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[Assistant] And even then I think I, I think I, I was, I faced a lot of isolation and I think this is something that, that really...


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[Assistant] It happens a lot in mathematical spaces and in many, you know, in many of the elite mathematical spaces that there are many people that just don't feel included. And I think if you don't include people actively, you're going to exclude them. And I, I've actually spent decades just thinking about that question and trying to create mathematical spaces that are more welcoming.


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[Assistant] Every sector that is present in, and I agree with you that this is, this is a much broader problem. It is, it is especially present in mathematics and there's research that shows that, for example, that this kind of exclusion is more present in fields where there's a myth of geniuses. It's, it's very closely tied.


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[Assistant] For example, like, the way the demographics in a field play out and to what extent people in that field think that geniuses exist, eh, it's very correlated. And people, people have this myth of math geniuses, but nobody talks about biology geniuses, for example.


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[Assistant] And, uh, for example, people talk about philosophy geniuses and philosophy has a huge problem in this regard. Music. And so I do think that there are aspects of this question that are specific to mathematics and at the same time I think that a big part of solving that problem is learning


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[Assistant] That bigger problem and learning in other sectors of society what has happened in some sense, you know, the inequality within mathematics is a much smaller problem than many of the inequalities that are out there that people have fought hard to.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Maybe I'll mention a couple. There really are a bunch because I- One thing that I'll say about this is that...


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[Assistant] It's an extremely hard problem and, and the more that I work on it, the more that I realize, wow, this is a lot harder than I, than I understood. And so I like to learn and try and extrapolate and self criticize and get feedback and keep, keep improving. The first thing that I did is actually that when I arrived to San Francisco State, which is where I'm a professor now.


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[Assistant] There's a strong combinatorics group there and I started teaching combinatorics and I realized that back in Colombia,


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[Assistant] A real activity in that field. And so I, I, I started this, this thing that I call the San Francisco State Columbia Combinatorics Initiative, which was basically kind of about, about trying to build a, uh,


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[Assistant] That included Colombia, that included the Bay Area, that included, eh, for example, the fact that like Latinos in Colombia and Latinos in California have very different paths, but there are ways in which their similarities and their differences can help each other.


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[Assistant] You know, the mathematical researchers in that field. But at the same time, how do we make these very human spaces that just feel good and that are empowering and that you just want to be a part of? And I think part of it is kind of selfish because I think throughout a bunch of my years in mathematics I just...


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[Assistant] I just didn't want to be in mathematical spaces, I just, I just didn't feel good there. And so...


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[Assistant] One thing that, that we've been building in that space is how do we, how do we put the, helping people feel really good and comfortable and, and, uh, you know, challenged and supported in that space.


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[Assistant] We started that and it's a program that's been going on for, I guess, something like almost 20 years now. And there are a bunch of lessons that we learned and if people are interested, I've written some articles about what we learned, what we tried.


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[Assistant] For example, one thing that, and I think, I think this actually, again, I don't want to reduce things too much to like essential ideas about culture, but one thing about Colombia is that


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[Assistant] Having, having been raised in a place where there were a lot of resources missing. I think in Colombia we have a belief that we can do things without resources and that, and that that's not going to get in the way. And there's a resourcefulness that, okay, we don't, we don't, eh, we don't have resources, whether they're financial, whether they're mathematical, we can, we can find creative ways of, of doing things. And in particular,


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[Assistant] I'm very interested in the way in which, of course different people have different levels of mathematical preparation, but I'm convinced that there are ways of honestly collaborating mathematically where that's not important.


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[Assistant] We do these, eh, we do these courses. Richard Stanley, for example, who is one of the founders of the field, gave one of these courses and then we would have these, these problem sessions. And in these problem sessions, you have people who are doing their PhD with Richard Stanley and you have people from small regional universities in Colombia that have never taken a Commendatores class. And that's just what we have, you know, and, and, uh, I think


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[Assistant] It's our job to say, okay, given that that's what we have, how do we serve every person who came here? And, uh, of course different people are going to get different things out of it. But, uh, but we thought, okay, you know, how do we, how do we do this? And one thing we did is that we, we said, okay, you know, let's do this problem, problem sessions where.


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[Assistant] It's not about who gets there first or who gets there fastest. Let's actually, on purpose, actually organize sessions where this young student from a regional university


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[Assistant] gets to work with a PhD student from MIT, they talk about mathematics together and they get to help each other out and they really both benefit from this and I think this is sometimes hard for people to believe that, I think people sometimes tend to believe that the person that's more prepared helps the person that's less prepared and that's it. But in my experience,


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[Assistant] I end up learning so much about my own mathematics and about what they have to share with me. And so I think breaking down that idea of, you know, who's worthy of mathematics, who's worthy of learning from some of the founders of the field and just saying, you know, let's just serve every single person who's here and find a way to do that.


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[Assistant] Let's get honest, let me tell you a story from two years ago. Let's talk about it, because as I was telling you, I think our temptation as a Colombian sometimes is, oh, let me just see the good side of it and ignore the bad side. But to give you an example, so we're putting together this book.


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[Assistant] That's the proceedings of the Encuentro Colombiano de Combinatoria, which is, which is this, this gathering that we've had for about 15 years.


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[Assistant] With some, you know, many of who are regarded as the top people in the field. It's just like an all-star cast if you think about it. And we're putting together a book which is giving, putting together all the lecture notes of all these courses. It's, it's an incredible resource. Short courses, problem sessions, everything. And, uh, I was going around to different academic publishers trying to see who


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[Assistant] Who might be interested in, in publishing this? I won't name who said this, but, but, uh...


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[Assistant] A leader at one of these fancy academic publishing houses looked at, looked at the index and said, oh wow, I thought columnists were good at drugs, not at mathematics.


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[Assistant] You know, these, these are the kinds of things that I've heard my whole life. And, uh, if you don't hear them so much, you might think that they're insignificant, but it's, but there is a way in which hearing it your whole life makes you think that you're less. And there are ways in which still 20 years into my mathematical career and having had a very successful career,


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[Assistant] I think there are ways in which it has been ingrained in me, you must be, you must be worse than the white mathematicians. And there's ways in which...


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[Assistant] I think only at about my age I'm finally believing inside my body. No, that's, that's actually not true. But when you hear this message so much, and again, eh, acknowledging that I was in Colombia where I was the majority, I think this is actually a lot harder for black mathematicians in the US or for, you know, immigrant mathematicians in, in Europe. So yeah, I mean, I, I think it's, I think it's.


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[Assistant] It's actually still very prevalent and, uh, all of us have stories to tell and we don't, we don't, you know, we try not to tell them too much because they're, they're hard, they hurt. Sometimes they really get in the way. I mean, I'm telling you, I'm telling you one, but there's others that have been much more actually like damaging to my career this and, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, people have taken my work and published it, and somehow, because they were at fancier institutions than me, it was made clear to me that if I were to try to pursue this, I would just lose.


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[Assistant] Because they're somehow part of majority mathematics and I'm, you know, I'm in some sense, I think, again, I think I've had a very successful career, but, but there are, there are ways in which I chose to not be at a, at a top research school being a, being like a, only a researcher.


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[Assistant] Somebody took a grant proposal that I wrote and, uh, put their name on it and, uh, got a massive grant for work that the majority of which I wrote. And, uh, this is somebody who's in a very prestigious institution and, uh,


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[Assistant] When I asked for advice from my mentors, they basically told me to don't try to fight this because you're gonna be, you're gonna lose. You're gonna be on the losing side and this is just not gonna be good for you.


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[Assistant] Because I think that's how we were raised. But, I mean, in some sense I haven't let it go. I haven't let it go. And, uh...


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[Assistant] Yeah, because I'm somebody who is very generous with my mathematics, with my ideas, and I hate that every time, for example, that a young person says, hey, can I see your grand proposal so that I learn how they're written? I'll tell them, you know, I'm happy to help you and have a look.


