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[Assistant] She won an award. Okay, uh, Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress.


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[Assistant] Uh, how to get away with murder. She won the Emmy for that and she just won another award. Who knows? There's so many fucking awards, right?


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[Assistant] You're getting two very distinct styles probably in the bedroom.


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[Assistant] Well, I already feel like Tragi was, uhm...


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[Assistant] So, I feel like Viola is more my cup of tea to break her spirit.


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[Assistant] To mold her into the piggy that I'm trying to make.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, you know, I feel like


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[Assistant] The other, Henson's gonna be just like, oh, yeah, I remember this one time I was in Beirut and there were these three guys and she's like gonna be comparing you to stuff she's done before. Been there, done that. Sure. Been there, done that. And she's like, oh, that's not that big and that doesn't hurt that much. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Big party. Roger Henson. She'd probably be drunk during it, don't you think?


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, well, uhm, let's do this and get out of here, okay?


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[Assistant] Uhm, consider the floodgates are open, send in


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[Assistant] Right now we have a placeholder, but it's a Gloria Estefan song. So why don't we have an original Would You Rather theme song contest. You send it in.


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[Assistant] Send him, you know, something, you can, you can say would you rather in it, it can have nothing to do with that, but it'll be the prompt for would you rathers.


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[Assistant] Send them to yourmomspodcastatgmail.com. There's no house in the email address. Yourmomspodcastatgmail.com. Jeans, what's your would you rather?


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[Assistant] It's a trade-off. It's a reasonable pitch that you made, but I'm definitely taking the other option.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna keep going outside. Well, I mean, if you shit that many times a day for a month, people are gonna see me. So neighbors eventually are gonna be like,


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[Assistant] Yeah. Alright, we gotta go. It's a long show.


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[Assistant] We gotta go. We love you. Like a people shit. We'll see you guys in a week.


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[Assistant] She was like, Poppy's got a raw attitude today.


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[Assistant] Maybe, maybe you need to go jerk off or something cause you got a lot of fucking attitude.


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[Assistant] We don't know guys. We're gonna figure it out eventually. Whatever. For now, there's no watermark. So we've got that. The watermark's gone.


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[Assistant] Promise we'll fix it eventually, you guys. Can you- Are you alright, Tommy?


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[Assistant] But at the end of the month I will be in the, uh, Brea Improv. Last week in May. It's like May 30th through June 1st or something like that. Uh, come see me if you're in Brea. Other than that, this mommy is home. Is playing with Blue Band.


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[Assistant] She's the worst. I fucking hate Nancy Grace. I hate her too. You know what though, I had a friend that worked on a Jerry Springer show. He was, she was a producer.


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[Assistant] And she said that the vast majority of guests on the Jerry Springer show had no teeth.


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[Assistant] And they had to give them, you know, like flippers, like on toddlers and tiaras. Really? They give them like fake. Yea, just to be, you can't be on TV with no TV.


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[Assistant] That's rule number one, dude. You can't be on Springer with Toothless. Well nobody's on TV that's Toothless.


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[Assistant] She is the worst. She feeds on uhm, on that mother's fears. I don't buy that shit at all. It feeds into a lot of motherhood fears, I think, of your own child being kidnapped. Could you imagine?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that my two week mistake of going to law school cost me $6,000.


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[Assistant] Two weeks. I know, and that's like, I returned all the books.


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[Assistant] That's just two weeks of tuition for law school. It cost me six grand. I just paid off the loan this month. I got the letter in the mail yesterday and I'm fucking freezy. Out of law school.


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[Assistant] Like, who eats tires? Is it Oscar the Grouch or like Popeye?


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[Assistant] I don't know. He lives in a trash can. No, she's, I can hear her right now. She's like talking to somebody.


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[Assistant] I got you that miracle ear so we could spy on her.


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[Assistant] Wow, that was nice. That's our neighbor. Did I tell you what I did yesterday? I'm not proud of it. What'd you do? You know how I got you that miracle ear? What? What babe? What are you looking at?


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[Assistant] Can I tell you what I did? Bam, I don't wanna see that. Blue band is annoying. So I was, uhm, doing the dishes, you know, and, uh, next door to us, there's like AA meetings. And, uh, I got Tommy this miracle ear. No, but I always try to overhear, cause you know they confess shit that they've done.


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[Assistant] And I always try to overhear the AA meeting. I like when they clap and stuff, like it makes me happy. Oh look, they're clapping for each other.


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[Assistant] And I put on the miracle ear yesterday and I like totally leaned to the window to see if I could hear like their horror stories like I sold my baby for crap.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I've got a problem with uhm, cookies. I'm a cookie addict.


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[Assistant] Dude, Denver was awesome. I met so many mommies. I met, um, Jo the janitor. That's her Twitter handle. I can't remember her real name right now. And she and her husband made t-shirts of us and sat in the front row and I almost lost my love. Those are amazing. I tweeted them.


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[Assistant] Well, it's, so what she did is she made one of me and it says mommy gerbils.


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[Assistant] And it's got like my mouth open with like chocolate smeared on my teeth and it's in red. And then there's one of you and Burt Kreischer as a couple of gay bears.


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[Assistant] So funny, thank you so much. How was the actual show? Okay, the shows were great. Uh, I met a lot of mommies, which I've always loved. Believe me, you guys, when you come and you say hi to me, it makes my night, because it...


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[Assistant] It just means that you guys are awesome, and I love it. And uhm, okay, okay, okay. But I had the worst MC of all time.


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[Assistant] On Mother's Day, of all days, this is the best. I mean, bad meaning good, good meaning


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying, just like disaster. So he gets up, this is how this guy opens a show on Sunday, on Mother's Day. He goes, Happy Mother's Day, motherfuckers!


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[Assistant] And I'm in the back just like, uh, really? Did you just bug in? And he's like, and then he starts telling like horrendous shit and dick. And then who wants to see a picture of this vibrator I found in the street? And then he holds up his iPhone. It's a picture of a dildo and he holds it up to this old black woman in the audience and they're all just horrified.


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[Assistant] It's a dildo that he ran over in the street apparently.


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[Assistant] And anyway, he horrifies the audience, pretend. I haven't seen a guy bomb this hard since, like, open mic at the coffee house.


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[Assistant] 10 years ago, he ate such a bag of dicks and then he comes up to me and he's like


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[Assistant] And he's like, oh shit, I forgot to do this joke. Did I do this joke about, uh, six dicks? And I'm like, no man, you did enough. I think you did enough.


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[Assistant] I mean, you can horrify crowds once you learn how to do that perfectly. He was just too young of a comic to know how. Yeah.


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[Assistant] How come you're MC? I try to get them to say shit all the time and they never do. And then my guy goes out there and says happy Mother's Day motherfuckers without even me having to ask.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Well, little known fact, you guys, in the comedy world, Sunday shows are kind of a throwaway to us comedians.


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[Assistant] Truth be told, cause you know, the main event was Friday and Saturday, two shows on both nights, so come Sunday, you're just beat, like you're just tired.


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[Assistant] And so, that's when you actually see the real shit happen, cause comics will work out, new things, and we're trying to entertain ourselves. That's actually, I think, one of the best nights to come see a comic is Sunday. Oh, I think that's the best. Cause you don't give a fuck at all, but it's Sunday.


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[Assistant] Cause black audiences, they tend to chatter back to you, which is when you first start doing them, you're like, why are they fucking talking? And then you realize they're talking to you. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I talked about my mom, which I don't really do much cause she's crazy, like literally crazy. But I started talking about my mother.


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[Assistant] And this black woman in the front was like, alright, that's some real shit. Okay, that's your personal story. And I was like, aw, that's so cute, like.


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[Assistant] It totally, uh, I wanted to like hug her, you know? She was like an old mommy type.


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[Assistant] Oh, I was gonna say, oh my god, and the first thing that happened to me in the history of Sienna, in my career, ever. What was it? Ever. And I'm talking, I've done shitholes in Florida, I've done fucking hibachi grill restaurants, this is the first in my comedy career, they didn't pick us up.


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[Assistant] They, me and the feature act, Michael Malone, who's a really funny guy out of Indianapolis, he lives in Illinois now. Uh, we're waiting in the lobby, supposed to be picked up at 6.30?


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[Assistant] No, nobody came. Seven, which is when the show started. Still nobody. Seven oh five, the guy runs up and is like, oh, I'm so sorry. I'm like, you didn't notice that the feature and the headliner are nowhere to be found?


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[Assistant] He's like, oh, I'm sorry, I was in my office, I just, I didn't, I didn't even notice the time, blah blah blah. I'm like, you gotta be shittin' me. Cause usually they're worried that comics are passed out drunk.


