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[Assistant] And it's like 30 seconds long, you know, because once people know where it is, then it's not, it doesn't, it doesn't need a speed run. Do you know what I mean for that? But it's, that's the way, that's the world we live in now, right? It's like these.


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[Assistant] I thought I knew a lot of movies. Okay. I thought I was a pretty, pretty clued up on movies. And what I learned walking around this warehouse was that I know nothing. I think I knew a lot about movies in the nineties when I had a lot of time to


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[Assistant] The thing is like, the stuff about that warehouse as well was that they were still going up until relatively recently because there's some, there's some movies that came out this year that are, you know, they've got DVD rips off. And so their DVD Blu-ray business was clearly still going strong up until 2020. And I guess maybe, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I'm reading books and stuff. I do, I do, I do tend to watch a movie a day actually. So I, I am honestly like happy with saying that. I, I'm not embarrassed about that at all.


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[Assistant] P-facts, and I know you're a fellow movie watcher and you're the same age as me. I, when I was a kid, I had, um, I didn't have, my parents had the, I don't know, the fucking, what was he called? Uh, Roger Ebert or Barry Norman or some assholes, mega Bible of every movie.


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[Assistant] And of course, like any time a movie came on the TV, you'd be able to look it up and he'd be like...


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[Assistant] Um, you know, it didn't really have anything kind of, it was, it was, it was kind of, honestly, I think one in two movies that I looked up were not in there, um, that were on the TV. And also I spent a lot of time just looking through it, like reading it. It was just one of those casual things we had in the lounge. Yeah, I used to as well.


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[Assistant] I'd end up fucking reading this phone book of movies and so I feel like my knowledge of movies is...


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[Assistant] If not, like, I don't know necessarily what happened in them, but I've usually like, felt like I've heard of them maybe? And so I was looking through this warehouse and I didn't fucking recognise any of them. And I was like, but they almost looked like movies that I should know. No, but they were all called things like Among the Leaves.


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[Assistant] A disaster movie, they have Armageddon and Deep Impact, and then there's this third one called Meteor, and it's like got some shit rip-off guy. They're still making these, right? They get like one star on IMDB or whatever, and you see them all the fucking time, like on pirate sites and other sites, like, um, and you're like, what the fuck is this?


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[Assistant] So they were able to make up for your lower skill level by like, was it fixing your problems? Is that how it works? Like if you fucked it up, they could fix your, you know, they could do the putting and the chipping and do the driving.


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[Assistant] Just go with it. Just do a little bit of- See if they kiss you. Just, you know, sit, sit. Cause you never sit next to each other really close. Just see what happens. Just gotta try. If they move back, then, you know, you just, you know, you just pretend it was like nothing and they just carry on being friends and just laugh it out. Just laugh it out. Yeah. Just- I'm just fucking with you. Just joking.


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[Assistant] Just come here. So, so, uh, so imagine people like, it feels to me like what you've played there isn't golf, but a kind of novelty kind of golf fun, fun day.


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[Assistant] No, that's good, that's a good one. Hang on a second, hang on a second. So I went to a coffee shop this week and they had a whole row of books and I should have taken a picture if I knew we were going to fucking talk about this because I, I noticed how shit they were.


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[Assistant] Why animals can feel pain and stuff like this, you know what I mean? On the fucking whole, the whole wall was like very, I'm obviously a vegan, you know, so I'm, I'm, but I'm not.


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[Assistant] Why not? It's the way forward, isn't it? It's like, you've got to start somewhere.


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[Assistant] We live in a capitalist society, right? And it's all about money. Okay. I'm very hopeful that it costs them. Sure. It costs them a quid to make a patty that's, you know, cruelty, cruelty full, but it probably costs them 10 P to make the vegan patty because it's fucking maybe they'll sell it.


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[Assistant] I think money is the only thing that's going to change and I think that them learning this, you know, that these burgers will sell and will make them more money is the way to move towards a better system.


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[Assistant] But the only language any corporation says is money. That's the only thing because that's what we are driven. That's how the free market works and how everything works and how we built this amazing society, which we're incredibly lucky to have today. You know, we wouldn't have had it. And it's true to say that we wouldn't be, if we had a communist


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[Assistant] Society, you know, wouldn't, it wouldn't be as rich and


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[Assistant] Never read them. Why? Because- Deniers.


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[Assistant] I assume everyone must know someone like this, but I've managed to sort of, I've managed to sort of slowly work those people out of my life.


