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[Assistant] Surroundings and locales, you know, if you're brought up in a local small village in India, I'm sure you're going to hold views that are, you know, intolerant towards something and who knows what that is or views that are reprehensible in other parts of the world. You know, if you're in China and you're eating deer noses, fucking go for it. Like, you know, that's part of your culture. And I think it's very hard of me to criticize that because, you know, that's something which they


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[Assistant] Being a scientist is about questioning, it's about constantly analyzing everything you believe. But there's so many aspects of things we believe, from religion to politics to people to, and there's so many like grey areas too, so many grey lines that come down, like, and each case is different, you know, every, you could say, oh, you know,


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[Assistant] You know, you can't, I'm a bit of a contrarian, I love to try and argue and see the opposite side, and it's so hard to do that sometimes, and sometimes I feel like I've been taken, I've been blindsided, and I've learned something, and I'm like, damn, why have I been laughing at prison rape jokes for like 35 years, I feel like maybe I shouldn't, but then, it's tough, it's really like, it's really, so what I'm saying is,


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[Assistant] There's this, there's this fear though, there's this fear that if you, it's a very animal thing, it's that if you change your mind, you're seen as flaky or if you're seen as like,


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[Assistant] I think people, uh, people seem to value, and, and that, it's that confidence, it's that, that kind of, that, that...


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[Assistant] We need like prepared speeches that are finely honed and crafted to not, not, not, cause, but a lot of times people will get the wrong end of the stick from this podcast, they're gonna think, Louis said this sentence, and people are gonna take it out of context, and it'll, and it'll mean something which is the opposite of what I meant it to mean.


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[Assistant] What? Let's bring it back. Fuck it. Bring it back as a bond gun.


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[Assistant] Raining, I was going to walk to the office, um, and record from there this morning. We started to open up the office. There's a few, there's a couple of people pottering in, but we've got like two meters between desks. You have to have a clean desk and it gets wiped down.


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[Assistant] You can go up the lift and down the stairs, which obviously I'm sure the delivery drivers will enjoy.


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[Assistant] People still get their crap delivered to the office, even in this lockdown, so there's just like shit tons of mail like all over the place.


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[Assistant] We've got a foot driven, um, uh, goo, uh, hand sanitizer dispenser, uh, now installed. So that's, that's the stick to wipe, clean your hands on the way in. Uh, we've got like a sign in sheet to check who's been lurking around so we can clean their desk. We've got like, um,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's a couple of streams are happening from the office and a couple of people are happening from the office. People are happening.


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[Assistant] Mostly people who can't stand being at home any longer, uh, you know, and, and, or, or, or are able to get in without taking public transport. But actually like we sent out an email and it's basically, we said like, you know, if you don't, you don't want to come in again and.


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[Assistant] Love and respect. I can hear one of you. What, what, what, what, what, what have you been up to? What's, what's interesting with you guys? I've been- I got a haircut. I've been sorting stuff. Oh, congrats.


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[Assistant] Very sensitive sponge. Emotionally sensitive.


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[Assistant] Well, it's like a new generation. So I was talking to Ben yesterday at the start of this TTT recording and he was, he was chatting about how


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[Assistant] It was, he saw this post on Reddit. Um, and I did as well. There was like some, there's been some posts where like boomers, not boomers, zoomers, the new generation have been.


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[Assistant] Shipping containers and RVs and all this. Anyway, uh, the younger generation have been getting on.


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[Assistant] Well, it's, it's, it's this, it's this Gen, Gen Z, right? And it's kind of, I like it. I like, I like seeing it. But the thing is Ben was like, you know, I'm glad I'm not a millennial. And I was like, you are, no, no, you are, I'm, we're millennials, me and you. And cause I guess you two are just...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've had this. You're a little bit early, but. So I had to explain to Ben, and the way I explained to him that we were millennials was, I saw this picture on Reddit, which is like, um, it was on r slash cool guides, which I am a big fan of.


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[Assistant] Well, that did sound, that did make me sound like a late Gen X there. But no, it's this, it's this kind of...


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[Assistant] The next box, I don't recognize anything. And I'm like, what the fuck is Ben 10? You know, what the fuck is like, the, the Batman animated series? Do you know what I mean? Like, I don't know.


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[Assistant] A generation of like stuff that came out sort of, or like, like, sort of like, I don't know, there was this generation.


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[Assistant] of late millennials that I just didn't know any of and I didn't watch any of it. You know, like, I dunno. Like, just looking at this picture, like Teen Titans, Spy Kids, Samurai Jack, Impossible, Invader Zim, some people will be like, watched all of these things and I have never basically ever heard of any of them.


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[Assistant] And I think, and then I look at this one, and I'm like, this picture, this one, is


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[Assistant] No, no, no, there's this whole thing, right? This actually, you've really hit it. Like there's this whole thing around artificial scarcity. It's like this big thing on Instagram, this big thing on marketing. And the idea is, is that you put out this.


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[Assistant] So there's this whole thing about stuff being sold out or, or.


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[Assistant] Or at least like certainly on the biggest, you know, like some of these Instagram influencers have like millions of followers. Honestly, like you wouldn't believe. And they sell out these things so quickly, but it's part of the strategy. You know, if, if they, if they wanted to, they could make plenty of lipstick.


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[Assistant] I made a decision at the weekend that I've got this like little cupboard next to my kitchen.


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[Assistant] All that's in there is boxes of old shit from when I moved. Like mostly books, Warhammer models, stuff I haven't bothered to unpack, right?


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[Assistant] Well, I have and I've got, I'm looking at like three big bags of books that I'm going to take up to the charity shop. So they're all like nice quality still. Um, but I couldn't, it was closed so I couldn't bring them up.


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[Assistant] But now I've got this space in my pantry and I want to make like, um, a doomsday, um, organizer, right? So I've got like.


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[Assistant] Like five toothpastes in there, like five, like five, uh, shampoos. Do you know what I mean? Like, like so, cause I constantly, I'm a person who during this whole thing has kind of, and also during my life.


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[Assistant] But the thing is I'm not someone who automatically like, I know that there are some people who, this is what those uhm, I saw a couple of years ago.


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[Assistant] There was this fad of people buying those Amazon buttons where you basically, you put the button like on your.


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[Assistant] It feels incredibly wasteful as well, just all the technology that's gone into those buttons, but also the fact that you're going to have to...


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[Assistant] Amazon out, like a single use fucking plastic box with an extra toothpaste in there or whatever. I don't know. I'm not, I'm, I was never a fan of that, but I understood why the mentality behind it. Like if you, if you don't have much space and you know, you are living in like a fucking shipping container because you're


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[Assistant] All right, fine. They're not living in shipping tests. They're living in like a shitty flat with six other millennials. That's what they're doing. Um, because they can't afford, they have to have a flat share and it's, it's, it's tough. It's tough being out there in the real world. PFLAX.


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[Assistant] I know and often they are on offer two for one and stuff and so sometimes, you know, that's why I have extra, but I'm not saying I've never had a spare toothpaste in my cupboards, you know, but there's always something that's missing. Do you know what I mean? Like I'm always on, I'm always down to my last.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you what it is. I'll tell you, I'll tell you what happens. Here's, here's the scenario. You go out with all your friends. Okay. And some, some of them invite their friends. Some of those guys or girls are incredibly annoying.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so even though you've come there and you've brought the barbecue and you've made your sausages and you've been generous, you've been kind, you're the friendly guy, you're the, you're the nice guy.


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[Assistant] Those people are shit and they're annoying and you leave first, right? And because there's still the barbecue and stuff around there, you don't clear that up, you know, cause you leave it to them cause you think someone else will, one of them will clean it up, right? You'll go first and you've had enough of them.


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[Assistant] Shitting all over themselves, I'm like, fuck is going on? Like, why, you know, they're assholes, Pflash. I think we've got to the point now where people are so sick of this lockdown shit that people are like, oh, it's over. Okay. I don't know what I'm allowed to do and not allowed to do. I'm just going to fucking just spread disease everywhere.


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[Assistant] The littering one. Maybe it's just the, the, the, the drinking, you know, after a few drinks. Yeah. You loosen up and you.


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[Assistant] So what do we do? What do you do if you see someone littering?


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[Assistant] No I know you don't, but you just left it there. Hang on a second, don't you walk the dog with a bin bag?


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[Assistant] There's a thing that happens in Bristol, which is annoying where it's like a really not hot day. Everyone goes out and everyone cleans up their litter. Okay. Right. But the problem is there's only one or two bins around the square. Right. So rather than.


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[Assistant] People going or walking or taking their crap further, they just leave the shit on the side of the bin or perched on the bin.


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[Assistant] It's like a fucking set of skittles of bottles, you know what I mean? Like a triangle of bottles. And uhm, all that fucking happens is...


