd get like, say you gained charred or you gained like burned, right? And then if you got burned again, you'd get like,


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[Assistant] So if you, you ended up, you'd lose the game if you took on multiple damage keywords, you see what I mean? And that would also affect how people reacted to you and stuff like this, anyway.


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[Assistant] So you heroically leap off the edge of the platform, gain inspiring, but immediately regret your decision as you bounce off an outcropping of rock, cracking your head against the surface and spinning away. You blink your eyes open to see yourself falling fast into a sea of lava that heralds your certain doom. You are dead.


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[Assistant] You plummet into the lava sea and despite your considerable powers you cannot survive being submerged in lava and you return to being one with the mountain. Your adventure ends here. And if you were the ash dwarf you would have survived that, you see.


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[Assistant] Well, because you can't dive into lava if you're, if you're the wrong type of dwarf.


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[Assistant] So there you go, there's another, there's another death. But yeaah, there you go. That's a little... That was a project that I had some, I did some work on, like, ended up giving up because...


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[Assistant] I was planning on writing it for Jingle Jam, but I didn't do it in time. And so it got shelved, and I haven't really come back to it.


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[Assistant] And I guess I should do really, because I'd like to do it with Simon. I'd like to take Simon on a sort of themed dwarven adventure that's familiar to him in a sense. Like this is almost like writing a D&D campaign for


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[Assistant] Someone that you know well, because I can add in references to stuff that he, you know, feels like he knows and


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[Assistant] You were, you were gripped. I was. We were gripped. Well that's, I just felt like I had this, I just found it, talking about it, it was worth, I never shared this with anyone. That's nice, now that's out there.


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[Assistant] I'll have to, I'll have to finish it, yeah. Yeah, I'm not sure, I do need a crazy wall to go through and do all the threads. I started making it, but it was, oh man, I just thought, maybe it's easy for me to just write like, one thread. I don't know, to start with, and then fill in the second thread afterwards. Do one really good one.


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[Assistant] I think you're also, when you're writing and creating stuff, you do have to, um, trick your, I have to trick myself when I do, do anything. I, I, I, and I sometimes that involves doing the fun bits first, you know? If you, if you think, oh god, I have to fill out this boring bit, then you probably shouldn't even be doing it in the first place, you know? Right. You should just, you should just find a way to avoid having that boring bit in your story.


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[Assistant] Yeah, day before yesterday. Right. Locally. And I did some voice lines. It's the first time we've ever done anything like that. Really. Like a professional studio. And uhm, it's for Humankind, which is the new, actually new Civ game.


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[Assistant] So basically they said to me, oh, do you want to be in the game? We're not going to pay you. I was like, sure. What do I have to do? They were like, oh, you could just take some pictures of yourself. And I was like, okay, send them in.


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[Assistant] So they sent some pictures and they were like, oh, these aren't good enough to get some more done. So I was like, okay, so I got, Joe takes loads of pictures of me and they were like, we need back of you, back of you and head and everything, like 3D pictures. So I was like, oh, crikey. So I sent all these pictures in and then they were like, oh, uh, we need you to do some voice lines for your character now. And I was like, oh, okay, sure. Let me know what I need to say.


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[Assistant] Just do it in audacity and send it back. And they were like, oh no no, we need it like in good quality. And I was like, oh okay, well we got a studio here, I can just go in the booth and do it in there. And they're like, oh no no, we need it, we need to like have the voice coach.


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[Assistant] There's like 470 lines. You're gonna have to be there for two days. We're gonna have to rent a studio. And I was like, okay. So I went over and stood in this booth, met the nice people. There's a booth there, in fact it's right next to the BBC Bristol. So I was in David Attenborough's recording booth.


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[Assistant] Uhm, where he normally does all of his dulcet tones for the BBC nature stuff. And they played these sort of animations of Civ lead, like a generic stock animation of Civ leader, sort of saying something along the lines of, oh, you know,


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[Assistant] Like angrily shaking his fist, or like bowing, stuff like this, and I'd have to say these generic kind of voice lines, which are like uhm,


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[Assistant] You snake. How dare you betray me. Or something like this, you know. Uh, and so I, I slowly over the course of the day became more and more, cause I started off saying, I'm just gonna do my normal voice, I'm gonna be me. I'm gonna be like, you know, you, you, you nasty man. Don't do that.


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[Assistant] Hail, friends! I will be your grand leader! And it just sort of became...


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[Assistant] Slowly more ludicrous. Were they happy? Did you have fun though? They were, they were fine. They didn't say anything. I had fun, it was nice, uhm, smash through, got done in a whole, in a, in a bout.


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[Assistant] Well by about two o'clock actually, so I didn't need two whole days, nine to five, I needed a morning and a bit to do them. It was very interesting, uh, it was quite fun, I had a nice day, and I think I'm interested to see what it looks like in the game when it eventually comes out.


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[Assistant] I think you got delayed, so it's like six to eight weeks away. Okay. But obviously, I'm a big fan of that sort of, you know, that sort of oeuvre of video games, and it's nice to be in one. I think that's one of the best things about our job.


