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[Assistant] What do you think? Fill her up and seal her shut. Here we go.


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[Assistant] It's, it's good. It's like an alt-y. It's like a version of a popular song though, right? It's like just, just, right? It's like a- Tweaks or no?


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[Assistant] John submitted this. Fill her up.


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[Assistant] Yep, I do like that. I do like that. Uhm, this one's from Chris. Let's see, Chris's entry, fulfill her up and seal her shut.


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[Assistant] Thank you, Ali. This is so hard. Foof. Who's this right here? Who's this fucking guy? Who's this fucking guy?


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[Assistant] Good. Very good. Uhm, did you make, uh, did you re-send me the, uhm, the song, the... Yeah.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's in the folder. Okay, okay. So we have, uhm, this was submitted by a listener, right? So, a listener, oh, the pushing anthem.


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[Assistant] A listener took crazy locs.


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[Assistant] STOOMIE on SoundCloud. Thank you, sir. We'll leave you guys. We need to get, by the way, can we get a poll going for the filler up song? We'll do a filler up poll.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we'll do a YouTube clip. That's perfect. We'll do a YouTube clip saying...


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[Assistant] Hey, here's a filler up, uhm, contestants. And then you guys can say...


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[Assistant] Uh, underneath that in the comments, the first one, the second one, or, or that we-


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[Assistant] I'd love for you guys to comment on it. So we'll do that. Uhm, StuMe, thanks a lot. Here is...


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[Assistant] Crazy looks pushing, uh, made by Stu me going on out. So thank you guys.


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[Assistant] A lot of people think juglets are just like, they're just these big whores. No.


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[Assistant] Large Big Titties, Utah, uhm, Salt Lake City.


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[Assistant] Five sold out shows. Wow. Incredible. That's so awesome. Were they all Mormons? Everything was like a service. It was like I was conducting mass.


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[Assistant] Andy Gold opening the shows. Really fun time. Next I'll be in a...


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[Assistant] Phoenix, Fartnicks, Arizona, downtown Fartnicks, Arizona, at Stand Up Live, February 26th and 27th.


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[Assistant] Then, uh, March 10th through 12th in Tacoma.


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[Assistant] Then, uh, March 17th through 19th, uh, Ball Sacramento, California, the punchline.


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[Assistant] Uh, Hilarities, uh, in Cleavage Land, Ohio, March 31st through April 2nd. Okay? Cleavage Land?


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[Assistant] So that's uh, that's the full, that's the full run for a while there. Uh, and I am coming to Spokane.


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[Assistant] In Washington also, and that's in late April. What do you got, jeans?


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[Assistant] Thank you to your jeans. And thank your mother's jeans. Uhm, alright.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's really exciting. Let's, uh, let's open the show. We can talk all about it. Ready? Ready to start the show? Yeah? Excited?


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[Assistant] Uhm, it is definitely too big. The one that I have.


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[Assistant] It's like, it's hanging down past my elbows.


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[Assistant] I actually ordered the right size and they sent me the wrong size. Me! The guy that


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[Assistant] And uhm, yeaah, so I have the wrong size shirt. But uhm, and then some people have been messaging me that they ordered their shirt. Where is it? Well, if you'll look, the Subcane shirt is a pre-sale. Meaning that it's going to ship.


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[Assistant] We brought it back because the first time we did it, we sold out of everything super fast. We brought it back.


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[Assistant] I hit the brakes and they were walking down the street and I go, I farted. And then I hit the gas and they were totally, that was fun to do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I actually, the time that I first yelled my black yell.


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[Assistant] The guy that responded back. So I yelled and then he went.


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[Assistant] By the way, uhm, why are you wearing my sweatshirt right now?


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[Assistant] On the flight to Salt Lake City and the flight back from Salt Lake City.


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[Assistant] Uh, so Doug Mallard and I went to Salt Lake City and he was like, wow.


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[Assistant] And then I told him how you said your take was that I look like the retarded guy that goes to the library every day and everyone's like, hey Kevin.


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[Assistant] So, when I was on the plane, uhm, first of all people would board, and I would see them go like,


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[Assistant] One of the flight attendants came over and talked to me like I was...


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[Assistant] Super special. And I realized that I almost sounded special back, because I was actually putting together, I've almost confused why I got it, you know what I mean? So I was trying to tell her, she goes, uh, she was walking through the cart, the aisle with the cart, and she goes, so uhm,


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[Assistant] Where'd you get that? Like, I had it made. And she goes...


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[Assistant] Why'd you do that? And then I was confused.


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[Assistant] I didn't realize, I didn't remember that it's actually, it was made first and then I go, oh I want to get it.


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[Assistant] I was thinking of like my first special where I have a joke where I say, he came through a jellyfish last week.


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[Assistant] So I go, I didn't want to explain that I do comedy, so I just said, I talk about it, so then I got one.


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[Assistant] And I was like, oh no, I actually sound retarded because I'm going, I talk about it and then I wanted it. And she goes, that's really nice. And she talked to me like I was really, really special.


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[Assistant] And then she goes, I go, I have another one with a raven on it. And then I pulled it up. Cause my phone was out.


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[Assistant] And she goes, I'm listening. She was serving other people drinks.


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[Assistant] And then I was like paging through my camera roll. I was like, this one is me with a raven on my sweatshirt.


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[Assistant] Wait, you don't think any woman would be like, whoa, what's up with him?


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[Assistant] Uhm, here's how she talked to me. I actually thought this later, like as the flight was progressing, it felt like somebody went, I dare you to ask the guy, that retarded guy about his stuff.


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[Assistant] It would have been so good if I- Man, I wish I was in first because then they would have been like- I just retarded it.


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[Assistant] Somebody posted when I, cause I posted a picture of me in that sweatshirt.


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[Assistant] They said, this is how I imagine like the, the seat, like the guy that the startup CEO.


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[Assistant] It's sad circumstances, but that 11 year old girl saying cunt twice on like the Today Show or Good Morning America.


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[Assistant] I like, I love the part where she goes, yeah, we just gotta be careful. It's okay, sweetie.


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[Assistant] Well, it's like some bullying went on and something horrible happened. I don't know if someone killed themselves or killed somebody else. And they're asking her like what, you know, what she saw.


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[Assistant] So she starts saying, well, I saw these tech, which, which text messages did you see?


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[Assistant] Well they're just so, everyone's emotions are so phony on it. It's the phoniness.


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[Assistant] I show up usually in a bad mood at those things. Of course, yea. And when they're like, someone really funny is going to be in town!


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[Assistant] The same stupid energy. I know. So uhm, and uh, now I switched gears, a very funny man is in town, he's gonna be at the mall, at the club at the mall.


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[Assistant] I just want to tell you, validating your depression sucks out there.


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[Assistant] And then the guy's like, weather sucks too. Then they cut back. What happened to sports? Our team's lost. Alright. Thanks.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yesterday was the pooper bowl.


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[Assistant] I gotta tell you, I know you don't listen or care about football. I'll just say this, uh, with regard to football stuff.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I was surprised at what happened. I tried to pick it just as a fan of the game and tried to be objective. Totally thought it was going to go the other way.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I know you don't understand what I'm saying, and I'll jump out of this, but I just wanted to say congratulations to the people of Denver, uhm, and, uh, and really


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[Assistant] What an unbelievable showing, because it was incredible.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, the people that organized the Super Bowl thought, what better way to get things started than bringing in seal?


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[Assistant] What do you think Seal's up to? Yeaah, I know. And I just started saying, like, can you imagine, like, I go, I think he probably just still, still towards Europe and like, Eastern, Eastern Europe, let's be clear.


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[Assistant] You know. Central. First of all, I mean he had like a few really huge songs.


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[Assistant] Right. The Kissing Jeans with the Rose song.


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[Assistant] Can fuckin' sing. Like those songs are, are, were hits for a reason, right? Like,


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[Assistant] We're just talking about, I wonder, you know, if he just toured Eastern Europe. I'm sure actually, and I'm sure Western Europe too, if he goes, hey I'm coming to Barcelona, that shit's sold out immediately.


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[Assistant] For sure. Paris. Sure. Yeah. Rome. Yeah. I think it's still, I think it's still as a draw. Okay.


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[Assistant] But anyways, we're sitting there and then the pre-game's on, you know, you put the, what it was on, CBS, I forget what it was on, and you go, I'm just gonna, you know, let it run up to the game. And I turn to the TV during the pre-game show and there's Seal, and I'm like, and then there's the huge audience outside, I'm like, what a bizarre selection.


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[Assistant] It's been a while, it's been a minute. And it's just also weird, I don't know, you think of football, it's such a huge commercial product, I always think that


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[Assistant] Gah, gah, gah, is there uhm, I don't know. Whoever is, if they book like Kendrick Lamar, if they book, you know,


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[Assistant] They're kind of white bummers, but I mean it's still, I guess it makes sense, but...