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[Assistant] They usually want you there early, like we gotta make sure you're in the building, you know, god forbid, cause the MC can't do more than 10 minutes usually.


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[Assistant] And that kid? Oh my god, there's no way. No. That guy that was like, who wants to look at my dick?


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[Assistant] They'll show you disapproval, but they'll also show you supreme approval. Of course, you get both ends of it. Yeah, it's the fucking, it's the best thing. And there are guys in Cleveland, I remember, this one guy who dressed like a total pimp juice, like white on white suit.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, he was, and I made fun of him until I called him a pimp. And they all, like, loved him.


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[Assistant] Well, here's what you do, actually. Whoever's picking you up and driving around goes,


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[Assistant] Right near your hotel there's a mall and we've got an IHOP in there and you have to act like it's the most amazing thing you've ever heard.


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[Assistant] I'm surprised they don't have more casual mail type stores cause people are getting bigger and bigger every year apparently.


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[Assistant] That's so funny, dude. You know, I've never been into, I've never been into a casual mail, and I've never been into a Bass Pro shop.


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[Assistant] And I know I, there was one in the, in the fucking mall that I was at. You know what I did do though?


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[Assistant] What I did do for the first time ever, me and Michael Malone went over to uhm, just to look at the Country Town Buffet.


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[Assistant] Have you ever fucking been inside of one? On a Sunday? No.


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[Assistant] Dude, it looked like the DMV with like just disgusting military food. It was so fucking gross. The waitress was like, you can take a walk through if you like. And we're like, alright. And it was just kids and morbidly obese people everywhere. And the food looked so fucking disgusting. Like I couldn't run out of there fast enough.


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[Assistant] When we ran across the street to IHOP, which was a delight actually. When's the last time you came to IHOP?


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[Assistant] It looked like, it looked like literally I've had better food in Afghanistan when I was over there. Uh, the troops are eating better food than what's at the Country Town. Really? I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Yeah. They get like lobster night once a month.


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[Assistant] That's not great. And you know what, they have a menu that's like 600 calories so you don't go out of there eating like the whole fucking place. Really? Yeah man, it was good.


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[Assistant] Not bad. That was exciting. I was excited. I saw the Avengers with Ari Shafir. I saw the Avengers.


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[Assistant] So what? I'm friends with R.A.T. I'll probably see him.


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[Assistant] I liked it, man. I'm a huge fan of the Hulk. So I see all the Hulk's movies. I see all of his movies.


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[Assistant] I thought he stole the show, frankly, and I loved the character of the Iron Man. Robert Downey does an impeccable job.


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[Assistant] I liked it. I thought they could have whittled down some of the action scenes. They could have edited it.


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[Assistant] It was cool, I like 3D man, I almost shit my pants a few times. Cause it was so like, crazy to watch a movie like, I mean we saw an IMAX 3D.


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[Assistant] Wait, wait, so the person that you're talking to already can order it for you, but it costs eight dollars.


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[Assistant] They're the worst. They're so stupid. Everybody I talk to there is dumber than the motherfucker before. Did you have someone that was actually intelligent?


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[Assistant] You know what kills me about the service industry like that is that that's the front of the company. That's who everybody talks to in your company. So you think you would pay those people well.


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[Assistant] Find really smart, affable folks to help the general public. And that way you don't enrage everybody that pays. And we pay.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, they will, cuz these motherfuckers are sneaky, like, we have a plan, I always call them. Here's a little tip, guys.


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[Assistant] Uh, always demand that you want to be paying less for your cable.


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[Assistant] And then you have to just call and get angry.


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[Assistant] And then they'll take it down again. I guarantee you, my bet is, they're gonna fuck us. And chart just put it on the bill.


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[Assistant] We have a real talk segment for you guys. I'm super excited. Sorry, I got carried away. You know what? I got carried away. I was thinking about R. Kelly and how fucking talented he is. Why don't you sue me, Tom? Anyways, uhm, okay. Gypsies. I am obsessed.


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[Assistant] The gypsies on TLC, the learning channel, it started with, uh, just my big bad gypsy wedding, which was about Irish travelers. They're called travelers.


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[Assistant] And the England- they're basically hillbillies except they don't own property. They just live in like, trailers. And the kids drop out of school. The girls drop out at 12.


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[Assistant] Oh, in America. So last night, Tommy and I were watching the American version. I finally got around to recording it for him to see.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, I know what you're saying, but the, the, the program that covers the English and the Irish traveler community, like they're...


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[Assistant] They're both shitty in those different ways. That's exactly what I'm saying. Oh, I thought you said that our Americans are better than the shitty European gypsies. That is what I'm saying. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] You gotta watch the European- European ones are pretty shitty too.


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[Assistant] But yea, the ones that were on the TV show, we just, we saw a nicer ilk, you're right, on this one.


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[Assistant] So we're watching this one where this 14 year old girl, first of all gypsy girls are expected just to stay home and make babies from the time they're like 12.


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[Assistant] Not only that, so the highlight of any young gypsy girl's life is her wedding day.


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[Assistant] So she can wear a fancy dress and meet her future gypsy husband. And her father, whose name is Pat Baby,


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[Assistant] A bit of a drunk. Pat Baby's favorite place is the liquor mart. He said, this is my goddamn favorite place.


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[Assistant] Okay, so wait, are you saying you had girls addressed like that in- Yeah.


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[Assistant] So, uh, so Pat Baby is throwing a Halloween party that's gonna blow away.


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[Assistant] My favorite is like, they always wanna do each other the gypsies. They're always like, this party is gonna be the best party in gypsy history. Like, no it's not. Not until next week until some other retard has it. So.


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[Assistant] This party, they finally find a venue cause nobody wants to host a gypsy party cause they steal everything and they're the worst.


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[Assistant] And she has her dress. Now she's gonna go, she has to wear two dresses for the party. Her primary dress, cause she's the queen of hearts.


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[Assistant] And this is Pat Baby and her trying on the dress.


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[Assistant] She's on the pole. She's a whore. Wait, can I say something? Just a sidebar. All the gypsy girl dresses, like their wedding dresses, are whore dresses. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah.


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[Assistant] And not only that, dumb. Like, cause these girls are not educated, so they're like, I want my dress to say Barbie on it. Like, you want your wedding dress to say Barbie? And to be, I want a hot pink.


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[Assistant] Oh, NPS, uh, gypsy girls are supposed to stay pure, which means they're not allowed to kiss. Fuck nothing before their wedding day.


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[Assistant] Fill up the gypsies, seal those gypsies shut.


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[Assistant] Well, and he was, he was, they don't show it in this clip because we couldn't get it, but, uh, he's like checking her out while she's trying to say, Oh, that looks hot. That looks hot. That looks so hot.


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[Assistant] They want their daughters to look like prostitutes. She looks so ridiculous.


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[Assistant] This is not the Halloween boy, this is her, uhm, so her other gypsy, her gypsy best friend, the 14 year old girl they're following, her friend is having a party in her basement. But, this gypsy girl's friends with gorgeous girls.


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[Assistant] They think the Gorgia Girls are horrors. That's my favorite.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're real, real educated, these gypsers. My, my family, we're hung, you know, from Hungary, my Hungarian relatives hate gypsies. Everybody does, babe. Everybody hates gypsies. They fucking, they, they're so racist against the gypsies. It's fine. They're the worst. That's the worst in humanity.


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[Assistant] They don't, and here's the weird thing, they have a lot of money. Because I think because they don't own...


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[Assistant] Again? In, in Europe? No, I'm telling you because these, these weddings, they cost a fortune. The dresses alone, these gypsy dresses are like 50 grand. No, I swear to God. And you know why they have cash money? Because they don't own land. They don't pay taxes. They don't have, like, human being expenses. You know what I'm saying?


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[Assistant] Cause they just, they live in trailers and all they do is buy beer. So like they're just nothing but cash money.


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[Assistant] No, it's both, it's like fake, it's like Persians, like they pretend to have wealth. It's a show of wealth.


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[Assistant] And overwhelmingly- Oh no, sorry. I'm on it right now.


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[Assistant] Smart girl. Mila Kunis. And who was she with?


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[Assistant] Well, Rachel's not that sexy. That other woman's much sexier.


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[Assistant] Rachel would cook for you, but the other girl would gobble your cock.


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[Assistant] Really? That's, that's silly. I don't confuse those two at all because Morgan Friedman has those shit freckles on his face.


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[Assistant] Man, they do. He's got Cosby freckles. Cosby's got the same thing.


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[Assistant] I love Samuel L. Jackson. I was just watching him this weekend on some film.


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[Assistant] Samuel Jackson is so much fun, like doesn't he look like he would be so fun?


