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[Assistant] Really hard for most people to do, let's face it, like most people will not just change a huge aspect of their life on a whim, you know, like it takes time.


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[Assistant] And neither is your partner, because the two of you, hopefully, in that time will have evolved together, right? But you've been through so many things.


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[Assistant] Time and time again, but we're so used to talking about them and dealing with them.


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[Assistant] I'm really interested in fixing all of the problems, but no, there's, there's always stuff, there's, there's, there's recurring things for sure that we've just, like I said, we've gotten used to discussing at length and we know where we stand on it, but it's something it's like, you know, it'll be something that's a trigger point for one of us where, you know,


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[Assistant] We threaten to go off on one and the other person will have to, you know what I mean? There's, there's, there's tons of little things like that, right? And it's just, I feel that that's just what a relationship with another person is like sometimes, right? There's like.


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[Assistant] I think with uh, with uh, with uh, me and my wife, it's, it's, it's like lots of little things now. It's a lot more practical because of where we're at.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Do you ever have those times where you're just like, you get really caught up in talking about something, and then you're like, you look at your watch and you're like, holy shit, it's like two in the morning, like, we should really go to bed.


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[Assistant] It doesn't happen so much now, but like it still does happen occasionally, but it's kind of nice to think that you could be married to somebody for so long and spend so much time day to day with them and stuff, but still have a ton of stuff to say to each other, like, uh,


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[Assistant] Like I, I don't find, I don't think I've ever had like a really awkward conversation with my, with my wife or anything either. Like it's always been, cause we're, we're pretty upfront about stuff. Like if, if stuff bugs us or whatever, we'll say it. Like, you know, like she'll just be straight up like, uh, you know.


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[Assistant] Trust as well. You have to trust the other person that you can just be yourself around them.


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[Assistant] If you can, if you can be, be yourself and meet somebody who genuinely loves you for being yourself, it's the best, right? It's the best possible outcome, but it's such a great feeling too. Like you never feel like, uh, like, I don't know, I guess some people just feel like,


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[Assistant] Really like, uh, desperate or down the dumps with their relationship or whatever. But like, I've never felt like that. Like, I've always felt like...


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[Assistant] But the thing is, like, even sometimes if they judge you or are critical of you,


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[Assistant] You know that it's not like, that's not the final word in it, right? Like they're reasonable enough where you can have a discussion and come to like an agreement or a compromise on it as well, right? Like it's not, it's, it's knowing that that's also possible and I think that that helps too.


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[Assistant] You know, it's not just like this, you're condemned. I've judged you, uh, or I've been critical of you and that's it. Where like, there's no way we can go from.


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[Assistant] To my part, my wife, and say, you know, like,


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[Assistant] There'd be some reasoning with it, you know, like there would be some reasonableness about it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, probably more often than I should. Like, I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, you know? Like, I don't know if my, I don't know if my judge of character immediately is great, you know what I mean? Right. My wife is insane with this.


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[Assistant] She like, she'll meet somebody and within a moment, like she'll form some opinion about them or get some feeling about them. And I'm not even kidding. She's always right. It's insane. Like, uh, like anytime I meet somebody new, I'm always like, Hey, you got to meet my wife. Cause I, I like, it's like passing through a door.


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[Assistant] And she's never been wrong. Like if she, if she meets somebody and she's like, Oh, I don't know. Like they seem like there's something about them. Like they're just, they're off somehow or whatever. They're always off. Like it's insane.


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[Assistant] Like, if you like me, or you don't like me, it's a really...


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[Assistant] I actually think you're a fairly charming person, like, you know, you're good, you got nice, uh, nice interpersonal skills, like you're not, you're not like awkward or anything like that. You know, like some people are just like fucking painful.


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[Assistant] You wanna believe them though, right? Because I think it comes back to just giving people the benefit of the doubt, you know, like even if-


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[Assistant] I don't know, maybe I'm a bit weird in this sense, but when people start acting like that around me, I'm kind of done. Like I feel like I've conquered them. Like if you're hanging on every word I've said, I got nothing else to do.


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[Assistant] Inside the factory, he could've done his own episode.


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[Assistant] Honestly, I think knowing what's coming makes it easier to handle. It's not bad. It is not that bad. It's a little, it's a little uncomfortable, but uhm, so, so, okay, so the whole point of it is that they put a probe into your ass. It's an ultrasound probe. It's got some instrumentation on the end of it.


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[Assistant] Um, I think the big thing for me was that, so there's a bit of prep. They give you antibiotics that you need to start taking.


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[Assistant] Somebody, they just had like a big tube in their ass and you could see all the chunks of poo coming out like in the water and stuff and I thought, I can't, I'm not doing that at home.


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[Assistant] It's gonna go everywhere. There's gonna be shit all over the place. Or at least water with, you know, contaminated by shit going all over the damn place. It's not, it's fine. You get like this little squeezy bottle with like a little nozzle, you shove it in your ass, and then you just squeeze the liquid into your ass, and surprisingly it just doesn't drip out. Your ass just keeps it, retains it.


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[Assistant] Oh, I have, it's rough. When you finally do go for a poo, it's like, it's like a basketball's coming out. It's like, it's insane.


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[Assistant] Let's try to take some Metamucil I think. Uhm, but anyway, so I did that.


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[Assistant] Went in, uhm, they just give you a gown, you have to take all your clothes off, they give you a gown, they lay you on a bed underneath a big x-ray machine, uh, you're facing away and


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[Assistant] It's nice because there's like a nurse who just stands there with you and has a chat with you because it's a little bit uncomfortable, but they put some like, uh, they put some like numbing gel all around your b-hole, um, and then they put a, uh,


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[Assistant] They put an ass pill, another antibiotic into your ass before they put the probe in. And then when they put the probe in, they inject some local anesthetic into the prostate, which feels really weird.


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[Assistant] But once it, once it numbs it all, it's fine because then they've got the spring loaded apparatus on the end of the probe that.


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[Assistant] The sensation is so weird, like, uh, you hear this click and it sounds like somebody's like firing a staple gun into your ass, but then the sensation, you can feel like this like shooting.


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[Assistant] into a cave, like, it goes the other way. Like, you feel, the whole process of somebody examining you and sticking their finger into your ass and stuff.


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[Assistant] Is the, is just like the, the most anti-sexual feeling you'll ever have in your.


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[Assistant] No boners were occurring. So anyway, uhm, after the thing was done, uhm, I just have like a really short course of antibiotics to take, and also- I'm just saying it's okay. Because my prostate's been stabbed like eight times, there was a bit of blood in my pee, and I'm expecting a bit of blood in my poo.


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[Assistant] And apparently for a little while there could be a bit of blood in your cum as well. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] It, it, it's really not that bad. And if you do need to get checked, don't let that deter you because, uh, like they say, you know, cause this is like step five.


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[Assistant] So he was quite young, he was only in his 60s and uhm, but he was late, he was late to go in and get checked and stuff too. And I don't know if he had been earlier to get checked, if it would have changed things or whatever, but it's still best to get in early. So if you notice any change in your, in your regular habits or whatever, it's better to just go in and get checked.


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[Assistant] Yeah, hope not. So next month, uh, related to the issues I've been having, but not so much to the prostate, next month I'm gonna have a miniature telescope inserted into the hole of my dick.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm hoping? I'm hoping that they give me a really good check over. They find something that's not overly threatening, maybe something I just take a bit of medication for or whatever.


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[Assistant] And that, and then I don't need to have it done ever again. You know what I mean? Like I feel like if I get a lot of this stuff out of the way now, maybe I won't need to be, uh, prodded too much later on in life. You know what I mean? Hopefully. Yeah. Hopefully. But you never know.


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[Assistant] All those times, and then here I am, just crying in the bath, all be digital, playing on my computer but it was worth it.


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[Assistant] Thanks for suffering through my torture story as well. Fuck me. I hope you guys can sleep tonight. Thinking about my poor asshole. It's been...


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[Assistant] I think it's like bar-barrow trauma or something like that?


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[Assistant] I have been playing, uhm, I've been back on plate up actually, I've been playing with Hafu again recently, which has been fun.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but in between that, I played a bunch of other games. I played some dome keeper, which is really good. It's really fun. Uhm, it's a little bit, it reminds me a little bit of like a digging rig. But uhm, you got a dome that you have to defend at the top.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's pretty cool. I played another game called Brewmaster Beer Brewing Simulator, which sounds pretty bad, but it is, it is really good. Yeah. I did a hashtag ad on it, which was really nice actually. Like, uh, to, to do a hashtag ad on a game that, you know, I thought was really good. Like, surprisingly, I've never played it and it was, uh, it was really nice.


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[Assistant] And I just thought, man, life is too short. I'm not spending another minute playing this miserable game and feeling like shit while I'm playing it.


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[Assistant] Just to unlock like, like new little potato men and I like that.