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's just, it's always interesting, like, you're always like, why did they select these people to do this?


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[Assistant] I don't know what the fuck was going on. I don't know if he was just like, what, I'm doing what today? And then they go, no, you're singing.


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[Assistant] So it was like the first 30 seconds minute, uh, he was just like...


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[Assistant] Isn't that crazy? And then all of a sudden I was like, this is really horrific. And then he decided to sing. It was like at one moment he goes, alright, I'll sing now.


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[Assistant] We don't have it. Sorry, I thought we had it. Um, I guess they interviewed him afterwards.


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[Assistant] Yeah, basically if you, uh, well if you saw it, you know, but if you didn't, we'll try to find it over the next week maybe. But he basically for the first...


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[Assistant] That, that, uh, that song was huge, man.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was one of those songs. That's a song where this guy can, can tour, as I'm saying, for the rest of his life, you know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is such a dad song. You know what my dad used to do? Is get songs he likes like this, but get the single.


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[Assistant] Over and over and over and over and he's like, I like it. And then, that's all you would hear in the car with him.


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[Assistant] I could, I could find, I'm trying to think right now of the one that I'm thinking of. It's another, it's a dad song like this.


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[Assistant] I think what happened is he tried, he tried to find what's modern Motown.


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[Assistant] That kind of simple chorus, simple beats, you know, like the melody was catchy to him.


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[Assistant] My dad would not be cool. Not even a little bit.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Yeaah. Yeaah. Saks and McDonald's coffee. Coffee. Yeaah. The best coffee in the world.


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[Assistant] On, so the Team Coco YouTube page puts your appearance. It all says, hey Hitler. Like a thousand times it says, hey Hitler. And then people are going, why do they reference Hitler with this guy? What is it about him and Hitler and his jeans?


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[Assistant] I should say this, uhm, I wanna thank, uh, Team Coco. They were really cool to me.


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[Assistant] Our son was on the show. Our son made his TV debut seven weeks old. Isn't that crazy? Uhm, so here's what happened. I have a video of a log up if you go to my YouTube page, which is Tom Segura, and I hope you subscribe to it.


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[Assistant] We, uh, we, we videoed the whole backstage.


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[Assistant] Uhm, experience of going on Conan.


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[Assistant] And uhm, you can check that out on my YouTube page. We also have...


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[Assistant] Your mom's house has a YouTube page that is now active.


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[Assistant] So if you go on YouTube, and I'll pull it up just to make sure I give you the right URL.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, of course. Uhm, I wanna do this, your mom's house. Let me give you this. So, if you go to youtube.com slash your mom's house podcast.


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[Assistant] We have added in the last week alone, uhm, looks like


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[Assistant] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight videos.


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[Assistant] And this episode right now, which is episode 330,


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[Assistant] So please, please subscribe to the page. Prescribe to it. And that way you can see the prescriptions that we put up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we're making a video of Focus, and we're hoping that uhm, you'll enjoy that with your dirty little jeans.


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[Assistant] So wait, Conan was a lot of fun. I was on with Josh Brolin before...


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[Assistant] I went on, we were talking and you said you think you'll talk to him. I didn't get to talk to him.


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[Assistant] We had dressing rooms next to each other, but he had a team with him.


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[Assistant] Hey Hitler. Uhm, so here's something I want to bring up about the Hey Hitler. And that is that some people, in a FedEx sort of way,


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[Assistant] What I'm saying is that if that's what you're hearing there and you're not hearing it,


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[Assistant] I asked, you know, what do you hear here? This is another video of hers that she put out. What do you hear here?


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[Assistant] I don't know man, it sounds very bizarre. Uhm, which is a weird way of, of communicating. Let's say that. Let's say that. Uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's really, it's really bizarre. I mean, so now we have two controversies for what she's saying because there are people who swear she's saying, Hillary, Hillary.


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[Assistant] That was when you could not believe what, uhm, Half Ounce was saying. That's his name.


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[Assistant] The queen. The queen of all.


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[Assistant] If you have one set of keys, they hit you up for like 600 bucks.


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[Assistant] I'm really kind of like, I don't know where else to look. I'm looking in all the pockets and...


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[Assistant] Oh yea, and then, by the way, when I dropped off that donation, I opened the bag, and I had them take out each article and check all the pockets a second time.


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[Assistant] Just on the fucking floor. It's on the floor underneath what? Where the keys usually hang. Where we hang them.


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[Assistant] And we never even looked down there. Didn't look. Like a couple of fuckin'... READY!


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[Assistant] We have the keys. Thank the Lord that we have the keys. I really am thankful about that.


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[Assistant] That's the way to do it. It's definitely a changer. You should always do that at the dentist's office.


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[Assistant] Sure, cause you go to do something. I hold the baby, and I realize I'm sitting there with morning mouth.


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[Assistant] Now, I ended up afterwards going to brush my teeth, but I can see how...


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[Assistant] You know, you get distracted enough, maybe you just end up brushing.


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[Assistant] He titles his subject line as Dental Truth.


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[Assistant] He says hello mommies, I normally agree with most of your opinions on the genes of life.


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[Assistant] Brushing AM and PM is key of course, but I fear that my mommies have been brainwashed by the dental industrial complex. Perhaps I myself have just been blessed with extraordinary teeth, but I have not been to the dentist in 15 years.


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[Assistant] And my chompers are doing great. White, straight, and no pain. Waste of money!


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[Assistant] P.S. Christina, wipe your filthy ass before getting in the shower. What's wrong with you? Now, I have to agree with his P.S. but disagree with the subject


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[Assistant] Well, he could have problems. You know, there's sometimes there's certain things with people that they're genetically just gifted with, you know? Yeaah. I mean, it could be... God blesses. God blesses people. Absolutely. So...


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[Assistant] That's true. That's true. And it could be that that's his blessing is he's got perfect teeth.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't think that's good advice to just go, oh, you never need to do that.


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[Assistant] Get your life, get your teeth. Get your life.


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[Assistant] Speaking of Pastor Manning, that's who that is. This is Pastor Manning.


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[Assistant] The, the at, what is it? Atla Church in Harlem that he is the lead pastor of. It's, uhm, it's apparently going to be auctioned off. Okay. Uhm, there's something going on with his, uh, you know, bills. He's not paying up. So here's a little bit of him discussing this here, okay? Let's see.


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[Assistant] So, the sodomites are out for him. The sodomites are out to get him. Uhm, you know, they're everywhere, really.


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[Assistant] So, this part though is particularly, uhm, entertaining. I think you really gotta...


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[Assistant] Understand what he's saying here. So, if you don't know the controversy behind this guy, this is the guy that said that, uhm,


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[Assistant] That Starbucks has a semen in it.


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[Assistant] Really anti-Obama, uhm, really anti-Starbucks, which really bothered me because I'm a, you know,


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[Assistant] I'm a big Starbucks fan, I mean, I'm drinking semen right now and it's delicious and they fooled me, they got me, uhm, cause I go and I pay for it regularly.


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[Assistant] Uh, he's really anti-gay, I mean like to the, I don't know, whatever degree.


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[Assistant] That's the only, that's the only flaw in your assessment of Starbucks semen is that it's hard to get pregnant from drinking it. Right?


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[Assistant] So uhm, the pretty controversial guy, and so since the house, the church, the building is up for auction, at least that's what the news is saying, uhm, and he's so anti, you know,


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[Assistant] They're saying that some, that maybe some gay organizations are trying to raise the money to turn it into either like an LGBT, you know, center. Yeah, community center.


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[Assistant] Somebody even said like a bathhouse. They should. So that it would be. Covered in cum. That would be great. Uhm, but anyways, he uhm, you know, he's always good for a sound bite and this is from his latest, uh, I guess video post here.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, well, the problem is, yeaah, that every video we get now starts with Hey Hitler in it, so.


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[Assistant] It's a old lady, a old, I mean she looks oldest, she looks 110.


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[Assistant] Yeah. She was his girlfriend. And she's toasting, she's in the Netherlands.


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[Assistant] Man, uhm, and then she says, uh, how Hitler and they all laugh, but then they're all like, uhm,


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[Assistant] And it looks like somebody whispers to her like, don't do that. You know, it's like, I don't know, she's a hundo.


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[Assistant] Stop doing that. Uh, but yeaah.


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[Assistant] Oh, she might have been 50 when he was around. She looks literally 150 years old.


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[Assistant] So this, you really gotta kick out of this. This is uhm, from a talk show.


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[Assistant] He's saying- I go to the beach. The joke is, uhm, how expensive it is to go on the bus. On the- oh, to the beach. To the beach.


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[Assistant] Okay, so here we go. This is so great. He dropped that. He really, he did the, he's, he might have hung out in comedy clubs here because he's big on laughing at his own jokes.