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[Assistant] Morgan Freeman, if you don't- if you- if you were too tight for him to fill you up or seal you shut.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like he'll fuckin' hit you and stuff.


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[Assistant] I'm more loving and gentle with kisses, you know what I mean? I like romance and I like soft touches and kissy faces.


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[Assistant] I think Morgan's freckles are getting more pronounced. Sure. We saw that movie with him. He's getting older. Is that what happens? You just get more Cosby freckles?


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[Assistant] That would be tough, but you don't mind him being like, this should- this should be easy.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Who do you got? Anybody, uh, oh, by the way, I watched Queen Elizabeth last night, Elizabeth, with Cate Blanchett, your girlfriend. No, she's Australian.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, well we did two androgynous broads before.


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[Assistant] Let's do a couple of pigs. Okay. And it's the lesser of two pigs.


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[Assistant] She's real funny though, I respect her. They're both great actresses. Yeaah. They're both great, they're both super talented. I hate shitting on female comedians though, cause it's like they're exempt from, from having to be hot.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think you're, I think you might be onto something here, but wait a minute, wait a minute, we're forgetting. Sometimes...


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm gonna go with Molly because I think Molly has had a lifetime of guys who just want to hang out with her and eat brownies. And she's got pent up sexual energy that she needs to give.


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[Assistant] Nope. Everyone who has their jeans high is gonna want to rock this tight shirt.


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[Assistant] Keep sending Tommy as a bear, cause I will retweet most of them. If I see them, yea. Like sometimes I miss them. I fucking love that. Uh oh!


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[Assistant] It puts me on high alert. Cause you're emotional. Tommy, it's your latin flavors coming out. Ew, I can hear you drinking. Sound like a dog drinking out of the bowl. Can you guys hear that?


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[Assistant] So first of all, I just wanted to recap. Interesting findings, Tommy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, from our last Would You Rather that we did with Rory, which we were all, ALL.


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[Assistant] It was, that was a horror fire. It was, would you rather get a hand job from your mother or jerk off your father?


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[Assistant] And I think jerking off your dad's top if you're a guy because that's jerking off another guy. Even if it's your dad, it's a homoerotic sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Uh, this actually came up with Michael Malone this week cause he does this bit where he talks in black voice like a black man.


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[Assistant] Steal Michael Malone's bit and make that my entire act.


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[Assistant] No, I was just reading this and I can't believe I wrote this down. You know when you write something and you're like, did I just fucking really think those dumb thoughts?


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[Assistant] And now I'm gonna say those dumb fucking thoughts out loud.


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[Assistant] Okay, would you rather, every time you fart, which you and I do, a lot,


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[Assistant] And it screams it, so your asshole screams, Hey faggots, I farted!


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying, but we, we recognize that it's not politically correct to say this.


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[Assistant] Which is why it makes it a daunting would you rather. It's not a nice thing to have come out of your butthole.


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter. Yea, you don't have to fess up or not fess up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but they're homeless. That's the thing. That's true. I didn't think about that. Nobody really wants them. Like the ones, yeah, like the ones in our neighborhood, the crazy guys.


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[Assistant] And she doesn't think she talks like that. She's always like, tell me I don't talk like that.


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[Assistant] I don't think I've ever been in this type of like podcasting. Like this is like a real podcast room.


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[Assistant] I can beat him in a fight. Well, uh, we're here. This is Friends per Second, episode 35. It's at some point in December.


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[Assistant] We're here, I'm Jake Baldino, this is Skill Up, this is Lucy James, and special goblin guest, The Goat, Tamar Hussein.


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[Assistant] No. No. Definitely not. So, uh, yeaah. I think we're gonna kinda go in depth with the whole show. We have a really cool interview and stuff. So, uh, kicking it off, the general ceremony, the thing itself.


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[Assistant] Uh, the award speeches were pretty short. Oh, dude. Let's just rip the bandaid off with that.


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[Assistant] It definitely felt like, uh, like it was the rattling off of like all the cool awards that like people voted for and people like debated online. It was like, here's best blank. And then it was like, he got to a point too where he was rattling them off fast and not even pausing between them.


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[Assistant] Alright, so I think it's probably good to move on to the actual awards. Yep. The winners and losers. Uh, does anything stand out to you guys right off the bat? I mean, nothing for Spider-Man.


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[Assistant] It works better than like a trailer. Like, cause I knew of it, but after seeing that I was like, aw fuck, I gotta play that. It rules man, it's that kind of thing.


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[Assistant] Really, it was just Baldur's Gate cleaning up. And it was like, I wasn't surprised. It was like, alright, yeah, cool. Like, we know.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, I think this is a good time to take a break. Yeah. We got a bunch of other stuff we're gonna do. So we'll see you in a bit.


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[Assistant] Hey, so this podcast is brought to you by AG1. Uh, we're all traveling right now, we're in a different place, and thankfully, we can bring that green stuff with us.


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[Assistant] The vitamin replacement, like, so I used to take a multivitamin, and that's boring. I'd rather drink a cool drink, like a green drink. So that's what I've been doing. You feel a little better, uh, it's good for your, um, digestive. Like, I don't know how to say that. Gut, gut, gut health, gut health. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good for all that, for sure.


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[Assistant] Well, let's jump back to the game awards, uh, with the announcements. This is the best part, this is all the fun stuff. Uh, I wanna hear, uh, let's, who are we gonna go to first? Let's just rip the bandaid off and talk about it. Let's go. Blade! Yeah, blade. Blade game. Blade game.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, totally blown away by that. The art style looks cool, because it's very much still their art style. Like, the barber was like a chunky man, with like hands, and I was like, cool. Chunky man with hands. You're like, you know, like, hands? Like, dishonored guys are like, you're like, the guards are just like, everyone's got like a thing.


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[Assistant] Also just a very cool blade character design. Like what we got to see of him.


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[Assistant] I do feel kind of like reinvigorated about the superhero stuff cause like, all the projects are exciting. Like Blades is cool. Wolverine. Right Choice, Arcade and Leo. Yeah, Wolverine.


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[Assistant] I love, I'm wearing the Guardians of the Galaxy game shoes, like I love it. That is a fantastic game. And I get more excited now of announcements for not like a movie in the MCU, it's games. And I feel like Marvel has been kind of making really good decisions. They have.


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[Assistant] There are a lot of remakes, re-releases, sequels. They are often considered like the safer bet and Sega.


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[Assistant] I kind of did that in this crazy big batch announcement of a new shinobi, a new golden axe, a new crazy taxi, a new jet set, uh, I'm definitely missing one, uh, streets of rage.


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[Assistant] Like a linear kind of like third person platforming adventure and the music was very like, like a big Disney movie. Like musical.


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[Assistant] So the trailer itself, uh, being in the auditorium, I guess with the loudspeakers, like I thought it was genuinely unsettling. It was a cool little tease.


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[Assistant] But he also said that he's working with a team of a bunch of other people. I think it's an anthology series. I actually know one of them. Uh, I won't say, but I'll tell you after. Uh, it's, yeah, it definitely makes sense. Text the group, text the group.


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[Assistant] I am so excited for that. I love the first one. And it's like, watching that trailer, I was like, there's no other game that has this type of aesthetic. Like it's almost like a Robert Eggers, dirty, grimy, real thing.


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[Assistant] Light no fire. Are we gonna talk about that? It looked cool.


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[Assistant] We'll do it, we should do it on games per second. Dude, we could absolutely make it.


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[Assistant] Are you guys getting a little burnt on Souls-like games though? I mean, you probably not.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it confuses me though, like as a, as a consumer, I'm like, wait, so is this like Rocket League, like they made a new game? Yes. Like a full on, like, score?


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[Assistant] We did that forever before I was doing it, and it's just zooming in on my face.


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[Assistant] Well, that's it folks. I'm Jake Baldino.


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[Assistant] Oh yea? Looks like there's a new master of accents everybody.


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[Assistant] Next week, well first of all, huge thank you to everybody that came out to the shows.


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[Assistant] In a sperm can. They were really fun. Thank you guys very much. I'm going to Saxonville, Florida.


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[Assistant] In Jacksonville, Jackson Dix next week, uh, 5th, 6th, and 7th of May.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then Sewer Juice New York, May 20th and 21st. It's only four shows. The very next week actually, Chris Genza is in Lajala.


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[Assistant] In, uh, June, I'm in Purvine, California.


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[Assistant] Uh, at the Improv there, at the Irvine Spectrum Mall, that's the 9th, 10th, and 11th.


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[Assistant] And then, uhm, what? Nashville, Smashville. Good. Yea, Crash.


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[Assistant] There you go. That's what's up. Oh, locally, I will be at the, uh, improv this week on Friday.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, thank you guys, uhm, all my shows, Thompsoncigarette.com, get your tickets. Get your life. Are you all set then, Jeans?


