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[Assistant] Nobody wants to do the standout thing to like bring attention to themselves like in that way sort of thing. Like I think people want to do something good where everybody's like this guy has done this great thing or whatever, but nobody wants to like.


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[Assistant] Well, take a look on Steam at any given moment and you can find hundreds of games just like that. Where's this at my dating pool?


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[Assistant] Was there like a, like a consistent theme across all the dates? Because you brought yourself to these dates, obviously. So like, I'm wondering, was there anything that recurred consistently where you thought like, hang on a second, like, all of these women have figured out that I'm


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[Assistant] Did you take any women out for dinner? Like, was that a date? Like, did you go out for dinner? Did you eat? No, never went out for dinner. What was it? Drinks? You went out for a drink? Coffee. Coffee? Alright, okay.


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[Assistant] I feel like that would just be tremendously awkward. Like from the get go. It's quite chill because


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[Assistant] I don't know man, like I feel like, I don't know, maybe I'm like old school or like sheltered or like, I mean, I've only like, I, I, I've been with my wife since like I was, uh, like in my late teens, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] And that I didn't have to live through all these awkward moments like...


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[Assistant] Like I had girlfriends in school and stuff. That's different at school, right? Like you're in a class with somebody or like your peer group is like, like somehow, you know, like, like circle of friends at school, how they would like change around. Like sometimes people would join and leave or like there'd be like crossover stuff like I remember.


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[Assistant] I remember like in the summer, it always happened, right? Like you'd be out with your friends, like as a teenager, like at a skate park or something and you would just start hanging out with another group of people. Like oftentimes it was like,


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[Assistant] But, and like that, that kind of worked because everybody was in the same boat, you know, like, I don't know, it just feels like with online dating and stuff, I can't.


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[Assistant] Get my head around it. I can't imagine ever doing it or enjoying it or like, I just feel like I'd be so...


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[Assistant] I'm fucking awkward and I would find the whole thing just really awful like I'm glad I never had to do it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was weird though, because we'd spoken so much leading up to meeting up. Exactly. Because we had to, geographically, we were so far away, like we'd spoken on the phone, like, you know, countless times, emails, everything, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] We had like a really good rapport. So when we, when we first met for like, for like a split second, it was a bit awkward.


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[Assistant] But then it was just fine, you know, cause like we kinda knew each other. So it wasn't, it wasn't too bad. But with online dating, like Tinder and stuff, I don't know if you really get that, right? You're just like, you, you get a glimpse of somebody and then all of a sudden, like Flack said, you're just face to face with them.


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[Assistant] Did you ever meet one, uh, like a, like a woman, uhm, while you were doing this, or, or man, I don't know, uhm, where you went to have a coffee and they were really soft-spoken, really nice and everything, then one thing led to another and you ended up back at this woman's apartment.


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[Assistant] For cough, for more coffee, even though you just had a bunch of coffee. And then all of a sudden she turned into like some sort of woman devil and she's like


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[Assistant] It's just like, it was, it was just filled with mafia tropes.


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[Assistant] The voice acting was just not there. Like they didn't have like good, like I feel like if you're gonna make this like really sort of hammy tropey game, like at least go nuts with like the, with like the accents, you know what I mean? Like get, get people in who can do really good.


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[Assistant] But like, I don't know, there's just parts of it that just felt like not there, you know? Like it just... I think it's quite often the case. It is 20 years old. I know, I know. And like, you know, like the story, at the time I remember playing through it and thinking, this is great, you know what I mean? But like, I don't know, like parts of it,


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[Assistant] Even though like they've redone the graphics and stuff and it looks great and it plays really well and stuff like parts of it.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I think it's been done though, right? All that, like Sopranos has done it well, like there's been lots of that, that. We've seen all that, but there's so much.


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[Assistant] There's so many like interesting stories that could, they could do and stuff, but like, I don't know. They always seem to gravitate back towards these really sort of like, yeah, kind of tropey sort of things, you know, like I gotta get out of this life. And like, I know that's like a part of it or whatever, but I mean, I don't know.


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[Assistant] It's like, I'd be up for something new, you know?


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[Assistant] You know, it'd be good if it was more like open, open world, open sandbox, but you had to like.


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[Assistant] I know it's a bit light, but I'll get you next week. What the fuck do you say to me?


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[Assistant] That's the whole point though, that all the people that are like, like seem to be involved or have any affiliation whatsoever, always suffer from the same problems, right? Yeah, gambling, degeneracy, like it's all, it's always the same, like they prey on these people, right?


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[Assistant] Both to get them in to do the, the dirty work and, and, and to fucking make money off of like in there as a civilian, right? Like it's always the same types of people, the same people that are going to make these monumental errors of judgment, like in their life.


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[Assistant] It's the same with like, uh, like with, with drug dealers and stuff, you know what I mean? Like they, they have like regular customers. They know these people can't help themselves or whatever.


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[Assistant] Well, it's not like they're like, ah, you know, maybe I'm not going to sell this to you today. I want you to get better. No, of course not. Like they're just, they just fucking fully take advantage of them. That's all, that's all it is.


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[Assistant] That like organized crime for the most part is the same as well. Like look at all the, even now, like all the COVID, uh, scams and stuff like that. Like it's all it is. All it is is just taking advantage of a situation or stupid people. That's all it comes down to.


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[Assistant] Of course, yeaah, they set them up, they stitch them up all the time, like, they, cause they just know, like, people can't help themselves, you know, like, they're just like, yeaah, we know, like, I know I'm gonna lend money to this guy.


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[Assistant] And he's either going to pay me back way more than I lent him, uh, because he's going to win big or I'm going to fucking almost kill him, uh, to prove a point sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well that's it, like, the big thing was...


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[Assistant] They get people, uhm, in gambling debts and stuff and they, they especially like used to go after people who had legitimate businesses because then when they owed the money and they had no chance of ever repaying, they'd say,


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[Assistant] Livelyhoods, generations of livelihoods, just completely ruined because of just a couple of like fucking scams. That's crazy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a tax, yeah. Just like the same way you pay tax for like a service in society. It's the exact same thing. You pay a tax and they'll help you out if they can or whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah. It's interesting. It's interesting how something like that can be so organized and tight-knit, but at the same time, it is very chaotic as well. Like, it's a miracle that it ever did work really, when you think of the people that were involved in stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like, it's, there were, it's funny that there was like a, like a code and rules and stuff like that, but they were, they were so often broken, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is something. It's more than they would have otherwise. It is something. I think that's what makes it so interesting for people to, like, from the outside looking in, that there is this structure and this code and these rules and stuff, because then people can kind of identify with it a bit more, you know, but it's like,


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[Assistant] It's actually really frightening to think that people can, can do that though. Like organized to that extent outside of like what we seem as like, see as like a normal organization, right? Like of society or like a company or whatever.


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[Assistant] But like, I don't know, you think about some companies, they almost operate like the mafia in some ways as well, right? Like when you find out about all these like scams that they've been doing or this and that and the other and you just think,


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[Assistant] They have all their own little tricks for keeping people like on board and stuff. We used to like, at HSBC there used to be like a share save, right?


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[Assistant] They fucking did away with the pensions because, you know, like, you know, pensions, the way that pensions are going and pension pots and stuff like that. So in the end, they were like, alright, anybody, any new people joining the bank, uh, won't, uh, get a pension anymore, but you could pay into this, like, share-save scheme, which was like a discounted,


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[Assistant] Because it was just another way to get you to shut up and stay put. You're not wrong. And that's just one example. There's millions of things that companies will do to just keep people


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[Assistant] Under the thumb, you know what I mean, like not thinking about going to get another job because.


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[Assistant] I mean it happens, it happens in the games industry, it happens there, like look at like Blizzard recently where people were, like employees of Blizzard were banding together to release information about how


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[Assistant] Uhm, how they weren't being even paid, like, competitively in the industry, like, like, like lower pay than most other studios. Uhm, and this, like, you know, Blizzard's a big...


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[Assistant] A big name, a big company, right? You'd expect that these guys that are baking these fucking awesome cinematics and these big, you know, billion dollar games like that, you know, rake it in like wow and hearthstone would be getting paid at least industry standard, but it's not even the case. Like there's like a.


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[Assistant] It was like, there's, there's this whole thing where it was like, they were being paid low and it was on purpose too. There was like memos from people saying like, we're not willing to fucking pay like the standard rates or whatever. Like we're going to pay low, but we're going to offer all these benefits instead and all this shit. And it's just like, all right.


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[Assistant] Hey, on the topic of Blizzard though, uhm, did you guys hear that, uhm, that Mike Morheim is, is, is back in the saddle? He's created another company, uhm, now that he's, he's left Blizzard, obviously. There is he. Sure. A while back. The, the, uh, the CEO, co-founder of Blizzard.


