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[Assistant] It's very moving, it's very difficult, and it's very much, you swing back and forth in the documentary as well, because it's very much you're on his side for a bit, and then you're not on his side, then you're on his side again, and you're not on his side.


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[Assistant] But one of the things that I saw a lot of in that documentary and also I see a lot of other times is people thinking


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[Assistant] The way you think they should or are going to react.


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[Assistant] Um, and it's crazy, like I read this Malcolm Gladwell thing about how strangers react and stuff when you put them under.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is. So I just guess like what I'm saying is that learning this has made me


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[Assistant] Profound, not profoundly, but more uncomfortable about, I think if you, if I didn't know about it and I sort of thought I knew what I was doing, like I feel like also there's this, this real problem of stubborn, made your bed and you have to sleep with it. When it was these old guys and they identified this guy.


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[Assistant] That's a good idea. Move up and fuck your bed. Uh, so, but I guess what I was saying is that the, certainly like in the documentary was that these judges and people were very much


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[Assistant] Yep, still think he did it. I was right the whole time. It's like, well he definitely didn't do it. I still think he did it. It's like, well he didn't though, because there's camera work of him not doing it. I still think he did it. It's like, they can't, no one criticises that person for being ignorant. They're like, well good for him. He stuck to his guns.


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[Assistant] No, fuck that guy. He's a fucking ignorant prick. He should be willing to change his mind. Sorry about that. But I feel very strongly about that. Did you spit when you said that? He did. He dribbled.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, I did, I did spit, I was angry. Because like, but these, these things make your emotions run high. Because if people's lives were talking about, you know, at the end of the day, you know, I think that that's, that's the thing, isn't it? Like we have, in the same documentary, it sort of talks about how, how so many of these Nazis were given shelter in America because they were useful.


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[Assistant] You know, because they, cause they knew about rockets or technology and, and, you know, some of these were terrible criminals who were like just given.


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[Assistant] And there was a, there was a mirror there that the Nazis were, you know, conquered the Ukraine and took the Ukrainians, killed the Jews, and then the Americans conquered the Germans, took the Nazis to kill the Soviets. Do you know what I mean? It's like...


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[Assistant] It's such an obvious kind of, I dunno, hypocritical kind of behaviour, but.


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[Assistant] You know, we've, we've certainly demonized. Um, I think, I think post-World War II, there was this desire that to rehabilitate, you know, the Nazis because, because previous to that, you know, it was like, well, what are we going to do? We can't kill, we can't kill everyone in the country. You know, we have to, we've got all these defeated Nazis. We have to denazify them. Um,


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[Assistant] But you know, it felt like, you know, taking a 91 year old man, um, and you know, you know,


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[Assistant] I don't envy judges. You have to make these decisions, you know, and then stick to their guns afterwards too. Because what's these, because it's obvious they interviewed all the judges from the original trial and they're all like fucking 85, 90 years old now and they will stick into their guns. You know, they're all very much like, we, we're confident we make the right decision. You know, he was definitely did this, blah, blah, blah. And you're like, well,


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[Assistant] You can't ever say for sure, can you? You know, but they seem to feel like they did have to, and maybe they need, maybe that's part of the justice system that you have to have this kind of.


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[Assistant] This closure, this idea that, you know, once you're declared guilty, your, the mind is, the thing is set to rest. I dunno, it's funny, isn't it? Anyway, sorry about that. I gotta watch that. Yeah, it's worth watching.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go pop out, I'm gonna pop out and get myself, get myself a grab bag. Lewis is popping up. I'm gonna play the piccolo.


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[Assistant] People are having money. Wow, you could turn it into a live birth centre. Yes.


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[Assistant] You know what I find interesting? I don't know, Sipt, maybe you were invited to these things. I didn't hear a peep.


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[Assistant] You start in secondary school after summer, we're not buying you anything, and the teachers and everything were like,


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[Assistant] Look, if they don't fit into their school clothes, don't worry about it. Just they can wear whatever. So, you know, within reason.


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[Assistant] I don't think they are sponges. My two certainly never fucking listen to a word I say, so if they're sponges, they're very selective.


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[Assistant] I guess, I guess you're, like, you guys maybe are not quite at the point, because I know Ben 10 and the Batman stuff because my kids watched it. But being a little older, I'm so exposed to that.


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[Assistant] It was a cartoon about a kid called Ben. Uh, I think he was 10.


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[Assistant] Do people still have the issue of stuff selling out as much? Cause in the past, you had to go to a store to get it. And obviously they have a limited stock, but nowadays I guess you can order stuff online. I know that stuff obviously sells out, but it must be different.


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[Assistant] Well, all I ever worry about is, is my corner shop out of cider and does my vape store have my flavour? Those are the only two things I regularly panic about running out of.


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[Assistant] I've barely, I've just reaching the bottom third of my stockpile, uh, last week and I ordered replacements to, to restock just to be on the safe side.


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[Assistant] If only you had an extended period of time, an extended period of time at home would have allowed you to get round to that.


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[Assistant] How many people are we putting in the shipping container category here? How many is it?


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[Assistant] And that reminds you, oh, better get some toothpaste. But you're making out this is some hardship, but you're also saying this is a generation that wants to push a button and get toothpaste air dropped onto their house.


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[Assistant] I go to the park with my kids, trying to raise them right. What do I see but a bunch of kids about 10, maybe 15 years older than my eldest having a barbecue.


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[Assistant] In the middle of, of the, the, the park or in the Twickenham Green or something like that.


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[Assistant] With those little horrible disposable metal fire hazards that set fire to the forest down in Dorset near where my mum lives. They scorched the grass and what do I see after you've had your fucking barbecue? I see all your shit just left on the ground. Now, I was trying to say to my daughter, I was like, how does that happen? Like, imagine.


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[Assistant] I understand that there are people out there that litter. It's a fact of life, some people are assholes and they just don't care. But how do they congregate in groups? And how does everyone in that group share the same interest in littering? Because I don't know any social groups that I could be in. All my friends, everyone that I know,


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[Assistant] And it's not like I've specifically gone out and sought non-literers, you know what I mean? It's not like I know for a fact


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[Assistant] And I'm thinking that is like a 10, 12 person barbecue and not one person has said, lads, we should pick this up. And in fact, the majority has agreed not to pick it up.


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[Assistant] Like if you go out with a bunch of people and they're, they're just, you don't get along with them for whatever reason, there must be groups of people out there that I don't like or don't get along with, and they're the ones who, it must coincide with the urge to litter.


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[Assistant] What is that personality? It can't just be arsehole. That's too easy. There must be something else going on that links these people together so strongly. It's not an age thing, because I know plenty of young people that don't litter, and they'll fucking get as angry about it as everybody else.


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[Assistant] What is, what is that character trait? I'd love to know. The littering one.


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[Assistant] Right, but there's a bunch of them, you pick up something, there are bins! There's a bin 20 feet away, and they still don't use it. That's what annoys me.


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[Assistant] I'll confess, if there's a bin that's full, I'll go for the perch. But I do that at home as well. Right. Like I'll put something, because I think when I empty it, I can put it in the bag bingo bang a bush.


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[Assistant] Right, so here's my question, right? Where I live, everybody else on my road, I don't know where they all got the memo, but everybody puts out their recycling bins on the front.


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[Assistant] And my think, my thinking is, it's literally one foot to, to like, you literally take one step into my front garden, it's there. Like we don't have a big front garden where you've got to go all the way up to the house. It's like literally the smallest little London front garden you can imagine. It's like the, the bin is there. And I'm thinking, I remember when I had a push chair.


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[Assistant] No one's gonna have to bump into it, no one's gonna have to go around it, and if it blows out, it's still, it's my problem, it's not the streets problem. I think putting the bins out in my situation is a bad one, so I'm happy not to do it.


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[Assistant] Right, there's this little kid on YouTube, and when the bin men would come around,


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[Assistant] So what is, what's Horcrux? Is that a thing or a house? It was the, it was one of the other bits that was ripped off of Lord of the Rings that was shoved in the books where, uh, Voldemort has put his powers and fused it into an object. Put a bunch of them, and you need to destroy them all before you can kill him. A bit like the one ring in Lord of the Rings!


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[Assistant] It's quite intriguing. So, a couple of weeks ago, some early lads turned up. Do you remember I told you there were some Russians working in the...


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[Assistant] In the garden, they've now boarded up the back of the house, they've put a gate on the side, uhm, and they've like, cleaned up massively. And I thought that the guy had hired them to do that. It was the council. Because their neighbor, their new neighbor's complaining, said this place is like, stinks, and there's like, stuff growing into our property, can you do something? Council turned up, and basically, like, animal-proofed the entire thing.


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[Assistant] Just dial up porn. That's what the guy died watching.


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[Assistant] It's just like a huge streak of...


