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[Assistant] Just stuck for like a half a minute or a minute like sat there like what the fuck do I do to get out of this? Either realising he's actually lost. Right. Or realising like maybe there's like some way I can just trick him into thinking I don't know what he's done here.


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[Assistant] Um, and because there's so many permutations, so many complex situations, even this guy, but he's, most of his, um, most of his decisions are just on autopilot. You'd think like he, like a lot of his, a lot of his decision making is hunch based. Like he's like, it feels like.


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[Assistant] This is the right play here. You know, he, he's almost played so many games that, that knowledge is... It's just patterns to him, isn't it? Like it's slight variations of a pattern.


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[Assistant] And that's how I am. And I've noticed that if the game starts to go my way, my mood lifts so dramatically. And I'm like smiling again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I feel like sometimes these games I've been playing are a little bit like, they will screw you badly.


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[Assistant] That's the art of it. So it feels like these games that I've been playing are quite tightly tuned, uhm, to the point where, you know, fucking you're being chased down a corridor while there's like a fucking horror coming out of a portal and also like there's a room of fire that's spreading and then the


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I dunno, it's, it's, but that's, that's, they're very different experiences and I, there's a place for both of them I think, but I think I just find it a lot tougher to get beaten by a guy.


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[Assistant] But you can usually pick a team that fits with your desired playstyle. You know, if you want to be that, you know, that kind of guy, you can probably pick orcs or whatever. I don't know. I always play orcs.


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[Assistant] So much of their revenue comes from licensing their IP. And income from things like Total Warhammer and all the other bits and bobs that they do.


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[Assistant] Warhammer, Bright Wizard Wars, I don't know, suddenly you've got like, it still sounds like Warhammer, but it suddenly sounds like, it's suddenly a universe that you can just, a pre-made universe that people will just buy that just because it's something they've heard of, right?


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[Assistant] A lot of times games will just be made and then skinned with a, a universe. You know, you, you could even make a blank slate game, you know, and, and shop around once it's made and find a universe to skin it in, you know, whether it's going to be Game of Thrones or Games Workshop or whatever.


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[Assistant] Well, I say recently, like two years ago, probably now.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you, right, nowadays, you can pretty much do anything. Even 20 years ago, it was like this. Imagine you're really big into, I don't know, feudal Japan.


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[Assistant] No, I'm talking, no, but wait, but this is Warhammer though, right? Like. No, no, no. Yea, but Warhammer has become like a term which is almost like the same for Hoover. Hoover is a manufacturer of vacuum cleaners, but we can all about vacuum cleaners.


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[Assistant] But here you go, right? No one actually plays these fucking board games, sips. Most of the people just...


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[Assistant] No the, no the mint, no the law, they buy these expensive tiny toys that are unpainted, they paint themselves and then they hope that they can get one of their friends to play with them. Okay?


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[Assistant] But as always, it's like, the game is like 50% buying miniatures and, you know, 30% painting them yourself, 10% looking at them, and then 5% actually using them to play a game with someone. Cause then you have to get the rulebook out, you have to figure out what the rules are.


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[Assistant] Uhm, just before the lockdown, me and Alex played the Fallout. It took us about three hours to learn the fucking thing. Basically, you start off with, uhm, the guy that came out of the vault, soul survivor. You can pick a couple of different ones.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I think it's up to, as always, with anything in life, I've found that it's up to me to galvanise people to do the things that I would like to do with them.


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[Assistant] That is tough, right? Because people are usually down for anything, and especially if they don't have to prepare. It's like the classic thing of Dungeons and Dragons. It's easy to find people to play Dungeons and Dragons with, but it's hard to find someone who wants to run the fucking Dungeons and Dragons, so you always end up having to do it. So if you actually want to play Dungeons and Dragons, you either have to be lucky,


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[Assistant] It's a funny, funny, funny thing, but I don't think you are missing out, uhm, really. But nowadays, certainly with tabletop sim,


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[Assistant] And in fact, that is one of the main reasons I think that it's, that I, I don't like tabletop sim. Like yeaah, because one of the main reasons people play miniature games, and I'm sure a lot of people listening right now will agree, that playing them physically is such a big part of the game.


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[Assistant] The tabletop sim is a great way to learn a game if you haven't learned it or set it up. So often they're like, some of these games have this specific setup. If you can load it up in tabletop sim, do it, go through it yourself. Like you could even like do a practice game on your own if you don't, can't find someone to teach you.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that is a really valuable resource. Certainly for me, it's like sped up.


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[Assistant] Well, here's the deal. What's happened there is people have either made mistakes or figured the game out. And there's actually a couple of expansions to Catan, like there's a one where it's like an island expansion. And so it means you actually have to go and discover Ireland. So you actually almost have to build


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[Assistant] I mean, there are, for all these games, for Karkasov, Setsukitan, for anything that's ancient, like Talisman as well, there are a million.


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[Assistant] Um, versions and mods and changes and rule sets and expansions and official expansions and everything. And I think if you look around, you probably will be able to find the best version of Talisman that is playable. And I think by now there'll be fans who are, you know, really addicted to that, have really


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[Assistant] Fucking pokemons and jojo's bizarre adventure and I don't know weird and that's but that's what I go back to is like


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[Assistant] They know that universe, and that universe doesn't have to do anything. You know, you can watch like a crappy Star Wars movie, but because you know the universe of it so well, and you've watched everything before, you've got that background of knowledge. Like, it doesn't have to be amazing to be a good experience.


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[Assistant] It must actually be good. I just don't care. They recognise the hundreds of Pokemon. You know, that's what it is. It's not just that.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. So one thing I did today, yesterday, was uhm, I visited Simon's Animal Crossing island. Right. Animal Crossing is obviously the same way that, you know, it's being out, the version of Animal Crossing is being out for 15, 20 years. This one is, this is a real experience though. But this is a real big one. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Part of it is the fact that there are 300 or 400 villagers and people know who they are and have experienced them before and like the style of gameplay and it's very chill, it's very fun. Simon has been


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[Assistant] Man, he's created this really kind of cool island with some cool stuff on it. It looks really fun. It's very Simon.


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[Assistant] In the same way that you'd be making a meat factory chips. Uhm, Simon had made like a kind of, he'd made like a, originally he had like a creepy basement with like creepy dolls and candles and stuff.


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[Assistant] And he was making like a pentagram down there, but he eventually turned it into like a kind of nightclub. And then he's got like a really cool study, and he's got like a kind of panic room behind a, um,


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[Assistant] It doesn't make it okay. I think what you're doing, Sips, is fucking hilarious and I love it. And every time I watch your stream, it makes me want to reinstall Fallout 4, um, and do the same. So, I'm, yeaah, I'm fully supporting.


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[Assistant] I saw actually, uhm, on Reddit there was, uh, someone made like a, a fucking, uh, took some clip out of like an 80s movie for the, for the, for the bone.


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[Assistant] I haven't seen that. Did you see that? There was a clip on r slash sips, yeaah. It's like out of an 80s movie where there's all these tourists and they go in a bone machine and it spits out the bones at the other side.


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[Assistant] Thank you, thank you. You guys rock. Thank you for supporting pflex. Because he needs it. He does. Uh, poor boy. He has to feed his, he's, he's, he's got Magnus Carlsen tutoring him and he's not cheating. He is expensive.


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[Assistant] I've been, uhm, sitting inside and playing video games, uhm, as usual, all week, all week long.


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[Assistant] And receives parcels in their little bunkers quite regularly from Amazon.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but then, but then he builds like good stuff with it though, so it's useful, right?


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[Assistant] Well, I think it's, I think it's, it's being, uh, purposeful, right? Like I think that that is something that a lot of people don't have nowadays. You know what I mean? Like, especially like.


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[Assistant] Especially like in our society where like a lot of stuff is, uh, is, is already taken care of for you sort of thing, right? I think a lot of people feel like a disconnect on that level, right? They don't have any, any, any like tangible purpose or whatever. Like me, I just sit around and play video games all day, you know what I mean? And like I'm, I'm fairly happy with that.


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[Assistant] I dunno, sometimes I think like, you know, it'd be pretty neat to have to go out and do something really important every day.


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[Assistant] I don't know if you remember much about being at work, but I remember specifically getting a lot of work given to me where I just thought


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[Assistant] What is the fucking point of this? Like, and you work on it for months and it's just like, and you knew at the end of it, everybody's pulling in like all these hours over time, everything, everybody's making a big deal of it.


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[Assistant] And you just knew at the back of your mind, like, this is, this is going nowhere. Like, we, we will, we will implement this or whatever.


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[Assistant] And right now everybody's talking about it like it's going to be like a game changer or like, you know, we're going to live in some new world when we're done or whatever.