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[Assistant] Uhm, also of course we want to acknowledge our producer. Acknowledge? Acknowledge.


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[Assistant] It's a huge help for us. It actually, you know, it helps us be able to


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[Assistant] Uhm, but all that, yeaah, it definitely helps. Thank you guys. Uhm, you ready, Jeans?


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[Assistant] Right, but I also, you told me that you really appreciated me saying how I felt about it.


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[Assistant] So this is for people listening, obviously we haven't done a good job of introducing what they're listening to.


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[Assistant] Cause I ex- we had a phone call over the weekend.


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[Assistant] And I explained to you in detail about this. And then when we sat down here and you go,


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[Assistant] You have the Birdman clip and I go, yeah, of course. And you go, uh, yeah, like, uh, I told you about that. And I was like, what are you talking about?


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[Assistant] He is a hip-hop mogul, like one of the OGs from the 90s. He started Cash Money Records. He had that, you know, that whole wave of guys. Uhm, Manny Fresh was his producer, Juvenile, Lil Weezy, Lil Wayne.


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[Assistant] He has a net worth well over $100 million. Uh, and you know, he's just like the rest of the moguls in hip hop. He has a fashion line. He has a liquor line. He's, you know, very savvy.


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[Assistant] What's happening is that this guy right here, Charlamagne, uh, the god, he had talked about Birdman's business practices with a couple other guests who were hip-hop artists, Trick Daddy and Rick Ross.


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[Assistant] And you stole his hat. Well, Birdman comes in and he has all this in his head like, you guys have been talking shit, you had Rick Ross, you had Trick Daddy, so he comes in right away and is like, you need to put some fucking respect on my name.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then this whole thing, this was supposed to be an interview obviously, lasts, you know, like less than two minutes.


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[Assistant] Teardrops, stars. He's got a fuckin' oil field tattooed on the other side of his head. Really? With oil coming out of it. Oh boy. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I think for him, that was him making his point. His point was, I am going to show up. Like, he misled them and said, yeah, I want to do an interview and talk. But he really wanted to do was show up and go, put some respect on my name. Like, don't talk shit about me.


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[Assistant] But that's not, I mean, then they don't really understand how serious you are. Yeaah. I think on some level, a lot of people made a lot of jokes about this, like we've been making jokes about it too, but on some level, those guys in that studio feel how serious


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[Assistant] I'm sure they're much more scared. In the actual, I don't know if it's in this pre-roll, in the, before they, uhm,


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[Assistant] But when he comes in here and he's like, stop fucking doing this shit, you can see the girl who's part of the show and she, her eyes dart around, like what the fuck.


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[Assistant] He also took off and then put back on his sunglasses like four times.


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[Assistant] It was really great. I had, uhm, thankfully my buddy...


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[Assistant] The club, and you know what I'm saying, they were shut down already, but they're like, we heard about your dad mouth, if you want to just spin, I was like, yea, I'll give you a little flavor.


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[Assistant] Not that many. Because? I hit, I hit the weed.


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[Assistant] That we've been, you know, together, that hasn't happened yet, it's kind of crazy. Especially considering I do it pretty often, you know.


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[Assistant] We have a shower, there's no bathroom door.


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[Assistant] See, and then you're sitting here giving me a hard time about it, but you know, it's actually, it's a loving thing.


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[Assistant] Which is the one you want me to cut out though?


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[Assistant] He's a big fan of the show. He's a big fan of what you were just saying.


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[Assistant] So this guy is trying to describe the smell of a woman somewhere and he keeps just gagging. He has a dry heaving.


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[Assistant] She's really tickled by that. She is, she is. Uhm, let's see if we got this set up. Here he is doing it, uhm. I can't watch dry healing. Uh, multiple times.


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[Assistant] Yes, that's exactly right. Uh, we have a clip of them. Tony.


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[Assistant] She has that pronunciation that, the reason that it's so fucking bizarre.


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[Assistant] The hoosh is that she grew up with them.


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[Assistant] There's clearly, there's probably some interaction in between these things because


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[Assistant] Right. Which means that they probably speak at some point.


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[Assistant] And maybe she's dialing correctly sometimes incorrectly, incorrectly other times.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Please. Next time you say please. Please.


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[Assistant] Really sad news is that, uh, we lost another icon.


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[Assistant] The day after, uh, last week's episode aired on my flight up to, uh, sperm can, I get a message, Prince died.


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[Assistant] Well, he had an emergency plane landing the week before. He was flying back from a gig, uh, they landed his plane in Illinois. It was only like-


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[Assistant] Right. It was only about 30 minutes or so from Minneapolis, but they deemed it that important, landed, took him to a local hospital. They wanted him to stay in the hospital, and he, they didn't secure a private room for him.


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[Assistant] So he took off. The next day there was a dance party at Paisley Park, his compound outside of Minneapolis and supposedly everything was fine. And then obviously this is, you know, then there was footage of him riding his bike around his neighborhood and stopping in a record store. So all that they said was fine. It does lead, you know, a lot of like the medical people to think that,


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[Assistant] You know, I would watch C Prince and I was like, this dude...


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[Assistant] Is unlike any dude that I've seen or known because he had that kind of non-binary


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[Assistant] Let's go crazy. Aww, come on, that's a jam. That's a jam. 1999? That's a funny jam. Party jam.


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[Assistant] You know, you get to some of the songs that were just...


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[Assistant] Amazing to listen to as well and, you know, in honor of him, we have a little bit of it because we're big fans, you know.


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[Assistant] It's a tribute. It's really a tribute. Uhm, obviously Shane.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know what's interesting to point out as I go through these pages here, I'm looking for, I have


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[Assistant] When we dedicated entire segments to Shane, this is just trivia from our show.


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[Assistant] This will go on the Wikipedia page. When we dedicated uhm, 20 minutes to him on an episode, I don't know, a year ago, the following week our listenership went down by over 30%.


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[Assistant] Gone, gone is this time. Well, you know, I uhm, a lot of people don't know this, but I'm Polly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was calling from my other phone. I have a few phones here.


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[Assistant] You're what? I'm poly and I'm bi and I'm non-binary.


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[Assistant] I'm polyamorous, I'm bisexual and I'm non-binary.


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[Assistant] Well, that's the thing, uhm, that's the other announcement I wanted to tell you, that I'm probably going to run for president.


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[Assistant] Christina wanted to tell you, wanted me to, well she's here, but she wanted to tell you about the shower we took the other day. Uhm, cause she's been like, I'm gonna tell your mother. Cause we took a shower together? Here, tell, tell her babe.


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[Assistant] Yeah, she said that showering with me is like showering with a homeless person. Because I'm spitting and...


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[Assistant] And here's the thing, when you refer to me, you don't say, he, like you don't go, he would like to do that. You say, they. So, if somebody says... Right. Right. So...


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[Assistant] Well I don't know if I'm at your kitchen table. I'm telling you I-


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[Assistant] Well that went well. That went great, yeaah. I mean, she's not as supportive as I was hoping for, but you know.


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[Assistant] It's terrifying. When you're a little kid, a little boy, public restrooms are kind of terrifying.


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[Assistant] You hear us through the recorded microphone, but she hears us.


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[Assistant] We have a couple other things. Oh, first we have this announcement I should probably get to, uh, that we haven't...


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[Assistant] I was talking to Blue Band and had to make sure everything was lined up. And then, uh, he flew.


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[Assistant] Did this for me and that is that we are now ready to bring out the new, the all new bikes shirt.


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[Assistant] This is something that, uhm, was originally on our...


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[Assistant] Yes, and then now it is ready to go. We have a bunch of them. They are...


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[Assistant] Absolutely fire, we even have a promo.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be, uh, so we're just showing it here for the first time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's the new bike shirt. We had one for a while. This one is on a much higher quality t-shirt. It's an all new design. It has a few bikes on it and of course it has the word bikes in big black letters.


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[Assistant] This store is now up, uh, if you go to TomSagura.com, uh, and YourMomsHousePodcast.com, uh, you can check it out. And, uh, we're very excited and we have them fully stocked. So there is, it's not a pre-sale. There won't be the, um,


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[Assistant] The issue that we had before with a lot of you waiting on your subcane shirts, I profusely apologize for that and, uh, it won't happen with these. And the subcane shirts that you do see on my site, uhm,


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[Assistant] Our only ones that we have in stock. So we have a new system that counts the inventory and eliminates shirts that are no longer there. You will not have to wait again. So a thousand apologies.


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[Assistant] LinkedIn is helpful! Uh, is there anything else?