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[Assistant] It's like, um, it's just part of it, but like that annoys me that you think.


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[Assistant] You know, it's like, I realize this is full, but that's not my fault that the bins full, but there's like loads of little psychological tricks that people like just ordinary, ordinary people, reasonable people are like, well, I can't be asked to walk over to that side square. There's a bin right here. I didn't feel it.


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[Assistant] But the perch is always, it's like, if your bin's full, I do this as well, you know, if the bin's full I just push it down a bit. Oh, you gotta squinch it. Put it on top.


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[Assistant] And if it, if it doesn't give, then I'm like, Ooh, well maybe I will just bounce on top until I have to. But then all you, all you're doing is putting off the inevitable and making it much worse when you do have to inevitably get empty and making it harder for yourself.


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[Assistant] Do you guys recycle at all? Of course we do. Yeah, we recycle a lot of stuff. But a few things do go in that stinky bin.


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[Assistant] It's, it's a standard sort of trope. Uhm, anyway, uh, I just like the idea that the bin men are watching you in the same way that you're watching the spy house in the same way that they're watching their bin men on the other side. It's like, I dunno, it's like a, a kind of string of spying. Everyone's watching each other.


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[Assistant] And also I can see him just thinking, ah, fuck it, can't be arsed. You know, but what's he need? He obviously doesn't need for anything. He doesn't need the money. He doesn't need like, doesn't need the hassle. Doesn't want, doesn't want to sell it because he thinks, oh, well if I could get around to it, if I could just get


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[Assistant] Wasn't even that long. I just felt like no one really even read it. I felt like I needed to do like an update newsletter to everyone. And so I was like, you know, here's what's going on and stuff. And, and it just took the whole fucking day. I got that one. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I'm not brandable. You're just not brandable. Yeah. You're not very brandable. If we ever get like a bowling ball company in, or like an egg company wants some sponsorship, you know, or like, um, a polishing company, like, I dunno, or snooker, um,


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[Assistant] So it's totally legit, you could use it for whatever you- keep your privacy safe. You don't use one, Sips? You really should do, by the way. I do. Well, you should. It's just for your own personal safety, you know? It's quite a useful tool. I've used it quite a lot in like, uhm,


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[Assistant] Hotels and like free wifi areas and stuff. Right.


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[Assistant] You don't know who's collecting your data there, do you? True, yeaah. But also I do use it quite a lot to just access other countries.


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[Assistant] Anyway, we did an advert for it and it was a bit wooden, right? So no, we need to be less wooden. Uh, much like this, this is an advert for it. ExpressVPN.com slash Triforce to get three months free of VPN if you want. Sips, you should try it.


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[Assistant] Yeah. ExpressVPN.com slash Triforce. You can get it now. For your health.


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[Assistant] Did you take turns or did you do it at the same time?


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[Assistant] So, so yeaah, the shops opened here this week and I walked past Primark on the, on the Monday because I was heading into the office and my god, the queue was like...


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[Assistant] Unbelievable. It was like, it went on for miles. And obviously they're not letting people, they're being a bit careful and they're keeping the distance and stuff, but it's like, I was like blown away that so many people needed to buy shit from Primark. Like I didn't realize that, I don't know, so many people had run out of, I don't know, fucking bras.


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[Assistant] I heard that they weren't allowing people into fitting rooms. Right. I was also hearing that anytime people, like there was like, you were given, you just weren't allowed to touch things, right? So you had to like put stuff in a basket and then if you didn't buy it, um, that, that stuff got disinfected and burned. Yeah. They just piled it up by the bin for the seat.


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[Assistant] I can understand like why people don't want to buy their clothes and shoes online, right? Cause I think it's always a dumb thing to do, right? People need to try that shit on or else it's just not, just doesn't fucking, it never works. Every, I don't think I've ever bought a pair of shoes online.


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[Assistant] That fitted. I think I did, I had to buy some ski shoes at one point and I couldn't find anywhere that sold them so I bought some online and they were just the worst. They just, I had to wear like, I think I had to put insoles in them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's true. I think, I think some, I think tops and stuff is okay, but you never know quite what they're going to look like.


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[Assistant] Wow. I can't believe it. I had a week off this week off streaming and I had, I had suddenly, I had like, you know, an extra sort of 20 hours to, to, to do. So I built some Lego and I boxed last week, I boxed some stuff up for you Sips and I sent it your way. Oh yeah. I got the box. I haven't opened it yet.


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[Assistant] I didn't mind doing it, but it was definitely out of my way. And I feel like if I'm buying clothes online, I, I just want to be efficient. Do you know what I mean? I want to buy a lot of clothes and then take a whole lot back. I don't want to like buy a shirt, find it didn't fit. God, it's such a pain in the ass.


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[Assistant] More so than men judge other men. Unless, unless you're into fashion. If you're a man who's into fashion, suddenly you're looking at everyone else.


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[Assistant] I think they could cross Stillwater, they could go, they could go, I've seen them on planes, getting around it, you know. Right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because it sounds good for like a hot woman to be in your bedroom and like going for your neck, but then suddenly you're enslaved.


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[Assistant] They hate God. If I've ever known anything about women it's how much they hate God. That's one attribute. That's one of those things.


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[Assistant] Nobody remembers, ugh, we've all got long hermit beards and hair and our fingernails are all really long and we're all sitting in our bunkers with our provisions all around us and stuff just waiting, waiting for news from the surface.


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[Assistant] It's true though, right? They've got to practice for when the main event comes. That's why they're, that's why they're so quick to, to prep and run into their bunkers and stuff. Cause it's like, they treat everything as like a, you know, like if I can practice, um, retreating to my bunker once a day.


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[Assistant] Then when the real thing happens, it'll be such a, I'll be perfectly trained, ready to do it.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm not, I'm not judging anybody out there, but I don't think anyone's going to be like Rick in a situation like that. You know, like he's a fictional character. He's like an ideal fictional character in that situation as well. I don't think anybody's really capable of, um,


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[Assistant] Meeting those standards. Rick, Rick set some high standards and I don't think they're achievable by the common man. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I'll be clutching my iPad, like I'll just get like one.


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[Assistant] They'll find my skeleton sitting on a toilet holding a burnt out tablet and uhm, if you manage to power it on, sports scores.


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[Assistant] Pray for us with that. You know what, Flax, just leave them alone. The world needs fucking stupid people. There's a balance, and they're part of it. Just leave them alone. Just let them waste their time and do their dumb shit and, you know, we'll carry on. Someone's gotta do not dumb shit, like sit around in our underpants. That's it, yea. I need these people.


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[Assistant] Through that, like with all that, like uhm, you get personality traits that just don't make any sense. And sometimes personality traits that don't uhm, seem to come from anybody within the immediate family as well.


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[Assistant] I don't think we need an AI that has emotional capacity or any understanding of emotion. We need, we need super AI to, to uhm, sort of help with like calculating probabilities of things, uhm, you know, working out like efficiencies and things and stuff like that. I don't think we need like,


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[Assistant] You'll never be 100% sure that it'll be unbiased, right? Like it'll, there could be something in its, deep in its coding or something to somehow benefit these people. Which is why I'm saying.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's an instant, uh, like an immediate split. There's no way to work with anybody.


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[Assistant] Haven't they found a handful of Earth-like planets, like really far away, obviously, but like,


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[Assistant] Cause there's just, there's a very specific criteria, but it's not impossible for planets to, uh, evolve like Earth has, uh, under the conditions.


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[Assistant] The potential is very far-fetched though because we don't have the means to reach any of these places in a reasonable amount of time, right? We don't have like, uh, we don't have like warp drives or anything like that, so it would take


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[Assistant] Centuries to even get anything over there in the first place.


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[Assistant] I want my beautiful fleshy perfect Johnson to be maintained throughout this procedure.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna transplant my small brain into the tip of my penis. All the important stuff will be preserved for future generations. Great. Can't wait. Can't wait.


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[Assistant] And will this, will this, uh, will this hurt when it happens? Or will it just be like instant, uh, goo, goo-ification? That's his question.


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[Assistant] That's the thing, I don't really, realistically I don't mind what happens, I just want it to be quick. You know what I mean? Like if I'm gonna go, just make it instant so I don't have to suffer or any, or even realize what's going on.


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[Assistant] I don't even want to see it coming. I literally just want to like be wiped out while I'm asleep so I don't realize what's happened sort of thing.


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[Assistant] No, the ideal scenario is just like, boop, you're gone. Like we're in the middle of talking right now, boop, we're gone. That's it.


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[Assistant] The Death Star destroying Earth, for example, uhm, it would be, it would be interesting. All the pipes and shit would be flying all over the place after the explosion and stuff, but we'd be dead. The Death Star would be a quick way to go.