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[Assistant] I look forward to it. I must admit, some of the things, cause I had to sort of, there were quite a lot of lines that were quite, like, angry, okay.


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[Assistant] Like, I, and I found myself like a bit uncomfortable with the idea of yelling this at the player, you know, it's like my character comes up and is like, you mangy dog, how dare you spit on my people in such a way? Do you know what I mean? And I was almost like, I was, cause I was sort of doing them all so quick and lost in the, in the moment and I had to get a character being very angry.


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[Assistant] I didn't really soften any of it, or give it a like, more light-hearted spin, or make it cheeky, it was all very kind of...


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[Assistant] I'm just worried that people will clip the voice lines out. Then again, I think people... I'm just paranoid now.


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[Assistant] What a journey, man. Holy jeez. It was a bit of a journey. It was fun. Interesting. And man, my voice at the end of it was like, absolutely killing me. My throat was like, really, really parched and sore, and like, just


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[Assistant] From just like, just talking. It wasn't even like I was really flamboyant, or like, you know.


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[Assistant] But the other thing about it was because the way uhm, it was set up was it was just in a random fucking order.


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[Assistant] It was like, evil kind of character me, and then friendly character me, and then evil character me, and then friendly character me, so I had to like schizophrenically switch between, oh welcome friend, it's good to see you again.


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[Assistant] So yea, that's normal. Normal me, actually. Yea, that was easy to just slip right back into that, uhm, narcissistic arsehole. Oh, yea, so it was, it was, it was worth doing, it was fun. But yea, great respect for the people who can somehow, I don't know how they maintain like a consistent


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[Assistant] Five or six different characters in a show. Yeah, really, really, really cool. Anyway, I recommend it. You should do it.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Did you do, did you, did you do, Bodega, did you do the voices for the characters? Or did you like just read them? Who else did it? No, he got, uhm.


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[Assistant] Well, that's, that's, that's our office in a nutshell, isn't it? As well as the pigeons and seagulls. Oi! Seagulls, eh? Jeez. And various things. Jeez. Had a, had a big rainstorm this week, huge rainstorm. Obviously our roof just leaked all over the place. We had hail here.


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[Assistant] I've got to wait like another two weeks or so probably, and then it'll be my age group. It's not fun, but it's important. No, absolutely. I think, I think people are starting to get pretty fucking slack around it.


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[Assistant] We don't need to tell our audience, they know, no one's listening to this, who's that irresponsible. Relax, we've shooed them all away with these believers of what these bullshitters have all been shooed out here.


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[Assistant] It's full of very adorably cute Pokémon that you bother.


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[Assistant] Do you know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of those kids in zoos who bang on the glass. That's what Pokemon Snap reminds me of, right? Because you're in a little bubble thing and you get sort of along on rails and there's Pokemon everywhere and you're just constantly


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[Assistant] Harassing them with like camera sounds and like throwing apples at them and like flashing music and flashing lights to them to make them like turn towards your smile or do something.


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[Assistant] Or a little fucking wiggle or they breathe fire or burp or jump into a waterfall or whatever. You take a picture of them while they're doing it and that, you know, that gives you the reward. So you have to provoke these animals that are in the wild. So you go out into the wild, you provoke them into making, doing something and then you take a picture of that and then that and then the guy gives you stars for it.


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[Assistant] So it's like, it is like, it is like being that kid in the zoo who is tapping on the glass to make the animals...


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[Assistant] That's what you're supposed to do, yeah. Not like, proactively. But there's like four pokes, different pokes for the Pokémon. I guess that's why they're called Pokémon.


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[Assistant] They've added, uhm, a bunch of like, new ones since I last...


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[Assistant] I didn't quite realise that like, I was still on the idea that it's all the same ones that I remember, you know, and they are sure that the Pikachu's and the Bulbasaur's and all of them are still in there, all the favourites, but.


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[Assistant] They've cute-ened it a lot. For this game they've picked the cutest ones, oh my god. And uhm, there's so many now as well, so many more. There's like twenty different kinds of bird Pokemon, like fifteen kinds of Pokemon that live on a beach.


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[Assistant] Okay, and that's the English name, in Japanese it's namakoboshi. Right. Uh, or namakoboshi. And it's like a sea cucumber, except a giant white gloved fist.


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[Assistant] And I throw an apple at this thing and this giant fucking fist comes out of its mouth and just grabs the apple and took it back in and I was totally, I was totally freaked out. And that's what Pokemon Snap I think is really. It's like these things are just really fucking weird.


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[Assistant] Ideas, like only the Japanese can come up with this stuff. It feels like a lot of time.


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[Assistant] I like that. I don't think, like, Pokéball Snap is all that bad. Like, I think it's, it's, it's...