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[Assistant] Repetitive when it's continuous. Sometimes it happens genuinely.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and uh, people that I see just on stage all the time, I'm saying, you know, like,


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[Assistant] You just see them on stage locally and see them.


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[Assistant] Cracking up so hard at their own thought, like, okay.


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[Assistant] I mean, it just seems, it just seems, it reads false to me. You would laugh that hard at what you're saying all the time.


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[Assistant] And I'm saying, I'm offering this as a favor. I wouldn't normally do this to most people. It's just cause you're my wife. I can break down any of these jokes for you.


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[Assistant] It'd be 80 quid to get into a house around here.


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[Assistant] Right, and uh, how, is it new? Well, as new as you'll get around here, they're from 1890.


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[Assistant] So he's just saying everything here is old as shit and super cheap.


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[Assistant] As a master of accents, it doesn't matter what someone's, you know, any accent. Not only can I mimic it, I also, I never have trouble, you know, understanding.


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[Assistant] It's like the guy that wrote in about his teeth, he doesn't go to the dentist for 15 years.


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[Assistant] And then, yeaah, and then it comes out however I want it to.


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[Assistant] Well, cigarette. That's one fag I'm not trying again. He's British.


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[Assistant] Cause now it's like, it's so good. Yeah, yeah, it's so good. I'm saying, is he playing a part of a shitty radio?


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[Assistant] Good lord. Yeah. Oh man. That's so fucking funny.


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[Assistant] I think he might be trolling. I think it might be a troll.


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[Assistant] The guy, because the guy has posted, the guy that, whose name is in the video, I mean, unless he didn't put this up, he keeps saying he's a world-class broadcaster communicator.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? So it's almost like he's, he's selling.


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[Assistant] You're gonna, he goes uh, Dawn, he goes, Dawn, I'm uh, I'm afraid my tennis opportunity's down.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, yes, yeaah. No, I can't do it. And then you like kick some punches into the stomach. Yes, you're going to do it.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, we gotta start rapping actually. I have a meeting I have to go to.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's, there's a, is there a group? These girls? Speaking of Hitler, made a song?


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[Assistant] Uhm, where's the, uh, the, uh, the song that... Oh, it's here, okay. I think this is it. Uhm, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Hopefully you'll, uh, check out the video of this where you can, uhm, actually watch the show. It'll be on our YouTube page and it'll be posted on our site, yourmomshousepodcast.com.


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[Assistant] We'll also post it on the Facebook page, which is facebook.com slash your mom's house podcast. Uhm.


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[Assistant] We're on Twitter, obviously. We're on Instagram.


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[Assistant] On Instagram I'm Segura Tom because an 18 year old British boy named Tom Segura took it.


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[Assistant] Alright, we love you guys. Thanks for listening to the show.


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[Assistant] They see the Kardashian thing. So damaged. Make me look like him, please. So damaged. Yea. I wanna be Bobby.


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[Assistant] Well, I feel like we should just get that out of the way and then we can have fun, you know what I mean? You gotta eat your vegetables before you can have dessert, Tom.


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[Assistant] Like a barren heat, a freak without warning.


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[Assistant] Tommy, can they see my fat rolls when I sit like this? No baby. They can't see my fat stomach like this? No baby. You swear? I swear. What is it, tits up?


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[Assistant] Alright, well this episode of Your Mom's House is brought to you by Amazon.com.


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[Assistant] You go to yourmomshousepodcast.com where we have our websites and informations and then there's a banner there.


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[Assistant] Oh, Spotify's the illest thing ever. For instance, let's say I'm really into Devo this week, and I was like, I wanna hear those songs I grew up on when I was 13, but I don't necessarily wanna buy the album.


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[Assistant] What you can do is if you go and you sign up for Spotify,


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[Assistant] Well, you go through our banner, right? And then you do that, and then you can hear all the songs that you haven't heard in forever! Remember when you used to...


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[Assistant] He's a handsome devil, but he doesn't know everything. Look at that face.


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[Assistant] Well good, so where were we? Oh, Spotify, and that was awesome.


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[Assistant] Oh, uhm, and then dates. Can we go on to that? Are we good?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm gonna be at Hyenas in Dallas. That's Dallas, Tejas. That's Texas. This weekend, uh, starting tomorrow the 28th through Saturday night, I will be there in Tejas. And that's where Bill Hicks is from. Tejas. And I'm excited to do Dallas. I've never done it. And it's a really good comedy scene. And then after that,


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[Assistant] I'm gonna be, I think July 4th weekend I will be.


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[Assistant] Yeah, just, that's just 45 minutes outside of New York City.


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[Assistant] I'm eating some skittles. Oh, that sounds so much better. You like that? Oh, I like that a lot. I like to be loud. Well, you can control your headphones. No, I know that, but for some reason when you did it from there? Yeah.


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[Assistant] That was, I, you surprised me. The listeners don't know, you guys don't know this, but Tom surprises me almost every time.


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[Assistant] Oh good, I like Alex. Chuck Woolery, what a gig though. Do you think he wants to blow everybody's brains out by now, Chuck Woolery? Yes. Like he just fucking hates everybody. So you had a date, go fuck yourself.


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[Assistant] It's so much fun, why is it so much fun to listen to someone lose their shit over something dumb?


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, it still is. Okay, I don't want to encourage that. No, I'm not. Naughty banter.


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[Assistant] It's just life, son. Shit's real, that's all we know how to do is be real.


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[Assistant] Well, it's an Ethiopian word. That's not a very easy language.


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[Assistant] Oh, do you remember when you were a kid and you learned that like faggot also meant like a bundle of sticks?


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[Assistant] Do you, uhm, I remember when I learned what a, what a dyke was. Mhm. I thought that word was the funniest, I still do think dyke's really funny, but to put your finger in a dyke. Yeah. Comedy gold. Sure. For ten years, for ten year olds.


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[Assistant] My mom taught me what a dyke was and I fucking lost my mind.


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[Assistant] I didn't, I didn't know that until like a year or two ago. I thought it was like for all intensive purposes, I had no idea for my whole life.


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[Assistant] I also didn't understand how to pronounce words correctly because my family mispronounced them because they're foreigners.


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[Assistant] Like my mom, instead of saying martyr, would say martyr. You are being a martyr.


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[Assistant] Right. God forbid you don't want to do what they want you to do.


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[Assistant] It's called having a personality mommy, an identity. Mom, can you deal with that?


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[Assistant] Anyways, somebody, I must say, was very gassy this week.


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[Assistant] First of all, it's turning into summer here in Los Angeles.


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[Assistant] And we moved into this home, it's an old ass house. And you saw that there was no wall unit.


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[Assistant] That is the biggest mistake. Never. Okay, here's what I did. Cause I was living and it was hot as shit and I lived up 150 stairs. I lived on a stair street, which is like these old historical houses in Silver Lake. So you literally, I had no driveway. Literally, if you want to go home to my house, we had to climb 150 steps.


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[Assistant] And it was so goddamn hot, and I was so broke, but I-


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[Assistant] And I uhm, got this AC unit, and didn't you lug it up the stairs for me?


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[Assistant] And this thing weighed, I can't, how much do you think that thing weighed, man? At least a hundred pounds. You had to wheel it from room to room and then it comes with a tube and then you have to put the tube out the window so that the exhaust and the heat or whatever can go out. Made it bearable, man.


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[Assistant] Yeah, really getting on those lights. But that saved our asses. So in this house, we moved in.


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[Assistant] It was a, it was definitely a shady miscommunication, but you know what? I'm over it. All I know- We fixed it day one. Well, let's be real here. I fixed it. Cause we came in, we were moving. Is it like the day we were moving, I think, wasn't it? Or the day before?


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause we went to England. Yes. With Russell Peters. That's right.


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[Assistant] And we were moving out of the ghetto, we were moving out of like the rampart division, finally, back to the good neighborhood. And remember our moving guys, those poor Mexican dudes? Yea. They were like, they had to take a siesta in the middle of the day, and they had to drink a six or a beer and sleep in the shade, remember that?


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[Assistant] So anyway, we come here the day we're moving in.


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[Assistant] And I see that he sees, Tommy sees, there's no wall unit.


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[Assistant] Loses your atomic meltdown, cause we had to sleep there that night, the hottest day of the year.


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[Assistant] So what do we do? This is what I recommend to anybody. If you do it, if you gotta save your life, go to Sears, tell them your predicament.


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[Assistant] They'll fucking come the day of. These guys caught a hole in our wall, cause it's like an old ass plaster wall.


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[Assistant] And you know what? It was worth every penny I put on the Sears card.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, but can I tell you that now that that AC unit's become the bane of my existence, because you turn it full blast in our bear cave,


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[Assistant] And I, the other night you turned it on so high.


