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[Assistant] I know I am. Listen up. So, I obviously don't agree with the Covid protests, okay, but, how do you feel about the psy-op of, like, kind of playing music? Yeah. That's what it is, right? I love that term. Playing music, what, to... To disperse the crowds. Wear them down and disperse them.


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[Assistant] People will be going nuts, it'll be the best part, yeah. Well, but that's the thing, okay. You've gotta think, what are you trying to do with this crowd? Are you trying to...


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[Assistant] But the point is that the thing about a crowd is it's like an animal, right? And it can be angry, and bored, and if you keep them entertained...


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[Assistant] Under the guise of trying to annoy them, right? You could change the mood of a crowd, so it's less dangerous, right? Do you see what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] There's a good bit coming up, yeah, oh shit. Oh fuck's sake. Uhm, alright, well, yeah, that was, I don't know how I feel about, about any of that, but uhm, I guess it's something to be aware of if you've got a protest going. Don't let em, don't


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[Assistant] Especially with big, big boss there, just like, lording over them.


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[Assistant] It's always something. Yeah, that's crazy. That sounds great. Yeah, that's good. Uh, talking about making babies, and rich people, I saw a thing this week. Is this about Prince Andrew? No.


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[Assistant] See if you can guess where this is happening. There is an airline charter company offering couples the thrill of joining the Mile High Club. Jesus. So they've pimped out this


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[Assistant] Uh, you could also get a wedding in there, for, uh, one thousand... you could get married in there. How much does it cost?


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[Assistant] Although it says, uhm, although they've mostly booked couples, they have accommodated groups of three and four people! Wow. Exciting stuff.


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[Assistant] Some people don't think it counts unless you're flying commercial as well. Like, you know.


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[Assistant] And I, for one, am all for finding loopholes in the bucket list. You know? There's a hole in the bucket.


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[Assistant] Do you reckon you could set up like a pirate, like, radio station above?


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[Assistant] You're finished! I don't give a shit! That would explain why all the billionaires are getting in on it. So just, it must, maybe it's sex in space is somehow better, you know?


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[Assistant] Especially because the police had probably been like advised in advance that they can't remove you because it's a trick or whatever.


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[Assistant] Fascinating. The thing is that the best trick is something that's obvious once you know it, but impossible to guess otherwise.


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[Assistant] Welcome back, welcome back ladies and gentlemen, we're here.


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[Assistant] Can you, you can, you can keep cattle without having a prod though, right? Like, uh, you don't necessarily need a prod, so...


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[Assistant] Or, does it make them move, or does it make them moooove?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but you'd say Peter, right? You wouldn't say Petter.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but also the things, like the little needle clamp things that stick into you and continually. Right, grief.


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[Assistant] When you think though, the whole thing is a really thin line, like, uh, I don't know if you've ever had this before, but I was, I, I went out to...


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[Assistant] Well, to the garage the other night, you know, like I had to have to leave my house to go to my garage, but it was late. It was like 10 o'clock at night or whatever. I stepped outside and it was just like super, super quiet. It was one of those like really still nights, you know, and uhm,


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[Assistant] The area that I live in is like, fairly built up. And I just thought like, it's crazy, right? Like everybody's just at home chilling right now. It could be so different, right? Like people could just be out there doing like, fucking god knows what.


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[Assistant] And, but they don't. Like they're just like probably at home watching TV, just like having a snack or whatever, getting ready to go to bed. And, uh, and, and it just, it just makes me think sometimes that like how,


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[Assistant] How lucky we are, but also how, uhm, how, like, I don't know the word, but like, it just feels like one little thing could tip the balance at any time.


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[Assistant] I suppose not, yeah, I guess we're just all, like, really, y'know, pacified at this point, with like, y'know, all of our stories, and our Netflix, and delivering food to our house and stuff.


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[Assistant] That's exactly what I tell all my fans when they saw those pictures of me there, and I said, you know, I'm trying to insert myself into history, just like Forrest Gump did in the movie, you know what I mean? Like, I wanna look back and I wanna have a montage of all those, you know, historical events I was present at, or whatever, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Who's this guy that keeps popping up? Oh, that's Sit. But then there would be conspiracy theories. In 100 years time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, and the same pair at that. I mean, we, these, these, these events have all taken place years and years apart and this man has the same pair of shorts every time. What's going on?


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[Assistant] Yeah, because it's different when it actually happens, right? Like you can be as ready as you can be sort of thing, but when, when, when shit's going down, it's, it's really different.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, I mean look at 9-11, you know, like big buildings full of people, you know, they had all of the, you know, documentation that they needed for emergencies and how to deal with stuff and whatever, but you know.


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[Assistant] You gotta be that one guy on Reddit though who comes up with this crazy idea and then just keeps saying it, keeps saying it, keeps saying it and then eventually somehow by some miracle


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[Assistant] It either happens or part of it happens and then he gets that five minutes where he's like, I've been saying this all along. You know, like there's, there's people like that out there, isn't there? Who just like come up with some.


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[Assistant] I feel like you can apply that to every aspect of Donald Trump though, right? Like, I don't think he ever even expected to win. Like, it just, the whole thing was just so absurd, right? Like, I think he just thought, oh well.


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[Assistant] And then there's just this, like, this dormant part of society that just was enabled by him as well, which is weird, right? Because, like, pre-, they've been around, but just never so, uhm, in the front of everything, right? You know, like-


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[Assistant] You're preaching to the choir here, I've played like hundreds of hours of Satisfactory, I pretty much know what I'm doing, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sometimes it feels like we're at tier 2 and we're trying to unlock tier 9, right? And it's just like, what are you gonna do with all that forbidden knowledge? Like, you can't.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well often and often, let's face it, it's the working men. You know, like those guys, the belters, they're just treated like shit. They're out there working hard, they're just trying to put food on the table.


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[Assistant] F'ing and jeffing all over the place, I mean, come on.


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[Assistant] I felt like Star Trek, there was no real, uhm, it was more like, if you were human and you worked on the starship, that's all you really saw, but everybody seemed like pretty comfortable on there, right?


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[Assistant] Well that is the Star Trek universe though, right? That's the, the final frontier is racism, basically.


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[Assistant] No, the next generation tried to be really squeaky clean, but what it did cleverly was it used data as its outlet. So data would like malfunction sometimes and then just be like more racist for an episode. And that was the next generation's way of like, you know, just having an outlet to vent sometimes.


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[Assistant] Cause they couldn't make Ryker or Troy or even like Beverly Crusher. I mean, she's a mom for Christ's sake. Like you can't be racist when you're a mom.


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[Assistant] But uhm, but see data malfunctioning all of a sudden, he could be turned up and he'd be like, hey, hey waffle head, you know, or like, hey, big nose, you know, and they're like, what the hell's wrong with data? It's all shit. Some circuit malfunction again. And that's the whole episode, basically. And then we delete the crisis.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, that's the type of- I've met a lot of Hubert.


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[Assistant] Is it Ferengi or the Romulans who have like big fucking like satellite dish ears and like the pointy teeth?


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[Assistant] You gotta look for your trademarks though, right? Like, my, like my thing, I always thought if I was ever gonna become, uh, like an artist, my thing would be one legged, three breasted women. Like, somewhere in all of my paintings you would find one, right?


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[Assistant] Imagine Doctor Who brought him to this future and made him read YouTube comments about himself? That'd be pretty good, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, no, but I mean like, you think like some of these like, uh, you know, old, old, old school composers and stuff, the only way that you really could have listened to them is to be there, right? You'd actually have to go to the concert.


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[Assistant] Okay, imagine you live back in time and there's no way to listen to music other than to attend a live show. Would you go see Adele live?


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[Assistant] You know what? On this topic, I was watching, I watched the start of the Beastie Boys story on Apple+, just like a documentary about the Beastie Boys. One thing that struck me was,


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[Assistant] Um, the intro is like, there's like, there's like this kind of like five minute montage, you know, intro like with like some of their songs, footage of them and stuff. And this all leads up to.


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[Assistant] The format of the show, which is the two surviving members of the Beastie Boys, uhm, kinda like hosting, like a live, at a live venue. They're on stage, almost like they're doing a Ted Talk, but like, you know, telling the story of the Beastie Boys sort of thing. So, they both come out on stage and you can see the audience and stuff.


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[Assistant] And uh, you know, like sabotage is playing or something like that. And they come out on stage and they're quite a bit older now, you know, like these guys are like probably in their fifties now or whatever. But uhm, the thing that struck me was when you look out in the audience,


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[Assistant] It's, it's like, it was like a sea of my mom and dad. Like it's just like all these like balding old, old people like wearing, like, you know, office clothes and stuff. And like, I guess at the time they were kids when, when Beastie Boys were like, you know, churning out the, the bangers and stuff.