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[Assistant] I don't know, I constantly read and I can't help it because it's always there. People constantly throw bad fucking news at you all the time. It's so depressing, like someone will be like, oh yeah, there's a


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[Assistant] Yeah, anyway. Fucking stupid bird. Think about somebody else for once. Geez. Real animals. We got digital fucking weird ones now, which are even cuter. You know what?


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[Assistant] Thanks to everyone, thanks to everyone for listening, thanks for all the support, it's always much appreciated, uh, you could check out, uh, new episodes of Triforce on Spotify every Wednesday, and also, uh, Pitch Please is back, I'm on it I think this Sunday. What was your idea? It was basically like having,


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[Assistant] Which is a terrible idea, but, and the guys did a very good job in letting me get it out of my brain.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well that's, that's, that's out there, they're our friends, so you can check them out if you're interested in listening to a podcast. Otherwise, thanks for listening, uhm, see you all next week!


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[Assistant] So this is funny because this actually, uh, I was, I was thinking about TV acting.


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[Assistant] And hey, how, hey, you okay? Yeah. Are you really okay? It's a very TV acting. Yeah. To have that. And then the music starts and they glisten eyes and they look up and no, you know, it's like that. So I've been watching agents, agents, Marvel of shield. No shields agents. No Marvel agents of shields. That's the word.


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[Assistant] Uh, which is a good show, like it's a laugh, it's nice and relaxing, uh, it's got Coulson in, it's got some very good Marvel-y stuff in, it's got some really cheesy stuff that just makes me laugh.


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[Assistant] So generally I stop streaming or doing anything at about round five and I go downstairs for about three, three and a half hours and we'll have dinner and we'll watch some telly, we'll hang out, because she's finished work as well at that point, and then, and then I'll come up and start streaming and the kids go to bed and everything. So that's our sort of filler where we all hang out and watch Marvel's Agents of Shields or whatever it is that we're watching.


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[Assistant] That does stop. Like, I would say it does, yeaah. I mean, my, my, my eldest, she's nearly 12, she is on Minecraft with her mates on Discord, shouting at each other, so I sent her upstairs to do that upstairs because, you know, I don't wanna hear what sounds like a really bad stream live in my living room, so I sent her upstairs.


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[Assistant] Anyone that has played that boss, like, you hit him, he fires a bomb at you, you shoot them back with the pointy nose, then you climb up and then you have to peck open the domes with the people in. If you've played the game, you'll know what I'm talking about. She was stuck on that level, and she came to me for help. Which was quite surprising. Compared to a 9 year old, I'm a gaming god. It makes me feel very good, but I'm obviously dreadful.


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[Assistant] I tried to make the point to my youngest when she was stuck on that level. She was like, oh, this is impossible. I was like, you kids don't know you're born. Said in my day, you only got three lives, you fail on this boss, you go back to the beginning of the game.


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[Assistant] I think it was you had to complete a world, right? So it was like, let's say it was 1-1-1-2-1-3-1-4. When you went to the next world, I think if you died, you go back to that point.


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[Assistant] So the sort of, the resume point is actually quite a few levels deep. So I was trying to say to my youngest that the way all these games are designed is that the skills you need


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[Assistant] To beat the boss will have been learned in the previous levels. So you can't get someone else to do that stuff for you because you're gonna need those, those little things that you're like, oh, okay, so it's like this. You need to learn that stuff and then take it into the, the, the later levels.


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[Assistant] They've added a new report thing to Dota, uhm, which is like, they call it Overwatch, which is like the same as I think it is in CSGO. And essentially, the reports that are made in the game go to the community for judgement. So you download a file, which is like a mini replay, all the names are


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[Assistant] It's great. So I'll sometimes do them on stream, and it's interesting to see people's different takes. Quite often, people that are just terrible at the game get reported for feeding, when they're not. They're just super bad. And a lot of people, like, I try to keep what counts as cheating or abuse to quite a tight, sort of narrow band, rather than just saying


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[Assistant] This person didn't help their team, and whilst that might have cost them the game, is that griefing?


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[Assistant] Or, we don't know what happened, what conversation took place, we don't know what happened in the first five minutes of the game, they might have all fallen out with each other, and this guy's off trying to, at least he's pushing out lanes and farming, occasionally turns up to a fight.


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[Assistant] I was thinking it might be like you have to compete a series of challenges like community service to get back into the game. So it'll make you, you have to go onto a map and get a thousand last hits on the map. Uh, and that's like step one. Step two.


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[Assistant] I'm just astounded at the lack of political will to stop that. Like, it's obviously, money is such a big factor, and these companies are so powerful, that they essentially just paralyze any government, they just go, no, no, we don't do anything.


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[Assistant] It's a low bridge, or the train can just fit under it. It won't kill the fat man. But if you pull him onto the track, if you have to push him onto the track, people will apparently, that's the line that people draw. I think because they feel sorry for someone fat enough to stop a train. But also, it's more personal.


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[Assistant] You having to put your hands on someone and push them off a bridge to block a train from hitting five people further down the line. But when it comes to pulling the lever, it's actually quite interesting.