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[Assistant] What if, what if there was like intelligent life out there and they had like a space armada and they just turned up one day? How would you guys feel? But like I'd be, I'd be scared for one. But further than that, I would think.


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[Assistant] You know, the people who are in charge down here don't know how to deal with this situation. Like, I mean, they, they kind of, they struggle with just like everyday things that seem kind of simple to solve and like,


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[Assistant] I don't trust them to get us through this gigantic space armada that's just turned up at our doorstep, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] You know, is this guy going to be up to it? Like in the, in the event that something like this happens, has this guy got the, the chat spots?


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[Assistant] Donald Trump is just sort of like in a heap below him cowering and Joe Biden is protecting him. Last cyborg breath.


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[Assistant] Uh, male, uh, these days. I mean, if I'm lucky I might see a hundred or so.


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[Assistant] A lot of this stuff is unlikely in my lifetime. What life I have left in this lifetime. It's true. In the next 60 years, I think things will change. I'm sure I'll look back.


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[Assistant] On the year 2020 and be like, oh my god, I can't believe, you know what I mean? Like I'm sure things will have advanced, but


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[Assistant] Deep down, they're just so disappointed with the, with the world that they want some massive change to come or whatever. It's like watching, it's like watching that SAS program. Remember we were talking about this last time you were over?


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[Assistant] And you're like, oh yeah, fuck, I'd be fine at that. I'd be able to do it. I'd be alright with jumping out of a helicopter. Realistically, we would fucking suck at it, right? I'm super out of shape. Like I have no fucking discipline whatsoever. I would, I would struggle with the guy, uh, just yelling at me even, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] You don't think, you don't think about all this stuff in these scenarios, right? You have this like fantasy vision of this stuff.


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[Assistant] Don't even have COVID. You know what I mean? That's the worst part of it. And you know, some people still aren't coping. So like, how the fuck do you hope to cope when something actually catastrophic happens? You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I mean, the UK was, was, um, affected by, uh, World War II greatly, I would say. Like, I mean, London was bombed during World War II.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but coming out of World War II, yeaah, great, a big victory and everything. But they were, they were in...


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[Assistant] A standard of living that is now just completely been obliterated by


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[Assistant] You know, however many years World War II went on for sort of thing. But the after effects of it were huge, I would say.


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[Assistant] Well, I think most people, I think a lot of people would lie about that because I think we were raised eating meat. Like I was raised eating meat. I like, you know, I didn't have a choice to eat it or not sort of thing. I was, I was a kid. My mom would put a plate of food in front of me. I would eat it. You know what I mean? Like it, it's just the way that it goes.


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[Assistant] But then later in life, if you're, if you start to be made aware of how that meat ends up on your plate or whatever,


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[Assistant] You downplay it though, right? You want to think that everything that you're doing is at least okay and not like...


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[Assistant] Um, affecting anyone else or, or, you know, like putting you in some sort of bad light or whatever. So I would say that there's, there's a lot of people out there that would just say, Oh yeah, no, totally free range. Like.


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[Assistant] Uh, humane all this stuff because it makes them feel better because it's not something they ever really think about. Uh, and for that split second where they have to think about it because you've asked them a question.


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[Assistant] They'll just go to their default like, Oh yeah, no, it's fine. Honestly, like I'm not a bad person. Like I think that's, I think that's basic human nature. So like, I'm not sure that those stats are actually worth anything because I can fucking say anything to anybody in the street and just go home and.


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[Assistant] You know, fucking murder a pig with my bare hands and...


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[Assistant] I think, uh, I think most, most people that, that eat meat, coming back to like, uh, ignorance is, is bliss or whatever, just don't think about it. They don't think about where it comes from. They don't give a fuck either. They've got other things in their lives that, uh, have a priority or, you know, whatever. Like, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] People who smoke, people who drink, people who do drugs, people who do things that are bad for them, I think these people realize that these things are bad for them, but subconsciously they weigh it up and they make a decision and they say to themselves,


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[Assistant] But again, that's human nature as well though, right? Like we're, we're beings that seek sort of like repetition, some comfort, some pleasure. Like these are all things that are important to us, whether we realize it or not sort of thing. So those justifications make perfect sense, right? Like when you


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[Assistant] What about being like, uh, morbidly obese and stuff too, like?


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[Assistant] Alright, we're not allowed in too much. We're still not allowed to have more than one person from a household in the store.


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[Assistant] Our lockdown, our lockdown is being relaxed now. We're in, we're in the, in the midst of lockdown exit where I live.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're winding down. We're winding, we're relaxing stuff. We can go out. Via exit. Via exit. We're allowed to go out for any reason now. We're allowed to. We can get back on with Brexit, guys. We're allowed to visit another household now, which is pretty nice.


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[Assistant] My wife will be on the steps of the White House holding two mini guns protecting Donald Trump.


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[Assistant] I made some comments about this, uh, not too long ago on my own stream, uh, because I like to pride myself on having enough discipline to actually turn my fucking stream off when I'm done streaming.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just press the stop button and, um, just double check to make sure that you've done that. And then you're, you're, you're golden. Don't, don't be the guy that leaves.


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[Assistant] I've got one of those showers that's like on legs, you know, you know, he's got those little legs like underneath the base part to like lift it up off the floor. You ever see those?


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[Assistant] Listening to Techno with a laser show and having, trying to have a shower, which I haven't been able to do for months now.


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[Assistant] So what, so water got in behind the shower somehow, it leaked. And uhm, underneath, cause it's all, it's like a tiled bathroom, but underneath there's a square cut out for the pipes and stuff to go down. And then there's just some like, you know, plywood or whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, one of the legs at the back was resting on this plywood, which had gotten all wet. Um, and then the, so the back leg of the, the shower base sinking, whatever the fucking silicone, the seal stuff, you know, you seal the bottom.


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[Assistant] That's right. So now what's happened after a while is it's sunk down, the seal has peeled off and


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[Assistant] But hopefully, you know, all things going well today, I'll be back in the saddle, baby. Taking a nice steamy shower.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm on, I'm on an afternoon shower schedule now. I don't shower first thing in the morning. I shower at night. Unusual. I shower at like five o'clock at night. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Just to like wash, wash the day off. Yeah. It's nice. You know, you feel all nice and clean for the evening and then you go to bed, you're like,


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[Assistant] You know, you shower first thing in the morning, you go to bed, you're filthy, you're like, you got a gross greasy film on you and shit, like you jump into bed with that on.


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[Assistant] Nah, there's no way. That's, that's, that is, that is wasteful. I would never have like two showers a day. Unless it was super hot. If it was really hot, maybe I would have another shower at night.


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[Assistant] Sounds almost too good to be true. Does it? Playing a video game to stay fit, yeaah.


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[Assistant] If you've done something that requires you to be exerting yourself physically, yes. Especially if you get really sweaty.


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[Assistant] I think in a general sense though, if you're washing every day, you're clean. Like once a day washing is quite a lot of washing in the grand scheme of things. Think of all the people in the world.


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[Assistant] Some people don't wash every day, but we do wash every day, so I would say that we're, in general, pretty clean, you know? So, I think it's safe to say whenever you approach yoga, your body is clean. Even if you feel like a little bit pongy.


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[Assistant] Alright, picture yourself in a, you remember when David Blaine did that thing where he was in a see-through box and he didn't eat for like 40 days or something?


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[Assistant] Yeah, something like that. Yeah. Okay. So imagine a similar box is suspended above a poor village in Africa or something, right? How comfortable would you feel being suspended in that box? A, taking a really long unnecessary shower.


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[Assistant] B, masturbating while you're taking this really long unnecessary shower. You know what I mean? Like, I think, it's kinda like, it's one of those things where you're doing it at the time you're not really thinking about like any of the consequences of doing it, right? You're just like, I'm just taking this really nice shower or whatever.


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[Assistant] It's an example though. I'm not saying that you would actually be doing that. It's just like, how comfortable would you feel, like, knowing that people with nothing knew that you did that? Would you still do it?


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[Assistant] It's kind of the same as people who are really outspoken on like social media, but not in their day to day or real life. You know, like it's like the people that have no problem being really outspoken about a topic and, and,


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[Assistant] Would be able to like call them up on things or whatever, you know what I mean? It's kind of the same thing. You're in a private space, uh, doing something and you don't really, you don't really think about it, right? You don't really think about it because there's no context for anybody else to call you up on, on what you might be doing wrong or anything like that, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, yeah, I am, I'm kinda saying that, but not like, not extremely saying that, you know what I mean? No. I think that, I think that, I think if you had in the back of your mind, most times,


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[Assistant] Uh, a thought for others, for example. Uh, not even people with nothing. Uhm, you might do things differently. I think that's what I'm saying. That's the essence of what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's just, I think it's just something interesting to think about. I'm not saying I'm, I'm, you know, I'm, I'm guilty of all of these things that I'm, I'm, you know, it seems like I'm condemning or whatever. Like, yeah, I will take longer showers sometimes or whatever, you know what I mean? Like, but I just think it's interesting to think that it,


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[Assistant] What I said before, it's interesting to think that you, you might do things differently, right? If you thought that other people were judging you like in, uh, in terms that you're not used to, right?