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[Assistant] And let me tell you the story just to, just to make sure that we understand what is the proper way of doing this. And I hate that I have to tell that story each time.


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[Assistant] It's a good question and let me preface my answer by saying that I feel like I'm doing the best research I've done in my life and it's a joy to see one of my close co-authors win the Fields Medal for work that is very related to things we do together and I feel extremely


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[Assistant] When I applied to jobs for the first time and I still, when I finished my PhD, I was still kind of a clueless mathematician who didn't really understand how this academic thing worked. I didn't really understand how to apply for jobs. And I had a job offer in Colombia that was waiting for me. And so.


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[Assistant] That meant that I decided, you know, I'm not gonna apply for jobs except for places where I would like to live. And so I applied for jobs in San Francisco, New York and Vancouver. Every mentor that I talked to just said, you're, you're out of your mind. This is, this is not the way it works. And, uh, you're committing academic suicide because you're not gonna get these jobs.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't advise people to do what I did because what I did is extremely risky. I could afford it because I had my offer in Colombia, which was, which I was very happy with. But I think that was very contrary to what are seen as


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[Assistant] For, for me, it was, it was very important. Eh, where I live, it was very important that my partner, Mei Li, had a, had a, a city where she could have a, a career. A place where a Asian, Latino family can be comfortable that we're gonna be treated right. And those were my priorities and, and,


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[Assistant] I could see because my classmates thought, no, but he's one of the good ones. Why is he going to this?


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[Assistant] Within the values of academic mathematics that is seen as a, as a defeat. And people, people, I could see that people felt bad for me.


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[Assistant] The values that I chose for how to live my mathematical life are sometimes a little confusing to my fellow research mathematicians.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm not going to lie, I have felt a pressure to just go harder on the research because I know that I'm not at a top research school and so I know that I'm only going to be taken seriously if my research is just spotless. And this is something that I tell all my students, we can be inclusive, we can be welcoming.


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[Assistant] And we need to do research that is spotless because the standards are going to be higher for people that are not at top institutions like us. But for me actually, doing these works together is what makes sense to me and actually, at least in my personal career, they have helped each other.


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[Assistant] I think so, and this is something that I struggled with a lot. Actually, when I had the job offer in Colombia, there were three friends who were all going to move to Colombia at the same time together. Let me shout them out in case they're hearing it, Alf Onschuss and Bernardo Uribe. The three of us were very excited about going back to Colombia and doing things together at about the same time.


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[Assistant] And for me, for personal reasons, I found, you know, I want to be here. And as soon as I landed in the San Francisco Bay Area, I just, for many reasons, fell in love with life here. And I guess that's when I decided, okay, I won't be in Colombia. It looks like I'm going to be here for a long time.


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[Assistant] That I probably would not have been able to do if I was a professor in Colombia because I have a kind of access and a kind of, eh, to, to finances, to, to resources, to people that I think I've been, I've been able to, eh, kind of ask a lot of people to support Colombian mathematics. And I think actually I have found a way to support mathematics there also.


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[Assistant] But I do think that we, you know, we, Columbia would be a lot better off if we had stronger research, stronger, eh, stronger, eh, department, stronger programs. There are incredible people doing, doing work there, but there is a sense in which actually it's, it's a lot harder to do, have a mathematical career in Columbia than it is here. And yeah, that's for sure.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think one thing that I do a lot right now is talk to people. And that's something that has changed a lot since I was teenager Federico is that now


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, 90% of my papers are co-authored and I just love talking about mathematics with people and I love, for example, a collaboration like the one with, with, uh, Jun He, where


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[Assistant] June, what are you working on? Eh, Carly, what are you working on? And uhm...


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[Assistant] It's usually standing around a blackboard when I'm lucky to be in the same place as them. Uh, I think with this, with this, uh,


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[Assistant] Zoom life, I started doing it more online and my partner designed this.


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[Assistant] Sometimes I think, okay, let me go process this, do some examples on myself to understand it in my own way and come back. And so then I end up, you know, going to a cafe and sitting on my notebook a lot or I like to go to nature actually and just be somewhere quiet and, uh,


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[Assistant] I think one thing that I really love actually, and it's very hard, I think the hardest thing in mathematical collaboration for me is just what different pictures we have.


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[Assistant] A lot of the processes, these kind of frustrated conversations where we're doing our best to try to understand each other in front of a blackboard.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a great question and that's something that took me a while to figure out and I think different people have different styles. I generally have noticed in my career that I gravitate towards people.


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[Assistant] That are really curious about other people's ideas. And I've had collaborations that start feeling a little like a competition to see who can get somewhere faster. And I, what I've noticed about those collaborations is that I leave and I, you know, there's actually a bunch of


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[Assistant] In some sense, actually, I end up being kind of picky about who I work with and I think I look for people that are really curious about different ways of seeing something.


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[Assistant] More than ever I think, it's getting, it's getting, uh, hectic actually, uh, so for the, for the last, uh, I mean for many years I, uh, we had a, we have a, uh, a DJ collective with my partner, Melee, with a bunch of other folks and, and, uh...


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[Assistant] I mean yea, you can, you can, I think the space tells the story. There's also a huge pile of books over there. Melea and I both love reading. She's working in creative writing and I love reading also, so we spend a lot of time just geeking out on creative writing. Right behind you there's a bunch of books of ethnic studies, sociology.


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[Assistant] A critical theory, I'm trying to always learn about other things. And, uh, in the last three to four years, we had a little pet musical project, so we play...


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[Assistant] We play that instrument over there, which is called a marimba de chonta.


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[Assistant] It's a Colombian instrument from the Pacific coast of Colombia. It's a descendant of the West African balafons, like the kind of wooden xylophones. You know, we started with this small musical project that has been growing and growing.


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[Assistant] Right before coming, talking to you, I was designing a flyer for the


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[Assistant] We're being asked to perform in places like this and it's interesting because it's, I love it. But it's kind of a lot. It's definitely a double career that we're doing. But that I think feeds itself because also to come back to something that you were saying earlier, my best mathematical ideas often come


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[Assistant] From going away, playing some marimba, and then returning to the problem the next day. Or waking up with an idea. And I do think that for my mathematics, it's really important that I am feeding off of other ways of knowing and thinking and creating.


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[Assistant] It's interesting because as I was saying, early on my mathematical career was competitive and I think I just got really tired of that. And I know when I took the job at San Francisco State,


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[Assistant] I felt inside my body a sense of relief that I did not realize that I would feel of saying, you know, I don't need to be part of this competition anymore, I'm finding a place that is really suitable for the way that I want to do my career.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I think it's been helpful to be in a place where I haven't felt like, oh, if I don't publish 20 papers a year, then I'm not going to get tenure. And I think the consequence of that actually is that I am doing probably better work here than I might be doing somewhere else. And to be honest with you, I'm not somebody who's asking myself, you know, what is the


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[Assistant] Biggest hardest problem that I can solve that is going to make me famous. And it's been, it's been a blast to, you know, in these recent collaborations where we're solving these conductors that have been open for decades and decades and decades. It's really exciting.


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[Assistant] I think I've been a little bit less goal oriented and more kind of driven by, you know, what do I find beautiful? And, uh, and in some sense, my mathematical strategy is that where, where, where you find beauty, there's depth. And I think by looking for beautiful things, I've been able to discover some really impactful mathematical things.


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[Assistant] Always, I, I, you know, uhm. What percentage do you reckon you put away? I'm good, I'm good. Yeah? I'm good.


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[Assistant] You learned. I'm good. You know, this was one of those things that I thought, okay, I need to overcome this. And actually what happened is that when I got to the U.S.,


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[Assistant] I said, okay, I haven't been playing competitively after, for the last 10 years, but I must be better than these Americans, right?