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[Assistant] And you have a, uhm, a number of, what are these, JPEGs I'm supposed to bring up? Yes? Okay. Uhm, so here is, uh,


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[Assistant] Get your mind in the right place. How about Charo with her political commentary?


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[Assistant] What about size wise? There's been a lot of talk about his hand size.


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[Assistant] Like uhm, there's actually, I saw, yeaah, this is it here. There's this sketch that uhm, that I, that I saw of, that uh, what's her name? Ilma? Is that her name who did it? Ilma Gore. Yeaah. Ilma Gore did a sketch of him. Let's see.


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[Assistant] And then it probably grows, I think probably around four inches. You know?


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[Assistant] I think it's really accurate and, you know, I'm not going to lie, it looks a lot like mine. Uhm, so that's uh, it's kind of what I believe.


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[Assistant] I definitely have- Oh, they're tiny. His balls are tiny. I definitely have balls. I have bigger balls.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, but the problem with this episode of Dick Detectives is, uh, we don't get to ask Donald, so which is it? Because that's how we usually like to play. I mean, Blue Band.


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[Assistant] Do you want to decide who's more accurate? Is it a Coke can in girth and short or is it


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[Assistant] What I saw there, that little head that Ilma drew and about four inches long. Uh, Blue Band just gave me the point and the thumbs up meaning I win this round. Wow. Of Dick Detected.


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[Assistant] I think that's too crazy. I think everybody would want


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[Assistant] Eight's like long, but not like, what the fuck is that, right? So eight inches long. And then, maybe, like for your finger, like your fingers don't quite touch when you hold it. You know? Like mine, I can go like this.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, if somebody were to like walk in on me, I could just put like three fingers down and cover it, you know.


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[Assistant] I think like a deep purple would probably be the ideal color. You see it sometimes, depending on your blood situation, but I think if it was like just


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[Assistant] This made me laugh so hard. Is the, yeaah, it's here. So uhm, we had this, you know, the last few weeks we played


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[Assistant] It's all good man, you can't really go wrong with this one.


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[Assistant] Look, there's other stuff we didn't get to, but I think we gotta wrap up this show, man.


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[Assistant] Get. Your. Life. There's two closing songs. Right?


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[Assistant] You got it. Uhm, please, yourmomshousepodcast.com, thompsagura.com, please get the bike shirt. It's on sale. Uhm, we have the store is being, has a few other shirts and it's being rebuilt. So please support the show.


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[Assistant] And that's it. Uhm, domestic shipping is free by the way, so.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm so good at it, I figure it kinda deserves its own, you know.


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[Assistant] I hear it and then it goes around and then it comes out.


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[Assistant] You see, and that's how I just, I just can, I can, I can pull from different.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Uh, what was that? I saw that gesture.


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[Assistant] I think for our audience, even though you're obviously not seasoned,


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[Assistant] Uhm, why don't you try a Australian accent?


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're all from there.


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[Assistant] I saw, very good, very good, uh, but I saw an off-Broadway show called Titanic.


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[Assistant] Celine Dion, it's all the music of Celine Dion and Celine Dion is a character in it.


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[Assistant] Incredible, I have not laughed so hard at anything, like it was really camp, super rude, ton of Celine Dion songs, and the best thing is-


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[Assistant] No, it was a Broadway star, um, but basically they did like this big spoof of RuPaul's Drag Race, uh, they did spoofs of, um, actually weirdly of Sweeney Todd, which we've just seen, cause Annaleigh Ashford's London accent in Sweeney Todd is


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[Assistant] Quite something. Uhm, however, yeaah, I was out.


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[Assistant] I am in a British accent snob, which I shouldn't be because my accent is appalling.


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[Assistant] But the thing is, is that she's very, very funny, so I forgive. You know, I forgive. Um, but they took the piss out of it in Titanic and I had a great time. Although I spent like three nights in a row out till 3am every night, so.


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[Assistant] Alright. No, the thing is is cause I'm so tired all of the time that I feel like if I know that I'm doing something big on the weekend, I kind of hibernate and just kind of get a bunch of energy in the bank and then I'll go out and then I'll sleep for three days and I'm back.


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[Assistant] Uh, joining us this week, bless you, Ben Hansen from MinMax. You are bringing the rock of all energy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was on trivia town once and it was incredible. The speed at which some people can type, terrifying.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what else you got guys? What else have you guys got cooking over at my mags at the moment?


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[Assistant] Are you doing like, uh, wait, how are you preparing for Alan Wake 2 in terms of Remedy Connected Universe stuff?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Well, we really appreciate you, um, coming in because obviously, uh, poor Jake Bardina is not joining us this week, but.


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[Assistant] Spoiler free! Spoiler free! Except for poor Stu, our editor, cause there was a spoiler and we had to cut it out.


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[Assistant] Well, Brian, thank you so much for joining us. Uhm, I have a question to kick us off with. I'm really interested in your journey, before we talk about Spider-Man, cause you've kind of done it all. What was your journey? Cause you were like, one up, EGM.


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[Assistant] Community, like, and now you're, is it Senior Creative Director on Spiderman? Yeah.


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[Assistant] So you had, you had Spider-Man come out in 2018, then Miles Morales launched a game for PS5, both critically, commercially incredibly successful.


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[Assistant] Beloved, uhm, was there anything you felt like you left on the table with those two, uh, as you started Spiderman 2?


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[Assistant] I was gonna ask about some of the tech stuff, so a lot of videos have been going around online, obviously, of your incredible fast travel system. It's ridiculous. Uhm, in terms of the tech behind Marvel's Spider-Man 2,


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[Assistant] What, uh, is that kind of the biggest flex that Insomniac has in the game, or is it, you know, within the accessibility settings? Is it something that people haven't necessarily picked up on yet? Cause it's impressive.


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[Assistant] What is the need for VPNs these days and why is NordVPN the best option to go with if you're thinking about using a VPN?


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[Assistant] Yep, I use it all the time to watch not only the Great British Bake Off, but I've become really obsessed with the new series of Married at First Sight UK.


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[Assistant] Alright boys, we have all been playing Marvel's Spider-Man 2. So good game.


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[Assistant] And I don't like Spider-Man as a character.


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[Assistant] I just don't love Spider-Man the way that you all love Spider-Man. If I'm talking about the pantheon of superheroes.


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[Assistant] But instead, instead it would be like a- May? Why did you say that name?


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[Assistant] Ooh, a piece of candy approach to game design in that every single thing, every time I finish, every time I finish doing anything and there is like a split second where I have nothing to do, it's like, do this, go do that, go do that, go do that. And it is the most compelling gameplay loop of anything I've played in a very long time. And I'm, I'm in love with it. I never thought I'd say that.


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[Assistant] You can be swinging, you can be on a phone call with someone and then you just quickly go take a picture and it's like no skin off your nose, the game will go up.


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[Assistant] Pause that conversation, you do that, pop in, pop out, there you go.


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[Assistant] Don't do what I do and, uh, I've been doing, which was using the tech parts to unlock all the suits and all of the suit visual changes. Cause that's the same stuff that upgrades your actual, you know, like your health and your damage. And I was like, man, I can't, I'm still on like a hundred health.


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[Assistant] I mean, to Ben's point, like, I also, I liked Miles more than I liked Spider-Man 2018, uhm, but I think in this one, there's just something, I think,


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[Assistant] Certainly the performances are just kind of like another...


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[Assistant] Step above, I feel like everyone is boringing it, but also it's taking way more time to have these sort of quiet moments without all the bombastic action and you know, we just had that interview with Brian and he said


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[Assistant] How much they love Naughty Dog and there is a whole section in that game which is basically.


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[Assistant] The, uh, the Halloween shop from Last of Us Left Behind.


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[Assistant] Oh man, this really feels like that moment, like this is just a moment amongst characters having a good time. And so I really appreciate that because I think as well, I've spoken at length about how.


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[Assistant] Fed up I am of Marvel because every time the stakes are always so so so so high and there's only so much you can be excited about that and so how, you know.


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[Assistant] And so I really appreciated that in Spider-Man 2 they kind of kept bringing it down to just these personal relationships a lot, which I really liked. I also really liked the character of Harry and like,


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[Assistant] I don't know, I find, I, I'm at a point where I don't exclusively use one or the other. I mix and match depending on where I am and what, if there is a big gust of wind or something in the environment. But for me, it is matching the sort of ebb and flow of.


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[Assistant] Batman Arkham City, when you're gliding and you're like...


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[Assistant] Propel you forward and that's what I ended up using the web swinging for. And so I feel, I get what you're saying.


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[Assistant] But I think just the way that I've been playing it, it's like, it's more giving myself a piece of candy.


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[Assistant] Rather than waiting for the game to do, because I think if I, because I've not been using fast travel at all, and so.