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[Assistant] You'd really struggle to find in that audience any young people, right? Because I guess it's just, um, like we were saying about like Mozart and stuff like that. You listen to the stuff that's of your time, I suppose, right? Like the stuff that you listen to, uh, and then you probably just carry on listening to. I mean, we've talked about this a lot, but, um,


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[Assistant] That, that album came out and you heard it everywhere. Like every skate park, somebody would be playing it like, you know, outside or whatever.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, you go to school, if you were on, if you took a bus to school or whatever, you'd hear somebody would have it on their Walkman or, or whatever. You know what I mean? Like you just, you heard it everywhere. It was huge. It was just this like massive, massive album that everybody, everybody loved. And it was, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's, it's funny to think, but, and, and now, you know, all those people that loved it are like, in their 50s now. And going to the Beastie Boys story live, live event thing, which is fun.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, exactly, yeaah. I mean, all the guys in, all the Wu-Tang Clan members are in their 50s now. Like, uh, I was watching, uh, I used to listen to a lot of, like, uh, like, no effects, like, uh, kinda like skate punk when I was younger as well. And those guys, those guys are still performing and stuff. Like, they did this backyard.


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[Assistant] Uhm, party performance thing, uh, during COVID.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they, they still have like, you know, mohawks and, and, and stuff, but they're just a little bit fatter and a little bit saggier than they were.


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[Assistant] Man, for me, I don't know if this is right, but that scene in Goodfellas where he takes, uh, what's her face, to uhm, is it Helen? What's her name?


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[Assistant] Karen. Karen. When he takes Karen to that show, uh, at that, uh, at that place, right? Where, it's like, at the restaurant, and they, and you know, like the waiter has to like bring the table over and set it all up quickly and stuff.


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[Assistant] People going to see Manolo must have been consuming Manolo in that manner. I will not accept it any other way, right? That is of the time, I feel like. You know, you dressed up, you wore a suit, it was like a big event and you went to see him at like this dimly lit venue where they had to bring the table out to you and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] No, absolutely. I mean, when we went to see- Because it still sounds relevant to me. When we went to go see Ghostface in Bristol, I would say that the demographic of that crowd was probably like, uh- It was you. Yeah, mid-30s, early-40s. Easy. Like, it was people who were teenagers when Wu-Tang came out.


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[Assistant] I think some people view 90s hip hop as like boomer music, like, uh, which is kinda, kinda odd, but I, you know, I guess it's changed a lot, right?


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[Assistant] You're not a fan of like withering heights or running up that hill or babushka.


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[Assistant] related to her in some way or something, but like kinda discovered her and then also like produced her first album and promoted her heavily at the time as well. I'm sure this is true.


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[Assistant] What was your music snobbery of the time? Like uhm, you know, as a person who was like, you know, say 14, 15 years old, you started listening to


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[Assistant] At the time, what you thought was like serious music, right? Important music. You kind of transitioned from like listening to.


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[Assistant] Joke music to or like kids music to just like normal music in your eyes, right?


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[Assistant] I remember, uhm, I remember being slightly, uh, snobbish towards the offspring. Remember the offspring when they came out?


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[Assistant] They were very popular when they came out, remember like self esteem and all that?


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[Assistant] But Nu Metal, I feel like, maybe I got this wrong, but I feel like there's a correlation between Nu Metal's popularity and professional wrestling at the time as well.


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[Assistant] Because I feel like, I feel like WWE, or it was probably WWF at the time, and uh, and WCW helped popularize new metal, big time, right? Like, cause they used-


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's my take on it. I always see it that way as well. But for me, I feel like Nu Metal kinda started with Rage Against the Machine, right? Like their sound was just so different to what you were kinda used to in the 90s?


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[Assistant] Cause New Metal to me always had like, kind of almost a bit of hip hop to it, right? Like, just like the beats and like the, just the cadence and stuff too.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I mean, red hot chili peppers I feel like are...


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[Assistant] Man, I don't know, I don't know how to categorize, like I would probably categorize them


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[Assistant] Sometimes as pop, right? Like, cause some of their songs are-


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[Assistant] No, not at all. They are a rock band. They have to be. And I feel like they've experimented a lot too.


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[Assistant] I guess they probably did, yeah. I don't know, like I don't know, I really don't know enough about them as a band, you know, like I'm obviously familiar with like some of their bigger, more mainstream songs or whatever, but like I've never owned a...


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[Assistant] Red Hot Chili Peppers album or listen to a full album or, you know, like I wouldn't say I'm a fan, like, like some of their songs I like.


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[Assistant] I think it's like, I think it's not as common, but it, I mean, for sure it happens, you know,


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[Assistant] Obviously there's exceptions to this, but in a general sense, yes, I agree.


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[Assistant] Yeah, of course, it's changed. I am interested in the concept of an album though, and like the flow of an album, and if people do it and they do it well, I still think that that's great, you know, to listen to an album from start to finish.


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[Assistant] Because that's kind of the way they intend you to listen to it.


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[Assistant] We gotta cut things down, right? Cause there's still Covid cases surging and all that kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] Was it like, was it one of those references where it's like actually a Minecraft reference, but we just, we're just like hijacking it. No, I think that we- He doesn't know who the Oggscast are, he just made a Minecraft reference.


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[Assistant] Man, when you saw that, did you think like, holy crap, Bill Gates? Like, did that thought ever enter your mind? No. Be Gates? No? No, not even.


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[Assistant] Well listen to this, I take your Saturday and I present to you my Saturday. Uhm, we had my son's birthday party. We rented out a hall and rented a bouncy


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[Assistant] It occupied the entire day, like multiple trips back and forth, and all this stuff to do.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, on Sunday, of course, it was Halloween, so we had to do all the pumpkin carving and everything, and the kids went out for trick-or-treating and stuff. And then, uh, by the end of the weekend, I was, uh, ready to lay in a dark room by myself for, uh, you know, twenty-four hours.


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[Assistant] It wasn't officially a joint party, but like we like invited a bunch of her like friends, like, you know, like, uh, like our friends who have kids and stuff. So like,


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[Assistant] There was quite a few people there for her as well and they had their own like little area cause they're younger and their own party bags and stuff so it was, it was pretty good. But normally we do it all ourselves but we, we actually hired somebody to do it this time just cause with the baby and everything it was, it would just been impossible to.


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[Assistant] Uh, it looked like an old restored wagon, but it was like a refreshments wagon for adults. So she had like a little espresso maker, like she could make little cappuccinos and stuff. Oh man, she had some, uh, some chocolate biscuits and, uh, oh yeah, it was great. So I just hid behind that the whole time, uh, like pretending to.


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[Assistant] Lots of questions about my flooded garage and stuff, that was good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's that or work. You talk about work as well, right? How's work going? Oh, you know, I'm really fed up with work, blah, blah, blah. And then they just go into all these people that you don't know or have never heard about and like the situations that they're in and stuff and it's like, that's pretty, pretty typical dad chat, isn't it?


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[Assistant] Hey, since we're having just a bit of a dad chat, I wanted to also mention to you that in the morning when I take my kids to school, when I'm on my way back, it's just the way that it works out every time, time-wise.


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[Assistant] I pass a fellow dad who's walking his small son to school and I started saying good morning as you do. I'm passing by and I'm like good morning and he's always like yeah good morning.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and uhm, and all of a sudden, one day, like this has been going on for a couple of weeks, you know, good morning, good morning, like, you know, like we recognize each other, say good morning, it's fine. And uh, and then after a couple of weeks, his son started saying good morning.


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[Assistant] And now, over time, the sun has gotten more and more excited about this exchange. So like,


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[Assistant] The other day I was walking back, and it's a pretty long straight road, like after you leave the school.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I could see them coming, but they were, they were far away. You know, like they were like a couple, you know, maybe like 50 yards away or whatever. And, uh, I see the little, the, the little kid notices me, sees me super far away. And it was like all muffled and quiet. He's like, come on.


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[Assistant] Oh man, it's so funny. So yea, so there you go. I thought I would share, I'd share. It's a very, very dad thing, isn't it? Like the, the old, uh, the old good morning. The other dad is not, uh, much into wearing shorts, but he wears flip-flops all year round. So I got the shorts, but I wear shoes and like, you know, normally a coat or whatever.


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[Assistant] This guy, usually wearing like pants and a coat and everything, but he's just rocking the flip-flops, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe. They lost all feeling. I like it, but I feel like if I just wear like a coat, uhm, and you know, if I got shoes on and stuff and I-


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[Assistant] I usually just put my hands like in my coat pocket or whatever, I'm fine, I'm warm enough. I don't need to wear trousers, you know, like the shorts. No, it's brave of you, very brave. Free and loose. I get a lot of envy. I get a lot of other dads are like, wow, you're still wearing your shorts? But like they say it in a way as if like,


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[Assistant] Man, I wish I was doing that. Like their wife won't let them or whatever.