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[Assistant] For a footballista, and I think I had, you know, part of my migrating and living a new life and, and


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[Assistant] I'm forcing myself, you know, I think I want to be more outgoing, I think I want to grow in these ways translated into, okay, you know, when I'm on the football field, I'm going to be number 10 and I'm going to always ask for the ball and I'm going to be in the center of this and that's the position that I played and all of a sudden it became like,


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[Assistant] I see you more as like a centre back. Also, those would be the two options for me, but, but no, I...


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[Assistant] In some sense it's actually related to the way that I see mathematics. I think it shows my personality that I would rather like give somebody a beautiful pass so they score the goal instead of me scoring all the goals. But I'm also not somebody who wants to like destroy the beauty by being a defender.


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[Assistant] One thing that's been interesting, eh, learning to play this instrument, several things have been really interesting to me. One is that...


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[Assistant] I think as a kid that was high achieving in mathematics from a very young age, I never wanted to be bad at things in front of anybody. And it was a journey to start playing this instrument because I don't have any musical training and actually there was nobody in the city who plays this instrument so I had to really be bad at it and get


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[Assistant] And, uh, you know, with all the respect that I can, that I can, that I can find and with, and with all the humility, just try to do a little bit better each time and try to represent it better each time. So that, that's been a, in some sense, uh, I really.


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[Assistant] Adrian Corat, the advice that she always gives is...


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[Assistant] Make room for the unexpected in some sense. She'll say like, cualquier cosa puede pasar and anything can happen. We did a show with her and I'm absolutely humbled that I get to play with this. She literally has the title of the Queen of the Marimba in Colombia. And, uh, she said, okay, you're playing with me.


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[Assistant] And then she starts throwing me these curveballs and starts to make me do things that I've never done before in front of her and it was absolutely terrifying.


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[Assistant] It was about just learning, okay, you know, put yourself in an uncomfortable place and there's some real, some real magic that can happen when you, when you do that. And that's, that's in some sense translated into in, in, in my teaching more and more.


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[Assistant] In the way that I practice mathematics, I think creativity in this kind of music is just a, I don't know how to say it, it's maybe a more fluid form of creativity that I've found has really kind of informed my mathematical creativity, so that's been really fun.


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[Assistant] Super jazzed. We only scratched the surface, really. Like super surface. Yea, cause that game, you can tell from the trailer, it goes deep. Yes. Uhm, but the beginning stuff is, is, yea. If you're a survival gamer, you can figure it out in the portals panel. So it's chop wood, get twigs. Yes. Yes. It is that rock stuff.


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[Assistant] Each portal needs two cards. So I guess the blending of the two cards kind of, I guess, dictates what kind of world you're going to be opening.


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[Assistant] I like that when you learn something when it's relevant to you. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Like, I think a school should be that way. I felt that way all through my school career. It's like, hey, learn this thing. I'm like, I don't need to know that.


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[Assistant] When you're 13 year old and you go, hey, you gotta learn how these fish reproduce.


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[Assistant] It's basically like a gate, like this electric gate thing that won't let you through, it'll kill you I guess if you try to go through it. It doesn't kill you, it just shocks you. But once you're strong enough you can go through it, and there's gonna be some sort of boss fight behind that.


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[Assistant] It does exist? Are you shaking your head it doesn't exist? You didn't say that? It's the first time she's hearing this.


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[Assistant] Okay. And eating is kinda like, uh, Valheim. Like if you have like a cooked piece of meat and some mushrooms and some cooked berries. They give you like three types of buffs. Higher health, higher stamina. That's right.


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[Assistant] You just basically scrap them for essence. Oh, okay. And that's worth money. You can scrap anything for essence.


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[Assistant] And in our video, which I think is out already, uh, there just happened to be a character named Simon, which was confusing. Yeah, that Simon recruited.


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[Assistant] And you can tell him to stop. Go away. I'm done with you. Nice. Kind of like a Kelvin.


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[Assistant] That and the hot deposit. Yes. Hit one key and all your stuff goes into the chest.


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[Assistant] Well Bump Simulator was kinda like, like. I guess you're right. If that game was done at the next level.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so far we've unlocked, or, Aptra has unlocked...


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[Assistant] Now, Helldivers, I don't know if it's always this way, but uhm, a very big part of the early game, anyway, is watching your ammo. Cause you will run out of ammo in the blink of an eye.


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[Assistant] And then you, so you gotta conserve it, and then you gotta, so you can call in more ammo, but then there's a cooldown on calling in more ammo, so.


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[Assistant] Only because I heard you guys talk about it. I was only, I was tap shooting everybody. I was like, okay, I don't wanna shoot anything more bullets than have to take to kill it.


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[Assistant] I just reload when I, when I click and nothing shoots. I'm like, alright. Yeaah. Now it's time to reload.


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[Assistant] But it's fun to see every time, just dive and belly dive. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That, that was near Raleigh, wasn't it? Yeaah, that was near, uhm, what, uh, Lake, blech.


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[Assistant] Lake something. Lake something. The parents didn't want a parent?


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[Assistant] No. This kid, I don't know, felt really comfortable around me. And didn't want to leave my side.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, I've been on plenty of camping trips the last weeks. And you swim every day.


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[Assistant] And nobody stinks. Yeah. But you spend like an hour in the water.


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[Assistant] When I left home, I was like, haircuts are expensive, I'm done with those. No more.


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[Assistant] I have fur, I don't have hair. It was very thick locks.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would say loxas, the correct description.


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[Assistant] And, uh, every time I go in, it's like they're just messing with me all the time. Like what?


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[Assistant] Like, I started walking back, cause they always, usually when I go there, you go to the back room, hang a right, and I'm just walking back there. She's like, alright, ready for you, and I'm walking back. She's like, where you going?


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[Assistant] I'm like, oh, you're always back over here. It's like, you're usually over here today. I'm like, okay. And I sit down and I'm like trying to turn. I'm like, which arm? I was like, oh no, do the left, I guess. So I'm like turning. She's like, I'm gonna come to you. I'm like, I'm just trying to help. It's like she's just messing with me the whole time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they'll send you your results, tell you how all your cholesterol looks, everything, and then I'll take that to the doctor. That way they're not like, we gotta do some blood work. Like, I already got it. It is.


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[Assistant] I think he's a, he's a snorer. I was with him recently, oh yeaah, we were flying. And he fell asleep and he wasn't snoring. Oh, gotcha.


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[Assistant] I don't know if y'all heard his, uh, Grubhub story, but I'll tell it. Last week, we all get a group text from Anthony saying, hey, is anybody at the office? 9.30. And we're all like, no.


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[Assistant] Well, I wanna know what's going on. So I'm like, hey, what's up? And he's like, ah, I just ordered Grubhub. And it didn't come to my house. It's at the office. And he lives like 20 minutes from here.


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[Assistant] We've been waiting. We're right here waiting. And they're like, we'll give you a credit.


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[Assistant] I will, if I just got back from the store and I forgot a couple things, I'll go right, like, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Death trap. Is it closed or one lane's closed?


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[Assistant] Oh yea, we all love dudes. He actually offered himself, cause I said, he's like, ah, cause I told him, you know, about the podcast. He's like, oh, you guys do that. Oh, okay. And, uh, and he totally offered himself. I'm like, dude, it's like, we've been doing this for like four years, the podcast, I think. And I'm like, you were like one of the very first people.


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[Assistant] Yes, season two. Now, Jack, you've been asking for a while for us to do something. And Nieves is kind of, from the way I've been seeing it, he's like, oh, we gotta hold off, we gotta wait, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it'd be great. I can actually get into it as well, I think.


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[Assistant] It seems crazy to, I don't know, start over for that reason, I guess, with the lasers, but how many episodes did it take to get to this? How long? To get the laser workbench? Yea. 78?


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[Assistant] You know, I'm totally into, like you said, just taking it and going, we can't use it. We still have to start over from scratch and every other aspect that makes perfect sense and I will go with no problems.