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[Assistant] No, I think I said on a previous week, the guy lives in Teddington, this house that he owns was like the second house and they'd rented it out and all the rest of it. An old lady used to live downstairs, she subsequently died, so now it's just kind of left. His wife is sick, so he's looking after her rather than doing anything to do with the house. So it's just been left sort of forgotten about.


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[Assistant] If he popped in, he would sell it straight away. He'd be like, I'm in over my head. There's no way I'm going to take the time to fix this up. It's a huge job. Like, it's an awful lot of work. He should sell it. Housefoot. Me and Sip should buy it in housefoot. Oh yeah, I'd love that.


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[Assistant] Wouldn't you like it, we go to the house, we walk around, we talk about what we could put here, we create a virtual version of the house in house flipper so we can try things out and see how it looks and all the rest of it and we think, you know what, we could put some stairs in there.


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[Assistant] Also, I want to know what you've been up to and your families. You'd say, you know, little Janey started school and, uh, grandpa's 84 this year. Can you believe it? Stuff like that. That kind of stuff needs to be in there. Otherwise, I just think you don't care about-


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[Assistant] It was very serious. Also the first topic is obviously brand deals, and uh, I don't get those very often. So I was like, eh, what are you gonna do?


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[Assistant] You're like, you're either small, medium, large, or you know you're in the XXL department, right? You go in there.


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[Assistant] Two days ago, box arrived. Mrs. F had ordered some plates, but the thing with Mrs. F is she can't visualize how big a measurement would be when she sees it online. So she sees the plates. These are very small plates. She thought they were like regular sized plates. These are smaller than a teacup.


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[Assistant] The teacup plate, what do they call it? A saucer. They're smaller than a saucer. And she was like, well this, look at this, there's like 18 of them for a bargain price. So this was meant to replace our side plates, many of which the kids have broken or they're cracked, and so we've had them for years.


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[Assistant] So she got them, but you could not fit a sandwich, like it's smaller than a slice of bread.


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[Assistant] You're gonna think it's a present, it's toothpaste. We get that all the time. We get a parcel, I open it up, it's stuff for the dog.


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[Assistant] Limescale, right? So we buy, it's a nice iron, we don't want it to break, it's like the best iron we've ever had. It's like this fancy steam iron and everything. Fill up the reservoir in the base with water and it's got a pipe going to the iron so it's


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[Assistant] You don't fill up the iron, you fill up this base unit. It's really cool. Very, very, very big fan of this iron. Big fan of this iron.


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[Assistant] I don't iron my clothes ever. Like it's only if I'm specifically going out to see people other than my family, then I'll iron a shirt, right? But I mean, don't you feel bad? Mrs. F is really well turned out every day. Yea, but she goes, she works at an office though. No, but even when we've been at home, she's, she's


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[Assistant] Well, you know what I think it is? I'll be honest with you. Uhm, first of all, I know that, and this is going to sound sexist, but I do know that women judge what other women wear quite strongly. Like, typically speaking.


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[Assistant] Right, right, but a lot of blokes, especially when you get to my age and Sif's age, you know, I'm not thinking I'm going to pop to the shop, I better put on my hipster trousers and, uh,


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[Assistant] And this cool t-shirt, I just go down there because I want to get what I want to get, right?


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[Assistant] Yes, my expectation is, I'm a, I'm a mess. And, you know, I expect, uh, in any relationship, you can't have two people that are a mess. You need one of them to have their shit together and be well turned out. What if the police came around for some reason, and we're both turning up looking like we just woke up? You know what I mean? One of us needs to look like they're on it. I wouldn't even answer the door.


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[Assistant] Is it true that I'm sure I saw in a vampire movie that they can't cross running water? I think that's what happened to Dracula in one of the movies.


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[Assistant] Right, but what if, I mean first of all that means, how did Dracula get on that boat? He was loaded on.


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[Assistant] But so is the, is the restriction, is it a, ooh I don't wanna do it, or is it like a physical he can't, like a force field? Like are we just assuming vampires are like, oh no I couldn't, I couldn't cross running water mate. Yeah probably not.


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[Assistant] You know what, you know what's occurred to me is that what if the whole vampire thing is like a warning to men not to get married? What do you think?


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[Assistant] Like, you know, oh don't marry her, she's a bloodsucker. You know what I mean? Like that, that idea that men, that this, this vampire is gonna suck the goodness out of you slowly over time and make you-


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[Assistant] You should save those for, you know, Brexit and who knows what else is coming. I was like, don't be ridiculous. Yeaah, look.


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[Assistant] What I love is the idea that they look at the news and they see a tiny bit of bad news


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[Assistant] I love the idea of that. Like I would love to fake out all the preppers by saying a giant meteor is going to crash into the earth. That we get rid of them all in a stroke. Perfect. All the preppers fuck off with their I told you so-ness and the stupid bug out bags and all this money that they waste and all their shit. You don't need all that shit.


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[Assistant] They want it to happen. That's what they won't admit. Is they're prepping it's a fantasy. It's a fucking fantasy. They want it to happen. And they want to be the guy that's leading the group of survivors because they're the most organized. Like the guy in The Walking Dead. That's it. Like Rick. They want it. Like Rick. They're like, I could be Rick. They're desperate for the end to come.


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[Assistant] Could we not work on that number a little bit, and maybe bring it down? You're just like, 20% is pretty good. Well, I dunno. Ask the scientists, what's the plan?


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[Assistant] What are they, what are they gonna bag? How long is that gonna, how far is that gonna get?


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[Assistant] Yellowstone Park is a caldera, isn't it? Like the whole thing is the top of a super volcano. Yeah, apparently Mount Toba.


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[Assistant] But that, that, that, uh, the Yellowstone Park, or Jellystone as I always call it by mistake, is, which is where Yogi the Bear lived.


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[Assistant] Um, that whole thing is just the top of a volcano that's like chilling underneath Jellystone Park. And when that goes...


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[Assistant] That's gonna be the end of the United States and by exten- by ext- extension, the- the- all the cloud of everything will blacken the-


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[Assistant] We're just waiting for everything. I mean, that's why I think all these preppers...


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[Assistant] They're imagining that they're gonna survive and that it's gonna be their bag with two MREs and a spare clip of ammo for their stupid little pistol that's gonna get them through it. No, no. When the end times come, we're all fucking dead. Don't even, don't even plan for them. Just pray for us with them.


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[Assistant] Do you know what our biggest fear when it comes to AI is, is that deep down we know humanity sucks. And I think we worry that if we create something smarter than us, they'll figure out that we suck. And that's when we come undone. If we create a super intelligent, logical,


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[Assistant] You know, non-human intelligence. It's gonna look around and say, these people fucking suck.


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[Assistant] Yeah. No, I've stopped at making two people and we're not adding any more people. It's just me and Mrs. F and the two kids and that's it. So we're just gonna, when we check out, we've maintained the status quo.


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[Assistant] I think that's what we need to do. I actually think that's the only way. Cause I was thinking about how do you get an AI


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[Assistant] Right, I mean if you look at kids, they're inherently selfish and self-centered and they don't understand other people and empathy and stuff like that. But all kids are different.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're just like, why do they do that? But that's the thing, if all families were given, here's an AI, it's a baby, it's essentially a baby, uh, we need you to raise it. And collectively, that raising is gonna be like, it's gonna be like, rather than we're gonna raise


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[Assistant] Can I tell you why I think we do? Because I think the only way forward to get us out of where we are now with all the competition and all the hatred and all the rest of it between countries and between people


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[Assistant] It's for us to give a lot of the decisions that get made to something that we inherently all say, it must be right. And it doesn't have any other motives and it's not trying to fuck us over. It's just making the right decision.


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[Assistant] A collective effort. It has, it cannot come from one private company, like, that invents an AI.


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[Assistant] You know those special things where people get their heads frozen? Cause they're thinking in the future they'll be able to stick me in a robot body and I'll come back to life and everything will be great. It'll be just your dick. So they'll be your skeleton with the perfectly preserved fleshy fingers.


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[Assistant] If it is gonna happen I want the giant meteor like exoplanet is coming and we can see it coming. At least it would be exciting.


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[Assistant] You know what would suck? The meteor's coming, this huge exoplanet or something is looming towards us, but it's aiming for Australia so we don't get to see it. That would be typical. That would be the most British ending ever.


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[Assistant] I think we should say, are they capable of defeating an army of cyborg warriors?


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[Assistant] Is Joe Biden up to the task? Can you imagine Joe Biden?


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[Assistant] I will say this, it is at least easy mode when it comes to the end of the world. Like it's not like this is, this has been a collective and quite slow, especially in our case, response to a situation which is bad, but it's not catastrophic.


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[Assistant] Like I'm talking about, like I was surprised that off your list there, there was no...


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[Assistant] If we're talking about future war, which is the thing that you were talking about, they're saying the biggest cause of war will be resources.


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[Assistant] A lot of this stuff seems to come along, and it's like we've been preparing for it culturally for years. There's been loads of things about...