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[Assistant] I woke up shivering in a cold sweat cause I tried to cover myself to compensate for the cold air.


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[Assistant] And I realized it was because you had sabotaged me. Basically, don't do anything nice for anybody.


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[Assistant] And then the farts added to that that night.


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[Assistant] I like, you know what I like? What? Balmy 80 in the house. Ugh. In the summertime I like to crank it up. I like it 80 degrees. Yuck. I like to walk around and just like a t-shirt and my panties on. Ugh. T-shirt and my panties on.


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[Assistant] He was. No, he wasn't. I think there's something to be said.


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[Assistant] You mean to tell me bad and everything after bad was a good thing?


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[Assistant] I think Hollywood gives leniency to these scum fuck douche bag pieces of human garbage.


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[Assistant] Michael Jackson was a fucked up dude. He was raised in a fucked up house. He had a fucked up childhood.


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[Assistant] Well, can I tell you why I think he did too? Despite the fact that he's found not guilty or whatever. Is that, look, 20 kids don't come forward with that kind of stuff. Never. And the families and all that, if there's no, there's smoke, there's fire, right? That's how the expression goes.


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[Assistant] But can I, I will contest this greatest entertainer of all time. I don't know, I will admit that up until like I said the Bad album, I liked, the moonwalk was, you know the moonwalk he ripped off of street performers.


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[Assistant] And, uh, he was a great singer as a kid. He did some- that thriller was amazing, off the wall amazing.


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[Assistant] And then, he puts duct, he puts tape on his goddamn fingers.


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[Assistant] And then, and then all of a sudden he's grabbing his cock, and then he's bad, and he's a bean motherfucker, and then he loses his god damn mind, and everything is being garbageed down.


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[Assistant] I could honestly, and let's be honest. I am being honest.


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[Assistant] I am not interested in him. I didn't like a fucking, not a thing that that guy did. Remember that weird video he did with Priscilla Presley when they were naked? That was garbage. There's a lot of bullshit.


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[Assistant] It's a little space edition, if you will. Here we go. Fill her up, seal him shut.


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[Assistant] Oh, sorry. Captain Picard is that old bald guy from Star Trek The Next Generation.


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[Assistant] Look, I don't have hours to fucking- Oh, Jean-Luc Picard. Jean-Luc Picard.


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[Assistant] That's him, he's bald, he's old, but he looks kind of stoic and sexy. Played by Patrick Stewart. Star Trek Next Generation.


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[Assistant] Can I tell you what? No, I'm gonna revise it. Cause I was looking at Captain Picard, he's not, he's not a stone cold fox.


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[Assistant] Let's do this. I do give a shit. I just revised it on the fly. Look, I can go with it. I can change things on the fly. Can I not? Am I allowed to change my mind? Amend decision. Okay, Han Solo versus


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[Assistant] That's what I'm saying, I didn't- Look! Look! Mistakes were made! Upon further-


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[Assistant] I would let Han Solo do all kinds of terrible things to me even if I was his sister.


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[Assistant] We're really into Precious vs Leia? That's kind of a hands down, everybody knows that it's Precious, duh.


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[Assistant] Or Catwoman? Michelle Pfeiffer version of Catwoman.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I like the Michelle Pfeiffer Wonder Woman better. I like that one better.


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[Assistant] I grew up loving Wonder Woman. I had the underoos to prove it.


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[Assistant] Bang, bang! I happen to like Catwoman better, uh, because of my goth leanings.


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[Assistant] I like the outfit. I like her powers. Listen, one woman had an invisible jet, which is kinda dumb.


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[Assistant] Catwoman could scale shit, and she could do sneaky stuff, you know? Uh-huh.


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[Assistant] Cause she licked her, meh, and she goes, meow. She's just a mean old bitch.


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[Assistant] Catwoman would bat at your beanbag. Hey yo, speaking of fucking! And claw your asshole shut. Yeah. Claw it bloody.


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[Assistant] Fake sex, it's not even sex, it's uh, fake, right, right, but I'm saying that it's not even real, they're not even fucking, they're pretend humping. So you're watching people dry hump each other.


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[Assistant] Uh, sheltered and like if you happen to stumble upon it, it's okay. I think it's actually guys whose wives and girlfriends don't allow pornography in the house.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, so actually it's under fear of being caught with legit porn. Right. And then they scurry off and watch the Showtime. But I thought you meant it was shame-based, meaning like, I feel weird downloading porn. No, no. I feel weird.


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[Assistant] And I remember it took like 20 minutes before anyone pretended to hump. Remember that? It was all this exposition and story and you're like, dude.


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[Assistant] Uhm, cause to me pornography, like, here's the thing, if that softcore shits on, versus a normal movie, like, I'm, other than us making fun of it, which we were doing, you're not gonna watch the softcore porno movie and be like, what's happening? What's gonna happen to these people?


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[Assistant] Like when you watch pornography, there's a utility, you get in, you get off, you get out.


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[Assistant] When they just kiss, yeaah, they just kiss boobs for- But when I saw this shit, when I was like-


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[Assistant] Like, uh, in junior high? Didn't this blow your mind? When you saw like your first softcore porn on like cable TV late at night at your friend's house or whatever?


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[Assistant] Maybe that's what this is for. To like teach kids, to teach children how to have sex.


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[Assistant] Oh right, yeaah, she's really getting pounded. Yeaah, it's so funny. I wonder what that is. There has to be...


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[Assistant] It must be the psychological thing of like, I don't actually want to see sex happen. Like those are the same people that are on that 7 days of sex show that can't say the word sex.


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[Assistant] Can I tell you that I'm super excited about this Top Dog shirt. I feel like this is the shirt of the podcast. Forever and ever, amen. It's gonna be ours. It's the best thing ever to happen.


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[Assistant] I was really surprised that Top Dog had such specific games.


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[Assistant] I ate six bowls a day. Cause I won, I got so much fucking money now.


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[Assistant] Now, uh, Rob from Southport, didn't you do?


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[Assistant] I really appreciate it. I enjoy being on this one especially because also the community is really nice like around it. So it's like, and let's be honest, there's some real nasty podcast communities out there. So this is the one time where I like refresh my energy and be like, podcast can be good. And obviously I love talking to you guys.


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[Assistant] Any, any trailer with speech in it, I don't know about you, but where we were sitting, it felt like really weirdly like balanced. I couldn't, anytime someone spoke in a trailer, I could barely hear what they were saying. It was like really weird. But as for like the show overall, I also think like


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[Assistant] I'm not trying to defend it at all, I'm just saying like this is a fact that is happening. Every year there's a different set of expectations on what that show needs to do. It's always a shifting conversation. It's a shifting and evolving conversation and it's often an important one.


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[Assistant] But I think it's also a symptom of being the only game in town, right? Like, he's- there's no-


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[Assistant] And I feel like it's, it's, it's the double edged sword of presenting yourself as the kind of face of video games in the larger media landscape as Jeff has done.


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[Assistant] If you're going to do that, you kind of are also accepting the burden of having been, having to respond to those shifting conversations because there was a lot of expectations after last year. It was like, Oh, you know, a lot of time was spent with people doing long speeches. So the reaction was to cut it short.


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[Assistant] Which is not great, but there's also, there was a bunch of other expectations with, you know, the future class thing happening where they put together the...


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[Assistant] The, um, kind of petition, the open letter and that wasn't addressed at all. Um, it was in fact that we got like an opening speech that kind of.


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[Assistant] Yes. It almost recognized that it happened. Yes. But didn't address it in a, it was like, just like not winking and nodding at something, but without presenting any, it was like, this brings us together. And it's like, that's not the right time to, that's yeah, you got to say something.


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[Assistant] So is there so many like things going on that it feels like it will never win? Like it can never be like perfect?


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[Assistant] And not to be the apologist, not the from guy, but like...


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[Assistant] Being able to put your foot down and say like, we can make these games too, that's gotta be devastating to be like, oh, when, when you make Souls games, it's a big, you know, song and dance that it happens. But when we make an Armored Core game, a niche


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[Assistant] They were behind us and they had the same thing, but they were like, uh, oh, yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] It's also like, those speeches also serve as a way, we talk to these developers all the time, and most of them are PR trained to stay on beat, on point.


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[Assistant] They're almost like, um, robots at times. Yes. These are the moments where you see them as their most human.


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[Assistant] And yea, like Abu, Abu Bakr Saleem was up there, he's a new developer, but like the moment where he's struggling to get through, because, you know, this is a game dedicated to his passed away father, that was like an important moment, but also like,


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[Assistant] In a year where we've had just layoff after layoff after layoff.


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[Assistant] And you want to see the kind of shining stars of the, of the industry step up and address that. And like Sam Lake started doing it and he was talking about what it means to be a developer. And then the get off out of him music begins to play. It's like have a little kind of.