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[Assistant] Well how, so how long will it take before it actually gets to the full


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[Assistant] Once that starts, it's... No, it's not. And it's just, uh, it's just easier for the parent. Yeah. Yeah, and it's easy to judge, you know. It's easy to judge. It is. I'm not judging it.


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[Assistant] Playing it so many, like was she playing it like all the time when she was a kid or was she just naturally good at it?


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[Assistant] These were national tournaments? Did she go international? Did she mention that? I went to China.


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[Assistant] Waiting for her in the garage. She'd probably be like, I can't, sounds like she might have been a little addicted to it. If she played it for a long time, you never know.


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[Assistant] Little documentary short waiting to happen for somebody.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and uh, I had to freaking get Hulu in order cause it was like, oh, there's a new season. So I just recently started watching the fourth season, but it's so great to see what these people do.


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[Assistant] Is it equal amounts of parts? There's unlimited, let's just say there's like a billion freaking, you know, yeah, parts. And everyone has a thing that they have to do, like, what was it, this last one, the first episode, I'm talking about Lego. Yeah, I've heard.


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[Assistant] The first episode was, the challenge was they had to build a boat that kind of told their story and there were always teams of two people, you know, there's, there's siblings, there's mother sons, there's buddies, you know, from all over the freaking whatever.


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[Assistant] So yea, they were doing a boat, but they gotta tell their, tell their story and then they'll, they'll have certain challenges where you have to have, you know, things moving and spinning and they kind of tell you what to do and what category. But anyway, point being is.


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[Assistant] And, and, and the, oh, the winner in this season, the different thing is now, cause they've got these like two master builders, you know, that are, that are judges with Will Arnett, which always reminds me of you. He's so fucking likable and in a good way. That's the difference then, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, set. So one of the things that they build for the competition is gonna become a LEGO set that somebody could order. Oh, that's cool. Okay. So it'll always forever be available as a LEGO set. Interesting. Alright, that's pretty sweet. That's sweet. That is cool. Yeah, for these people who love LEGO, they're all just going,


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[Assistant] Let's just call it what it is. Let's call it a fucking meal. It's dessert. It really is. It's dessert for breakfast. It is. It's a gross amount of dessert. You got the, the, the sweet, cakey bread covered with, uh, now sweet sugar. Right. Yeah. Nothing but sugar. Fucking corn syrup. Bullshit.


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[Assistant] That's gross. That's not good for you. Gross? No, I mean- No, it's delicious. It's delicious, but it's kinda gross to call it a meal.


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[Assistant] Carrots. Carrots. How do you like them raw or do you prefer them cooked? Some people won't. Both. Okay, wow.


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[Assistant] Okay. I respect it. Right up the butt. Yeah. Hummus. Hummus and ranch can go screw. Go screw. Yeah. Yeah. Except for on pizza for some reason. I'm gonna, I'm a New Yorker and I'll put, I'll put, I'll dip, I'll dip shitty like shitty pizza. What?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I do like them, and by the way, I want to make something clear because I'm from New York. I only ever do that with fast food pizza like Domino's or Papa John's. Okay, that's when the ranch comes in.


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[Assistant] Anyway, this guy, this guy comes out, I've seen a couple of them, where he's literally like walking out of the place, he's got the box, he opens it, he takes his slice, and he's talking to you, he's like, this is this place, this is this, and he eats it, and he does the whole like, okay, I'm gonna feel it, I'm gonna talk about the crust, the cheese,


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[Assistant] Or, you know, it's all opinions. He's entertaining in how he gives his opinion.


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[Assistant] This is a big deal apparently, if you, I mean, could you imagine...


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[Assistant] So, uh, so when would, when was your first kiss?


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[Assistant] And, uh, anyway. What next? Well, what's next? Man, I tell you, Jack, that's one thing. I'm glad you really got into Darkness Falls. I'm glad that you sunk into it, because before that we were supposed to be


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[Assistant] Trying something in, was it Rainbow? Six? Was it Arma? Yeah, you were looking at me.


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[Assistant] I'd love to see one of these days when you're on like a well-deserved break. We could always just, if you still have a passion for it, cause I'd be curious to see what you wanted to do with it, especially with, I don't know, from


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[Assistant] You've been here for three years. I want to say you've been talking about that for a long time. Like I want to say that.


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[Assistant] You've come a long way, baby. You've always been great. But you know, like, I'd really like to see what you would do with that.


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[Assistant] What? Did you start it? No, but maybe I will if I listen to this. Cause I kinda want to. I wanna do a two. Is it Instagram or should we be doing the TikTok? I think, oof. Cause really, honestly, it's more like, more of a chance to, according to the young people in my life, much more of a chance to getting viral on the TikTok.


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[Assistant] Am I working for me tonight? Well wait, can we, we did, we did talk about having a s- a check-in? A s- no, a stream. Downtown. Maybe we should just have our stream downtown. We won't hear each other. You wanna organize that now?


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[Assistant] What? Change it all right now. Like three hours out? Three hours out, we do a phone stream. We couldn't


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[Assistant] You wouldn't have to be in the balcony. I'm inviting myself over to your house door is what you're doing. Nah, I wish it wasn't on a Thursday night. But, you know. I hate it's on a Thursday night. I fucking hate it. I hate it too. It's the worst.


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[Assistant] There was one or two times I think I had crashed your, uh, cause it seemed like you were having a good time and I come in and just drink. Just kind of hang out and watch you guys. So it was fun. I used to stream too. At the beginning, I remember cause at the beginning


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[Assistant] I'm curious, what would you suggest for me? Cause you've inspired me to at least want to go in beforehand and play for fun for several hours before we start the series, which should be in a couple of months, but we really don't know, right?


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[Assistant] I would never get to that level, but I would just continue to enjoy like living like a pauper.


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[Assistant] You know, like someone who barely has any. Just, I don't need much. I'm like, you know, the people 150 years ago. I got a little, I got a little house.


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[Assistant] I, it took about a decade, but I seriously enjoyed jumping into Seven Days by myself like three weeks ago. And played for 20 minutes because I was, or 30 minutes because I was trying to entertain my kid. And then when she was like, ah, I was like, come on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm gonna try living in a town, because whenever I have played by myself, when I was practicing, I wasn't living in a town, I happened to be kinda in the outskirts of shit.


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[Assistant] And like you said too about when you're playing by yourself, it doesn't matter. Nobody's there to piss you off.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Or like, you know, or get impatient with you and then you get annoyed because you're like, oh god, I want to do this. Yeah, you just do things at your own pace. Yeah, that's nice.


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[Assistant] The one great thing though about it is the food and water is, as long as you stay right by... Food and water is easy. Yeah. Insects... Is it insects in that game? Berries. You need to eat berries if you want to. That's right, I was thinking of Conan's insects, right? Yeah, maybe, yeah.


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[Assistant] I'm sure. You showed me, you showed me something about Poppy and I in another game somewhere else on a roof where you found me. Was that in a different game? What? What are you on about? You told, you showed me on your computer, you're like, oh look, oh look.


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[Assistant] I don't know, there's a game about me somewhere. I think I'm making a sandwich. I don't know. Which is another game. I've looked at like sandwich making games and there's some dumb ass freaking games out there. Be nice if there was a...


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[Assistant] Oh, didn't, it wasn't thick hell bent on being the guy running the show, or is that? That's every game. That's true, yeah, but I want to say Overcooked was one, just like the, uh, Ethereal, it's not Ethereal, but where you're cleaning up all the blood. He wanted to be the... Oh, the Viscera, yeah. Viscera, anyway.


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[Assistant] I don't remember us doing well. No, no. Hell no. No, and he, and Thicc was hellbent on that one though.


