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[Assistant] I think people know that unless, unless the actual movement comes from the top, and they, they, and I mean globally, we're fucked. It doesn't matter how much we protest. They're just not gonna listen. I feel really bad. It sucks. Yeah, it does suck.


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[Assistant] It's not like the Gaia, where, you know, the Earth is like some living thing that just says, right, fuck this, and just clears out, and washes everybody away. I see, I think it is.


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[Assistant] I mean, if you're talking about, is the Earth structurally gonna be here, even if we are all dead? Of course. It's a planet. But that's not, that's not, that shouldn't be our goal. Our goal shouldn't be, well, the planet's still gonna be here.


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[Assistant] What's the most amazing thing? What's the most amazing thing about the planet Earth, do you think?


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[Assistant] So, so let's say that life on earth is the most amazing thing about it. Otherwise it's just another ball, right? It's an amazing thing. And you're saying, well if all the life gets wiped out, planet will be there, you'll sort yourself out. It'll create new life. That's a terrible, terrible aim. It's not an aim, it's just...


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[Assistant] Please let's not do that, alright? That's the worst political aim I've ever heard. Like there's, you can't go to, go to, before the Houses of Parliament say,


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[Assistant] Did you see that episode of The Office where Michael Scott is describing the pyramid scheme he's involved in to Jim? And he says, no, look, let me explain it to you again, Jim. And he draws like, here's Steve. Steve gives me and this other guy some, uh, customers and then we go and find more customers and he draws it out and then Jim just draws a pyramid around it all. And Michael goes, I've got to make a few phone calls.


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[Assistant] He convinced this woman that he was a spy. I don't know how you ever go for that as your go-to opening gambit lie, but the guy convinced this woman he was a CIA agent, under deep cover, had to disappear for weeks at a time for work, and he had to be really secretive, and he took loads of money off her, like, loads of money.


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[Assistant] And don't worry, you'll get it all back from the CIA. She believed the whole thing. One day, he's been gone a couple of weeks, a woman comes to the door and says, are you Tina? And she's like, yeah. And she, she says, well, I'm Terry's wife and he's been lying to you and telling you that he's a CIA agent. He's not. And she believed the whole thing, lost like, you know, loads of money and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] And this guy was just able to fucking lie to her face, day in day out, the most stupid fucking lie you've ever heard. Like if I said to you lads, lads, I know I haven't told you this before, but I'm a CIA agent under deep cover, and I need £100,000. Would you believe me? What are you gonna do with it? You gotta rescue some monkeys. I can't tell you at this time.


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[Assistant] I'll be Angelina Jolie. I'll take, I'll take Angelina. I'm not a big fan, like, she's nice, but, uh, she's a bit of a nut. But sure, if I have to be Angelina Jolie, carry on.


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[Assistant] What if I leaned even closer and said, Hey, would you like to purchase some kitchenware from Amway?


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[Assistant] So Amway, Amway had revenues of 8.8 billion dollars last year. So the company at the top level makes a fucking fortune.


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[Assistant] The, the, the guy uhm, who set it up, Richard DeVos.


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[Assistant] One of the richest people in America is a billionaire, he owns the Orlando Magic baseball team, right? He's the 60th wealthiest person in the US and the 205th richest in the world. How many people that sell Amway stuff can say that they actually make


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[Assistant] The whole point of Amway is that you're meant to get wealthy from selling shit, right? And obviously it's all being funneled massively towards the top. They've been, if you look at the Amway fucking history, look how many investigations and legal things and lawsuits and shit that are super fucking shady. I don't understand how you can still fall for it. I really don't.


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[Assistant] She's got arthritis and stuff and I'm just like, would you fucking sit down? Like we barely finished dinner and she's loading the dishwasher. And I actually want her to not, I want her to come up here to relax. She spends time with the kids. That's what I want.


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[Assistant] To the shop. Oh, you know, it's just like, can you just not, can you just get by? But she can't. She cannot do it.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone and welcome back to the Triforce Podcast. Yeaah, we're doing it! The most consistent podcast on the internet, TM. We've done it.


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[Assistant] We're more consistent than who are some other big podcasters? Geez, I've got no idea. Russell Brand. We're more consistent than Russell Brand.


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[Assistant] I sense a bit of zeal of the recently converted there. Like, you know, I've been a Buddhist for five minutes and now everybody needs to be one because it's so amazing.


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[Assistant] I've got all these cool things to tell you about it and it's changed my life and...


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[Assistant] You're not allowed to talk about other people.


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[Assistant] They got their own state. They do lots of fundraisers as well. Yeah. Lots and lots of fundraisers.


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[Assistant] No, they're just, you know what they're hoping for? They're hoping to catch you like on a bad day when you're like depressed or, you know, you just lost your dog or something and then that's when they swoop in and mind control you.


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[Assistant] I think my big beef with religion is that I get the, I get the feeling that people who are doing all this stuff are doing it to like,


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[Assistant] It just seems a bit, I don't know, it doesn't seem...


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[Assistant] That's the feeling I get, pardon my ignorance, I'm sure that people are going to disagree, but that's how I perceive it.


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[Assistant] Well, anyway, welcome to the Triforce podcast proudly sponsored this week by Jehovah's Witnesses Association of America. Yeah. And the, uh, and the church of the.


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[Assistant] Of the Holy Redeemer, Latter Day Saints, and uhm, the Mormons. We used to, I don't know if you remember Flax when you were in North America, maybe you were too young, but they used to always have those commercials on TV. Yes, I was literally just...


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[Assistant] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They always have like a kid helping an old woman rake leaves in her front yard and stuff. It was always.


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[Assistant] The thing is, I'm not anti-religion. I'm not, I don't know, like, I don't know where I stand on it. I have opinions, uhm, for and against, obviously, and I don't know where that puts me.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure if I strictly believe in God, like a glowing man in space or in heaven or whatever. Like, I don't know if I believe that. I don't know if that exists.


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[Assistant] The idea that people are religious and they form a community around it and they provide things, services to the community, like support and help and a place for people to gather and be together and do stuff, that I'm all for. I think that that side of it is fantastic.


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[Assistant] When, once you get people involved, it's, it never is, is it? There's always some fucking asshole trying to create his power silo or, you know, do a financial scam or molest somebody or whatever, you know, and it, it just ruins it all, every time. So depressing.


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[Assistant] Where the old grandma is clearly about 500 years old and the hourglass for Coco, the grandma, I don't want to spoil anything if you haven't seen the movie, but that's the grandma, uhm, was just sort of forgotten about. And then when he found the hourglass, boom, Coco died.


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[Assistant] Slowly moved his head downwards to look at a shifting mass between his legs and said, cup the balls, work the shaft.


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[Assistant] I read it's like that about everything though. Like literally somebody accidentally falls asleep at their keyboard and you know, a string of random characters and that gets gilded and upvoted to hell. Like it's, you know, it's, that's red for you.


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[Assistant] No, I just, I just go lol. Even when it's not, not funny. It's like, hey, long time no talk lol. Uhm, hope, hope you're doing well. Uhm, my, my, my recovery from my debilitating disease is going as well as expected lol. Lmao. Lmao, yea.


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[Assistant] I haven't read anything for a long time. I go through phases though, like my whole life is, is weird phases and they're like seasonal too. Like I find sort of at the end of the summer.


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[Assistant] September going into October, I want to play a very mindless, grindy game. Like, and if I look back two, three years, those are the times where I played a lot of Diablo.


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[Assistant] A lot of Overwatch, and like, it's crazy, like I can see these patterns, like all the time. I find after Christmas, like March going into like June,


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[Assistant] I am more up for like you know, a bunch of different games and stuff.


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[Assistant] Usually over the summer, I tend to watch a lot more TV and movies and stuff, but there's no time in the year for me now to read books. Like that's not part of my cycle, unless something really awesome comes by.


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[Assistant] On BBC One, proudly sponsoring this podcast as well.


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[Assistant] Didn't you get a whole bunch of pamphlets in your mail saying to get your vaccinations and stuff and get your kids vaccinated and vaccinate your dog and vaccinate your mailman and vaccinate your butt.


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[Assistant] I was just sitting there watching, uh, this documentary that I've been watching. It's a, it's a, it's a fucking the biggest documentary I've ever watched. It's really good. I'll tell you about in a minute. Okay. But, um, and then all of a sudden my nose just started fucking pouring with like, you know, clear liquid snot. So like I was.


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[Assistant] I had this mountain of tissues next to me where I was like blowing my nose constantly.


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[Assistant] So anyway, I'm watching this documentary on Netflix. It is a ten part series and each episode is between like an hour and a half and two hours long.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, it's good, isn't it? Oh, fuck, it's really good. It's, uh, it's crazy and unbelievable and just really well done. Really well done. I like all the stories of like the people that went and, you know, the, just like the, just the general heartbreak behind all of it. It's terrible.