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[Assistant] It's good though, if you like Vampire Survivors though, like, I would say if you didn't like Vampire Survivors, don't bother, but if you like those kinds of games where you have to like-


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[Assistant] The auto-battling, limited controls and just choice, yeaah. And you know, having to go for certain builds to like, get achievements or unlock other things or whatever, uh, there's tons of that in Brotato. Like there's one, there's like a pacifist run, there's a pacifist character who has no damage, but like you can build him up to be very fast.


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[Assistant] And tanky, so he has to run around and you make your money by having


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[Assistant] But I think the fun thing about those games is figuring them out, right? Kinda like Brotato, you figure out the builds. It's trial and error, but then it's really satisfying when you get a build that works and you pass it.


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[Assistant] No, sorry, that's our time. It's a one out. No, no, I'm just joking. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] Man, I, I have been, I have been really, really dadding it up recently. I know I, I normally do, but, uh, recently much more so than normal because, uh, guess what happened to our downstairs bathroom? The guest bathroom, as I like to call it.


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[Assistant] Which, uh, just got worse and worse over time. Uh, so much so that the water started, uh, leaking.


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[Assistant] Across the, the top of the ceiling and then down into, uh, like the light switch and, uh, trip the power. And, uh, my family were like freaking out. They thought the house was going to catch fire and stuff and you could see water pouring out of where the light switch was. So we had to get an emergency plumber out.


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[Assistant] Who had to like cut a whole bunch of holes in the ceiling and then, uh, only to tell us that where the pipe bends, like it's, it's sort of like tucked in between the wall and the joist.


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[Assistant] Cannot use it. No sink, no toilet. And we're probably just gonna have to renovate the whole damn thing because now is the best time to do it, right?


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[Assistant] It was looking a little bit dated. Lewis, I don't know if you remember, it has those tiles with like ducks on them and stuff like that. Like looks like somebody did a really good job of it, like in the early eighties, but like it's time to spruce it up now.


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[Assistant] That's right, so now we're, uh, we're in the, uh, in the throes of a full-on, they gotta strip the tiles, they gotta do some plumbing, we gotta get some electrics in, we wanna put some new flooring down in there, it's only a little tiny.


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[Assistant] We don't need to like do any- we don't wanna like paint a mural in there or like do like this Sistine Chapel on the ceiling or anything like that. We just want, uh, something- something that looks clean and functional.


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[Assistant] Maybe even putting a shelf up in there too. And if we put a shelf up in there, you know what I'm gonna get? I'm gonna get one of those little like pencil pots.


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[Assistant] Fake plants with like a vine that got like, that goes down to, you know, make spruce it up a little bit, make it look like, holy shit, there's.


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[Assistant] Is it one of those ones that bends and like you can take bits off of it and like use it like a shower hose and stuff?


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[Assistant] Well, I don't know what the problem is then, because like, it sounds like you're doing everything that a normal plumber would do.


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[Assistant] Crazy. I'm naked in my own home. Well, not as often as I'd like to be, honestly, because I've got lots of kids, but. As often as it's feasible. If it weren't for them, I'd be naked all the damn time.


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[Assistant] I am as well, but I'm a curtain closer, but I'm also of the mind that if you're looking and you see something you don't want to see, shouldn't have been looking.


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[Assistant] That's half of what Elon Musk is gonna pay in taxes this year according to him on Twitter if you believe any of that.


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[Assistant] So if, if Stephen King called me out on something, I would say, how about $8 and also you write better books? I would, I would, I would be brutal with it. I would just be like, fuck you, Stephen.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a lot of people are saying they're gonna leave the platform.


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[Assistant] One, one that I was, uh, I was, I was surprised


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[Assistant] What came out of my mouth the other day was, uh, when I was, uh, dealing with, uh, my kids around bedtime and one of them was trying to like, say, say, say something had happened or what, or whatever, but like basically, um, you know, just taking the piss, you know, before, before bedtime.


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[Assistant] Good for the Goose. What's good for the Goose? The 1969 film, comedy slapstick comedy starring Norman Wisdom and Sally Greeson.


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[Assistant] George Foreman was a boxer who now does grills. He makes his own grills.


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[Assistant] Whose name is, uh, Bill Gates. Elon.


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[Assistant] Like, uh, every once in a while I, I, I will get recognized by somebody who has watched me stream or listen to the podcast or whatever. And every time it happens to this day, uh, I, I,


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[Assistant] In my mind, I'm like, oh shit, yeah, maybe somebody would recognize me sort of thing. I go about my, my normal day normally, like I always have.


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[Assistant] Two minutes later, I've forgotten about it. You know what I mean? Like it's, it's nice though. I think it's good. I think it's good to be.


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[Assistant] When I started streaming more, I started carrying less because I got to the point where I just figured I'm on screen for everybody to see for like eight hours a day. And sometimes I forget I'm even streaming. So I'll just be picking my nose or like, you know, I'll have like some food on the side of my mouth or like I'm picking my teeth.


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[Assistant] Whatever, you can't really have much of an ego about it, right?


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[Assistant] Oh, I don't. I just, I let rip. I'm grateful for a big ripper as well because the thing is I sit down a lot. So there is, there is the, uh, yeaah, there's a big build up sometimes and it's a real big relief. So if, if it's ripping and it's making noise, I'm pretty happy actually.


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[Assistant] You should be lucky. Or I'll just say yeaah, it was me, sorry, it stinks. Like, what can I do? It's better out than in. I always say that to my wife, I always say it's better out than in, and she says for who.


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[Assistant] You know, we go out somewhere and my wife is like, hey, quick, take a picture of this. And sometimes I'm just like, you know what? I'll do it. But we're never gonna look at this again. We will forget that this exists.


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[Assistant] Mine is. No, I mean, that's the thing, but if you're, if you have thunderous farts, it'll pick it up in the background. It'll pick it up.


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[Assistant] Have you ever had a fart that just goes on for a really long time, but it feels great and you're just like, holy crap, I didn't know my body could do this. It's like surfing. It's going and going and going, and you're still farting and you can already start to smell the stink? Like, aw man, that's amazing, I love that.


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[Assistant] I would want to be a drone operator, uhm, stateside.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a remote drone operator, and I get to sit in an office in like, uh, I dunno, Fort Bragg or something. Pennsylvania, where it's nice and safe, and air conditioned, ideally, with access to


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[Assistant] Some sort of cafeteria and, uh, good wifi for my gaming.


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[Assistant] Like, safest and most interesting, cause like, don't get me wrong, if you're like, uh, a cook or something like that, it's probably pretty safe, depending where you are. Having said that though, I wouldn't want to be a cook on a ship, on a warship.


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[Assistant] Too much responsibility. And you know what? During non-war time as well, way too much formality as well, right? Like, you're like, King Charles is like coming to visit your sub sometimes and stuff like that if you're a captain.


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[Assistant] It's too much responsibility. Too much responsibility? Yeah. I think, like, being an admiral, like a fleet admiral or whatever, like, you know. Like, you gotta rub shoulders with some real knobs. Also, I am claustrophobic. I am claustrophobic.


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[Assistant] What if you're in a Dazboot situation as well and everybody down there is just sweating profusely, it's getting hot, the whole is creaking and stuff.


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[Assistant] The guy in Catch 22, who's the, it's not Major Major, it's the uhm, you know the guy that sets up the, the cooperative? He's like the logistics, uhm, like provisioning guy?


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[Assistant] That would be pretty good too, right? Cause then you're really quite far away from the shit, you're just like, managing, you know, supplies and supply chains and all that kind of stuff, but like,


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[Assistant] Nah. Too rough? Yeah, I don't know. I think it's just like, you go crazy out there. You're on your own, you know.


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[Assistant] I'm just throwing it away. You can't, no you can't because you'll get like the hunter tracker force of the enemy team.


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[Assistant] Will, will find your poo and be able to see how old your poo is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I would say no to Sniper.


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[Assistant] That's early on too, but this is, Elaine still has a roommate when that happens, but she's just not. You remember Elaine's roommate that's always chewing gum early on? Yeaah. She still has that roommate with the serial killer guy, I'm pretty sure.


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[Assistant] We're working for the weekend, you better believe it. Like, we're not taking any breaks, we're-


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[Assistant] Can we, before we do this, we'll have to be the last email, realistically, but before we do it. Why? It's 44 minutes in. Okay, sorry, maybe there's time for a few more. I just wanted to give you guys a quick update on my health. I had my biopsy result back and it was all clear. There was no malignancy inside my prostate, which is nice news, but the bad news is, still gotta get a camera down my dick.


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[Assistant] The name, the name is what did it for me mostly. Sorry. Anyway.