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[Assistant] How people change. If it's already headed for the five people, will they pull the lever to make it head for the one person? It's quite interesting. The moment people have to get involved, they suddenly get shy about it. And they're sort of like, I don't know if I could because that's not fair on that other guy and stuff like that. Like it becomes quite an interesting ethical dilemma for people once they have to do something.


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[Assistant] Especially if they're as physical as pushing someone in the way to save other people, it becomes very hard.


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[Assistant] Let's make it really spicy. And they're in, and they're, they're like, uh, you know, there's a, there's a, like other layers. And there's a train coming. You can push your son in front of the train. If you stop the train hitting these five people, the nuclear launch goes to descend from the sky on a tiny balloon and you can annihilate the planet. Sounds pretty cool.


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[Assistant] So, alright, so I, uh, talking about TV again, I actually wrote something, I've just found this on my notepad, uh, that I, that I note things down for during the week, and I've written, this is an example of TV acting, and this is what Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is like, and a lot of other shows.


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[Assistant] I've noticed a pattern in the dialogue, because I haven't been watching them one a week. I've been watching them like three or four in the evening, and you notice a pattern.


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[Assistant] And see if you recognize this pattern. Okay, this is how it goes. We need to talk. After what happened in Stockholm, I don't think so. Wait!


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[Assistant] Bishop, hear me out, please, I- I'm sorry. Soft dramatic music instead. You should be. I know. But with everything that happened with Carpenter and Burge, I-


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[Assistant] But that's not all, there's something I haven't told you about me and Clint.


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[Assistant] You're too important to me, you know that. Nessa, what's important is the mission. If this happens again, I can't protect you. I don't want you to.


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[Assistant] So, but the show is very much like that, where you'll have tensions build up in one episode, or earlier in an episode, and then in a later episode they have a confrontation, but that reveals some new information that completely changes the relationship between the two characters,


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[Assistant] For the next episode, where something else happens that then creates tension that we then have in the next episode. So it's like this constant peaks and troughs of tension between characters that they create and resolve.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and a lot of TV shows do this. If you watch any show that's got an episodic format with an overriding story. So it's not like...


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[Assistant] We've got a report of a new inhuman in Denver and they go out there and they solve the problem.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was like a lot of very long arcs for a bunch of characters, and we saw a bit of them each time. I think it's interesting, cause I was talking to Mrs. F while we were watching it. If you think about these shows, it's a different writer every week. Cause these episodes, like Game of Thrones or something like that,


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[Assistant] I think it was, was it like 10 or 12 episodes per season? Something like that? Right, like there was like 24 episodes per series of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. So it's much longer and you've got to have a lot more filler episodes where someone just comes up with a cool idea


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[Assistant] And that's, that's your episode. Bam. That's 40 minutes right there.


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[Assistant] budget in mind, and filming days, and who you've got available, because one of the funny things is, especially when you watch a show like that, you can tell that in the next episode, a character's gonna be the focus, because they haven't appeared in the previous episode.


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[Assistant] I mean yea, like, like, you, you're right, you've been on this production, you've, you've, maybe it's your big break, it's the first big...


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[Assistant] And I'm like, I mean honestly, if Firefly was around now, it would be on Netflix and it would be keepin' going. It would still be fucking going, guaranteed. But back in the day when it was like Fox and stuff like that, they were like, we don't understand this, so uh, we're gonna break it, we're gonna release the episodes in the wrong order, and then we're gonna say it sucks.


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[Assistant] Now do you think that tells us that Fox makes mistakes like that, or that the majority of the audience out there just doesn't get shows that we like? Like, maybe Firefly was a fucking terrible ratings and everybody hated it. I mean they did fuck up their release.


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[Assistant] It had 18 million people watch the final episode. 18 million people. Oh, is it actually done now? I think it's finished, yeah. That's the 2018-2019 season of Big Bang Theory. Who cares? Wait, it's gone on all that time? Dude, it's still, it's such a big show. I do not believe that Big Bang Theory was that successful. Like anyone out there that listens to this podcast, please.


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[Assistant] A troubled life, a troubled life. I mean, Haley Joel Osment's had a pretty fucking weird life as well since, uh, since he was in, um, Sixth Sense or whatever and Walker Texas Ranger and a few other things. I understand he's had a pretty bonkers, uh, life as well.


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[Assistant] We're fair game apparently. I get stuff all the time. Do you know how many people on Instagram have sent me the picture of those two dinosaurs saying why don't bald men fight more often this way with the two bald dinosaurs about to crack heads? I've must have received that about 20 times on Instagram.


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[Assistant] Like this, there's no relation between the two events. But what I will say is like, if you're, if you're bald, bald brothers out there and sisters, some of, some of the sisters out there are bald as well, bald brothers and sisters, hear me now. There is nothing that we respect less than people who are part of the bald fraternity and reject it and hide it and wear a wig.


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[Assistant] And she said, at period flax, do we need to get you on a call with, uh, Gemma, Lydia and Boba and me to discuss dick pic etiquette? Because this is, this is a call back to last week's Triforce. And then Boba says, this makes it sound like period sent you one, which is kind of sad, but what gets me is Booth's reply. She says, I'm so sorry.