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[Assistant] Let's go through them. And the dumpster, like multiple things probably. I mean, we could be doing, we've talked about it a lot, but you know, to do videos that you're like, alright yeah, we played this for 10 minutes. It was worthy of maybe 5 minutes of showing, 4 minutes of showing it, and we played like 4 games.


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[Assistant] Tomatoes. Pickles. Onions maybe. Meats. Yep, but are you just gonna do white onions? Are you not gonna have yellow onions? You're not gonna have red onions?


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[Assistant] And in the beginning the pickled chips would kinda...


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[Assistant] Spark out from the center, almost like a firework, but not too powerful. And then you'll have a similar thing with the spears, but twice as many. And then when it's the whole pickles, they circle you and they're big and fat. Yeaah, I like that. It's a good start. Alright. Surrounded by pickles.


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[Assistant] Man, um, Richie Torres, he was my, he was my pickle pal. We were pickle pals. That's how queer, like, can I say queer? Pickle pals? Yea, uh, when I was like, I don't know, 12, 13, I remember like one summer me and Richie Torres were really good friends and then we both, so like, you know, some, you ever, you ever get that, like, you know,


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[Assistant] Somebody you go to school with, he lives by ya, so during the summer you see him a lot more, so anyway, we became more friends in the summertime, for some reason. By proximity. Exactly, and we discovered that we both love pickles, so we became pickle pals.


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[Assistant] And now like every day that we hung out, we had to go and get pickles at one another houses. Cause we always had pickles too.


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[Assistant] So I was like, oh, I'm gonna get a pickle from you, pickle pals. Yeah. Then we go to my house three hours later. Oh, a pickle pal, you want a pickle? Be like, yeah, man, let's get a pickle.


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[Assistant] This is right. I didn't even know that's where it started.


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[Assistant] I'm not a big fan of failure, and I think that's one of the reasons why people like hearing me. If you were good, you'd be showing off so hard. Right? And there are some times that I do get to show off skills that are very basic.


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[Assistant] Sometimes some people can't do it, but only for a minute.


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[Assistant] And I'm guessing that he very well could have been hearing, fuck Joe Biden, let's go Brandon, and then he picked to say the one that he could say.


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[Assistant] Yeah, my neighbor had a t-shirt at the pool. He was wearing it and somebody said, oh, I didn't know that he was, he didn't like Biden. Yeah. And it was cause of the shirt. And I, and I, I think I left. It's like, oh, that means, okay. I guess that means that, okay.


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[Assistant] Come on now. When, when, when's the FCC gonna be, when are we gonna be getting rid of it? Cause really when it comes down to like, uh, they, they already can't do a lot with the internet. Nah, I can't do shit with the internet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, absolutely. So they do have their, but they wanted to go harder in, you know.


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[Assistant] Porn. They're going after porn?


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[Assistant] Fix, and fix the roads. And you know that there are people making the roads around here. My brother's a truck driver.


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[Assistant] He sees, they're ripping up fucking roads that they've just put up because they've, they've made them wrong and they're particularly slick and people are freaking getting into accidents and going off the road all the time and you go why are they repairing this, this road? That's why. That kind of shit happens.


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[Assistant] All the time. I don't know what road that is, but we have pretty good roads in North Carolina. There's two spots on 40 between here and Raleigh in 95, that they've had to redo because of it.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, it's all- What a mess. And they rely on mail, which is the most annoying thing, so now you don't even get to pay in person. I gotta rely on getting a letter.


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[Assistant] Oh no. And paying it, unless I have that little thing, unless I get the pass, and you go, that's bullshit, let me be able to pay it here now, if I don't see the letter now, I'm gonna owe a penalty. Hate it. Hate it. Let's do away with it. Alright. No more total world conversations. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's Jersey. Only Jersey, it's weird. Freakin' unions.


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[Assistant] Listen, actually, I'd probably kill to get that fucking job up there. It's probably a good fucking job. Oh, that's a good gig. Simon's been looking.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, you know, you never know. You never know! Yep. When, uh, when I'm gonna run away.


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[Assistant] New years! Really? Saying this at eight? Or seven? Yeah. Okay.


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[Assistant] You're in on it, like, you know, with, what's with the, uh, the tall skinny white boy, when's he leaving? Yep. Then you know. Haven't heard that yet. Alright.


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[Assistant] I think it's also a lot of people in Ecuador, well I mean, all over the world this happens. When you don't have, like for the poorer cultures, they're just giving you a potato, you can eat this tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, bullshit. They should give away freakin' whole potatoes with kids' meals.


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[Assistant] See that's cool, I like a culture that encourages kids to jump over a fire pit. Yea, me too. Because, what the hell man, everyone's right here, even if you happen to face plant in it.


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[Assistant] You're, you're probably going to be okay as long as the other kid, you know, the adults can just grab you real quick.


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[Assistant] That's a 5 second rule. Right. Yea, but Faceplant and the Fire is like a 1 second rule. Maybe a little less.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And it's hard enough to go there during any sort of busy season just regular like that is nuts and just imagining the trains like just imagining the subways just being jam packed and it's such a dangerous place already.


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[Assistant] You know, like, cause you're standing so damn close to where anybody could just kinda, I was, I was trained that they, you gotta be careful and don't stand next to the edge of the platform cause they'll just push ya. Cause there are crazy people out there that do just fucking push ya.


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[Assistant] Simpsons? Yep. Just like episodes? Yeah, she, you know, she likes The Simpsons and I was like, you know, whatever she showed some interest in and I said, well, that's a show I can get behind watching. There's a lot to catch up on. Yeah, a lot. They've been on for a minute. Yeah, I went and I don't want to watch early shit.


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[Assistant] Some weird shit that makes you think that like somebody on staff there is from a different like parallel universe that...


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[Assistant] And they were gigantic, like at least when I remember them, wearing everything super big.


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[Assistant] You had something to point to on your wrist. Good thing you didn't accidentally wear your pro cancer bracelet. They look about the same.


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[Assistant] It's not looking good. I think the people just want to avoid talking to him anymore. It might be the case. So they just kind of let him in. We're talking about a guy nobody knows.


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[Assistant] But here's something off the subject, but it has to do with, you mentioned Bobby, Bobby Sparrow. What's with Edward Teaches?


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[Assistant] That's the thing, I figured you'd know about it.


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[Assistant] And, uh, so I took a selfie of us and like, hey, you know, we're here.


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[Assistant] Great seats, thanks. Yeah. And calls me the next day and he's like...


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[Assistant] And I'm like, and he refused. I'm like, dude, that's just my neck. I said it was a bad ankle. And it's like, you know, my skin's getting old. I said, my neck's kind of old. He's like, no, no, no. He's like, you're lying to me.


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[Assistant] Thanks dad. Does he believe you now? No, he still thinks that I'm hiding some sort of medical procedure that for some reason I don't want to tell him about because he's fucking crazy. Oh wow.


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[Assistant] Oh, I could, I know, it was just a weird conversation. Show me your fucking neck. I will, I will, but it was weird that he wouldn't take my word. You know? No dad, no, my skin just looks weird.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, and what I was gonna say about jealousy, man, I tell ya, anyone out here, cause I've been lucky enough to not have that issue, if you are noticing, well I'm just a jealous person, if you, so many people out there, you can recognize that in yourselves, go and find out why, cause it's not fucking healthy.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. So please do yourself a favor. Get to the root of that shit. Get it! Fuck jealousy.


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[Assistant] And eat good pizza, if you can. If you have the opportunity out there. Don't fucking go out there and get fucking like the bullshit tombstone frozen pizza. Mr. P's. You know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that wafery bullshit. If they had something that resembled a crust...


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[Assistant] And that's why we want to postpone, because if it's not too far away, let's just wait.


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[Assistant] Breath Edge is fun, and there's a Breath Edge 2 that's been announced. How long's the, uh, the estimated playthrough of that? Any idea? Nibs, you played it more than me. 10 hours? I would think. Like, it doesn't seem su- I didn't quite finish it, but I think I was- So we're probably looking at a nice 10 hours.