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[Assistant] A virus outbreak and, you know, media about it and stuff like that. I mean, we had all those things about asteroids and I thought there's like the collective subconscious of humankind. I think I spoke about this a couple of weeks ago. Cultures tends to point us in directions where we feel we're already headed.


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[Assistant] Because the same things occur to groups of people at the same time. So I feel like...


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[Assistant] I mean look at all the pictures of pollution clearing up and how much, even just a few weeks of not fucking driving everywhere.


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[Assistant] And not pumping gas into the atmosphere has improved the carbon situation. Even just a few fucking weeks. And you can see it with your own eyes. And I just hope that people are saying, huh, it really was pretty fucking smoggy here. I just thought it was that way because we all lived here all our lives. And now I'm looking around and actually,


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? The air is clearer. Maybe we were doing something stupid and wrong. So I'm hoping that this leads to- it won't. Because we're fucking idiots.


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[Assistant] People think it's weak. They think it's stronger to let some twat take what they want and be a so-called alpha. And I was thinking, you know, here's the thing.


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[Assistant] People, I was watching Gordon Ramsey the other night, and there was a guy, it was, it was actually episode one, series one, it was Peter's Italian Restaurant.


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[Assistant] It's always an Italian restaurant. And this guy is like, he clearly thinks he's God's gift. He's like, he's a big guy, but he works out a lot. He comes to the restaurant, he's a giant spoiled baby, but he thinks he's the alpha male because he's the loudest, he's the biggest guy.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you something about alpha males, alright? Being the biggest and being the douchiest doesn't make you an alpha. It makes you a wannabe alpha male. Actual alpha males walk in the room and people want to listen to what they have to say and they're interested in them. That's what makes you an alpha male. Elon Musk is an alpha male, even though he's a twat.


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[Assistant] When he walks into the room, people, oh wow, it's Elon Musk.


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[Assistant] He's an important guy, I wanna hear what he has to say. That's what makes him an alpha. If he was ten foot tall and built like that guy that lifted 501 kilograms, that doesn't make him an alpha male. Being a douche doesn't make you an alpha male. Being an alpha is about being a leader that people look to. I'm sick of people misusing the term.


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[Assistant] They're the, they're the guys that incels think are like chads, right? Like just being huge will suddenly make you, you know, women will want you and that you're an alpha and you're a chad.


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[Assistant] That's what I'm saying, this guy, this guy in this show, Peter.


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[Assistant] He thought he was the alpha, but all the staff around him hated him.


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[Assistant] Nobody respected him. So he thinks he's an alpha male and I think a lot of people think that being a dickhead


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[Assistant] We'll make you an alpha because, but really what you're doing is you're saying, I don't care about anybody else.


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[Assistant] So that makes me an alpha. I'm the biggest guy and I'm the loudest, so therefore I'm the alpha male here and everybody has to do what I say. But they didn't. The only reason that the staff did what he said is because he paid them. They didn't like him. The chefs hated him. And when Gordon Ramsay stood up to him, his first response was to get all upset and pissed. Oh, how dare you! And he's like,


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[Assistant] It's like yea, of course, because he's actually been challenged and he's not up to it. Gordon's the alpha male. Gordon walks into that restaurant and everybody's hanging on his every word.


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[Assistant] I've got to, I've got to cycle to Waitrose in a minute and get, do some shopping and my youngest is going to come with me. That, that's exercise for me. A gentle cycle.


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[Assistant] What they're gonna say about Brexit is this, if a ghost hits up, well, it's the virus that did it. That's, that's the get out of jail case. Regardless of what happens with Brexit, it wasn't their fault. That's the line we're gonna hear. Well, it would've worked, but the virus


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[Assistant] That would be amazing. I mean, I want it to be a success. It has to be, because otherwise we're all fucked. Like, there's gonna be a huge recession because of the coronavirus. The worst in Europe in history, they think. And I can believe it. And global trade is gonna contract by like 25% or something stupid like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we are, we are. I feel it. I can feel it creeping on day by day. I'm having very intense dreams. I had a dream last night that I was in a toy store and there was a big box there and the box had...


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[Assistant] It was a, it was like a car. Do you remember those small cars you could drive in when you were a little kid and you could never, you never had one and some rich twat had one? It was like a car and it said on the side, on the side of the box.


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[Assistant] It said, Shrode Crumpley's car. And I thought, who's, who's Shrode Crumpley? And he was like a big guy, but in the dream I was like, oh man, Shrode Crumpley's car. He's Italian. Had to get in it, and it was like- Alfred Mayer.


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[Assistant] It was, I was driving around the aisles of this toy store in this huge like, it was like a miniature Humvee thing with a turret. And I thought this is great. And I'm a fully grown man. I know I'm losing my mind.


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[Assistant] You put the silicone at the joints, because when you fill a bath and get in it, it moves down a little bit. So if you just had grouting there, you're gonna crack your grouting mate. What you want is silicone, because it's got some give to it.


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[Assistant] So do you think that it's healthy to live your life thinking that whatever you're doing in privacy, gosh, what would other people think?


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[Assistant] I'm kind of worried about that thought process. I mean, it makes it very difficult to enjoy the benefits of living in a western democracy if you're constantly thinking, gosh,


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[Assistant] You know, non-censorship and all that kind of stuff, but we're very fortunate. But I think, uhm, you know, as long as you recognize that and accept that there are definite places in the world where things suck,


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[Assistant] I don't think you can, I don't think you need to change your, your lifel- your lifestyle as long as you're not-


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[Assistant] damaging the environment unnecessarily or harming people or stealing or anything like that, like I think just living your life.


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[Assistant] You know, I wonder if part of this sort of, uh, the very aggressive response that there's been in some quarters to, let's say, climate change, that crisis, is that because it's a thing that exists, people feel judged.


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[Assistant] And they feel like, if, if you say cut down on unnecessary energy usage, try not to drive, they feel judged. And when people feel judged, they tend to respond very negatively and they feel like, well, what are you telling me what to do? And then they get very sort of, uh, combative. And I think that's part of the problem. People aren't looking, like you said,


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[Assistant] There are definitely problems with taking half hour showers so you can have a wank. I'm sure that's an issue. If everybody did it, the energy costs would be very high and all the rest of it, I get it.


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[Assistant] I mean, having said that, the congestion charge that they brought into London, it's like, uh, what do they call it? Not a behavioural tax. Someone will know what it's called.


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[Assistant] Let's talk about how the man likes to keep things behind invisible walls. And, like you've said previously, Lewis, when you want to watch a show in America, and for some bizarre reason that's not available here in Europe, uh, VPN will get you there.


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[Assistant] I feel like if it was something indiscreet, involving a lot of mess, there would be evidence of that mess. Like, he's gonna miss.


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[Assistant] Or there's like a film of Greece, cause he'd have to take...


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[Assistant] Would the butter related fetish work with I can't believe it's not butter or any spreadable butter? Does it have to be butter?


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[Assistant] Like, I don't even like it when you see there, there's porn, especially porn related to large breasted women, where they cover themselves in food.


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[Assistant] Well, they've got their face all over the internet with the whipped cream all over their tits, so it's just one more gig, isn't it?


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[Assistant] Why are there no Amazon, Amazon star reviews of sex? I was thinking of like Amazon reviews for sex would be...


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[Assistant] I tried some sex, uh, as ordered, and it was a little disappointed. Um, whilst it was fun at the time, I did feel afterwards that it had a lot of consequences that were not advertised, uh, when I, when I first started using sex. Like, where's those reviews? The honest reviews?


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[Assistant] Oh no, yeaah, I know that, that's punternet. I think it's called punternet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's very personal. It's described a little bit about, like, like the way you would describe, like, imagine we met up at a, at a, someone else's wedding. We might describe the route we took to get there. So would you take the M4 and then come off at, uh, Swindon? Yeah, just, uh, came off of Swindon, went, took a left there. It's like that, like that's what it describes.


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[Assistant] I'm just thinking the butter is, it tends to be, is it Lady of the, Lady of the Lakes or Lando Lakes butter? And there's a picture of a, a Native American woman, very pretty, on the packet. I wonder if he's, he's got a fetish related to her specifically. Maybe.


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[Assistant] He was the kind of guy, he, he's a very, uh, he has a lot of sex, this guy.


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[Assistant] Okay. Like there are places that you can go where people know what the deal is. Like, you know, these things get out there.


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[Assistant] Yes, and so this was like a place where you went and you would be a single guy at the bar and people would go there to pick you up.


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[Assistant] I mean, I feel like it's not that different. Like, humiliation fetishes are a thing, right? Like, look at those rich guys that like to get beaten up by dominatrixes or whatever. It's the same kind of thing.


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[Assistant] I mean, some of the stuff is really weird, like inflation fetish, where they like to get in a suit, pump it full of air and get stuck in a corridor. Like, that's a- that's a thing.