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[Assistant] I love, I love just exploring the city and swinging around it, but I think if you just, if you swing too much, you'll get bored. And so then I use it as a nice little bit of variety and then I go back and forth and back and forth.


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[Assistant] It's, you know, I just feel, you know, when you are fighting or web swinging.


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[Assistant] There is such a great fluidity and as soon as you take that away from me, if I'm walking around,


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[Assistant] Or uhm, there are certain situations where sometimes it's a little too, I said this about Assassin's Creed a couple weeks ago, it's a little bit too sticky on edges or something, and it's like, it's not as...


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[Assistant] Fluid as it could be, and I think especially, there is a lot of bloody walking around in this game, like taking you out of being...


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[Assistant] Yeah, even I think Kinda Funny was saying this is the first time they've ever reviewed something where every single person had the platinum.


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[Assistant] As someone who's very unfamiliar with Kraven, The Hunter, I thought he was a super cool villain. Like, acted really, really well, but like...


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[Assistant] There's a certain sequence with him and his cronies that is one of those really way more memorable ones that I won't spoil here, but I think it's just a really cool sequence. Also, incredible teeth. I always find video game teeth to be weird. Craven's teeth, unbelievable.


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[Assistant] Any other closing thoughts on Spider-Man 2, boys?


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[Assistant] Uh, well those are our thoughts on Spider-Man 2. We actually have a user question, uh, all about Spider-Man as well. So thank you to Blake for this one. If you have your own user question, email it to us. Contact at francepersecond.com.


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[Assistant] Uh, who wants to read this one? Ralph, why don't you give this one?


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[Assistant] I think my biggest, my biggest complaint, because it's kind of Sony's first party lineup is an embarrassment of Richard's in a weird way, but if you think back to maybe 2014, 2015,


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[Assistant] And I think my complaint at the moment is that like, because they are investing so heavily in these big, big AAA games, that it just feels like we wait a very, very long time between each one. And so...


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[Assistant] When they do come out, they're usually almost amazing, but I kind of miss the Sony who would be like, if not...


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[Assistant] Journey, you know, when Media Molecule was really finding its feet in like, uh, Unfinished Swan and when, when Sony was really behind indies and smaller weird games.


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[Assistant] I kind of miss that because it feels like they've way more focused on being the blockbuster guys. Yeah. And gals.


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[Assistant] I think as well, there is also a perception issue because they would have.


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[Assistant] Whole PlayStation, like in-person conferences where it would just be like PlayStation Indies was the whole thing.


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[Assistant] And you know, when you had something like the Vita, which was the perfect vehicle for it, whereas now it just feels like the oxygen in the room is taken up by, oh, if there is a God of War coming out that will, and they, and they do to their credit, they have state of plays and everything. But I think it's just the whole industry has changed the way we consume.


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[Assistant] I can't be mad at Sony for that, but it just feels like a fundamental shift. And that's my only complaint.


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[Assistant] I mean, I mean, just look at the, um, the place, the Marvel Studios-esque PlayStation Studios, you know, thing. It's certainly...


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[Assistant] But yea, no, I, I agree. I think that's a good, a good way of thinking about it. Not a good way of thinking about it, but like a good way of summarizing it.


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[Assistant] Spider-Man 2's not the only huge release coming out this week.


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[Assistant] Uh, Gerard, you and Ralph have been playing Super Mario Wonder.


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[Assistant] I also know nothing other than the 15 minutes I played at PAX, so lay it on us. Is it good?


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[Assistant] No, this is, so we, Tam and I spoke to, uhm,


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[Assistant] Is it Tezuka-san and Mori-san at, uh, PAX earlier in the year? And they were like, yeah, we just didn't really have a deadline until...


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[Assistant] Until development started, then they had like nine, uh, you know, a year and a half, but then they were like, yeah, we just, we got the sound team in super early and we had, we invited every single person to submit ideas. And so from what it sounds like, it just sounds like.


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[Assistant] Because they had such a wide berth of ideas from different teams who ordinarily wouldn't be part of that process, it just sounds like, oh damn, those-


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[Assistant] Those crazy kids over at Nintendo, they've done it again. They've just, like, they've taken off all of the training wheels and it just sounds like something.


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[Assistant] Aww. Uh, so other than Evercrisis, what else have you been playing, Ben?


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[Assistant] I have it, and like, uhm, I love Assemble with care. There's a couple other things on there that I really enjoy, but.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, it's like a free to play, get boosts and powerups, but you can pay it together.


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[Assistant] I will go because I know, Ralph, you've got a new piece of tech that I definitely want to ask you about, but I just want to quickly give a shout out to Chance of Senna.


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[Assistant] So I also want to give a shout out to Mark Brown over on Game Maker's Toolkit because he has a new series.


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[Assistant] Um, and this is how I heard about this one, came out at the beginning of September, completely missed it. And it's basically a very me game. It is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is, uh, tickles your brain the same way that Obra Dinn and Case of the Golden Idol does. You basically, stranger in a strange land.


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[Assistant] You arrive, there is, uh, and you don't understand the language that the people who inhabit it speak.


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[Assistant] And so there will be these glyphs, these symbols that appear.


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[Assistant] Either, you know, on a wall next to something or...


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[Assistant] You basically, as soon as you encounter a new symbol or a new glyph, it gets put in your journal. And then what you can do is you basically use your skills of deduction depending on if it pops up in the environment somewhere or.


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[Assistant] Uh, I mean, one example is every time you see someone, they'll be the same glyphs. You can kind of assume that that means...


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[Assistant] Greetings. And so you can make notes about what you think things mean.


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[Assistant] And then as you solve puzzles, it kind of, you know, you can figure out if you are on the right lines or on the wrong line or going down the wrong path. Uhm, and then it does the Obra Dinn thing of, uh, it'll give you a page in your journal.


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[Assistant] And it'll have three pictures of something like three sketches of something and then if you match the right symbol with


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[Assistant] The word or the concept or the phrase or whatever, it kind of says, yeah, you did it. Congrats. And then it solidifies it. And so you basically build up your own little dictionary and it is.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's so satisfying. It's, I was playing it on the flight on the way back from New York. It is such a lovely little game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I haven't finished it yet. I'm a good, I'm two hours in. I finished the first language because there's multiple ones.


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[Assistant] And there's a kind of a story within it about at least the, the, the path that I did, the two hours that I did, it was like.


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[Assistant] Oh, there are these devotees, there are priests and like, there's this kind of religious thing going on. You're trying to get to the bottom of it and figuring out, you know, hey, how come those people are blocking off that gate or hey, everyone's talking about God for some reason. What's up with that? It's a great little game. I'm really enjoying it.


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[Assistant] It's a very well crafted puzzle, like nothing in there feels superfluous and I think that's so important when...


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[Assistant] You have a game that is left up, so much is left up to the interaction of the player and you don't want to make them feel overwhelmed. Like every area that I would go into, you kind of just wander around and it loops back in on itself and it never feels too big or overwhelming, uhm, at no point did I get


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[Assistant] Stuck, stuck, which is great. There's like no friction there. And also even the little puzzles are fun. There was one that was like, uhm...


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[Assistant] You know, like, uh, there's a bunch of beds and you have to move them. You know, the, the parking game on iOS, like the old parking game, we have to move the cars.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's great. Music is lovely too. Lovely little art style. It's good. I really enjoy it.


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[Assistant] This is going to do a lot for the VR porn enjoyers.


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[Assistant] Gerard, please, uh, what is, uh, picks for this week on the way back?


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[Assistant] So, uh, did you guys ever do the Nausea-less Rift?


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[Assistant] For this? So they had, uh, I remember doing it at Gamescom, there's a video on Gamespot somewhere of me and Tam doing it, where they basically put, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I did it at Gamescom. They definitely took it out on the road. Uhm, but yeah. Who knew that pressing a button to make a fart will make it smell like fart?


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[Assistant] Uh, well, is it 12 years ago? On October 12th, 2011, a little game called Batman Arkham City came out.


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[Assistant] Which, uh, it feels kind of weird to say given how...


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[Assistant] Uhm, Arkham City just feels like that complete breath of fresh air when you go out into Gotham. I think in terms of the Rogues Gallery, it's got maybe the best balance of everyone. Uhm, and it's just, and you know, mixing it up with Catwoman.


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[Assistant] And it's just, oh, it's so good. I want to play again.


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[Assistant] Like moveset-wise, she has the, the jacks on the floor. Yeah, I mean, I don't think you unlock other things for her later on. Okay.


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[Assistant] I don't remember doing that, but I also remember you had like the little, the predator rooms and all the challenge stuff and you had all of the skins to unlock and a friend of mine


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[Assistant] Uh, was working at a convention once and she just had like a stack of those things to redeem, so I had every single skin.