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[Assistant] When I'm with other people, uhm, like for instance, when I come down to Bristol and we all hang out, I love it. I absolutely love it. Getting to hang out with everybody and having a laugh and a chat and go to the pub and everything and all recording like next to each other. Like I did a tabs thing with Tom and it was just me and Tom doing it and we were just sat in the same room. It was great. It was a lot more fun.


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[Assistant] I go kind of crazy just streaming all the time. Like I've found that I either, if I'm playing a game by myself, I'll just, I ramble even more than usual. Like I'm just off on some weird rambly thing. Or if I'm playing games with people, I'll get kind of snappy sometimes and it's like not the way I want to be. It's just, it's not been healthy.


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[Assistant] How's it going? Have you got, how are the cobs doing? Have you got any, have you got any pastries today?


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[Assistant] It's, it's light, but I'm going to Kew Gardens today, which means it's gonna rain when we're in Kew Gardens.


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[Assistant] I feel like, do you remember at school there was always a group of kids who seemed to be much more mature, not just cool, but they didn't, they seemed to realise that everything else that was happening at school was boring and for idiots, and so they just sort of met up and had their own cool things going on.


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[Assistant] On the sly, there was a group of guys like that at my school, and they just didn't get involved in anything. They always seemed to be doing some extracurricular thing of their own, like they had a band, or they had some group that would meet up and everything, and you know, they-


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[Assistant] They were just very cool. All the parties they talked about, it was only them that went. They knew loads of girls. And I was just like, damn, I wanna get in with those guys. Like, they seem cool. But, uh, I was happy with my D&D nerd friends.


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[Assistant] Along with some other ones I've got, uhm, let me see what I've got. I've got, this is on my list of, uh, of new releases. There's, uh, Necromunda hired gun, which looks, uh,


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[Assistant] In 1976, a pair of cartoonists created the Amateur Press Association


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[Assistant] I feel like, uh, you know, although I'm a big fan of, uhm, Robert Crumb, he has quite a lot of anthropomorphic stuff in his work. Right. Uhm, Fritz the Cat was a prime example of that. Yes. That happened in the 70s and I wonder if that was also a part of it.


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[Assistant] They're obviously influenced by, uhm, well it's weird actually. It's, it, like, Harvey Picar is not a very interesting figure in terms of his life. He collects old jazz records.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's interesting. Paul G. Martin does a good job of playing Harvey Picard. And Harvey Picard appears in the film, so it's kind of weird. Uhm, but yeaah, it's a strange, uh, it's a strange thing, American Splendor. It's very, very strange. But yeaah, that whole...


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[Assistant] Uhm, and there's a scene in Crumb where he's teaching his son and they're drawing the same woman. They've got a picture of a woman. This is from like the Wild West sort of era, the frontier era, and she'd been arrested for something, you know. And they had her mugshot and everything. Or something like that. It was some picture like that. And his son has done a brilliant, brilliant drawing.


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[Assistant] Very powerful thighs, big powerful butt and huge boobs. And uhm, he seemed to like quite long hair as well. And he talks about how this stems from, he, he, when he was a kid he used to, he had an aunt.


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[Assistant] Me and my mate went to see him. This was about ten years ago. And Steve Bell, the Guardian cartoonist, was interviewing him. And it was, he was very nervous. He obviously doesn't like talking in front of a room full of people. Steve Bell's questions were not the best.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yes, please do continue with the, uh, with the corrections. I love it when the only comment on an hour-long podcast is, actually! Uhm, but that's the internet.


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[Assistant] I think we should do a public apology of some kind, some kind of r-right, quite long letter. I would like to apologize- Just go for it now. Unreservedly to anybody- Stand up on your- Alright, let me just stand up, hold on.


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[Assistant] I would like to apologize on behalf of the Triforce podcast and especially myself, uh, for misstating that the film Punch Drunk Love was directed by Zack Snyder.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of people, uhm, over the last few years have realized that it doesn't matter if your game is a bit scuffed and crappy,


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[Assistant] I would say Kingdom Come was a prime example of that for me, in that I very rarely finish a game.


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[Assistant] Whereas I feel like the ending of say, The Witcher 3, which I come back to as like one of my favorite games,


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[Assistant] Did you, did you feel that way in Mass Effect 2? Which I, I mean, I, I, I think I played Mass Effect 1 after I played 2.


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[Assistant] Because I mean, Mass Effect 1 had a lot more grind to it than Mass Effect 2. I never played 3 because the reviews were so bad at the time. Uhm, but Mass Effect...


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[Assistant] They waited all the story stuff at the start before they let you get on with playing the fucking game. I feel like you need to be playing the game and get absorbed by minor things and then gradually the plot grows bigger and bigger. Oh yeah.