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[Assistant] And we probably should have played that first map again just because I couldn't find explosives. Yeaah. The first map seemed like there were explosives.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause I, this, this last weekend, I was like, you know what? I should probably jump on Alpha 21 for a minute. Because we started recording that other series and I was like, yeah, you know what? I don't know how to do anything. I don't know how water works. I don't know how to build a workbench or how to unlock the ability to.


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[Assistant] You don't see too many people tapping out because they couldn't get water. That's true.


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[Assistant] Put some paper in a toilet with water in it. It's gonna disintegrate, isn't it? Completely.


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[Assistant] Is that your argument if we would have left that beef stick in the toilet for five years, you'd have been right?


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[Assistant] She's like, did someone chow to flush meat?


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[Assistant] Why don't we wait until we know more about, cause I know Sherry's doing some research for us. Let's get to facts then we'll, we'll dive into it. She's done research. Okay, alright. I know, I know, but I, but I'm


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's- He wanted to hang out, didn't he? You know what? He was baked out of his mind. He probably walked in and thought, yeah, I mean, there's video games everywhere. You walk into this, uh, you know, business facility and there's just video games everywhere.


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[Assistant] I could probably deal with an onion, but a green pepper that's just barely browned. I like getting a little crunch in my green pep.


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[Assistant] With hummus, I love pepper. With nothing? Just eat it? I love them, I think they're delicious. They're good on their own.


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[Assistant] I wanted a picture of all of us, just one picture so I could remember we had dinner on my birthday.


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[Assistant] Let that go with it. Well, I brought the bludgeon that I had from NPC the week before. The selfie stick.


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[Assistant] My wife's like, oh, here I got the timer on mine, you can hit it, then you can line it up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that's what happened. And actually the picture took, she got the picture because she switched her chip to the other phone.


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[Assistant] Jack, nothing. There was a clear line across the screen. Everything below it couldn't see it. It was bad. You could see just a little bit of the top. And she is, she does not like to wait around to get things done. She left immediately. She didn't even say goodbye. It was on your birthday dinner.


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[Assistant] We used all of our napkins to clean it up and we never got more napkins.


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[Assistant] It was out of our zone. It was over into the public area.


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[Assistant] You know how many phones are taken from that kind of mentality? That's happened to Anthony, hadn't it?


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[Assistant] Anthony, what happened to that phone? We were renovating our office and we were kind of taking pictures and documenting it.


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[Assistant] A hole in the wall, which Anthony put there I think with his butt. He did. And uhm, I fixed it. And we thought, wouldn't it be fun to do like a time capsule when we had this little Simon head thing, and we stuck it in there. It's in there. And then we sealed it up, so it's still in the walls. And, what happened to your phone that you took the picture of it with?


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[Assistant] No, I learned mine pretty quick. I'm just, when I say I know I'm thinking about the video I'm editing right now and you're trying to figure out how to eat snacks and GTA.


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[Assistant] And color coded. GTA is a yellow sticky note. Yeaah. Seven days is red or something, paint. Think about it.


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[Assistant] Oh, if, if people were, uh, watched the last podcast, that's the one where I brought a knife to the, to the venue. Right. Uhm, I think I mentioned that I was going to an Airbnb. Did I mention that? Yeah, you did. For my birthday, we went for a night. Oh yeah. And, uhm, this place had wallabies.


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[Assistant] Like I wasn't ready for it and all of a sudden I felt something warm. Right. And then I heard the water and I'm like, oh, he's peeing. But it was like shooting outward just away from me. Perfectly.


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[Assistant] It was like the air. I could feel the air on my arm like around it. The steam from the pea. Really? Wow. The pea was warm enough where I just felt it. Perfect. Yeah. Cute as a dickens man. What was his name? Uh, Blossom.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think, I think it's a little closer to, maybe slightly larger than Poppy.


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[Assistant] That's not a chance I would take with an animal I cared about.


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[Assistant] No, it's not been that long really. We just had dinner like a day ago, two days ago. So you got nothing for...


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[Assistant] Practice some, uh, Alpha 21 a little bit. That was fun. I like that game.


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[Assistant] Now Dory, you're a drummer, could he take the lesson and then go home and like just bang on some pillows and kind of- He could.


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[Assistant] You wanna learn it? Now, you know it's not like a piano. You're not gonna be at the airport and just see a drum kit and you can go play a song and everyone's gonna go, oh yeaah. Yeaah, I heard that. That's mine. Didn't really work that. That's my jam.


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[Assistant] Do you have an electronic kit? I do. Could you bring it in? No. What if you brought it in? What do you mean bring it in?


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[Assistant] Everybody would love it if in one of our podcasts Simon played what he, what he learned and then maybe you play something that you know.


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[Assistant] That's like talking about Woolworths or something. We used to get soup done at Woolworths in a jacket.


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[Assistant] Well we made a movie that probably a lot of people consider to be crap. Mhm. It's out there.


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[Assistant] Oh no, you know what's probably gonna happen? What? More reality shows. Even more. For a time being, you're always the gap filler.


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[Assistant] No, uhm, I wouldn't. Okay. We should commit to it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So that happens within, who's the company that pays everybody in the film industry?


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[Assistant] Entertainment partners. When you're above the line or whatever and you get a percentage, it's done that way, but yeaah. I guess the streaming services don't.


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[Assistant] And is it actually surviving or is it some dumb reality show stuff?


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[Assistant] We need people out of there. I know they do, but I want to see it progress. I want to see what people can do. Long term? I want to see cool structures. I want to see they build a system to pull water out of the river. They built little pulleys. Like in the movies when the kids are like in a tree and they got like a little elevator with a pulley in there.


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[Assistant] I so bad want to be good at texting. So do you do, cause it looks sillier when you use like your pointer finger. That's what he did. I do my thumb. I don't know one person as well, but I use my thumb, but I just do a very gentle tap and I know it's the fattest finger, but I do it. I don't know. My hands are pretty big though.


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[Assistant] So we did a show. Yeaah, we did. And alright, so I guess we start on Thursday night, cause it's kinda a little mini start there on Thursday, wasn't it? For sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I almost came, I had Poppy, and I was considering leaving her, which would have been awful.


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[Assistant] Just leave her here in the office with us. No, no, not in the office. At night she can be okay alone.


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[Assistant] Yeah, totally. I'd never say that name again. I won't stop saying it now. Alright, so.


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[Assistant] Right, and our plan was, alright, so we're gonna have like a party on Friday, we're gonna go to Ironclad Brewery, and I think the party's supposed to, or we were supposed to officially start at 7, like we were planning on being there at quarter 7, and so I don't know, maybe I got there at like 6.30, not realizing, like how there's gonna be people here, of course, there's


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[Assistant] I'm in it. Get in line. I'm in it. Yeaah. And you know what? Next time we should have like six lines. Just to confide in them. Go nowhere. Yeaah. You don't know which.


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[Assistant] But, uh, so anyway, I was just settin' the, settin' the stage. Oh, for sure.


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[Assistant] It took more than five or more hours. It took more than five, like, cause originally I think the plan was, which I didn't think would happen. No. But you go like, alright, let's try to do this for a couple hours, couple two drinks.


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[Assistant] It took all night long. It did. And it was a lot of fun. It was.


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[Assistant] So they all wanted to see, okay, what is it that you do?


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[Assistant] And another one on a music account subscription that I was being double charged for for who knows how long.


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[Assistant] That's rocketmoney.com slash Neebs. What's that? Oh, it's rocketmoney.com slash Neebs.


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[Assistant] Probably. Broke down apparently today, and that's where we're starting late. His truck broke down? I'm so surprised. That's so weird. That doesn't happen every fucking month now. I think that it's kind of interesting, but then this is what happens. He just went and got work on it.