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[Assistant] See, my wife is very understanding. She knows I want to just be comfortable all the time.


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[Assistant] Well, I do too, but like I said, I don't actually feel cold, so it's not a problem. Interesting.


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[Assistant] Is the 12 year old's name Bobby Digital?


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[Assistant] Come on with the show, this is it.


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[Assistant] So you're in space and you're warping around and like, you know, on earth when you go for a road trip, you have all like, you know, dead mosquitoes and bugs and stuff that'll splattered over the front of your car. You've been driving for like six hours. So your spaceship is just going to be have like.


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[Assistant] Good, good, good. I mean, it's a delicate system, but I hate when they get into my house, man. I hate it. Especially, you say that the insect population is declining, and this is gonna sound very much like, it's not global warming, it's cold outside.


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[Assistant] Oh, I saw a wasp the other day, got into my house, I had to lock it in the bathroom and wait for it to fly out.


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[Assistant] I just, uhm, I just, I have bad hand-eye coordination. I just, like, my wife gets mad at me too. She's like, here you go, here's the fly swat, and I'll miss, and then, you know, the fly will just start flying around. You'll kill your child.


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[Assistant] You know, it'll be in high alert mode, so it's impossible to kill sort of thing. So we've just resorted to just letting them out when we can, you know? Like it's just easier.


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[Assistant] Hey, uh, I was playing, uhm, man, I was playing Dota the other day, Lewis, and, uh, not in the game I was playing with you last night, but, uh, but separate to that, and I was playing in a game with Gyrocopter, and I couldn't help but notice that Gyrocopter's voice lines sound like your Mr. Popcorn voice lines.


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[Assistant] The games are just skewed completely. When you play with your friends and everybody is a different rank or whatever, the matchmaking just breaks and you just end up playing against people that aren't fun to play against. But if I play on my own and I play like strict,


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[Assistant] I think it's just, I think it just levels the playing field really nicely too, you know.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's, yeah, it's one of those, but honestly, I like the flow of the game, I like the mechanics of the game, I like


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[Assistant] I like to improve in areas that I'm not good at in the game, which is, let's face it, all of it. And uhm, it's nice, it's been fun, but uhm, there's traps that you can fall into playing it for sure. And I think the one thing I really like about single draft as well is that


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[Assistant] You're, you have less responsibility. It's like, it's kind of like guilt free Dota, right? Because everyone's kind of in the same boat, unless it's, you know, somebody gets their big hero that they're good at or whatever, but even then they get such an advantage over the other team who might not get heroes that they're good at sort of thing, right?


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[Assistant] But I just look at it as a way to try out new heroes and not feel too bad about sucking really bad with them or letting the team down and stuff. Because I don't think anybody cares, you know? And I think anybody who queues for single draft is just like, whatever, I'm just fucking around, I just want to have fun. Yeah, it's just a bit of a laugh, isn't it? Yeah, so it's kind of a nice way to play the game. And, uh, I just sort of...


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[Assistant] I weave that in between playing ranked, which I usually just try to play support or like try off laning or whatever, and that's been fine too. And uhm, yeaah, like I mean, it's early days. I mean, it's like a cycle, right? You get back into it, not for you so much, Flax, but.


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[Assistant] For me for sure, like over the 10 years it's been out, I'll get into it, I'll play it for a couple of months or whatever and then I'll just get sick of it and move on and play something else or whatever and then come back to it. So it's like,


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's nothing new really, you know, like I've been here many times before, but.


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[Assistant] It'd be fun if there was a battle royale game like dota, you know, like the same sort of like the isometric with the heroes at the leveling up and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that'd be kinda fun. It'd be chaotic as hell, but it could be fun.


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[Assistant] I think I've played maybe WoW that much. That's the only game I've played anywhere close to that much and even then I don't even know if it's, I've played it that much. It's a lot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but if you enjoy it though, I mean, that's good going. Oh, I fucking love it! Yeah, if you love it, then that's good going. But yeah, no, it's been fun. I've been playing some other stuff as well. I started playing Darkest Dungeon 1, uh, because I played Darkest Dungeon 2, which I enjoyed. I mean, it's still early access. You can tell there's still some stuff to be added to the game or whatever.


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[Assistant] It is, yeaah. So the new mechanic is amongst your four


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[Assistant] So like, uh, sometimes, you know, like, your guys will just start not liking each other or being neutral to each other. Some might start liking each other or whatever. And then as you perform actions when you're fighting and stuff like that,


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[Assistant] You know, kinda like in the old game, like crits are big, right? You get a crit.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, a guy might be like, hey, good job. And like it increases their relationship or, you know, they might miss or something. And the guy behind might be like, you fucking suck. I hate you. And then it's like, uh, like a detriment. Um, it's, it's interesting, but again, like I think, I think some of it is not fully fleshed out because it's, it's very early access.


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[Assistant] It looks great, like it looks fantastic.


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[Assistant] It's a gorgeous looking game too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can play, it's like, uh, there's people playing like, I don't know if there's like a ladder system and like ranks and stuff yet, but there's definitely people


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[Assistant] Playing against each other, like if you want to, you know, like when StarCraft 2 came out, there's lots of like little tournaments and people streaming. Yeah, I mean RTS, I'm not good at that. No, I'm not either. I don't like playing against other people, but I like watching it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know if there's been any big tournaments yet, but definitely lots of people are streaming, like lots of big old Warcraft 3 players, Starcraft 2 pros and stuff are playing it and it's been interesting to watch for sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, I guess it's just people, people who've played like, uh, lots of RTSs in the, in the past and stuff, but yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know it's weird, like the first time you play it, it's kind of weird to know where to put stuff and whatever, but yeah, you can organize it out pretty nice.


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[Assistant] Oh man, oh man. Yeah, no, it's, it's, it's been good. So yeah, I've just been playing all sorts of different stuff, but like I said, I've been playing Darkest Dungeon 1, but mostly on my tablet, cause the...


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[Assistant] Again, the baby just sleeps so well, and if I'm stuck looking after the baby, like if my wife's getting ready or has an appointment or something, then it's such a nice game to just...


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[Assistant] Play like while you have a baby sleeping on you, you know?


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[Assistant] I think it will. But honestly, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's worth, it's worth trying it out. Cause it has changed a lot, but some of the changes aren't, aren't amazing. And then some of them are really good. So I don't know. See for yourself. Don't listen to Lewis. He doesn't know anything.


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[Assistant] Write your own flying fantasy. Yeah, yeah. All those things. Do whatever. Just do it. Good luck. Just do it, just do it, and uhm, and god bless you. Do your own jigsaw puzzle.


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[Assistant] You probably did, but like, you don't really think about these things, you know? You just see these people, uh, moving and shaking up on stage, and you know, Mr. Saturday Night, putting on their razzle-dazzle and stuff, but, you know, these people all poop and stink and, and do all these normal things, you know? And then, you know, often times when you find them dead,


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[Assistant] Well, they're probably in the middle of doing those normal things, you know what I mean? It's just like, uh, I don't know, I'd hate to have that job where you're just like, the curtain is pulled back every time. I'd find it hard to appreciate these people anymore if I just...


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[Assistant] Let me guess as well, you'd stripped right down to your g-string and your turtleneck to do this, and you were worried that if you died trying to wring out all this scalding hot water that people would just find you in that state, just like water burns all over your legs.


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[Assistant] You ever have, uh, you ever have those ones where you're like sliding down a tube or like a slide or something and you get stuck? And you're just like, what the hell?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't get it either. I would never do anything like that. I just think I don't want to get stuck somewhere where I'm like trapped or can't move or you know, whatever. Like I just think that would just be the worst.


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[Assistant] How many steps is that? It's 2022 now, you don't really deal with miles anymore, it's all about the steps, right?


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[Assistant] I think in the grand scheme of things though, in terms of ways of going out, that's gotta be like a decent one, right? Like, it's like, providing you're not in a massive amount of pain or whatever, but like, I mean, it sucks, don't get me wrong, if it's just like a routine thing, but at least like,


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[Assistant] You didn't really know what was happening, you know? Like, you just kinda, you go under and then you just never wake up again. It's kinda sick, it's kinda like, sick to think about, but...


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? It's at least like, like I think, I think honestly that's gotta be one of the better ways than like, you know, some of the alternatives. I think so.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, because of the, uh, because of all the head trauma that you can, you can suffer potentially, eh?