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[Assistant] Uh, who left, uh, a while back, uhm, didn't really say much at the time, just said, you know, it's time for me to leave or whatever. A lot of people speculated that he wasn't happy with the whole Activision thing or whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, there's a couple of things with this, uhm, the first one being that, uhm, I don't think there's ever been a, I've left Blizzard to start my own company and it's been a success, like, like most, most like Hellgate London, uhm,


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[Assistant] There's, uh, what's Torchlight? There's a whole bunch of games that...


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[Assistant] It's a weird, it's a fluid thing though, right? Like I think that, I think you're, I think you got people who would


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[Assistant] It's almost like it's like a, like a perfect storm sometimes. Sorry, I'm like trying to explain this, but I'm struggling a bit. I think with like some big games that you've seen in the past, like, you know, like the original Starcraft or like even, even wow, when it came out, um, you know, some of these huge popular, hugely popular games where,


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[Assistant] It's just the right place at the right time, right? And the right people too. You have people who, maybe that's the first game they ever worked on and they had a lot of inspiration from another game. Uhm, the game came out at the right time, it filled a niche or whatever. Like there's probably like 10, 20,


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[Assistant] Sort of like lucky things that happen with a game and the team that's making the game or whatever. And then I think when that game ships and it's out and it's done really well,


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[Assistant] Uhm, these people then go down in history, like they, they, they obtain this legendary status as like, this guy designed this game, this is the best game, can't wait to see what he does next. And then he does another game and it just stinks, right?


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[Assistant] And they, it's, it's, it just seems difficult for them to keep up with like what's happening now. You know, they're sort of like.


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[Assistant] They've got this idea of what they want to do and maybe they've never still never done it. They've worked on other projects or whatever. But then you read this interview and you're like, fuck me man, this guy's ideas are like literally 20 years old. Like you can tell like he is the designer of that time.


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[Assistant] I can see that for sure. I mean, I don't think in every case that that is the case, but I think that that's a lot more common than, than not.


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[Assistant] And band lifespans as well, you know, you think of some of like the really big bands, uhm, well even big bands from like the 60s and 70s and stuff like that, most of them were only together for about, you know, 5, 10 years or whatever, which is...


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[Assistant] Really, it's a long time, but it's really a short amount of time when you think how long it takes to spin up and get popular and reach the heights and whatnot, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] We've got no food. We have nothing. Yeah, we have nothing and we're just happy to be doing this thing together. Like it's, it's really weird, isn't it? But you can see how, you know, like when the Beatles started out, they were in their, you know, late, like late, late teens, early twenties sort of thing. And then the career brought them into like their,


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[Assistant] You do a lot of growing up in that decade of your life, right? Like you, you change a heck of a lot. Like I got married when I was 23. I was talking to my wife about this the other day. We got married when we were 23 and even from 23 to 31 when we had, um, like our, our first child.


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[Assistant] It was like night and day, because you do just become more of an adult as adult things start creeping in, right? All of a sudden you have to be financially responsible, you have to like feed yourself, you have to feed somebody else, you have to...


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[Assistant] Prepare things, you have to plan stuff, like you, you get a lot more complacent with certain things, like.


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[Assistant] I think like maybe once or twice since we've had kids, I've slept until like 11, you know, like I've just been, I've been lucky, like my wife has just left me to it or whatever. And even then when you wake up, you're like, oh fuck, this is great. I woke up at 11.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's the point. The point is you don't want your parents to ever, uh, be right about stuff, like when they're trying to-


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[Assistant] I've got good systems in place, you know, like I've got a well-oiled machine over here. I've got a fully crewed battleship and we are ready for war.


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[Assistant] The whole team just knows how to do their best at all, at all times over here. Like I feel like we got it all sewn up in that department. But if, when it comes to like Tinder and online dating, that's, I'd say that's a gray area for us.


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[Assistant] Do you have, do you have like a white bathrobe that has some stains on it and stuff, like, that you can pose in?


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[Assistant] I'm wearing a t-shirt right now that I have literally owned for 25 years. I'm not even joking. This t-shirt is like 25 years old and I'm wearing it right now.


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[Assistant] I think I'd be straight up. I'd be like, I've gotta, I gotta be honest with you here, baby. Uhm, I just want to explore your hoochie coochie when all is said and done here. I'm, you know, that's, that is the goal.


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[Assistant] Like I think you, I think you could get a pose and I think the ladies would be swooning, like if they saw you. Riding a horse. Like a modern day Elvis Presley. Oh man. With a Napoleon outfit on a horse. I think that could work really well for you.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, remember when we were talking about the air conditioning in my garage, and I said that it was like, too grand? He says too much. Yeah, too grand! I mean, that's only a couple of sets of golf clubs, really, and you think this is going to keep you comfortable for a long ass time. Where did you buy them, by the way?


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[Assistant] I have, I have this attitude on when I'm streaming and someone subs, I say, thanks for the sub.


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[Assistant] Please, the, I mean, people listen to this podcast, which is great, I love that, but I'm not going to make a big deal about it because I think it would be disingenuous and it's very hard. If I meet someone and they say, and they sidle up and they say, oh, by the way, I have a tiny penis. I say, oh, thanks very much for listening to the podcast. You know, that's nice.


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[Assistant] Aww, thanks so much, shout out to so-so, blah blah blah. So if you did that all day,


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[Assistant] If we're walking past a fountain, you see people chuck them in fish ponds. You see them chuck it in fish ponds, Lewis. And she's like-


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[Assistant] I don't understand it. And she's like, why are they doing it? And I was like, well, they think it's good luck or something. And also I tried to say to her, look, if other people see money in there, they think, oh, you throw money in the pond.


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[Assistant] There's definitely an element of slovenliness about, uh, about my stream. Cause I mean, I don't know if you're the same as me, but I love, like I really value the time I get to play games. I think I spoke about it on stream a while back.


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[Assistant] The reason why is because I didn't have a computer when I was younger and there were loads of games I wanted to play that I couldn't, so it was like...


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[Assistant] A childhood, and a teenagehood if you like, of being denied something, so when I finally got it,


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[Assistant] I never wanted to let it go and playing games became such a big thing on my time. Which is why I love the fact that what I do means I can play games all day. I hate it.


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[Assistant] I-I-I-I have a very bad instinct to- someone tells me to do something.


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[Assistant] I don't do it. Like I really don't want to do it. I don't know why. It's a very awful rebellious instinct that I just hate being told to do things.


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[Assistant] Throne off the yoke of oppressive employment and become self-employed, which has its own concerns, of course.


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[Assistant] But I just hated bosses and management and the structure of a company and the hierarchy of being told what to do and feeling sometimes that I'm being told to do this, but this is of no value. What I'm doing is of no value.


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[Assistant] I don't think the voice works if he's unreasonable


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[Assistant] This is taking some turns. This has gone from, it's stupid to throw coins into a pond, to the fact that Indian people throw money in holy rivers.


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[Assistant] What do they call it? Is it pantheism? Is that the idea that God is in all things? Is that pantheism? I can't remember. There is a word for it, the God of things, like, you know, that everything is imbued with a spirit.


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[Assistant] I think, I think it's quite sweet in a way, because if you have gods of individual things, whilst worshipping them all is a pain in the arse, you've got to be a bit choosy, you know, you can't just worship all of the bloody things.


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[Assistant] It forces you to at least respect inanimate objects and things like rocks and trees and stuff because if you think they're imbued with some kind of spirit, surely that's better than just saying it's just a tree, just fucking cut it down. Do you know what I mean? Like maybe it helps.


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[Assistant] You know, I had a flashback this morning to a job that I had when I was at university. Between years I'd have a job. I've mentioned before my warehouse job. In fact, I think it was fairly recently.


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[Assistant] And, and you can understand why, because at the very least, it was quite a straight, you know, it was a simple job once you learn where everything was, you get the objects, you put them in the cart, you take them to the front, they package them up to take to the different shops that need those things. It's quite peaceful, we'd put the radio on and all the rest of it.


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[Assistant] But I was only doing it for the summer, but the other lad there was doing it, this, this was his job.


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[Assistant] And we were the same age. He had made some very bad decisions in his life up to that point. The day I first met him, one side of his face was all smashed up because he'd been cycling down quite a big hill in Poole and had sort of been distracted in some way and just absolutely fucked it into some cars.


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[Assistant] And just been smashed up, uhm, on his bike. And then continued cycling. And I was like, God, when did this happen? He was like, out this morning. I was like f-


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[Assistant] Are you sure you don't want to get to a doctor? He's like nah mate, I'll be fine. And he had like a massive, massive open wound. Like right here.