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[Assistant] Be in the moment and like pull that back and be like this is an important thing that needs to happen.


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[Assistant] The developers are given the opportunity to humanize themselves to people who, in a lot of ways, not everyone does this, but spend time treating them basically as video game vending machines. Like, when is this, we're gonna get this game, you know, on Twitter, why is this like this, etc, etc.


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[Assistant] Like this is a moment where they can speak and be like, this was rough. This took us seven years. No, thank you to the team that did this. Not even letting them have that.


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[Assistant] On stage, the future class, and then you go on Twitter and the future class members are like, we got shoved in the corner, we can't see the screen, there's camera jibs in front of us.


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[Assistant] It's such an inadvertent for sure, right? Surely. I just, as someone who believes that.


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[Assistant] The show is designed to try and celebrate it. I assume that's inadvertent, but like, just look at that.


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[Assistant] It looks like you're like cartailing, or you're cartailing to the commercial side of it more than the human side of it. Definitely.


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[Assistant] So it's just like, celebrate our celebrities before you celebrate another medium's celebrities. 100% agree. Understand that it's not as big of a draw, but like, at least balance it a bit, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, that's it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I mean, the elephant in the room is the Kojima Jorunpil moment, which an amazing, like, uhm, announcement, really theatrically done, nice, looked like he came out the door from PT as a little, like, FU to Konami, like, that kind of stuff, but like, did we really need it to go on for 10 minutes? We did not.


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[Assistant] Everything they said to each other, Kojima and Jordan Peele was 100% worthless. Like it is two people glazing each other up in front of millions. It's like...


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[Assistant] No one gives a shit. Like no one cares if you've got a famous friend and you've got access to Kojima. I'm one of the biggest Kojima fans of all time. I'm wearing a Metal Gear t-shirt.


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[Assistant] I love like when he speaks, he said nothing interesting there and Jordan Peele didn't say anything interesting there. Like have him come out, do a minute or two, whatever, you can get him out.


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[Assistant] For better or worse, like this game show is positioning itself to be a good middle ground or like a bridge between the two worlds. Uhm, and, but it's like,


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[Assistant] Leveraging that is like really doing it. When that comes at a disservice to the people who...


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[Assistant] I'm not, I'm not up for that man. Like I don't want that smoke. Even if it means like, I don't, I'd rather not hear from Kojima if someone else can, if like, you know, CF stars developers get to talk about it. I'll take that L even though I love Kojima. 100%.


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[Assistant] That's what's in the game. He's just literally, they were like, get the interstellar guy for our interstellar inspired.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well it wasn't, but you know, you feel the, the input from everyone.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it kind of, I'm sure it doesn't cheapen it for them, it is for them they can make it work, but it does kind of be like...


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[Assistant] If it would, it kind of feels like, oh, they just made it work for us. Um, and it kind of undermines the spirit of the, of that category for all the others that were nominated in this. Like we launched in this way and it was.


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[Assistant] Correct. Just because it says ongoing game, like doesn't...


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[Assistant] Having that be like, we spent ages making this game good, in a category where others are, this is good and we added the content to it to make sure that you continue playing and it remains an interesting game for you. It's like, I would never, no one would ever describe Cyberpunk as a live service game. No. But that's effectively what that category is.


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[Assistant] I also really liked the profile they did for Venba. Yes. Which is really nice. And like especially like where they included like people of color or from that culture playing it with their like mom in the background or parent or some family member or friend. I thought that was really sweet.


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[Assistant] It rules man, it's like a couple of hours and it's so good.


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[Assistant] I ran into a few people afterwards that were from that studio. Okay. And they were like hype as hell to be there. They were like, we're so glad we can talk about it. Cool.


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[Assistant] I think it's the closest game to come to a modern, like, World of Warcraft. Maybe not on the same success scale, but in terms of like, it's longevity is really impressive. Ten years, that's it.


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[Assistant] I haven't heard anything online. I don't think it reached a critical mass where it became like a publicly well-known thing. Like it was one of those ones where some people knew about it and then a kind of very quiet leak happened. It was like, okay, if you knew, if you had the pre-existing knowledge, you'd be like, okay, that's interesting.


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[Assistant] For example, you don't get a, like a full on shot of Blade ever, like he's always like slightly obscured, he's in the darkness and that is a big issue with like most


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[Assistant] The, the way that he's like a vampire, it's going to sound real weird, uh, vampire predator, if you know what I mean. Um, like, and that, and they like look like, it looks like they're reinstating that. But the other thing is like.


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[Assistant] They also make sure that they characterize him as someone who


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[Assistant] He's kind of fighting for people and community and isn't like, um, kind of, you know, this wanton destruction and they do it in a really cool way and it's, he pays for his haircut.


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[Assistant] Blast out of there, but like he actually pays. He uses the 20 euro, which means it's contemporary. Um, and it's European.


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[Assistant] And the other is like the depiction of Paris I really like because Paris is like a very multicultural, um, uh, kind of like space and the building that they zoom in on the barbershop, it's got like some text from Arabic text from, I believe it's from the Quran. And they've also got like, um, you know, crucifixes and stuff like that. And it's like really cool. Like this.


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[Assistant] They're making a car knocker. It's a real place this time though. And the other big thing is obviously third person.


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[Assistant] He is usually New York, but he's, uh, it depends on like, not New York, but like in metropolitan city, he runs in different circles. Like is he, is he one of the midnight suns currently Avenger? Yeah. The problem with blade often is like he's.


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[Assistant] To make him work, most times they elevate him to like a level of like an iron man when he shouldn't really be that way. He should be like the daredevil style friendly neighbourhood character. Boots on the ground. Boots on the ground. And those are the best stories and it looks like that's what they're doing.


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[Assistant] Do the most obvious thing where it's like, let's take the existing Dishonored mechanics that we know, all the arcane mechanics and just apply them to Blade because


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[Assistant] Third person is tricky to do that. I just really, I'm really excited to see how mechanically and design wise they change it up. I think like Deathloop was a really interesting kind of self-reflection game for them where they like go back and pick apart who they are and, um, and lay that out there. And it almost feels like in a kind of poetic sense, that was them going.


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[Assistant] Now let's figure out what we can do beyond this. And this could be the game where they're like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I really like the little touch that they use to kind of make sure that the overall feeling was joy. And it's the characters constantly bounce up and down like this. I was like, that's a good


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[Assistant] I'm just thinking about what kind of game that is. It's not necessarily a game, but I wonder if it's a case of like, let's make sure that we create some distance. Obviously it's also, they need to make the game, but create some distance with Dragon's Dogma.


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[Assistant] Everyone says it's fantastic. I feel like also they're counting on kind of goodwill and momentum from the games that they have made beyond. Like Capcom I think has turned it around in a big big way and like they have definitely have some momentum with their remakes and that kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] It's weird because we were talking about Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxi, like-


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[Assistant] Yeah, same with like RGG and Atlas, like they're the same. It feels like they operate on a different, like.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm just so happy Crazy Taxi is coming back. I really hope it is what it, you know, it is a traditional kind of like game where it's, cause that idea is so well done and like, it's so...


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[Assistant] It also looks co-op. It seemed like there were multiple people at the same time.


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[Assistant] The other game, they're opening the game around like the uh, the Herring Impaired game, like the music game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so it's like this music game, but I... The character is what I'm hearing. Apologies if I...


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[Assistant] I don't know the latest kind of like, but it's, it's a character that seems to be deaf. Um, and the whole conceit is around her discovering music, I think, and like almost like Alice in Wonderlanding into a different world where music is a little more alive and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. It had like a Frozen style like element to it where it was like, oh, there's a girl singing really like, uh, excitedly. And yeah, it looks, it looks really cool. I recommend going back to watch that trailer. Cause I remember watching it and feeling like this is a really cool concept and it looks like really interesting, especially like given that it's a music game around a deaf character.


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[Assistant] It was a cool little tease. Cool little tease. It also gave me like, this is, we've got, we've recorded some like face capture stuff, and now we're gonna put it up on the screen vibes, which is like... We just started. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it feels like it's a really interesting approach for him. It also feels like it's something that could set him up to almost like have a ongoing project in a way that


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[Assistant] Yeah, they did have the, uh, on game pass, um, day one kind of splash screen.


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[Assistant] The, the, the, the thing that is easy to forget about is like ninja, team ninja, no, ninja theory. I was getting mixed up.


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[Assistant] Every game they've made has been on a shoestring budget where they've like DIY'd all this stuff together. And like even-


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[Assistant] The, the whole like Hellblade, it's, it's called like Senua's, what is it? Yeah, Senua's Sacrifice. Isn't it like a Saga or something? Senua's Saga. So it's like, there's more stories to be told in, in a sense. I'm excited to see that stuff.