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[Assistant] I think society, western society especially, is obsessed with true crime and serial killers and all this stuff, right? Like there's a big market for it, so it's never gonna go away because


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[Assistant] It gets ratings. Morally, uhm, it's a tough one because-


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[Assistant] For all the people who like to watch it, obviously there's people affected by these things still, who are still alive, who are traumatized for life, they've lost loved ones, they themselves have been a victim to it and stuff, and it, and it's, it's hard. It's a, it's a hard pill to swallow for sure, right? That, you know, some people are consuming this as entertainment.


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[Assistant] It's, it's just a tough one. I mean, I don't, they're never going to stop making the documentaries. I prefer it to be done as a documentary, factual documentary rather than a dramatized.


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[Assistant] It's just so much worse than that with Dahmer though, like if you, if, if you read about the, the things that he was doing to people and stuff, it is...


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[Assistant] It's so horrific that it's not worth recounting, and I'm surprised that they did, uh, dramatize it, and in some ways fictionalize it as well.


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[Assistant] I actually, I think it is bad, but I probably still will watch some, most of it, depending on, you know, what, like, depending on the subject matter, right? Like, I am interested in documentaries around, you know, true crime and stuff like that, for sure. Like a lot of other people.


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[Assistant] I like the crown for that as well, you just saw like a gradual evolution of the way that institution operates, right? Like based on key sort of milestones throughout, especially throughout, you know, cause the focus is on the Queen's reign, you know?


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[Assistant] What was the one that we, that we watched, or maybe, I don't know if Flax watched it, the Night Stalker, Nightcrawler one?


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[Assistant] I know, I kinda like, uh, I like to like offset watching sort of like, uh, you know,


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[Assistant] Documentaries with just some trashy reality TV, you know, like.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Getting more so as well. Like, we're just so fucking saturated with-


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[Assistant] I guess so, yeaah. I don't know, I just like get exhausted by like all this stuff to watch. But it's probably just a me thing. I don't know. Maybe it's uh, maybe it's cause I got the uh, the camera in my dick thing coming up and I'm... Maybe. Little worried.


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[Assistant] There's been a new patch, right? For Dota, isn't there like a big new balance patch?


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're living vicariously through them, right? Cause you're watching them and you're like, oh yeah, solid, solid play, that's the play I would do for sure. But then, when it comes down to it, you probably wouldn't have done the play.


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[Assistant] Well, your game knowledge, I would hope so, because I think for casting you do have to have a tremendous amount of game knowledge. You don't necessarily need to be, you know, the best at the game, but if you know a lot about it and how it works, that's kind of essential, right, for casting?


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[Assistant] So is he American? Yea, he is. Yea, yea. Okay. They have a very different casting style to, well, to Brits, for example, or maybe even anyone else, but they ham it up a bit, don't they? American casters? Gabe doesn't.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this guy's got it all sewn up, you know what he's doing, blah blah blah, and I guess some of it's just experience, probably routine or whatever, but then, yeah, there's always gonna be an element of self-doubt and whatnot.


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[Assistant] I'm done, see you later. I'll go find something else that I can immediately, effortlessly be good at, you know what I mean? Like I'm not putting in any work.


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[Assistant] Like, do you think about jokes ahead of time, and then you're like, I wonder how this one's gonna go down. No, I don't. Oh, me neither. I don't do any preparation whatsoever, I don't think I've ever prepared for anything. What, the Troid Force? In the moment, certainly. Or anything.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say, I don't think Lewis would have been annoyed in that situation, knowing Lewis as intricately as I do, I would say that that is no annoyance.


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[Assistant] He, okay, maybe he would have been slightly annoyed, but can I ask you a crucial question?


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[Assistant] Was he able to almost give you a tutorial of the game? Absolutely. Whilst and before you're playing it. Well that cancels out the annoyance because I think he lives just for those moments. Like the tutorial moments. So I think anything that happens after that he's already


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[Assistant] I bet you, like, somebody fresh walking in the situation, hey guys, how'd the- uuuh. Like, it must just fucking stink in there. No, it wasn't smelly. It wasn't smelly. It's air-conditioned, yeah, it's air-conditioned.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I almost said they cancelled this one, because of weird appointments and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] I feel like that about everything all the time and I push through so I don't know like why, you know.


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[Assistant] For, uh, like public consumption, right? So I'd liken it more to like, it's like our...


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[Assistant] We gotta deal with it and uh, and somehow, you know, meld it into the, you know what I mean? Like it's just, I think it's just heckling. It's just a bit of heckling, just a gentle little heckle.


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[Assistant] Uhm, whatever people end up calling me, people normally just end up calling me dad or daddy because I'm referred to that mostly around my house, right?


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[Assistant] Certainly flanks myself. Anybody who streams from home with their own setup and stuff will...


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[Assistant] Have experienced this and it's when something doesn't work unexpectedly or just out of the blue, right? Like, uh, your audio will just break or


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[Assistant] So, something really small, but it has a big impact. And then Twitch chat are furiously trying to troubleshoot for you.


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[Assistant] Like, true IT experts, they recommend the most fucking obvious thing, on mass, first.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so the driver's clip is basically, period, getting annoyed at this and saying, of course I fucking tried the most obvious fucking thing, like, immediately, that's the first thing I did! Uh, but the rant was, uh, was beautiful. It was, it was so, uh, it was very eloquent too, like, it was really nice.


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[Assistant] That's funny. Streaming's so much fun, isn't it? It's just- Streaming is a bonkers life. It is just wild. It's just a wild ride. Everybody gets to jump on and have a go. Kinda, I guess.


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[Assistant] Deploy the juice up hog, wait for the profits to arrive, but the profits don't come in, or they're not enough to cover the initial cost of juicing. I mean, I guess this is just for the prestige, surely.


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[Assistant] I stayed up all night last night til 2am fattening up my pig. I just love it. I can't get enough of it. It's such a thrill.


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[Assistant] Holy crap man, did the pig even move? I imagine it just looks like a gigantic beach ball with like little pig legs poking out.


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[Assistant] Can he, can he, can his little, uhm, trotters even touch the ground?


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's just the king of pigs. He looks so jovial, eh? Look at how happy they look. He's lovely, you know. He's a good lad.


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[Assistant] Uhm, on this, on this, uh, subject, or loosely related, have either of you watched the new, uh, Game of Thrones, House of Dragons? Mrs. F has watched some.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, to the max, just juiced out of the gills.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's just like a, like a, like a, like a white noise drumming sort of noise, isn't it? Like a low hum or something.


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[Assistant] Yeah, imagine it was just like a series of like, uh, pam flute sounds like, uh, boop boop boop. Alright, here we go, I'll listen to this, hold on.


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[Assistant] So if you're out in space and you're approaching that bad boy, that's what you'd hear?


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[Assistant] NASA is probably a big scam, isn't it? Don't they like the North American Scamming Association? Am I right guys?


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[Assistant] Everybody remembers it. And uh, and we also discovered today, didn't we, that Lewis was annoyed at one point. Yes. And I got it wrong.


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[Assistant] Oh, I wouldn't like that. I like being able to at least fucking do something. I didn't do anything.


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[Assistant] Hello and welcome back to the Triforce Podcast. We are away this week, either we didn't record a podcast or


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[Assistant] Possibly Tom is also on holiday and hasn't edited the one we did record over Christmas. Whatever the reason, uh, this is a bonus one we recorded in advance. Uhm, it's a bit of a weird format. We've already put one out, so you get the idea. But if you like this kind of stuff, let us know and we might do more. Please, uh, have a merry, very merry New Year's, holiday season, if you're listening to this in, in the future. Enjoy the show.


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[Assistant] Hello and thank you very much for supporting the Triforce Podcast, uh, through any means. Uh, so I'm excited to, to, to share it with you. Sips is here. I'm here. P-Flex is here. I am here. We, today we are going to go through and decide what was the best war, uh, in history. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] Right, and there's two of us, there's an elephant in the room with the, the world wars, do you mean? They are, they are clearly gonna have to be on the list and they are- Well, we could exclude them.


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[Assistant] Let's put the, let's put the world wars, uh, pin in them for now. Alright. In that case. And we'll start just going through history deciding what we think are, are, are the best war. Okay. Right. So yeah, like the Trojan War. It's a long fucking time ago.


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[Assistant] They are, yes, they are on the list. They happened in... There's a couple of Punic Wars, right? There's like... Between 100 and 300 BCE. Yeah, there's three of them. Yeah. Obviously, they are the wars that Rome had with Carthage. And they are seen, I guess, as the OG wars. Um, you know, back then...


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[Assistant] There was a lot of fighting, a lot of killing. The Roman Empire were conquering people and tribes and things, but those weren't really seen as wars, were they, in a sense? I think a war is more of a protracted, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I think I can, as before when we were doing the Minecraft blocks, I feel like a lot of them will get broadly categorised and discarded. Once we've set some rules, you know, certain things will


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[Assistant] Follow, you know? Right. So anyway, let's start with, we're not going to do the Trojan War. Look, the Trojan War we don't even really know what happened. I thought it was made up.