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[Assistant] Do you reckon that what's happened is, they spent so much time on the main game, that now when they're like, oh fuck, we gotta do all of those side quests, they're like, ugh, fine, just, just


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[Assistant] Cause there's all that sort of, uhm, cosmetic stuff, isn't there? There's loads of cosmetic stuff for the bass, like you can build.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I found with the first one that the best part of the game was when, I was just surprised that the second one was so similar. Like I was like, I understand they're making a sequel to a successful game, but what made the first one great for me was the first time you get your little submersible and you find out


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[Assistant] Rather than something I was really driven to do, it was okay. I did quite like the...


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[Assistant] The ending, but the plot stuff was my least favourite part of the game. So really, to remake the game and say, it's the same game but a different plot, I'm like, so, the game was the same, but the worst part of the first one for me, the story, the bit that I was just like, come on, get over, get on with it, you know,


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[Assistant] No flame intended. Big fan of Subnautica, but I just, uh, there's not enough there to drag me back, I think, given how much I saw about four hours or something like that, and I was like, oh, this is just the same game. Yeah, it's weird.


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[Assistant] There's this game that I've been playing this week called Tainted Grail. Oh yea, I've heard of that, yea, a lot of people have been. It's okay, yea, it's not bad. I mean, it's everybody that drops by the stream says, is this basically Slow The Spire? And I mean, I would like to say the deck building genre is not defined by one game. There are like a million.


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[Assistant] Literally every time I stream, someone will drop by and make that joke. But I'm thinking, you must realize that you're not the first to make that joke, because you've heard it somewhere. You must, you didn't invent that. It must be like a meme in people's brains.


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[Assistant] It's bizarre. But yea, so it is, obviously it's a deck builder, so you could say this is basically Slave of Spire, but by that...


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[Assistant] You know, by that token, Slay the Spire was ripping off some other deck build. Like no, Slay the Spire was probably the best deck building sort of progression game like that. But this is quite different. It's more like, uhm, it's a rogue light, they call it. So you die, but the progress that you've made towards your overall goals


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[Assistant] I mean it's impossible really, like the cards that you unlock and the things you unlock back in the village, uhm, you need to buff up your village that is sort of your hub if you like. You get new characters to come join it and then they can give you buffs to take out into the opening worlds and then when you start to beat the first one every time, but you unlock new characters.


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[Assistant] And they, you haven't unlocked the cards yet for them. And some of them are very powerful, so you wanna try and play them. So it's like a different place though. What's this called? Tainted Grail. Sounds...


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[Assistant] So if you look at, uhm, there's this whole fantasy genre that for some reason has all of these terrible fucking names. Like I don't know why they all want to come up with something like that. Like here's one, Andor Wrecking Dawn. That means nothing. That means nothing.


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[Assistant] And or, I don't even know how to look that up. Right, so all of these games, it seems to me, and all four of these roguelikes have a name like Splinter Realm, the reckoning of the lord of splinters.


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[Assistant] I just don't get it. Like it's saying this, like you have these candles called


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[Assistant] Weird candles, I think? Weird spelled W-Y-R-D, huh? Just to be actual. Of course, yeah. So, call it Weird Realm or Weird, Weird. There you go, boom, there's a name for you, rather than Tainted Grey or... And that's actually not the full name, it's got a longer name than that, so... It's just, I don't know, it always makes me laugh. The names these guys come up with for their games crack me up.


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[Assistant] I think it's gonna get tough in like this sort of like 2000s onwards, because I'm not sure that like, I mean I'm sure that albums were reviewed well too, but it feels like a couple of decades of like, singles, right? Like, and not so much focus on albums.


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[Assistant] I feel like the 70s were harder music wise, right? Like it was uhm, you know, after you had like the sort of love of the 60s, the hippies and drugs and stuff, everything just sort of got stripped down to its bare bones and it was just more drugs.


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[Assistant] Well, the late 80s was the birth of sort of like, uh, alternative as well, right? Because I think you had all the hairspray bands that people were sick of and that sort of ushered in your sound gardens, nirvanas, and you know, whatnot. And it was like that sort of like anti.


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[Assistant] Anti that, right? Like the late 80s DIY sort of punk stuff and everything as well.


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[Assistant] It's not, it's, it can't be all that bad, but I mean, the problem is, is we're older and there's, you, you, you get stuck, you get locked into like what you listen to.


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[Assistant] In a lot of, in a lot of ways, unless you're really into music and you're like a critic or like somebody who reviews music and listens to a lot of music and subjects themselves to a lot of different music or whatever. I think for the average person, you're locked into what you listen to when you were in your teens.


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[Assistant] But a lot of that stuff wasn't like always that popular either. We just, you just liked some of it. So it felt like it was, it was popular. There was tons of stuff.


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[Assistant] It's so different nowadays though. Just coming back to what Flax was saying, who's gonna replace U2? It's the, the stage isn't the same as it was when U2 were at their absolute height. I'm sure they're still touring and stuff.


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[Assistant] You had these communities on the internet and the connectivity that we have now. You were at the mercy of like a fan magazine that you might be lucky enough to come across at some point or even know existed in the first place. Like it was really hard to discover music, you know, like back then.