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[Assistant] Europeans are nuts though, because it's, they're weird because they're planned, you know, like you're, you don't even necessarily need to fully be in labor, like it's just they give you a date and a time, they say turn up and then boom.


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[Assistant] There are, yeaah, but I mean like just like your average sort of planned one, you know? It's like, I don't know, it's kinda, it's kinda crazy. You feel like they're confident enough with it where it wouldn't be so risky, you know what I mean? Like it almost seems routine in some countries, some countries like really favor them. But uhm, yeaah, it's interesting.


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[Assistant] Many of them, do you think, are being found with like, just a shit in their pants, or... Probably quite a few, I would...


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[Assistant] Well yeah, I mean, come on, that's pretty old. Like, it's, I mean, it's doable, but like, I think, I think things that you, you wouldn't worry about so much in your 20s or your 40s or whatever, all of a sudden become like...


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[Assistant] So if you're 90 and you're mountaineering in the Himalayas, I feel like when you're 90, your only job is to just avoid being in the hospital. I feel like once you're like 90 plus and you get into the hospital, you're pretty much gone, right?


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, that's what I mean, but like, I think you can, you can kind of like, almost try to avoid it, like I mean, uh, you know, obviously it's not, that's not gonna be the case, but like, you know what I mean, like, just try to avoid like,


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[Assistant] Cases are on the rise again now, aren't they? They're going, they're going crazy again. Over here, they're talking about potentially making people wearing masks again and stuff, like, which hasn't been the case for a long time yet.


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[Assistant] Oh my god. He just wanna do one, one final bean spill. Yeah. Before you, before you peace out.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, I wonder what the, what the, uh, what the more, the, the Morty points is on that one. Uhm, how many, how many tins of baked beans and how many, uhm, jiggle points? Here you go, I've got one for you.


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[Assistant] Okay, so what if, I mean, so this guy drowns in the beans and they have to take his body out or whatever, and then they have to empty the tub of the beans. What if you're like emptying the tub of beans and there's just a shit in there? Like...


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[Assistant] Wait, why 0.1 for, like, peanut butter gets a higher risk factor than eating baked beans? Come on.


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[Assistant] I mean, I know beans are good for your heart, but you know, as they say, the more you eat, the more you fart. And I feel like that could be risky too, you know, you just get really full of wind, you know, maybe you have trouble passing the wind.


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[Assistant] It's good. I trust you, I'm sure it's probably good, but I gotta say, I do really like just a, uh, a tin of plain ass beans. Like, I don't mind the runny ketchup and stuff like that, you know? You just put it on some toast or have it with some chips or whatever, like, they're so good. It's bland. Yeah, it's fine, though. I mean, it's, it's- I- I- My people. It's not like the flagship of the meal, right? It's just like a-


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[Assistant] I always, I always leaned towards Coca-Cola Classic, if I ever did the taste test. I don't know why, but when I used to drink soda, I would drink Coke Classic as well, I just preferred it, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, people who just have their own recipe and they're like, you know, they're known in their friend circles like, hey, Reggie's got some really good homemade sauce. You can't buy that on, you can't buy that off the shelf and stuff like that, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] They say that all great artists imbue their work with a personal touch, you know?


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[Assistant] I know this one comes up a lot, you know, like the people with the recipe for Coke and for Heinz ketchup and stuff, they can't travel together, whatever. Man, how embarrassing would it be if you were the guy responsible for making edible taste just like Jizz Jizz.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then you, but, and you had to tell somebody you couldn't travel with your colleagues because, uh, just in case the recipe was lost because you all died on the same plane or whatever. You know, I, I, I just think that would suck.


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[Assistant] If you're trying to figure it out, it would take you a little while to figure it out. And in the process of trying to figure it out, the man is onto you. Like they realize. And then they let you get right to the end where you're like, that's it.


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[Assistant] Oh man. Bing Crosby died of a heart attack? I did not know that. I'm not really, really up to scratch on my Bing lore. I'm aware of him, but I don't know much about him, you know?


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[Assistant] It's nuts, like you see footage of like flooding and stuff and you just realize, holy crap, like if, if where I live decided to flood, like what can you do? There's nothing you can do about it. It's just gonna absolutely wreck everything.


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[Assistant] I haven't had any, any gapers. Mostly it's just dudes coming up to me and just kind of uhm, you know, in a coy manner saying,


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[Assistant] I have a tiny penis by the way, uh, and sometimes within earshot of other passersby.


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[Assistant] Which is even funnier. I think we picked the best, uh, code phrase for the podcast.


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[Assistant] What, uh, oh, I guess you can't really say what hotel you're staying in. Give me, okay, describe the general area. What proximity is it to the office?


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[Assistant] I stayed at a different hotel when I was over for Yogcon, which was like one of the last times I was over before Covid kicked off and stuff.


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[Assistant] And, uh, it was, it was very warm, uh, the whole time Yogcon was on and I was there with my family. So my wife and my, at the time, two kids were, were, were with me and, uh, that same fountain.


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[Assistant] But I don't think people listen to Oasis otherwise. I think you get, you get just, like, uh, like,


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[Assistant] To the, to the spot where they dumped uhm, what's his face into the, into the, into the drink, the statue of the uhm, the dude.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of BBC stuff in Bristol, so you tend to see people out and about, you know?


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[Assistant] Judge Rinder is Robert Rinder.


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[Assistant] Yes, I know who this is. I know who Judge Rinder is. What's his background though? He was like, uh, was he like a celebrity lawyer or something like that at some point? He's probably an actual.


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[Assistant] He was, uh, he was called to the bar in 2001 after graduating the University of Manchester, starting his pupillage at two paper buildings. He then became a tenant at two hair court.


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[Assistant] Uh, he, uh, yeaah, he defended British servicemen on charges of manslaughter after the death of detainees in Iraq, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Since 2010 he's been involved in the investigation and prosecution of alleged bribery, corruption and fraud in the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands. I don't know what that...


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[Assistant] Where he's been referred to as British Judge Judy. So there you go.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, now that works, yeaah. People in my chat have just all gone crazy, I think there's a lot of A-falls in here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you didn't need to come up with an acronym or even name yourselves. It does sound like they're armed though, doesn't it?


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[Assistant] So uhm, have you guys been up to anything interesting at all this week other than just drinking a lot and doing jingle jam? I guess flax you've been down since what Thursday?


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[Assistant] He is, he is very, uhm, he knows a lot about this stuff, right? He knows a lot about a lot of things. Board games, model painting and stuff, like he's, there's a high standard. If he gives you praise, it means something. I don't fancy little soldiers.


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[Assistant] You know what the weird one is? Minecraft Lego. It's gotta be the worst Lego. What is the point? It's so boring, like, it just, you know what I mean, like, you look at Minecraft.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the sets are, are, are not great. There's some real stinkers. Like I think it's the, the undersea temple one. Just sucks. Like if you got that as a Christmas present, you would just think off.


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[Assistant] You know, some Playmobil is actually not bad. Like my son got a whole bunch of Ghostbusters Playmobil. The attention to detail is unbelievable, honestly.


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[Assistant] It's like his apartment, but it's a set, it has all the cameras and stuff too. It's like, uh.


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[Assistant] You gotta daisy chain all of the legs onto each other, you know? Cause like the tops of the legs have the, the little uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they've got the spigots that you could, and then the bottoms of the legs have the receiver bays for the spigots as well.


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[Assistant] Apparently, according to someone. So maybe you can get those.


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[Assistant] Yeah I think there's like special, like again coming back to the Minecraft set, I think you can get Endermen and they have very long legs. Oh well there you go, but are they those


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[Assistant] And apparently the Lord of the Ring hobbits and dwarves have shorter lego legs, so it's like, if you get a special set, you could potentially have, yea. Cause I don't think that there's a, there's a willow, uhm, was it willow? The one that uhm,


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[Assistant] George Lucas's fantasy movie with Warke Davis. Yea, Warke Davis was in it. I don't think that there's a special Willow set, but it looks a lot like Lord of the Rings, right? So you could maybe grab a Lord of the Ring Hobbit.


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[Assistant] Right, it was for my 8th birthday then, I would have gone to see Willow in the theatres. Okay, well. That's the only time I've seen the quiz.


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[Assistant] That is what he said. Sid juices. Val Kilmer juices somebody's daughter in Willow? Oh.


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[Assistant] No, no, I'm doing it. I want to be the quiz master. Wings quiz.


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[Assistant] Okay, toughest ever quiz, Lord of the Rings, okay? Yep. Alright, uh, do we buzz in or what?


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay. The Lord of the Rings Toughest Ever Quiz. Do you know your Gollum from your Gandalf? Yes. Okay. What book? Okay, question number one.