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[Assistant] Let's smash, right, that is the first one on the list. Okay, let's smash through regular wars and then we will get an addendum of additional wars, okay, uhm, if you guys want to consider those for the decision, okay, because there are some.


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[Assistant] Fictional wars that are obviously important. Anyway, let's start with the Punic Wars, the wars of Romagate's Carthage where there were elephants crossing the Alps, Hannibal was involved, it was, there was salting the earth once they got there and


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[Assistant] Wrecking Carthage, there were boats, there were sea battles.


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[Assistant] It was, it was a full on war, it had everything. Uh, it, obviously the first tunic war resulted in the destruction of Carthage completely.


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[Assistant] So yeah, I think it was at least 40 years later, uh, the, the Carthaginians were, were, were upset by,


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[Assistant] Rome's continual harassment and, you know, it's one of those things where a little bit like what happened in World War II.


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[Assistant] After the first war, after the first Punic War, Rome put these big concessions on Carthage and demanded that they pay for things and give them islands and eventually sort of they just got tired of being taken advantage of, you know, and got angry and that was


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[Assistant] Kind of, it's history's mirror. Very similar to between World War I and then leading up to World War II, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah. And then, um, and then obviously the third one, they were like, you know, fool us, war us once, shame on us, war us twice, shame on you, war us three times, fool me again.


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[Assistant] We'll absolutely fuck your shit up and raise the city to the ground.


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[Assistant] The Romans did, yeaah. The Romans, that was the one where they actually completely burned Carthage to the ground. Wow, yeaah. Cedar Carthage.


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[Assistant] And raised and, and sold any survivors into slavery. So there were apparently a quarter of a million Carthaginian citizens in.


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[Assistant] You know, they were like, they've got mirrors of current time. There were elephants. There were people being enslaved. Do you know what I mean? Like they actually fought with elephants. There was a whole bit where they took the elephants all over the course of around the Alps and around the side. It's the ultimate European flank. Right.


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[Assistant] And they nearly conquered Rome, didn't they, as well? They got pretty close, I seem to believe.


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[Assistant] So, we're gonna skip the, what, two things are on the list, the Gaelic Wars, and Jinshin No Ran, which are apparently quite important.


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[Assistant] It's a kind of romantic period, isn't it, in China, this idea of the three kingdoms. It's kind of this, this specific thing that they look upon.


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[Assistant] So the, the, the China had been warring involving millions of people dying while everyone else in Britain was basically just in the dark ages.


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[Assistant] Yeah, wow, there are, there are whole battles and things and stories and this, this is a whole, there's a whole history that I never knew about. And I think probably there's reasons for that, like the racism of historians generally, uh, throughout history, but also like just


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[Assistant] It's kind of maybe just not translated, not, not come through or not been.


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[Assistant] Hold to us these, these stories from Asia of certainly early, early history, you know, we just, we know so much about the Greeks and the Romans, but


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[Assistant] There's no, you know, there's so many sort of, so much evidence that China and, and had this huge civilization of, of competing powers and certainly the same thing in, in other, in other States too. Anyway, we might get to that. We'll see. We'll see what's, we'll see what's on this list. We're going home immediately to 1066. Um,


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[Assistant] Some pizzazz, yeah. Well, but also, I think much like, much of these things that happen when you have this continental war, I think there was unfortunately a lot of people who were pulled in and starved and, and, you know.


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[Assistant] 1066 sips when the battle of Hastings took place, do you remember? Oh, of course, yeah. Yeah, I was there. So the... Yes.


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[Assistant] Alright, fair enough, let's not waste any time on discussing that.


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[Assistant] But fair enough, you did mention the crusades, which happened quite soon after. The first crusade was 1095. All the way through to 1291. Indeed.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I will say that the crusades was more of a period and certainly a period of


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[Assistant] They got there, yeah, a lot of the time the leaders, they've sailed out to the Holy Land and died either on the way or once they were there, just of old age.


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[Assistant] It was, it was a long way to the Holy Land. And oftentimes it was a way, I mean, there were so many factors, it was such an interesting thing. Like the Pope obviously didn't want all these nations to war each other. They thought it's wasting good


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[Assistant] White people, uhm, killing each other. We need to go war the brown people who've taken over the holy land, those barbarians, of course not realising that they've lived there since forever. That's where, you know, Jesus was a brown person kind of thing.


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[Assistant] Um, so it's, it's like the, the idea of it was, it was awfully both religiously kind of racist, but also, you know, culturally. And it, and it was this, this, this.


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[Assistant] Constant like wrestling as well. They were, they were almost, people were encouraged to


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[Assistant] Send off the Crusades for all sorts of reasons in terms of.


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[Assistant] And also people did crusades against places in Europe. They were crusades against sort


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[Assistant] Places in Poland, there were crusades against, certainly Spain was the reconquista, you know, taking that back. There were, there were this, there were so many, there were crusades against like heretics, you know, within Europe, like different religious groups who were persecuted and


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[Assistant] There was one thing called the Children's Crusade, which you should definitely read about, which was absolutely mad.


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[Assistant] It was a disaster. Uh, so yeah, like, there's a lot of interesting story around the Crusades. There's far too much to unpick, but I don't think it counts as a war. I think, I think it counts as a period of, an interesting period of history. Specifically, I don't think it's a war because it doesn't really have a good...


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[Assistant] Probably one of the, uhm, first recognised wars, I would say, in modern times. It is the Hundred Years.


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[Assistant] Exactly, uhm, it can be divided into three separate wars, the Edwardian War, the Caroline War, and the Lancastrian War, each of which obviously had


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[Assistant] Great complexity to them individually, but it was mostly to do with the lines of, um, royalty, because of how they'd been crossed over and who, you know, this kind of idea that, oh, we are the true, um,


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[Assistant] Oh, rulers of this, this land. Yeah. And, and of course it inevitably leads to, um,


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[Assistant] Falling out or someone being greedy or I don't know like the idea that we have to cement our position as king by


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[Assistant] Having a shared enemy, sorry, the doorbell's ringing. Give me a second.


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[Assistant] Uh, they went for it. Good on them. It didn't work. Uh, it's worth mentioning though, in this sort of...


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[Assistant] Just a p- time period. We also had, this is sort of the time period of, during the hundred years before there was the Black Death.


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[Assistant] That happened, which is obviously the, the, the enormous great plague. And in fact, I think about a third of people in England and about half of people in France died of the Black Death.


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[Assistant] Um, the, the old Mongolia patients, it was, it was an unusually impactful and kind of, it was like a, it was like a, an apocalypse.


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[Assistant] They've added this new Mongol DLC and it's just broken. It sucks. Don't install the Mongol DLC. They can just conquer anyone. Mostly negative reviews on Steam.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. That's no good. That's no good. That's the ruthlessness, isn't it, of, of, of these guys, you know. Cause those peasants were probably quite chill. They were like, oh, we could work this out without fighting. And obviously that was, they were tricked. Oh god, I hate that. Man. Just like, while they're out there talking to them.


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[Assistant] Okay, so uhm, next up on the wars list, we've reached in the 1500s and 1600s, I've got a series of wars here, but I don't recognise. Right. The Count's War, uh, which was the last. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the Araucanian Wars between the Indians of Chile and the Conquistadors, uh, obviously that was the Mapuche. Yeah, this is all the Spanish.


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[Assistant] And basically, you know, subdued an empire of millions of Incans and Aztecs. Yeah, I can't remember which one. It's, it's, the stories are.


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[Assistant] Amazing. And, um, the history of the time is, is astonishing because they were so just different to our culture.


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[Assistant] And the Spanish were awful. Yea, they were awful people. You know, like holding the king hostage in his chambers and then killing him and chucking his head out the window and stuff like this.


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[Assistant] It was, it was awful. Yeah. Amazing stuff. Amazing, amazing cruelty.


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[Assistant] Uh, good to, good to know. Uhm, so yeaah, we've got, strange, we've got the 80 years war, we've got the war of the three Henrys.


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[Assistant] Uh, indeed, uhm, but again, I, I, I feel like these wars are...


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[Assistant] Yes, that wasn't one of these famous battles. It's not got a name.


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[Assistant] Uhm, particularly, like, I think it's just called the Battle of Gravelines, I think. It's not one of these iconic ones that we would have heard of like Trafalgar or, uhm, you know, any of these things. But it's certainly a


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[Assistant] A significant occurrence. Although I thought sort of the Spanish Armada meant more just a lot of, um, boats that were taking plunder and treasure and galleons from, uh, America. So I didn't know that it was actually a war.


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[Assistant] So first this Drake was apparently a terrible man.


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[Assistant] Like uhm, he was one of the queens or king at the time. He was a very favoured man, I seem to remember, because he was quite good looking and he was quite sort of...