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[Assistant] I mean like, it's not gonna be- I mean like, after seeing-


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[Assistant] I'm not saying it's gonna be on that level of quality, but I'm more open to the idea of like,


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[Assistant] Coming at the same games that we know from new perspectives and also combat is one of the most


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[Assistant] I genuinely, I'm like at a certain point, like I have to look at my writers and be like, enough is enough. I'm not going to cover this because like people are.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that's a big part of it. It's like a nice simulator, like everybody's nice. They emphasize this is the first open world, like it's not a universe. It's a, I think the whole thing is like, we're going to take a planet and try and make it as like,


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[Assistant] Playable. Playable and like give it the depth that it deserves. Um, and I think like it looked like a lot of it was like quite manual, like moving around. At this one point where they have like a, a thing, what you call it, a bird or something they're flying and


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[Assistant] They were flying by and they passed someone who was just building something in the middle of the sky. So I feel like it's like, it could be like a Minecraft turn to, and it's also got that fantasy aesthetic on top. I'm in a similar spot where I was like, I don't really understand it, but like, I can see that it's enough. It's a new idea for them that could, I mean like,


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[Assistant] I feel like it's enough man. Now the games that stick out are like, there's a few games that like, the ones that stand out are like the ones that are like a reminder that there's other things happening and like weirdly blade is that and you know, the life is strange. Yeah, something like that. I think that's, this is the first time I've come away looking like,


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[Assistant] The big blockbuster showpiece is just aren't doing it for me. Uhm, even like God of War, I was like, okay, I love God of War, but I'm like, I'm alright with that. Uhm, but yeaah, there's just something to be said for things that look exactly the same being like put into a show that's, and then like speeding through everything.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it used to happen at E3 as well. Remember when we used to sit down in front of the TV and like blast through trailers? And like, I think it, it reached a point eventually where publishers


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[Assistant] Game looks cool, game looks awesome. And I just did that. Black Myth Wukong was one of them. And then I remembered and I deleted the tweet because, uh, Rebecca put out the thing about that studio is just like, not.


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[Assistant] I was, I looked at that game, I was like, this looks awesome. I forgot that happened. It's worth acknowledging that is, that's something that's ongoing. I, like I said, I deleted my tweet and I'm sure people saw it and were like, hypocrite, but like, I just forgot in that moment. And yeah, Rebecca's, um, reporting on it is worth checking out.


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[Assistant] Uh, well, I, I don't play Solstice. You really only stick to... I, I play, I play enough to know whether it's gonna hit for me, and the only one that's hit is Les B. Yeah, sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right, right, right, right. It's a disappointment for me, but yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, next year, I would have expected. But they're also the kind of team who can be like, we showed our trailer, we're done, we're working. They're not a massive studio as well, so I'm sure this kind of rigmarole is probably taking precious time and resources away from actually making the game, so it's probably a good call. But I just went in there thinking, oh, we might get to see a little more of Hades.


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[Assistant] We forgot the biggest announcement of all time. Um, Apex Legends.


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[Assistant] Do you remember, there was a time in the industry where people were so protective over the way their IP was presented. Now it's like, you want them to do this?


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[Assistant] For games, not for the industry, yeaah. Yes, definitely, definitely, definitely. If I, I can't remember, we talked about this in Giant Bomb on the Couch, in the night show, but like, it feels like the challenges stacked against the video game industry are more than ever these days.


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[Assistant] We, we, when there was one boss, which was like...


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[Assistant] Blockchain, it was hard enough. Now we just walked into like a wave based, like AI, blockchain, layoffs, all that kind of stuff. Interest rates. Yeah, exactly. But I'm still quite hopeful for a kind of like stabilization in the future. I'm excited for the future. If anything, this, the game awards was a good moment to be excited about.


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[Assistant] What is coming still? And it's hard to do that right now, especially with every, all the layouts and stuff. It's good to acknowledge it, but it's easy to be like,


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[Assistant] I had a quite similar experience with people I tried to and it's really sad that the kind of it was couched in a


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[Assistant] That this conversation was couched in excitement for the thing that they were making. So it's like, we're really excited about this, but the industry is going to be like in a rough place. It's like, it's, it's such a heartbreaking dichotomy to experience.


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[Assistant] I have been told that they are actually. I have heard that. I have, I'm like, mmm, I think there's like, there's good gifts or there's bad gifts though. Cause a lot of gifts can be cringe. Cause they're like, well, we've seen that gift many times now. It's time to get some more gifts than just office gifts.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's the thing. So I feel like short answer, no, but long answer, often yes. That's my sense.


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[Assistant] We have, we do, we've got, uh, cause we're gonna be talking about suicide, no, first of all we're talking about Xbox, cause that's a whole thing, uh, and we're lucky to be joined by, uh, lucky to be joined


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[Assistant] Um, Paris is joining us, let's rephrase that. Uh, he's joining us for that and, um, that was a really good chat we've already pre-recorded. Um, and then we have Greg Miller who joins us for a chat about Suicide Squad. And then we also, uh, spoke to the co-founder of Keen Games, uh, his name is Anthony


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[Assistant] Like creative lead on Introuted. We had a really great chat with him. So yeah, it's a pretty stacked.


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[Assistant] Show reflecting a pretty stacked week in the world of video games, cause it's, well Fortnite really, it's where you're every two weeks.


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[Assistant] So yeah, did you guys, have you guys been doing anything else other than consuming video games these past two weeks?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is like that, isn't it? It is like, well, that's what Feb- well, we're in February now. And we always knew this was coming. We looked at the release schedule and were like, ehh, shit's pretty wild in February, and sure enough, it's very wild in February. And, uhm...


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[Assistant] It's been okay. I mean, I had a really nice break during January and so I came back feeling very recharged and, uh, and there was a bit of a lull period towards the back end of Jan and so now it's like hitting the road and push hard for a month or a month and a bit.


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[Assistant] Maybe end of March it kind of gets a bit wild again with like Ronan and Dogma and what have you. But uhm, I'm excited man. February's always fun these days. It's a lot but it's fun.


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[Assistant] It's the giant one. It's like, huge. Listen, I have a massive head, mind you. Like my head is huge and it's bigger than me, you know, to the point where I'm like, I don't like using this very much and the whole detachable


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[Assistant] But hand thing is not great. I don't know, man. It's so heavy. It's like, look, there is a place for like a really big screen and that's nice and all. But I don't know, man. I'm always just going back to my Steam Deck. Steam Deck is just the pinnacle. I love it. It's incredible. It's perfect. So yeah. Hashtag not sponsored.


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[Assistant] Hashtag not spo- Valve don't do any sponsorships. They don't need to. They're like, listen, we have the market corner. We don't need you people. Uh, but yes, no, I'm just, I'm just chilling on the steam deck for free. I'll do that anytime.


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[Assistant] Don't forget, cause you missed one actually. Oh, I did? Uhm, yeaah, cause uhm, Jeff Grubb, the man himself. Who? Is repor- Jeff Grubb is, yeaah, that's right. My colleague? Who? Uh, what? He is reporting Gears of War is also under consideration. And he seems very confident about that. So, like, that is a big one, cause it's like,


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[Assistant] It doesn't get any more Xbox than Gears of War. I mean, Starfield's a bit of a Johnny-cum lately. Halo! You know, we're like...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, Halo, obviously, sure, but you're right. But like, it's, it's, in terms of core brands, it's basically like just Halo and Gears of War that are just inseparable from that brand, you know? And the idea that they went it up on other platforms is...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, yeah, like, it's, and it, cause obviously we don't know, of course, we don't know what's gonna happen, right? But it's almost inevitable that some Xbox stuff is gonna make us, cause we already kind of know about, like, what do you call it, with um, Hi-Fi Rush, it's already kind of been rated, and I think Sea of Thieves might have also been rated at other territories as well, like by ratings boards or whatever. So that's almost certain.


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[Assistant] There's also the other stuff where it's like, it's highly likely that Xbox is thinking about this because if they're gonna do a business update, they're not doing a business update just to announce they're bringing a hi-fi rush to the Switch. I'm sorry, but that's not happening, you know? So, it's like, okay, we're going that direction. Certainly some of their portfolio is gonna be available on other platforms.


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[Assistant] Paris, you made the point like, you know, maybe they keep some of their other stuff and they keep it exclusive, but it almost becomes a case of like, well,


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[Assistant] What's the point at that point? Like, you know, like what, if you're really only keeping Halo and Gears of War, like I'm sorry, but those brands, those things, they're essential to the Xbox brand, but they don't have the same cash and pull that they once did.


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[Assistant] As exclusives, right? I think, you know, Starfield, at this point,


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[Assistant] Seems like has more, like Elder Scrolls, okay, for example, Elder Scrolls 6, that's got a lot more pull than Halo does at this point, for sure. As much as I love Halo, that's just a fact, you know? So, it's almost like, if you're gonna go that path of putting most of your stuff on multi-platform, why wouldn't you just go the whole thing?