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[Assistant] And he was all smashed up, uh, and I was like, damn, that can't be right. And then we got chatting and everything. He was always getting, like, in fights, he was getting, uh, he would get extremely drunk at the weekend with his mates, like, blind drunk and have no recollection of what he'd done and wake up in a cell and all the rest of it, like, proper out of control, doesn't know, like, zero direction.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and there was this girl, he was expecting a baby with some bird he'd had sex with.


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[Assistant] In a pub toilet, which is classy. And the thing is, he seemed like, he was such a sweet guy. Like, he really was a nice guy. As soon as, he was always nice to me. We just met. He was fascinated about the fact I was at university. He just couldn't believe it. He was like, what are you doing here? I was like, well, it's just a summer job, isn't it?


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[Assistant] And he looked at me and I could see him thinking, this is, this is my actual job, you know? And it was, I just thought, it's interesting how different our lives were, but he really just needed, he just needed to stop getting absolutely blind drunk at the weekend and things would be so much better for him.


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[Assistant] But he, he had to because he had this shitty job working in a warehouse. That was, that was it. I felt terrible. So I woke up this morning bummed out because I was just thinking about that lad and wondering what he's up to now.


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[Assistant] He just lacked, he lacked direction, he just lacked, there was a lot of stuff that slight changes would have made a big difference for this guy, I'm pretty sure. The ladies that worked at the warehouse, they were like in the office, when he was out of earshot, the older one would always say to me,


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[Assistant] Paul's having a terrible time at the moment, you know, he's, oh, he's just, he's all over the place, keep an eye on him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay. Like, she was, you know, they were very concerned for him. I think everybody just felt this lad is, is making bad choices. And they were very, they, they were the ones who told me about him expecting a baby with a girl he'd had sex with in a pub toilet. It's funny how quickly you get involved in the gossip of a workplace. People can't wait to tell you. Yeah. It's bizarre.


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[Assistant] Right, so where did this idea come from? It's parents, isn't it? It's an instinct to worry about kids and be like, if you aren't already on some fast track to success, you're wasting your life, you're 22, there's nothing.


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[Assistant] But were you happy? Like would you have been content to continue doing what you were doing or were you always looking for something else?


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[Assistant] I mean, we joke about it because, because we've been there, right? And it's like- I joke about it, but-


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[Assistant] So what happened after 20 years? They gave him his own train and he rode it off into the sunset?


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[Assistant] Do you not think that's true of most, uh, journalists?


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[Assistant] Because it doesn't feel like work. No. I think that's the thing. So I'm asking, what would be your dream job? If we couldn't do this, what would be the job that you would think would make you as happy as you are with the job you've got now?


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[Assistant] So first of all, my daughter has a phone, my eldest, uh, has a phone. She's at secondary school. They, their phones cannot be heard or seen throughout the day. If they are, they are confiscated. You are not allowed to just take your phone into the classroom and film the teacher. That's not a thing. She keeps her phone in her locker, drops it off at the start of the day, picks it up at the end of the day.


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[Assistant] So what were you worried about? People with hand crank cameras?


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[Assistant] Now, now, there's a job, I think, that satisfies quite a few of, uh, of your requirements. It's different every day. You're teaching something different. Okay. You get new intakes of kids coming and going, you've got to know them, but now there's a new class coming in, uh, so the curriculum changes, and there might be some new bullshit handed down by the government or...


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[Assistant] Or whoever that you have to cope with, uh, your colleagues are all sort of got a...


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[Assistant] You know, we're all on the frontline kind of mentality, so I'm sure there's a lot of uh, camaraderie there and stuff like that. I think teaching would probably be a very satisfying job. I know-


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[Assistant] Well, definitely not by, uh, I mean, people keep electing governments that, uh, that don't like them. Like, they really actively dislike teachers.


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[Assistant] Like that's, that's, that's, that's nice. It's pretty good. Do you know what? I've used this service where you can get doctors like on the internet.


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[Assistant] Like Deliveroo, but a doctor. Doctoroo. You make this appointment, and it's like, you go to the website when the appointment's about to start, and then you have a webcam chat with the doctor, and it's like, you don't have to go into the surgery and everything, and I did that when I had Covid, I did a phone appointment with the doctor. Right, right. So I've got this rash.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna, I don't wanna waste their time. That's a big part of it. It's embarrassing to go in for something that they go, yeah, that's, you've just trod on a thumbtack. That's, that'll be fine. You're like, oh, okay.


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[Assistant] Going out and confronting. I think I've only done it a couple of times in my life. I remember one time, this is where me and Mrs. F is, but way before the kids, we were living in a flat and our neighbors at two in the morning started doing some drilling. Literally on the adjoining wall between


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[Assistant] I- Mrs. F was like, are they drilling? And I was like, I think they are. She's like, you gotta go say something.


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[Assistant] 8 a.m. on a Sunday morning. Meeeeeeeh. Drilling in their garden.


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[Assistant] It's like, can you just fucking chill until like 10 or 11? Like that, that's when I'd do it. I'd be like, let's wait. You know, you don't want to start the fucking Sunday morning with a drill, but they do. So this guy was doing it. I didn't go around there. Mrs. F went over there and said, can you lads stop? And they were like, oh, sorry. Yeah, no, we, we weren't late. We just got in. I wasn't even thinking. They were really apologetic.


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[Assistant] I was like, oh, and I thought maybe it would work if you just went and asked people nicely. But I thought, I'll send Mrs. F. And she went. I was a bad, bad husband.


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[Assistant] I think the issue is like, if you're used to a lot of noise, your tolerance for it is higher. Like, I obviously grew up in New York, which is a very loud city. London, I've lived here most of my life, very loud, so...


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[Assistant] You just get used to it, in a way. Like the planes, the cars, the neighbors, the racket, you know, it just, I just kinda zone it out after a while.


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[Assistant] But I think a lot of people who've come from somewhere quieter will live, especially people that live somewhere quiet, any noise and they're like, the curtains are twitching, they're out, it's like they want to live in, in a silent bubble. And I just think that, you know, geez, there's millions of us crammed in here.


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[Assistant] It's so weird when I go to visit my mum, the people upstairs, you hear them thumping about, and she's like, mwah, yeaah, making a racket, uuuh.


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[Assistant] Like I forgot, it's been so long since I lived in a flat. The idea of having people above me, it just freaks me out. You know what I mean? Like I remember it.


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[Assistant] But it's just, it's just something I'm, I'm, it's, it's so unfamiliar now. That is actually weird to me. Cause I think of my house as being the place where I control the noise. Outside of it, well, it's London, I, you know, it's gonna be loud. But, uh, yeah, the, the people living above or below me and hearing them, that always, I don't know, it kind of weirds me out.


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[Assistant] I was like, this is a, this is a game? Fucking ridiculous. I do, my heart rate gets going plain talk of let alone anything else. Christ.


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[Assistant] Isn't that the thing they say that a shorter, more intense exercise is as good, if not better than running for like two hours or something? That you burn the same amount?


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[Assistant] It's still calories, isn't it? I guess. I mean, it depends if you're looking to stay a skinny, skinny little runt, or if you want to beef up and be a chad. It's up to you, Lewis.


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[Assistant] You know, you know the number one people that tell you that you need to do more exercise are sat in fucking Twitch chat all day, in bed, big fat headed cunts just lying in bed.


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[Assistant] That's what they're doing. That is the entirety of Twitch chat right now and everyone listening to this podcast is lying completely prone with a small metal chute feeding the Maltesers and they just lie in there and they're thinking


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[Assistant] This is the post-credits scene of 2020 that we are living through right now. This is setting up the next movie. So this is, you gotta wait till the end of the credits. We're not there yet. It's still crazy shit happening. They think they found ANOTHER strain of the virus.


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[Assistant] China is not in the top 5, but 26% of Chinese people don't like the British. I suspect because of, because of Hong Kong.


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[Assistant] I'm talking about a country that we declared war on, like just us and just them, like the last actual just us and just them war. Argentina. Argentina. 39% of Argentinians do not like the British.


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[Assistant] Number two on the list, think of a country where we own a bit of it and we probably go on holiday there a lot. No, not, not Ireland. Spain.


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[Assistant] Think of another country that dislikes us, perhaps based on a war?


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[Assistant] Right, but they also, who loves tourists, dude? Like, it's like a necessary evil if you're based in tourism. Everybody that works in tourism hates the tourists, and if most of the tourists just want to go, where's the Irish pub, I want to get a fry up, fuck Spanish food, I'm not even going to learn the lingo, mate, waaaay, just get drunk and smash everything up. That's why they hate us. Alright, number three.