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[Assistant] Um, engaging and, and he was kind of getting a lot of favors, you know, cause you had to get the favor from the queen at the time in order to be, you know, blessed with the ship often. And so I think that he, I think it was probably Queen Elizabeth that had, has sort of.


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[Assistant] He gained her favor and as a result, he did a lot of, he circumnavigated the earth, um, and then obviously was engaged in, you know, had a big interesting life doing stuff, wars and, and piracy and, and all sorts of crazy stuff.


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[Assistant] That kind of life. Wow. It's, it's feels like a, you packed a lot in Francis Drake. Um, one of his interesting people. Um, but yeah, don't look too close though, cause you'll be, you'll be disappointed.


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[Assistant] Well, they did have samurai, uh, and guns. If you wanted, you should have put a ring on it, you know?


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[Assistant] So I think this is from a period when after the Japanese came out of their sort of isolation, because they were very much like, cut off from the world for a long time.


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[Assistant] Um, and then, you know, the Portuguese and all these traders came and started giving them guns and they were like, holy shit. Uh, and they had a big internal war, um, and got conquered, I think into one nation finally, because before that they'd been sort of very split up.


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[Assistant] And then they obviously started to look outwards because that's what you do to avoid him fighting. You send all the able bodied men over the sea to fight someone else. Of course.


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[Assistant] They say everything's bigger in America, but honestly everything has been bigger in China for so long. Just the scale of these.


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[Assistant] Uh, out there, you know, it's not true at all. You know, even, you know, there are, there are books, there are stories like, like, um, the Iliad and sort of things like this that are older and the Epic of Gilgamesh that are far older than hundreds of years older than the Bible. And, um, yeah, even the Bible itself, you know, certain books of it


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[Assistant] However, it did obviously have a lot. It's, I think it's the most printed book, uhm, certainly or something like that. You know, it's, I think it was one of the, one of the original books that was printed, uhm, and largely distributed. I think it was the Gutenberg Bible is the famous example of that.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, they meant to include that chapter. Let me quickly just write it to you.


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[Assistant] Yes, Appendix One, uh, your Pope is a very good man and, uh, represents the gods, blah, blah, blah. You know that, you know it all. I told you. All right, good. Um, let's get on with it. So any, any more candidates sits on your list? Cause I've got nothing until...


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[Assistant] So that was the round heads versus the...


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[Assistant] So obviously the English Civil War was mainly about overthrowing the King.


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[Assistant] And replacing him with parliament. Um, so it's a kind of dip, a war of democracy versus


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[Assistant] You know, divine right. Monarchism. Nearly a million people died in that, though. Yeah, well, it was a serious war, because they had lots of different people from each side, and, you know, there were these royalists who were really much, you know, on... But also other countries were involved, because


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, France had had their own turmoils and there was this kind of rising up against the old, old ways. Uhm, and it certainly felt like, you know, these despotic royal dictators.


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[Assistant] Uhm, were a problem and caused more trouble than they were worth. But certainly, uhm, it didn't sort of really, I mean, Britain


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[Assistant] Didn't have any less wars over the next couple of hundred years as a result of having a parliament. It didn't seem to, it didn't seem, you know, diplomatic country, uh, or democratic country didn't seem like it was any less war, warful or wrathful.


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[Assistant] Uhm, certainly, and then obviously the American Revolutionary War.


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[Assistant] Came at a time relatively soon after the, the sort of weakened, uhm, Britain, you know, they got France on side because France and England had been these enemies for years and they, they declared war, but the tie, I don't know if the American Revolutionary War, it's worth talking about this now.


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[Assistant] Is as good as the American Civil War. Uhm, was the American Civil War better than the American Revolutionary War? I think we're at our first choice.


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[Assistant] And they're sort of the idea that they want to keep slavery going and keep, you know, taking advantage of people and keeping and having some of these odd sort of odd, oddish policies. I guess it is a kind of a hard man, independent, you know,


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[Assistant] We should also mention the civil war and I think we should decide which of those two is going through. And I, I think it should be the, obviously the civil war as well because it's, it was obviously a, an incredibly


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[Assistant] As much as the American Revolutionary War was super interesting, I think that the American Civil War was a really, really cool war. I really found a really important war. That's what we're going for. Which war was cooler?


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[Assistant] So hang on, let's just, let's just go to the, forget about the rest. We'll talk about the Napoleonic Wars. Obviously, uh, PFLAX, do you want to give us the breakdown of what happened there?


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[Assistant] Again, I think it's overshadowed by what came after. You know, he, he rose to power as this, this dictator and general who changed war and as a result really created a global war. Like we call World War One the first global war, but the Napoleonic wars were the first global war.


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[Assistant] Oh, yeah. So I mean, again, it's a mirror of, of history, a lot of the Napoleonic Wars. It was, it was a thing called total war. It got, it mobilised millions of troops for the first time. Before that, wars hadn't been fought with, they'd saw millions of people had died, but they were usually not troops. And part of the reason for this was


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[Assistant] Yeah, and as much as there was a difference between skilled soldiers and recruits, it didn't make that much of a difference when you just had overwhelming numbers and the power they did. And so they had this huge coalition of forces. It was what was left of the Holy Roman Empire and Austria and Germany and


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[Assistant] Portugal and Spain and the Ottoman Empire and everyone were all against.


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[Assistant] France. And France did have some sort of client states, uh, who, who sort of gave them help, but, but it was mostly this very, very powerful, kind of almost like the Nazis level of force, you know, this, this sudden rush of troops just overwhelming Europe.


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[Assistant] The Napoleonic era, amazing time, uh, obviously the OG world war, I think it's, it's, you know, if it's, it's obviously, uh, it changed the face of war and it changed, it became this thing that was just mirrored. And like you said, Sips,


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[Assistant] Ended with, well not ended, in the middle Napoleon decided to conquer Russia, which was a terrible mistake, which obviously was repeated again and again.


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[Assistant] It was a lot like in the sort of Iraq war or something, you know, like a war far away from home where we're sort of fighting because of these sort of strange shifting alliances that happened. And it was kind of a warning, I guess, of what was to come with World War I where these, this group of alliances would be triggered and suddenly everyone is at war with everyone. Yeah. And it's brutal.


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[Assistant] There's obviously the Zulu war as well, in South Africa, remember that? With the film Zulu? Yeah, of course, yeah. Very interesting.


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[Assistant] We're beginning to hit modern era, and I think there's a lot of little wars that happened that were not relevant to our big.


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[Assistant] I think we'll skip, I think we'll skip this and also we're gonna skip World War 1 and World War 2. We're gonna decide at the end which one of those two is better and I think that will go through to the final. They get a bye to the final.


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[Assistant] We're just gonna go straight to Korea. We'll do the Korean War. The Korean War. Wait, really? Yeah, we'll do the main wars at the end, and then... Okay, well the Korean War is like what? The 1950s?


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[Assistant] Yes. With the backdrop of the Cold War.


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[Assistant] Everywhere from South, South African states to, to South America to, you know, all over the place, there were these sort of.


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[Assistant] People, communist governments were, were the threat and America was, was fighting against communism across the world and wanting to stop its spread. Um, and I think ended up doing that actually. Um, you know, the only real communist state we've got at the moment is China.


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[Assistant] No, I'm talking about the Cold War in general. But the Vietnam, I think it's worth couching the Vietnam War and the Cold War as related, but we can put them on the list separately. I think we've got to separate them. Especially because


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[Assistant] In history maybe there's other time periods where there was this threat of war that never, that never kind of materialised.


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[Assistant] I mean, since then, we obviously had the Gulf Wars in Iran and Iraq. We had the Persian Gulf. We had also the sort of the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo. And then obviously the Americans were involved in Afghanistan from 2001


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[Assistant] All the way up to 2014, which was a terrible, awful period of time. I guess what I'm trying to say, I know this is just us geeking out about history a lot of this, but I just, I feel like the


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[Assistant] All the more modern wars like these, Afghanistan and Iraq and everything. There has been lots of them and I, I respect.


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[Assistant] The fact that the leaders involved haven't resorted to nuclear weapons because they have them available. In a sense, we're lucky that we haven't seen a nuclear weapon deployed for 80 years.


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[Assistant] You know, led to, there's a lot less wars respectively now and they're on.


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[Assistant] Although a lot of people have died in these wars, you know, you can, you can look at the period since World War II and say that this is a period of, of great peace, um, in terms of people killed in wars and wars actually happening and, and, you know, the, the, the threat of nuclear weapons, but also our modern world, our modern connected world has greatly reduced the spectre and the,


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[Assistant] Or you can watch your town be burned down around you, you know, and sold it to slavery. But no, we're not making light of war by the way here, we're just uhm, we're just


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[Assistant] They were slaughtered. They were slaughtered. More American stuff. We have the Spanish Conquest of America, all of the wars that went without all of the conquistadors, versus the American Civil War. Oh, American Civil. I think it's gotta be the American Civil.