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[Assistant] They learned nothing from the French doing the exact same thing like 10 years before they started. Like the French literally went through all of the same motions and all of the same...


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[Assistant] Disapproval back home, they lost a ton of troops, they spent a ton of money just trying to keep this country subjugated and they couldn't do it.


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[Assistant] Their support for the South was insane really when you think that not a single government in the South of Vietnam was ever even remotely credible. Like they were just, you know, generals, corrupt as shit. Like, you know, they never had anyone decent running the South.


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[Assistant] It was, yeaah, it was a big thing, dodging the draft and going to Canada at the time, which I didn't realize. But uhm, but yeaah, a lot of people, as sort of like discontent with the war, um, escalated and escalated and escalated, more and more people were just like,


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[Assistant] You know, fuck this, I'm not going. Like they did like the draft, um, lottery thing Nixon did.


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[Assistant] You know where it was like, if you were born in this, uh, aid, uh, like date range or whatever, you had to go. Didn't matter what class you were from and stuff. So all of a sudden, like all these people who were sure that they wouldn't ever get drafted, who were just gonna go to school and be doctors and stuff like that were like, yeah, okay, well you're drafted. So that's what happened.


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[Assistant] That's crazy, but they don't, I don't know, like, I think like later on it was like that, but at first it was very much, you know, the day and age was.


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[Assistant] You know, I believe what the president's saying, like, why would he lie to us, sort of thing, like, I'm gonna serve my country, it's gonna be glorious. You know, like, they had all, like, the sort of right ideas, but when they got there and did their tours and stuff, they sort of realized that holy shit, what a fucking mess this is.


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[Assistant] It reminded me a little bit of like the wire too, with like the stats reporting and the body counts and stuff like that, you know, like how, how it, it, it went from being about something to just being some statistical gaming, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] My, my son's starting to learn about, they're, they're teaching history, you know, to, to six year olds, you know, so it's very basic history, but they, I think they've, they've started teaching him or mentioning World War One and, and my son's questions about it are,


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[Assistant] Are hilarious because it's like, you can't really convey how.


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[Assistant] So he thinks that there's, and I guess to some degree he's right, there are sort of rules and stuff around wars, you know, like there's conventions established to prevent or hopefully prevent people from


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[Assistant] Uhm, taking things like too far or like against civilians especially and stuff like that. But, his questions are all like, like,


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[Assistant] He thinks it's like a nine to five job sort of thing. And I guess sometimes maybe it is a little bit like that too. Uhm, cause like soldiers have to sleep at some point, but like.


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[Assistant] He's got that childhood innocence and, you know, the sort of ideas he gets from watching cartoons and movies and TV shows.


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[Assistant] No, not just that, like, you know, even in that documentary, I was, I was surprised, you know, you hear people that come back from wars and they've got post-traumatic stress, which probably wasn't diagnosed properly back then. Uh, or you know, even in like the, in the world wars and stuff, but the, the, the long-term effects of, um,


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[Assistant] Being in, in, in a war, being in combat, taking another life, you know, like all of these things.


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[Assistant] They, they fuck you up for the rest of your life. There's a guy in the documentary that said that he was so petrified, you know, some nights they'd sleep in the jungle.


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[Assistant] And you'd hear whispering all over the place. And it was, you know, Viet Cong like moving and whispering and he was just terrified and he can't sleep without a nightlight now.


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[Assistant] For the rest of his life, he's actually like a grown man afraid of the dark and his kids


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[Assistant] You know, I don't think that people back then when they signed up thought about all this stuff. You know what I mean? Like, it's just crazy.


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[Assistant] Korea was a two-parter though, right? Like the first part, uhm, was against North Korea, but then North Korea had


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[Assistant] So I think at first North Korea lost a bunch of territory and then China sort of came in and said okay well we'll help you take it all back and then they took it all back.


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[Assistant] Well, it's so controversial. I mean, it was, it was the first time really that there was like, uh, uh, uh, a massive, you know, revolution like around it and stuff too, right?


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[Assistant] I think in Vietnam you had a lot of war correspondence, a lot of coverage that might have been different as well.


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[Assistant] Whereas in the World Wars, there was, there was a lot of press censorship around the kind of stuff that they could report and the things that they could say. I don't know if that extended to the Korean War.


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[Assistant] But in Vietnam, certainly there wasn't any real press censorship, so reporters could go over and just call it as they saw it, sort of thing. So like, whilst the military was trying to weave this huge tale about


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[Assistant] Nobody is gaining territory or anything conventionally. It's, it's a mess. Like people are dying all the time. Nobody even knows who the enemy is and stuff. And I think once people started realizing


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[Assistant] All of that stuff, that's when they really started questioning like, why are we over there? You know, like the average American had never even heard of Vietnam before, like as a country, knew nothing about it.


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[Assistant] What the fuck? Why are we over there? What are we doing? Like, what's- why is it so important? Like-


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[Assistant] And they'd always just come back and say, well, because we don't want communism to spread. And I guess like, fair enough, but I don't think it was enough in the end to convince people. I think, I think everybody just got really fucked off.


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[Assistant] I turned to Dave and said, I will allow you to write one last letter to anyone of your choosing. Who will it be? And Dave said, my mother. And death said, begin writing. So Dave opened up, dear mother, here I am with death in Vietnam. LOL. Happy face.


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[Assistant] Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Triforce Podcast with me, Sips and Piri and Flax. Hello. I had a week off. It was nice. What episode is this number? What are we doing?


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[Assistant] That, actually. I love that trope of the frozen guy wakes up and everything's gone to shit on some horrible dystopian thing.


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[Assistant] It's an explorative game, in the sense that it doesn't have objectives, it's a quest tracker, you kind of, you're just left to sort of do what you want and you've got a sort of journal that you sort of unpick a story and it's


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[Assistant] Discovering all these crazy mysteries and landing on planets, it's exciting. It's great.


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[Assistant] And it's about, and happiness is about, happiness isn't the opposite of sadness, happiness is the opposite of boredom. Right? Happiness is the opposite. It's like trying to-


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[Assistant] It's, it's about like, like forming positive habits if you're going to do them, but also like breaking out of routines to, to, to, to, to give yourself like a bit of excitement, a bit of something different every day, right?


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[Assistant] Man, so no, I went on holiday this week. Where'd you go? I went to Rome. What'd you think? The City of... Angels? I dunno, was it the Eternal City? God knows what it's called.


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[Assistant] So, I will obviously like, okay, first of all, being a tourist, I think, is, feels like a dirty word. I think of tourist as like, a future insult, right? People will be like, heh, fucking tourist. I mean, it is basically an insult. It is now, yea, kind of insulting.


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[Assistant] And I went and did all the touristy shit, and all the touristy shit was horrible, because of the amount of fucking people there. That's a lot of people. And, and, and just, just, you can't...


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[Assistant] Can't avoid it, you know, the Coliseum and the Vatican City, they're, they're, they're ramped. You're like on a conveyor belt as you walk through and it's like so many fucking people and they're very epic to see. Uhm, but it's kind of like you look up and you're like, wow, and then you're instantly like worried about being jostled by the guy in front of you and stuff. It's like, fuck me. So it's hell of an experience.


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[Assistant] This is why I could never work in anything that is either in hospitality where you have to like, deal with people every day.


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[Assistant] But equally people are just assholes. I think for every nice guy you get an asshole. I went to like Rome Zoo and you know, you go to like the fucking, through this area and it's like, this is the dark room, don't flash your camera in here, and who's in front of me?


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[Assistant] A fucking parent with taking flash photographs of their kids. Who's behind me? A guy with his camera phone with like super bright fucking volume like, I can't see anything in here, get the phone, get your flashlight out. I'm like, for fuck's sake, what am I looking like people?


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[Assistant] Hell is other people. Like, it makes me so angry seeing that kind of shit, man. It is, but like, you gotta look at it from the other side too.


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[Assistant] Rome, Rome, Rome was fine. Like I feel like a little bit like it's run by Italians who are a little bit, I don't know if their economy is at breaking point or if they're like just a little bit lazy and it's just like the Italian way of living where they're just a little bit laid back.


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[Assistant] Everything is just a bit shit. Bearing in mind that the Colosseum is like, fucking the most popular tourist attraction in the world, like every year, it gets like 7.5 billion people, it's the most, most visited place. Judging, bearing in mind that the, that the ticketing system is completely AIDS, uh, to the point where you kinda have to like,


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[Assistant] The streets are filled with, I guess it's like this in every major city, okay?


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[Assistant] But the streets are filled with these guys' sags. Skip the line, skip the line, there's like loads and loads of people who are wearing non-


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[Assistant] Like, okay, let me talk about Rome for a second. First of all, Rome, what the fuck is it with toilet seats? Okay, what year are we living in, right? Every single, I don't think I've found a single toilet seat in Rome. And it's not that they're building toilets without toilet seats. Every toilet has its toilet seat ripped off.