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[Assistant] DemonSouls, he's the voice of, uh, you in DemonSouls, and like, Aoife and Holly.


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[Assistant] Uh, I go back with both of them for years because Aoife and I, uh, used to work at the same company and Holly used to be a PlayStation access. So it's, it is a hoomst of British actors and, uh, games industry folks.


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[Assistant] Well that about does it for this week's episode of the Friends Per Second Podcast. Wanna say a big thank you again to the lovely Ben Hansen for joining us. Thank you!


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[Assistant] Awesome. Awesome. Hell yeaah. Um, Ralph, where can we find you?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that's where you'll find me next weekend. I'm over on GameSpot and Giant Bomb. I just did a big timeline of all of Cyberpunk.


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[Assistant] So, uh, please watch that cause it took a lot out of me. And in lieu of the lovely Jake Baldino, I guess I'll say, tie your shoes and go to bed.


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[Assistant] So, so question, why, so like, why do you think, uh, city project red might've tapped you on the shoulder? I mean, it's not just like they were scrolling, scrolling through LinkedIn and they're like, Oh, that's an interesting name. I'll call this guy. Like how did that connection happen?


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[Assistant] So they asked you to come on board.


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[Assistant] Before launch and then they appointed you to this essentially head of the franchise, creative director of all of cyberpunk.


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[Assistant] After launch with the remit to basically fix it, right? Uh, did you have any kind of reservations in that moment looking at, looking at everything that was going on? Cause there was a lot going on, man. I don't know if you were on the incident at that time, but people were really talking about cyberpunk.


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[Assistant] Right. And that is sort of almost culminating now with update 2.0, which we'll talk about soon. But what would you say are the major changes? Cause I think there's been a lot, right? And I just want to, not even I'm fully across it, but what have been the major changes that have occurred to the game?


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[Assistant] Prior to update 2.0, that have improved it. Like what are the major buckets that we're talking about here?


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I mean, kind of related to that then, so there's quite a bit in 2.0, there's, uh, there's improvements to AI, there's a new police system, there's vehicle combat, uhm, there's a complete reworking of the perk system, uhm, there's probably some other stuff that I'm, that I'm missing, right?


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[Assistant] So there's a lot. My question to you is, do you feel as though all of these improvements make Cyberpunk the game that was initially promised in those early, you know, in the reveal, in the preview cycles and whatever else, or do you feel as though there is still a gap between


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[Assistant] What Cyberpunk was meant to be and what it now is with 2.0.


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[Assistant] So you were actually doing the kind of, you were there when he was doing the lines and the, was he doing mocap?


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[Assistant] So obviously this is a spy thriller this time around, which is.


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[Assistant] I mean, Cyberpunk has definitely got some thriller undertones to it, like the base game I mean, but this obviously is taking it to a whole new level. What was the sort of desire around that? Like how did that, why was this chosen as the story and what were the kind of major things you were hoping to hit on when you, when you pursued something like this?


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[Assistant] And so I wondered, how do you feel Phantom Liberty handles this part of the equation? Do you feel as though choice is a more important part of the overall package here? Are your choices more felt or is it more in line or similar to what you experienced in the base game?


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[Assistant] So, uh, Phantom Liberty is, uh, is, is, is shipping this week, right? And at that point, your attention will turn to the future of the Cyberpunk franchise. And I'm not sure if we've clarified it at this earlier.


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[Assistant] That's right. Travel, travel through Europe as you've always planned to, you know? Uhm, but, so at that point, and we, I don't think we've said this yet, but you are actually the director of Cyberpunk 2.


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[Assistant] Did you have any, again, misgivings about, you know, continuing on with this franchise after this massive journey? Like what was it like to get tapped on the shoulder for that sort of opportunity?


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[Assistant] That's like, that's a hell of a thing. Like new studio, new engine, sequel to, you know, one of the biggest cinematic RPGs ever. There's gotta be a bits carry, right?


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[Assistant] Actually, it's curious, uhm, Boston, right? That's, let's say, that's an odd choice in game dev, right? I don't know. There's some game dev in Boston. Is there game dev in Boston?


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[Assistant] How dare you, don't be so rude. Absolutely, please. Yes, that's very correct.


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[Assistant] Personally, I use VPN for, I don't know about you guys, you guys get stuff because you're in America. So you get all the stuff on the streaming services, but we get like a fraction of it. Half the stuff is geo blocked. So personally I use VPNs for that. And in Australia, it just allows me to sort of.


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[Assistant] trick my internet into thinking that I'm in America, which means I get access to everything that's on Netflix and Disney Plus and yada yada yada, which is nice.


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[Assistant] Is there any good food and stuff, Lucy? Well, uh, is that good?


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[Assistant] Yeah, we, we are actually recording this bit of the thing before we'd actually spoken to Gabe, so we have no idea how that interview went. Hopefully, we asked good questions. I think he's crossed. For the first time. I'm sure he gave good answers. So, yeah.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, but I have a 12 minute block in my review devoted to bugs and performance that basically say it's not in good shape and if you can afford to wait, you should wait because it's in terrible shape. But like anyway, so the point of all this is to say that, um, yeah, then like it was really balked back then. On PC it was still playable and enjoyable and I really enjoyed it.


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[Assistant] And actually as well, when we were reviewing it just yesterday, we got a patch for DLSS 3.5. So that's actually another thing that I haven't even tested that yet, but I'm really keen to check out how that works. So.


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[Assistant] Really? Yea, almost like. But it's like, but that surely would piss you off on some level, right? And you're like, come on man.


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[Assistant] No, I actually, cause I mean, I didn't get the chance to review it because I was here basically. And so Austin reviewed it for me, but I did read his review.


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[Assistant] The editing process, whatever. And uhm, yeaah, he really loved it. He strongly recommended it. And he said like exactly what you guys are saying, which is that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's definitely very blood-borne, a hundred percent. It's not trying to shy away from that.


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[Assistant] But it's also not just doing that. It's doing some stuff on top and because of how hard it's working with those things on top and because of how much it now is the fundamentals.


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[Assistant] You don't feel cynical towards this being like clearly blood-borne, like 1.5. Cause otherwise, cause my first look at this was, okay, that looks really nice and all, but I wonder if they're just doing that and we pay it when we play it and we're like, come on guys, you really didn't try and go much, do it much with this, whatever.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, it's, it was crazy. Like it's, it's really insane. And, and as someone who only understands a portion of this world, just reading at the developers and their reactions to it, the exponent, like how this affects them, like charity bundles, for example, where developers give away their game to charity bundles and they'll give away hundreds of thousands of copies of games, uh, to raise money for Ukraine or whatever.


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[Assistant] Those developers will now be on the hook for two or three hundred thousand dollars based upon previous, like, like, for example, if they were due to do the same thing this time, then they would have to pay that two or three hundred thousand dollars for participating in a charity bundle. Worse, it's actually retroactive in a way, which is that if your game is already in market,


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[Assistant] Anyone from when this policy kicks in, anyone who installs your game after X date,


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[Assistant] You have to start paying for that, right? And so it's kind of like, well, that's not the business model that those games were developed on. They had a different...


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[Assistant] There was a different deal in place when they used your engine to make that game. And now it's like, reminds me of that fucking Simpsons episode when Homer has the elephant and he's trying to overcharge the villhouse's dad. It's like that was under our old pricing model kind of thing. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Run on low on bullets and you're like really deep into it.


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[Assistant] At that moment, you are very, you are not price sensitive, which means that if they want to charge you for bullets...


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[Assistant] Well, that sucks. But also, you have a connection to it, personally.


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[Assistant] I think EA handled the marketing side of it under the label of EA Originals, but my understanding from what I've read is that the funding for the game was from almost like an angel investor and various sources. And uhm, I mean, look.


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[Assistant] We had an entire podcast, not an entire podcast, we had like the thumbnail of one of our podcasts is like, is there room for a 7 out of 10 game in 2023? Cause Jake and I were like two of the few reviewers that actually kind of liked this game.


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[Assistant] It's fine, it's, it's like, that's the thing, I think a lot of people, when we were talking about this in the, in the thing, where people were like, this game is utter trash, it's so shit, whatever else, it's like, it's really not, it's not particularly great, like I'm not gonna come out here and say that like, oh you must play Amores of Aviam, but it's like, it's fine, and it's like, pretty polished, the PC performance was a bit of a bum, unfortunately.


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[Assistant] But like this is not a bootstrap thing where they were just kind of like cobbling together a few bucks and punching down a game, like on the EA originals label, which is, you know, like that.