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[Assistant] I know, but I think people are so, so like unconscious when it comes to things like this, you know, you don't, you don't necessarily notice, um,


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[Assistant] Well, it's gross too, it's a dairy product, so if it's not cleaned up properly, the bacteria that can like form off the back of it is really fucking gross too.


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[Assistant] I, I could not, uhm, I could not continue in a relationship with somebody where there was something like that. Where it's like, don't ask me about this. I don't want to talk about this one thing. I would just be like, okay, sorry, I'm done.


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[Assistant] It's okay to have a private life, but that's like extreme, uh, compartmentalization, isn't it? It's like, really, there's no way that anybody...


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[Assistant] I'm not sure if I would be up for giving anything to do with butter ago though, other than like using it as a baking ingredient or like to put on my toast or whatever.


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[Assistant] I would be like, I would do like a fucking dirty den on Eastenders at Christmas. I'd be like, here's the letter from us.


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[Assistant] For me personally, I don't know about you guys, I, I do not like the whole like putting like chocolate syrup on my dick and balls or like, you know, putting strawberry jam up my ass and I don't, I don't like food, sex,


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[Assistant] Do you think that, do you think that they would feel comfortable doing that in a glax box suspended above a napkin?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't like the whole food angle. It's not for me. And for that reason, I'm out.


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[Assistant] There are some available. I remember reading a thread on something awful years ago about this very thing. It was a website where people were able to review prostitutes basically.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I turned up, uh, after, and the, and she said that she needed, uh, 20 bucks, uh, she took her pants off and she stunk real bad. And it was like, it's like all these miserable experiences with people who have just no business doing any of these things.


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[Assistant] What's the commercial? Is it Clover? Clover is the one where people cry in the commercial, right?


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[Assistant] We all love clover. You know that one? And they're always like, there's always some dude with a tear running down his cheek, like as he's about to eat some corn or like.


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[Assistant] I think it's a, I think it's a tragedy a lot of this stuff. There's so many weird little fetishes out there. We read this stuff and we're interested in it and stuff, but there's people, these, these people have lived this life and have been affected by this. Like I can't.


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[Assistant] That's something that would come back, like that's traumatic, I think. I think that's something that would, that would play on your mind more so than the time you, you know, accidentally smashed your friend's mum's window with a baseball or something, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I don't think, I don't feel, I've had to crap in the woods before, I don't feel bad about that. And it's not something I really think about very often. It's just, I had to crap in the woods one time. If I have paid somebody to have sex and they took their pants off and it stunk and I had this miserable, intimate experience with them afterwards,


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[Assistant] I would remember that forever and it would bother me until the end of my time.


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[Assistant] That is the ultimate ending, that's what happens. Some guy is just plowing your wife in your living room on the coffee table and you're just sitting in your lazy boy


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[Assistant] Where does this stuff come from though? This has to come, this has to stem from like, previous like abuse or something like that, right? I disagree. I disagree. It's just some people are just wired that way. People are different, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, I, I agree. I think, you know, like if you find somebody who is into the same stuff as you and it's completely harmless, you're not like, you're not like, um,


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[Assistant] Kidnapping people and like subjecting them to things that they don't want to be and, and, and so on and so forth. I, I agree. I think go for it. If that's what you want to do, if that's how you want to spend your time, more power to you.


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[Assistant] So, so this guy, this guy has sex with other people's wives in front of their husbands.


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[Assistant] Goes to massage parlors to get hand jobs, uh, longhand jobs from people and stuff. Really? Do you think somewhere out there, there's a soulmate for this guy that could maybe possibly like, um, satisfy him entirely or there's no- It's a very specific soulmate, isn't it?


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[Assistant] So what does he really want? Exactly. He wants a three hour hand job where the person never gets tired and finishes. That's what he wants for Christmas. In a kayak.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Like they say, uh, like all this stuff about the spice of life and, and, and whatnot, but like,


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[Assistant] I don't know. It's like some of these, some of these experiences or, you know, like, you know, getting into like kayaking or getting into like golfing or getting into like, I don't know. Like do they, are those, do they really count as experiences? Like they're not, that's not like.


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[Assistant] They're just stuff to do, right? Like you already have things that you probably like to do, um, you know, like some sort of hobby or whatever. So just getting a new hobby isn't really like a, like a spice of life. I would say it's more like.


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[Assistant] Going somewhere to like, you know, visit like a natural wonder of the world or something, you know, like a, like a, like a profound experience would be like a spice of life to me. I would like, you know what I mean? I don't know.


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[Assistant] It's weird because I feel like a lot of people would probably think that I have a really boring life, a really boring existence, but I've never really felt compelled to go and find new exciting things. I've always just been happy. I've always just been into the things I've been into and I'm happy being into those things and whatever. And that's it. You know, like I, I feel like I've been fairly, um, like content.


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[Assistant] Uh, like happy with, with my life decisions for like a long time now. You know what I mean? It's not, I'm not like constantly looking for something new or whatever. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, I just like, I'm sure it probably is fun. I feel like with some of this stuff, it's like, there's gotta be some context behind it, right? There's gotta be something that gets you into it in the first place. Like, you're, you know, like, it's necessary for something, like, you know, like,


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[Assistant] I have no problem just like doing stuff on my own. Even though I have like a family and stuff, I'm still quite happy to occasionally just do things just on my own. Like I like that sort of solitude and it just gives you time to think and stuff too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm the same. I don't know what that is. Maybe that's our age or something. I don't know. It's just like, I never feel like, uh, worried about it either. Like I, yeah, I think it is a contentment thing, right? Like I just.


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[Assistant] I think it's different. I guess it's like, I mean, I'm sure we've spoken about this before, but like when you have like a wife or a husband and you have kids and stuff.


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[Assistant] Your, your social quotas for a day are met almost instantly. You know, like, like within like five seconds of you waking up, you've already had a bunch of conversations with people. You've had to like sort things out. You've had to get, you've had hugs. You've had, yeah, you've had hugs and like, and, and everything.


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[Assistant] You know, like, I don't know any other dads who feel lonely. You know what I mean? Like, if anything, most of the dads I know want more time alone. Yeah, exactly. It's, I guess it's, I guess it's part of having, um, you know, like a partner, children, all that kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] There's different types of like, uh, relationships, partnerships and stuff. Like, uh, I don't know, like what.


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[Assistant] You guys are like when you have like partners or married or whatever, but like, uh, with like me and my wife, we've.


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[Assistant] We've got our own stuff, right? Like, she's interested in things that I'm not at all interested in, and likewise. You know, like, she's never been into games, she doesn't really care for them at all. Uhm, so she's never, she never pursues that, or she's never gotten into that because I was into it or anything like that, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] In a funny way, it's been like a strong point of our relationship that we both have things that we like to do, that we don't have to just be in each other's face all the time. You know what I mean? You're not constantly tripping over each other, like sharing the same hobbies, sharing the same everything.


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[Assistant] I would feel so smothered being with somebody who had to do everything the same as how I do.


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[Assistant] Uhm, having a partner who was as into video games as me. You know what I mean? Yea, it'd be weird. To me it would be weird. But I like, I know that it's not weird. I know that there's lots of people out there who have that and it's wonderful for them or whatever. I'm just saying for me personally, that's not something that I would enjoy.


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[Assistant] So, okay, on the topic of liking things, not liking things, or things being designed for you not to like or whatever, I was sure, okay, I was 100% positive,


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[Assistant] That I did not need the game Hitman in my life at any point in my life. I was quite happy to just not play that game for whatever reason. I just never like, it just never appealed. Like I didn't really like, it did nothing for me. I saw trailers and stuff, it's whatever.


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[Assistant] I give it a try and I was, and, and it confirmed all my suspicions. I was like, this just isn't for me. I don't really get it. I don't know what to do sort of thing. Like I don't feel like I can do the things that I really want to do in this game. Whatever. You came in with a bad attitude. I came in with a terrible attitude. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Okay, carry on. So recently, uhm, I just finished playing through L.A. Noire on stream.


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[Assistant] Uh, cause I'd never finished it before, so I finished it. I thought it was pretty good. I had some gripes, but overall it was very good. And uhm, so I was looking for something to play, scrolling through my list, I see Hitman 2, I was like,


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[Assistant] Hitman 2? Ah, fuck it. Let's try it out. Right? Like I played the demo. I didn't really like it. I played 24 minutes of the game or whatever. It just wasn't for me. No appreciation for Hitman. Holy crap. I'm like 17 hours in.