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[Assistant] Okay, so Robert Crum, one of my favorite comic book artists, fantastic. There was a fantastic documentary about him, uh, called Crum. Yeah, I remember. Which is brilliant. It looks at his super fucking weird family. Now he talks very openly in his comics about where his fetishes come from.


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[Assistant] With big thick thighs, big butts and big boobs, right? Like that, there was a shape that he described as like the bean, where they're sort of shaped like a bean and their butt sticks out. Anyway, he was into very big thick legs and boots.


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[Assistant] And the reason for that is one of his first sexual experiences when he was a kid. His aunt came over to the house and as a little kid he was rubbing up and down on her leg and he was sort of like, holy shit, I'm really getting into this. And he never lost that, like that early experience. Right.


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[Assistant] Larger women, myself, like the thick thighs, the big boobs, the big butts. Robert Crumb spoke to me on a very profound level, uh, when I was reading his comics. I was like a teenager and I was like, oh my god, this is the best thing ever.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but his comic, his, his comics are very funny, very weird. Some of it takes really weird turns and is bizarre. But in the documentary, you meet all these women that he's been with.


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[Assistant] But this dude's butter fetish isn't what's setting us back in terms of the climate problem. It's not like there's a grub, like there's a pie chart somewhere showing industrial emissions, car pollution, butter up the butt, like there's a slender sliver on that pie chart. I don't think it exists. No, you're right.


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[Assistant] I didn't finish my story of Just Reloads, but go ahead. Alright, so, it's not very nice, but he was at this massage bar.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that was one thing that he did. But when he couldn't get any action, like from, he couldn't pick up any girls or anything, he would go to a massage parlour that was near him and he would go there and have sex with the masseurs or they would give him a handjob or whatever. So he goes in there and this girl, uh, was jerking him off and it was taking a long time and she got fed up.


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[Assistant] She was like, I'm done, I'm not doing anymore. So he's furious. Yeah, she got tired, which is understandable. So he was like, what are you talking about? He says, you got to finish. She's like, no.


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[Assistant] So he stomps out into the reception area with his boner out and starts shouting at the, the woman who runs the place. And she was like the older woman who'd obviously done this previously and was now just running the shop. She was like, fine, I'll finish you off.


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[Assistant] But he's angry, she's angry, and I was like, why did you stick around? He was like, well, we paid for it. You know what I mean? He paid for this, so he was gonna get his handjob regardless. His anger was not driven by anything other than, I paid for this service. You agreed to give me a handjob and now you're refusing.


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[Assistant] You know the way they've got, if you've been to Ikea, they have the chairs and they have the mechanical bottom that sits down in the chair to demonstrate how often, you know, if you can sit, like 10,000 sits and still go and have you ever seen that?


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[Assistant] We just have like a training regime like that of showing just how, you know, it's like a mechanical lady jerking a mechanical dick and showing you just how long we can join. If it takes you two hours, we can service that sir, no problem. Well, why don't we open a brothel guys? But it's all robots, so nobody gets hurt.


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[Assistant] He was, he was just a, he was an odd guy and he had a lot of, he would get into hobbies very intently. Right. So I think he's just a very compulsive person. Right. So he would be like, I'm into kayaking. And he would just be talking constantly about kayaking. Like he would know everything about kayaking. He would buy all the best kayaking equipment. And then next month he's into something else. So I think he's just a compulsive guy.


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[Assistant] He's just looking for something. I don't think he knows what he wants because he's constantly finding new things. And I think essentially it's obviously not satisfying him because you can't be that into something and then abandon it a couple of months later. You wouldn't obviously never really passionate about it. You're still searching. You're desperate to find something to be passionate about.


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[Assistant] I think it's like he wakes up, it's Christmas morning, and none of the presents he got are what he really wants. But for Christmas day, he feels this is the best present ever, but the next day he looks at it, he thinks, I don't actually like this. I think that's the problem.


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[Assistant] I agree. Like you, you can't just think of a hobby or a pastime as this is what defines my life. I think, yeah, it is something else. I think, I think really people are always just looking for something that they can be really passionate about. And once they find it.


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[Assistant] Then it, it, it becomes, it satisfies them to the point where they're happy to chill out a little more. I feel like the people that are doing something different every single day, they think they're filling their life with stuff, but really,


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[Assistant] But I tell you what, I do, I was thinking the other day about maybe trying to play golf. It's the kind of thing middle aged men do. There's a golf course near me, it's not expensive or exclusive, could go there, knock some balls around, it might be fun. It might be.


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[Assistant] I spent a week playing Kingdom Come. Deliverance Kingdom Come. Oh, Kingdom Come Deliverance. I played it for like 10 hours a day.


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[Assistant] Alone up here, I would start at nine, guessed about four or five o'clock and I'd stop.


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[Assistant] I did that for like a week almost. And at no point did I think, man, I've really been on my own a long time. I didn't care.


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[Assistant] Like it's just, even though I, I mean I love my wife and my family, I love them, but I also don't mind being alone.


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[Assistant] I think having the family there, ready for affection and attention, you go down and give them a hug and have a laugh. Ah, daddy's here, hey!


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[Assistant] That's nice to have, and I definitely, like every, like, in the afternoon we'll hang out, in the evening we'll hang out, but I'm working during the day and I'm working in the evening. Uhm, but that's fine, it's like, I don't need to be around them constantly, and they don't need to be around me constantly.


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[Assistant] She was working yesterday, she'd been working really hard over lockdown, working from home. She was like, I'm gonna take a break.


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[Assistant] She lies on our bed and she grabs her switch, or my daughter's switch, and just starts Animal Crossing. And I was watching it, and I can see why she likes it. Like, it's not for me at all. I looked at it and I was like, mm, nah, like, boring.


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[Assistant] Wait, wait, no, no opinion about whether I'll like it. I was the one who said I was gonna buy it. You tell Sips, he thinks- You're a tricky customer.


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[Assistant] Oh, but you've been playing it. I mean, it looks like my kind of game because I really like those kind of grindy, uh, build up lads, get cards, get items, that kind of thing. I like that.


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[Assistant] I increased the thrust levels by 10% and wow, the results are insane. I bake a warm raspberry


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[Assistant] Hello everyone and welcome back to Triforce Podcasts. Today, uh, I'm here, hi, I'm Lewis.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that might be that, like a kind of string, strings, well those, um, strings, those handkerchiefs.


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[Assistant] I read an article this week about going back to work and how corporations have an ideal working environment set up for their staff. Right. And so as a result, it was kind of like, I've sort of been led to believe over the whole coronavirus thing that


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[Assistant] Actually, it started off like, I thought people would go crazy when they're home all the time, but actually I think it's generally helped. A lot of people have had a better time at home. I'm sure some haven't, like working perched on the end of their bed or on an uncomfortable desk or having to share a room with their


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[Assistant] I feel like when I had any job though, I was constantly able to get my job done in a very short amount of time.


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[Assistant] I'd probably be the same amount of productive, you know, maybe, you know, I'd get the same amount of work that I knew I was happy doing and could do. And then the rest of the time I DOS off like, I don't think it's that.


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[Assistant] It's the cycle though. You know, this has been happening since, since the dawn of time that, you know, even back in old Egyptian times, people were like, well, I'm sick of figs now and all them fig farmers go out. It's all about the juicy peach now.


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[Assistant] There's a couple of stores that did very well out of the pandemic though, like the supermarkets and sort of hardware stores did well and sort of some of these places. Strange, strange necessarily, but anyway, I thought I was thinking about jobs and stuff because I watched Sips, um, fly over


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[Assistant] Like guided tour of- I'd sit on a bus where you just drove around and told me shit about- It's the AI generator.


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[Assistant] Oh, no, so it was super nice to see you like be like, oh, that's where you bought bubble gum and that's where I used to work and that's where I used to work. Yeah. Like just basically there's just one fucking big street that you wear like a six lane motorway or freeway, whatever you call it.


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[Assistant] There's like a mall on one side and some shit on the other, then a bit further down, it's like a big suburb on one side and a mall on the other, and then a bit further down, there's like a big suburb and another big mall, and it's like, it's just kind of, it was, it was very American, linear, just, I don't know, it was cute. It's nice to see you talk about it.


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[Assistant] But also the schools had parking lots of the stat size as well, which surprised me. So I was like, I'm not used to schools here having gigantic shopping center style parking lots in front of them.


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[Assistant] We tried to walk from the hotel. Well no, I remember. Exactly, like I would go and get coffee or something and they would be like, I'd be like, oh can't we walk? And they're like, no.


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[Assistant] Let us know what they were like. That sounds like a Netflix special right there, PFLAG.


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[Assistant] Do you know what I remember about the Beano? I remember getting the Beano when I was young. I can't have been like more than like your son's age, um, sips, but I didn't understand the jokes.