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[Assistant] And then we have, in the second bracket, we have, uh, the kind of more defining wars. So we have the Napoleonic War versus the Vietnam War.


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[Assistant] It's long as hell, but holy shit, it's so worth watching. Well, honestly, the media, I think, does favour the Vietnam War, even though you've got Sharp and things like this during the Napoleonic Wars, which are obviously great, um, really fun historical kind of fictions.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sure. Um, so of course the, the, uh, the German peasants war is, I'm afraid, going to be less, um, less popular in the American civil war, I think. So that's, uh, it's been eliminated finally from the running. And so now we have to make...


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[Assistant] Yes, it does. Uh, for the, for the title of best war. Uhm. Jesus. What, which do you think is the most, most defining war in, in history? Uhm. Man, well, I think like,


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[Assistant] No. Anyway, I mean even, I think even the American Civil War is tough to recreate just in terms of how


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[Assistant] There are some others, obviously, you know, you can think about. Well, we are done. Uh, we are done. Let's, let's end it here.


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[Assistant] I could keep going. I've got loads more things on this list. We'll do them next time. Uh, thank you for listening.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Well, we'll get, we'll get to our, we'll come back. We'll do more of these silly things. And, um, yes. So, so, so stay, stay tuned for... Next time?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I hope you agreed with our, our stuff, and if you didn't...


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[Assistant] We like to see you squirming. So uhm, yeah, so we've put out a couple of these, uh, special best of podcasts and, um, people seem to be very polarised about it. It's back to the mundane day-to-day stuff. Sips, how are you doing? What are you up to?


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[Assistant] I was drawn to the phrase thermal gun.


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[Assistant] The thing they use for Scientology to get the, if you have the amiibos or whatever. The E-meter, I believe it's called. E-meter.


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[Assistant] What does he scan? He scans a whole bunch of things.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I, I loved it. Uhm, I tell you what, I'll tell you, well, I'll tell you when Sips comes back, uhm, because it, because it's, it's relevant, but uhm.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, I did take a little break. I told you last week I went on holiday with Spiff and Marty and everything, which was very, very fun. Um, we had just a very chill week. So yeah, I was able to have a little bit of a reset, which I think people need from time to time. I think this is why holidays are good for people because it's kind of like a little.


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[Assistant] It snaps you out of your routine and makes you realise what you're not enjoying.


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[Assistant] I think, Spiff asked me like, what was the most fun video you made in last year? And I was like, probably the bowl action video. Yeah, I really enjoyed doing that with you. I thought that was really fun.


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[Assistant] That might be, check it's not ectoplasm. You know what I said?


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[Assistant] Washing machine. So I got, my washing machine was always


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[Assistant] Well, I basically, like, it was always, I was always do like a, like a, like an eco 40 wash, right? And occasionally I'd do like a 60 cotton wash or whatever, right? Yeah, you've got to do a 60. What do you do your towels on out of interest? Mostly, like, all of the clothes would be 40 eco and then the rest would be like just a cotton wash, right? Did you say cum wash?


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[Assistant] And so I noticed that washing was always quite hot, right? And it's a combo washing machine tumble dryer, which they don't recommend, by the way.


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[Assistant] It would always come out like, the washing would always come out like quite hot, like, like as in like, but, but kind of like, like too hot almost to touch, right?


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[Assistant] Yes, possessed by, if you ran the E-Meeter over them, poor. Oh my god. It would be, it would be off the charts. So, I...


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[Assistant] Eventually, like, the washroom actually started packing up, and uhm, and I thought various things, but I was like, I think it's just old. So I got a replacement, and the first wash I did was like a cold wash, but then it came out hot, and I was like, the fuck is going on? And I was like, I bet you the fucking


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[Assistant] Taps are the wrong way around. The wrong way around. But I couldn't, but I couldn't, I didn't have any evidence for this, right? Cause I'm not a plumber. I didn't want to start doing this. Anyway, I told the guy and he was like, he was like, it sounds bullshit, but I'll come around and check. He came out and checked. And it was, it was literally that. It was that the hot and the cold tap had been mislabeled on the wall. And did you, uh,


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[Assistant] He had a fucking kendal in that movie.


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[Assistant] There's one scene where he like turns up in this weird thing with a neckerchief. Like, he wears a fucking neckerchief. Do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know how, I mean that's obviously interesting, but when you go that far down, 12, so that means saying the word great 12 times, I mean, not like the 12th.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that is, that is a lot of people above you, right? You've got- Twelve.


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[Assistant] Well, it's like, it's like 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, it's like, there must be like a couple of thousand or maybe like 16, I don't know how many, what's 2 to the power 12?


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[Assistant] 4,000. So Edward Norton has technically got 4,000 12th great grandmas. One of them is Pocahontas. So I suppose that's not, it's not that rare. 4,096.


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[Assistant] No, but like imagine- no, but your parents have-


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[Assistant] Two parents each, right? So you've got four grandparents, eight great grandparents, 16 great great grandparents, 32 great great great grandparents.


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[Assistant] There's some terrible ones too, but maybe that's what you're going to get when you have like this forced creativity, right? The idea is that it all takes place inside a room called the number nine or whatever. And that, that might be in like a space station or a train carriage or something.


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[Assistant] No, it's supposed to be an enclosed, kind of slightly offbeat, well obviously it's from the guys who made Leech Junk. Yeah, it goes dark sometimes.


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[Assistant] They're definitely willing to be, to be very dark.


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[Assistant] It harkens back to the older idea of, like, episodic TV. You know, like, that's just not such a thing now, everything has to be this. Which is good, in a sense, this long-running, basically a sex-out movie.


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[Assistant] There's a few, there's a few bits like Love, Death and Robots and uh, Tales from the Loop is actually one which is quite good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's not so sci-fi. It's good. So no, I'm a big fan. So one of the things that I was just saying to P-Flex while you were talking to Radiator Man was we played a game of bolt action. But one of my things I really wanted to do this year was play a game of Twilight Imperium.


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[Assistant] Especially since it's quite like, intense, right? Like the board game itself, Twilight Imperium, sounds...


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[Assistant] And it always has been daunting, right? Like the idea is like, Oh God, I have to learn all these complicated takes ages. It must be hard, but actually it's a piece of piss to learn. Uh, it just takes a long time to process all the turns and then you get into these like trade deals and arguments with players. So it's a bit like playing


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[Assistant] I wanna say a game of multiplayer Stellaris or something like this, right? Where you start off on the first, for the first couple of hours, you can't really fuck over another player too badly.


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[Assistant] It's, so, so there's one big DLC, Prophecy of Kings, which adds a lot. There is an actual DLC, so I was just joking. I didn't realise that. It's a huge, this is a, I mean, Twilight Imperium is this granddaddy of mega pieces about, it's about as exaggerated as you can possibly imagine.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well you're gonna have to learn to do the tutorial. Well you said it wasn't difficult.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but, even, even, but we're not on a teacher of the day.


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[Assistant] That game took a fraction of the time Twilight Imperium will take.


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[Assistant] It's a Twilight Imperium. It's basically a hex grid where there's a planet in the middle and you will start on the edges and you colonize your way to the middle.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, you, you fight over this middle planet. That's the idea. But, but because there's a lot of, um, these interesting like mechanics.


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[Assistant] Just like the hanging out aspect. Cause you could chat away. It was very chill. We were, we were, we enjoyed it. I think everyone enjoyed it and, um, it was, it was good. It was a good social experience. It's lovely. We got, we were very into the game as well. So there's, there's a couple of races that are more tradie and a couple of races that are more killy. Like the Ferengi, the Romulans.


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[Assistant] Doesn't it feel like often they are getting something that's slightly, like, let's start, I have to give them some shield schematics or some weapon, you know, or some sort of bomb or some, like a,


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[Assistant] A jar of some glowing stuff, you know, the valor warp core. It's always something, yeah. It's always something like fucking weird. Replacement warp crystals. I wonder if that's cause they... Crystals.


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[Assistant] Before we go too off topic, did you guys notice the Among Us bit in Glass Onion? I didn't see it, I have not seen Glass Onion.


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[Assistant] I laughed at it, though. I just, uhm...


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[Assistant] Well what you could do is, Samsung have made a new oven, right, that lets you livestream a feed of what you're cooking. Are you fucking serious? Holy shit. You can watch people fucking live streaming. Is it a gas-o-larious casserole?


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[Assistant] For you it's like just sitting at a petrol station.


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[Assistant] I heard about a Vtuber this week who is AI controlled, um, and as a result constantly spouts, well not constantly, but, you know, it is certainly says things like, oh, I'm


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[Assistant] I see you playing Omni Knight pretty much every day. He plays Omni Knight?


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[Assistant] It's an old, it's an old, it's an old game. And also, Final Fantasy's really good. So, people haven't left that to come back to WoW. People left WoW to go to Final Fantasy, but they didn't come back.