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[Assistant] How did I not appreciate this game? It's fucking amazing. It's amazing. I'm having so much fun playing it. It's just, it's great. It's so good.


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[Assistant] I never, I never appreciated that it was just a murder sandbox. Like I, I just never.


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[Assistant] It's expensive because of the way that they've done the DLC and everything. I think I paid £90 for all of the missions, the legacy missions, everything. You've got to just wait for the gold. Well, I missed out. It was on sale during the steam summer sale, but I missed it. So I just got into it at the wrong time, I guess.


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[Assistant] And, uh, sure enough, fuck the missions. Some of the levels are great. Like the fucking, uh, suburban American one, you know, the old dude in the, in the house and stuff. I fucking love that map. Like I, I love that you can go back and do different.


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[Assistant] Styles and, and there's challenges and I just think it's great. I just can't praise it enough.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Rav's gifted it to me, saying that it was really good, I have to play it.


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[Assistant] 60 quid, I don't, I never paid. That's a lot. Until Hitman 2 I never paid 60 quid for a game.


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[Assistant] Cause you've liked games in the past that I've thought were total garbage, but then equally you've liked games that I've loved as well.


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[Assistant] Games that I, I was sure that you would like based on other games that you've liked and you've, you've, you've hated. I can't think of any examples, but I'm sure that this is happening.


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[Assistant] Personally, I'm really sick of deck builder games now, card games. I just find that there's so many of them and I just...


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[Assistant] I've heard it's really good. And I've heard that Dicey Dungeons is very good as well. I'm sure I will play them at some point and I probably will love them as well, but I don't know, again, I don't know about you guys, but every once in a while I go into a rut with genres.


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[Assistant] Play, Flax, I'm gonna make my own game, okay? With you in mind, alright? I'm gonna add a whole bunch of stuff into this game that I know you're gonna like.


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[Assistant] And I want you to be the, uh, primary influencer for this game, okay? The game is gonna be called Dude Sim Alaska, okay? Right? It's about a guy or a girl. Both a guy or a girl can be a dude, okay? You're gonna be doing dude-esque things in it. But not like,


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[Assistant] Dude, Brad, like, like, you know, summer vacation or whatever. I mean, dude, like, you're living off the land in Alaska, okay? It doesn't matter, like, what gender you are.


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[Assistant] What's the budget for this? You have to build yourself, um, a log cabin by hand. You have to place every single log. You gotta like, you know, make the rope and stuff like that. You have to go out and do some hunting. You have to survive. You have to get better at hunting. You have to get better at skinning animals and stuff.


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[Assistant] The wilds of Alaska, yeaah. You're sick of modern society and stuff, so you're just going to do your own thing.


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[Assistant] Well while you're out there, you find pieces of cars, of a car and stuff, so you have in your garage that you build yourself with your own


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[Assistant] But it'll be inside dudes in Alaska. You see what I mean? So you could, you'll have this opportunity to build a car.


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[Assistant] Uh, you have a bike that you can like go to town and trade your pelts and get some money and you can buy more car parts if you want. Or you could just ignore the car completely. You can get a hunting rifle that you can grease up and you can refurbish and pimp out if you want.


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[Assistant] You can decorate your house. You can make like a trophy room. You can go fishing. You can do whatever you want. It's gonna be beautiful. And it's never going to be completed because the budget is gonna be so astronomical. But one day, if by chance it's ever created flax,


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[Assistant] I want you to play it and sell it for me, okay? Give it a shitty review. No, I want you to be, I want you to be the ultimate unit shifter, flax.


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[Assistant] Well, I think the people who go to them aren't actually introverted, LARPA people who would rather stay at home anyway. You know, it tends to be people who aren't that interested in history just have this


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[Assistant] Golden, tinted, rose-tinted view of what people used to do in oldie times when it was old. Oh, let us just farm and have barn dartses and all spin around in circles and kiss each other with the cows in the background. I don't know, in kind of hay dresses.


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[Assistant] Good use of the word haunt. Everyone's kind of there in a Disney sort of way, you know, it's very, it's always a sunny day for a start, you know. And so in England, we're talking about, you know, about a week and a half every year when it's possible to put on this thing. Otherwise it's just this,


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[Assistant] Drab, kind of, cuddling inside the rain with an old woman's egg.


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[Assistant] Oh, I see. I think, I think it's a good, I mean, it's a good excuse to get people together in a warm environment that's copyright free, you know, they don't have to pay, I dunno, Harry Potter or someone to put on some themed bullshit, right?


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[Assistant] That films will be down for that. They love all that stuff. Yeah, they will. I remember we, um, we did go when we were in Sweden for paradox con, we went to this Viking themed restaurant where they had haunches of meat and fur.


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[Assistant] I know, we were kind of like tourists. It felt, you know what, it did feel like, in the same way though, it felt like going to a really fancy Japanese restaurant or something like that, in that they've got all of this decor and style and serving and


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[Assistant] We're just there as like white guys in t-shirts kind of thing, looking like completely, feeling completely out of place. It felt the same in this Viking themed restaurant. You know, we didn't, it's not like in the Japanese.


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[Assistant] Exactly, but that was kind of what it was, that was kind of what it was in the Viking one. They sort of passed some lyric sheets around it and then we had to, they did a bit of a sing song.


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[Assistant] I like how at the start of the podcast you were like, oh, by the way, I'm going to have to go and answer the doorbell at some point.


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[Assistant] Manages the chest hair. He curls your chest hair for you. And then you've got your manicurist, your pedicurist.


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[Assistant] Pierre, of course, for the, for the themed nights. The cultural, the cultural evening, you call them. Friday and Sundays are, uh, different countries of the world. What was it last week? Was it Moroccan?


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[Assistant] It's a car, it's a car cleaner. Of course you've got, uh, your pool man, uh, mower, tree surgeon and gardener, head gardener, who coordinates the whole back garden affair. Yep. We've got the child minders.


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[Assistant] Now that's what they're for, isn't it? Essentially. Uhm, just so useful. Just to take you- How many staff?


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[Assistant] I, do you know what I reckon it is? I reckon it's Snoop Dogg's life, except for, I reckon he also has the entourage, right?


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[Assistant] It is a little bit like coming home to your country house in your period drama show and all of the staff are out there in their uniforms welcoming you home and they're like, good morning Mr. Flax, how was London? Did you have a good time in the city?


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[Assistant] They all, they all start up and start scuttling and doing their tasks and scullery mating and chopping up onions and the potatoes and grooming the dog and gosh.


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[Assistant] Just tell a, tell a story. I can't just, I don't have any, I don't have any stories to tell. I've told them all. I've not been doing nothing. I've been trapped inside my own fucking head for the last three months. Slightly in my house, I suppose as well. On my own in the office right now. Blimey. I've started playing tabletop sim.


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[Assistant] So I played board games on tabletop instead of in real life and I've, I've cultured a new found love of tabletop games. I played a tabletop game on my own, uh, with like an AI controlling the other players.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I was trying to learn how to play Root, and there's like, uhm, little AIs, electric robot players that I played against, and I've, I enjoyed myself, but I felt like the saddest man, the saddest man, just playing a board game versus AIs.


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[Assistant] Oh, maybe then, maybe Sips. Oh yeah, you're right. I do vaguely remember that. Maybe we can do that to Sips right now.


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[Assistant] So, going back to this house thing, there is this thing, which we're sort of trying to raise awareness at the moment called National Loneliness Week, which is happening


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[Assistant] Think on, you know, the middle of June or middle of July, happening this, this month. Yeah. And the aim is to get people to take out an hour and find an online game to play with sort of families, friends. Talk to someone else, talk to someone different. And it's, it's, it's a really good idea. I think that.


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[Assistant] It was really cool, yeaah, like uhm, a lot of people were very impressed by it and kind of, I don't know, it was, it was a spectacle, wasn't it? It was a kind of really interesting thing to see.


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[Assistant] So normally they'd run all of their own supply runs and brought their own astronauts up.


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[Assistant] I am, I am terrified of these kind of medications. It feels like the brain is this thing that we know very little about.


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[Assistant] We find a chemical in the brain that's, I don't know, serotonin or dopamine. We, we find a drug or a medication that interacts with that and then we just are like, okay, let's just see what it does. Oh, it looks like it's makes these people less depressed or these people less anxious. So, but it's like a sledgehammer really. And you know, it can have.


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[Assistant] You know, especially because people change. I'm a completely different person to who I was 5 years ago, 10 years ago, and you know, if I was going through a stressful or traumatic event in my life, I'm sure I would be very grateful for something to alter my brain mood, you know, and necessary.


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[Assistant] Uh, doctors is how they get very angry that you've done your research. They're like.