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[Assistant] Because it's insane, like I went to some of the biggest tourist attractions and also I tried to get off the beaten path a bit and went to some much nicer places and I did went to some amazing palaces and art galleries where no one was there and they were fucking beautiful. But the toilets were like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, you know what, that is smart, but I kind of, I didn't do that this time, um, cause my hotel was kind of on the outskirts. So I sort of spent the day walking around, cause it was nice, nice enough weather. I went to little gardens and stuff. Anyway, you know, every fucking coffee shop, I, I, I'm like, Oh God, I need to shit. So I find a coffee shop. But of course it's a really nice coffee shop. The toilet is like just a fucking disaster area.


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[Assistant] When you tried to open the door and it didn't open, you banged on the door and you were trapped in there.


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[Assistant] It had a nice toilet seat, it was really clean. Must have been brand new. I swear to god, okay.


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[Assistant] Obviously, Rome is beautiful, but there's like, there's like, I think there's this gang sort of, like, attitude. Like, there's a...


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[Assistant] Well, someone's either hit them in the face and knocked the nose off, or they've, when they've toppled over, they've hit themselves in the nose, because the nose is always protruding.


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[Assistant] Half the fucking statues in Rome look like Voldemort. The rest don't have fucking heads. And there's no toilet seats. I mean, Rome is to me the city of headless fucking statues and no toilet seats. Also, people just driving, like, into...


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[Assistant] Literally Roman architecture. There's like a Roman sort of bit of Roman aqueduct ruins. People just fucking, like, it's like a three lane motorway through that, you know, with no fucking, it's like crazy. And I mean, the other thing about driving in Rome, like obviously everyone knows they all just beat their way down one way streets on mopeds and stuff. But actually, more, more recklessly was,


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[Assistant] It really made me take for granted that the traffic crossings, like you know in America, every road has like, every junction has a...


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[Assistant] It's like a bit more orderly, like- You can walk in a straight line for an hour and you have to go across like ten crossings, but in Rome it's just kind of similar except-


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[Assistant] There are no traffic lights, right? And there are no fucking crossings. And what you've got is like some faded white lines on an eight lane super motorway and you just have to fucking Vietnam your way across it. Like his fucking cars like zip zapping around you, taxis like beeping you and you're just


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[Assistant] You just have to sort of, after a while, you're just like, fuck it, I'm just taking my lives into my own hands. And like, I don't know whether I'm maybe...


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[Assistant] Yeah, just, just flat outside, a big fucking crossing, uhm, with no lights, nothing, and you're just cars zooming past you, and I'm like, they clearly, this is, they've chosen not to put traffic lights here.


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[Assistant] I mean, I get it, like, when I cross the road here in the UK, like, I see the green man and I just fucking walk. I don't wait for traffic to stop, I don't check or anything. Really? And sometimes cars are fucking, well, a lot of the time you're reassured by that, right? What are you, two years old? You've got a fucking choke.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm looking a little bit, you know, but sometimes, it's, sometimes you don't necessarily don't pay as much attention when it says you can go, so you go.


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[Assistant] And I wonder how many accidents are caused in that situation where, on the Italian version, you're fucking fearing for your life, like every second of the day. It's like, uh, uh, uh, and you're like, you know, you kind of have to force yourself to not


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[Assistant] Because of that fucking hedgehog. It was that hedgehog. Follow, do you remember him? No. The fucking green cross cone hedgehog. He fucking, he was like, don't get hit by a car, mate, or else you'll get fucking towed to a patty.


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[Assistant] That was pretty good though, it's better than mine. So talking about like gangs, right, crazy people in Rome, the other major fucking things that were really surprising to me, and I'm sure they're, they're like seeing another major season in London too, is there's two groups and I


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[Assistant] The cry of selfie selfie is like, and they're quite pushy, but not that.


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[Assistant] Well the current thing that I saw about a hundred of was they have a little table, okay, a little wooden table, and they have this uhm, squishy like ball, it's like a slime ball with eyes, and you


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[Assistant] Throw it at the table from highlight as if you're throwing it at the floor. And it splats like a completely flat, okay, on the table and makes like a meh sound like a pfft, like a meh sound. And it's really, it's kind of funny but also annoying, okay. And you could imagine kids just loving it, like little kids seeing that and definitely wanting one.


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[Assistant] And every west from like Spanish Steps to the Trevi Fountains to the Colosseum, there is one of those guys every like...


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[Assistant] So okay, they're not that pushy about it, okay. They're, they're, but, but they're all very, they're all, they're part of a gang. It's clearly like-


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[Assistant] Well, this is what I've found. It's like ghost, there's like ghost shops, okay, which are like off the, off the, off the, like the shops that aren't, don't have like an, uh, they look like a house or a front, right? But you don't, a little bit like a ghost restaurant. So Deliveroo and these, uh, and Uber Eats and all these other big like food transfer companies like Grubhub, I think is the big one in America.


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[Assistant] They've caused the rise of these things called ghost restaurants, who are people who sell stuff to those food delivery services, but don't actually have an actual premises, an open restaurant. They just do it out of their house.


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[Assistant] Fucking hell, the amount of squatty shits I had to do, I've never done so many in my life. I mean, I had to do a couple in Japan, because they had a few hole in the grounds, and I've had to do a few in France and stuff before, and Germany occasionally.


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[Assistant] Poop regular chat. There's another gang, okay, who are much more, who are quite different, okay, and I looked up these guys, and apparently these guys are all from like Senegal.


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[Assistant] Okay, and they're these big black guys, they're all big, like, like six foot. And they are super friendly, like big smiles, like, hey, how you doing? Like nice to meet you. And as soon, and they like try and shake your hand or like fist bump you or high five you, and they're like super chatty, really in your face.


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[Assistant] And they're like, where you from? Blah blah blah. And as soon as they can, like if you like shake their hand, they'll, they'll wrap like a bracelet around your wrist.


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[Assistant] And it is, it is the most obnoxious thing.


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[Assistant] They want, they want like a note, like a five euro note or ten euro note. And it's like, oh, oh boy. And the thing is like sometimes, like I started finding myself getting less and less tolerant towards them. Okay. As it went on, first of all, I was like, oh, hey, sorry. No, hello. They're like anti-tourists.


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[Assistant] I never snapped at any of them. I never was like, fuck off, but I was very close to it. I was very, very close to saying, fuck off. Anyway, one time I did actually, um, cause one guy tried to like, tried to throw one at me, right? Cause he wanted me to catch it and I just dodged and it fell on the floor.


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[Assistant] He fucking, so he goes, so he was like, he's like, oh, you're having a bad day, man. I was like, I'm sorry. He obviously has an accent. I don't want to do it because it's racist, but I feel like it's part of it though, right? Because you can tell that they're all like part of this gang, it feels like.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and anyway, so I was like, oh, well not really. And he's like, oh, do you not like black people, man? And I was like, what do you mean? I was like, I was just sort of stunned by that. I was like, the reason I don't want to talk to you and buy your fucking bracelet is not because I don't like black people.


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[Assistant] Those frankly overrated, uhm, you know, tourist hotspots, partly because they're ruined by the tourists, uhm, like Trevi Fountain.


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[Assistant] I don't know, like, ugh. It's really mind, it's a mindfuck. Uhm, anyway, I did have a great time, actually. I really enjoyed getting out to some of these places that weren't.


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[Assistant] I'm sure there's some, I mean only sort of was really in the central, central like sort of 5 mile, 10 mile radius of it. I'm sure outside on the outskirts there's probably some absolute shitholes.


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[Assistant] Well, this is, this is what I heard as well, but I, I was like, I wanted to see the Civ wonders. Yes, of course. No, I mean, you've gotta go to Rome once I think. And then I can go to the better places later. Cause I thought if I went to Florence first, and then went to Rome, I'd just be like, oh fuck.


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[Assistant] It's either bigger or smaller than you expected and there's more people there than you realised there would ever be ever.


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[Assistant] Some of the best things I've found were like, just completely, just bumped into when you were going around somewhere that you got slightly, you know, sidetracked, like you walked a couple of streets. Thing is, if you walk a couple of streets in the wrong direction in San Francisco, you'll get into like the fucking drug overdose district.


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[Assistant] You know, if you walk a couple of districts in the wrong direction in Rome, you'll fucking go into this beautiful Roman fucking park and there'll be like orange trees there. You'll be the only person there. There'll be like a ruins of a villa. You'll like walk up to it. You'll be like, fuck, can you imagine what it was like to live here in this time? And like, you know, it's a very different feel. Um, but no, I definitely like.


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[Assistant] I definitely got, I mean Rome is one of these places where the Romans really feel very attached to the stuff, whereas actually,


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. They're the most sort of dedicated Romans that they had.


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[Assistant] I also saw a lot of, I saw like 5 or 6 people who were high on aerosols doing those space pictures.


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[Assistant] You look at them and they look like the dirtiest homeless guy ever and he's like got some like pink spray paint, you know, up his nose from where he's been sniffing it or whatever, like, and uhm, and...