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[Assistant] Actually, while we're on this topic, I just saw a headline that EA are maybe dropping support for Wild Hearts. Oh really? Yeah, I saw that headline as well. Wow. No, that's not confirmed, so I'm not sure if that's true. Anyway, that's a side note.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so anyway, uhm, 45% of their studio is gone. Uhm, I mean, look, the silver lining is that the studio still exists, at least for now, because...


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[Assistant] End of July. Yeah, so like Baldur's Gate was coming and whatever. So like that level of flop, which is a harsh word, but it's true. That's like, you kind of think maybe that could kill a studio, especially when they clearly spent big money on it. So at least the studio still exists and hopefully they get another crack at it. Because I really think this was like,


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[Assistant] Look, I don't think everything should be a licensed product, but I do imagine about like, what if this team was to get a Marvel license, for example, I reckon they would really crush it if they had.


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[Assistant] No one, like no one, like $70 for that game, like we might sit here and say, okay, I had a 12, fun 12 hours of that game and I paid, you know what, like $10 an hour for that enjoyment. That's fine for me personally, right? But I think all of us at the same time would agree that like $70 for that game was not the right price point, like at all.


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[Assistant] If you put that out of 40 bucks, I reckon it would change the narrative around this game. People would be more like, yeah, it's okay. Sure. Why not? $40 put it on game pass. It would have had a shot. Like all the commercial stuff is so different now when it comes to AA titles. And this just reflected none of that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, like it's, like when the price drops, I think it's worth checking out. When you can. When you can, when you feel like it's the right price, I think it's worth it.


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[Assistant] Um, and there's a clip of a chocobo just straight up walking up a wall. And I was actually trying to like, cause when I was playing, I had, I was on my chocobo. I saw this wall.


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[Assistant] Personally, so I was there, the demo that we played was the TGS demo, which is going to be available, check your game show next week. It was divided into two parts, 15 minute block where you get to play as Cloud and Sephiroth.


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[Assistant] And another block where you kind of just exploring the open world, right? In a very small section of the open world and that was it.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, the demo is just not, I just don't think it was a great, it didn't show off a lot, you know? It's like, cool, you could play Sephiroth, and I loved it, it was fantastic, super cool, the, the, uhm, it looks fantastic, the dialogue between the characters is rad, like, being a, rad.


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[Assistant] But I mean, for me personally, like obviously Final Fantasy 16, everyone's responded to it in different ways. Uhm, I, you know, I liked the adult tone of it, uhm, but I didn't love it. And I guess now having seen particularly this trailer for Rebirth, I'm like,


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[Assistant] Fuck yeaah, man. The craziness, the ridiculousness, the cast of characters, that vibrancy. I'm just like, ah, I'm so excited for that again. Because again, I enjoyed the more serious take on Final Fantasy with 16 for sure. I'm glad they explored that direction. You know, it was actually one of the parts of the game that I liked the most of it, I think. But at the same time,


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[Assistant] Part of me was a bit like, ah, you can still get a little bit goofier, right? You can still mix it up a little bit, yeah? And this trailer was just wall-to-wall fucking nonsense. And I'm like, yes, let's do that, please. I'm down.


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[Assistant] The battle music was, I think it was similar, but like it felt a bit different. Just a little, like a few more layers on it. It's so good. Just like what a track.


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[Assistant] Nightingale? Nightingale is the, um, is the former Bioway guys.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for sure. Yeah, the crowd density on the ground was what really was like...


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[Assistant] This is straight away. As soon as you look down, you're like, okay, this is a different game than miles or remaster or whatever. Like it's just the level of visual fidelity. But even just like when I first stepped into that, there's just because the demo began.


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[Assistant] With uhm, like this scene in a church, right? And you know, like Pete's in a symbiotic suit and it's all like black and very slick and just the lighting on it and the lighting on the wood and the textures on it, the whole thing. I was just like, wow, man, this looks significantly better than I remember.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, and I remember that game looking really good back then. So that was one part of the demo that really stood out to me. This is like visually it's, it's quite a step up for sure.


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[Assistant] At the same time, it's level 25, like I'm sure I would've had a lot of practice by this point, because yea, there's a lot of abilities and all those new mechanics and whatever. So, but I mean, I actually felt the difficulty was really well tuned in the sense that,


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[Assistant] I had to focus, man, because there was a risk, because there's a lot of new abilities now. The symbiotes suit kind of just dumps all this power everywhere. It's like two triggers worth of


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[Assistant] I think that angle is really interesting because obviously that is going to spill out into his relationship with MJ. It's going to obviously affect the way he works with Miles. It's going to have like internal struggles for Pete himself. Like I'm just, that storyline I'm really keen on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's like, it's, I, I think it's quite similar, from what I can see, quite similar to Ragnarok, right? God of War Ragnarok. Which is that this is a continuation of a saga. It started with, with, with PS4, like, you know, original Spider-Man. It was continued with Miles in a kind of spin-off fashion.


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[Assistant] And now it's the next chapter in that major story. And so it does reference a lot of what happened in the original, in the previous games.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's same, like similar cast and whatever else. Same location.


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[Assistant] Same feel, like this is not, you're not picking up a different game here. And I think, you know, some people are going to be like, well, it should feel completely different. Like, no, it shouldn't. It's a sequel to a very good video game and this is it. And it's a new story. And that's the part that's really drawing me. Like I'm coming for the story. I'm like, I'm neither here nor there. Like the combat stuff is a nice addition. I like it.


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[Assistant] They said, they actually specifically said that though, like in the briefing, they're like fly through New York faster than ever before. Yeah. So maybe they were just talking about the wingsuit, but like, yeah, maybe.


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[Assistant] Yeah, alright, see? Good question. Draught has leaned in. I'll go first.


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[Assistant] I am going to say Robocop, because it is the perfect film. There is literally not a single frame you would change about that film in any way, shape or form.


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[Assistant] Okay. I don't know if they're good. I think that they have value in a way that.


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[Assistant] I think what they've done is, I said it in my review, is like, the big goal for this, uhm, game, like the first game was all about, like,


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[Assistant] You, you effectively play as eco terrorists terrorists for, for one of our phrase. And the reason, the way you kind of make that empathetic and help the audience sympathize is by really digging deep into the characters. And that's what we get. We get cloud figuring out how to fight for other people instead of himself.


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[Assistant] You get a lot of time spent with like Midgar's people and that kind of stuff. And by the time you're like halfway through that game, you're like, yeah, I want to fight for these people. And I'm willing to do stuff that on paper is labeled as the eco terrorism.


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[Assistant] The way, now that they, what they need to do is make you have that same kind of feeling for the entire world.


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[Assistant] And the only, and not the world as in like the entire world, it's like nature, the planet itself. And the way they've done that, I think is really clever. It's by taking these kind of, um.


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[Assistant] Activities and making them a point of connection to the world around you. And by learning to understand that world, you start to develop the empathy that you would have for characters in Midgar for this world itself. So the activities are narratively important, but also they kind of bump up every single one bumps up against another system.


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[Assistant] That makes it worth your while to do. And that's probably why you end up, despite not trying to 100% in everything, 70 hours in.


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[Assistant] If they get you on one zone, and they really good at doing that, if they can get you on one zone, chances are you're going to think seriously about doing it for every other zone.


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[Assistant] For the last two games, I've been collecting data on every summon, every enemy, every universe thing. I'm on your side and I'm the most powerful being that exists. There is no, if they don't do that, it's a waste of a remake tribute.


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[Assistant] That should be it, like people are like waiting for someone to defeat Sephiroth and they're like, we built a pint, we built young Sheldon God in Final Fantasy Universe.


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[Assistant] No. Okay, cool. So, I think that- No, I don't think so, yeah.


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[Assistant] I think the delivery of the ending is so poor that it makes the ending worse than it is. And it feels like a story that the more you think about, the more you realize there's fundamental pieces of that narrative that feel missing.


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[Assistant] Because of the, the way that they deliver it and they, and they execute on that ending. There's parts of it that I'm like.


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[Assistant] I feel like if you had done this, this and this, which feels like it could have happened in these chapters, this would have made sense, but they didn't do it. And I, I, and where the game is going, I feel like I have a very good idea of what the next game is going to be based on it.


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[Assistant] But in terms of the actual ending itself, I thought structurally and like in terms of how it was delivered, very poor. And I feel like a lot of the issues that it has.


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[Assistant] Are a, are the fallout of that. Um, there's key moments in the original game that, um, we'll have to talk about spoilers of the original game.


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[Assistant] I played the original and I think I'm closer to where you are, where I...


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[Assistant] I like the, the thing that they do with characters is really well done. I feel like they go deeper on every single character and it's a much richer story because of it. I feel like the, the ambition that they had for the overall story, which is on paper, extremely clever, extremely brave and extremely bold.