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[Assistant] Far better than a doctor who, usually you've never seen before, uhm, not necessarily even have access to your medical records because they're on paper somewhere in a filing cabinet in Essex where you grew up or whatever, you know, is seeing you for the first time and kind of, you know, went to medical school, let's say,


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[Assistant] Honestly, it's a very common thing and so I think you should always educate yourself about these things and don't, I mean, there's so much crap out there.


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[Assistant] Well, there's this amazing, um, medical student hypochondria where medical students are being taught about new diseases and illnesses.


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[Assistant] It's a, it's an amazing thing where you read about a disease and because the symptoms are so broad, you know, feeling a bit down, bit achy pains, I don't know. Oh my God, I must have a fucking brain tumour. Suddenly, you know, it's like, you know, you, you.


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[Assistant] You become very paranoid, and obviously you do just, you know, Google anything, like, oh, stomach pain, Google that, it's like,


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[Assistant] The symptoms of stomach cancer are stomach pain. It's like, well, no, you probably just got a gas or whatever. Um, and so, so in a sense, like, but I'm sure most people are rational enough to understand that.


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[Assistant] You know, educating him. I'm just saying, let's help a brother out.


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[Assistant] So it's a rocky, a rocky transiting planet has been discovered.


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[Assistant] More bigger. Twice the size of Earth. Less than twice the size. Uh, orbiting approximately the same distance from Earth. Yeah. And it receives about 93% as much light as the Earth gets from the Sun. Which is good, because you don't want too much. Earth-like. Yeah. Earth-like. Sure, Earth-like. But...


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[Assistant] Well I was a, I loved, I loved space and science, I read all the sci-fi stuff and all the stuff and I was fully up on it, but looks like we've been discovering these


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[Assistant] Look at the other planets that orbit around our fucking-


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[Assistant] The book I was thinking of that I read was The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe. Uhm, and it's kind of a weird sci-fi


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[Assistant] There on the planet. And the question about a shapeshifter is if a shapeshifter is perfect, it will lose its ability to shapeshift. You see what I mean? So if a shapeshifter becomes a human, humans can't shapeshift, can they? So if a shapeshifter shifts, it shifts into a hue, a perfect human, it, how is that indistinguishable from a real human?


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I dunno, no, I think this, I think the transporter was a great storytelling tool though for people trapped in it. It's iconic!


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[Assistant] We definitely have a picture of what we think futuristic things are. And people want to buy new things. They want to buy futuristic things. And I think like, you know, Apple design has for the last 20 years been very sleek, white designs that felt very futuristic in a sense, you know?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that's part of the charm, part of the allure.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, you could, you could like teleport someone's arm off, or like their dick off. No, not so much that though, I don't think- How are you gonna do that?


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[Assistant] It was originally called, it's called, it's not the teleport, it's the transport. Which sounds like such a boring name for it now, doesn't it? Sounds like someone's job.


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[Assistant] I'm a transporter. Yeah. It's like calling it the most mundane thing. We got this thing we use to move around, it's called the transporter. We're just going to transport down to the planet. There's always jobs like that.


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[Assistant] I think you can, I think every, the human nature is that the most interesting, exciting, amazing job gets mundane like in a week.


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[Assistant] Like, you, you might be asteroid mining in fucking around, or teleport to a brand new, you know, solar system every week, and I dunno, and teleport down to the planet. All those people on the Enterprise will be like, oh god, another week of this. Can't wait to go home and like, fucking watch, watch Space Force on Netflix or whatever the fuck they're doing.


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[Assistant] Now I'm in a bad mood. I don't like that. I don't like that about Netflix, that I can't seem to hide stuff that I've watched an episode of and hated. And then it's there in my, do you want to carry on watching this? And I'm like, no I don't, fuck you.


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[Assistant] Sometimes, here's the thing with me, sometimes I just want to have a tidy view of, I don't know, I like, I like, I like a feeling of like I've completed something or I've done it or tidied it up, like I'll watch a show that I wasn't really enjoying.


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[Assistant] That's, this is happening to me more and more, dude, because I, you know, I watched a lot of movies between the ages of like, I dunno, fucking 15 and 25, and now I'm 36 and I'm 37 pretty soon. And, you know, I'm, it's, it's, it's,


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[Assistant] Fucking, I can't, you know, there's loads, loads of good movies, sure. What was it I watched lately? Something got recommended for me on, uhm...


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[Assistant] I clearly had seen it, but it was like, I clearly see it on TV, or I see parts of it on TV, or I knew what happened in it, and I knew it. Anyway, I started watching it on Amazon Prime because for some reason it popped up at the front of my fucking thing, and I was watching it. But I was like, oh yeah, shit, I know.


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[Assistant] But the way they make contact is by mirroring back the first big broadcast they heard, which happened to be Hitler. Yep. Um, and so they send back a video of Hitler.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna call you gorepoil! What is that? What the fu-


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[Assistant] It's um, what's it called, what's the word, is it a groundhog? It's a little cresting groundhog we don't wanna, you know, look into. It's a hole, a brown hole, so we don't need to be anywhere near it. We don't need to get near it.


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[Assistant] There's gotta be some payoff with this.


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[Assistant] I don't think you'd fucking be able to tell. I don't think these things probably taste particularly nasty. No. You know, I don't think that milk is this thing that they want their babies to drink it and not like, it's not like lemon juice is it? Do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's worth talking about this, cause Ricky Gervais has this sort of aura around him of, I almost don't wanna watch stuff that he's in, uhm, on principle. In the same way- Why on principle though?


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[Assistant] I'd like to think that I was, I was fairly open to these things, right? But what happened to me last week, because I was reading, um, I was reading this Alistair Reynolds book, which I finished called Revenger. And there's a couple of sequels. Well, I think one's still coming out, but it's more, um, it's, it's a really fun sci-fi book, um, sort of set in the future where,


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[Assistant] The solar system has kinda gone through these series periods of like being destroyed and civilizations regrown about 12 times.


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[Assistant] Harry Potter was definitely for kids. Harry Potter was skewed younger. It was for kids. Like earlier in the episodes. It wasn't for, I suppose what you mean by kids. I mean children. But definitely, we've been through this. The size of the typing in the books is,


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[Assistant] Anyway, as soon as I like, as soon as I sort of heard it was a young adult novel, it kind of instantly changed my feelings about it. And then I had to work a little bit in my head to like say, actually, I really enjoyed the book. I thought it was really fun. I had a really good time reading it. It was kind of like this sort of just a space


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[Assistant] Romp. I mean, I'd recommend it to you guys, absolutely, but I think that, you know, you may now be put off by the fact that it's kind of this, it skews a little bit younger, uh, on, on the read. Um, do you know what I mean? Cause it feels like we automatically want to read adult novels or something or be, you know, I don't know, we're grown up.


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[Assistant] If you, if you wanted to write a book, right, but you didn't want to put graphic rape scenes in there, suddenly your book's a young adult book, and I feel like that's the wrong attitude to have.


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[Assistant] That makes more sense to me, yeaah. Actually, that, that does, that does sound right.


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[Assistant] Well, I think actually what ends up happening is that someone writes something or creates something with a tone that they want to have. And then it ends up finding its niche in that thing, much like everything like Minecraft or Fortnite, you know, were designed


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[Assistant] It's literally us, this whole conversation in a nutshell.


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[Assistant] Go back on some of the things. Oh, I saw a thing this week where a guy took the first Harry Potter movie and replaced


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[Assistant] They use their wands as guns effectively to, to blow stuff up or smash things or break glass or do things that guns would do. That's amazing. And it's almost entirely fits, but there's occasional bits where Hermione is floating a feather with a gun, but there's this great bit where she just


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[Assistant] So she says, I'm sorry about this, Neville. She raises her gun and just shoots him in the head. And it's obviously the bit where, this is the bit where she freezes him into, uh, uh, whatever, freezes his body. But he just sort of falls over like he's been shot in the head and it's, oh, it's glorious.


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[Assistant] It's, it's kind of shaped his personality. There's very, very few Nevels raised to the rank of head boy, you know, without.


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[Assistant] What were you saying about names, Sips, Neville and Clive?


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[Assistant] There's too many people called Clive. They're all called Clive Wang. They were. They were.


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[Assistant] Well if you've got like 300,000 people banking with you with the same name, how do you keep track of that? Do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] So, interestingly, I had an email this week from a guy called Robin, um, who is having a baby.


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[Assistant] In the next, in the next sentence he said, the name is in reference to my wife's grandfather, Lewis.


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[Assistant] So it's okay. Uhm, but I, I mean, that's the thing. Some people, there might be a baby Sips out there. Someone might want to call their kid Sips.


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[Assistant] Just think about being a kid called PFLAX or Perian, you know, how would they get bullied in school if they were called Perian FLAX?