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[Assistant] And they're using like the dirtiest like mismatched set of plates and pots and pans to do these art. And they have like a dirty bit of newspaper or whatever and they tear off a bit of that and they sort of skankily drop that on the fucking art. But it comes out like...


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[Assistant] Fucking space scenes, okay? And they're obviously very simple, and obviously they can teach the next, you know, aerosol-addled lunatic to do them, you know. But, like, I dunno, there's something...


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[Assistant] There's something there, like, you can see that it's just not shit enough to get people to buy it. But the whole, like, fact that they're selling it on the street and making it with such skanky materials is so off-putting.


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[Assistant] At the same time, you know? You know, he wasn't fucking Michelangelo, was not fucking lying on his back at the top of the fucking Sistine Chapel.


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[Assistant] It's like, what the fuck are you, do you know what I mean? Like, it's such a contrast. But also, there's so much art and so many sculptors. They obviously did have, like, schools of people being taught.


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[Assistant] You know, often artists sort of took their pupils and they, they did the faces until their pupil, and their pupil just did all the background until they were good enough. You know, they were, especially like in the back of the day, they had like teams of apprentices.


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[Assistant] At the same time I'm like, mmmm. There's going to be guys selling selfie sticks on the street. What's the new selfie stick? Do you know what I mean? What is the next stick? In the cyberpunk world. Well, already selfie sticks are getting a bit...


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[Assistant] Like fucking, you know, your gran has them and your mum has them. You know, but they've, they've already turned the corner. Do you know what I mean? Like what's the next story? What were they selling 10 years ago? Cause selfie sticks weren't a thing then. Were they selling like hats?


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[Assistant] There's gotta be more stuff that we need, you know? No one was selling bottles of water. I guess they're too heavy to bring in from the fucking store.


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[Assistant] So what, Navy, Navy and Air Force pilots flying like fucking F-16s, at fucking Mach 3 or whatever, really fast, are seeing things that are moving even faster on the radar.


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[Assistant] There was a story about that this week because there were a load of UFO sightings and it turned out that Elon Musk was just sending up like a hundred new satellites or whatever. Right. So everyone was like, what the fuck are all these things?


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[Assistant] But instead, it never will be. Well, sometimes I fucking think, like, that we're, we're, that our technology was given us, it's given us by aliens. Like, do you know what I mean? Like, like how fucking...


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[Assistant] It's, it's, I know, I know, I know it's not alias, but it's, it's dazzlingly, it's dazzlingly complicated because it's, it's come, it's been an iterative process, I get it, the whole way. You know, you could look at like a hard drive and see that they used to be like the size of a fucking room and you could see every single, it's like an evolution of man, each hard drive gets smaller and smaller.


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[Assistant] Until you've got like a fucking micro SD card with like more memory than a fucking Apple Mac. Each hard drive, less hairy than the last. That's the key to advancement. Oh, Jesus Christ. Anyway, like fucking aliens, man. I don't think they're real, but uhm. You don't?


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[Assistant] Holy shit. Okay, that's trifles for today. All right. Thanks everybody. Um, that was a good one. We'll be back next week. Yeah. Um, where we back to business as normal talking about the same old shit week in week out. That's right. I won't have gone away. There's one thing you can depend on.


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[Assistant] And why does this man seem to have so many bitches all up on his dick and balls?


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[Assistant] Hello everybody and welcome back to the Triforce Podcast with me, Pyrrhon Flax and


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[Assistant] And then we both went off and did our stuff and I think you watched like...


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[Assistant] Did, they supervised him doing stuff for like three or four years. He was actually like, these kids were like working with Michael on stage shows and stuff and like, I would still fucking be there for every minute of it. I see, I know. I just watched the documentary though because you won't be so angry about it when you realise how clever he was about like hiding it, you know, and how correct he was about hiding it.


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[Assistant] I think there should be, but also, you know, when you're fighting against someone who is, um, you know, very devious and actually goes very smart about how they go about it.


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[Assistant] I was digging oil in Texas and you know, then I got to be fucking this huge owner of the whole fucking...


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[Assistant] You know, 1% of the money in America or whatever. It's like, it kind of goes out of control and I don't think that people deserve it sometimes and deserve this high status. It just happens, doesn't it?


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[Assistant] Like a squeaky toy. Yeah, yeah. You have to watch these doxymentries man, it's a rough,


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[Assistant] It's weird how we talk, it's weird because, I dunno, it's like we hate it but we can't stop talking about it as well, do you know what I mean? I guess, but we're not like consumers of that stuff.


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[Assistant] Someone who's got like, well don't you know who that is? He's got 13,000 Instagram followers or something. And I'm like, uh, what?


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[Assistant] Everyone has like celebrities in their own field and it's, it's gonna be like, I like that about, about it, but you know, it depends what you spend a lot of time on. If you spend time on Instagram, if you love Instagram and you follow it, then you'll know who the top


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[Assistant] So I think like we get, we're definitely like, we talked about this before, but like fatigue with certain things, like, and I think I sort of figured it out. People are very angry.


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[Assistant] Kind of go either way, a lot of people who are undecided and as a result you just, you see a lot of the media and stuff that we get exposed to that fatigues us.


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[Assistant] Anyway, that was a thought I had this week in the shower. Nice.


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[Assistant] It's just, it's just everywhere. It's like, it's just so in your face, I guess. Yeah. If you hang out on certain, like social media things, like Reddit. Yeah. If you hang out there, it's kind of unavoidable that it gets in your face. And I'm trying to, I'm trying to like block Reddit.


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[Assistant] So one thing I watched this week that was super interesting was uhm, this guy who's running for president, I think his name's like Andrew Wang, maybe? And uhm, could be wrong. And he was on like Joe Rogan's show. It was quite interesting because he, he kind of, it's this Asian guy running for president and he's sort of,


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[Assistant] Almost has this kind of slightly apocalyptic view of the next sort of 10 years where we're gonna have all self-driving cars and self-driving trucks like taking over in America and putting like


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[Assistant] The kind of dystopian futures that we possibly might approach are not things like caused by a meteor or a super volcano or a fucking, you know, global pandemic or whatever. You know, it might just be something as simple as, you know,


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[Assistant] Also, if you look at New McDonald's, they have like big, um, order boards now. There's a new co-op near my place. It's got six self-checkouts and one normal checkout. Same. Same with the Tesco's near us. That used to be six people and now it's one person and six robots. And that's not, they're not robots, really.


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[Assistant] But, but, but, but, it's a sliding scale as well, right? Because you'll still need a few people for a while. But then, but then it kind of gets, like, I think even like certain jobs that you guys, that we traditionally figured are safe, right, like haircuts, uhm, apparently could be done by robots, which sounds mental.


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[Assistant] It's scary because everyone's job is like, well, am I going to be faced with this? Who knows? Like teachers, you know, like what, like teaching is this massive mega thing, right?


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[Assistant] Listen, I think there could be a world where, especially judging from the earlier chat that we had in this podcast about, you know,


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[Assistant] No, but you know what I mean, I'm not, I'm not the one suggesting it, but I'm suggesting that the world that we're living in might lead towards these people being, you know, like there's no male teachers because, because of this, right, as well. Like, like I would never really be very comfortable being a male teacher. I know some male teachers. Like a primary school teacher. I know some male teachers.


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[Assistant] Like happy and satisfied and fulfilled. We don't have to have these sucky things.


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[Assistant] I think even in this conversation that we're having, like, we have no real conception of what it's going to be like, though, when it changes. Like, it could be great, it could be weird, it could be anything, like, it's completely...


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[Assistant] We are talking about this. The thing is this, this juggernaut of infrastructure that keeps our modern world going of electricity and trucking and shipping and F and freight and mail and also like the fucking digital communications we have, like this is in the financial system.


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[Assistant] Modernized and brought into the real world with impacts that affect them and you know, you can have a guy in a control center in fucking Texas driving a


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[Assistant] You can have a fucking guy in a control centre in Australia.


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[Assistant] Having a fucking, you know, oil refinery monitoring the fucking automated gasoline refinery on the fucking coast, east coast of Africa that fucking puts stuff on a ship and ships it out. This is, this is touching it today, right? I agree what you're saying is that


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[Assistant] People don't have lives and don't necessarily need automation, uhm, and sometimes, in some parts of their life, I think people can still live a life completely off the grid and without it seeing it, but it is.


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[Assistant] Right now, it's cheaper, it's better, it's more effective, they change over. It's a very quick thing that happens and like, you know, sure, in our lifetimes it's probably...


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[Assistant] It's not going to be some sort of terrifying apocalypse, it's going to be a gradual process, but what I'm trying to say is that there's this movement of


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[Assistant] I get it, right? I get it, like, Sips, if you wanna have, like, your little, um, your garden, you wanna grow your vegetables, you wanna do everything, and you wanna raise your kids and do everything, like, independently, great, that's fine, but, like, at the same time- I'm not saying I wanna do that!