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[Assistant] So think of a country that we've also fought a war against. This actually quite surprised me. A country, another country, perhaps?


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[Assistant] Two of the biggest wars that have ever been fought. Who have we not fought a fucking war again? Twice. Yea, but this is recently. It's Germany. Germany, 34% of people in Germany said they don't like the British. And fifth on the list is Turkey. The Turks don't like us. Really?


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[Assistant] Now think of the five countries that like us the most. Who do you think number one on the list is? Uh, Canada? Canada is number two.


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[Assistant] I can see that, I can see that. And then, South Korea, Australia, and then you'll be surprised, France. France likes us more than we like ourselves. We are 8th on the list. 23% of people in the UK have a negative opinion of the UK.


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[Assistant] Anyway, Iran, Ireland, yes, Iran and Ireland don't like us, but, but they, they for some reason don't appear on this poll. I think because it's just everybody knows it would be like a hundred fucking percent. Iran really doesn't like us.


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[Assistant] Dude, the Ayatollah Khomeini said we were worst in America, that's how much they hate us. Jeez. Israel, not, not, it's decent, but our history in that region is not good, because of the Palestinian mandate.


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[Assistant] This'll be about midnight, maybe, maybe half twelve, if I wanna, if I'm gonna stay up late.


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[Assistant] I mean, but if I finish streaming and I'm gonna watch a movie or some extended thing on YouTube, I'll go get a little cheese plate. Get a little cheese plate going there. Nice. What do you put on the cheese? Is it just cheese or cheese?


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[Assistant] I've tried a lot of chutneys, I refuse to accept chutney into my life, it's alright.


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[Assistant] I, I, I love to have, if I'm having a thing, I like to taste that thing.


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[Assistant] It's a pleasure to be here with all of you. It's wonderful to be here. I hope that you guys are all well, keeping, keeping well, keeping fresh, keeping tight. Keep, keep it tight above all. Keep it tight and fresh. And I hope that that's how you guys are keeping it. Absolutely. If I taught you anything.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, they kind of ripped you off.


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[Assistant] Then they were never worth the amount that they charged for those used games, you know what I mean? And they were always sticky. I don't know if you guys remember this, but like, any time you buy a used game, like the cartridge itself was sticky.


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[Assistant] Right, okay. That's where the blockbuster is. Yeah. Yeah, just a bunch of old people who have always just like been car mechanics or whatever, uhm, that like to rent VHS tapes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's one of those things. It isn't illegal until it is sort of thing, right? Like if some big boy gets burned or whatever, then it's likely that it'll become illegal or be seen as illegal or there'll be some reparations there. You know what I mean? Like there's, I think there's a fail.


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[Assistant] Fail saves for a lot of this stuff. But then, in a lot of cases, there's not, I guess. You know, you see...


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[Assistant] You see people get fucked over by this kind of stuff, like, I dunno, fairly regularly, I guess? It's not like, I mean, like, I don't, I don't do, I don't really know about much of the stuff that you hear about it.


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[Assistant] I think if you're into it and you understand it and you're interested in it, it's fair enough to me. It just, it's just complication in my life that I do not need. Like I don't, I don't need to think about that and I don't want to think about that and therefore I avoid it.


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[Assistant] I don't like, I don't, again, I don't really follow much of this stuff or any of it really. Like I've heard like people talking about this, but like it's, it's so beyond like what I'm interested in or what I'd ever look into or whatever. Like I guess like the.


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[Assistant] Do this and, and, and help out or, or something, I don't know, but like, I still don't really get like what's happened or why or anything.


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[Assistant] I think people who enjoy programming like it because there's a lot of sort of like efficiencies and stuff like that. You know, like sometimes when you're doing it, you kind of feel like you are programming in a way. So I think it probably appeals to people like that, for example.


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[Assistant] I found Satisfactory kind of clunky at parts and I think it's just because some of the buildings are just way too big and it's kind of hard to get like a good setup or it doesn't feel, it doesn't feel as satisfying as maybe the title leads you to think because you just end up playing this stupid


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[Assistant] They're, they're like, great, like this is, this is great. I really like enjoyed that or whatever and I didn't feel like I had to be overly efficient or have 20 wikis open, uhm, to, to do it sort of thing. And I think Factorio can be like that too. There's like enjoyment to be, to be had, but.


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[Assistant] If you're approaching it like wanting to be the most efficient and like a perfectionist, then I feel like it'll be a frustrating experience because I think it takes a while to get there.


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[Assistant] The most recent SimCity was the same, they had this, uhm, they had this engine running, sort of like,


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[Assistant] It was like kind of like an AI layer to the engine that handled, uh, traffic and, and like spawning entities and stuff. And, but they had, uh, like a rush hour, right? So like at certain times a day.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the game would decide that everybody needed to get to work or whatever. So like, for the most part, your traffic would be fine. But then at rush hour, it would just be a disaster. But so much of a disaster that like, you know, ambulances and fire trucks would get stuck in the traffic and couldn't make it to the places that they needed to go to.


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[Assistant] Factorio does have, uhm, aliens that attack you, which is, I guess, kinda random, and the way that they work is they get...


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[Assistant] There's, there's that to it. I mean, it's not like, yeah, there's a lot of tidying up. There's no denying it. But there is like, there is elements of having to have turrets filled with ammo to, you know, and like some defenses and stuff too.


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[Assistant] If you like moving lots of things from one place to another, I mean, you don't really do anything like that in RimWorld. Like the, like getting efficient in RimWorld. I think, uh, I think like the, the sort of scope of it is probably just having like a good kill box or whatever. You know what I mean? Like otherwise.


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[Assistant] What really? Uhm, you just go, there's websites like Twitch metrics or Twitch track or something like that. It usually tells you.


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[Assistant] I don't mind that so much. Sometimes the game feels a bit oppressive when it layers these things on top of each other, and it's almost like, yeaah, okay. You know, like, you think like, okay, I have a nuclear winter.


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[Assistant] You know, like it's, it feels like a bit bullshitty, like even with Randy random or whatever, you know, it's almost like parts of that are just scripted to just really try to fuck you or poke at your defenses. And I get it. And it's, and overall I think it's fine, but I still get frustrated by it sometimes because it just doesn't feel.


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[Assistant] Authentic, I guess? Like, it, it, it just does feel sort of like, uhm, you know, it's like a predetermined thing, that like once one thing happens, it, it's likely that the other thing will, or, you know, X, Y, or Z that would be like, worst case scenarios will come coupled with it, and then you're just like, kind of stuck with it. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I think my variety is wider. Another one for me is Overwatch, which I streamed a lot of. So that's in my top. So I've got Minecraft, Overwatch, RimWorld, Fallout 4, which I've streamed a ton of.


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[Assistant] And uhm, what was the other one? I can't remember. Oh, Among Us now, because I've streamed a lot of Among Us more recently sort of thing. I'm surprised that's how it's going to be. Yeah, but of all the games, I think Oxygen not included was up there, but I think Among Us has overtaken it now.


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[Assistant] But yeaah. Wow. It's like quite, quite a, quite a wide variety. Tarkov's coming up the list as well. Oh, Tarkov's on my list. It was on my list, but it's not. Sick.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean I streamed, not like, not this wipe, I haven't streamed it much at all, but like, the, when we used to play it a lot, Flax, like what, like two wipes ago? Yeah. I played it and streamed it a ton.


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[Assistant] So it's, it makes it more interesting. It's a bit like, I guess in some ways, maybe it's a bit like PoE, but it's, instead of like a full expansion to refresh everything and a wipe to play on, it's just a couple of, you know, patches, new patches.


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[Assistant] I mean, I can imagine them putting it in though, because I think that as for all the sort of complaints about gameplay and or, or, you know, praise about gameplay and stuff, I think


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[Assistant] They are trying to make something kind of realistic or whatever. So I think, I think on that basis alone, possibly they would put them in, but I think that it would slow down the game like crazy.


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[Assistant] Not much, no. And it's definitely gotten slower. I noticed like even people still like hatchet run or like, you know, rat and stuff like that. But like the mechanics around that has changed a lot now too.


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[Assistant] But uhm, you know, if they were to put traps and stuff in, man, it would take you forever to get through one building, right? You wouldn't be able to just charge in or else you would just get your legs blown off, right?


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[Assistant] I mean, I think we're basing this on like call of duty where you just press the button and then instantly the trap is up. I think if Tarkov were to do it, it would be like, it would take 20 seconds of holding a button to like, you know, set it up or something like that. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well you had bunker, right, but then, or train, but like.