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[Assistant] Salespeople had the best time at jobs. You know what I mean? Like it sounds like the worst cause you always see like those.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, like those conventions for like door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen and stuff. And they always look really sad, right? They're always like these middle-aged men who just like act really silly and, and


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[Assistant] You know, but I think, I think in terms of actual getting like tangible satisfaction from your job,


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[Assistant] It probably feels pretty good to sell stuff, right? It probably feels pretty good to have a conversation with somebody, convince them to buy something. And then you put an order in and then you get a commission or you get paid for it. And it probably just feels like.


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[Assistant] Uh, closer to like, you know, like a old, old world, like trading or being a merchant or something like that.


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[Assistant] Whereas compared to like say working in like IT or something like, uh, you know, behind the scenes or whatever.


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[Assistant] There's tangible work, yea, but it's, it's, uh, often times it's not understood or appreciated and usually it's instigated by people who don't know what they're doing, right? So, your, your, your oversight in, in your work and stuff is, uh, never great, you know, because again, these people just don't understand it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and there's a huge disconnect between what you're doing and what


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[Assistant] The people who are trying to sell the service that you're creating are doing.


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[Assistant] Because they're always looking for an angle or like some surefire way of, you know, getting somebody on board or whatever. And the whole time you're thinking, hang on a second, what you're describing isn't what we're doing. Or, you know, you're, you're just inventing stuff just to make it sound better or whatever. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I don't think those characteristics are unique to him. I think that that is a, like a type of...


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[Assistant] Usually like a designer or like a studio head will be very much like that, right? Like, will sort of like spin you that lifestyle dream yarn where you're like, you know, you get on board with it, you get hyped about it and stuff.


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[Assistant] And everybody thinks, oh, this is great. I'm really excited. Blah, blah, blah. You know, he's saying all this stuff and like.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but then behind the scenes, you know, he goes back to his team and he's like, all right guys, well, I've said, we're going to do this. And they're like, yeah, we can't do that. It's like, okay, let's not do that. We'll just do something else. You know what I mean? Like it, like what, what he's saying at that moment is for that moment only.


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[Assistant] He's a, he's a dreamer, but he's good at selling his dreams. And that's what a lot of them are.


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[Assistant] I think, I think it's a little bit different with Kojima as well because he, um, he built up like a, a, a big reputation off the back of really big games, but they were all of the same franchise, right? Like he's done, he's done other games, but he was with Konami for a long time.


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[Assistant] And the Metal Gear series just got bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger, but there was like tons of games, right? Like there's like the, you know, like the ones that, the ones that you know, right? Like you're like one, two, three, four and five, I guess. But there was lots of little spin-off games for other systems, like handheld games and all sorts of stuff. Like it was a really big franchise, right? And he dedicated a lot of time to it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm sort of discovering these games for the first time now. Like I just started playing Metal Gear Solid V yesterday off the back of finishing Death Stranding and enjoying it and finding now that like,


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[Assistant] My, my, my concept of a Metal Gear game was based off of me playing Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation when it came out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was a huge game at the time. I was young though too. And at the time I played PC games, but not nearly as much as I do now, obviously. And it was just like, my memories of that game were fond, I liked it.


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[Assistant] It just, I just sort of like, you know, uhm, just dismissed it as like, ah, it's just a console game that like, it's probably not, I'm not the demographic for that, I'm older now or whatever, I don't need to play that. And I'm, I'm finally playing, uhm, Metal Gear 5.


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[Assistant] When you knock a guy out, there's this system where you attach like this fucking parachute to them and airlift them off of the site. They go fucking flying up in the air and they get returned back to your base and your dudes like interview them and like assimilate them into your base like XCOM style or something.


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[Assistant] Fuck man, there's like so many cool little mechanics that are just like, that have blown my mind. I didn't realize that it was like, uh, an actually really open-ended, sort of like, uh, sandbox-y kind of game, you know what I mean? I just thought it was gonna be this really linear, cinematic experience. Switch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's nice, but it's, it, I mean it's funny because we're talking about this stuff like it's brand new because it is to us, but like, you know, some of these games are so old now.


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[Assistant] Flax is saying, you go to a part of London and it's totally empty. All the sandwich shops around there are not going to be making any money. All the shops that people would go to at lunchtime aren't going to be making any money. Petrol stations aren't going to be making as much money because nobody's commuting. You know what I mean? There's huge knock on effects to everybody working from home.


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[Assistant] It will, but it's not a, it's not a gradual change. This is, this is like a big change for a lot of things at the same time, which is the problem with the impact.


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[Assistant] Well, it's, it, there's a lot of factors though. It's what you're used to as well, right? Like, and people, you, you can get, you can, even if a situation is kind of shitty, like having to commute or working in an office with people that you don't like or doing a job you don't like or whatever, you, you, you can adapt all that stuff and people do all the time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then for something like this to happen and there to all of a sudden be a change to that, something that you're used to or maybe just gotten used to or whatever.


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[Assistant] Uhm, just takes time to get used to the new situation. I think overall, absolutely. Like, working from home, not having to commute. Uhm, there's so many benefits to it. Like, people will probably save a lot of money.


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[Assistant] Uh, people will probably, uh, be like maybe healthier or have like maybe even better mental health as a result.


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[Assistant] I think realistically, I think it's a huge change all of a sudden. Uhm, like the economic impact of just the lockdown in general has been huge. And I think for it to like, carry on sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Without people having a chance to sort of change or adapt to it or whatever. Like some businesses have for sure.


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[Assistant] Like some, some, some really big cities like, like New York, for example, like when they,


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[Assistant] When they were running out of money or, or, or in, in, in a, in bad shape or whatever, they offered tax incentives for building work to be done in places like Manhattan or whatever. And, uh, and people who bought property, um, you know, were, were subjected to tax incentives and stuff as well, just to sort of, uh, boost like the economy, like boost.


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[Assistant] Boost the city's economy or whatever. Like there's, there's a lot of implications like that as well.


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[Assistant] A company that makes a ton of money and is as highly financially successful, uh, will have a reason for, uh, seemingly wasting a lot of money, right? Like I'm sure they know what they're doing.


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[Assistant] It's very rare that they'd just be doing something like, yeah, let's just waste money today. All right, Ron. Yeah, let's do that. No problem. Let's just go waste money.


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[Assistant] It's funny though, isn't it? It's like, uh, there's degrees of that too though, because like, um, I feel, I, I feel like that stuff is important for almost like cold call clients, right? Like if you're, if you're in a business where you're, you're trying to appeal to like a client that you've never met before based on like no recommendation or whatever.


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[Assistant] Absolutely, you have to have like a nice front, right? Like you need to have a, like a nice office and like, you know, professional, like well presented looking staff and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Sure, but then, but on the other hand, I feel like if you're, uh, if you're like in a business like, uh, like organized crime, for example, like where a lot of your customers


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[Assistant] Well no, but like a lot of your customers are coming through from like a recommendation from another person or, or whatever. Uhm, you don't care about all that kind of stuff, right? Like you could happily run your big successful business from a fucking boiler room or whatever and it doesn't matter, you know, cause the main thing is, is that


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[Assistant] You found this way to make money and the people that want to get involved with you also are interested in making money and they don't care about all that kind of stuff, right? There's, there's, there's degrees in it.


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[Assistant] So like, like certain places, certain places really depend on it as well though, like, uh, like Flax is saying, like imagine going to get some, like, uh, like some representation from like a law firm or something and like,


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[Assistant] Like looks really matter in that, in that case, right? Like you want to go to like a really swanky office where people are like well dressed and professional and stuff because


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[Assistant] Yeah, so there's, there's definitely certain professions where, you know, I don't know if it would work so much like that they're at home all the time, you know, like I wouldn't want to do, for instance, I know we have to now during the pandemic, but like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, post pandemic, uh, you know, if, if things go back to normal or whatever, I certainly wouldn't expect to be doing a zoom call to like, uh, a lawyer for again, for example.


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[Assistant] Or like, uh, even really a doctor, you know, like I know that like things that it's possible and, and people do it and stuff, but there's just certain people.


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[Assistant] There's certain people that you want to speak to face to face and you don't want them to be, um, you know, um, not, not sort of like traditionally presentable, if you know what I mean, like same with like


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[Assistant] I don't know, maybe just because I'm so conditioned to seeing like my doctor wearing like a shirt and a tie and stuff like that. It'd just be, I don't know, if you went in to see your doctor and he was just like, you know, bumming around like, you know.


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[Assistant] Dentist as well. Imagine you turn up to your dentist and he's just like fucking shaggy from Scooby-Doo and you know.


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[Assistant] Like, same with jobs where there's, where there's uniforms, like uhm, you know, like, like police officers, uhm, you know, like people who drive ambulances and stuff. Yeah. You know, like imagine, imagine they, I know there's obviously there's, there's parts of the police where they don't wear a uniform or whatever, but like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's right. But like it's, you wouldn't, you wouldn't re- I suppose you would see policemen dressed like a bit more casually depending, but like the uniform brings with it some- Oh, it would be weird. Some like, some authority, some, some, some things that you just can't really replace. I can't.