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[Assistant] They're doing it because they like making noodles. They like making the recipes and growing the vegetables themselves and buying them from local places. They like doing the cooking. They like meeting the people. They like serving it to people for a couple of hours a day and then fucking off and going home and, you know, maybe one day they don't feel like going out and doing their fucking noodle ban, so they go.


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[Assistant] I can't wait. Good night. Thanks for watching everyone. That's Triforce. We'll see you next week. Until then, goodbye!


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[Assistant] Consistently mediocre. Well, it's different being on stage. You know, it's a bit intense. It's like the lights are all on you. You feel like, you feel like you get instant feedback on all the laughs. That was weird. Sometimes you make a joke and no one laughs. Sometimes you just say normal stuff and everyone laughs and it's like, uh oh.


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[Assistant] People are just laughing at my normal stuff that I didn't intend to be funny.


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely different people laugh at different times, different people have different senses of humour. I think it was different for the audience. I spoke to some of the audience guys and they were like, oh, it was really nice to watch it with other people.


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[Assistant] They definitely weren't laughing at the same time I was sometimes, or they were like, some people said I laughed more when I was at home, and some people said they laughed more when they were here, like in the audience.


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[Assistant] I think maybe it's a different, maybe it's a different thing though. Like I can, I can see that some people might feel uncomfortable, but normally like in a crowd you feel like you can just, you know, sing along into the, laugh along into the crowd.


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[Assistant] We do do a lot of streaming and a lot of other things and you're always, there's always something in the background. Whereas actually this, this is kind of like a, even like a lunch meeting or something. You're all like thinking about what you're going to have for lunch. You're eating lunch. You know, you can't, sometimes you can't get a chance to actually just, just talk.


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[Assistant] Man, I'm loving it. Man, I loved it so much. It was good. I can imagine you just like bopping around the kitchen, hold like, like, like just with a grid on your face because you've got a mouthful of cereal just crunching down on that. Bopping, bopping. I can see it so clearly in my mind.


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[Assistant] This is just a beautiful window into your life, isn't it really?


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[Assistant] Old town road. Is this like a folk band from?


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[Assistant] It's about horses, obviously. People have been like asking him being like, you know, oh, you know, what, what is it about? Is it about like, is it like a metaphor for something? And he's like about horses.


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[Assistant] It's just, it's just about horses. It's, it's like a, but he, I mean, he's, he's like 20. He's just like a viral.


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[Assistant] The meme guy, it's weird. And you know, obviously he's come out and become like this big star about it. But like, you know, we live in a world where people can be like anonymous, you know, you don't have to live in Compton. You don't have to, you know, be part of that neighborhood to be hugely famous in like the music, popular music scene.


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[Assistant] Exactly. I dunno, like that whole, that whole like, I think, I think rap-


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[Assistant] This sort of world has always thrived from the drama, right? And benefited from...


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[Assistant] The killings and the early death of the artists and like, they're very rough, like offensive, like rivalries and stuff with each other and the drugs. They call it beef. They call it beef. Yeah. And the lamb and you know, the chicken, all of it.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's, I don't know, like it's, it's kind of, it's still a part of its day. Like you certainly.


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[Assistant] You see, like, the, the more controversial, the more ridiculous the people are, sometimes the better they, they do. Like, people who are like, 17 and covered from head to toe in tattoos and piercings, like, you know, uh.


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[Assistant] But, but like, do you, do you think that all you need to do for Musely Man to be like, like successful is just be as offensive as possible, right? Like just incredibly, but that's what it is, like these modern rap songs are like, they're like about having sex with bitches.


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[Assistant] I don't think it was, I don't think they would, no, I don't think they were back in the day, but I think some of them now feel like they're incredibly aggressive and like, like deliberately.


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[Assistant] I guess you just, there's nothing, there's no other like genre of anything where crime is, apart from maybe like the mafia kind of being cool, where crime is like celebrated, you know? Maybe the Yakuza or something. What about like folk music, old folk music?


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[Assistant] Muesli Man should do like, white collar crime. Like, uhm, like, inside a trading.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's true, you're right, you're right, but that's kind of, that's kind of in the same, I don't want to say the same world as rap, but it is, grime is definitely... It's in the same vein. I guess any other medium, you know, I guess there's not...


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[Assistant] Too many, like there's a lot of video games that you play as like a bad guy, right? And you can be like in Yakuza.


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[Assistant] Or uhm, I don't know, like lots of things like Fallout and The Witcher, like roleplay games, you can.


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[Assistant] Gta is a really good example of something where you can just, you know, do horrible stuff. So I suppose it does exist. And that's one of the most successful games of all time, GTA.


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[Assistant] They've never paid, I read this week that Rockstar never paid a single...


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, it's, it's just, it's a sign of the times guys. Like, you know, it's like a non, it came out kind of fairly just out of nowhere. And I guess that's what this, the world we live in, you know, it's exciting to hear, like to have like, like,


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[Assistant] I think it definitely went hand in hand though. I think his, like him and other people streaming the game and the game itself being like very, um, well built for an audience. It's the same thing that happened with Minecraft really. Um, you know, back in the day, there was certain.


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[Assistant] Like us, you know, we got big from Minecraft in the same way that he's gone big from, from Fortnite. But it did help that he was, he was an extremely, he was a pro gamer. Like people wanted to watch him to learn how to get better. You know, cause that's what, that's a lot of, that's a big reason for people to watch Twitch. That's why they watch us.


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[Assistant] Interesting, it's really interesting. I think he's obviously on the right time zones as well. I think we are, here in Europe, are not as well fitting into time zones.


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[Assistant] Definitely kids, people having kids later and later. That's something which is.


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[Assistant] I'm going to have a big, I'm going to have a big office tidy up. I've decided this weekend. I just want to, I want to sort of get a little bit of a.


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[Assistant] What you, what you mean? Like what kind of crap?


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[Assistant] Well, I've done like one shelf myself, but they take a lot of time. And I think that like, I've kept one of my armies fairly pure, which is like, but the rest of them, I just, I just couldn't be fucked.


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[Assistant] Nice. That's cool. I've got a lot of different hobbies, but I think that painting models is something I've


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[Assistant] I struggle with, I think, because it's such a fiddly little thing to do. You know, I like, you know those people who paint like on a, on a flipping pinhead or whatever and they do like amazing little tiny.


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[Assistant] My hands are shaky enough as it is, you know, like just from all the stress of this high profile, you know, public figure job. I don't know, like I'm just, I'm not very steady handed. I've never been able to really draw or like have any artistic kind of, you know, real skills. We're not judging you.


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[Assistant] It doesn't feel genuine, like, but at the same time, like, you know, these guys who


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[Assistant] It's a common thing on the internet to like undervalue other people's time. You know, they're like, Oh, can I get a logo? And they're like, you know, they, yeah, that'll be like 20 quid.


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[Assistant] But when you look at it, that's like 500 quid, that's like, you know, that's how much we pay our artists for like a week of work, you know, like that's how long it takes, you know, it takes like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, reward them. I know, it's funny. I mean that's something that robots won't be able to take over.


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[Assistant] No, so I mean this, I think the LHT has been featured quite heavily in sci-fi and like books and things about time warps and all sorts of shit. Like it basically, like there's one thing about time travel, which is that, you know, one of the theories about time travel is you can only time travel as far back as the first time machine was built, you see.


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[Assistant] So people think that the people use the IHC as this idea that you could warp into it somehow, but it's not really built like that. It's more like a kind of very fine cable about sort of tiny millimeter wide and then a huge array of like magnets.


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[Assistant] And cooling chambers and stuff like this, you know, for 17 miles.


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[Assistant] Yeah, are you saying that you wanna, or they could go back in time and all these scientists could get laid so they wouldn't have to do all this nerd stuff?


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[Assistant] You're right. This is the kind of stupid fucking idiotic arguments that people come up with and are able to kind of posit forwards as reasons for why, you know, dumb stuff like, like, like this is the problem we have at the moment with climate change and all these other things that people just don't believe.


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[Assistant] But they need him to carry 320 gig. He accepts this knowing that the overflow will be uploaded directly into his brain.


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[Assistant] Movies were shorter. Like, do people nowadays have like, like movies these days, like Avengers Endgame is like three hours long, right? Like, is that standard now?


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[Assistant] It seems a bit, the Jurassic world was only just over two hours.


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[Assistant] It was like, you know, my parents got a new TV, you know, it was a huge CRT thing and where we had everyone over, like my cousins and my uncle's stuff and we all watched, it just turned it on, you know, cause we didn't have a VHS to play or anything, but we just watched TV and it had just happened to be Jason the Argonauts on there and we just watched it fucking loads of times. I was talking to Ben last week and, um, he's been painting up like, um, an army of,


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[Assistant] Like stone statues and skeletons, kind of Jason the Argonaut style, like uhm, stuff. Right. And while he was painting it, he watched it with his son, who's like four I think, uhm, and they, and it holds up.