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? And, and maybe, and I mean, my suspicion is probably something akin to like, they'll do Xbox first, you know? And they'll say, you know, play all the best games on Xbox through Game Pass, play them first here, et cetera, et cetera. But...


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[Assistant] Uhm, sorry, someone's knocking at my door. You guys keep going, keep going, I gotta get it.


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[Assistant] But it's almost like, what is the point of an Xbox console without exclusive Xbox games? What is the point of any console without exclusive games? It's like an existential question about the nature of this pro- this business model. And it's, it's, it's your point as well, Paris, which is like,


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[Assistant] If I can get all of the games on a PlayStation, but I just need to wait a bit longer, then I'm going to do that? Like it just makes sense.


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[Assistant] You know, yeah, you can have a hardware agnostic Xbox. You know what it's called? It's called a PC. Do you know what I mean? Like they already exist. And so the idea of a console is it's a thing that plays a lot of games, but in particular it plays very specific games that you can only play on that.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's not the technical definition of a console, but I'm saying in terms of how we, how we understand that what the business model is. And so, yeah, if you abandon that pillar, it's kind of like, what's, what's left on that side of the fence on the hardware side?


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[Assistant] I mean, yeah, I mean, Apple actually will do that because just recently they have changed their rules and they now allow dedicated apps on the App Store for streaming platforms, including GeForce Now and xCloud. So yes, absolutely. It will appear on the Vision Pro, uh, for sure. So yeah, I don't know. It's, um, it's really,


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[Assistant] Nerve-racking. I'll tell you what I'm thinking about as well. Like, I feel like...


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[Assistant] If Microsoft, and I know we're all talking about hypotheticals here, we don't know, we don't know, we're just, we're just talking, we're just talking, we're just asking questions, okay? But, let's say hypothetically Microsoft does become a third party focused publisher.


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[Assistant] Uh, who also has a little bit of hardware stuff going on. They try and maintain their platforms across, you know, x-cloud and game pass and all that sort of stuff, right? But they're a third-party business.


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[Assistant] How does that affect the kind of games that they want to make? Because...


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[Assistant] I mean, third party games, a lot of the time, like the first party system sellers that we buy are typically single player focused, very big bet, triple A games that are just, they're swinging for the fences, you know what I mean? Cause they're like, this game needs to rock so that people want to buy this game, buy the console to play this game.


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[Assistant] Third party games, a lot of the time, not all the time, but a lot of the time.


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[Assistant] I think it's going to be less focused on box sales and more focused on long tail live service revenue. And I wonder if they're going to have the same commitment to making these weird little like Psychonauts 2 and Hellblade. Like is that publisher who's a third party focused publisher backing those bets at this point? I don't know about that, man.


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[Assistant] Probably, guess not. If this is a dollars and cents business decision, I don't imagine Psychonauts made a lot of money for Xbox, or Hi-Fi Rush for that matter. So,


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[Assistant] I think it really, that's what I worry about with all this. If this happens, sure, you can, Halo will still exist, and Halo kind of went with the free to play stuff, whatever, probably bad example, but.


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[Assistant] And I wanted to ask you because, I mean, you're quite juiced into the Xbox community.


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[Assistant] And it's, it's like it's a thing in the Xbox community. Like it's a thing, right? And I wanted to get, cause I was also listening in on a Twitter spaces that you were in.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I think it's also coming back to what Jake said, like, you know, this whole thing kind of coming to a head after a while based upon sales and based upon, you know,


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[Assistant] Xbox started this generation so strong, right? I mean, every foot corrects, Phil's strategy was, I think, a great strategy where they were investing in


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[Assistant] But overall, I looked at Xbox and thought, man, hell yeaah, this is, this is it right now. This is, what else would you want? Nothing, right? And it, it almost feels like,


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[Assistant] If this, if that didn't work and now we're at the point where Xbox is like, it didn't work guys, we're still third place and we've got to make this, it just, that's a, that's a bit sad and it makes me, yeah, I'd be disappointed.


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[Assistant] For xbox to not, to have not found more success with that strategy, because I do think it was a good strategy, and I do ultimately think as well that it would be the end of Phil Spencer's leadership, or at least, you know, uhm,


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[Assistant] He was always, it was very clear that Sarah Bond is being positioned as the heir apparent. It was clear that she would be moving up at some point anyway, but it does make sense that if Microsoft are gonna, Xbox are gonna pursue a whole new strategy, they would also have some new leadership, you know?


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[Assistant] And uhm, it would make me very sad to see Phil leave the gig, cause I personally really like Phil Spencer. I mean obviously all leaders have their pros and cons and whatever at the corporate level, but I think he's been a very good ambassador for Xbox and


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[Assistant] I wanted to ask you guys something because one thing that Phil Spencer said during your kind of funny interview, by the way, Paris, by the way, amazing interview. You guys absolutely crushed that one. Oh, thank you.


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[Assistant] After Redfall, after Redfall, that's right. And that was when Phil was, he was very down and he was very open and more open than I think we've ever seen any video game boss ever in any recorded media. Uhm, and he basically said, this is where he said like, oh, we were third place and whatever else. And he also said something along the lines of,


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[Assistant] You know, people just say, oh, if we just release great games, it will turn things around. And I'm paraphrasing, but it was something to that effect. And he kind of-


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[Assistant] He basically was trying to say, he wasn't saying great games don't matter, but he was saying that all of the systemic


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[Assistant] But this is what I really, I was trying to pro- I was trying to prodding at, right? Like have there been any really great system selling level games on Xbox this generation?


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[Assistant] And that is a real stretch from a variety of perspectives. Obviously it's sold a lot for sure, but I think the critical reception to that, it's, it's, it's no Skyrim. Flight simulator for dads, maybe?


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[Assistant] Uh, obviously Forza rules the category now in terms of, but it's, it's its own niche thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I, and I think, and as obviously there were no system sellers during the Xbox One era. Yeah. I mean, they just, they just weren't full stop, right? So we're talking two, one and a half console generations. And I do not want to...


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[Assistant] Pretend as though there are no good Xbox games, because I love, you know, like, Hi-Fi Rush, incredible, Psychonauts 2, incredible, and I like, and I'm not even a racing guy, and I like Forza, and I enjoyed the Halo campaign, didn't love it, right, so I don't want to create this false narrative of like, Xbox games is shit, but what I am asking is, has there been a God of War on


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[Assistant] And I just, I really, and I think about what Phil said that time and I like, and I think about the Nintendo Switch where you're coming off the back of the Wii U, which sold like 13 million units and everyone, absolute catastrophe for Nintendo by every metric, right?


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[Assistant] And then they just announced this week that the Switch has sold 132 million units and they've sold 1.2 billion games. You know what I mean? And it's like, look at that turnaround, look at what you've done there. And what was the basis of that? Was it because they made a handheld console? I mean, yeah, sure. Obviously that would have helped. Don't get me wrong.


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[Assistant] You know, the games that you could get on that platform were extraordinary. And they sold, uh, Zelda has sold just, just Tears of the Kingdom, 21 million copies. You know what I mean? At full price.


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[Assistant] And it's like, and it is, it, Hogwarts Legacy just edged it out as the top selling game for 2023, but Hogwarts Legacy is available on every platform. Zelda is on one, you know what I mean? And I really think about


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[Assistant] How different it might have been if Xbox had managed to pump out.


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[Assistant] One, two, three truly system selling games that, uh, you just have to have to have an Xbox to play or it's on PC or whatever, but it just, it's that prestige factor. It's the sell through on hardware. It's all of that. And you haven't had that for a long time with Xbox. And I think.


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[Assistant] And it's not toxic to say that either. I think as well, so much of the conversation becomes like, well, it's, you're ignoring Xboxes. And it's no, it's not. It's like, as I said, we all, all of us have enjoyed various Xbox games.


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[Assistant] Maybe? Ghosts? Is Ghosts of Tsushima 2? Possibly this year? I don't know. That's a-


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[Assistant] That's possible, I think, if there's some, they've been working on it and they're gonna reveal it at Summer Games and then ship it in October or something. That's possible, but they haven't, there's not been no rumblings to suggest that, and there's nothing else that we know the major studios are working on any time soon. Like, we definitely know.


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[Assistant] He calls Jez Corden. Um, so, yeaah, no, I, yeaah, I think that, but coming back to what you said Lucy, just the level of anger that I've seen from the Xbox community, I've never seen anything quite like it. I've seen them be disappointed before, for sure.


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[Assistant] But, like, they're really pissed off now. And I've never seen that unanimity, that uniformity of, of, of opinion, um, like that before from the Xbox community. So, yeah, whatever Phil says, better be good. Better be good.