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[Assistant] You gotta, you gotta build a case so you gotta, you gotta chase the money. You know what I mean? You can't just, you can't just turn up to her house and just arrest her with no evidence or whatever. Like if you're gonna, if you're gonna bring a case to court and bring that person, you gotta make sure they go away for a long time, right? So you gotta get-


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[Assistant] Yeah, well that's a, that's a good one, isn't it? That's like, um, you know, like sometimes- Oh, so they were fake police. So they do, fake, they do that with fake firefighters as well, don't they? So that they can get into your house and scope it out, but pretend that they're looking at your fire alarms and stuff.


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[Assistant] I would, I would, I would not let somebody into my house where like that wasn't already, uh, organized sort of thing. If somebody turned up and said, uh, we're going to come in and look at something or whatever, I'd be like, yeah, I need to, I'm going to phone your station and just make sure that you're here for that reason. They know that you're here.


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[Assistant] He's probably like, he's probably, his car's probably like Kramer's, like he probably opened the glove box and there's just like a billion tickets come spilling out, you know? He's like, he's like some serial, like fucking, uh, offensive driver.


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[Assistant] Not only that, but washing your hands properly is a huge thing.


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[Assistant] Your body wants to get back to that point where you're getting a head rush off the, off the first one.


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[Assistant] How's the diarrhea? None. None. None. None. How have your stools been in general?


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[Assistant] I don't think anything triggers my poop. Like my, I'm, I'm, I'm fair, like I'm fairly regular, like kind of the sort of the same time every day. And then some days I go and I, and I don't have a poop, you know, like you sometimes there's like a day between or whatever.


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[Assistant] Thanks to this conversation have I noticed that I didn't poop yesterday. I mean it happens, but uh, pooping twice a day, that's like pretty rare for me. It has happened, but it's pretty rare.


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[Assistant] This is the age old thing though, isn't it? I don't think you can trust, uh, people's, um, claims to like, to diet and stuff like that when it comes to this sort of stuff, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like something is definitely causing this. I'm, I'm, you know, I'm sure it's something that you're doing. I hate to break it to you, but you know what I mean? Like, but that's cool. If your diet's perfect, don't change anything. Just live with diarrhea forever. That's, that's cool too. I guess it's just like, it's such a weird one.


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[Assistant] Well, you can get diarrhea from being dehydrated as well, right? Maybe he's- Can you? Maybe he's a bit dehydrated. Yeah, you can.


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[Assistant] Diarrhea can cause dehydration, which means the body lacks enough fluid to function properly. Dehydration is particularly dangerous.


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[Assistant] Diet is probably the last thing, um, that you should, you should really look at when it comes to diarrhea because it's more like a virus thing, I think.


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[Assistant] What, uh, okay, so hang on, so it wasn't, it wasn't full diar, what, like what is your guys sort of line that crosses where it's like a hundred percent full diarrhea?


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[Assistant] I don't want to get too personal, but I don't know what I've been doing recently, okay? Maybe it's just been a combination of like good hygiene, decent enough diet, a bit of exercise or whatever.


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[Assistant] Like they just come, they just slide out like a, like a torpedo in the tube of a submarine. They just slide right out. No problem. I go to wipe my ass and I didn't even need to, honestly. It's clean. No, that's called a ghost poo. Oh no, that's not. That's called... No, I think that's a ghost actually. A ghost poo is one


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[Assistant] You know, every once in a while when you're walking around and you're just like, all of a sudden your inner ass gets really itchy and you're like, ah shit. I hate an itchy ass. It's just like, there's probably like a bit of poop in there causing this, this itch, right? Cause what else is going to cause the itch on your inner ass?


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[Assistant] That could just be like one really small molecule of poop just like causing the irritation, you


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[Assistant] You should try doing that actually. I think they should do that as like a yoga move or something. Cause that shit is hard to pull off. Like it's, it's really hard to put your ass to the ground and pull your ass like that.


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[Assistant] No, but I feel like if you're gonna do yoga, you might as well do something, uh, at the same time, you know, like you're more bang for your buck.


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[Assistant] I'm working on my yoga, but I'm also able to itch my, you know, scratch my inner ass at the same time.


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[Assistant] You're gonna have to have a level five clearance for this. They are working on a new move in there that is strictly top secret. You cannot know what the...


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[Assistant] Hey, uhm, you were on, uh, you were on Pitch Please last, uh, last time they did a Pitch Please, right? Yeaah. Well guess who's doing Pitch Please?


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[Assistant] I feel like I'm going to be a bad guess though, because I'm just going to pitch the same game that I've been banging on about for like a year now.


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[Assistant] It's Overwatch with CSGO elements, so it's, it's like a cross between the two. Everyone on my chat keeps asking, you wanting to play Valorant?


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[Assistant] People say it's like CSGO and Overwatch, and I'm like, well, I don't like Overwatch, so why would I want to move from CSGO towards a kind of CSGO-Overwatch hybrid? It would be like, I'm a football fan, and so someone came up with a game that's kinda like football, but kinda like golf.


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[Assistant] And I don't like golf, so why would I watch that when I've got football? So when I play a shooter, I play CSGO, or I play Tarkov, because those are games I like. I don't want something that's like a game I like, crossed with a game I don't like, because that's not a hybrid I'm interested in.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I know, I know a lot of people that just, you just log in and just, and just chill. You just, I mean, but my mate left his phone running overnight on the stream and got the drops. Yeah, a lot of the time. Yeah, it's interesting, but I mean, clearly it was.


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[Assistant] Our copy arrived yesterday. Oh, nice. It was, my, uh, my sister sent it to, uh, my eldest for her birthday present. And you can play it for player, I think, on the same TV. Oh, nice. But the way it works is it's not split screen.


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[Assistant] So what happens is one person is like the leader and the others can just run around and collect stuff and they can't even, there's a bunch of stuff they can't do but you're basically like a little


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[Assistant] Helper, but the stuff you collect goes into the village recycling bin.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but Mrs. F loves it, like, they were, all three of the ladies in my house were playing it, uh, yesterday. Actually, the dog and the cat weren't, so of the five ladies in my house, three of them were. The human three. Uhm, and they were, uh, they were playing it, and they were like, oh my god, this is so amazing.


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[Assistant] You need a pad that goes on the back of your hand that detects the finger movements. That's what you need. And then you need, like, your hand, like, you just, you just slap it on there, strap it around the palm, and it can detect which of your fingers is moving and where your hand is. That would be ideal. Rather than having to hold the controller and click buttons. That's the future.


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[Assistant] You can, you can do VR porn on Pornhub and you sort of have to, I think you do that thing where you strap your phone to your eyes and you can look around and it's like, you know, you can look where you want. Right. It's like, I don't know how they've done it with some kind of 180 degree camera or something. I guess it would have some fish eye effects. I don't know.


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[Assistant] There was a definite It's Hot Weather haze out this morning when I walked out the door at about half nine. I went out and there was like that slight funky haze that you get when it's warm and I guess all the dew on the grass has evaporated very quickly and it sort of leaves this hanging slight mist.


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[Assistant] But my, uh, my dog has a friend, uh, Agnes has a friend called Luca, um, and Luca is about, well, probably three times the weight, maybe four times. She's a much bigger dog. Right. And longer. She's like some kind of spaniel or something. Like, what are they, not a spaniel, what are they called? Yeah, like the big things.


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[Assistant] It doesn't look like a regular dog. A Saint Bernard. No, no, no. It's like long and thin and just very hairy. It's big floppy ears. No! How is a dachshund going to weigh four times my dog? That's the biggest, that's like the sausage car that you see people drive, the hot dog car driving around. I'm talking about a dog. Anyway, it doesn't matter. It's a bigger dog.


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[Assistant] Right, and they saw each other, and they were like, it's you! And they sort of ran towards each other like long lost lovers, and they just started fighting.


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[Assistant] Like play fighting, biting each other, like Aggie is like hanging off the other dogs, like aaaargh! They're running in circles, they're turning each other over, they loved it, they were so happy. I thought it was nice that dogs have friends, you know what I mean? Yeaah. And they see another dog and they're like, oh it's, it's that dog! Yeaah. We're best friends! And they just, they're playing for like 20 minutes, it was very funny.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, Michael Burry. So the, the book is really good, and uhm, they did change quite a lot between the film and the book. Uhm. Yeaah. Because I'm, I'm a big fan of uhm.


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[Assistant] But that, honestly, if you haven't seen the film, I mean, I always see it on Netflix. It's very good. It's very, it's very...


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[Assistant] Tight like the way they filmed it that there's no there's no baggy parts in the film. It's just a really good story when they go down to look at the.