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[Assistant] Fine, actually, it was like stop motion animation on the, on the creatures. It wasn't CGI, but it wasn't, it wasn't in that era when it was bad CGI. It was like, you know, it's 1962, so it was before any CGI at all.


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[Assistant] And so they had to use kind of these weird like janky stop motion effects, but actually that like.


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[Assistant] It looked great to begin with, apart from certain bits like the original jabber and stuff was a bit of a disaster.


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[Assistant] The Matrix was, talk about cult films like Jason Yagos, The Matrix, it was, I mean, I watched The Matrix in philosophy class, for school, because it was this kind of like thing that was like, considered to be an interesting idea.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, so in the Matrix, Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving both got injured training for it. Keanu Reeves got a fucking cervical, like neck compression and had to have neck surgery. His cervix was compressed during this.


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[Assistant] He had a two level fusion of his spine, which began to cause paralysis in his legs. So he had to have neck surgery. Hugo Weaving had to undergo hip surgery after he sustained an injury. And then obviously I think part of this obviously caused them to be a little bit like,


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[Assistant] I guess like not stiff necessarily, apparently like Keanu Reeves didn't kick much in the movie, but I mean, I wonder where the stuff like this like ended up actually enhancing it, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it made him feel more like computerized, you know, in a sense, like in that world didn't feel like it was just, you know, everything about the matrix did feel like just had that little tinge to like that it was in another, it was in the digital world, you know, like gave it away. Like just everything about it, man. Sorry, I'm just thinking about it.


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[Assistant] Robocop, yeaah. I mean, obviously, like, there are continuing series too, like James Bond 25 is coming out in, like, next, next April or something like this. Uhm, so that's, you know, that's something which is an incredibly long running series. How many James Bond movies are there now?


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[Assistant] Everyone thinks Idris Elba will be Doctor Who, or, or James Bond, everyone, he was, he's tipped for everything, and, and uhm, they did make a lady, a lady doctor.


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[Assistant] I think it's deliberately, I think it's deliberately like that because I think if you're in a tribe of people and one of them's being sick because they've eaten something bad, you know, you should probably also be sick before you get sick.


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[Assistant] Maybe it just keeps your pee quiet so you don't wake up your spouse in the night.


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[Assistant] Maybe you want to water the plants when you pee. I'm just thinking of alternative wholesome uses for that.


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[Assistant] Oh, let's not even go onto this. Fortunately, the internet is much safer now. There are dark areas that you can go to if you want to, but there used to be a time when we were constantly being shown shock images and all this horrible stuff. But man, do you know what the internet is? People are a lot better nowadays. Are they?


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[Assistant] Okay. There you go. Good. That is it. Thank you. We have a Patreon. You can support us if you want. Um, PFLAX needs some money. Uh, and uh, PFLAX, you're in China next week, aren't you? Yeah, next week!


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[Assistant] It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.


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[Assistant] I've got a lot to think about the fact that he's basically a kid with physical superpowers, mental superpowers, but who doesn't even know what kissing is, you know what I'm saying? That's data.


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[Assistant] I remember on a podcast a long time ago, you said that you wanted to be a starship captain and to crash your ship into the sun was, or something. You wanted to have a moment on the bridge where you went.


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[Assistant] Take over, sir. There was a Russian passenger plane that actually did that. The pilot had his kid in the cockpit, let him fly a bit and the black box recorded the fact the kid fucked the plane and they crashed and everybody died.


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[Assistant] Thoughts? Uhm, I did a rant about it and then stopped.


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[Assistant] Embarrassing at some points how bad the scripting was and I felt like multiple times the plot was just like the storyline as far as I've got. Like we got off the first planet, we're on some second planet and we've just been through all this stuff. Someone's lost, you know, some stuff. It's not going great.


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[Assistant] And who decides to pilot a ship is that fucking robot, Claptrap, that I don't understand why he's still around. No one comments on the fact that this, this demonic creature is running around ruining things for everybody. He almost blows the ship up, he almost kills half the crew, and everyone's just like, no one comments on it.


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[Assistant] I just thought it was dreadful and everybody seems to hate each other like you're on the ship and there's a guy on the ship who locks himself in the basement. So one of the minor quests they give you something called like Ethereum bucks or something stupid like that. And you have to give them to this guy in the basement and then he gives you this quest item.


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[Assistant] And then his arse is jammed in the hole in the spaceship window to stop the air being sucked out, and he's making jokes about that, because hey, my butt is keeping us alive, guys, uh, uh, uh. It's just, it's embarrassing. I actually, I actually felt bad.


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[Assistant] New order Amish, the new order of Amish are completely, I mean that's ironic. We're the new order of Amish, and we're going backwards, like they're literally- It's like a wrestling team, the N.A.O.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? He's making a bow and arrow. He's making some bricks out of clay. He's doing some shit in the river.


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[Assistant] I've got a theory, alright? I've got a few theories, I think it all stacks up. First of all, I think some people obsessive-compulsive about a thing. So it doesn't really matter what you put them in front of, they're gonna play it and they're just gonna do it.


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[Assistant] So if you put Rust in front of some- could be a bunch of different games, could be Dota, could be Rust, could be WoW, could be anything. If they can play it, and they get any kind of level of enjoyment out of it,


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[Assistant] Then that's it. They don't care about anything else. That becomes their consuming, overriding driving force in their life is to get as many points and win as many games as possible. It's like a compulsion. I think that you've also got to figure that there are definitely people out there who


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[Assistant] Can you wave your dick around literally? Eh? You can wave your dick around in Rust. I'm a lady though in Rust. Oh, did it still, did it get randomized?


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[Assistant] Exactly. I mean, there's, there's no such thing as an un-radable bank. It's always going to be rateable.


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[Assistant] You've got these little goblins coming up inside your base. You think you're up top sniping them and you've got sick platform and all of a sudden some knobhead ladders up.


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[Assistant] No, you wanna play against the regular pubbies, because first of all, if there's three of them and they've got a sick base, and there's thirty of you, you don't mind raiding them, because they're members of the public, right? They're assholes. So you're gonna fucking run them down, and you're gonna zerg rush them with thirty lads, and you're just gonna take them out.


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[Assistant] That is crazy. There's an old adage, there's an old adage I live by. If he's unknown to me, a cunt he be.


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[Assistant] You know, if that was a viewer, like, on your Discord, you'd feel bad. Like, we've done that where we've bullied people, like, this is, this isn't fair. Like, me and Barry, and, and Jordan, guys without me running around, killing people, it's like, this doesn't feel cool. Like, this, this poor guy just wants to play, and in the end they're like,


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[Assistant] And we were looking at ourselves like a parallel version. Wouldn't you look at yourself and think, what the fuck am I doing? God, I'm glad I'm living this life and not that one. Look at this guy shouting at a video game.


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[Assistant] Should be the name of this fucking podcast. Yeaah. Episode 104, Drillin' and Grindin'. Drillin' and Grindin'.


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[Assistant] I'm worried that I am angry too much.


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[Assistant] I think I've been let down too many times by game releases.


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[Assistant] You know, you know what I was thinking the other day that you see this, this, this is, has become like one of the default forms of arguing online now. You get into an argument with someone, they say something really fucking moronic and stupid. You respond to that and they say, lol, you triggered bro. And everyone's like, oh, like that guy won.


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[Assistant] How shit would they be if the battle consisted of one guy saying something and the other one going, yo, you triggered bro? And the audience is like, woah, he wins, rap battle over. It's like, who can be the first to say, are you triggered bro? I was, I was actually.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's social anxiety about talking maybe. If you have to stand there and say, I found that, I found that most amusing. You know, that doesn't work when you just go ruffle and everyone's like, cool. You know, that's enough. You don't need to say anything. You can just say ruffle.


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[Assistant] People were kind of weirded out by it. They were like, who called him Chris? P-Flax. Nobody ever calls me that. I can't remember the last time you ever called me Ted. I mean, Harry just calls me P-Flax. Everybody calls me P-Flax. Like, nobody calls me, in the office anyway, nobody calls me Ted.


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[Assistant] I'll say go to Mummy, or go to Mummy and tell her or something like that, or you'll be in trouble when Mummy gets home. Because I'm at home, so I rely on her coming home and kicking up shit. You know what I mean? She can be the judge.


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[Assistant] Last, last is out there listening. This is the hip spot to be. We know all the papagas and coggas. Oh yes, pug champ to pug you.