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[Assistant] Well, I pride myself on being willing to change and I have seen over the last 10 years sort of ideas that I previously had been converted one way or another, not necessarily anything too serious. You know, I used to believe that 9-11 was a hoax. You didn't. I didn't, I didn't.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's just... I think it's interesting. I hope that I am willing to, uhm, as I...


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[Assistant] You know, I think sometimes you don't even necessarily realise you have a prejudice until someone calls you on it or until it affects you in some way. Because sometimes, you know, these beliefs are never...


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[Assistant] Never a problem. You know, if you, if you grew up, I don't know, in some rural.


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[Assistant] When you're a kid, you're taught, I don't know, like a handbag.


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[Assistant] I still pronounce it like that. It's just this thing that we've always done. I don't know. And, and so everyone always finds these things. Like the classic ones of Harry Potter, like people doing Hagrid and Hermione or whatever.


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[Assistant] Um, those are like two things. There's good examples of, there's good examples of, of egg corns like that, where people have.


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[Assistant] It's the same thing with me and I know I'm, a lot of people are religious out there and I don't want to shit on their, their beliefs and stuff. But I realized that, you know, if you happen to be born in India, you'll probably be.


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[Assistant] Uh, a Sikh or a Hindu, like, or a Muslim and, you know, and according to where you were born and you certainly wouldn't be a Christian. Well, maybe you would in certain places.


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[Assistant] So actually like, it felt to me like just by virtue of luck and family, suddenly you luckily were the correct, in the correct God area and you had the right beliefs. And I felt like that was so, so to me, so ludicrous.


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[Assistant] Deciding, deciding that those, those, those values and those feelings are not, are, are, and you can decide, you know, if you went against the community, that's a problem. If everyone else in your village is racist and your family is racist and your uncle's racist and the people who look after your kids and the people who teach your kids are all racist. So it was easy just to be like, okay, I guess I'm just not going to say anything. Right, but also, but also.


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[Assistant] But in the same way, there was a lot of, even recently, you know, like, like the, you know, with people using, um, you know, some of the early seasons of it's always sunny in Philadelphia, full of like transphobic stuff and kind of using


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[Assistant] Before people lose their mind about Always Sunny, I know that they're bad people and that that's part of it, right? And that they're people you shouldn't emulate. That's why they're these terrible people. It's used in a context that's okay. But I think that even so, like watching it now is tricky.


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[Assistant] Well, it's the first casualty voice. Just think of how you'd feel if that was your fucking bank that just decided to shut down.


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[Assistant] That is good news. Are you at the dentist, P-Flex? It's like high-pitched trilling.


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[Assistant] That's the kind of- What's wrong with- So, so, let's stick to The Apprentice. Is Alan Sugar still presenting? Is that his only job now?


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[Assistant] He's like such a shit version of, such a British shit version of Donald Trump. It does go to show the differences between America and Britain though.


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[Assistant] You know, do you really think Alan Sugar could have become Prime Minister? I see, I could see it, but...


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[Assistant] I know, maybe there aren't that, maybe we're just the same after all. I did.


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[Assistant] It's amazing. I don't think, didn't they rent out like a really shitty area as well? They didn't expect to win and Hillary had like a whole stadium rented out. Yes they were.


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[Assistant] Okay listen up, so Margaret in Big Brother, she is doing really terrible. We're gonna, I reckon she's gonna be voted out next. Who's been following Big Brother? 9 to 1. 9 to 1 on Margaret. It's like this crowd of guys. Ladbrokes are offering 9 to 1.


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[Assistant] Oh, this is a great, this is a great topic of conversation. I love where we've gone already, right? Okay, I've gone to Ladbroke's Novelty Bets website, okay? Uh, who do you think, what are the latest odds on who will be the next James Bond?


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[Assistant] So the current favourite is a guy called James Norton, who has been in Happy Valley.


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[Assistant] 16 to 1. Who? Henry Cavill. 16 to 1.


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[Assistant] You couldn't have Russell Crowe. Right. So the other, the other two favourites are, uh, three favourites are Sam Huguen, who is from, uh, Outlander. You know Outlander? No.


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[Assistant] Sam Heughan. Aiden Turner, who's Poldark, you know, sexy British Poldark.


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[Assistant] And then, uhm, the guy who plays Robb Stark as well, Richard Madden, he's on the list. Richard Madden. Robb Stark from Game of Thrones. Oh yeaah, yeaah. He was in a...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think you have to be a bit of a sociopath, don't you, to be born, to be like a fucking killing, seducing nutcase machine.