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[Assistant] I think that that's, that, but that's the thing, like, about, I don't, I play Dota, like, I drop in and out of Dota now and I, I like that. I think we, people, there's so much choice, there's so many games, and you shouldn't be, shouldn't be forced to do something you're not enjoying. Just stop doing something you're not enjoying and don't try and rationalise that. Like, I don't think we should be sad about it.


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[Assistant] You get it in that first month, but that's it. I don't know. I just don't feel like the value is there, you know? And obviously, wow, I'm going to be free to play like all the other, well, not all the other MMOs, but a lot of games out there.


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[Assistant] A fraction, I'd say 1% of the money WoW has made has been put in back into the game to make new bits of the game.


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[Assistant] Wow, is it vastly, vastly profitable. I think a lot of other MMOs are, yes, they exactly have that problem that they aren't bringing in enough money to keep them going or even pay for the servers. And that's why they get shut down. I mean, I'm just saying, if we look at


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[Assistant] It depends on your philosophy, right? If your philosophy is we get that money upfront, we pay ourselves, we buy our yachts and our houses and our fucking, you know, luxury villas in the Algarve, right? And then next year, oh shit.


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[Assistant] You know, epic Silicon Tropolis fancy office and how many wanky staff you've got.


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[Assistant] You know, making stuff. Like I think anyone can spunk all their money away or give it to themselves. You know, it takes, it takes different people with different attitudes to do things differently. I think each games company is different. I think 99% of them are struggling.


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[Assistant] And the 1% like Tarkov have far too much money and don't know what to do with it.


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[Assistant] We say this again and again, but when you release a game to the people, that isn't your game anymore. And people like that experience, and don't want it to change, and want to come back to it in ten years time. Which is why WoW had to do WoW Classic, and RuneScape Classic, and these ideas where it's like, oh, you can't play the game that you played when you were a kid.


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[Assistant] Evolve your game. Keep the original one going in some, some, some low, low key form.


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[Assistant] What you're suggesting is that they design a game rather than basically some sort of sucking engine of unhealthiness. Like wow though, like all of these games modes used to be, where the more time you put in


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[Assistant] Oftentimes there's that, but there's also the analytics idea of, oh, our numbers have gone up, we must be doing the right thing. They don't realise the psychological impact they're having on their player base. You know, they have these game developers and games companies


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, these people who make mobile games and attract the whales to spend thousands of pounds, they're not thinking about those people.


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[Assistant] They don't care about those people. They're dimly aware of those people. And they lean into that. They're like, oh, this is making more money. I will do this more of this. And that's the evolution of mobile games. That's the evolution of games generally. And we have to avoid being caught in that dragnet of


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[Assistant] Psychologically scarring games. It's not, they're not doing it on purpose. They're doing it because they don't see or care or know the impact that their games are having on their players.


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[Assistant] Try new things, play story things, try different things. Like just experience what's out there. There's so much stuff. There's so many different worlds to explore. Like people love doing the D&Ds and people love to do it. Like that's something I really want to do this year is run a D&D campaign. I've bought a load of interesting books that I want to set.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'd love to, I'd love to take you. You don't want me to be involved. I can tell from your, yeah. Well no, I, well I'm gonna, I'm, I'm more, I'm more scared about DMing being a bad DM, cause I'm, I'm usually, I've tried DMing before and I've, I've, I've been bad.


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[Assistant] Well it won't be D&D, I'm not a fan of D&D, but it'll be, it'll be, it'll be roleplaying as... He's gonna make his own.


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[Assistant] It'll be like Pathfinder, or like uhm, it'll be, it'll be, there's like twenty, there's like a thousand other better systems than D&D out there.


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[Assistant] That's what they're trying to sell you, but it's made by fucking, it's shit, it's a lie.


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[Assistant] Hasbro and the multi-billion dollar company of ruining D&D. Uhm, that systems, that D&D is not a good system.


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[Assistant] I've been going through a lot of it and I'm really, really unimpressed with current D&D and their attitude towards it. They want their game to be the only D&D and they mark it like you see it in Stranger Things and all this.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna make my own fucking D&D, I'm gonna use one of the thousand really cool indie tabletop gaming things made by fans who are sick of the crappy D&D that they used to have to play.


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[Assistant] I don't have to fucking, I'm not going to do the work myself, but I'll customize it on GURPS. I'm just saying that like there's, there's all these much better systems that.


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[Assistant] But I think D&D is synonymous with the Dungeons and Dragons, Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, marketing set up, current massive mega shit.


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[Assistant] And it's, and it's not, these days it's not considered by people who are actually into tabletop gaming as a very good.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna, I know we're calling it D&D, but I'm not using any, I'm not gonna use any


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[Assistant] Hello, good morning, welcome to the trifles podcast.


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[Assistant] What do you mean? You're not like Homer Simpson getting a 5 o'clock shadow by, you know, like 4.30 in the afternoon. It's not-


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[Assistant] Yeah, it might get a bit itchy, but it'll, it'll, it'll, you get used to it.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't know what I expected when I was walking in to do this podcast this morning. I guess, I guess just this. Is this what happens though when you get older? You start talking more and more about medical stuff that's going on. This is a voluntary medical thing. It's a way of coping.


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[Assistant] I've just finished watching season 2 of The White Lotus, which is a great show.


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[Assistant] Really, really good. And that's kind of a running theme of those is like rich people or like older people being attracted to young people and kind of like trying to either take advantage of them or being taken advantage of in many cases actually. It's kind of like, I don't know, it's quite...


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[Assistant] Or at least- or at least people thinking they- people being-


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[Assistant] I'm kind of obsessed with sex in a sense and feeling like they should be or shouldn't be


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[Assistant] It's just, it's just so well done. I really, really enjoyed it. Uhm, really recommend it. Is there only two seasons of it? Yeaah, yeaah. But it's, it's, the second season's got an entirely different cast as well, it's set in a different place. Oh! Yeaah, the first season's set in like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm really tiptoeing around spoilers very carefully because I think it's not worth, um, giving you too much, too much info. It's just great though.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, I think Jennifer Coolidge won an award for it. Who you might know is- She did. Yeah. She was great. Stiffler's mom.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the Oscars coming up as well, which is always, well, I mean, after last year, fuck.


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[Assistant] It just goes to show that even the most successful and rich folks can still be just massive man children.


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[Assistant] Alright, so just the four of you lads were out on a...


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[Assistant] That's the celebrities and then all the hangers on.


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[Assistant] It's the same thing with Joffrey, right? He got like so much hate for it and stuff. Oh my god, yeaah. So much recognition. I can't kind of- I don't know what exactly happened. You have to like change-


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[Assistant] Yeah, you go fully undercover. That's, yeah.


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[Assistant] You are a big celebrity in the Dota world. You know, to me, like, a lot of the things, a lot of the things, this is, I'm sure I've talked about this before, but people have their own celebrities based, that aren't necessarily, you know, that big. You know, you're a big Dota guy, you're a Dota celebrity, PFLAX. You know, to Mr. Butterfield, I'm sure that you are, uhm,


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[Assistant] T.I.3. So it's like seven or eight years ago. Ten years ago, my friend.


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[Assistant] You wanna go somewhere that's like open and it's getting close to 3am or something.


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[Assistant] Right, make it the best of it. No, I mean, this, this happened exclusively, you know, when, when I was in my sex Ferrari years, uh, as Sips puts it, you know, when I should have been the cool guy at the front, I was the guy, I was that guy Pflac, so you know, I've been, I've still been that guy. I've always been that guy, I've always been that guy.


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[Assistant] I tell you what, actually, I tell you what, that's bad manners by Aesir, because what he should have done was go in last, right? No, no, no, no, no. He should have called the whole thing off.


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[Assistant] I mean, not only that, but almost it implies that you're like the opposite of the kind of person they want in there. Like you're not at some massive cost. Your money is not even worth fuck. Fuck that.


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[Assistant] Most people do in these places though, they go in and they realize how jam-packed it is and how stinky and sweaty it is. They're like, this sucks. Like, like, uhm, god, what was that thing, uhm, we were talking about? So obviously when we did Motion, when we did YoCon at Motion, which is like,


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[Assistant] I think it's re-opened, probably.


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[Assistant] They warned us that like, it's kind of hot in there, right? And it was hot then, so it was hot.


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[Assistant] Because we were mentioning TwitchCon, uhm, might be happening in Vegas. Oh wow. I've never been to Vegas. Yeah, it's alright.


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[Assistant] It's not, it's, it's not, it's not, it's worth a visit. It's a place that you go to where you're like,


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[Assistant] All it takes is for one, you know, attractive young man or woman to come up to you and whisper in your ear, I have a tiny penis. And that's it.