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[Assistant] They do, but that's the thing, like, they don't. It doesn't, it's not a massive deterrent. Like, they exist. Like, Apex Legends I used to play had tons of hackers. Like, it just, it's just, uh, it's just one of those things. Like, I don't think they're ever ahead of the game with people creating hacks.


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[Assistant] I would have thought that if you're playing that in the first place, you're legitimately trying to get better at the game so that you can climb on the ladder and that is where the satisfaction comes from. Like, you must just feel yourself cheated all the time if you're, if you're having to cheat and knowing that any progress you've made is based off having a massive advantage.


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[Assistant] But cheating in a video game? Like- But, like, even cheating an exam to get somewhere, like, if you- if you don't know what you're doing, you're gonna have to get found out pretty quickly, right? Like, it's-


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[Assistant] Well, and he can see where everybody is. Like most of them can see, you know, outlines of players through walls and stuff. Like a lot of these hacks are like fairly advanced, right? Like, and they can toggle them and stuff as well. Like it's...


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[Assistant] It's a, it's a, it's a process of justifying it to yourself so that you can, you're not like constantly just feeling like shit about it.


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[Assistant] I mean, they'll talk about like the crime they committed, but like it, uh, it's important to know like their, their sort of like


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[Assistant] Hang on, I am going to, uhm, just abandon my normal average life and now murder two people.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean there's definitely other things that sort of, uhm, lead up to it and there's probably other, uhm, you know, like assaults or maybe murders that you don't know about.


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[Assistant] Nice, yeaah. I watched, uhm, I probably mentioned it, but if you guys still haven't seen it, you should watch Gamora. It's the Italian, uhm, it's Italian with English subtitles. It's like Four Seasons. It's like about the, uhm, the Gamora in Naples.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, I think most countries do have that. Where's ours? Well, English.


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[Assistant] They have a massive music industry as well in France and that music you'll unlikely hear anywhere outside of France.


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[Assistant] Maybe it's not as big as France's, but France have a very sort of, uhm, their approach to, uhm, uh, maintaining their culture is different to anywhere else. Yeah, they give a shit about it. I'm just pissed off.


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[Assistant] We all speak English, so there's always gonna be that crossover for sure, right? Like an English actor is just gonna be, at some point in their career, is going to aspire to go to America and break America, right?


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[Assistant] I would say that like a lot of the production would have been British for sure, but maybe money coming from America.


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[Assistant] You know, like Pop Idol, all that crap that made it over to America in one shape or form or whatever. There's definitely like a big export industry in Britain for formats and stuff, right? The BBC, for example, have made fucking millions off of exporting formats to


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[Assistant] Other countries, not just America, like Australia, Canada, everywhere else as well.


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[Assistant] But the other way around though, it doesn't seem to hold true really, like what shows do we have that are sort of like popular in Britain that are based on formats from like say America for example, like I can't


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[Assistant] The genre, like the sitcom genre or whatever, maybe that's changed a bit more, but like I'm trying, I'm trying to think of like, you know, like in America, they'll have like say survivor or I guess maybe the apprentice, the apprentice


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[Assistant] Right. And what about Big Brother? Where did that originate?


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[Assistant] We're tracking that story and we'll have updates for you next week, hopefully. Hopefully there's some more movement. Anyway, this is Sip signing off.


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[Assistant] Yes, I have actually had a great week, Lewis. It has been fantastic. No, it's been pretty good. Uhm, what have I been up to?


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[Assistant] I haven't really been up to much, uh, you know, just, just the usual. Been playing games, uh, online with, uh, people, sometimes without, um,


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[Assistant] I've been streaming a lot of it and uh, occasionally I do a couple of tweets, which is kind of fun too. And oh, we did a staycation. We did our last staycation of the year. Um, you know, with the lockdown and stuff, we, we took the kids and we stayed at a local hotel for one night.


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[Assistant] Really, really shit parking. So, uh, it was nice to have good parking. It had an indoor pool and a fitness center and stuff. That was nice. Of course. Did you make use of that? No, of course not. I felt kind of sick even thinking about it, but it was nice facilities to have.


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[Assistant] If I go somewhere and stay at a hotel, the only exercise I'm doing is masturbating pretty much, I mean that's it. Wow. I thought you guys didn't do that. This is old me, new me, new me wouldn't do that now.


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[Assistant] There's uh, there are limits for that kind of stuff, right? But uhm, cause like, cause listen, my uh, my mother-in-law, my mother-in-law is, is not like really old school in the sense that she's overly approved or anything like that, you know, like, she, you know, she,


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[Assistant] She wouldn't, she wouldn't like think that it was gross to see like, like boobs on TV or something like, you know what I mean? She's not like easily offended sort of thing.


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[Assistant] And what about the books? Did you get the books? There's two books that are really good. I haven't had time. We've only had a week since this last podcast. Oh man.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, but some of them have died, like, uh, and recently some have died as well, like, uhm, what's his face, the, uhm,


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[Assistant] Oh fuck, I can't remember his name now. He's like, he's the, like the, like the bald secret service agent. I don't know if you've seen him in the return yet.


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[Assistant] They've, uh, it's harder to do with drones now. They're on it. They've figured out that people try to use drones and they're on it.


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[Assistant] No, no offense to homeless people, but I feel like having not just one but two homeless people so integral to your logistics network means that it's failed already. Cause I don't think you can trust those homeless people to do a good job.


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[Assistant] And all it took, all it took was, here I'll give you like a nickel for some information. And he was like, okay. And he gave up everything. And that's what's going to happen to the two that are working in your logistics network.


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[Assistant] Can I suggest that instead of using a homeless person, you use like a young teen? Because if for some reason shit hits the fan, they can't really be arrested or go to jail. Like it's hard. Like a kid. Cause they're kids.


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[Assistant] I don't trust kids. Hiring homeless people and putting them in, in, in positions where there's like something at stake or responsibility is a huge no-no. Nobody would ever do it. But like a 12 year old kid, an impressionable 12 year old kid,


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[Assistant] Probably better, honestly. Uhm, and won't be able to take as much heat.


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[Assistant] No, never hire a drug addict to do anything. All they'll be thinking about all the time is drugs and how they can steal drugs from you or steal money from you to get drugs or when they're gonna be next doing drugs.


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[Assistant] As well, I wear slippers and a bathrobe and wander around the streets acting confused all the time to throw them off as well.


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[Assistant] So like, really you're, you're, you're smart and you've got everything sewn up and everything is running smoothly and they'll never suspect you cause they just think that you're crazy bathrobe guy.


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[Assistant] Well that's the other thing, you can't, you can't spend that money on flash stuff. Yeaah. Cause it'll draw too much attention. So you still have to drive around your, your old banger and...


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I was saying that my mother-in-law, what I was gonna say was, my mother-in-law had a tradesman in, it was a plumber, plumber came in because she didn't have any hot water, she woke up, she didn't have any hot water.


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[Assistant] Would you mind if I, if I used your bathroom? I really need to take a piss. And my mother-in-law was just like, excuse me? Like, it's just like, I think it's cause he said the word piss instead of like, you know, just leaving it, you know, just saying like, can I just use the bathroom?


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[Assistant] Because he said piss, this offended her greatly and she actually had to phone the place that sent him out and complain. Right. And she's never done that before. You know what I mean? Like she's pretty- The word piss. She's pretty laid back and easy going.


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[Assistant] I think she was just blown away by like the, she just thought it was really rude. But again, she's not like a overly prudish person or anything. I think that one just for some reason triggered her.


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[Assistant] I don't think I would have complained either, but at the same time, I don't blame her for complaining either. You know, like, like I don't think I would bother to complain, but I think, I think she's, I think she's in the right for complaining because it is kind of weird, isn't it? Like to turn up. I mean, it is strange, but like I said,


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[Assistant] Turn the fucking page. Like what? I'm just here to have fun drumming.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would actually be really offended by all of the interactions of all of the characters. I would find that a bit hard to deal with.


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[Assistant] Okay, actually I would have liked to do it when I was working like at a normal job for just some free time off.


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[Assistant] But now I don't want to be selected because I don't want to have to do that. I don't really want to take any time off from my current job.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no. I don't think you can trust them with drug related jobs and I certainly don't think that they would make good jurors. Uhm, that's just my opinion.


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[Assistant] I think the worst would be, I think the worst would be getting jury duty for like a really big long ass case, you know, like for OJ.


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[Assistant] And then you saw some of them were just like living it up. They just thought it was the greatest thing. They got to eat at the hotel every day and stuff. And it's just like, so this is what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] Okay, let's do the trial of homeless jurors, uh, when it's you who's in court fighting for your life, okay? That's when we'll do the trial. Are you okay with that?