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[Assistant] The actual real estate crisis. Like, I remember before it, people telling me...


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[Assistant] I mean this was, honestly this was the way people were living. Like you could get, there was a guy, uhm, I think, I think it's detailed in the book, they don't really mention it in, they hinted it in the film, but there was uhm, they were giving loans to Mexican strawberry pickers.


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[Assistant] A lot of people said, oh well this was clearly the fault of the, of, uh, the mortgage underwriters and the people doing these mortgages in the first place.


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[Assistant] But here's the thing, these companies that, smaller companies, a little bit, well I don't know what the equivalent of a building society is in the states, but anyway, you get the mortgage. So your mortgage broker sorts all that out. The whole point is they can then just sell that mortgage to the banks. The banks are buying them.


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[Assistant] So the idea, like the, the, there's a supply and demand there. The big bank should have said, we're not touching this mortgage with a barge pole. It's full of holes, this guy's never gonna make the repayments. But they didn't. They wanted these shitty mortgages just to stuff them in these bonds because then they can sell them. That's the whole point. Of the, it fell apart because the shitty loans were being bought by supposedly rock solid


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[Assistant] There's a big one coming. I mean, they said that what could be coming is as bad as the Great Depression. Because it's obviously all this, uh, the lockdown has caused a lot of, a lot less international trade. So I think I was reading the other day that international trade


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[Assistant] As a result of the 2008 crash led to about a 10% reduction. Between 7 and 10% reduction in international trade because obviously you just don't need as much trade when, you know, you're not producing as much and people aren't buying as much and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] So this might be worse than like 20-25% reduction, which would be catastrophic.


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[Assistant] I've read articles about this saying how bad this could be. I mean, it might not be, you never know, we might just be able to recover.


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[Assistant] But it certainly doesn't feel like this is nothing. Like you can't have an impact like this that just, oh it's fine.


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[Assistant] Like, for one thing, if governments have to borrow huge amounts of money to cover everybody's backs while we're going through this, then governments are gonna owe a shitload of money, and that's not a good thing. So, I feel like regardless of what happens, there has to be a cost.


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[Assistant] It's fascinating. It's fascinating because they hold the, they hold the, the planet's economy is essentially reliant hugely on these institutions in this small area. Like if Wall Street tanks and everything goes to shit, everything goes to shit.


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[Assistant] Nah, a lot of people saying, oh, this is gonna change things. Nah, we'll just get back to normal. That's it.


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[Assistant] We're not gonna learn anything from this. That's historically been the case. Something like this happens, we learn nothing, we change nothing, and we're just like, oh thank god we're back to normal. Even though with people, there are quite a few people who are a lot happier with things this way, uh, you know, not having to fucking drag their asses all the way into the office when they could work from home.


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[Assistant] Nah, we just need you in. Nah, come on in. You know, we're gonna go back to normal. People will learn nothing from this. That's our nature.


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[Assistant] Who tells you that they're happier going into the office is a lunatic and a liar. There's no way.


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[Assistant] That people would rather spend an hour and a half each way, dragging their asses into work or stuck in traffic. Everybody would much rather work from home. I'm sure of it. Why wouldn't you?


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[Assistant] Commuting, going into work, doing stuff in the office, staying a certain amount of time even though, you know, you basically finished what you need to do that day, all that kind of stuff. Because people get up in the morning,


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[Assistant] And they lack focus, they're filling that time with other stuff, and some of that stuff is really good for you. Like they're just taking some time to think about yourself, trying to get into a routine yourself rather than have one forced on you.


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[Assistant] All that kind of stuff has to be more healthy for people. But like I said-


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[Assistant] But higher and it sounds good, right? Right. It's, it's a great tip.


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[Assistant] Which I always think is a, I don't know who decided to call Bert's tits, but it is a great tit. I only have one great tit in my tree. I'm hoping I get a pair of great tits in the tree, but just one at the moment. But he sits in this tree.


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[Assistant] Like, uh, have you ever heard of Brene Brown? She did some TED Talks. I know you love TED Talks, Lewis. If you look up some of hers, they're really good.


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[Assistant] Well, she- she did one about kids and how they're essentially hardwired for struggle.


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[Assistant] And that's true, because I've noticed that kids in pretty much any situation seem to be pretty much the same. Like some of them may be, they conceal their sadness pretty well, they get on with things, every day they wake up it seems like a whole brand new adventure and they've got this optimism in the morning and stuff.


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[Assistant] I'm pretty sure that most people's kids, although they might be losing their minds occasionally, are adapting way better than grown-ups are. Like they're way more adaptive.


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[Assistant] Also, they don't have expectations of, like, if you think about the life of a kid, they're presented with very few options. The situation they're in, they have very little power to change it.


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[Assistant] So, I think genetically speaking, kids are pretty much, the whole point is, however rough it is,


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[Assistant] You're gonna be pretty much the same regardless. You'd hope. I mean, some kids obviously go through a lot worse and, and are not the same. But certainly very little kids, I feel like, doesn't really matter how rough things are. They'll be optimistic and, and they'll be the same. They'll be kids. Which is amazing.


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[Assistant] So they have very little agency, and they just accept their situation. They're just like, okay, well, my toy is now...


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[Assistant] It took years to get them to, you know, in, in some supermarkets, there's a little tokens that you can get. They do this in waitress anyway. You have a little, when you go to the checkout, you can ask the checkout lady or fella, can I have, um, some of the green tokens and you put them in a charity box and whichever one has the most in that gets the lion's share of the charity money that we can blah, blah, blah.


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[Assistant] So you basically vote using the tokens to vote for which charity. It took my youngest until she was about seven before she mustered up the courage to say,


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[Assistant] Can I please have some green tokens? Like she would just silently wait and hope the lady offered. And if they didn't offer, she didn't get. And I'd say to her, I'd say to her, if you don't ask, you don't get. Like you gotta ask.


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[Assistant] Or, you know, you're panicking inside, you gotta learn how to put on a front, do what you gotta do, because believe me, talking in front of anything more than two or three people used to terrify me.


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[Assistant] Like I al- like I always say to people when they're worried about fucking up in front of other people, everybody's rooting for you to succeed, you know? Everybody on the inside just wants a perfectly normal interaction where there's no embarrassment or cringe, everybody wants you to do- to- to do well. If you- if you're talking to someone, they don't want the conversation to be awkward, they're not expecting it to be awkward, they hope you have-


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[Assistant] You know, that you can speak normally. So don't worry, they're not hoping you fail, they're hoping the opposite.


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[Assistant] But people watch this stuff on the news that they think is affecting them directly and they're terrified of it and they adjust their behaviour accordingly. I mean, you only have to look at the panic buying stuff. People took that very seriously.


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[Assistant] So, what is it about, what is happening in our brains when we see news stories, and if you look at the way the news is now compared to the way it was 30 years ago, say,


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[Assistant] It's very sensationalized, it's very scary, all these spinning graphics, I mean the brass eye used to take it off perfectly, where it was just like, it's trying to make you scared all the time. And that's the, especially in America, the news is really, really...


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[Assistant] Why are we addicted to being scared by the news and news in general, which seems like everyone wants to read negative stories and divisive stories.


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[Assistant] My poor Fitbit. I feel like I'm tricking this poor thing every day. When I'm gesticulating wildly talking it just congratulated me on 250 steps.


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[Assistant] Monday, two and a half thousand. I did some more on Sunday. Saturday, I did it. I went for a longer. These are the days I went for longer dog walks.


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[Assistant] When you can count your steps per day in, in the hundreds, that, that's, those are, these are some lazy days. I'll tell you what. Wow. Yeah, Tuesday I did 586 steps. That's, that's appalling.


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[Assistant] Oh, I see what happened. Uh, I went downstairs to make a cup of tea in the morning, and then I must have walked the dog later in the morning, I think I did some power washing maybe, and then I just sat around playing video games all day.


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[Assistant] Because I'm playing Bannerlords. I can see the exact moment actually that I, the quarantine started because it halved the number of steps or, or worse. Last, like last week I did nothing. I didn't break 4,000 once.


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[Assistant] I saw a video of that. People would dress up the climbing gear with the masks and the backpacks and go up and down their stairs as if they're scaling Mount Everest. And if you do enough, it's like, okay, we just made it to base camp.


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[Assistant] Day two here, you know, of them going up and down those stairs. That's tempting. Yeah, you should do that. Yeah. But I, or I could just play Bannerlords. Or just-


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[Assistant] I think, I think those kind of engineers see problems in their everyday life that are easily solvable with a little bit of automation.


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[Assistant] There's this thing which Bill Gates said, which I saw somewhere on a stupid Reddit thread this week about how if he were to hire someone for a job, he would take the laziest person because they'll find a way to do that job quickly and efficiently, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so there was, there was a whole thread of people talking about these, the kind of things they've done and they were typically stuff like, you know,


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[Assistant] I took on a job as data entry where it was all being done sort of by hand, uhm, and there was this old fella who was just copy pasting between boxes. It took him a week to do it. And so when I took over, I made a script that did it in 10 minutes and then, you know,


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[Assistant] It is probably that, but you could see situations where someone could solve these.