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[Assistant] I would read the B-note and every time I would get to the punchline, I would just not understand that it was the end of the thing and turn over expected the story to continue and there wasn't any more story. So it felt like all I was doing was reading a load of stories that abruptly ended.


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[Assistant] I don't reckon it's that at all. I reckon they're, I reckon that they're the same sort of people I talked about earlier in the podcast who have done their job for so long that they know exactly how long it'll take them to do their thing in time. And they always do it in time and maybe they've got a spare one in case of emergency.


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[Assistant] In the same way that you see, like, John Stewart or, uhm, John Oliver nowadays, I guess, like, used to, you know, Stephen Colbert, are obviously a comedy show, but in a way, they are, uh, at the forefront of raising awareness about issues, which are clearly important. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I think his, I think wasn't he sort of, sort of suggesting that John Stewart was trivialising the news by making fun of it, you know, and stuff like this?


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[Assistant] I've cleaned up my front page over the years to get rid of all of this shit, cause just reading the top or popular is just wank.


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[Assistant] Reposted guff that was lies in the first place, right? Which you then tell someone as a fact. You're like, oh did you know this? That you read as a fucking, today I learned whatever. And you look at it and it's like, oh it's like reposted 16 times from like, over the course of 10 years. And it was bullshit in the first place. Like the one I read last week was, uhm, that fucking...


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[Assistant] The old, the old word, the medieval word for bear was lost throughout time.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and the only, the word for bear means brown one because people were scared to say the word bear like it was Lord Voldemort or something and they'd summon a bear. And of course the whole thing's bollocks. Uhm, but you know, I, I sort of regurgitated it as fact to Simon the other day and he was like,


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[Assistant] It's probably not. Because people are obsessed though, like you said about Game of Thrones with being original and they can't, if they read, if they read the ending to their thing on Reddit and they're like, oh shit, this guy's figured it out. I don't want to seem to be copying him. And also if it's, if it's that obvious, then I'm going to fucking have to change it, aren't I? Make it more unpredictable. And it's like,


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[Assistant] Want to put in their games because someone else has had the original idea and they're terrified of, I don't know, getting copyright strike by a fan or some bullshit. Do you know what I mean by being accused of plagiarism of some fan?


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[Assistant] You know, it's like, oh well, why would we use buy the DLC when we could just use this guy's mod? It's like, ugh, I dunno, like, you could see the thought process and...


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[Assistant] And I think Reddit is this easy place to get criticism. People want to hear what people think of their stuff. They like to get their penis stroked by people on the internet.


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[Assistant] You know, what you're gonna do, tweet out and say, what do people think of the new Spider-Man movie? It's like, no one's gonna fucking tweet a clear response to it. But if you read like a thread in the r slash movie critic sub


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[Assistant] I do have some respect for people who criticism for a living and can pinpoint


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[Assistant] Obvious things, cause I've, I've, for example, I recently, I was given an early edition of Humankind and I was told to fill in this whole, like, survey, right, about Paris. And I was like, yeah, sure, sure, sure. And I went through and as I looked at it, I just was like, I played the game for like four or five hours and I was like,


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[Assistant] I realised that I just couldn't answer these fucking questions coherently. I like, I had a good time, but, and it was, but, and it was, it was, it was fine.


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[Assistant] Um, and I didn't know whether I was just happy with it. Do you know what I mean? I didn't have anything to say. I didn't have any criticism. But even then, like I felt like I didn't, wasn't really able to say what things I liked and what things I didn't like to what things I would change. I didn't, I didn't know how to change them. I was like, I had a good think about it.


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[Assistant] And I, I had an enjoyable experience, but I just couldn't, I couldn't answer these questions. It was like, you know, cause it was like, oh, how did you rate this thing on a scale of one to 10? And I was like, five. And I just spent the whole time like going down the middle and like, I was like, it's okay. It's like, it's all good. It's good. But is it like, is it a 10 good or is it a nine good? I felt so bad.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I can't really talk about it, but they put out like an hour long demo thing for everyone to play recently and they're gonna do a few more, so you'll get to see it. But yeah, I mean, I'm excited, but I just felt like, I sometimes really struggle to


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[Assistant] I don't know if you get this, and maybe it's just me, but sometimes like...


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[Assistant] I watch something and I really enjoy it and then I read, uh, someone's criticism of it and they're like, oh yeah, it had all these things wrong with it. And I'm like, I agree with all of that. I'm like, yes, I agree that these things were bad, this and that. And they say, you know, they end up, and if I'd read that review first, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it as much.


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[Assistant] It was, for me, like, it's all about, like, holding my attention, right? Like, when I watched your flight sim video of you just flying around, I was wrapped with attention for the whole thing. Right, I mean it was like a 10 second clip.


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[Assistant] No, uh, we don't have a sponsor this week. Uh, actually, we might have some coming up, so stay tuned.


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[Assistant] It has to be further, if it's an hour long podcast, it has to be between 6 minutes and 54 minutes. It can't be at the, it can't be at the end. Anyway, getting distracted. All it matters to me is that it holds my attention. Mostly, I think that's something that's good. Like, the ones I don't like, like I remember watching that


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[Assistant] Leonardo DiCaprio, what's it called? Uhm, great, the great Gatsby movie. And everyone rakes about it, everyone loves it. The island of Dr. Monroe. No?


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[Assistant] The trailers get auto-shortened to upload to this Twitter feed, and me and a bunch of other people follow it, and I'm constantly seeing really shitty games in there. Just awful. Like awful, awful, awful games.


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[Assistant] I played two games this week that I really sort of wasn't into. One was Elite Dangerous. Oh man, such a tedious game.


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[Assistant] I don't know, like sometimes, I've played a couple of games in the last couple of years, obviously my favourite game of the last couple of years was Return of the Obra Dinn, which was amazing, really, really, really good actual game, like something really different, really fun. I want to see more games like that. See, that's an indie game. By one guy I think. That was a fantastic indie game. Yea, Lucas Pope, he made Papers, Please.


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[Assistant] I'm talking about Horizon Zero. It's basically, you know, it's like, it's the same game as the third person controller based thing that works. You know, they have to, they can't take risks with these big mega budget games that are developed by hundreds and hundreds of people.


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[Assistant] If anyone makes that game and it's not for a student programming project, I want to be able to shoot them in the face through the internet. Just, there should be a device that's coded up. Steam, just set it up that will just, it'll just delete your game if you upload that.


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[Assistant] There's a bunch of those sort of shitty puzzles that we've seen, like the pipes one, joining up pipes. Do you know what I mean? Like it used to be like a, one of these games in Mass Effect or whatever, where you would like have a, have a hacking mini game, you know, whatever. And it would be some dumb, they'd add some dumb old school shitty 2D


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[Assistant] I think it's, it's tough because when you are envisioning a game, you, or when you finish Slay the Spire and you think, I really enjoyed that, I want to play something similar. And I think that there is an audience for that. And that there's also in the same way that, you know, you finish Assassin's Creed, you want to play Assassin's Creed 2, you finish like Assassin's Creed, you want to play Horizon series on, it's familiar enough.


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[Assistant] I think it's a very scary thing. It's a very, uh, lots of people, first of all, lots of people can't take the risk. And second of all, when they take the risk and make something, they, once they've created and put all this effort and time and money into making it, they realise it's not fun to play because they never were really able to get their hands on it properly. You know, like sometimes like Hitman,


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[Assistant] Stuff like this like sounds like it's got enough elements in it that makes it reliably okay. It's going to be okay. You know, whereas something like


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[Assistant] You know, you put out Obra Dinn, it might just be really not fun. Uhm, you know, but, but, but, but the only people who could take this, anyway, this is why with your, uhm, thousand indie games or whatever you have to look at.


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[Assistant] Visited, cold, reaches in the north of Canada, someone who's considered what it's like, deeply, they've thought about living in a cabin, they've played a lot of games, they need an inspiration, they need a figure, a designer if you will, a creator.


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[Assistant] I'm amazed. Yeah, I'm doing it. Right, okay, that's enough. Thank you everyone for listening this week. We'll see you all next week. Goodbye. Bye!


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[Assistant] Did you guys hear that beavers have been reintroduced to the UK?


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[Assistant] Well, they, they, it was, when the poll tax came in in the 80s, they refused to pay. Right. The poll tax. Right, for their houses. They eat polls, of course, or use them for their dams, so. Taking advantage.


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[Assistant] Exactly, so Margaret Thatcher booted them all out. And then, so in 2014 in Devon, some beavers just fucking rocked up. They just turned up. Nobody knows where they came from.


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[Assistant] And they were like, we gotta get these American beavers out of here. And some conservationist lads were like, uh, these are European beavers, so they're chill.


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[Assistant] And they went and chatted to the farmers and the farmers were like, you know, this is going to cause problems because when they, when they dam up a river, it leads to like less drainage for the fields nearby and it floods and all the rest of it. But there are also benefits. They, they, in drought conditions, the water table isn't as badly affected because there's always water hanging about in the beaver dams.