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[Assistant] What book did Tolkien want published simultaneously with The Lord of the Rings? Uh, there's three, um, possible answers, okay? Was it The Silmarillion?


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[Assistant] That's one of them. Second one is The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. And the third one is The Hobbit. Which one is it?


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[Assistant] Okay, well, so am I, if I vote, I, I, I, I get to overrule one of you, right? Well, only if you're honest. Okay, I'm gonna go with the Silmarillion as well. Okay. It was correct. Yeah.


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[Assistant] What does Frodo wish for at the Black Gate of Mordor?


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[Assistant] Uhm, a thousand olyphans with Gandalf on a white one at their head, uh, that the ring had never, never been found or no killing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I feel like it's the second one too. The ring had never, never been found.


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[Assistant] How does Lobelia Sackville Baggins attempt to smuggle several small but rather valuable items out of Bag End?


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[Assistant] In the, in the brim of her hat, inside her umbrella.


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[Assistant] In her, in her pocketses. In her bowl machine.


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[Assistant] It's very competency, isn't it? The Primaver hat. Okay. Yeah. It's wrong. It was inside her umbrella. Of course.


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[Assistant] This is on BBC Arts, the Lord of the Rings toughest ever quiz, if you, if you feel like it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I agree with, I agree with Wax though. Toughest ever quiz, but the least fun as well. I think you gotta find a, you gotta find a good balance. You have to find a balance of where it's not so insufferable that you just don't want to finish it, but also tough at the same time, you know?


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[Assistant] What label would you give yourself as an adult fan of A-F-O-L-O-T-R?


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[Assistant] Oh my god, you're mixed in. Yeah, that's crazy.


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[Assistant] Hey, I had my booster jab on Friday. How'd you feel? So, I'm not, I, well.


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[Assistant] Just, uh, just the same, honestly, like a little bit tired actually, but I don't know if that's from getting a jab or just from having like a million kids to look after, you know?


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[Assistant] I can see a couple of people online now getting ready. Alex, Bree, Brian, Monkfish, Rav, Xylus, they're all in the game right now.


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[Assistant] I might play, do you know what? I've never played Invoker before. Today might be the day.


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[Assistant] There's gonna be a new long running segment on the podcast, Invoker Tips.


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[Assistant] Holy shit man, so every time, every spell that they do, they have to do, so wha, so these guys have robo fingers then, right? There's no way I'd be able to pump out, they're, they gotta be scripting.


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[Assistant] We looked at Dota Buff and looked at the, uhm, highest win rate.


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[Assistant] Insanely high win rates, right? Like, uh, I was looking at a guy who has 56 games of Murana played with 100% win rate. Like, that's insane.


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[Assistant] I guess so. Okay, the rank one player with the highest win rate in the game right now.


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[Assistant] So he's only lost it, on this account, he's only lost 34 games, and he's Legend 5.


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[Assistant] The last, and, and you know what? The pattern continues too, because the last time I played, I played a ton of Bounty Hunter, I had like a 14 game win streak with Bounty Hunter, and then I played a game with Cock Wobblemyster, and he triggered me so hard, I uninstalled the game. Poor Riley.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but listen, yeah, if you Google him, that comes up, that story comes up. Also though, recently, I've been playing in games with him and some of your other guys, and we've discovered that if I play Bounty Hunter 4 and he plays, uh, Tide 3,


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Okay, look at my, look at some of my previous matches here, and look at this, look at uhm, the last game I played as Legion Commander, it was a real stinker, and look at the Invoker in this game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, but look at the fucking invoker in this game, and look at the rest of their team. Like, he would turn up, he was unkillable, he would kill a lot of us, and then the rest of the team would just clean up. Like, it was just a total storm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they said this is- 41k net worth at the end of it. Very tough. And the, uh, and their Venomancer, 46k net worth. He was also very good.


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[Assistant] What date is it next Thursday? What date is it?


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh, like you're there for a whole week.


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[Assistant] You sound almost, uhm, disappointed by this. Nah, it's gonna be great.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Man. I'm Paris. You gotta put your foot down.


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[Assistant] Your room, the room, the floor of the room is tidy and then you open their wardrobe and everything comes falling out, right? You just shove everything in there sort of thing. I mean, I get it. That's cleaning.


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[Assistant] Wanna try doing it, uh, back to them though? Like when you get home or whatever, just get undressed and like leave your clothes all over like their floor and stuff. Just, just, just see what like, just, you know, just see what happens.


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[Assistant] And the baby is five months old now. Fuck, are you serious? Yeaah, it's crazy, eh? God. She still sleeps really well, but she has a bit of a cold right now, so she's all snuffly. And, uh, I mean, she still sleeps, but she stays up a little bit later and she sleeps less during the day. She's changing right before our eyes. Last night,


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[Assistant] Uhm, we gave her her bottle and uh, she was like fussing a bit because she was like all stuffy and she couldn't like, couldn't breathe through her nose properly so she was getting all like annoyed and everything.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I was just like, uh, pacing around the room with her, like rocking her and watching TV.


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[Assistant] And she's still fussing a lot, which is out of character. She doesn't really fuss that much. She's generally pretty good.


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[Assistant] So I laid her down on her mat, uhm, just like, you know, just to have a, a break and just to give her a bit of a break or whatever. I looked down at her and she did, you know that, you know the poop face when they just like, they strain, their face goes all red and like.


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[Assistant] Just this fucking gurgling sound from her ass. Like, she just fucking just shit her pants. Like, so fucking hard. And then she was just fine after that.


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[Assistant] I mean, babies are crazy. Yeaah. That's just insane.


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[Assistant] Just ends with a big chance. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's my concern. Don't mess with old people. That'll be me in like a year. So, you know, ladies and gentlemen.


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[Assistant] I don't think they give as many fucks, so they don't get as upset. It's certainly, I think it's easier to confuse and confuddle them with things that everybody else seems to take for granted.


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[Assistant] Your brain is calcified. I think teenagers really became scary to older people. I'm not sure specifically why, uh, presumably there have always been teenagers.


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[Assistant] I've been in a couple of fights but I may have started them both.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of the time the school bullies, I remember that the bully in our year at school was a very lonely guy. Uh, he didn't really have any friends. In fact, he didn't have any friends.


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[Assistant] And I know that his brother, his big brother was extremely mean to him, would set traps for him around the house.


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[Assistant] Uh, would wait for him to come home from school and then just launch himself at him and beat him up.


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[Assistant] I know that he'd come from boarding school, uh, where he said it was, you know, you literally had to fight every day, or you'd just be bottom of the barrel. Like prison, essentially, a pretty rough boarding school. I mean, you'd think of boarding school as all being like, uh, those sort of, uh, straw boats.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we would be in that, in the school, playing Dungeons and Dragons, and he would always come in. He wasn't meant to be in the school, but he would just come in, and...


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, I can see that. So the idea with War Thunder, for anyone that hasn't played it, I'm sure you all have. It's like, tanks?


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[Assistant] To getting a bigger tank. People are like, oh, I really wanna get into the Soto. And I'm like, but then you'll be up against other, also good tanks. So it's kinda pointless. But it's just a time sink. It was just a bit of fun, really.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and there's no communication with your teammates, like you don't have to worry about people being toxic, you just roll around in a tank.


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[Assistant] Well, let me say something, I got back into it because when I was on holiday that's all I could play. Right, you were desperate.


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[Assistant] Not just because they're old, because I'm pretty sure even my mum has heard of Game of Thrones. These guys, and I remember when I used to do wargaming a lot, they are only into one thing. Actually two things. Real ale and wargaming. And that's it. And they really don't care about anything else. It's not that they're being dismissive, they live in a bubble.


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[Assistant] Where all they care about really is their miniatures, which means an interest in history quite often.


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[Assistant] And, you know, that's it. And I don't think they use any modern technology or watch much television or anything. They just live in a bubble and that's their thing. A lot of them have another very boring hobby like woodworking or something like that, which isn't exactly thrilling.


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[Assistant] And that's it, they've got a very peaceful existence. I think it's very, very British, that sort of, uh, picking a hobby, and that's it, that's my thing. I know lots of people like that. They have one interest. And that's definitely...


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[Assistant] I don't think you can call yourself old if you have a baby. I think, you know, you're gonna have to wait until your kids are old enough that you can say, well, mine are all grown up now. That's when you're old. Yeah, I suppose. I can't.


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[Assistant] So when you talk about like real ale, what you're talking about is not like beer from a big brewery or something like that. It's generally gonna be called something like the Weasels Mittens, you know, and it's very sort of strong tasting ale. It's from a pub that does ales, doesn't have football on the telly.


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[Assistant] Uh, real ale drinkers would be the kind of men that you would see wearing, uhm, trousers with...