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[Assistant] My, my, uh, my youngest pukes a lot. My youngest pukes a lot. And she gets carsick, I don't know why, like real easy. And we'll be like, we'll be just driving down the street like 10 minutes away. And she's like, I'm feeling sick. Like, I don't know. And so one time I was taking them to Legoland. It was like an inset day at school. So we're driving to Legoland. What, the one in Windsor? And yeah, it's like,


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[Assistant] We were, we were in Italy on holiday, and we were going, I think it's Perugia, could be wrong. And we're going up, it's a very windy,


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[Assistant] We're going around all this windy stuff, and I say to the kids, I'm like, you alright? She's like, yeah, we're all okay. Just as we get there and we're looking for a parking space, my younger suddenly goes, BOOM BOOM!


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[Assistant] Well, seasonal affective disorder is a real thing. I suffer from it quite a lot. I suffer from a lot of weird shit, actually. And when it starts to get dark and the evenings draw in and the mornings are dark,


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[Assistant] How different do you think your life would have been if you had a massive cock? Like absolutely fucking massive.


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[Assistant] Well, maybe with silicone. That guy died. He has the biggest cock and balls because he's been pumping silicone into them. When he sits down it looks like there's a dog hiding in his crotch.


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[Assistant] He has to have special trousers made that have an enormous crotch because, I mean, he whipped it out on camera and his dick, I'm not kidding, it was literally like, you have to get two hands under it to lift it up.


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[Assistant] You know what, it's high time we took issue with these penis injectors. Everybody else is getting into the neck one way or the other. Why can't we call these nerds out? Stop fucking the pavement, stop fucking bicycles, stop injecting stuff in your dick. We've been here before, we've covered a bunch of these, but this is a fresh one.


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[Assistant] Or, you could do what I do and get some salt, dissolve it in water.


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[Assistant] You know when you brush your teeth with a really minty toothpaste and your mouth is like on fire afterwards? Yeah. I hate that.


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[Assistant] Let me run the numbers on that. Yeaah, it's gonna sting.


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[Assistant] So this goes back to when I was in China. I received a phone call and it was a wrong number, but the guy said, hi, is that Ted? And I said, yeah, this is Ted. He goes, it doesn't sound like Ted. I said, well, I can show you I am Ted.


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[Assistant] And this guy messages me and he says, Hey not Ted, it's me, Joe. That guy who called you that one time when you were in China. I didn't want to creep you out by calling again, but my friend, other Ted,


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[Assistant] Brought something up after I told him about the number mishap. A YouTuber called Pirian mentioned on a podcast that he was in China and he showed me a wiki page and his name was indeed Ted. I thought you sounded similar to the guy on the podcast and other Ted has been asking me to call you again or give out your number. Please don't do that.


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[Assistant] While I'm in China, looking for someone with the same name is also from the same town I grew up in and has taught at the same school.


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[Assistant] I actually took my A level. We were talking last week about Ben Richardson and his girlfriend Anna Kendrick. Bournemouth School for Girls is where we took theatre studies. So this guy used to teach at the school where I was at school with, uh, with Ben. So cause we went, we, we did one of our A levels there and the rest of them at the boys school. What a weird coincidence. That's weird. That the guy not only calls looking for someone with the same name,


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[Assistant] But he's from Bournemouth and he's a teacher at the school I went to. It's bonkers. That's actually- You know what would be even weirder?


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[Assistant] Implying that I wouldn't be able to just pull a bloke without cottaging. Let me tell you something. If I wanted to, I could go and have gay sex. No problemo. Guaranteed.


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[Assistant] It's probably like a whole fetish area, isn't it?


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[Assistant] No, I am too. So I was thinking did I get my phone in Bournemouth and I've had that number all this time and is there like almost like an area code thing so that if I get my phone in London it's got this code and if I get it in Bournemouth it's got that code like at the start.


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[Assistant] So, Ned is an English given name and variant of Ed, sometimes short for Benedict, Edward, Edmund, Edgar or Edwin.


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[Assistant] I enjoyed it. I like hearing your inner monologue sometimes come out.


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[Assistant] I much prefer going to bed when I'm tired, otherwise my brain starts going and that's when I get in trouble. The rest of the day I plug my brain with games I'm playing, videos I'm watching, TV shows, things I'm getting on with, and then...


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[Assistant] Just chill, and just let your brain process some stuff, because otherwise you don't. I went to sleep last night, I'm playing a game called Panzer Korps at the moment, which is like a Hex-based World War II strategy game. It's very, very nerdy. It's old, it's not new. There's always been these Hex-based games.


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[Assistant] And uhm, it's, it's, you know, it's turn-based, you move your units around and blast the, whoever you blast in and you got airs, air and seeing all that.


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[Assistant] So I go to sleep last night and I close my eyes and all I can see is hexes and numbers.


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[Assistant] That's it. And then I start, conversations start coming back to me, flashes of TV shows I've watched, and it's just voices going over and over, like I can't switch my brain off, which is a big problem that people have.


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[Assistant] When it's finally liberated, your brain is like, wait a minute, you flooded me with so much stuff. I need time to process this. I think, I think consuming that much media, whether it be games or TV or YouTube or the radio or anything, you've got to give some time to think. And I think allowing ourselves to be bombarded. I mean, people say we've been bombarded these days.


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[Assistant] You're the ones watching it. Me included. You don't have to be bombarded. You can switch that shit off. Go and sit in an empty room. People aren't knocking on the door with a- with a fucking megaphone.


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[Assistant] Essentially pot noodles, but good. Like they're really good. The flavor's much better.


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[Assistant] You do wonder that they must have ways of getting back on their feet.


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[Assistant] Apparently things like a hardwood floor, like if you think about a tortoise in a house, this is not a natural environment. Out there, the ground is never perfectly flat. There'd be something to grab onto, a bit of grass or whatever.


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[Assistant] So I was watching, uh, I was watching Maze Runner. Maze Runner. Have you seen that movie? Jesus Christ, it's like a, it's like a teenage


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[Assistant] Hunger Games. Younger Games. It's definitely more, it's definitely more in that vein, Hunger Games than anything else, right? This guy wakes up in a metal box going up in a lift.


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[Assistant] The door's open at the top and there's a bunch of guys already there and they're like, welcome to the Glade.


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[Assistant] Let me explain that they're stuck in this glade at the center of a maze and food comes up and of course everything goes tits up and they have to escape and all the rest of it. Now my kids were watching this movie, it was probably, it might be a little too grown up for my seven year old. She was a little scared of any kind of peril. Like there's a dude running away from something at one point, terrified, right?


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[Assistant] But what made me laugh was the absolute nailed on


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[Assistant] Here, I want you to give it to him when you get out. And the guy takes it and says, listen to me, come here. Gives it back to him. You're gonna give it to them yourself.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna get out of this. Yeah, that old one, yeah. That is like the oldest. And what do you think happened to the guy who he told was gonna give it to his parents himself?


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[Assistant] That person's gonna die. If the hero is the one saying, you're gonna make it out of here yourself, he's gonna be fine. But if he gives it to another guy and says, I want you to give this letter to my parents, I don't think I can make it out, you're gonna give it to them yourself. They're both gonna die. Whoever has the letter's gonna die. I think that it happens in Saving Private Ryan, this letter gets everybody killed.


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[Assistant] This is, this is such a cliche, but my kids had no idea. So to them it was like, wow, this is unbelievable. They were really worried. Oh my god, he's gonna die. I was like, he's the hero. This is the guy on the poster. He's not gonna die. And they sort of looked at me like, huh? Like they were betrayed.


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[Assistant] Five minutes in, he's dead. He doesn't appear in the rest of the film. People are like, didn't see that coming. That's the only real twist left. That the guy you pay thirty million dollars to be in the movie dies in the first five minutes. Be brave filmmakers, I think we can do it.


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[Assistant] Oh wait, that's the, I'm thinking of a different movie. I'm thinking of The Nice Guy. Also in a deep, is it, what is it called? Deep something. It's a movie with a shark.


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[Assistant] Think how many jobs you get to turn down. Like, you can just say, nah, I'm sorry, I'm passing on this, not interested. You must get lots of offers that are really interesting, be like, yeah, this is really interesting, but I just don't think it's right for me. Like, you're in a position where you can actually just turn down work.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean wait sometimes you don't you see like a stars made a movie. Yeah, they make a movie and you think what the fuck are they doing in this? It's like a pet project or like a promise to someone. Yeah, I'll definitely


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[Assistant] Yeah. I like a good cameo. Yeah. You know, someone, a big deal turns up in a movie for two minutes, you think, wow, but I don't know why it seems cool. It kind of throws shade on everyone else in the movie, but it is also, it's like in the credits, the and. I really don't, I actually really.


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[Assistant] Queen Maya, that's pretty good, honestly. Shawshank Redemption is a short story of his, right, so. Shawshank.


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[Assistant] So my issue with Stephen King is his books, his books are too fucking long. They're just too long. It's like he doesn't know when to stop. Like if you read Misery, it's not that bad.


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[Assistant] So I'm looking at the length of books. The stand is 1,152 pages. It, 1,138 pages. Under the dome, which he wrote in 2009, which is dreadful, 1,074 pages. I like how you said that. What is that?