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[Assistant] So the homeless people you're talking about are uh, accountants that have just fallen on hard times and have somehow ended up on the streets.


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[Assistant] They still have, they still have a working monocle and a fairly fresh top hat and would make excellent jurors is the ones you're talking about.


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[Assistant] You shouldn't be watching that in the first place anyway but if you happen to be, well, what can we do about it?


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[Assistant] I feel, I feel like I, I, I'm not the one who needs to worry in that situation really. You know, I think it's down to other people to be worried about. Like if I'm just sitting there doing a number two with the door without it, like if I don't have a door, for example,


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[Assistant] I kind of feel like that about a lot of things. I think it's because I'm a bit older now, but like, you know, for example, like say you're coming out of the shower, right? And you're walking into your bedroom to get changed. Do you guys do that? Or do you guys take all your clothes in the shower with you?


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[Assistant] Okay, so, so your dick and balls are hanging right out. You're, you're ass naked. You've just gotten out of the shower. Are all of your blinds closed while this is happening?


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[Assistant] I'm not saying I wanna have a shit in the toilet with the door open. I said if there was no doors and I had to take a shit, I would still take a shit. But that's what I was saying.


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[Assistant] Well, that's what I'm saying. It is, it is unlikely. That's why I'm not dashing to get changed or whatever, because I'm assuming that nobody is really making an effort to look into my bedroom while I'm getting changed.


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[Assistant] There's no pandemic, okay? Pools are open. You go to a public pool. You happen to go at a very busy time. You're in the changing room getting changed.


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[Assistant] For example, when I was younger, I would seek out a cubicle or I would put the towel around me and like change under my towel, right? Now, I find that I'm older, I just don't give a fuck anymore, I'm just fully fucking naked and whatever.


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[Assistant] I feel like it's a thing that happens when you're older though, right? Cause like every time I've been into a changing room, there's always some old dude, like, and it's all hanging out and he doesn't give a fuck, right?


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[Assistant] Like, no, he's gotten in there after the pool and most people will shower with their bathing suits still on. Not him. He's fully fucking nude. And he's showering.


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[Assistant] The guys that got naked were always guys that were on professional sports teams. So they had a lot of experience with just being naked around each other all the time it seemed. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Oh, the people who weren't like that, uh, wouldn't even go into the locker room because they, because Brad and Chad would like fucking turbo wedgie them and pick on them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe their dad was a window cleaner, climbed up the window one time and looked into one of the teacher's bedrooms while they were getting changed after a shower and saw something he was not meant to see.


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[Assistant] Yeah, jocks with like cricket paddles in a van. They would drive around on the first day of school and get people and like smack their butts with cricket paddles and stuff. It was just, they were the worst. I don't know. I guess it's like a cultural thing or whatever.


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[Assistant] Luckily I never was, uh, I never, I never had any of that done to me, but like it, it, it definitely happened. Wedgies. Were you doing it? Were you in the van? No, no, I wasn't in the van either. Uh, lots of wedgies, locker room, like stories of like mega wedgies in the locker rooms and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, there's all that, all that shit. It was always, it was always jocks because like you had the, the groups in, in high school when I went to high school was you were either a jock, um, you were like, uh,


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[Assistant] Really, either a jock, you were either really academic and you hung out with like gifted people and you had like different classes to everybody else.


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[Assistant] Uh, or you were like a skater, um, and most skaters were like stoners or you were just a full on stoner who didn't even skate because you were so stoned all the time. You couldn't even do the physical.


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[Assistant] In North America, we didn't have school uniforms either, so clothes were a huge thing. Fashion clothes, like, you know, if you weren't wearing the right clothes in certain circumstances, you'd get picked on a lot. There's lots of that.


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[Assistant] We used to have like uhm, all our hallways were just lined with lockers too, which is I guess probably the same at every school.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we, we all had lockers, but I remember my locker was basically just...


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[Assistant] Like a lunch dumping ground and at the end of the year, every year.


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[Assistant] I'd have to, you'd have to clear out your locker because you got issued a new one like the next year or whatever. Uh, so like the last day of school was always like everybody cleaning out their lockers. And I remember me and like a couple of my friends, our lockers were close by and like the whole hallway stunk because there was just like these old fucking lunches that got moldy like in all of our lockers.


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[Assistant] We had a couple of all girls schools. I think, I think it was mostly all girls schools as opposed to like all boys schools like in Canada. I mean, I don't know. I like, I didn't really know anybody who went to any of these schools or whatever, but it was for like the elite. Like it wasn't.


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[Assistant] You didn't just like go there if you were like middle class or whatever. This was like, you know, if you went to these schools, you were fucking stinking rich sort of thing.


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[Assistant] All of our schools are mixed. No uniforms, nothing. The, the separator for our schools was that you had different boards of education. So like I was in, uhm, a board of education that was like, uh, focused on like French immersion. So for like English speaking English, uh, born, um, kids in Canada who


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm rusty as hell though. I never, I never use it. Like I can understand it. Like I can watch French news and understand everything. Like I can have like a conversation in French, but I'll just sound like crazy because


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[Assistant] It's all, it's all grammar, grammar and sentence structure is all different, but like what I'll just do like a one for one translation sort of thing. So like none of what I, what I say sounds like properly French because I'm just using English sentence structure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, they can, yeah, they'll understand. Yeah, like it, it's fine. Like if I practiced, I'd be a lot better, but I just, I never do.


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[Assistant] Okay, but the other, the other school board was like a religious school board. So you had a handful of schools that were like, uh, part of like a Catholic school board.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so they had different, they, they had different time off, they had different holidays and stuff. It wasn't like, in the UK, everything happens at the same time for school, right? Half term is the same for everybody, whatever. But we, so we would be off, and they would be at school still. So like, our thing-


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[Assistant] And you're like, we'd be off and they'd be at school. So we'd go to their school and wait for them to come out at lunch or whatever and hang out with them and stuff and vice versa. They'd be off, we'd be at school and they'd come over and stuff. So it was like, you had that crossover, but you know, it wasn't, it wasn't like a boy girl thing. It was just like,


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[Assistant] Obviously we still need to fucking send emails. Don't trim your beards because that uses electricity which is generated by coal! So you must let your beards grow long and free!


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[Assistant] Hello, welcome, thank you for joining us here on the Triforce podcast.


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[Assistant] We're living in a new world now, where, you know, you can't have these comfort requirements, these sort of standardized things that you see in a movie, where it's like, come in and hold my hand, it's like, no, just fucking go in on your own, you could do it before, you know what I mean, I'm not gonna give you any moral support.


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[Assistant] Do it on your own. Uh, yeaah, you're not allowed in supermarkets in pairs and stuff, really. They sort of, they don't tell you off for it, but they sort of look at you funny outside.


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[Assistant] That would go well, I get the impression I'm rushing though, because I'm conscious of all those people outside, you know.


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[Assistant] There's certain things like a bookshop you want to take your time in. A lot of people like chill out in a bookshop and they just, they let themselves relax. They look at, they wander around. They don't really want to buy anything, you know. When was the last time you went into a bookshop and actually bought a book? Every time I go in.


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[Assistant] I feel like every time I see anyone in a bookshop I don't, I see people, I see them full of people but no one's actually going to the counter carrying anything there. And I'm always just looking at stuff, so I'm like...


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[Assistant] There was like a website back in the dot com boom, when they were, I was at pets dot com when they were selling like pet supplies to cows. I don't know what the fuck is that.


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[Assistant] I read it this week, but there was a great story about Accuracy International who


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[Assistant] Oh right, yes, the uhm, there's one of them, like the heptathlon has some shooting on it.


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[Assistant] Uh, so the story goes that like in the 80s there was this little group of guys and they were working out their garage making this specific guy's Olympic rifle and they'd come up with like this design and they wanted to try it against the British sniper rifle


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[Assistant] Because there were some trials that happened with the military every so often where they, you know, they apply for people to say bring your rifles along, we'll choose which one's best and we'll try them all out. And so they entered this trial not expecting to win, but expecting just to see what would happen. And they obviously completely won the trial. So the British military wanted, you know, a thousand


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[Assistant] Because that's what they do. And they rented out this, um, but then the British government said, oh, we're going to send around a couple of our requisition lieutenants just to


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[Assistant] Uh, came back in and fixed it and it was still in service. And some of these rifles, I think back in the day, this was in about the 80s, they were still using a modified World War II rifle. So what they would do is they would basically take


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[Assistant] New Jersey and New York had an argument over who owns Staten Island. So they had a racing competition about, you know, trying to go around it in a boat. And when you look into the story, of course, it's completely apocryphal. There's no, it's complete bull, there's no, it's just such a good story though, that it sticks around.