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[Assistant] Uh, history, they're into local architecture and nature. They might go hiking from time to time. Uh, they may use a bicycle. Uh, their car is very old looking and beaten up. Uh, they're kind of stuck in their ways, a little bit opinionated about.


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[Assistant] Sort of things, and uh, they're mostly, I would suggest, uh, not conservative, but certainly old fashioned in some of their...


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[Assistant] Uh, views perhaps, but a lot of them are also kinda hippie-ish.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they're sort of, uh, I'd say a gentle left leaning, uh, they make dad jokes, uh, they, they eschew the modern world.


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[Assistant] The zeitgeist is a mystery to them, uhm, and real ales tend to be much more musty. There's a strong flavour when you drink a really strong real ale that you've drunk this out of a used ashtray.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but that's part of the flavor and... I don't know. This is obviously, this is stereotyping. If you are a young man or young woman and you are into real ale and this does not describe you, congratulations. I'm sure you're as much a novelty in those communities as, uh, as, as I would be, uhm, because...


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[Assistant] Absolutely. There's a famous Twickenham one called the Naked Ladies, which is very popular. They're all little things like that.


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[Assistant] I would say so, yeah. I mean, for example, if you were to drink, uh, Fullers, you know, that's not gonna count. That's like, uh, pretend... That's like drinking Budweiser and claiming, oh, I'm into beer, I know my beers. You know what I mean? Like, it has to be the fox's nipple. It has to be something like that. Brewed by one guy in a shed.


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[Assistant] Uh, the more, and also this is not the same, by the way this is not the same, people out there wondering, and perhaps even Lewis Brinley himself, this is not the same as all those hipster-y craft ales and shit like that, this is different. They've horned in on this racket.


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[Assistant] Right. And these are guys for whom the camera guide is like the bible. You know, camera meaning the campaign for real ale. They'll sort of give a camera rating.


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[Assistant] It's unbelievable. If you ever come to Twickenham, I'll take you to see it because...


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[Assistant] It's down, it's near, uhm, York House. So, which is like the council building, if you like. You can use it for weddings and stuff. We used it when we renewed our vows recently. From, like, the Twickenham Riverside is very nice, very gentle area. It runs from Church Street in Twickenham all the way down to Kew and beyond.


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[Assistant] And it's basically walkable, very green when you're out there, especially when you get towards Ham, the Ham side of the, uh, of Richmond. You would not know you were that close to a big city. All you can see is trees and fields. There's a fucking field with cows in it.


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[Assistant] And it's right there in, in London.


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[Assistant] But, and there's all really good pubs along there, loads of people go walking, there's lots of people pottering around on boats and things. There's a ferry, which is literally a boat that you could fit maybe eight people in comfortably, just runs over and up and down the river all day, that's what Marble Hill. But so, you're-


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[Assistant] This house, uh, has this very large garden, very beautiful, it's quite simple, a lot of the area's not over-fancified. You know, you go to some places, it's all really elaborate, topiary, this is much more played down, it's like a big English country garden, more like.


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[Assistant] Right, but this is, it feels like someone's created this mon- it's a monstrosity, in all honesty. It really is. It's enormous, it's completely out of keeping with everything else in the area. So you come into this garden, it's like, green hedgerows


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[Assistant] This fucking wall of Italian marble, this fountain thing, uhm, and it's, it's like winged pegasi and naked women with spears and everything, it's so over the top. And it feels bizarrely out of place. When we first saw it we were like, my god, like we were taking it back.


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[Assistant] Because it really is shockingly out of place, um, and overstated. It's, it's like someone, it's like you go into someone's house and their living room is like the most over the top thing you could imagine. It's like that, sort of takes your breath away, but you're still like, wow, yes, this is impressive, but I'm impressed at how hideous it is, and, you know, how much effort must have gone into making this thing. But it is quite funny to see.


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[Assistant] That's the thing, if you're gonna have, like if you go to Italy and you walk around a lot of the places there where there's a lot of galleries and statues and things like that, everything's like that. So these huge statues just become part of that. But if you have a completely


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[Assistant] Out of place, vast statue. It doesn't matter how good it is. It's like, you don't expect to see it there and it seems kind of weird. It's almost offensive that it's put there. It's like, what the fuck is this thing doing here? Uh, too much. It's too much in that, in that, uh, milieu.


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[Assistant] I do think it's interesting, uhm, when you look at America, I would say, and I think most people would agree, it doesn't even really need to be said, but I'll say it anyway, it's biggest draw is it's natural beauty. Yeah. I mean, as a nation, the geography of it is so unbelievable.


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[Assistant] And so beautiful, uhm, and you've got obviously things like the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls and all this kind of stuff. And whilst it has all been over-touristified, a lot of it, you've still got the national parks and things which are unbelievable.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but people don't always want to have to schlep their way out to these things. They'd like to see something interesting and touristy, but then they're re- reduced to, you know, they don't have, like, lords or...


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[Assistant] Big Ben, or, you know, any of the famous buildings of the world, they have a giant fucking bass fishing pyramid that, you know, is, well, we gotta go see the pyramid, we gotta see something, cause you're on holiday, can't just sit around by the pool, you gotta go see something. So they've replaced, sort of, history tourism with world's biggest hot dog building.


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[Assistant] Right, that kind of stuff. Even though that is not something that anybody should really have an interest in seeing.


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[Assistant] Go to the Caribbean or the Bahamas or whatever, uh, or then what's your option? Canada? Which is like, you know, you're not going to see anything particularly different there. No. Or Mexico.


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[Assistant] A very English attitude, I think. We imagine that everybody in England, because we're so close to Europe, oh, we're perfectly happy to travel, but people generally go to one of a couple of places. Yeah. Mostly Spain, mostly places where all the other British people are going, or Portugal, Portugal the same.


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[Assistant] Somewhere where it's guaranteed to be sunny. Uh, that's pretty much it. And we expect English pubs over there and English food and everybody should speak English because we're an island. And America is, whilst not an island, I think has the mentality of being an island because


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[Assistant] There's nothing else really near it, apart from Canada and Mexico, and once you've been to those, like, well, I'll just fucking stay here. So I think we often laugh at the American attitude to travel, but I bet most Brits are the same. They don't really travel apart from to a couple of places.


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[Assistant] You know, like I used to really like- Ooh, here's a thing. Did you watch the Woodstock 99 documentary? I did.


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[Assistant] So I've watched, I've watched part one. I've watched part one. I haven't finished it. It is really, really, if you watch the Fire Festival documentary, which is one of my favorite documentaries I've ever seen. Oh, I haven't watched that either.


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[Assistant] But that's the issue, is the people at it, the people at that festival, that are all into those bands, turns out massive cunts. Who knew?


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[Assistant] That was us when we would have been our, like that was our parents when they were RH, right? That would have been their big festival. But it was not anything like Woodstock 99. And the, the organizers in the show put it down to the lineup, the music lineup that they've chosen.


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[Assistant] And I didn't have any fucking money. Like, no money. Whereas I look at these kids and...


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[Assistant] I dunno, they- they just looked- they just looked like awful people, a lot of them. They didn't- a lot of them didn't even look like they were just kids who were misunderstood and kind of having a hard time. They looked like they had come there to fuck shit up.


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[Assistant] And ruin the whole thing. And they were like actual bros. And they were coming out of the fucking woodwork. Just frat boys.


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[Assistant] These aren't, these aren't underprivileged kids, if you go into college.


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[Assistant] So, it wasn't like a piece of love just turned up, you know, in the original Woodstock or whatever, I don't know how much it cost, but it might have even been free, who knows. But it certainly wasn't like, uhm, this was just some- A big corporate event.


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[Assistant] But the sad thing is, I think, I did feel bad for pretty much everybody involved, really. In the first episode, I'm thinking, God, what a shame, you know. I mean, there were some cynical decisions made by the guys running it. They do, their argument was, we have to make money.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but when you look at FireFest, I wanted everything about it to fail. I wanted everyone going to fail and have a horrible time because they were all awful people. They were all like influences.


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[Assistant] Dickheads and the sort of guys organizing it were dickheads, like everyone involved.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean now it's all, I feel like these kind of things would just be dance music.


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[Assistant] I mean also, I think especially back then you also had, you dressed a certain way and had a haircut a certain way based on what you listened to. Like certainly I wore a lot of flannel shirts and baggy jeans because I listened to a lot of grunge and wore my hair long over my face and looked as miserable as possible.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone! Thank you, welcome back. Oh, it's wonderful to be here on the Triforce Podcast. Man, it's approaching like four or five years. Actually, I don't actually know how long it's been since we've done this. I should have, I should have checked.