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[Assistant] And they stopped flooding from rivers and stuff like that, like some good, some bad. But interestingly, the farmer union was like, we need an exit strategy for these beavers. And everybody else is like, I don't know, I like the idea of having beavers running around in the country. I'd love to see beavers building a dam in Britain.


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[Assistant] Yep, it gets filtered by their dams, it goes through the topsoil and they sort of filter about a bunch of impurities out.


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[Assistant] Alright, which animal would you rather drink the milk of? Would you rather drink dog milk?


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[Assistant] You don't have to suckle, alright? I'm not asking you to go up and suckle. Oh, okay, that's different then. Sorry, I thought you meant like I had to naturally.


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[Assistant] Didn't you used to do the would you rather game at school a lot? Like that was a big thing.


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[Assistant] There's never a- what do you mean, it's a would you rather, it's one of two things. And I mean, I would just choose the, like Sip said, I think death is the only solution in that situation. But uh, yeah, that was the one he told me, that we were like, we were doing this in the pub, like doing the would you rathers, and he was like, right, I've got the best one.


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[Assistant] This is why you guys don't come to the pub when we go out because you're a couple of innocent young boys.


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[Assistant] Alright, cause I really, I was surprised how good season one, or series one, cause it's an English show, so it's series. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Do you think some of these, some of these young adult novels, the authors are like, they want to make it seem slightly edgy so that the young adults reading it, uh, feel like they're not reading a young adult novel, they're reading an actual novel novel.


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[Assistant] I don't think that's what makes it a young adult book. I think it's to do with things like the vocabulary in the book. I think it generally is the protagonist a young teenager with a lot to prove and you know, it's like if the peers of the main character are also very young,


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[Assistant] You feel like, I as an adult just think like, well this book is for kids. Because it's like, they talk like kids, they relate to each other like kids, they're the kids. And there's not many grown up books that you read. I mean...


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[Assistant] You know, Enid Blyton's famous five books were for kids and the people in it were all kids. So it's hard for me to read a book where the main characters are literally children without thinking, well, this book is for that age group. Whereas I think when you read books as an adult, it tends to be about adults in adult situations rather than


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it also moved on from that. It's like, it started off with their life as essentially as young teenagers, young adults trying to make it in this crazy universe and trying to find their rank and work with these houses and everything. And then it expanded and they grew up and they matured and the books did with them sort of thing.


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[Assistant] So here is the boundary between children's, young adult and adult fiction. Now this is my favorite line, I'm not gonna read the whole thing from Wikipedia.


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[Assistant] What a, what a withering line on Wikipedia, that is, someone's put that in there because they might have put it in there as a reference to the Triforce podcast, who knows, because of my claiming that Harry Potter is a kids book, even though it was marked as a kids-


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[Assistant] I mean, there were, there were like, it was in the news when adults were seen reading it on trains and things. Cause I can remember being on the underground and seeing all these people in suits off to work reading Harry Potter. And it was like, wow, they're reading a kid's book. This thing's really blown up and become hugely successful. But, uh, yeah, there's no doubt that it was, it was a kid's book. There's nothing wrong with that.


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[Assistant] You know, without- Neville Chamberlain was the Prime Minister, lest we forget. But he was the shittest Prime Minister.


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[Assistant] It's an original Clive vase made by, uh, Nigel and Clive, the famous Chinese, uh, urnmakers. Oh, by the way, by the way, um,


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[Assistant] I remember, uh, when I was at a TI one time, and uhm, I hang out with a wide range of people from all over the world. That's pretty much what it is.


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[Assistant] He's not Chinese American, uh, but he was brought up in China. And he's always pointing out to me that, like, the subtle racist things that you see, especially in older films, about Chinese people and Chinese culture. Uhm, and one of the funny things that I, he and another friend of mine who's Korean always references the gong, the sort of,


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[Assistant] Everything as well, even today. So I was watching a James Bond movie the other day, The Man with the Golden Gun, and every time that there was a Chinese person on screen, it was like GONG just every time. Oh my god. It's something that, as a white English person, I had never even noticed this, I just thought it was like a movie trope.


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[Assistant] That was made in the 90s. The man with the golden gun was made in the 70s, I think. Late 70s, very early 80s. I would say 79. Let's look it up. Man with the golden gun. 1974! How about that?


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[Assistant] Oddjob and Blofeld combined together to form Blojob.


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[Assistant] But do you wanna, do you wanna hear the list of names? English names that are, that are, you will not find a kid named these, these days. Now this is funny because some of these, we know people with these names. I know people with these names. No, Angela? Angela? Do you know any kids, any babies called Angela?


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[Assistant] Maureen, Malcolm, Nigel, Neville, see these are what we were right! Paula, Roy, Sally, Sandra, Sharon, Sheila, Tracy, Wendy, Yvonne, and Wayne. Wayne. That's true, you don't meet many kids with those names now. No. It's weird, but, but, but Wayne Rooney is only in his thirties, but you don't meet Waynes these days. That's true, yeah.


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[Assistant] Well, because people would say, what's that name about? And they would have to say, well, my dad really liked this bald idiot. You'd be like, well, great. Lucky, lucky.


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[Assistant] He was Egyptian, like that was his, his, uh, his parents were Egyptian. He moved over. His name was Ramsey. He was a good lad.


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[Assistant] What do you think cash is? If there's a massive financial crisis, your cash is worth fuck all. Like you may as well say, let's trade with blocks of gold. Yeah, but- I mean, if you're skeptical about whether banks are gonna survive, you also have to be skeptical about whether cash is worth keeping. I know, but these-


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[Assistant] Well, according to this, uh, the financial services compensation scheme, the government would top up any compensation over and above the standard 85,000.


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[Assistant] There is banking regulation. The problem is that sometimes it, depending on who's in power, it ebbs and flows in terms of how restrictive it is. And the problem with 2008 was that they lessened the capital reserves that banks had to have. They allowed them to trade things that they previously weren't allowed to trade.


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[Assistant] And that was one of the things that exacerbated the 2008 crash, was lack of government oversight. Because essentially, you're right, that these are just companies trying to make money. Banks are not some kind of institution that owes you anything. They just provide a service in exchange for which they want to make a shitload of money. And they do. The banks make an awful lot of money.


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[Assistant] But there are regulations. It's not some unregulated cowboy minefield, or it shouldn't be. The problem is that sometimes those regulations are relaxed in an effort by some government.


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[Assistant] Ten years previously to say, hey, let's relax things, cause then it'll lead to more money and good times. And it does in the short term, but eventually it always blows up.


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[Assistant] Everything. There's so few banks that have ever gone belly up. They're big names because of it. Bear Stearns, right? Northern Rock. These are, we all know these names because it's super rare. Because first of all, they're very good at not going bust, apparently. And the government is very good at bailing them out. So the idea that the banks are all gonna fucking go bust.


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[Assistant] It's your, it's your, it's your just chips. It's those places that are gonna go under.


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[Assistant] Now they're not, because there's, I mean, a shop opened just when coronavirus was starting. A shop opened near us that's a pottery cafe. I feel so sorry for certain shops like that. A pottery cafe, which is a sketchy business anyway, because how often do you need pottery?


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[Assistant] I wonder if they offer takeaway or like, uh, delivery. The problem is it's not easy to get the system in place to start delivering food. And if people aren't going into work anyway, they're going to be ordering less food. Last week we were talking about this and I was saying that a lot of these businesses


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[Assistant] If we change the way we work and the way we commute and travel and congregate in offices and things.


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[Assistant] If we change that, that a lot of businesses would have to adapt. And someone pointed out that they're a bartender in a bar and they rely on people after work coming into the bar or someone else runs a live music venue and they rely on weekends when people come in for live music and spend money in the bar. And if that goes, how does that get replaced?


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[Assistant] They're delivering a shitload of stuff. They are, yeaah. Pretty much everybody's just using Amazon. Like if you want to buy something you can get it on Amazon. Like there's no rival to that.


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[Assistant] And when it comes to getting food delivered, there are at the moment a bunch of different places offering


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[Assistant] Food delivery, like there's Deliveroo, there's Just Eat, there's Uber Eats, like I'm sure there's more.


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[Assistant] Here's my question. Is that if we move to a delivery only system, is that going to change where people buy the food from?


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[Assistant] A new place. You're not gonna have all those reviews. You're not gonna be top of the search results on.


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[Assistant] Delivery or whatever. If you're a new restaurant offering takeaway, how do you get that word of mouth out there to people that it's good? Cause if you have, people when they go out for lunch or they go out for dinner, often they'll just wander around and go into somewhere they like the look of.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's a subreddit where they collect them all, where someone comes in and says, the business did this out in the other, and the business is like, don't lie, you know, we remember you, and it's like this whole story comes out, and I was like, wow. So these little dramas are just recorded for all time.