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[Assistant] And you were, you were sort of spoon fed what was destined to be big from like heavy radio play and stuff.


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[Assistant] Again, it's different though. I mean, the tools available now, like digital tools that are available now, feasibly one person can make the music that it used to take three, four people to make.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, you're totally right. It goes in cycles as well, like we'll probably do another sort of like, um, I don't know, like- Purge. Not purge, but- Except a purge. Like, just, just like a shake up to the norm sort of thing. Just everything on fire. You know, like whatever-


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[Assistant] Cause there's still so many big pop bands, like manufactured pop bands. There's lots of big singles that come out all the time that stay in the charts forever.


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[Assistant] I think, like, I partially agree, Flax, with what you're saying about the era of the big band or whatever. I feel like it's probably unlikely that a band like U2.


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[Assistant] Is gonna come around again, you know, like a couple of like, uh, like mid 20 something guys with long hair and tight pants on that, you know, started playing songs in a pub or whatever and then, uh, conquer the world. Like I, I feel like.


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[Assistant] A lot of these manufactured groups like Loos is saying like in Korea or elsewhere across like the west and stuff like that are just as big, if not bigger than they've ever been. And then you still have the old big bands that are still making a killing touring all the time.


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[Assistant] They're still out there touring and making a ton of money off of, you know, sold out stadiums and merch and everything else. I don't know.


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[Assistant] There'll be all sorts on here, yeaah. Okay, my daily mix one is, uhm, there's, uh, a whole bunch of Creedence Clearwater Revival on it. Uh, the Beatles, Steely Dance, Marmalade, the Rolling Stones, uh, the Kinks.


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[Assistant] Uhm, man, Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, I guess I just like, listen to a lot of, uh, older music one day or whatever. It's very like rock, it's very rock, old rock. I don't really listen to a lot of this stuff. I think it's just probably taken two or three bands that I had listened to and then just sort of,


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[Assistant] Made recommendations off the back of those. Led Zepp.


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[Assistant] No, no. I usually listen to like, I do like artist radio a lot. So like, I'll listen to a song that I feel like listening to and then I'll just do like radio from that song or radio on that artist and then you get.


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[Assistant] Spotify just feeds in stuff that is related to it or that other people have liked after listening to that or whatever, you know, they have their algorithms or whatever. And usually it's pretty good. Sometimes I skip songs, like uhm, you know, if a song's not doing it for me or whatever, I'll just skip.


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[Assistant] I don't find I've really discovered any new music through any of those. You know what I mean? Like, I haven't heard anything that I've liked enough to be like, well, who's this? Uhm, like, maybe I should go listen to an album or whatever.


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[Assistant] The way I discover music is usually from reading about music, you know, like I'll read about a band that I'm into and then it'll say, you know, they were really heavily inspired by this other band or whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, well, either way, yeah, music that's new to me or, or new music, like I, I rarely discover new music that, that I, I wanna listen to sort of thing, you know, like it's just-


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[Assistant] When I first started watching it, I thought that the whole thing was real for like the first, I don't know, like half of the first episode.


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[Assistant] Of course, yeaah. I mean, it's not, it's not, none of it's so far-fetched that it's like unbelievable, right?


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[Assistant] I thought it would be really fun to haggle when I was in Egypt in like 2005.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we got a taxi, um, from like this city to this other part of the city and we were like, oh, okay, this is gonna be great. We're gonna haggle the price. Like there's no set price or whatever.


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[Assistant] So I feel like in Egypt when we went, every situation was a potential haggle situation. Uhm, because they're, just the way that they're, they work day to day. And, uh, I think the way that they, they treat to, like tourists or even what they perceive as tourists.


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[Assistant] I mean, like we went to uhm, we went to like a shopping, uhm, mall, which was odd, uhm, and somebody held the elevator door open for us. We got in and he's like, tip please? I was like, what, really?


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[Assistant] Man, I just like, I was annoyed because I'm not used to it, you know, like I'm not used to people asking for tips. Like you, like at a restaurant or a bar or whatever I'm used to, but not nowhere else, you know, like.


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[Assistant] Wait, wasn't Gran Torino, uhm, like a, oh, I haven't seen it actually. You know what, I haven't, I know that Clint Eastwood movies are allegedly pretty good, but I can't, I haven't seen any. I haven't seen like the Million Dollar Baby or Gran Torino.


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[Assistant] I haven't watched an action film in forever, like I don't, I'm not, uhm, I don't seek them out, I don't even know like what, I guess John Wick is like probably the


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[Assistant] The, the, the new big sort of action franchise and, and I guess superhero stuff like, like Marvel, Marvel Universe or whatever. Right. You know, like Die Hard, like I used to like Die Hard and, uh, and like whatever, Predator, Commando, like all like, like you know, the big 80s action movies, like when I was a kid I thought they were awesome, but like,


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, Jean-Claude Van Damme's set to be in a movie in 2022, so, I mean, he's already way better than that guy who was only Bond once.