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[Assistant] Spark plugs, you know, the, you know, whatever, distributor cap wires. Those are really great things to do for your car. But when you do something and then all of a sudden something like your distributor cap comes half off and that everything's all fucked up. So it's probably a super simple fix.


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[Assistant] More now. I don't know why I'm defending it. Maybe because it's a bad choice. Maybe it's just because I like bad choices usually and I'm defending it now.


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[Assistant] Uh, but we had already said too at the same time, you know, in July, really honestly though, no matter what in the summer, just.


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[Assistant] We'll just go to a place that probably has, if we can in the future. Yeah, for sure. A different, uh, different venue.


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[Assistant] Sorry. What were you going to say? I was going to say, well I was looking at a picture over here which makes me want to rewind just for a second. Sure. Just from the cutout.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was amazing. How cool. It was such a great thing that that was at Ironclad. Yeah, she brought it to Ironclad.


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[Assistant] My, uh, my mom was there. Cause, and, and, uh, it was funny afterwards cause I'm just like, you know, so what do you think? She's like, you know, I'm really confused. It's, it's, it's really interesting. Yeah. She's just like, you know, it's kind of crazy what you do, but you know, you're good at it.


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[Assistant] Uh, so Pummel Party was the first game. It was. And I remember, cause I really do like Pummel Party.


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[Assistant] Please, when is this over? Cause, you know, our small chat was dwindling and I'm like, these people need to be here.


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[Assistant] I think one way to do a little extension of the show to make it a little bit longer is to yeaah, just play everything just a little bit longer. Cause I could have done some more of that even though it was over. Like at the end of the, you know, cause we hit a point towards the three quarters of the way through the show, it's like, it's early, maybe we'll play this twice. We did that with Speedrunners I think.


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[Assistant] At one point Anthony said that was the best game of speedrunners that's ever been played ever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's right. And at some point I was in the black. It's weird how you don't die, like I just kept on going in, but I was in the black.


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[Assistant] That's one of the ones that I can wrap my head around too.


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[Assistant] I think that- I was working on Magic, you see. Yeah, that's very true. Uh, a few of those games I think we could've jumped in the night before at the stream. Which I, well, if we're doing karaoke next time- But we did! Cause we thought about it. We did, we did one or two. Pummel Party. Pummel Party.


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[Assistant] You know what, I would say, okay, whatever, now we're just shooting shit, right, gang beast? Eh, okay, let's take a little break, Ski.


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[Assistant] And, and you could also do him, him and I against one another, you two against one another. Yeah. Combo thing, the way we did it last time, it was just us. Yeah. I don't think if a game doesn't work, we should say screw the game, we should try to do the game different maybe. I like Gang Beasts at the show.


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[Assistant] That's true. The shark was pretty awesome. I uh, I just, I suck at it. I'm not getting any better.


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[Assistant] So I might have asked you that consciously. I was trying to be like, you know what? Cause if you do shots early, you know, it can knock you on your ass. Like don't, just drink beer and drink a light beer and drink water. And that's what I wanted to stick with. But yeah, at the end of the night, I could see myself going, I see. But I'm glad I didn't cause I, yeah.


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[Assistant] And we gotta make it up, like my brother snuck into, uh, the top row, so he must have been sweating his ass off.


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[Assistant] I ran up the stairs too, doesn't mean whatever you threw made it to the last row.


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[Assistant] They stopped serving drinks early though. They just, they couldn't get the people out is what happened. Basically. They didn't say, you know. It was getting close to midnight.


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[Assistant] No, that was, that was nice. Sunday was nice. Uh, I think I only felt as good as I did too is like the halfway during the break.


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[Assistant] Dora brought it up during the show for some reason. Her brother's like, oh, I heard you. It's like, I got an IV, which was really like very nice to hydrate myself from the party on Friday.


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[Assistant] You know, it's, uh, so I did like, I did a 500, I don't know what, whether it's CCs or whatever though, I did like the small bag.


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[Assistant] No. I think it might have been eight minutes. And then the second one, so I saw it was going down quick. I said I'm definitely doing the second bag. The second bag was just saline or whatever they put in there, whatever they hydrate you with. The first one was yellow. It had all vitamins in it and all sorts of shit.


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[Assistant] By the way, your steak was on point. Thank you. I wasn't going to go out and do anything on Sunday. And then he pretty much pulled me over because his lady was like, stop being a bitch, grab your dog and come down. So I was like, all right, I can bring my dog. If I can bring Poppy.


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[Assistant] Okay, you know what I thought was cool when we go out there is like, alright, let's try to be quiet.


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[Assistant] The guys were fucking great. They're like, you know, okay, you know, it is closed. You shouldn't be here, but then you and Gaps talked to them for like five minutes and they're like, ah, you got another 30 minutes.


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[Assistant] You know what I like about the game is within like, I don't know, a minute of me playing, I made a workbench. That was easy.


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[Assistant] It does. It's like even, even little things. I mean, I'm getting ahead of myself, but even when you tame some of the stuff, like, you know, a flyer, you can jump on right away. Like you don't have to make a saddle. Maybe, maybe you can and it helps you, but like, you don't have to make a saddle in order to jump on some things, which is also nice.


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[Assistant] I mean they should hold it right now. There's no trying. Nobody comes close. That's true.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can't make ingot without having actually one of those for the, for the, whatever, the smelter or whatever the hell you call it. And nebes. So if you want to like plant food.


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[Assistant] I guess you need to have, in the beginning maybe there's one pal that does both, but in the beginning I think you need to have a pal that's good for planting and then another pal that's good for watering. So they also, they work that.


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[Assistant] If I, I just bought the game about 20 minutes ago, I probably got about 10 minutes in. Look at you. But I, I did watch that video and I want to give a shout out to the video only for this reason. If I can pull it up real quick. Yeah. Kibbles gaming for this reason.


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[Assistant] He gets to the point. He gives you a lot of information in 17 minutes. It flew by.


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[Assistant] And that's a joy to be able to go to, uh, like a tutorial. And this is Pal World's beginner's guide and tips and tricks new players need to know. Uh, really just nailed it out of the park. Cause man, normally you gotta sift through shit and you're like, get to the point. Damn it. So he speaks fast.


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[Assistant] Oh, I don't even, I don't know how you understood it because I thought he was already speaking at, wanted to have speed at regular speed, like he was speaking pretty fast. I'm fluent, man. There you go.


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[Assistant] Good for you. I still figuring out.


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[Assistant] I will tell you this though, like this has inspired me to, uh, go in and play. I'm going to do a little something for the dumpster on this game just because it's fun. And I, and I recently also just did like six hours and seven days on my own that I've already started for the dumpster as well. It's a good excuse to get in there and learn and figure shit out. All right.


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[Assistant] Right, because it's the 22nd right now. We're actually kinda on this even though you are on vacation. It's only been out since the 19th.


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[Assistant] People like the podcast. They do. Some people.


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[Assistant] What about the game? I wish I would have gotten more information out of it. I did take some notes, but...


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[Assistant] So you said, uh, you, you can deploy one pal out. Does that is when you're holding, let's just say the Fox and you're using the Fox as a flamethrower. Does that count as it being out?


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[Assistant] So did you run across any of those green effigy statues that I guess turn into power stations or whatever? Yes. Okay.


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[Assistant] I heard that I guess a good way to level up is to I guess get 10 of each of the pals. Does that make sense to you to level up quick?


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[Assistant] Okay, but is it ten of the same ones? Yea. That's a lot to store, so I guess it's easy to get that pal deck.


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[Assistant] So he did clarify that and that's me just throwing shit out there. So what we would do, how we would do it to play with each other is what registered in my head. One computer would host up to four people.


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[Assistant] Should I, should I title this, We're Not Playing Pal World? We're Talking About It. We refuse to play Pal World.


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[Assistant] It must be tricky. I mean, you know, they got burned once that they made something shitty and it's kind of like, you know, how can DC not make a good fucking movie?