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[Assistant] Problems. With the raspberry pie.


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[Assistant] Easy peasy. I like a lazy man solution. I think that, you know, lazy doesn't mean cheating or like skiving off, you know, doesn't necessarily mean, just means you don't want to have to do the repetitive stuff.


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[Assistant] I think that's a good compliment. No, no, no. Here's the problem though. Here's the problem. You're too lazy to masturbate yourself into women. So then you build a masturbatatron, right? Where does this end?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, it's better than tin foil, I guess.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's true, yeah. Marginally. Yeah. I think at that point you just have to just, you know, get the raspberry pie out of the oven instead. There's just, there's other options there.


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[Assistant] You don't need to, I mean, let it cool, obviously. Maybe on your windowsill, outside. You can smell wafting across the local area. Oh man.


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[Assistant] When I was a kid, there was, we had the old little microwave pizzas. I think it's the difference between a sauna and a steam room. You know, one of them's, one of them's drying. Right. And one of them's moist. Moistened. One of them's, right, okay. Yeah. I think maybe that's more.


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[Assistant] On Star Trek? I saw one on the new Star Trek. Yea, Rykel was using one in the garden.


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[Assistant] Do you think that if you have a spare room,


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[Assistant] You, cause there's a thing, there's a thing that an old adage where if you have space, you'll fill it up, right, with stuff. Um, so will, if you have a spare room, will it, will you have another kid or will you suddenly get like a train set? What's going to happen? What kind of hobby is the spare room going to cause?


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[Assistant] That's amazing. People smuggling drugs and stuff in innovative ways is always like so, like, I don't know how they even discover it half the time, do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I don't even know if that's what it is. I think it's the trade, right? It's gotta be like the millions of tons of freight that go between Mexico and America every year or whatever, right? It's gotta be that.


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[Assistant] You have to protect people from cells. I think with weed being obviously legalized, I'd be interested in seeing how that has changed the use of like harder stuff, right? Cause everyone always gets, oh, it's a slippery slope. You know, as soon as people start smoking weed, they'll be smoking, they'll be taking crack next.


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[Assistant] Because everyone's all in this health kick now, right? Even weed is like, it's good, it calms you down, it's good for your stress, it's good for your mental health, you know, everyone's smoking weed for various things. Oh, I got a bit of a sore.


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[Assistant] Thumb or whatever, have a little smoke on that weed. Like do you know what I mean? It feels like it's the, it feels like it's the fucking solution to every medical problem. So what's the next thing that the pharmaceutical companies will be putting? And it's got to only be a little bit.


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[Assistant] Less controversial than weed, right? Or maybe more controversial, like just, you know, what's the next thing, it can't be straight to heroin, but maybe like magic mushrooms, maybe psychedelics, maybe like that stuff's gonna be legalised.


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[Assistant] Everyone was very kind of, it was kind of in the public consciousness that it was, it was okay. Um, and so it was almost like it was a mistake to have it be, uh, banned. Whereas I don't think anyone's disagreeing that heroin and cocaine and crack are probably not good things to have around.


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[Assistant] I don't know, like, you have to stop people taking it in the first place, maybe you have to solve the systemic problems at the bottom of society, fix wealth inequality, all these big problems people lack that are not solvable because rich people love their money too much, and I don't want to give it to poor people.


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[Assistant] I've read quite a lot of stories about people saying things like, you know, I never wanted to do heroin because I was scared I would get a taste for it, you know, and then I did heroin and I got a taste for it and I fucking ruined my life. Yeah, sure. I feel like that kind of stuff is really sad.


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[Assistant] Well people don't have much choice either, you know, they're kind of thrown into these situations and they have to try and cope with them and sometimes, you know.


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[Assistant] Some parents teach their kids to play chess and they become chess prodigies. Others teach their kids to-


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[Assistant] Interestingly in Europe, they've, uh, you know, enacted these laws as well, which prevent a lot of smoking indoors, um, in the same way that we've got them now, but they have nicer weather than us. And so they've just moved it all outside. So anytime there is a like outdoor restaurant, it's obviously


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[Assistant] Every, every table will, there'll be a bunch of old folks smoking it. Like, almost, or everywhere, or just not even old folks, just every restaurant. There'll be tons of people smoking it. It feels like I've just seen it so many times. Uhm, and it's, it's really funny.


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[Assistant] Well those things are like a hotbox, but also they are almost always now super disgusting, right? Because no one is building new smoking rooms or renovating hotels to have smoking rooms in them, right? If any, if a hotel has a smoking room, it's left over from old times, you know.


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[Assistant] And a smoking room, because one of my friends, for some reason, a convention I was at, uhm,


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[Assistant] There's this thing where I remember going to Japan and they used to have these like in, uhm, Akihabara, which is the sort of techie district. They had these big arcades and-


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[Assistant] They used to allow smoking them for so many years that they still smell awful and the smoke rises in these sort of five, they're quite tight, like they're not like big buildings, but they're quite tall. And so the smoke just rises up and up and it gets worse and worse. And at the top floor, it had just this like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, every bar we went to, cause we went to Germany last time, we were, what were we doing? We were in paradox con, I think.


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[Assistant] And went round the hotel, from the hotel round to the local bar. And outside the bar.


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[Assistant] Loads of people just standing on the street holding their drinks because they couldn't smoke inside. You went inside, there were like three people in there. People would just go in, buy a beer, stand outside, even though there wasn't like any allocated seating or anything outside for them to sit. They just wanted to drink and smoke together and so that was the only option.


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[Assistant] I think sometimes, sometimes it's some sort of, I think they're confronted with their own mortality. I think that's what it is. People don't, people believe they're invincible, especially in their teens and twenties, they don't even think


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[Assistant] There's this thing I was reading this week about this thing called the Kelly bet, right? Which is kind of like, um,


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[Assistant] Kind of a mathematical formula that tells you what your, you basically have to put in your timeline, okay, so it might be like 30 minutes.


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[Assistant] Uh, it might be like the rest of your life and you put in how much money you've got and you put in like, um, what you're betting on and what the return potentially could be and it kind of tells you


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[Assistant] Uhm, participants were given 30 minutes to play, uhm, so on average they could place about 300 bets in that time, uhm, and you had to make as much money as you could. So what would your strategy be if you were playing that study? Do you guys have any, what would your, what would your gambling strategy be?


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[Assistant] Uh, so, so what's your, what's your strategy? You've got 30 minutes. Red, I would put it all on red and my, the day of my birthday. You put $25 on head straight away, would you, Sibs? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Participants gamble on tails at some point, knowing that it's got a lower chance.


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[Assistant] Because I don't know, they're having fun. You know, people, like, it just shows you that most people are stupid, I guess. Okay. So two thirds of people gambled on tells at some point. Uh, 28% of people went bust, given that they, you know, starting with $25.


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[Assistant] They managed to go bust, uhm, and lose it all, even though, you know, flipping the coin was 60% chance of, of getting heads. Right. The average profit was only $90. Right. So that's the average person.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so in fact, given, given this, you know, they had to, they put a cap on of $250 because if they didn't,


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[Assistant] People would have won, you know, thousands, thousands and thousands. But the, the, the, the optimum strategy, if you like, if you put it through this Kelly, Kelly bet system is to stake 20% of your, so $5 out of your 25 to begin with.


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[Assistant] And then every time you lose, you take it down to 20% of what you've got left. And every time you win, you go up to 20%.


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[Assistant] Of how likely something's gonna be, like, you could even use it for things like, cause we talked about betting a lot last year, uh, last week, and some people linked this to me and I was interested.


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[Assistant] He's done great, yeah. But I mean, he's probably used about every single strategy known to man over time. He's the king of investing, isn't he?


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[Assistant] Would you, would you make like an auto pellet dropper? Would you make like an, would you make and sell that? Would you make like uhm, is it like a product to help another product? Like a, like an isopropyl alcohol soaker?


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[Assistant] Everyone's just, everyone's just getting stuff delivered and you could just vacuum wrap everything for cheap. True. You know, you just vacuum, cause that's how I'd buy stuff if I was buying anything.


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[Assistant] Go to shrink wrap. Just vacuum, vacuum wrap your, your Johnson. I don't know if the, I, because you use the cling film in the microwave and the cling film never gets that hot though, does it? You know, it just, it goes a bit soft.


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[Assistant] That's a good, that's a good way to live your life. Just make bad, just make continual bad decisions. None of them are terrible.


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[Assistant] Or smoke. That's bad. Um, alright, thanks everyone. See you next week. See ya! See ya later! Bye!