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[Assistant] He surfaced, he surfaced in that film and the feds caught up with him, you know, he was on a, he was a fugitive and they caught up with him and then he had to serve his time, you know, he did the crime, served the time.


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[Assistant] Okay, so if you're a good friend with Sylvester Stallone, and you were somewhat, uhm. And you were over 70. You were somewhat, uhm, of a big deal in the 80s doing action movies. Then you're in, yeah. So Bruce Willis is in it.


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[Assistant] Uh, Arnold, Arnold Schwarzenegger is in it. Who else? Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson? He was in the last one. Right, okay. Mel Gibson, Mel Gibson was only in the Lethal Weapon movies. Oh, I guess he was in Mad Max as well, right? But Mad Max wasn't.


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[Assistant] Megan Fox. And I guess she was in what, Transformers? The Transformers movie?


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[Assistant] Man, oh man. I wonder, I wonder if, if, uh, if women actually find, uh, 80 year olds, uh, attractive, like, uh, or is it just like based on their, their, their stature or whatever, right? I think it's to do with money. Money and, and, and perceived power and stuff like that, or?


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[Assistant] Man, men are so fucking basic in that, uh, sense though, right? You never, like, it's really rare that you would see a young guy dating an old, like a really old, like an 80 year old woman. It's rare. It's super rare. And then if it does happen, it's, uh, considered, uh, highly creepy as well, right? You know what?


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[Assistant] So you never see like a, you never see like an 85 year old woman walking down the street with like some young hot Asian man, you know what I mean? But like on the flip side, like more and more now.


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[Assistant] I've seen a, I saw this screenshot of a text conversation on a phone, uh, like relating to Tinder. And it was this guy, this, I think, I guess this girl said like, oh, I woke up


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[Assistant] So the whole thing was just like, hey, how you doing? Like, oh, uh, you know, what's new? Like, it starts off like pretty, pretty innocent, like, what are you doing on here? Sort of thing. And then it's like, uh,


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[Assistant] I just, the thing that's craziest to me is the ego of men, right? Especially like when they're old or even approaching old age or whatever. Like uhm, how the, like where do you fucking get off thinking that


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[Assistant] How have they gotten to the point where they think that they're still like, you know, John Travolta Saturday night, like a fever, you know, with the fucking, their shirt unbuttoned and stuff. Nobody's fucking-


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[Assistant] I watched, uhm, just before we, uh, we move on to other news and talking about, uhm, you know, TV and lessons learned on TV and stuff.


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[Assistant] I watched, uhm, I watched some old footage from 1969 of Fred Rogers from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.


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[Assistant] Uhm, speaking to, uhm, the, the US, uh, Senate. Oh yeaah, that's such a good clip. Yeaah, trying to, uh, trying to save, uh, PBS, uh, public broadcasting, uh, system from his local area, which, which was where his show was, was aired, but like, I mean, they made some money off.


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[Assistant] And, uh, and, and getting, uh, things from TV that were not, not, not good and not meant for them. You know, they were seeing gunfights on TV. They were seeing, you know, drama, like aggressive drama and stuff like that. And he, he was sort of making the point that his show can provide.


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[Assistant] Drama, but like, you know, where, you know, children can realize that they have feelings and then...


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[Assistant] Basically you could tell that this, this senator that was listening to him was just like, this guy seems like a chump. I'm just gonna, just gonna drag him over the hot coals here. I'm just gonna let him have his two minutes and then dismantle him.


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[Assistant] Went from that to then becoming like a firm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but apparently an interesting thing about this clip is that it goes viral every once in a while and more recently it's gone viral twice when Mitt Romney


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[Assistant] I tried to take away funding from PBS, and there was a big backlash. And then beyond him as well, Trump tried to do the same thing, and there was a big backlash once again as well.


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[Assistant] It goes viral every time it happens because uhm, some people just remember how important it is for shows like Mr. Rogers to still be a thing and to be broadcasted.


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[Assistant] You cannot fuck with Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers also, uhm, and I hope that this isn't one of those things that you say that ages like milk eventually or whatever, but he's one of the only people I can think of that had a full career to do with


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[Assistant] Children's mental health, children's well-being, made shows for children, that wasn't mired in any sort of controversy whatsoever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, you, so many, so many people that, you know, like my parents will have remembered from being a kid or even we would remember from being a kid who then turned out to just be, um, total, total


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[Assistant] Alright, so something that did happen that I think all of us can, uh, can relate to. Not relate to, I guess, but it's certainly something that we should all appreciate. All three of us for sure. Right. Uh, Low Tax died, uhm, which is, he actually did.


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[Assistant] Are you serious? Yeah, he died. I did not know this. Richard Kayanka wrote this. Richard Kayanka, the founder of Something Awful, died. Of what? They're not entirely sure, apparently. Right. They haven't announced it yet, at least. He had not had a very happy last few years. No. Turns out he'd been kind of, well, not even kind of,