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[Assistant] And speaking of HUD, uh, PAL World, it's a pretty minimal HUD. What I kind of threw me off was no hotbar. You know, the several things at the bottom. That's a hotbar, right? Right.


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[Assistant] There you go. See, I'm, I'm, I'm 10 minutes in. I didn't think I was, I was just proud of myself that I made a pickaxe real quick at a, at a club. So yeah.


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[Assistant] Right? Well, I had kibbles gaming to help me feel comfortable.


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[Assistant] Now did you guys run across any, and this is Apsro, any uhm, do they have just big bosses? Do they have mini bosses?


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[Assistant] Okay. Inside of them, then? Is that kinda typical? You know, in their inventory? Kinda thing? Or do they- When you kill a boss, does it like, oh look, here's a chest and you go in it, or are you taking stuff out of its inventory? I know it's a stupid little thing, but.


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[Assistant] See, and that is The Gambler and Me Likes That. That's fun. Video games! Yay!


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[Assistant] I mean, I still, I mean, that's one of the main reasons why I love Seven Days. It's that whole like, you know, looking around for shit and finding stuff. Loot Goblin in Heaven.


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[Assistant] Most of the time! I think it depends on the map. Uhm, well, I'm gonna go with, uh, an app store on this one that probably 85% of drops suck.


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[Assistant] And you're also in the beginning of the game, kind of like, you know, so.


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[Assistant] And I don't gamble in real life because I'm a loser in that respect, but I did like it when I did do it. I just did it poorly.


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[Assistant] Which is winning. I mean, if you could be, even after a few days, cause you go into it thinking, you know, you expect to lose, and it's just money that you're...


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[Assistant] You're having fun with, and if you come back with the same amount, that's a big win to me.


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[Assistant] Can I, can I get an example of like one thing that was for a show that you would consider just so I can get a gauge of, you know, slightly raunchy, whatever it is?


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[Assistant] So good cruise. Is there any other things that stand out to you as things you can share? Cruisy highlights.


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[Assistant] What I'm specific, cause I, I've really been interested in it in a while and talked about it and then stopped talking about it cause I didn't, you know, I don't want to fucking talk about something I'm not gonna do. But I'm, I've got this fear, that's one of the reasons why I want to go do it too, cause I've, I've got so many fears.


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[Assistant] I mean, some unhealthy. I am human. I, well, one of the fears is I'm not going to come back the same. And when I say the same, I mean like, I don't know, I might just say fuck everything and just change everything that I think that I should


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[Assistant] I pro- I would be more comfortable probably going...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've heard, I've heard that. I was listening to While You Were Gone, I was actually re-listened to Ron White kinda talking about his story. Over there, yeah. And apparently he was, uh, his first night was the shits. He's like, you hope for the puke bucket. Yeah, yeah. That's what you hope for. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Right, like this is, like I'm looking at it right now. Oh shit, I'm looking at it work. Wow. Yeah.


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[Assistant] This is quite interesting. So he's literally, I mean, he's taken very small steps, but it's, it's almost as if he's walking on ice but, but able to completely keep himself upright.


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[Assistant] It's so interesting. Now, I can't see somebody running. I'd love to see somebody run on this. That would be very strange.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cuz, cuz, yeah, cuz to me, like, I can't see how you can do any quick stop, because how does it differentiate? Well, I'm sure it would. Just, whatever. Very interesting. Oh, wow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you, you wanna see the mechanics of that. Right, yeah, I wanna know exactly how that works. You know, but that's...


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[Assistant] Yeah, well it's kind of about that time anyway, that just flew by, we've been talking for over an hour.


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[Assistant] And I, and I had a great week with Poppy. Good! Just walking her. You bring Poppy down to Rhythmia too.


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[Assistant] I did, I was just surprised how, yea I recorded like six hours in one day, enjoyed all of it, and would like to go back, but I don't want to do it until I break down this thing in two episodes. I got one episode, that's like 30 minutes that I, that I


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[Assistant] Three or four. Okay. That's six hours.


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[Assistant] So yeaah. No, I didn't do that. And I'm not prepared whatsoever. And I made my first little, you know, base or whatever in, in a horrible place, but it's about the experience. That first horde's easy anyway. You got that.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, but I don't, uh, I don't care if I die. That's what's nice too. Cause the fact that like, you go, okay, I died and then I could just click, go near my bed. Like the first time I died, you go, okay, near my back. Sure.


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[Assistant] Alright, well hey, listen, this has been it.


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[Assistant] Thank, thank you for, for the people who are still here right now. Hell yea, he does. The hardcore peeps.


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[Assistant] Something secret like at the end of one of these episodes, we're gonna have, we're gonna give them a link to a secret video that nobody's gonna see except for them.


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[Assistant] Well there wasn't much to it, you just described the game. Okay. You walk around sword sword sword sword.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, for good reason. I cannot, man, I know, this is, you know what, it doesn't suck. I got weekend plans, and I'm kicking myself now, cause I was like, dammit, Zelda's coming out. Well, which weekend? I gotta go hang out with friends.


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[Assistant] I think yeaah, that one and Zelda 2. Matter of fact, you might even be thinking of Zelda 2. Maybe. Maybe. Yeaah, cause Zelda 2 has the golden cartridge. Secret of Link? Something like that.


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[Assistant] It was. Yeaah. Cause they didn't go back to the top down until the Super Nintendo.


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[Assistant] So okay, you're talking about the OG then, probably.


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[Assistant] Never got the Switch. See, I feel like that's the only reason I got a Switch. It was like Mario games and Zelda games. Man. Because Nintendo, they do such a good job with both of those.


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[Assistant] It's so big. Yeah, no, it's, it took me forever to beat Breath of the Wild because of its size, which is great. I love a game that if you pay 60 bucks, 70 bucks for a game, I want it to last that long.


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[Assistant] Speedrun videos and just the creative ways people come up with to kill enemies on, yeaah. You can go down the YouTube rabbit hole of just watching people do crazy shit in these games.


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[Assistant] Oh yea, the enemies and everything. What made that game so special was just how reactive that world was. Just like, yea, if you've thought about it, it's like, man.


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[Assistant] This is a bunch of dry grass around me. I wonder if I could set it on fire. Yeah, you can set it on fire. And it created a wind draft and I was like, oh, I can use that and fly up and go a little bit higher. It was awesome. Yeah, you gotta, you gotta try.


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[Assistant] That was Breath of the, that was Breath of the Wild, Tears of the Kingdom is the sequel to Breath of the Wild. It's set in the same world, like a lot of the map is similar, but I guess something hap, you know, who knows what, something happens in the story that alters the map and now you gotta go out there and do it all over again.


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[Assistant] Well, I know they're gonna do a good job, but yeah, the new powers, like, uh, one power I'm excited about is fuse. Like, if you have a weapon, you can fuse it to anything or any other weapon.


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[Assistant] Just, why not? You probably wouldn't want a tree sword. I saw a guy who had a stick. Uh, and he walks up to a boulder. And he fuses the stick with the boulder. Now he's got a stick with a big, uh, rock ball in the end of it. So now it's more like a club.


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[Assistant] And making like vehicles and wraps and stuff like that. That thing, the whole scrap mechanic angle of like, yea, you can construct vehicles with fans and, uh, yea, uh, rockets.


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[Assistant] Man, I hope eventually you get a, some sort of like flight suit. They're gonna make something cool. I want a jet pack.


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[Assistant] Roughly mapped. They've done that before because they did that with Majora's Mask because they had Zelda 64 which was the first 3D Zelda game and they did a sequel to it but they used a lot of the assets from that one and Majora's Mask was amazing too.


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[Assistant] Fuck you. Man, I tell you what though, like uhm, Anthony's shown me this, the, uh, the people that mod Breath of the Wild and put it on PC, cause you can do that. Oh.