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[Assistant] A Greek historian from like 5th century BC. So, you know, talking two and a half thousand years ago here. And some people, you know, call him the father of history, but other people call him the father of lies. Because he kind of is this character who probably


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[Assistant] He made a lot of these stories, like heard the histories, heard different stories from oral tradition, and then chose the ones that sounded the best, or kind of exaggerated.


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[Assistant] I wonder if more people nowadays are being forgotten than ever before. Okay, by which I mean, like, the person who, uhm, you could be so anonymous on the internet, right, there might be like an amazing reddit post, and then it's


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[Assistant] And then the creator of it deletes his account. So you never know who that was, right? It's like, uhm, I saw this thing on Reddit this week of a guy called, uhm, like apparently a baseball player with one of the worst pitching


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[Assistant] It wasn't, um, so, so I think, I think this is a story from like 1905 or something where he was brought in as a sort of trial pitcher, did a couple of innings or whatever they, whatever it is in baseball, I don't know, the throws, a couple of rounds.


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[Assistant] Sure, and they sort of, he was so terrible and I think they wrote in the paper that he was the most dreadful, useless person or whatever and they put him out to the field and then he was never, never appeared again. But of course, he's lost the time, like no one knows who he was, anything about him other than his surname.


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[Assistant] You know, he went uhm, and so like, you know, even like, you know, in recent history we can easily forget people. I'm just saying like...


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[Assistant] So, so, since, I mean, Egypt, right, uhm, there's this, uh, people were finding sort of lists of kings on walls of tombs, and they would notice when they were excavating these tombs that some of them were wrong, because they didn't, because they had an earlier version or a different version. And it's like, in ancient Egypt, you know, we're talking a long time BC here,


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[Assistant] They were actually editing their own history to remove people they didn't like or didn't favour. They were deleting kings. They were, you know, they were actually changing their own history back then. Um, and you know, I think it is a part, I mean, it's a, it's the same thing with this Staten Island thing.


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[Assistant] Did keep very good records and did, there are historians throughout history who were sort of scientific almost in their efforts to preserve what they saw as important knowledge for the future.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so we do have some really great bits of real history if, if you, if you, if you, if you're looking, if you're looking the right place. Oh yeaah.


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[Assistant] But at the same time, we are surrounded by bullshit every day. You know, that anecdote I told about that rifle thing, that might be bollocks. I just saw a Reddit thing and I've parroted it badly, you know? I could've made mistakes, but it's a cool story, right?


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[Assistant] I think that we are in this, uhm, world of, since sort of thermonuclear weapons suggested of actually wiping out life. We do live in an age where, for the very first time,


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[Assistant] We could completely be wiped out, and that is pretty terrifying because throughout history,


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[Assistant] Um, you know, advanced, whether it was in China or South America or somewhere, you know, where they, you know, they were constantly improving. And obviously it's been an exponential rate of increase lately.


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[Assistant] But yea, it is terrifying that we now have these fears that an asteroid could strike and wipe everyone out, or that we could kill ourselves with climate change, or that a solar flare will knock everything out and will descend into anarchy and bombs will go off.


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[Assistant] But then again, back in the day, I think God was going to destroy the world, it was going to be the end of days. People were thinking throughout history that the end of days is imminent, and it sort of ticked on, regardless.


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[Assistant] You also need to understand that a large majority do still think that. It's some crazy amount still believing in this kind of fairy tale stuff. It's pretty surprising.


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[Assistant] I got into it, I really liked it, but I had to quit playing because at a certain point there was a ghost enemy who had 99% physical evade, and I couldn't escape.


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[Assistant] They are very, very, very, very hard, but very satisfying once you know what you're doing, and actually you get better quite quickly. Pitching that difficulty is very tricky because you don't want to just end up with


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[Assistant] Well it's not that awesome. These people are specialised. You've got a guy who's doing the art, he's doing the game design, he's doing the fucking coding, he's doing everything. He has to make a fun game and experience based on what his experience is. His experience is, you ask him, have you played this game, have you played this game, he will say no to all those specials because he's not.


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[Assistant] Throughout history, where they affect things today in ways we don't really understand.


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[Assistant] I will see Church of England schools and I will see, you know, lots of things that were kind of obviously changing and dynamic and looking at how Colston Hall


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[Assistant] And I think that a lot of empire and a lot of systems and a lot of things we have stick around. Looking at, I was listening to a podcast about an apartheid in South Africa, and you know, that was still going into, you know, the 60s and 70s, wasn't it?


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[Assistant] has been so prevalent and you realise it is from this very deep rooted racism and very deep rooted sort of thing that


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[Assistant] Keep, uh, proactively rebrand themselves, don't they, every ten years, because their brand feels like, oh, it's a bit old, a bit of a boomer brand now, let's just rename ourselves Zazzle.


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[Assistant] It basically says that, you know, you can't predict the future, but you can predict the actions of large, very large groups of people such as an empire. So you can see


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[Assistant] Where the empire will be in this amount of time.


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[Assistant] Kind of like broad predictions about history, like if we know where the population of the earth is going, we can see how many people have by this date and if things keep going this way. You know, if you, if you put sort of, we can model, the idea is that you can model the future with history and sociology and look into the past.


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[Assistant] To see what's going to happen again because history has this habit of repeating itself. It's a very interesting concept, but uhm, you know, Bristol certainly has like a history of rioting throughout, weirdly throughout history.


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[Assistant] Um, and fairly regularly, like just before we came to Bristol in 2011, there was this thing called the St. Paul's Rites and we actually had our office was actually just on the edge of St. Paul's.


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[Assistant] The, the sort of set, the whole, the whole triangle, you know, of uhm.


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[Assistant] I don't know what we were sending down to Africa to buy the slaves, I assume, the goods that we produced. Oh, like ramen stuff I think we were selling.


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[Assistant] So it was this kind of triangle, and Bristol was this big part of it, but as a result, England


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[Assistant] It is pretty amazing how shitty all this visa situation is. Even between UK and USA it's so difficult to get, move and move around. It's crazy really how difficult it is, bearing in mind we're two of the most, you know,


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[Assistant] You know, safe and successful countries in history, potentially, you know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the fact that you can't, it's so difficult for people to be with their family. Uhm, I'm just stunned about, anyway, but that's unrelated. So there is this very big, especially in St Paul's there was this big community of, uhm, of largely, I guess, like,


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[Assistant] Black people of Afro, African Caribbean descent, you know, but much, but now just British, you know, as British as you get. But they were kind of being harassed I think a lot by the police and you know, this was even, this was only ten years ago.


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[Assistant] There was this place called the Black and White Cafe, which was like the most raided, uh, cafe or premises in, in, ever by the police. I think they raided it like 300 times.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what's going on? And so, yeah, we like, uhm, then I got a text off my mum saying, oh, are you alright? And I was like, what do you mean? And she was like, oh, there's some riots going on in Bristol. And I was like, is there?


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[Assistant] And so uhm, I was looking up on the news and I didn't know as much as you really. And then the day after I went over to have a look and basically what had sort of happened was it had been a fairly, so we got this, after, after, you know, after


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[Assistant] That's it. I kind of respect that. So one of the things I saw on Twitter was that the Somerset and Avon Police had sort of posted, you know, uh, due to Covid, please don't attend this protest. Please protest.


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[Assistant] Please attend virtual protests while on Zoom.


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[Assistant] You know, like, what good is that gonna do? Do you know what I mean? That's almost insulting to the point of, kind of, I think, stuff like that. Like, being so out of touch, and being so, kind of, I don't know, that almost, to me, annoys me. Stuff like that. Yeah. So I think a couple of people were very, uhm,


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[Assistant] You end up with, uh, kind of a problem. So yeah, it's, it's, I think a few police, policemen had, were injured and, and some things were.


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[Assistant] Set on fire, but right round the next morning, and the only thing...


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[Assistant] They'd obviously sent all their police, all their, all their film crews down. So it's just a road full of cameras looking at nothing.


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[Assistant] I feel like a riot doesn't have, these days, doesn't have to be full of death and carnage, it just has to...


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[Assistant] And I, I mean, I'm talking about these support rights and stuff and they were, they were actually in the sort of 80s, uhm, a lot of the, when, when there was a lot of other troubles, a lot of anti-Irish sentiment and there was a lot of poor Irish population as well who were involved and so there's lots of socially justice type situations that have been going on for a long time and still,


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[Assistant] It wasn't conventionally... but in a sense, I think these protesters also don't want to hurt people necessarily, they're just angry and they want to make a noise. And some of them do want to cause chaos.