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[Assistant] I kind of, I kind of don't know because I saw some interviews with people from like, um, you know, scrubs and friends and things like this. Like over the lockdown, like a bunch of people were watching their old stuff back, right? Um, like Zach Brathwaite was watching back the old scrubs episodes and he couldn't fucking remember any of them, right?


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[Assistant] And it was because they kind of, I think, recorded them piecemeal. Uhm, so he turned up, he had to read a page, he went away, came back to work, turned up, read a page, did a little scene. He never really saw like, he never really, while making that stuff,


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[Assistant] You know, I'm sure James Bond's the same, you're sat there, you're on set, you're dressed up in your suit, you're sat around, people bring you a cup of tea, you know, you're a celebrity anyway, people are all falling in love with you, you can't fucking help it.


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[Assistant] I thought this was the game. I thought this was the game. No. Okay. The only person with Steve is, is Dan Stevens and he's a hundred to one. A hundred to one.


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[Assistant] There's people in the Ladbrokes offices whose job it is to put this fucking novelty thing together.


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[Assistant] Put you down, I'll give you a computer here, uh, get yourself a drink. So your first job is to come up with the odds, okay, for who you think the PBC 2020 Sports Personality of the Year are. Uhm, so see, it's just- Oh god. Tim Henman? That's about the only one he knows.


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[Assistant] Someone, someone who's been, sports person of the year, who's been in this garden, doing exercise. I don't know anybody else. Raising awareness. He's raising awareness for good causes. I don't know. I give up. Who's been raising money for the NHS? I don't know.


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[Assistant] They all do. I had to inject myself with steroids in my ass every day for four years.


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[Assistant] So you can bet on Conor McGregor, you know him, the, um, UFC fighter, right? Yes. Crazy, crazy guy. I don't know who that is. Really? Yeah, I don't. He's like a, he's like a retired, um, he's retired, right? But, um, you can bet on him coming out of retirement.


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[Assistant] The only reason I call you a bald asshole is because you call yourself a bald asshole.


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[Assistant] Covered microwave! There's been an explosion! All the meters have gone awa- It's at the settings of 3.14 minutes! That's not-


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[Assistant] I went out there yesterday, it was absolutely fucking roasting. I went out there at 8 o'clock in the evening and my fucking god, it was full of people. It was like a party.


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[Assistant] In what way? They don't seem to like scorch the ground either. They absolutely do. Are you mad?


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[Assistant] Well, people will want to eat their fucking knockoff cheap sausages that they bought from Tesco Valley.


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[Assistant] I think it's, I think other people see other people doing it, and they, they think, oh, that's a cool idea, we should do that. And then, you know, there's always one guy, isn't there? By the way, like, so I've seen this thing lately a lot, and I'm really confused as to why it's happening, and maybe it's the thing that I'm just not aware of.


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[Assistant] Loads and loads of people out on Queens Square, just outside our office, are sitting around in separate groups. Okay. It's not like they're all one part of one big group. They're all in these little separate groups of like two or three people. Right. And they've got, almost all of them have a, you know, those juice,


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[Assistant] Like, you buy apple juice in those sort of jugs, right? It looks like a milk, like a pint, not pint, like a liter and a half milk jug with a handle on it.


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[Assistant] Well, I thought maybe they'd all be, they would be there out of like system local, there's a few language schools and big things like this on the squares. There's a lot of sort of conferences.


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[Assistant] I just, I just don't think I would sit outside on Queen's Square down half a litre of apple juice and then just leave the bottom third there and everyone would have done that. I just feel so odd.


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[Assistant] Fucking hell, there's almost no chance that that's gonna be good. You know, best case scenario it's apple juice, but worst case scenario it's bong water or piss. Fuck.


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[Assistant] Thank you for the episode. Thank you everybody for watching, listening. We'll see you next week on trifles. It was a good one, I really enjoyed this one.


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[Assistant] Or a dildo. Maybe a dude with a dildo. Yeaah. Totally. Like you could totally find- You never hear about dudes with dildos.


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[Assistant] Drama. Just talking shit behind the tooth fairy's back. That's not cool, man.


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[Assistant] Well, there's this, there's this tender age where you think you can convince your parents that you do still believe in SEPT, so that you can continue to get pregnant. Exactly. That was clearly their fear.


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[Assistant] Can I convince my parents that I still believe in Santa? Or at least, can I, can I still, can we, I know, there's like a group agreement in the house that no one believes in Santa, but Santa does still come. Just to be sure. Whoever is doing the Santa stuff, we don't know, we know it's not Santa.