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[Assistant] That's such a bad way to do it, but that's just how psychology works, right? Like, I don't want to hear from the people who say, this is fantastic, because I want to see the people that are complaining. If their complaint sounds like bullshit, I'm like, okay, it's probably alright and this person's just a twat.


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[Assistant] But if I read their argument, I'm like, oh, that makes sense actually. Then I will agree with it. Like, I feel like a good negative review.


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[Assistant] What the fuck? Are you on like voice activated or something? Like what was the delay there? Discord doesn't allow it, by the way. It'll be fine in the edit.


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[Assistant] I'm not scared of death. I'm not. Well, I probably am actually. So today, uhm, is Thursday. We don't know who's won the election yet. No, yeah. We've just got into a brand new lockdown. It's close. That election is really close. Interesting shit going down. So sorry if any of our references are massively out of date. No, no.


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[Assistant] It's amazing. It's an amazing experience. Anyway, we're not going to talk about that.


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[Assistant] We need to go and get those ham, ham, ham sandwiches. We need to take those tiki torches and bring them to ham. I was thinking of like ham gamons, what they called, um, red faced.


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[Assistant] Yeah, those, those people that we need to, we need to, we need to call, we need to start finding out more offensive language for them and using that in the street.


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[Assistant] I don't mind Union Jacks so much, but the England flag is a problem. And like the Confederacy flag is an even bigger problem. Do you know what I mean? These, there's some, there's some big problems with some of the flags. I think that mostly the Stars and Stripes is actually fine. And I think mostly the, the great, the, the Union Jacks fly.


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[Assistant] Okay. God, is this, is this cause you've been homeschooling your kids again? And you're like, you're getting on top of me for every, every little dad mistake.


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[Assistant] It's bizarre really because we, we forget that these people are, if you like our leaders, you know, imagine we were just a small tribe of a hundred people living in caves or whatever and we picked somebody to be our leaders. You know, we, this is how we've decided who's going to.


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[Assistant] As someone that they chose, you know, I feel like I don't really get to choose who's in charge. It's almost like whoever was, whoever bobbed, whatever turd bobbed to the top of the fucking, you know, sewage pipe. Do you mean like it doesn't


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[Assistant] Like make any matter to me. I, I, I feel like, yeah, I feel like that's how disconnected I am from it. It's like, I like the idea that we're supposed to be able to choose, but that leaves you so powerless and it leaves you with this feeling that.


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[Assistant] That what are you supposed to do? Like you're told all these things and especially with American politics where we are through, through the, through the lens of Reddit and Twitter, how we get information now. It's so US centric that, you know, I have such strong feelings about.


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[Assistant] These things and yet I'm completely powerless to do anything, even if I was American, you know, especially in a state which is already.


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[Assistant] You know, democratic or republican anyway, it's easy to think that you're just, um, anyway, what I'm sure to say is.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's, it's something you wish you don't and shouldn't try and get. Don't let it drive you mad. Don't let it drive you crazy. Just be aware of what it is. It's a thing that you can't control.


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[Assistant] What set it off? Was it monkfish? No! You tell that boy, you shouldn't be messing around like that.


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[Assistant] You've got to consider that again though, because maybe being that person is being a happier, healthier person. But it's awful.


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[Assistant] You just got, you just got off. Oh man. I don't, I don't think you, honestly, I don't think if you didn't watch the news for two weeks and you came back. You wouldn't miss anything. Trust me. I haven't watched the news in months.


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[Assistant] English news, of course there were, because there was no, we had no TV there. There would be no, there was no days of internet or phones.


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[Assistant] You know, he would maybe see an English newspaper that was two weeks out of date in a, in a, you know, in a post office somewhere on this, on the Greek island.


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[Assistant] So uhm, interestingly though, I've been putting together the jingle jam bundle this year and have a similar thing because the jingle jam bundle has traditionally been quite big. It's been like 40 or 50 games with a value of sort of


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[Assistant] So this is like $800, you know, like a lot of stuff, but a lot of that value is kind of.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I want to say false value because if you think about games, people tend not to buy games at full price. They tend to buy them on sale. And so most of these games that were in the bundle have been on sale. And even if they've been on sale for like 90% off, you know, that ends up being about, you know,


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[Assistant] It's still good value, but not $800 for $30. You know, it's still like a couple hundred dollars for...


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[Assistant] Maybe, you know, and a lot of those games in the bundle you're not going to want.


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[Assistant] What I'm trying to say is it's, it's not like really a problem. You know, imagine like these 80 games gave $800 worth of games a hundred thousand times. That's like $800 million worth of games, right? RRP and we're selling it for 3 million. Um, I've, I've felt


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[Assistant] Wanted to just be like, I reached out mostly to people that I knew and I think the majority of the games that came into the bundle this year, uhm, are games that have seen playthroughs that Sips have done or, you know, Tom or us or Noah sort of met me.


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[Assistant] This year, like quantity, a smaller, smaller bundle with higher quantity quality is, is something which I've, I'm, I'm much happier towards. I'm much happier now that the bundle's done as well because man, that has been stressing me out like super bad. I didn't, I didn't realize how much.


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[Assistant] I know that people would buy the bundle, even if there was no bundle, support the charity and do it, even if there was no bundle of gains. But I think generally people might give five bucks and 10 bucks. And my idea is like, I know you would support us, but can you support us a little bit more? And here's the thing that might give you some value back.


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[Assistant] I think that that will raise extra, extra value and therefore I should. But the thing is like, once I've ticked that yes, no, it's a binary thing. I'm either doing it properly or I'm not doing it at all. Cause the last thing I wanted to do is get a terrible punt to all this like, you know. You don't want your name attached.


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[Assistant] Actually, it's not all that stressful. It's just like, it's just fucking crazy. So I built it, I'm trying to build, I was building a little graphistic. Cause I've, I've kept all the data that I've done. And so I've got like, you know, I reached out to like 20 big games companies of those, like only 15 even came back to me. And of those only one game came in, you know, and then I've got like,


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[Assistant] So some people I emailed, I emailed them, so I started emailing at the end of September, and so I emailed them once, okay, then I emailed them a second time, and then a third time and a fourth time, and I kept them all, right? And so the second time I would try additional contacts, the third time I would try their


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[Assistant] Uhm, as well. So I had a, I had an initial contact. I had like contacts on their website. I had contacts that other people knew. And then the fourth time I emailed them, I would hit up their Twitter.


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[Assistant] And then I would, if they had a discord, I would go and message them on discord as well, which is like bananas. Um, and so it was like this process and sometimes even with all that, like certain people I couldn't reach like, like darkest dungeon.


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[Assistant] Red hook games. We did this last year. We reached out to them. We have contacts. We know people there. I got not a single reply for like a month and a half of like 25 different ways to contact them.


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[Assistant] For being ghosted, it does feel a little bit, it's bizarre. Like, like it's not even being ghosted. Some people did do that. Some people were like replied and said, oh yeah, I'll get back to you. And then went silent for a month and a half. And it's like,


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[Assistant] They, they almost like, I know what that's like, right? But I think you do have to make a, I, I, I, I forget this stuff all the time. Like, you know, I woke up this morning at like 10 to 10. I was like, oh shit, trifles. Do you know what I mean? I, I forgot. Do you know what I mean? It got away. Time got away from me. I was busy. I was doing stuff. I was all day, whatever it is. I'm not saying these people don't care. I'm just saying that like, um,


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[Assistant] Sometimes it's tough to get a no from someone or say something like, oh, you know,


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[Assistant] Or say something, some excuse that's kind of like really odd, like, oh, this is going to be too much work for our team. And I'm like, what do you mean? You just have to generate keys and send them to me. That's all it is. You don't mean some, some bullshit excuse. Um, but, but it's as much tough as it is to hear that. I'd rather have that.


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[Assistant] You're too short. I don't know, do you know what I mean? Rather than telling me the truth or what they think, maybe they think it's safer to just ghost me.


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[Assistant] Speaking of finding your thrills, god, so this week, I've decided to watch the old Twin Peaks. For some fucking reason, it had been talked about too much and I was just too young to be caught up in the water cooler.


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[Assistant] So, so Twin Peaks is like, at first glance, it's got a lot of characters, all of whom look the same age, some of whom are supposed to be 18, some of them who are supposed to be, you know, in their thirties, but they all are acted by 25 year olds and sometimes they're even like their mums.


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[Assistant] It's, it's kind of, it's got these odd, shitty, soapy comedy moments where those characters,


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's bizarre and it very quickly devolves into surrealism and supernatural.


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[Assistant] And, you know, he's like trying to figure out, but he's got some unorthodox ways. And before long, there's like a supernatural spirit possessing random people.


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[Assistant] Going crazy and seeing like giants and dwarves everywhere and, and it's, it goes a bit wild and, and honestly.


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[Assistant] It's very of its time. Okay, but listen.


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[Assistant] So David Ditch is actually in it, by the way, and he plays as this FBI agent who is deaf, right?