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, I don't know, it's got, I guess like when you, when you name your kid, it's such a mind field, right? Because you don't want to be constantly reminded of your paranoia, you don't want to be constantly reminded of something or something bad, you can't...


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[Assistant] Oh, uhm, I'm thinking of, well I wouldn't, I'd like to have a neutral name, so then if I have a boy or a girl, you know-


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[Assistant] No, you could definitely have a girl called Booker as well, like that sounds like a young adult, a young adult star in a book.


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[Assistant] Well okay, Cleveland doesn't work because of the euphemism of the sex act, which no one has, I don't think, ever done, but it's very famous. You don't see many chevys around do you?


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[Assistant] This is Gru, yeaah. Actually, I think you could have Dwight and Dwayne in like, in the black community. I think that would be okay. It seems like certain names definitely feel like there's like certain groups that they would fit fine.


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[Assistant] Actually, I, Gordon's like, I reckon some of these could come back around. I like Gordon.


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[Assistant] Kenton. Hanley. That sounds like a very, that sounds like the, the, the royal baby. Lawson.


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[Assistant] Maybe people end up picking the same names because they're safe, and other people have picked them, and it's just going to blend in. People want someone relatable. You know, you want a Prime Minister called Chris or David. You want someone who sounds like they've got a kind of ordinary name.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I went, um, I went, uh, out with Ben for lunch. I was like, do you want to go out for lunch? And I was like, I hear they have half price food. And he was like, sure. So we went out, um, to this burger place nearby and, um,


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[Assistant] So we get there and there's not very many people out in there, but there's a few people outside. And so I looked at sort of over people's shoulders, sort of keeping my distance, you know, everyone's all very paranoid.


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[Assistant] And, uh, there's a QR code at the door and it says you have to scan the QR code to get in the queue. So I was like, okay. So I scanned the QR code and I had to type in a load of, of all my details. This is for the track and trace thing. So they can contact me if anyone at the restaurant had corona.


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[Assistant] So then I got a queue with Ben and we were there for about five minutes and they called out the name, like a doctor's surgery, Ben, Ben and Lewis. I was like, oh jeez. So we went in and, um, they put us in a booth, which had little plastic, um, it's, they stuck like plastic sheets to the, to the, um, backs of their booths. Right. So they're more isolated for some reason.


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[Assistant] And then the waitress honestly stood st- two meters away from us as if we both had corona. She was so scared of us and she looked miserable. Um, she looked like she did not want to be there at all. Even without corona, would you want to do that job? I mean, that sucks. No, I probably wouldn't.


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[Assistant] But she was not, she was not, and she just said, uh, menus on that QR code. I was like, she pointed to this QR code sellotape to the table to scan that QR code.


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[Assistant] Had to order digi-, so looked at the menu on my phone, had to order digitally, which I'm all fine with, and pay digitally as well, by the way, at the end. So it was entirely, like, completely no touching at all.


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[Assistant] He brought a burger really nice, just sort of very gingerly pushed it over to the table to keep distance. He was very carefully done.


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[Assistant] Um, so it was all very caref- very, very, very, very futuristic it felt, actually.


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[Assistant] Everybody's been trying. So I've got like, I've got like apps for Gourmet Burg kitchen cause you get occasional vouchers and I've got apps for fucking everything it feels like already. And it feels like they've been trying to, every restaurant has been trying to make me pay digitally or sign up digitally to their fucking newsletter or something anyway, right? So now it's just.


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[Assistant] There is something about cash, right? In the same way that playing...


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like, if you're not touching them physically, you're touching them with the disease vector of a piece of paper or piece of metal.


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[Assistant] No, it totally does. Like, well there's a thing, isn't there, like, uhm, when you go into banks now, they, it's been there for a couple of years, well maybe even since the original financial crisis, it says that the bank will insure your deposits up to, the government will insure your deposits up to


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[Assistant] Well I think that it's, I think that one bank going...


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[Assistant] Um, I think one bank going bad can be obviously a big problem. And I think, you know, that's why the government would step in. But I think that in the case of some sort of financial meltdown, more of a risk of massive inflation or massive deflation, some sort of big financial problem.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it is scary that your money could be at risk, and I don't know what the answer is.


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[Assistant] I think that what we, what we, what's interesting though is how we've reacted to the virus and how we've adapted and how we've put into practice sort of these processes that allow us to carry on through it. And obviously to varying levels of effect.


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[Assistant] I think, I think it's, I think, I think you've got, it's got, well, I think it's problem, the problem is as soon as you start thinking about something, you realise how little you know and then it scares you, uhm, and you really have to be, do


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[Assistant] And so it can be very threatening. I think that when it comes down to it at the very end though.


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[Assistant] Um, a lot of people are in the same boat. You know, a lot of people have, you know, a job where they.


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[Assistant] With coronavirus, people not being able to, you know, losing their jobs and not being able to pay their...


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[Assistant] Rent, you know, that suddenly can lead to this slippery slope of, of, of problems. You know, if people can't pay their rent, then the landlords can't pay their mortgage. Then the banks don't have to, they'll start defaulting to the banks who have to repossess their houses. And it leads to this slippery slope of problems. And I think when you, that's destabilizing and


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[Assistant] And that, that is what causes this breakdown. And so that's why we've seen, I think the stimulus package in, in America and things like this in order to try and, you know, spend off those, those temporary, um, issues, you know, and I think, I think they're important. And I think that we.


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[Assistant] We don't, we can't, we don't know what's going to happen in the future with, with businesses going wrong and then we are in a capitalist society of boom and bust and there is boom and there is bust and we are going to have this downturn and we don't know what the impacts of it will be and I think everyone has a different idea. The sandwich shop around the corner has shut down.


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[Assistant] We went and filmed a thing in a pottery cafe, didn't we? And it was great. We had a great time, but it was very social. And I think they need a really decent throughput of people. I think that's why Sandwich Sandwich closed because they made most of their money in that lunch rush. And that lunch rush doesn't exist anymore. And it's certainly not allowed to have a rush, you know, anywhere because everyone has to be QR coded in through the door one by one.


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[Assistant] I feel like Amazon is though at the point where it's the infrastructure though, it's the roads, right? It doesn't matter, you know, it's like Amazon, comparing Amazon to other delivery companies like comparing trains or roads, you know, you're going to use the roads, you're going to use Amazon, but Amazon has a million different


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[Assistant] Mass manufacturing. Right, right, right. Different things that they sell.


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[Assistant] And so in the same way as delivery or just eat, you know, there's a couple of food services, but it's those little restaurants that are doing it, you know, the falafel place and the, the, the, the, and there's constantly new ones opening up and they're constantly providing new ideas for people. And I think that, you know,


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[Assistant] If you, if you, if you, if you, if you're good and you provide a good service, then people will use it.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's bizarre though, PFLAX. It's almost like that whole thing with the orchestra. So when they were trialling, I've probably talked about this on Triforce, but I read this whole thing about how when they recruited new violin players for the orchestra,


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[Assistant] Um, they would almost always choose men and, and, and when they saw them, but then when they started, um, trialing them behind a screen and listening to them.


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[Assistant] They, they would totally be, it would become much more, uhm, like.


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[Assistant] But once you actually, but the mum and pop, pop food kind of things that they cook there is really nice. I'm sure it can go the other way too. And you could be tricked into having a nice frontage piece on Deliveroo and it's just horrible.


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[Assistant] Sometimes a bad negative review is what I want though, in a sense, like I always want every review to be a negative review saying, here's what's wrong with this game, but if you like XCOM, then you'll probably, you could probably overlook it, do you know what I mean? I tell you what I did this week, I played a game called Other Side, which was built to me as the, uhm,


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[Assistant] I think it was PC Gamer or someone like that. So it was like someone decent who's actually still in business just about maybe.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it had like 9 out of 10 IGN, 8 out of 8 and a half out of 10 PlayStation universe or whatever. So I was like, okay. And also I remember meeting the dev at, uhm, GDC or somewhere last year and I played a little demo of it and I quite liked it. And so the idea is, is that you have these.


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[Assistant] And you have these, and it's quite high level tactics too. Uhm, so I played the first mission, I quite enjoyed that.


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[Assistant] Yes, my favourite. Uh, and so, so, so I'll tell you a little story. So I was on the second level.


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[Assistant] And I had, uh, there was a, uh, enemy spawn and he had 1,174 health and I was like, okay. And my attack did 863 damage, right? Right. But he had 64 armor. So I had to minus, so I got calculator out. I was like, okay, 843 minus 64.


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[Assistant] equals 776. So I then minused that off his health, which was 1,100 and however much and I ended up with like 450 something. So I was like, okay, cool.