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[Assistant] So there hasn't been another Shining film, but there was a mini-series on TV, a three-episode mini-series.


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[Assistant] That's, to me, when people talk about, you know, some wealthy elite, that's these guys. Like, they live in a whole different world from the rest of us.


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[Assistant] That's right. The safest, safest form of entertainment you could be listening to right now if that's your thing. If you like that sort of thing. This is as safe as it gets. Safe as hell. You don't have to be around anyone to listen to this garbage you do.


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[Assistant] Tom Hanks is too late, he's got it. Him and his wife have got it. They're stuck in Australia of all places. It's exciting! I mean, who next? Okay, currently- Exciting!


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[Assistant] I don't know, I think when there's like a sickness going around, it's like, I think it works the opposite. It's like a boner killer. It is, it's like a passion killer, right? Everybody's like, ah, fucking death and decay everywhere. I can't get off to this. So like, they're probably noticing.


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[Assistant] Fuck me man, that's grim. Can we talk about something not so grim? Like there's a virus going around that's affecting everybody. You know what's crazy? I was reading about Italy's got a really good healthcare system. It's like rated second in the whole world. I think France is number one.


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[Assistant] So Italy with the second best healthcare system in the entire world is, their healthcare system now is crumbling because of the amount of cases that they have of this.


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[Assistant] Uh, apparently people need to be put on ventilators, and they just don't have enough in the country to support the amount of people that need them.


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[Assistant] So they're basically saying now that they're prioritizing helping younger people that have it. So like if you're in your 30s or whatever and you have it and you need a ventilator, you'll get one.


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[Assistant] If you're over 60 and you need a ventilator, you just won't get one. And that's why a lot of people are dying. It's just sort of saying that older people are not going to be prioritized, which is.


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[Assistant] No, no, but I think children and babies are sort of like helping to spread this because they themselves are not affected. They don't show many symptoms of having it, but they might have it.


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[Assistant] And then, so you, you might take your baby to like visit their grandparents and then kill them because the babies like pass it on to, you know, your grandparents or whatever.


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[Assistant] You know what, I don't, I have no judgements. You do you.


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[Assistant] It's hard to judge- I think it's hard to judge with dogs cause they just eat anything, you know? Like you could just like wring your socks wet into like a bowl and they would, you know, it has some taste to it so they'll drink, like they eat their own shit and everything so like, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I don't think they're very fussy, which is probably a good thing, you know, cause lentils are like pretty cheap.


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[Assistant] That's like, that's what students eat, you know. I love lentils. Shout out to lentils.


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[Assistant] It's better for you health-wise as well to be in a hot climate, warmer climate. They think that once summer hits a lot of these cases of coronavirus are going to be lessened as well.


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[Assistant] That's all they've ever known. So they're just used to it. You should be used to it as well. Like UK is just a great place for like nine months of the year.


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[Assistant] You know like that fine fucking mist rain that is just like, you know, like, you know, even if it's pouring rain, like there's like space between the drops sort of thing, you don't necessarily get soaked. But then you get that like fine misty rain that's just like fucking drenches you instantly, like the minute you step outside. I hate that.


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[Assistant] And those ones stick around like a stale fart too, they're just like around all day.


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[Assistant] That cost $200 back then to make that skyscraper. And in real terms, real money nowadays that would have cost upwards of $800 million. How much does it cost to make a skyscraper?


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[Assistant] No, but how much like, how much generally would it cost? Like nowadays, with the cost of things.


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm just talking about actually building, I'm not talking about the land and everything, just building a building of that height. In the middle of a field, in the middle of nowhere.


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[Assistant] I know, I thought so too, but when you think about it, like just a tall building, there's not that much to it, you know what I mean? Like a stadium is wider, right? And takes up more land as a result and probably has like more, I don't know,


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[Assistant] What? Children. Right. Have you ever built anything with your bare fucking hands though, like against all the odds?


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[Assistant] It's not one of those instant things like in video games, you know, like in a video game, like you kill the last thing you need. You need to kill five players and you kill the last one and instantly on your screen it's like...


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[Assistant] Man, if only life was more like video games. You're like mid-deed. And uhm, you know.


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[Assistant] Make a baby move. You get that achievement sound. It's like, oh fuck.


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[Assistant] That is a, that is a very common, that's not even an epic achievement anymore. That is just a.


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[Assistant] A white, you know, that, that's like the same as just like congratulations, you've reached level 30. You know what I mean? Not, not that many, surprisingly. I think most people.


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[Assistant] A lot of people get to their fifties and normally develop some sort of cancer or something that is, it threatens their later life. And you know, I think survival rates are like much better now.


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[Assistant] It's usually around that age, right? If you're, if you're going to get something, you'll, you'll find out that you've got it or not. Sort of like in your late forties, in your fifties. Uhm, and then the people that do kind of make it to their nineties are usually really fucking decrepit by the time they get there.


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[Assistant] Early to mid nineties and then usually, you know, when they say natural causes, normally somebody would just get like pneumonia or something like that and that'll finish them off.


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[Assistant] Sure, there's a lot of problems with the profitability of medicine too that I think need to be addressed.


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[Assistant] The question is though, is how long do you want to live sustained with like a 90 year old body basically? Right, exactly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but think about flax. Put it into perspective. Think about your whole life leading up to this point.


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[Assistant] Oh man. Think of how relaxing the, like, the, like, the hard parts of your life are over now, flax. You know? You've got the next 40 years of just like, wearing slippers, paying people to walk your dog for you, smoking a pipe.


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[Assistant] Living it up basically. Your kids are gonna get older and they're gonna start taking care of you like you've taken care of them and stuff, you know? It's so... I wouldn't rely on them to fucking take care of me. Why not?


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[Assistant] The lead up to teenage years is a lot of like shrugging and grunting and stuff, isn't it?


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[Assistant] Just do whatever my kids are interested in. Like my daughter wants to play this game now all the time where I lay on the couch and pretend that I've fallen asleep with her favorite doll, uhm, and then she takes it from me and hides it and I'm supposed to not notice this and then wake up and wonder where the doll is. That's the whole game.


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[Assistant] This goes on for hours, it's crazy. My son just wants to play games all the time. He wants to play house flipper and a tank restoration simulator and he just wants to play games.


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[Assistant] What are they going to do with their lives?


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[Assistant] Man, Lewis is just fucking, just absolutely going for it today. You're like a wild animal.


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[Assistant] Listen, I haven't had any weird dreams this week. I seem to be out of my, my, um, yearly sort of like having dreams for a week. Like now I'm just back to not dreaming at all. Just like coma sleeping. Not a single dream.


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[Assistant] I don't want to remember most of these though they're upsetting for the most part.


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[Assistant] Which like normally jolts me awake cause it's like really annoying. And then one time, one time I must've been like really loud cause she was like constantly doing this like flick thing under my pillow and I sort of woke up and I turned over and was like,


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[Assistant] Stop that please, but I was still asleep. I don't remember doing it, but apparently like really fucking saster out hard.


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[Assistant] There's been discussions, Louis, I don't think you would like it.


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[Assistant] It is a bit like PUBG at which Lewis liked. Remember when we were playing PUBG a lot?


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[Assistant] Well, Tarkov is hard to play with people because there's no indication that they're in a group with you.


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[Assistant] So you have to have really good comms. So there isn't like any sort of.


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[Assistant] Your callouts for buildings and stuff are much better, but it's uhm, the maps are big, so you have to learn the maps. The way that loot spawns in the maps is random, but there are certain rooms that are locked that you can get keys for.


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[Assistant] So there's a lot of inventory management as well. Big stash with boxes that are bigger inside than they are in your stash that you can store stuff in.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and this works on the player as well, so you can stash like a backpack full of stuff inside a backpack.


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[Assistant] You can kind of do that in Tarkov, interestingly. You don't have to just be a sweaty.


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[Assistant] Accurate, you know, FPS player. You can run around a whole map and just loot and never kill anybody if you're smart about it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, wash your hands and stay safe and don't, uh, don't, don't take your baby to see your grandparents until all this blows over. Just, just stay safe. Yeah. Sensible and safe. That little time bomb. Stay clean as well. This little disease bomb. Yeah. That's it. That's it. Bye.


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[Assistant] Man, can you imagine though? You haven't been able to eat an apple for like, for the longest time. Like when you're a kid, the last thing you want to do is eat an apple. But when you're older and you've got dentures and you can't,


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[Assistant] They're not, they're not attached to your gums strong enough so you bite in and your teeth fall out. That's a problem.


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[Assistant] That's because you have, uh, you have no social barometer, that's why.


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[Assistant] Have you ever, ehm, have you ever trained a dog before? Yes, yes I have. Okay, good.


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[Assistant] Can I just say it's a honeymoon period. Your kids will go back to not doing stuff very quickly.


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[Assistant] My dog ate my shoes one time, and uh, I was, I was, I was vexed. Beyond vexed.