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[Assistant] You're dancing on the stage at the, the box, you know, showing off your shaved box. Yeah, it's, it's, I don't know. Like I think, I think you'll find it's such a tourist destination. It's supposed to be having a nice safe, good time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I get the impression, Ravs wasn't disappointed, but I think he, I think he had a great time, but obviously he went with Duncan and Oates, who are a little bit of the kind of people who stay up till 5am anyway, right? And so they love that drinking pubby,


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[Assistant] I think the problem I have is that hanging out with these guys is so much fun, right?


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[Assistant] You just wanna, you don't wanna stop. I dunno, the drink sort of leads to that more as well, right? Oh yeaah. And then no one wants to be the first person to go home because everyone's having such a good time, which is a good problem to have, right? But it does lead to you doing things like, it gets to three or four in the morning and people are like,


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[Assistant] Is where can we go now, right? Or, or you get locked in at the pub and then if you get locked in you have to stay at least a couple of hours, right? Because otherwise it's like, it's like going into the club and then leaving immediately. It's like ugh.


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[Assistant] And it tends to be weird places that are open like that late, you know, like odd places, like I guess like sex clubs but also just like


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[Assistant] Like karaoke bars and stuff, like, I dunno, like weird, weird places. And like, there's like a hookah, hookah bar or whatever. Yeah. Hookah, hookah bar.


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[Assistant] Well, Rabz and Duncan managed to find one. In Vegas? No, in Bristol. I mean in Vegas, I think it never turns off, right? It's like kind of the whole thing is just constantly going.


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[Assistant] And also, you're pretty much always gonna stay on the strip for the most of the week.


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[Assistant] I think we did like shoot guns at one of these places around the suburbs, you know, this is sort of something to do. And so yeah, there's still.


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[Assistant] I haven't done much else this week, I've gotta say. I've still got a flight voucher from before.


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[Assistant] It is good to do that. It's good to talk about like, when you're actually on holiday, it's good to talk about what you've done every day and maybe even like make a note because


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[Assistant] I mean we sort of go over it on the podcast a bit anyway, you know, but it's good to remind yourself of positive stuff because otherwise your brain doesn't keep track of it well, right? Like we're animals who are kind of designed to learn by pain, right? Like we, our brains remember things that are


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[Assistant] If you take, if you take like hundreds of them, in my experience, one of them I will look okay in, you know?


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[Assistant] Oh my god. Well, this is one of the main things about like trying to feel happier is like to try and act on these things immediately and get the small tasks because otherwise one task that's like annoying becomes annoying for the whole day. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] I have a bunch of things that I feel like are running through my head that I want to do. Uhm, and I feel bad for not following that. I am the ultimate guy who is like


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[Assistant] Starts a new project and then gets bored of it. As soon as I feel a sense of completion, right? And I just don't fucking finish a project. I want to run like two RPGs and I've read the books and I've planned like half of the story for it. But it's just like finishing it off and then inviting people and then running it. Like that is so daunting that I don't want to do it.


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[Assistant] My mum bought me a Lego thing for Christmas and I've done half of it. And I bought all these art supplies and I've got it, you know, I've, I've based the paper and that's it. Do you know what I mean? Like I've,


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[Assistant] I just feel like I'm like in this, and not only that, but like I'm half, I've like written, you know, a little bit of this, um, fighting fantasy book and I've sort of planned it, but I haven't, I've now got to actually write the damn fucking thing and I can't be arsed. And then I've got like, I've done half of this, um, I've like planned half of a board game that I wanted


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[Assistant] It is nice to have a pin in the present and to be in the, live in the moment and like look around you occasionally, look up and just, and just, this is a meditative thing, but also like an Alan Watts thing, like that the meaning of life is, is this, is the current moment is, is,


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[Assistant] Is here, right now, it's like the joy of being in the present, right? Like, it's a kind of, when you think about it, it's an odd moment where you're


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, you know, because also, you know, we are getting older and it's, it kind of feels like it's gone by fast, right?


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[Assistant] It's like, and you kind of can't believe it, you're like, oh my god, I remember when I was excited about going to Vegas and that's, then suddenly that's 10 years ago, right? And it's like, time is this really odd thing that grabs you and yeah, and I'm sure for a lot of people, it does feel like a tsunami, right? Like pushing you forward, like when you've got kids and jobs and


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[Assistant] And you gotta go to the dentist and get the shopping and, and, you know, do, doing this and this and that. There's constantly demands on you and you're having a good time too. And, and that, that just ripples you along like this. Like, like, like it, like.


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[Assistant] Thinking too hard about where they are and what they're doing and what they're doing


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[Assistant] They're just showing it to someone, and uh, and they pan through, they're like, wow, god, that tree's really colourful, and they're like, oh my god, oh shit, your shaved balls, jeez!


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[Assistant] Yeah, I hope he's alright. That must really be stressful, but I'm glad he's not injured.


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[Assistant] That's why. Fuck music festivals as well, man. Like, ugh. God. Fuck those. I mean, when I was a teenager, I went to a couple and, you know, I've just put- but now, I don't- I don't wanna go to- I'm not- I'm not-


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[Assistant] But actually music festivals are very cool. Uh, you can go as an old man and you still have a nice time. They have very good toilet facilities these days and the drinks are not twelve


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[Assistant] Yeah, and if you're part of Wisconsin, you've never left, you've never driven 10 minutes from your tranquil glades where you happen to have been brought up in a safe area.


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[Assistant] Uh, is actually really fucking nice. Uh, then, you know, why not, why not just write in. Stop writing in. Give us your two cents. Never write in again. No more. You know what, I'm, I feel like I've just been, uhm, you know how these, these people,


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[Assistant] The human brain works, right, where it's, where, like, but you can see how people fall for these people like Andrew Tate or whatever, you know, honestly, because they end up...


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[Assistant] You know, you just want to believe it sometimes. It seems so believable.


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[Assistant] Really stupid thing, which I shouldn't believe.


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[Assistant] I feel like that whenever anyone says anything about TikTok though.


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[Assistant] Well, I've been around, I've seen a few things, but I mean, I haven't been to all the American states. You seem some shit this way. So I don't feel like any of us are qualified to make these calls.


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[Assistant] I think that actually is what we're doing. Alright. Fuck it all. Thanks everyone. We'll see you next time. Be drive safe. Drive safe.


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[Assistant] As I understand it, Hillary Clinton had a private email server, and sometimes work emails, so government emails, in other words potentially sensitive material, was on her servers. Right.


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[Assistant] It's like a real life version of the kind of games that you play, like the power wash.


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[Assistant] I agree, it was nice and concise, here are the facts, here's what's happened since, here are some theories we don't know, like any other story.


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[Assistant] But after episode 251, he felt like reaching out. Uh, while listening to the podcast, I was applying for a summer internship in Washington D.C. Nice. When Lewis brought up young people in politics today. You must have done that at some point. We won't remember it. Lulu, I apologize. That seems like a narrative.


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[Assistant] Most of the time working in politics is exactly what Lewis talked about. Frustrating. The day to day of young people in politics can be quite tedious with essentially unending administrative work and research assignments, but some of it can be interesting.


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[Assistant] I think the interesting thing is if you think about, I mean, I know that one of the things that people assume is that MPs over here and politicians in the US


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[Assistant] That they're perpetually at odds, but they'll go to the pub and they'll hang out and they're mates and all the rest of it and they get on perfectly well. It's just the job is what sets them at odds, but if you've been working around someone for


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[Assistant] How likely is it for you to just be able to leave and go to a business and say, I've been working in politics for the last 10 years, you know, I don't have any contacts. I don't know. I can't call up a senator and say, Hey, can we knock down that forest or whatever? Um, you know, it's, it's more like what, what, what does this go onto if the politics side doesn't work out?


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[Assistant] I mean, I know, I know a guy that I was at school with, uhm, was in, was in politics, uhm, he was part of the, I think he was, he was fairly senior in, in Johnson's government as one of the sort of underling lads, if you like, the, the, the analysts or whatever. Yeah, yeah. Advisors. And, uh, he was, yeah, I think, uhm, I mean, he's a, he's a good lad, so I think he,


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[Assistant] I think he may have stepped down, I'm not sure, because of all this shit that's going on, but uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, yeah, my friend, uh, obviously was not a American. Oh, right.


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[Assistant] The John Cena DC thing. It's good, it's fun, isn't it? James Gunn. It is. I, I, I, I realise this is a very, uh, typical criticism that people have these days of these kind of shows, and I'm not against it. Uhm, I think it all started with Tarantino, but I'll make my point. A lot of the dialogue that comes out of the mouths of the characters


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was literally, I mean, that, that and Richard Scarry books where you could look at like, like I liked looking at a huge panel with loads of detail, of like, like you said, the cutaway of a house so you can see their tree house.


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[Assistant] Love that. And I remember when my mum would read it to me, I would, I would stop, we'd have to stop on those pages so I could just, my eyes could take in.