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[Assistant] We do still want the pillowcase filled with whatever kids are into these days. Five Nights at Freddy's.


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[Assistant] I don't need any more, uh, Barbie dolls and, uh, the Christmas socks. I would like to know what is the oldest.


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[Assistant] Because you were being taught loads of stuff, when you're a kid you're like a super sponge just absorbing everything, right? And everyone's telling you that Santa's real, so you're like, okay, you know, you don't have a rational mind, but I like where you're going with this because people


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[Assistant] I mean, we should bring back, I'm surprised there's not some big conspiracy theory out there who still believe that Santa's real. You know why there isn't?


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[Assistant] That's one of those great weird things to say that puts people on edge. That's one of those things that you're supposed to say something unexpected that like, that would just freak them out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, it was, it was big at the time. Some sort of circumstances around it. I think the guy was unarmed or something. Yeah, he was.


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[Assistant] A couple of nights ago, um, I heard like the buzzer go, cause we've got like, um, a buzzer thing on our apartment building. A doorbell, I think they call it. Well, no, it's like, it's like a buzzer to the building and I've got a flat in the building. So it's like the outer door and sometimes that rings anyway, right?


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[Assistant] Um, so I was like not super surprised that it went off and I looked at my clock and it was like.


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[Assistant] 3.45 in the morning. I was like, my God, that's like the most. Yeah, that's a weird time. Right, right. That's a really weird time for it to go off. And so I sort of sat there for a minute. I didn't answer it. I was like,


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[Assistant] So anyway, I put my dressing gown on anyway and went downstairs. And yeaah, lo and behold.


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[Assistant] 10 minutes later, there's like a banging on my door, which, which has never happened, you know, because it's like, it's like a bit of a maze, this apartment complex I live in. So it's quite hard to find where I am, which is nice. It's quite comforting actually to have that.


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[Assistant] And then, so I go up to the peephole and obviously I look through the peephole and it's dark and I'm like, okay, that's a bit weird. But then I realized it's another guy looking through the peephole. And so he sort of backs off and I, and I look into the corridor and it's these two policemen in like full police gear. At the back of my mind, I was like, are these people just dressed up as policemen? Because that's what goes through your mind for some reason.


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[Assistant] And so I opened the door and I'm like, hello. And they're like, hi, is your name?


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[Assistant] Like whatever the name they, they said, I think- Is your name Dick Durstedly? Is your name Daniel Garvey or something like that. And I was like, no, no, my name's Louis Brindley. Of the Ox House. And they're like, is there someone, well, cause it was like a name that was like da da da da. So it was like this, it was like the same cadence as my name.


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[Assistant] So for some reason I was like, oh no, it's not Daniel Garvey, it's Louis Brindley, right? So, and so- You can't be normal, can you?


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[Assistant] So they, they were like, you know, they went through this series of questions. They were like, does, does, does any one of that person name live here? I was like, no. And they were like, do you, do you know anyone called that? And I'm like, no. And he's like,


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[Assistant] Is there any reason that we would have, you know, someone would have called us out here at this time? I was like, I don't know. I don't think so. Um, they were like, did we wake you up? And I was like, yes. So I sort of, I sort of, I don't know why I kind of like sighed. I was like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, you did. It was, it was a weird, I felt weird saying it like that, but then they were like, have you got any idea? And I was like, yeah, I have. Cause I was kind of getting tired of this conversation by now. Cause I've been through like a minute and a inch.


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[Assistant] I wasn't being shitty on purpose. I was being shitty by accident. I think I'd probably been asleep for about an hour at this point. Oh, that's the worst though when you get woken up.


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[Assistant] Because I had a lot of stuff to do before Jingle Jam started and I was like, I was looking forward to not having to deal with this. And so obviously my heart's beating as well because you know, yeah, it's like the police are right there looking all threatening kind of in your corridor and staring through your peephole and stuff.


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[Assistant] Maybe? I was sad that I wasn't Daniel Garvey and that I couldn't help him out. You know, so anyway.


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[Assistant] No, so they weren't looking for that. They said that someone called, like, um, Mildred or someone had called. Is there anyone called Mildred who lives here? I was like, I don't think so. Like, do you know what I mean? There's like, there's like other names being thrown around. And I'm like, I didn't recognize, I don't know anyone. I'm gonna go out on a limb here.


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[Assistant] Well, I, I suppose, yea, and anyway, so then they were like, can you get your ID? So I was like, alright, so then, I, I, I sort of propped the door open with a shoe, uhm, so it didn't slam in their face, you know, because I thought that would be, that would be a bad thing.