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[Assistant] Change the world. Vote for me. Raise up! Bye! See you, uhm, see you guys next week. Love you lots, thanks for listening, bye! Bye bye bye.


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[Assistant] They just don't know about sonars and radars and stuff that just like, if they can't see us, we don't exist. It's like Mr. Invisible.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, welcome back to the Triforce Podcast with me, Sips, and Period Flax. Hello! What have you had, have you had a good week?


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[Assistant] It's gotten a bit drab here, but I've done a few things this week. I rode in a Tesla, I saw some tiny dogs, some very cute tiny dogs, and I went out and had some food out and it was a bit weird because of


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[Assistant] Oh, the chilli, the chilli in the air. Yeaah. I can, I can understand that cause she's more sensitive.


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[Assistant] Okay, what about like smoke, like nicotine, like cigarette smoke?


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[Assistant] I reckon most people smell...


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[Assistant] They could get dogs to be sommeliers, because they'd be able to really tell whether a wine was good or not, wouldn't they?


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[Assistant] It's like a, like a, just a big bowl of like rice krispies. What do you have with, what wine do you have with that?


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[Assistant] I think you're right. It's the tap thing. I think, I don't think fizzy stuff comes out of a tap very well. I think it gets all, loses its fizz, question mark? Is there any scientists who


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[Assistant] Are experts in carbonation chemistry that can get in touch. Yeah, I am actually, um, it's my specialty. So I rode a Tesla this week. What, like with an aim to buy one? Are you buying a Tesla? No, my, my, my, my friend has one or someone I know has one and he took me to bath.


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[Assistant] Well, Tesla is, is, we, we're in this weird world right now where Tesla is some, Elon Musk's added like, I don't know, some sort of huge amount, a hundred billion dollars to his fortune over the last, he just became richer than Mark Zuckerberg I read yesterday, which is huge. And also like Apple.


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[Assistant] Went from a trillion dollar valuation in April to 2.1 trillion dollar valuation now. So like these companies, you would have thought like in April, people would have,


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[Assistant] So all, you know, all the investors would have been like, yeah, I, I think Apple's gonna, people, who's a bit against it? Anyway, by the by, Tesla's a future, Tesla's a future of automobile manufacturing, okay, and it's worth, the company's worth like


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[Assistant] Like 18, the top 18 other car manufacturers are worth like the same.


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[Assistant] He's very, they're very innovative. But anyway, I went, I went to this Tesla and it was basic, basically, tes, tes, tesla, tesla.


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[Assistant] Basically, it was like, it had no dashboard for a start at all, it was just a big screen there. And on the right hand side, there's like a little kind of, it looks like an iPhone game where you've got your


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[Assistant] I don't think it, uh, well, I didn't see any though, kids or dogs, cause we kind of drove a fairly straight styled road. I mean, a lot of, a lot of, a lot of American travel is very different to UK travel. We have a lot thinner roads and a lot sort of weirder set up. So I think it would be.


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[Assistant] No, I think it makes a lot now. I read that it made a billion or something a year. For the longest time it didn't though. That's because it didn't have ads though. It didn't have its good integration. I mean Google are the providers of ads and that partnership with YouTube made a lot of sense really.


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[Assistant] They bought a platform to sell ads on. They didn't want the YouTube itself and still don't really. They just understand that they can sell a huge amount of their, their stuff through there. It's really interesting. Anyway, a Tesla's, I thought it was fine.


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[Assistant] It was, it was fine, I think, like uhm, it was quite nice inside, like quite comfy.


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[Assistant] He didn't do that, that was just a Twitter meme, but yeaah, I mean, that was just like a little joke. It's just weird. But yeaah, his, he put this brain chip in a pig, didn't he, that was just so weird, and what? He's getting a little


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[Assistant] He seems like a character, put it that way. Definitely seems. I mean, he was obviously...


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[Assistant] He's just weird, isn't he? Like, well, we could talk about him forever, but he's just too weird. Anyway, I thought, like I said, Tesla...


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[Assistant] I think it's a fine car. I mean, sitting in it, it had ordinary seatbelts and ordinary glass windows that went up and down, ordinary like, like, you know how in a car you have, uhm, those, those like, what they, I don't know what they're called, but the bits of the car


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[Assistant] It's, it's that, and so it's like, what, what am I, well I don't, I, I get like, I don't think a lot of people like me and you guys obviously have never been in them, and so they do feel a bit foreign and a bit- I have been in them. A bit out of- Yea, I've been in one as well. Yea, several times. I thought I was telling you something new. No. I'd never ridden in one. Alright.


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[Assistant] It's definitely the trendy new car to have. You know, it used to be that businessmen would drive there.


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[Assistant] Nobody wants, nobody wants to use one now. Blackberry apparently are making quite a lot of good tech now, um, and although no one's buying the phones, the company is still going based on the tech they're selling and stuff. This is what I hear. I don't know whether it's actually like true.


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[Assistant] Just let you charge it up and it spanks the ball.


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[Assistant] It feels like something that's actually fairly tricky to do. To like hit a tiny ball with a small head on a stick, you know, even like playing tennis, I miss the fucking ball a lot and I've got a gigantic thing and I'm using my hand, you know, not my sort of arms and back. I don't know. I just, I'm always sort of.


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[Assistant] I always think, obviously it's technique. I always just worry that when I play this, when I play, I worry that one day I just, my technique will be off and I just won't be able to hit the ball ever again. And I'll just slice balls and just spend my entire day searching the reeds, you know, for my ball. Like that's my nightmare.


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[Assistant] I don't think I have, I mean, I used to go putting like, well, like crazy golf, you know, with my nans, you know, and clackton on the pier and stuff. And I've, I've done a pitch and putt once or twice when I was at school. But I mean, yeah, I mean, I feel like I can, I'm not incapable, but certainly like I'm just very daunted by the idea of actually going.


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[Assistant] I'm so glad the teachers found in favour of him. Oh yea, they saw sense. God, cos, cos I feel like any time you hear these stories the teachers just aren't interested, they're like. Our school the teachers were shocked. And that poor guy never gets his £5, but no he did, he got his £5. He got it, yeaah. I'm sure he spent it wisely as well. I can't remember. Probably on like, fucking, you know, some medicine. I remember we tried to go to the


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[Assistant] Yeah, these locks that you went to, uhm, I think it was these locks, there's like 28 of them. Yeah, yeah. Which have a rise of 237 feet, and it's obviously a time when- What's the area called again?


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[Assistant] That's a kind of London canal system, I guess. I think that's it. Between Bristol and Reading actually, yeaah. And so obviously they were shipping stuff back in the 18, 18, early 1800s. They were shipping all sorts of stuff along canals. That was the main, you know, thing that people used to ship stuff. And so they built this


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[Assistant] Ludicrous series of locks, there's a picture here of 16 of them going up a single hill. You can see the 16 locks. Locks, I mean, I don't know if you've been through a lock on a river, it takes fucking ages. It does, yeaah. Go through 16 of them, fuck.


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[Assistant] Do you know what I mean? Like, how do they do that? Do they have like a day where people go down, and then a day where people go up? I'm not sure. Well maybe it's only one way, maybe mostly people just take stuff from one end of the lock to the other, but they gotta get their boats back.


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[Assistant] I don't even understand how locks work, but I don't really understand how a lot of stuff in history worked either. Like we've been playing Crusader Kings and this week, and I really enjoy Crusader history because it's a really cool game by the way. Played Crusader Kings 2, didn't like it. I spent a long time learning it and I was frustrated by


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[Assistant] Just people in charge of certain people, counties and barons and duchies and passing inheritance, all that complicated crap.


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[Assistant] Partitioning the land between people, like all of their rules that they had for just, just how everything works and also just how you, how you recruited people to fight for you and all of these weird, just, just, it was so complicated.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, I don't mean the game, the game's great, I mean the time. Like, cause it's obviously modelled on what things were actually like at the time. And, and I'm just, just, I'm so sort of, just sort of surprised by the level of complexity around everything and all the rules around everything.


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[Assistant] You know, begging indulgences off the Pope and stuff like stuff that you can, stuff that just seems so bizarre that you can sort of commit a crime and then just pay the Pope and he'll be like.


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[Assistant] I love that, I love that, that, that thing with apologies as well. That was always the thing which I learned. It was that, it was that, you know, you just had to make it sound sincere. You didn't have to mean it. No one ever says like, you know, no one ever says say it and mean it. They say, say it like you'd like. Say it like you'd like.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so Sip sent me, um, the calendar of Jersey for Christmas. He always said it's be every year. And so over the course of the year, I feel like I've done a round trip because it's basically coastal shots of Jersey. Um, so I feel like I've taken the tour over the course of the year, but carry on.


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[Assistant] Saying Nigel Bettsal is like saying my British childhood.