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[Assistant] But I wonder how, what the other options are, if there even are any, I wonder how this history of protests has bled through time and become this thing where in order to get noticed you have to cause disruption, yea. And I don't know, like, I just, I'm so ignorant about this whole world, really, and I don't really understand.


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[Assistant] I think it's very easy for deliberate violence to be seeded by negative groups as well. You know, it's like a catalyst for stuff. You know, if you have an angry police who are looking for a fight or


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[Assistant] You know, you plant a bunch of angry mobs into a more peaceful protest. I think it can... This is all political conspiracy bullshit, really, but yeah, I think it's a funny... It's a fucking mess. It's a mess. It is a mess.


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[Assistant] I think this is, this is actually something which is a problem as well though, because I think, I mean, I saw a lot of kind of very American, you know, all cops are bastards, a lot of very, very reddity kind of stuff out about around this riot.


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[Assistant] And I think it's partly because we're so plugged into the American culture, that we plug it into our own, um, and I think we, the Bristol police are very different.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's okay. Yeah. Yeah. I'll be thinking about, um, giving it a spray.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there was uhm, did you see, you know, we're past the speed camera, which my wife's sister's brother got caught by about three months ago.


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[Assistant] I think the job is something you have to do to live.


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[Assistant] And so you feel like you have to put on this face and have this polite.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, it is like a bad YouTuber just commenting what they've, what they're doing.


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[Assistant] I think you can, you could just say, oh, okay. Like the other thing is like, I think as soon as you start going to functions that are more social events, that you can start talking with strangers in a more interesting way. Um, you know, like in the pub, you know, you don't.


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[Assistant] You're insane. And then from then on in the office, you're kind of, you, you, it's changed the ability to have the small talk forever, right? Because you kind of feel like you've, you know, suddenly intimate things about this person or at least if not intimate, at least more than you needed to know.


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[Assistant] I like that, but I also feel like these days you have to be careful because there's a lot less tolerance for bullying in the workplace. And I think it's a very fine line between, I mean, I've always


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[Assistant] Well, also you don't know what people are really feeling inside. You know, you don't know how much people are upset by this. You know, when you were at school, it was the same, you know, there would be some quiet kid who would, you know, get called a name or whatever. And then one day he'd, you know, go on to


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[Assistant] Those often that is portrayed as a very family positive thing, right? You know, it's, it's, it's, um, it's a nice thing often to have these sort of people who are trapped in the same similar mundane, you know, office lives.


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[Assistant] They have a friendship and they do know each other intimately very quickly, you know, as much as small talk is.


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[Assistant] Is this thing where it certainly can be very


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[Assistant] But bland between strangers and very incredibly shielding as well, incredibly like, you know, you, you could have a little English people are the masters of polite small talk with people that doesn't betray any aspect of their personality whatsoever.


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[Assistant] You know, you can have the most, it's almost like a server in America giving you their fake, nice persona.


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[Assistant] In the same way that a British person giving small talk also knows that the person they're dealing with is also, you know, playing this weird game. It is, it is a polite thing. It's an elegance or a dignified part of, of culture.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I'll be watching the crown again and the queen, the queen's like, this is one of her speeches at the moment. Well, it's one of these things, isn't it? Where sort of she, her education was very much about.


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[Assistant] And she didn't even need dragons to do it.


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[Assistant] Well, she apparently, she only needed a couple of, uh, infusions of, uh, children's blood and some lizards. I believe she is one of the lizards, isn't she? That's the claim. She'd sit on a rock a few times a month to regenerate. You guys think that she is a real lizard? No. Right, okay.


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[Assistant] I heard that the Oxford vaccine reacts, well, the side effects is it reacts with Botox.


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[Assistant] Well that's something people have been injecting. Like fucking hell, like apparently like we're basically 33% fucking plastic and heavy metal pollution from all of the fucking shit we eat is full of plastic.


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[Assistant] Everybody has like the, these Teflon chemicals in them and these other chemicals in them. Everyone's got full of stuff and apparently it's not even going to go away like because we're going to pass it on to our kids. You know, our kids are going to come preloaded with fucking


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[Assistant] I honestly think people love a big shouty red face person who feels like they are very sure of themselves. People like someone who's sure of themselves. It just shows how people are so vulnerable to propaganda even today. You know, like people just believe.


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[Assistant] I'm sure you guys have done this, right? It was Tenet. Yeah. And I, it was actually kind of nice. It was a weird, cleverly transitional movie because I think if I'd watched it in the mo, in the cinema, I would have been a bit frustrated.


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[Assistant] I think I enjoyed it a lot more, sat on my arse, being able to, you know, have a pee and not miss like a crucial plot point.


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[Assistant] Chris? Batman should wear, like, uh, one of those sort of scrolling text things on his chest or something, like digital, that gives him automatic subtitles.


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[Assistant] Well, it was very, I thought it was actually, I thought it was actually very enjoyable as, as soon as I, I didn't have my tinfoil hat on though, I wasn't like.


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[Assistant] I think the danger of time travel is that like,


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[Assistant] Well, it's so stupid time travel because it ruins, even the dumbest person can say, well, what if you just went back in time to before that happened?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's kind of it, but, but you are, yes, you get what's called inverted.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Surely a reverse bullet would be pulling it out of you. Right, you'd be better off afterwards.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's full of that sort of stuff and you're constantly full of questions, but also in a sense when you're dealing with time travel, it's hard to make it, um, mean something because there's always that feeling like the twist.


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[Assistant] Well, it's, I think it's a very light, a light comedy time travel movie. It's not, doesn't take itself too seriously and the time travel is obviously a very big plot point, but it's also very clear that you're not supposed to fuck with time.


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[Assistant] What I don't like is when a movie, you get a movie and the time travel like thing on it is like some complete madness. It's like looking at a spaghetti wall where someone's tried to figure out what happened. And it's like a time travel mad.


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[Assistant] In fact, I, in fact, I think that helps you. That will help if you decide to watch it. That will actually help, um, to make the series better. Because I think sometimes it is really very confusing what the fuck's going on.


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[Assistant] If we had been inside kind of became like this, it aged down. It was like Minecraft. It came out and it was like for teens. And then it sort of became a kid's show kind of thing.


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[Assistant] But I'm starting to think maybe I'm getting to the age now where I can watch like a movie that I know is good that I can't remember and I won't, I won't remember any of it. I'm looking, I'm thinking the page is starting to turn where I can now.


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[Assistant] I watched that because it was on, it popped up on fucking, I guess it's just Alexa listening to me. Cause we were talking to you about old movies and I fucking watched, I watched it was on Amazon or something. It popped up. I was like, just watched it in the background. It was kind of a shitty movie.


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[Assistant] What it has, like, it's a decent premise and a good cast, but it just felt like just a bit of a shit movie. Like, I dunno, it didn't feel like there was any reward or payoff, it just felt like this weird Twilight Zone-y kind of...


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[Assistant] It's just like a premise with no, there's nothing on the hook, right? Like it's like recently every movie has had to be some world ending disaster is prevented, you know, like,


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[Assistant] It's all, it's all low stakes, good premise, weird scenario.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of the time, like it's, it's, it's backscratching and stuff like this as well. And also people who've made something before, it's like, I don't care what you make. You made this thing before, therefore we're just going to trust you to make the next thing. And you end up with a lot of very mediocre stuff, but I think studios and TV stations traditionally didn't care really.


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[Assistant] But also in the same way people aren't willing to take risks either, even today. Like I think, you know, you'd rather the project got completed on time and on budget than.


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[Assistant] You know, you, you took a risk on something that might not work. It's the same with games. It's the same with everything really. I think that the indie games and indie movies have allowed, always allowed.


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[Assistant] You know, creativity and I think that's where most of it stems from. You know, it's, it's a creative indie that then gets adapted into a big game.


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[Assistant] Um, you know, or, or movie in the same way. I think, I think movies have always had more freedom though, because there's so much.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can have kind of these wild guys in charge. A lot of the...


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[Assistant] In a sense, like they're not because you know, you know, you're going to get something out of them and people are going to watch it out of interest. You know, Oh, people watch bad movies routinely because it's weird to people want to know. I'm sure a lot of people watch cats just for the sake of morbid curiosity.


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[Assistant] Okay, I've started playing a few VR games. Yeah, I cracked. Well, I decided that we started this second lockdown. I was like, I can't really go out. Well, I can go out, but I don't anyway. But I felt like I just needed to do something that involved standing up for more than 10 minutes every day.


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[Assistant] No, I hate it. It really stinks. It's so boring. But no, I've, I've seen some podcasts and I was, I was, I was, I was doing some other stuff standing up. I'm trying to, I'm trying to walk around a bit. I don't know.


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[Assistant] But remember, the vaccine protects you from 5G, so, consider that.