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[Assistant] So I, and then I looked at my other unit and he did, uh, 480 damage. So I was like, oh, cool. So what I can do is I can do both of these attacks, then they'll leave him on, um, and I did the minuses and I was like, okay, look, leave him on minus 26 health. So that will definitely kill him. So I was like, okay, so let's do it. So I did it.


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[Assistant] And then I realised I'd forgotten to take into account the- Exactly, I'd forgotten to take into account that, but also I'd forgotten to take into account that he had a buff on him that was 5% damage reduction, but I had a buff that was 10% damage increase, so I was like-


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[Assistant] So, so suddenly, I was playing this game with a fucking calculator for a start, which is a bit of a problem. And the second thing I was having to constantly do all these stupid maths. And I just, I just, I got it wrong. I made a mistake. It didn't let me reload. So I always fooled. And I haven't played it since. But uhm, I, I, I, why? Why? Why? Why?


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[Assistant] Yes, I just wanted to tell you that story.


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[Assistant] I have in my head the piece of paper that means that Hitler's cocking us. He's cocking us right now! I brought this paper home.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't stick anything in my ears, but like the other day I cleaned out my shed and it was full of like snails and spiders and stuff like that. So when it started hurting, cause I went to the doctor, it was, it was hurting bad. I thought it was infected and I thought, ah, fuck, you know, like if I got an infection, like that could mean other things or whatever. So I thought I'll go to the doctor.


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[Assistant] Leading up to going to the doctor, I was, I was worried that like somehow like a spider got in my ear and was like laying eggs or something.


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[Assistant] Oh man, so yeaah, I don't know what the hell's going on. I guess I, you know, I'm gonna be 40 like next week, so maybe that's it.


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[Assistant] Oh God, yeah, I just heard it. I wish somebody was doing that to my ear and mouth right now.


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[Assistant] It's like some pressure release or something. I think like it's sore as fuck. Crazy, eh?


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[Assistant] It sounds very Twin Peaks. It sounds like something out of Twin Peaks, you know, like this weird crew of Russians just like all of a sudden turning up in a place where you don't normally see very many Russians listening to elevator music.


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[Assistant] My wife was laughing the other day because uhm, we were watching TV or something came up somehow where uhm, in the 90s it was very popular in the UK for people to say that something was quality.


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[Assistant] And like, I remember that being like fairly popular. So you don't hear it that much anymore these days. I don't, I guess they've just replaced it with something else or whatever. Quality tune.


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[Assistant] I rarely hear people say it, like, it's always like, cheeky Nando's. Quality, like, quality. Yeah, yeah, that's it, yeah, like, quality, like, I say we bring it back, let's revive it.


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[Assistant] I notice a lot of people are throwing around the term simp like crazy these days as well. Like it's become the new boomer. Yeah. Simp is funny.


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[Assistant] But, uh, it's amazing how these things sort of catch on and just become.


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[Assistant] So why the, I mean, this is like, this is Twitch to be fair, but you know what I mean? Like, whereas before you just see people, every, everyone was a boomer. Everything was about a boomer or whatever. Now it's, now it's all simps. It's just, it's just transition now, now.


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[Assistant] Now we only, only wanna call out people for being simps. We don't mind boomers anymore, it's just simps now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, is it like, uh, is it persistent? Haven't noticed.


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[Assistant] What about, what about a new term for like owned? Because that's been around way too long, right? Owning somebody on the net or whatever. We need a new term for that.


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[Assistant] That's pretty good. I'm pretty sure that that's been used before, disenfranchised. I'm sure I heard that in a Madden game or like a hockey game or something.


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[Assistant] No, but uh, good thing I didn't book. I was being really lazy getting around to it, but


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[Assistant] The lockdown started a week before that show would have started. So that would have been, we would have been fucked. We wouldn't have been able to go. We would have lost all our money on the GZA, which is weird. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think things are relaxing a little bit now. Stuff is opening again. Like over here, restaurants, if you eat outside, our cafes, like to eat outside. You could take away stuff. Yeah. You could take away and sit in a park. My wife went to town with my kids yesterday and they went to like a toy store that was open and stuff. Like there's- Okay.


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[Assistant] Things are sort of, wow, gradually sort of, um, becoming somewhat normal again.


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[Assistant] You can't, you can't sit them in front of a screen and show them stuff. Like they find it interesting enough, but they want to touch stuff. They want to look at things like, you know what I mean? It's just, it's a, it's a bit of an outing for them, right? So I think it was nice for them to.


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[Assistant] To be able to actually go to a store and just have a look around and they got some cakes in town and stuff like that. So it's, it's nice. Like we're still locked down. Like I still can't, they still can't see like their grandparents still can't like really do a lot of things, but at least some things are going back to normal. It's been, it's been all right.


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[Assistant] I mean, in fairness to him, if you are going to risk yours and other people's lives by testing your eyesight while driving, the best time to do it is when everybody else is locked down and the roads are free. Right? So then you just kill your fucking self and not anyone else by being an idiot.


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[Assistant] With, you know, people like with their eyes wide open, but you can see all the fuckin' lines and veins in their eyes and shit. I had one of those moments when you described that. I could just see you like with this like really exaggerated face laying on your bed, like talking to your wife, but like with one of those right instead.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I don't know why. I don't get that with a lot of people, but like very occasionally when you describe something, I don't know, I think.


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[Assistant] You kind of remind me, you look like one of the characters from Ren and Stimpy. I think he was like a hunter guy or something, but like, especially when you do like your, your sort of gruff like American dad sort of voice.


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[Assistant] I was watching, I was watching it a little bit on stream like a couple months ago. I didn't have anything like to play or whatever and I was just watching old 80s and 90s stuff. I was watching some Beavis and Butthead which was really fun.


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[Assistant] And uh, and Ren and Stimpy I was watching. Like the first two seasons I think of Ren and Stimpy are amazing. Like before, before it got like Nickelodeonized or whatever.


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[Assistant] On the topic of eardrops though, I put some olive oil in my ear the other day. Uhm, my wife was like, you know, olive oil is really good for your ear. I was like, I'm not putting olive oil in my ear.


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[Assistant] And she's like, no, trust me, it's really good. And I was like, all right. So she put a fucking ton of olive oil in my ear and I thought I'll wait for it. It's going to, it's going to get like all fucking sticky in there.


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[Assistant] I, I barely buy any products really, like, like if I have to buy something.


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[Assistant] Usually I'll just like, you know, if I have to buy like medicine or some shit like that, I'll usually just sort of seek out something that I'm somewhat familiar with, like something that maybe my mom used to buy or that we've had in the house before or something like that. You know what I mean? Right. But I would never just like watch an ad and be like,


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? Like I would never, uhm, I think, I think advertising for me just, uh, makes me more familiar with stuff. Like sometimes I'll see like Calgon in the store and be like, oh look, it's Calgon, but I still would never buy it.


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[Assistant] Is if I, if I was in like a foreign country and I needed something like Calgon, and they just had a whole bunch of like brands that I didn't recognize, but then I saw Calgon, I'd be like, oh, okay, I'll just get some Calgon like this one time or whatever. Maybe that's part of it. Maybe, so maybe I am being duped. I just don't realize it.


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[Assistant] God damn it. They got me, guys. They got me.


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[Assistant] What else have you guys done this week? I made some adjustments to my murder factory in Fallout. It's been pretty fun.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's fucking nice, eh? It's really fun. I love games like that.


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[Assistant] If you want, uh, if you want something a bit more in depth, I recommend, uh, My Summer Car. It was a great game. Holy fuck, it's so good.


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[Assistant] You see that they're redoing, uh, Artifact. They're trying again. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I, I think I'm kind of done with card games. I don't know. I'm just sort of like.


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[Assistant] I-I-I'm not feeling them, you know? I'm just not- I got chest-


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, you've been playing chess, yeaah. I don't know, like I've just been playing Fallout, which I've enjoyed, but I've gone down the sort of route. I've been playing like Fallout 76 like casually on the side, which has been pretty fun. Right. But I've been reading about a lot of like vaults and like the older games and so I've just been down this like,


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[Assistant] Hello everybody and welcome to the Triforce Podcast. Coming at you from a week where, uh, period is now a boiled egg. Yep. Uh, Sips is a baked potato. Thanks. And I am a vegan sausage roll left in the oven for too long and I've wilted. It's been rough. It looks like.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're all about shortening. You know, you always hear that like, Japan have a word for, like a single word for the sound of the rainfall on the roof of a bamboo hut, right? Or something like this, right? And they'll have one single word for it because it's such a, I don't know, that's a bad example, but- Is this a reference to shit?


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[Assistant] You constantly get like this, right? And so we, we want more words, right? That save us time. You don't want to say, hot mum. You just want to say milk.


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[Assistant] What did you think about like the 90s glam rockers wearing like spandex one pieces and having long hair and stuff like that? Wasn't that like a bit overly sexualized?