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[Assistant] They probably were like this kind of modern cool design, but I prefer the ones that blend in. Like you see it a lot in, um, Scandinavia. They're very much like we want to build something that's hidden, you know, so it doesn't spoil that view of the landscape.


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[Assistant] It's like if you're building a house in, um, in Bath, you have to sort of make sure it fits in with their Bathstone kind of style.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of laws about that, um, but I assume around the back of this sort of place, maybe because it could only really be seen from the sea, it's maybe a problem, but I dunno.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, it's, it's, it's not just you. This is a thing which millions of people are addicted to. Of course. Looking at like houses. It's because of these property shows and stuff. Like people are obsessed with like property porn or whatever it is. Yeah, it's just interesting. But the ones I like to look at.


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[Assistant] I think people are often forced to, you know, because they don't have time, they've run out of time, or maybe they've not moved a long way and not had a chance to look at it.


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[Assistant] They hadn't put certain things in, but there were no wardrobes in the bedrooms, do you know what I mean? And I just thought like, it looks roomy, it looks like a nice bedroom, but then I just realised where, where would I put my stuff? They don't build wardrobes.


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[Assistant] Roboboss, I had a bet with Tina that I was gonna eat a cow pat, and so I dissolved a cow pat up in my, uh, vitamin paste juice that's supplied by the company, and I drank it, and she won't pay me the five pounds, Roboboss.


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[Assistant] Of those, uhm, paperweights, you know, those glass or paperweights that have like a little flower in them or a little space design or something like that. And those things I consider to be


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[Assistant] Expensive tat, right? That people have around their house. They might have a couple, but they were like 20 in this case. And I feel like the person who owned the hotel or something had had a collection of these, right?


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[Assistant] The other thing that was up, so you went up a level and then on the next floor, there was another load of tat all over the walls and it was like, uhm, those ladoc.


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[Assistant] Uhm, sort of, I think they're called Ladoc, like sculptures of a sort of a blue dressed woman kind of holding a candle or something like that, you know what I mean? Like that kind of cheap, they all, like all those paperweights are about 40 or 50 quid, you know, and those, they're kind of tat.


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[Assistant] Glass shop, and they sold me a dolphin shaped bit of glass or some dumb shit, you know. Like, the whole hotel was full of...


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[Assistant] Warning, you know, dangerous like stuff like this. I was just like, this is kind of like.


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[Assistant] Shit, I just hated it. I just didn't think it was...


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[Assistant] Nice. And I can see why it's all been dumped in this sort of hotel because it's sort of, it's the kind of place that you want to decorate with this sort of stuff.


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[Assistant] My, my, I've always, you always end up with loads of that, you know, like old phones or old consoles. It's like stuff that you paid decent money for and you can't bring yourself to throw it away, but no sort of charity shop will accept it and it's too much faff to like sell it. I don't know. Sometimes you can take it to cash confers or whatever, but.


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[Assistant] I dunno, do you know what I mean? They are the stuff that people build up, I think, and just end up holding on to. I suppose one of the reasons I...


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[Assistant] I love that. So that's the story, is it? That's it.


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[Assistant] What are you talking about? You're the guy who doesn't want to have a microwave because you think it's gonna irradiate you. You don't want fucking gas piping running through your fucking house. That's like, that's like number one like, like thing that I'd get rid of, right?


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[Assistant] What was that other fucking terrible 90s show with those three old men who would sort of have these sort of boyish adventures out in English. That was last of the summer wine. Last of the summer wine. Fucking awful.


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[Assistant] Well it was, it sort of had these old boys in it and I think they sort of gradually died one by one and they kept replacing them like Doctor Who stuff.


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[Assistant] Right. Oh yeah, that was, that was the detective show that, you know, we always watched on a, it was always, it was always, I think it was on at a time when my parents watched it and I was just a bit too young.


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[Assistant] Hello and good morning and welcome or good evening to the trifles podcast. Zips? Hello. P-Flex? Hello. Hello.


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[Assistant] Uh, you've got us, we're here at home, surprisingly. Still. Uh, it's, we're, we're doing alright. Still. Uh, is everyone crazy yet, or are you all holding on? What crazy things have you done this week?


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[Assistant] Have you been eating more? I've been eating more just cause I'm bored.


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[Assistant] I dunno, like I feel like maybe there's like a cabit thing though, cause normally I get up in the morning.


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[Assistant] I make breakfast, I come into the office, I'm in the office all day and then I get home in the evening and usually eat straight away. Yeah. And, and then, you know, I guess, I guess I've just used to the idea of opening the fridge when I'm on my own and just seeing what's in there. Just when I'm bored, I look in the fridge and it's really bad habit.


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[Assistant] I need to try and break somehow and I don't know maybe I need like an alarm on the fridge or something like maybe like a hand comes out and slaps me.


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[Assistant] I need, like, uhm, something to stop me doing it. I need, like, to have to put in a long code or something.


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[Assistant] Or not something like to like, not something bad, but something that makes, it's like, do I really, can I really be asked to get, uh, another, you know, pack of, you know, chocolate popcorn out of here or whatever. Do you know what I mean? Just saying. Cause sometimes I don't really want it probably. I'm not that bothered.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well exactly. You're sacrificing yourself. Put yourself on the line like the-


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[Assistant] I find I eat less when I have something fun I really want to do, like when I'm...


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[Assistant] In playing a game that I just can't, sometimes you're playing a game and you need to pee, but you're so into the game, you're like, I'm just going to, you don't realise you're doing it, but you're like, you don't eat, you don't drink, you don't like, you don't, you just, and then at a certain point you're like, okay, I have to stop playing this now. I know sometimes games get very,


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[Assistant] Like, good ones get very addicting. I think I know how good a game is based on how much I'm like, not, how much I'm neglecting my own body to play the game. Like a bad game, I'll get bored all the time and stop and have to like, ugh. Like if I'm watching a bad movie, I'll just have to, I'll find myself just constantly pausing it.


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[Assistant] Tabbing out, doing something else, you know, and then coming back to it and being like, oh, I have to finish this movie off.


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[Assistant] I genuinely like feel like I'm just taking my time. Yeah. Uhm, and other times I'll be watching something that I really don't want to miss a frame of. And so I'll like, I'll like plan my P route. I'll be like, okay, fine.


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[Assistant] I'm going to ask that, I'm going to say this guy, this to this guy, I'm going to be like, excuse me, I'm going to walk down here, go this way. It's like plan the whole thing out in my head and then I'll execute that. And there'll be like one guy who's also doing that. He's like rushing for a pee. There'll be like one other guy who's like just a step or two behind me the whole way. It's almost like a race as well because he left like,


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[Assistant] And he made all this weird, put this weird sort of stuff in it. And it kind of feels like slightly demonic in a, in a sense, because it has like.


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[Assistant] That would be, that would be good. I played a bit of Doom Eternal this week. Which I really like, and I really like the...


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[Assistant] Just all those demonic symbols on everything and just kinda how, how...


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[Assistant] Blow away coronavirus has been all over the place again. Um, I saw it again, like remix of, you know, the American mega church priest. Oh yeah. Looks like the devil. Right. Um, incarnate asking God to burn the coronavirus.


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[Assistant] What would be your, like, way to, to do that? Like, cause I saw one guy, I saw one place had it, like, where they would put it in the top of a drain pipe, and then it would go down the drain pipe, so they never had to, like, interact with the people. And also, if the police got onto them, they could see them come in and they could, like, get out of that flat with the drain pipe.


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[Assistant] Hey Bill, uh, we got a movie, uh, and you get to kiss Scarlett Johansson in it, uh, you're an old guy and you meet her at a bar and you do some talking and stuff, and it's a bit weird, but- Yeah, apparently- What'd you say? What'd you say, Bill? He's like, you had me out!


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[Assistant] See, see, see, this is, this is, this is what I did this week. So this week I had a pub quiz on, uh, Zoom with my family. I did that on Sunday!


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[Assistant] It's in Powys. Uh, which, uh, for example, in which county would you find Leeds Castle?


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[Assistant] I should have got all of these answers, but I didn't get any of them. And it wasn't his, their fault. You know, they wrote these questions thinking, yeah, I know this. I want them to be hard, but not that hard. And honestly, I got like, I was, it was kind of like he was doing this quiz because we're all on zoom and he was like, Oh, I see a lot of blank faces.


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[Assistant] But no, it was, it was question, it was just like a little bit on the side of too hard. And it was, it was just so funny cause I got zero in the first two rounds and he was like, I wonder if I should start giving out hints. And I'm like, no, I wasn't hating it. I was, I was enjoying it because it was all that, those questions. Like I kind of like was.


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[Assistant] They were almost on the tip of my tongue or brain, like they were right there. I knew I should know them, but they were like just out of reach. And I feel like also in the internet age, like certain questions feel, I dunno, like, like I just, I feel like I almost deliberately haven't learned stuff because I knew I could look it up instantly.