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[Assistant] Comedy death. So he has like headphones in.


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[Assistant] And shouts. That's it. That's his comedy deaf like thing. And he's actually, it's actually fine, but it felt to me like a lot of things felt to me of, of like they were over time when they were slightly like, like David Duchovny appears as a transsexual, um, FBI agent. It's like his boss. And one of the things he sort of


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[Assistant] One of the moments where he walks in, he walks into like, uhm, one of these, to meet one of these teenage girls, there's three teenage girls, or four maybe, I can't remember, there's a number of teenage girls in it who are all,


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[Assistant] All having sex with various people in soap opera style, right? Uhm, and he walks into the room with one of them.


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[Assistant] And she's like, I didn't know they let women into the FBI. And he was like, he's like.


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[Assistant] He's like Riley smiles and says more or less, but he looks exactly like his character in the X-Files, right? Because he did that like a couple of years after and sometimes he actually doesn't wear the makeup and lipstick and hair and stuff. But there's this one amazing scene where David Duchovny has to put on lipstick and it's like no one has ever coached him on how to do it.


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[Assistant] So he's obviously been in makeup and had the lipstick put on him by people, but when he actually has to do it himself, he just does it like he's licking a lollipop or something, like rubbing it on his...


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[Assistant] He doesn't know how to do it, right? And so it's, it just, it's, the whole thing is so detached from reality and so odd and so hammy, like in so- It is.


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[Assistant] It's the comedy, the slapsticky bits that get me though, right? Because while at the same time there's been this teenage girl who's been


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[Assistant] Not by far, a bloody pirate's eye patch. Okay. Just totally is okay with wearing that, but she works out at this home gym. Okay. Which is basically just one of those crappy.


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[Assistant] And she has like, she becomes like so strong, but then she injures herself due to her own strength and gets amnesia and thinks she's 18. So they put her back in the high school with all the other girls.


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[Assistant] Where she instantly starts like trying to date all the boys, right? And she's all happy. She's acting like she's 12 actually. She's like so childish and then suddenly she joins this boys wrestling team where she literally can just throw these boys.


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[Assistant] And it overlaps into the main story because her brute strength is supposed to be this comedy thing, but then it happens like someone's getting assaulted and she comes in and because she's so strong, she can like stop it and it's like,


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[Assistant] It's like what? Like, so, so the jokey thing that I thought was just a kind of exaggerated slapstick thing is now actually true. And so she is super strong and then she starts dating one of the 18 year old boys and it's like, that's okay.


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[Assistant] It's, it's very weird. And I did enjoy all of it. I will say that the setting is amazing. That hotel. Oh yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, which is still going. Washington state. Yeah. Yeah. It's all, it looks beautiful. It's on this waterfall. It's paneled and crazy. And I think the hotel does still do a good trade off. Yeah. Yeah. It exists. Yeah. It's, yeah.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's just, uh, it's obviously a beautiful Pacific Northwest place. It all feeds into this.


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[Assistant] I started this chat thinking that I was going to tell you how much, how much I thought it was crap. And as I've told you, I've realized I've come to the self aware realization that I actually must have quite enjoyed. Get the books.


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[Assistant] I don't think I want it to like it, but there's things about it that I obviously did. Uhm, do you know, are you aware of this, pflex? You've gone quiet as if it's, you're not.


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[Assistant] It was like a lot of it was watching a soap, but when you tried to actually try and figure out what was going on, like who murdered, who actually murdered Laura Palmer is like still a question. So I was talking to Kaz in the office and she was like,


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[Assistant] I think that is like a project though, that's like a cross-stitch project, like sometimes you watch a movie that's well-crafted and it leaves you, oh, yeah, it's uhm...


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[Assistant] I feel like David Lynch doesn't have any idea what that thought that he's supposed to leave in people's mind is and he also probably understands that everyone will


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[Assistant] I don't know, something important, but I think with David Lynch, it's like, what's the message? Is the message to just be a better criminal or like to, maybe it was just ghosts. Like what's the fucking message there?


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[Assistant] I think also he doesn't care. Like I think he's very provocative in that sense and that's not necessarily something which can be very satisfying as a movie. Especially a lot of people consume movies or TVs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I do agree. I thought it was great. Um, so yeah, I, I, I will watch the rest and see what I think. Yeah. Um, it's interesting to hear your, your thoughts on these things. Cause I, I remember I read, I watched, I kept talking about this movie. I watched, um,


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[Assistant] I feel like the X-Files was like a response to Twin Peaks in some ways, bearing in mind that I watched all the X-Files a couple of years ago because I really liked it. And I did watch all of it. Like some of it was terrible, but I'm a big fan and it was, it was the thing that my parents had on in the evenings. You know, I'd hear the


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[Assistant] In a sense, like you have these one-off episodes where they're almost like.


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[Assistant] Is this just a bunch of crazy people in the woods or is this supernatural or is this aliens? And some of them were very lynchian in a sense. Some of them were very.


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[Assistant] Just ordinary, like an episode of CSI. Um, and you didn't know what you were going to get, you know, but it was wrapped up in a bow and at least at the end of it, it told you maybe that someone said a line that was like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, who knows what's out there in the woods, you know, or something like that. Like, uh, these spirits have been around. Who are we to say that they don't exist? I don't know. Do you know what I mean? Like there would be some, almost like.


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[Assistant] I think that that's what people expect though, you know, and I think that's what other shows have learned to deliver. And I think that's why the X-Files ran for 15 fucking seasons or however long it did, because it was, even though a lot of it was crap, that episodic format worked for the convenience of TV back then. People didn't


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[Assistant] Always catch every episode and they didn't want to feel like they were, they'd been left behind or lost or missed the clues. It's not very satisfying to watch a TV show where you feel like you've, you know, you're like, oh, I missed last week. Do I, do I like understand what's going on now? Why should this look the case? Like, oh, you know, you get, you feel like you've.


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[Assistant] You've, uhm, fallen behind. I dunno, it's not very satisfying.


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[Assistant] I can recommend it to people, I really can.


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[Assistant] I didn't think, I thought it was, I didn't know what I thought it was. I guess I thought it was like...


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[Assistant] I guess I thought it was some sort of, like, bizarre horror mystery thing, whereas it's not. It's kind of like a sort of jovial, soapy, jokey somewhat of a mystery thing. It's very dark. It gets very dark. Can I recommend another TV show?


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[Assistant] Wow. Okay, good. I need, I need that in my life. I've definitely, I've just finished, um, book two of the, um, Alex, Alistair Reynolds Revenger series, which just felt like it went nowhere. Um, but I, but I think it leads into book three. So I'm starting there. I'll give you a feedback next week once I'm done. So yeah, I'm kind of done with sci-fi though at the moment. I want some.


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[Assistant] That's enough. Thank you everybody. Uh, we'll talk about how much we hate. We'll see if we can survive another week of lockdown after a week.


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[Assistant] They like to keep it in the family, you know, they like to. Do they have tops on? Because it is boiling. They do.


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[Assistant] You look like, uh, you look like Archer's mum from the, um, show Archer. Um, but a hot version, like, I mean, like, over-heated version, I should say. Oh yeah, not, yeah, well, clarify it. Not, not like the, not like a MILF. Uh, what a stoop. Fuck, I hate that.


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[Assistant] I just, no, I'm not really, and you still see it, like, I don't know if it's like people just like saying it ironically or something, but like you still see it around, and it's just, when's it gonna go away? You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I think it more, it mostly comes from that because it, it originates with that American pie movie, right? Stiffler, that's right. And I think that the whole Stiffler thing was just.


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[Assistant] I mean, I went to school with people like that and I didn't like them then either. And, uh, I still don't like them.


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[Assistant] It doesn't thrill me beyond words, you know what I mean? Like if, if, if somebody says it, I, I can excuse it. You know what I mean? Like at least it's an actual word.


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[Assistant] I'm personally a little bit uncomfortable with like hyper sexualized situations and people. I find it, I find it way over the top personally. I'm not even a prude, you know, like I think if you think of it as a comedy song.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's too much. Maybe that's the dad in me, or maybe I'm just getting old or something, but that's just like too- You're getting detached. I wish we could go back.


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[Assistant] I suppose so, but it was like, I don't know, I guess there was some sort of like comedy value to it as well. Or like maybe, I don't know man, it's weird.


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[Assistant] I've never thought about it specifically that way. I think it's just, uh, like, I don't know, it's just like, I just, it's just like a little bit, not like, I'm not embarrassed for them. I'm just like embarrassed to, to, to be me when that is happening. I don't know how to explain it. It's just like, it absolutely makes me cringe. Like I can't.


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[Assistant] Don't get me wrong, I don't mind watching some, some butt shaking. I, I just like, I don't know, there's gotta be some like, it's like, it's kinda like right place at the right time sort of thing, right? Like, I don't know, I just think that.