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[Assistant] I agree. I agree. I think, I also think often on the retail, on the retail level, cause I, I came up through like, uh, EB Games or GameStop as you guys call it.


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[Assistant] And I think when I started this console generation, I was very much like...


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[Assistant] If I was on the shop floor still, and a customer came and said to me, what should I buy? I'm like...


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[Assistant] It's, there's pros and cons, but I would probably buy an Xbox, you know, also go for it. Uhm, I'd probably buy an Xbox cause you know, Game Pass is so compelling, you know, and the console hardware is really strong and you know, you've also got this cheaper option if you want to go in with just a Series S and like, I think there was a whole thing there that I was like,


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[Assistant] You know, there's, and I said there's also a lot of, you know, very promising games there, or at least they're on the way, you know, I could, I could sort of point to that. Now halfway through this generation, if this is true, if someone came up to me like, should I buy an Xbox? I'm like,


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[Assistant] And I think they don't know what they're like, you know, they buy them as gifts or whatever. They take advice from people on the shop floor. And I do think, I do think in those terms as well about how it, how it changes the message. So.


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[Assistant] Plus they do so at a fraction of the cost of premium, other premium earbuds, you know, like they really are a hell of a lot cheaper and the quality is still fantastic. Um, and so I actually own a few pairs just cause I was like, well, I'll just buy some extra ones. And so I have like one pair in my gym bag that I use and I have one pair just kind of lying around my house. Cause then I don't ever accidentally go to the gym without a pair of earbuds cause


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[Assistant] I would basically be like, Oh, I don't have earbuds at the gym today. Guess I'll turn around and go home. I'm not going to the gym without earbuds. Cause if I have to listen to gym music, no, thank you very much.


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[Assistant] Wait, hang on, actually what I realized as well, and we can keep rolling, is that we didn't intro Greg in the last bit because we would have come straight back from a message from the sponsor. So we should actually properly intro Greg.


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[Assistant] Anyway, we'll get into that, I'm sure. Uhm, yeah, no, but I totally agree with you, and I think most reviews that are treating it fairly have been very willing to call out its numerous redeeming qualities, for sure, you know? I think anyone who engages this product in good faith cannot but celebrate the production value, which is


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[Assistant] Like, off the charts. It looks incredible. It has some issues running on high-end PCs, whatever. Overall...


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[Assistant] So, so it runs pretty well with some issues aside. It looks extraordinary. Uhm, the facial stuff is wild. It's some of the best. It's some of the best up there with Naughty Dog and Guardians of the Galaxy. Uhm, voice work, top tier as well. There's just no, there are no bad performances. The metropolis they built.


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[Assistant] Totally, totally, totally. Uhm, and so I think there's a lot of things that you can really hang your hat on for this game, and that's setting aside other things that, you know, are more subjective, as in everyone agrees that it looks fantastic.


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[Assistant] When we come to how it plays and all that stuff, people have different opinions, but I do believe that there was pretty broad consensus that there are quite a few things that are really great about this game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the drop off after what you've described there with like visiting the daily planet, I think after that, I think the game kind of.


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[Assistant] But then, I don't know what happens after that. It's just, they just completely, well, I know I sort of have a suspicion, which is that you actually need to have a playable game after that. And then the playable game is the part of this that's absolutely awful. And so that's why it all just sort of falls in a heap. So, um, yeah, it's, it's, it's brutal.


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[Assistant] Why is poison ivy a child? W-w-w-what? What? Why? Why is that? What happened?


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[Assistant] Right, see? Yeah, the pre-order guns are ridiculously overpowered. It's so stupid when games do that. They're like, we're going to sell you a gun that breaks the entire loot system during your campaign. And it's like...


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[Assistant] I uhm, I actually disagree with what you said, Craig, about the loot not mattering because I do think it does and I think one of the things I kind of liked about or at least respected about the game is that


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[Assistant] The itemization is there, I think. There are some modifiers that kick in at the backend that open up different play styles, and I've definitely seen certain builds that focus on certain things propped up exclusively by itemization. Well, the talent trees help as well, right? But similar to your point,


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[Assistant] Even though you can do that, it doesn't actually, to me, feel impactful or satisfying to build those things, right? So yea, you've got stats and you've got modifiers, but for me personally, because the core combat is so bad, it's so repetitive, because the guns themselves don't have any unique feel to them,


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[Assistant] Because there's only one type of enemy that you're fighting the entire time, I don't actually care if I now have an exclusively grenade-focused build versus a sniper build that spreads afflictions versus another build that crazes enemies because it just all feels the same to play regardless.


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[Assistant] Yes. Yeah. So those parts of it really broke for me. And I think as well, and I'm sure you would experience this as well, Greg, it's like we've played so many of these games and you would think


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[Assistant] Video games are a medium that evolves and there's ideation and improvement over time, right? Not in every aspect, but certainly in many.


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[Assistant] It just feels like with this genre, it's the same fucking mistakes every single release. Like we really did get a very shitty 10 hour long campaign and a non-existent end game with three missions, no word of a lie, three missions that you repeat over and over again. It's like, how are we still doing this 14 years after Borderlands?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I think as well, like to your point about Avengers, it's such an interesting parallel, cause I think a lot of people are...


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[Assistant] Oh, how, how could you score this lower than Avengers? That's ridiculous, right? I'm like, not really, I don't think. Because Avengers, for all its problems, and it had a lot, the core combat of that game was


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[Assistant] Seeing that, if, if, if Square Enix had managed and Crystal Dynamics had managed to build out that game properly,


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[Assistant] I reckon that game could have had a future. I really do believe that, you know, and I said as much in my initial review of it, and I'm like, look, this sucks right now, but it's got some good things that give it a good future.


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[Assistant] Less, to be honest, less. You just point your gun at him and shoot him. And then you jump, like when the thing comes across, like, yeaah. And I know we've been talking a lot, we've been talking a lot, Jake, and I wanted to hear your story, cause you're like very, you know, you're very into like the lore and the story, so I wanted to hear like your take on the story side of things, like,


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[Assistant] Were there any things that really clicked with you on the story front or was that also just something that you didn't love?


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[Assistant] I think it's so fascinating to see the reviews for this one, because like obviously the reviews are almost university negative or mid, right? I think it's 63.


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[Assistant] I don't know, it's, it's, it's like usually when you get this kind of uniformity of opinion about how a game is, it's sort of reflected on the Steam score, you know, but it's just this massive gap with the way that everyone's talking.


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[Assistant] Do you think this is like a bit of a beat up from critics and we're kind of just out of touch and you know this game is actually really popping off for people and we're just not feeling it in the right way or what do you think is going on there? What explains that gap? It's absolutely not popping off.


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[Assistant] Hmm, yeah, it's uhm, it's a shame obviously, I think, I think the biggest...


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[Assistant] So the biggest shame with all this is, you know, this is what Rocksteady made, you know, and this is what they worked on for nine years. And it's frustrating to see that this genre has claimed another studio like this. You know, it's like these fucking games, live service looters or whatever, they just.


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[Assistant] They just, they're merciless. They just, they fell whichever studio dares tackle them. And you know, Rocksteady's the latest casualty of that and it's a bummer. And we're going to have to wait a really long time for our next Rocksteady game because they're going to have to support this for at least two years because there's all the promised stuff and the whatever else and whatever. Uh, and then they got to work on something else and you know, it's probably,


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[Assistant] I dunno, who knows what they make next. I mean, did they make the live-service Harry Potter game after this?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that is absolutely not the lesson that executives would take from the sales of Harry Potter. They would not say, we sold a lot of copies. They would say, we sold a lot of copies, but it could have had live service.


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[Assistant] I was so excited to uninstall it. I know that sounds really brutal, but sometimes you just, you just, it's just sometimes there's a, there are games on your hard drive and you're like, and you're just so relieved when you get to click the uninstall button. Cause you're like, I don't have to play anymore. But also what I said at the back end of my review is that like, I'm glad I don't have to watch that game anymore.


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[Assistant] Because the visual noise, I've never felt that before. I've never once experienced a game where I like, I don't want to watch this anymore, but this was that. And so as brutal as it sounds, I was very glad to see it moved from my device.


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[Assistant] I agree. I think some of the best advice that I heard is if you're enjoying a game, never visit its subreddit.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I guess that could also be extended into never look up the reviews and never try and track the discourse because if you're enjoying something, that is what matters.


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[Assistant] But simultaneously, if you're not enjoying something, like don't stew too much in that, don't go out seeking tons of confirmation bias, don't look at tons of negative reviews that also hate the same thing that you hate, cause it's just gonna get you like in a shitty spiral. And I say that as someone who makes video game reviews for a living, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Uh, and it's my job to watch reviews, you know, I watch other people's reviews as well because they show me different perspectives and there's some reviewers I really love to watch because I love their insight.