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[Assistant] The best pub quiz things I think are ones that people can't google or look up, you know, because it feels like in the pub quiz people are always, it's always a cheat.


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[Assistant] And so it's, but it's hard to come up with questions that people can't look up. And so you have to, like we always do, like our family always used to do a quiz at Christmas and we used to have like a pitch around that my nan would cut pictures out of the radio times and they'd be like,


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[Assistant] Uh, so it was, it was, there were questions like, one of the questions was, uhm, how many London Underground stations are there?


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[Assistant] There's this, there's this one they use for film shoots as well and if you


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[Assistant] It's weird because I watched a couple of things this week and I think I saw that same, there's this Hollywood slummy ramp that looks like it's in a multi-storey car park under a road or something, under a main big freeway, and


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[Assistant] You'll know when you see it, but it's like a very steep ramp, and it's quite dark, there's always drug dealers there, and they drive a van up sometimes, and I've seen that.


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[Assistant] But it was quite, it's a common, like, it's a question that you wouldn't get in a quiz because if you think about the question, you're like,


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[Assistant] How would I know anyone's mother's maiden name? Like do I need to know their- their-


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[Assistant] Pin code as well, like what was, but it's because if you think about it, what do you think his mother's maiden name might be?


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[Assistant] No, but I mean, the thing is- Her maiden name was a-


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[Assistant] So he did, well, cause obviously one of the rounds was, uhm, he, he got, he, he, he, he, there was a link, okay, so they were like, there were like 10 of us at the quiz, and each of the answers was one of our first names, okay, but we didn't realise this until,


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[Assistant] You know, we got like, going. So the first question was like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, who shares the surname? Baker, Tweedy, and another surname. Cheryl! Exactly, there you go. So that was like, that was like an obvious one. And then it was like,


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[Assistant] What was the name of the king in the 1991 movie? Uhm. Which one? That one movie that came out. Eponymous movie. Right. Uh, about...


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[Assistant] Ralph! Of course. That's my brother's name, you see. Uhm, but I obviously couldn't, I got Cheryl and I was like, oh that's quits this, but then I didn't get any of the others so I didn't, I didn't actually make the connection.


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[Assistant] Which one was it? It was which singer songwriter from Scotland shares a surname with the second most recent Doctor Who.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's Lewis, it's Lewis Capaldi. Um, so that was, I didn't get that. I wouldn't have got that either. One of them was, what's, what name comes from the


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[Assistant] Old meaning God's greatest gift or something like that.


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[Assistant] Is it Gordon Brown? It was Gordon Brown, that's right. I got it. And I forgot about, uh, David Cameron.


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[Assistant] A lot of the time I'm actually watching a TV show or movie and I don't know the name of the character. And I feel like I don't care either. I'm like, who's Jill? Oh, the main character. Okay, cool.


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[Assistant] It's not really necessary a lot of the time, although I will say, uh, I recently watched Dark on Netflix, which has been out for like years. Um, but it's like this German, um, time travel-y sort of show. It's not really a spoiler to say that. Um. Oh great, now I can't watch it.


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[Assistant] But the problem is it's because it's got like these, it's got a huge cast of people.


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[Assistant] And it's also got the older, or the, sorry, the younger versions of them, if you like, because it's time travel based.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it's like, so infuriating because I had to keep pausing and being like, okay, so.


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[Assistant] Who the fuck is, so this guy's, I mean time travel on its own is a nightmare to like try and, you know, go through in your brain. Watching these time travel movies, you're like, sometimes you'll just, you'll feel like your brain just like explodes.


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[Assistant] A beginning, a middle and an end, like a finished and written story. You know, I think, I think what they should have done was they should have gotten agreement with George RR Martin, which said, we're going to get someone to help you finish these books.


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[Assistant] So, I mean, I love those of the age documentaries where you get to see, you know, 90s people talking about 90s things. Is there something sort of slightly authentic about it? I don't know.


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[Assistant] We had a Minecraft question. So it was like, which, uhm, what was the original title given to Minecraft? Was it, uh, Order of the Stone?


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[Assistant] Was it cave game, or was it, uhm, something else? I'm gonna go with cave game. It was called cave game, that's right, apparently. Because it's obviously not something else. I didn't, yeah, but I didn't. He gave it some other, he called it some other thing. Did you know?


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[Assistant] No, I didn't even realise it was called cave game. I've never seen, have ever even heard that question before. Well, then again, I probably have, but I've forgotten it because I'm old and useless. And then he gave my mum a question about, for some reason,


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[Assistant] He was like, what is the scientific term for an agent that can cause disease?


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[Assistant] You were saying that, that Snooper is one level down from Sniper. I'd quite like to play, you know those Sniper Elite games? Sniper Elite, I think would be interesting. You have to sneak in there and like observe stuff.


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[Assistant] Because I watched a thing about the police, I think I spoke about it, the drugs thing, we spoke about it last week. One of the guys on the show, it looks like a really boring job, all he did was observe the main target. Day in, day out, followed him to the golf course, reported what kind of golf clubs he had, what he was wearing, who he was with.


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[Assistant] And just went garden center, following to the garden center. I'm thinking there isn't really a game where you just watch and try and, try and divine something about people. Oh. Is there?


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[Assistant] You've got to question his motives. His motive would be, is there blood in it? You know, well, we need you to solve the case, Dragon, that's your job. My job is to get the blood.


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[Assistant] People's, people's, uh, you know, reluctance to, to, uh, to read about sex and to write it, I guess. And, you know, gender, norms and everything else has changed. So I think people are just kind of like, they're cool with it now. You know, people aren't as fussed.


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[Assistant] You know what, I definitely think the Sopranos had random sex stuff thrown in. Like it, like I said when we were talking about it the other, the other month, I felt that a lot of the time they were like, right, someone's gonna die this episode and it's gonna be some sexist episode and Tony's gonna see his therapist. Work those three things in. Because there were times when Tony was fucking someone you thought,


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[Assistant] What's this for? Like, what is this for? Like, there's one where he goes to an office, and the receptionist is there, and he just bangs her over the desk, and I'm like, I get it, it's in the character of Tony's Mezzobilla, but he's not exactly irresistible. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I don't think it's ever felt that the young man is taking advantage of the older woman, I think. I think the assumption is that older people have more experience and...


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[Assistant] But not by much, not by as much. But in Hollywood, I was watching Outbreak, the movie Outbreak was on TV the other week, uh, we, again, we spoke about this recently because of Covid, and we noticed it again, uh, René Rousseau is in that movie. René Rousseau was the go-to


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[Assistant] Woman who looks old enough to be with a slightly older guy, and she doesn't look like ultra young, she never really looked like youthful. No, yeah. You always got the impression she was middle-aged. Dustin Hoffman was old as fuck when that movie was made. The age difference between this couple is nearly 20 years. Every time you watch a Hollywood movie,


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[Assistant] Go and look at the age of the woman who's meant to be the main love interest of the fella.


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[Assistant] I think it probably is a bias, and I think the bias is probably that we assume that women aren't into anything for the sex. They must have some ulterior motive, like some kind of sinister force. Whereas men, of course, we're far too notified.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think there is some weird, uh, some weird norm there where we automatically assume that if a guy's fucking a granny, you know, that dude would probably fuck a pavement as well, you know, or a bicycle.


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[Assistant] I mean there's all those, there's those video compilations of her refusing to hold his hand or like smiling and then as soon as he turns his back frowning, you know, I don't think they have a particularly good relationship.


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[Assistant] Oh, I, uh, I have a, uh, a PFLAX's ticker update.


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[Assistant] We were both, they inevitably ask, what do you do? And I have to say, well, I play video games. And they're like, oh, you test video games. I was like, no, I just sort of play them and then stream it and...


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[Assistant] And then you have to explain that, because people haven't really, a lot of people of our age haven't really heard of this as a job. Well it's all kind of new and interesting. So he wanted to know more, and then he said, I used to play a lot of video games. I was like, oh really? He goes, yeah. Have you ever heard of Football Manager? I was like, oh yeah!


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[Assistant] We started talking about Football Manager, and he was, we were talking about tactics, formations, we were talking about players, and he used to play it the late 90s and the very early 2000s, which is when I used to play a load of Football Manager and Championship Manager as it was back then.


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[Assistant] And we were talking and he was saying, you know, there was a broken formation in the early ones where you could play five attackers and you'd always win. I was like, I know. And my friend even figured out that you could not play a goalie and the left back would just fill in in the goalie slot if you needed to. So he'd always play with 11 outfield players. We were laughing about that for like five minutes. And he was like, oh yeah, anyway, let's get on with, back to your heart. But I was just like, this guy's awesome.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'd spoke to him about SVT. No, no, no, I spoke to him about SVT and he was like, I do this all the time, it's way more common than you think. I was like, great.