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[Assistant] Like, I mean, your wife, you've been with her over fifty percent of your lifetime, right?


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[Assistant] Did you see there was a Steam game came out called Sex with Hitler? No, I haven't seen that. God. Well, people seemed mostly angry because he had more than one testicle in it. Like, that was the biggest reason people were mad about it.


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[Assistant] Kind of a song that was sung by army types, you know, while they were marching along, and, you know. While they were marching. It's had hundreds of different lyrics along with it. Much like all of these, a lot of these old, uhm, so the Longest Johns, by the way, our friends, the sort of, I don't wanna call them like pirate


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[Assistant] So, we've got the covers, but the covers are old Shrestha songs.


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[Assistant] It's a bit more distinct than that, because whereas a barbershop corporate is quite jolly and quite...


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[Assistant] But a lot of these songs, you know, were a historical song that they sang on British ships, and then it sort of got corrupted slightly when it went to America, and then it got corrupted slightly even more. And so there's quite a lot of songs that are sang about specific places, that are about places in Hawaii, it's like, take me back to old Maui or whatever, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly, this kind of Irish sort of traditional kind of song. Exact histories are unknown, it's one of those. It's one of these ones, exactly, and it goes back. Sometimes songs can be written in that style, and sometimes they can be inspired, and I think they follow certain


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[Assistant] Like chords and, and progressions and things like this where it's, it's got a certain, it sounds right, right? And that's all you need. Um, and so I'm sure there's modern ones that, that sound like they're ancient and, and vice versa.


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[Assistant] But man, I've really enjoyed listening to it and it's sort of, it's got this strangely inspiring kind of historical energy where it's, I dunno, it's the whole pioneer spirit and the kind of like going out there and braving this hard, harsh world and trying to tame it or trying to, trying to live hard lives a lot of the time, you know, in the mines or...


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[Assistant] Huge fan. But I love that sort of high energy, kind of, like, pumping, like, metal music.


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[Assistant] I like epic soundtracks, you know, I also like listening to these kind of Lord of the Rings soundtracks and stuff, but obviously not all of them. I hate, I've spoken about this before, but I hate how a soundtrack to a movie is often just every song that's in the movie, and so it's like a really odd journey.


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[Assistant] Of epic soundtrack, then sad bit, then kind of weird spooky bit, creepy bit. And it's like, oh, it's like a nine minute creepy track about him going through a spider den. I'm like, I don't wanna listen to that shit.


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[Assistant] Exactly. So, I enjoy, like, I actually use a lot of these Spotify play song radios, so I find a song I like and then I choose to play some radio. It plays a lot of shit.


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[Assistant] I think it has changed. I think they feel like nowadays capturing the majority... Basically, it's this kind of thing which I read about called channel drift, as well, right?


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[Assistant] Stuff like the History Channel starts off doing history content, but then wants to chase more viewers, right? Or grow a different demographic or something like that. Yeah, but mainly just trying to hit the biggest demographic. And that means they end up doing this reality TV stuff and they do the swag hunters and the flippin'


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[Assistant] What is it called? Storage Wars and all this stuff, which is very loosely tied to history because they're looking for historical shit in storage things, but it's basically reality TV, right?


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[Assistant] And, and so they drift away from what they do, and this happens again and again, and it's kind of a natural...


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[Assistant] But there was such a sort of outcry at this, because it just felt so weird. But you know how the people behind the scenes kind of were like, uh, we gotta do something to up our views, our ratings, the guys upstairs want us to hit a new audience, you know, what can we do? I know we do, we're called the Weather Channel.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but look at these other channels who are called, you know, the knitting channel, they're doing stuff about, with, you know, they've got the clangers on there now, they're just


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[Assistant] Because they were knitted or whatever, do you know what I mean? I think this also happens with pop stars, right? These record agencies and people who run the show realise that the big demographic is this certain group of people and they make the majority of their content for those. And that is why we have the Doja Cat and the


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[Assistant] There's like a rapper called Becky G, and Lil Bibby, and Ellie Phan, and R.C., and Juicy J, and all these people, and they're all just paper route Kesha, everyone knows Kesha, right? You know, the people of that oeuvre.


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[Assistant] Who I don't understand, never will understand. Did you just say uvra? Yes. Nice. Uvra. It's an uvra, right? It's an uvra, yeah. You know, it's a TikTok styled thing, you know, you hear the music playing in the background of a TikTok, and you're like, oh. And it'll be in Splatoon 2.


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[Assistant] It's not aimed at me, I'm listening to the Longest Johns album, do you know what I mean? I'm listening to weird stuff that Spotify throws up. And I think as we grow, you're right about this idea of people being super famous, because I think there were always, back in the day, uhm, people who were, even in like, before the war kind of thing,


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[Assistant] Everyone was, cause there weren't so many, it was kind of at the start of cable TV and things like this, where there were like, that was the explosion really, where people were able to choose, right, because before that, there weren't that many channels, there weren't that many sources, there weren't that many places to access your content.


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[Assistant] I think it was this viral story that kept on giving, y'know, every stage of his life


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[Assistant] It's homogenisation though, because every fucking Twitter feed and social media feed,


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[Assistant] Tesco, Pringles, KFC, they all behave the same, like they're some twenty-year-old meme lord, posting emojis and edgy things, and like, oh, uhm, oh, check out the new Pringly Bees just released, hashtag Pringlebees, do you know what I mean, like, and they'll fucking put a crying emoji in there.


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[Assistant] They're all the fucking same, because that appeals to the largest demographic, and I feel like, I feel like that's, it's become kind of, you know, you're not gonna get like, Worth's Originals social media being like, don't understand all these old fucking stupid social medias of the other people, you know what I mean? It's not gonna be the proper personality, Worth's Originals is gonna be like,


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[Assistant] Oh, popping around to my grandpas to give him a Werther's, Werther B's, a Werther's, Werther's O's. Do you know what I mean? It was all stupid and hashtags and...


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[Assistant] But then again, like, there's different terms though, isn't there? Like, you know, they have, like, megastar and stuff like this, you know what I mean? And star. Like, if you're a star, I think it's different to being a celebrity. I think a celebrity can be anyone who's ever done anything that got them in the news.


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[Assistant] I guess, I guess what I wanna know is who those people in the jungle of, you know, the Amazonian rainforest, you know, you make your three day trek out there through like snakes and...


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[Assistant] Come on man, come on dude. How much sticking power has he got, that's the thing. Cause, y'know, you look at these old people, like Bing, Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, y'know, certain film stars from the war era, y'know, how much sticking power did they have into the sort of 60s, 70s?


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[Assistant] On Kanye, this week he posted a picture on his Instagram of a piece of A4 paper on which he wrote a little thing with a sharpie. It says,


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[Assistant] So, in the news this week, uh, there was a teenager, Jack Sweeney, set up a Twitter account, that automatically tracks Elon's private jet, and where he flies around.


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[Assistant] However, Elon asked, uh, him to shut it down, uh, offered him $5,000 to shut it down. $5,000?


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[Assistant] Yeah. He actually is doing it out of passion. Obviously, it's not great, is it, to have your... No, it is. It's a very private thing.


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[Assistant] It's all very public, yeah, people would be doing it for a while.


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[Assistant] Oh my fucking god. That's like the early internet thing where people would be like, I'm gonna fucking come round, I know, I'm gonna ban you, I'm gonna come round to your house and I know where you live, I can track your IP.


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[Assistant] Do you remember that other thing on Netflix that was the podcast, where it was that scam guy who sort of infiltrated his way into these women's lives, sort of met them on dating sites?


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[Assistant] God, it was quite famous as well. Uhm, I can't remember what it was called. Shit. My brain. Sorry. Anyway. There's this sort of thing where there's these exploitative sort of good-looking middle-aged guys who kind of prey on middle-aged women on dating sites.


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[Assistant] I don't think it still is. I mean, there's obviously low level, it's always down to a low level, there's these good looking guys who just wanna sort of have a new girlfriend every month or whatever, so they kind of work their way through lots of different women, but some of them obviously are...


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[Assistant] It's kinda weird because his strategy is really to get them to work a job and then pay him. Do you see what I mean? They're kinda like prostitutes or something and he's like a pimp. It's weird.


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[Assistant] I mean, I can see where it's coming from though, like, you know, these women, they meet this guy, he's exciting, he's nice, good looking, he takes them on adventures, he gives them a new lease of life, they go on holiday to France, do all these things, it's exciting, and he's a spy as well, and he's like a dreamboat.


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[Assistant] Compared to her previous husband who was a builder and all the horrible kids who hate me, blah blah blah.


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[Assistant] You get wrapped up in this fantasy, right, and you're willing to sort of overlook these


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[Assistant] Stubborn, and I think that the main story is about this sort of, these two kids who are sort of, I think, like 20 now, kind of their, their mum has kind of gone off with this guy. That's right.


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[Assistant] It's like a... It's Dirty John is the one I was thinking of. I listened to the podcast back in the day, I found it. Dirty John. Dirty John. And it was, I think, you can kind of see how these guys trap themselves in it though, right, as well. It becomes something that's so easy to them.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm not, uh, you know, I'm not really hurting anyone. I dunno, I dunno, it's like, weird hell. It's kind of, they don't, often don't get in trouble for it either, like, it's not illegal to do some of these sort of things where they convince someone to give them money, or, you know.


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[Assistant] And it makes it scary for everyone else as well, because everyone also thinks like, oh my god, is my partner being manipulative in some way, or like, you know.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it can put a negative spin on everything you think about if you're too worried about people out there being monsters.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I guess it's a sliding scale though, like I'm sure there's lots of people who are small scale manipulative, you know? I think you just have to, you just have to kind of...


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[Assistant] I think you have to have the ability to step back and, and, and have other people around you and make sure you're not being distanced from, from family and friends. You know, that kind of stuff, like you said, like is trust the people that you've known all your life rather than the person that you've just met on Tinder who's promising you the world kind of thing.


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[Assistant] It's interesting how much the world has changed on some elements so quickly. Like some things, like Men in Black, I mean yeah sure it's 25 years old, but it does feel, I'm sure like a lot of that movie felt like completely out of touch and out of fashion and old and dated, right? Like, because things just change so fast.


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[Assistant] Well also there's the, that I always remember, we had these things called the, these Duralex glass, drink, water drinking sort of glasses, you know, that you see, or used to see, absolutely fucking everywhere. Uhm, they were basically, I think it's called the, the Zhigoin


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[Assistant] It had an old number, and that number apparently refers to the, um, like, the machine that makes that, like, the number, the machine number fourteen. So if there were any faults, they'd know.


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[Assistant] Which one's going wrong? But it's uhm, it's kind of, it was just this interesting thing that you just, I was just, cause I read it this week as well, like, and they sold two uhm...


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[Assistant] Pyrex, who are the big kind of heated glass, you know, shatter resistant glass.


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[Assistant] Man, they've been going making these glasses that are like super iconic.


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[Assistant] And I don't know, like, there's something nice about that, like, we're always gonna need glasses to drink out of, as humans, right? Like, even in the hundreds of years of the future, people are still gonna want to drink more out of these things. And they're a classic design, they're cheap, they're like, they don't shatter and like, cut you, or maybe they fucking do, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I've never broken one. They seem like cool things, and I just thought that was a nice thing.


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[Assistant] Well, maybe it's too late now. Another sort of wholesome story I read this week was that there was this kid in America, this eight year old in Idaho, who took his handwritten book into the local public library and put it in the children's section, and then


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[Assistant] So, he wrote his book, it's called The Adventures of Dylan Halbig's Chrismiz, he spelled Christmas wrong, but it's a very wholesome, wholesome story. Do you wanna hear a sad story?


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[Assistant] Well, it just makes you realise if you wanna, you know, make something, you've got no idea what the future's gonna hold for the stuff that you make, right? Or how long you're... You know, people always...


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[Assistant] I mean, like, not many, that building, I guess, the cafe, or the name, they seem to persist through time, but, you know, certainly like, it's hard, it's certainly hard to travel, or stay relevant and interesting into the future, and less and less people do it, and it's random as well, like, you know.


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[Assistant] Sometimes who, who we, who we know and recognise from old times.


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[Assistant] No, uh, anyway, I'm with pubic hair. Uh, it's fine. So, so, so, one more article I've noticed this week that I wrote down. Uh, we got, in Iceland, okay, 12 years ago, there was a financial crisis. Well, obviously it hit Iceland pretty hard as well. It was a global thing.


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[Assistant] It caused, um, McDonald's to shut down in Iceland for good. Wow. And it's not been back. Uh, and on the day it shut down, there was a man, Hjartor Smarrason. Yes. Right? Who, uh, bought a Big Mac and fries, and forgot about it. And found it.


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[Assistant] Relatively recently, and uhm, it's still in Great Nick, because they don't really go off. No. Apparently, it wasn't kept moist. I dunno, it was put in a dry cupboard or something anyway. I don't think he saved it on purpose, but uhm, he decided, he discovered it, and he was like, oh, I should donate this to, of course, the Icelandic museum, you know?


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[Assistant] It's a historical artifact. Well, a burger and some fries. A burger and some fries. And mummified Big Mac and fries. Which honestly look fine. They were given to the National Museum of Iceland. Get MRE Steven.


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[Assistant] So of course that's what the national museum license said. They were like, do you know what, cause this is the thing, right, with the museums too, they have these huge vast collections and sometimes they buy stuff and art museums particularly


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[Assistant] They spend a lot of money on art, um, and they sort of keep it in the back rooms, rather than sell it often. They'll kind of have it on the books, because there's no real advantage to them selling it because they


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[Assistant] Whenever they buy things for their collections, it's all tax free, right? And in fact, they're not even tax free, they don't even have to...


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[Assistant] Like put it as a, a spend. You know, it could just be ignored. It's like, especially, especially when they're gifted something, when they're gifted something for their collection, if they then sell it, they have to declare it on the books. And so there's no real incentive for them to sell. Anyway, it's a whole complicated thing. Malcolm Gladwell did a really good thing about it. You could find it if you want.


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[Assistant] The National Museum of Iceland obviously didn't want this burger, so they gave it to the Bus Hotel Reykjavik.


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[Assistant] It must be so proud. It's not treasured, is it? No. It's passed around. It's not even second rate. It's a third rate treasure.


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[Assistant] That whole story is super interesting. You know, there's a bunch of documentaries about it that show like these, how it's in very short time, you know, a country that has got like 300,000 people became this kind of


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[Assistant] Major global centre of finance. And it was like, it was like, what? And they were just, yeah, they were just turned up, they would have...


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[Assistant] When it comes to that. You're behind Kanye on this one. Yeah. This has been an interesting mix of chat about scams, and, as usual, weird, meanderings, nostalgic nonsense.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, and welcome, welcome back to the Triforce Podcast. I am still a bit stuffy-nosed today, and Sipsis has a cold. Are you, are you feeling good?


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[Assistant] I'm je- I'm super jealous because, yea, it's a long flight, but it's lovely and hot.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of cool stuff in Singapore, but it's, and it's quite small, really.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's cool. It's cool. It's a cool place. Definitely worth going for a day or two.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of very cool, there's a lot of very cool classes in Pathfinder.


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[Assistant] So much of the work is done for you with the digital version, but I think what I loved about Pathfinder was just how rich the ruleset was in the sense of how many abilities and overlapping things, but also I mean like


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[Assistant] Pretty good little story as well. I mean, remember we all played Divinity Original Sin together? That was, uhm, that was a good experience. It was a terrible experience. Although it was a friendship challenge. It was a terrible experience. We all argued so much.


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[Assistant] We all had our different playstyles and it didn't mesh well. The other thing about Divinity that I remember was most frustrating was that some people wanted to read the story and others didn't give a shit about the story and wanted to skip the story. And so there was this like constant, um, like tug, like


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[Assistant] Yeah. I love Pathfinder actually. I don't know why I stopped playing. I think something else came along and got distracted, but.


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[Assistant] No, I was like, thing is like, I was, it was like, I was just around the corner, it was, it's like a zebra crossing, and I was walking across the zebra crossing, he obviously saw me and drove like,


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[Assistant] I drove onto the zebra crossing and like got in the way and I was like, I looked, I recognized him straight away. I was like, oh hi. And then, and he was like, he just sort of looked at me and was like,


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[Assistant] Walmart car parks not traditionally sloped, in my experience. You never know.


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[Assistant] Sorry, so you took the new ride out for a spin, right? Yeah. And you went to get to a place you hadn't been before. No, no, this is a place that we have been.


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[Assistant] Is it still open? Well no, I'm just reading the hygiene thing.


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[Assistant] How do you write that down as well? It's got like phonetic spelling. Belch. Belcher. Belcher. That sounds like a cool name, you know. That sounds like a name of a kid in a Roald Dahl book.


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[Assistant] Cool joke. I mean, he might just be too big for normal jeans, so they just stop. Also, do your shoes just fucking stick.


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[Assistant] I dunno, I think the people who are wearing them probably have, like, I dunno, if they use those roll-ons on their- on their feet or like, I dunno, their-


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[Assistant] Loads of people stink all the time, I-I-I-I-


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[Assistant] Like not, not even people like things stink. Like a lot of people have these like jackets that stink or like people's cars stink.