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[Assistant] Cause I think they were chatting on the radio, they were trying to find out if it was a different house number, like, you know, cause it could have been like a, you know, a slightly different house number, um, in the, in the same place or whatever. So, yeah, do you know what I mean? It's, um, it was, it was.


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[Assistant] I don't know what they wanted anyway and they left and I went straight back to sleep and I was fine, I didn't.


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[Assistant] You know, cause you might know loads of information. You might have seen guys hanging around for weeks or turning up or fighting. You might know the guy personally.


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[Assistant] I know, but life is full of like tiny, tiny percent touch. You can't go through your life trying to mitigate. I don't want this to turn into another


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[Assistant] But I, I think that we, we go through life, um, you know, having these constant little worries and anxieties and everyone's got their own ones. And it's amazing to sometimes find out what other people's are because sometimes they're tiny percent chances. And then when you hear them, you're like, actually, I suppose.


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[Assistant] You've got a point Sips, there is a percent chance, but it would have never bothered me. I think some people couldn't wait to talk to the police. A different person might have run out onto the street and gotten involved in that. Oh my God.


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[Assistant] Well, well, but at the same time, I think that, for example, there was this event that happened in China recently where there was the British ambassador there. He saw someone, I think, fall in a canal or a lake or something.


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[Assistant] No one, apparently the locals were not willing to help because they didn't want to either, uh, put themselves or apparently it's a cultural thing, but also it's a thing. I'm sure the similar thing would have happened here that the paralysis when everyone thinks it's someone else's responsibility, right? There's loads of other people around here. Someone else is going to do it.


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[Assistant] There's a difference though between being scared and just the psychological trap of assuming someone else will do it.


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[Assistant] It's good to run through this stuff in your mind because when you're, when you get to the situation, you might react differently to how you want to.


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[Assistant] What about, okay, so you've come up with these kind of scenarios for.


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[Assistant] Let's, for example, imagine the house next door to yours is on fire. Yep. And the flames are going crazy. It's, it's looking like it's going to catch onto your roof. Right. You go outside because you smell smoke. You go outside. You're like, where's that smoke coming from? You look around the side of your house. There's a fire. It's out of control. It's spreading to your house.


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[Assistant] What do you do? It's 3.45am, you're in your slippers and dressing gown, otherwise you're naked.


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[Assistant] I love this. The family and Terry. That's it. Well, there's no grabbing a passport or anything like that.


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[Assistant] It's a, it's a new thing like whether you have to have them like that because people, people just don't fucking have batteries. Like the only thing I use batteries for is.


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[Assistant] Kodak, didn't they get like, didn't they have like a massive boom recently after they did, they announced something weird. There was something happened recently.


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[Assistant] No, they had like, look at that in June. So they went, their stock was at $2 and it went to 29, 30, went to 33. Their stock went 10 times higher in 2020, but then it's back down kind of where it was.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I thought I remembered something about Kodak. Weird that that pops up in our heads.


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[Assistant] Well, there was a thing wasn't there with, I mean, was it Kodak? I think back in the war, they knew about the bombs going off, but were told to keep it secret because the radiation from the Manhattan project had gone into all of the forests and the trees and the rivers along where they cut all of their


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[Assistant] People's, honestly, like even like high profile folks get sort of attacked online and lose their personal information. Well, I mean, Elon Musk and Kanye got hacked didn't they? And Joe Biden got hacked. One of a couple of his accounts got hacked.


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[Assistant] Well, if he was, maybe he should, you know, apparently, I read this as well, hackers can make like a thousand pounds from selling one person's personal information on the dark web. That might be, there's a citation needed on that.


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[Assistant] You're scaring me now though. I know, well look, I think your personal information would be worth more than that, right? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Uh, anyway, uh, we're sponsored. It's, it's, it's a really easy app to use. It's like one click. It's really quick. You don't even know if you're using it. I, I use ExpressVPN.


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[Assistant] Right. So I, I wonder like, yeah, I, I feel like mine is probably about 50-50. I try and get the last word in. Right. When, when I have a conversation with someone, I don't like- Is that a power play on your part or? No, but it just feels, I don't know, it's, it's in my head, it's like almost polite. Show that I'm- Well, I find now with like,


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[Assistant] That's how I operate. Exactly on this topic. I read an article last week, which blew my fucking mind because I thought it was like an onion article or like something that my mom had been emailing around, but apparently, and this may


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[Assistant] This may be an April Fool or something in the UK.


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[Assistant] People send a lot of completely unnecessary emails, like that useless thank you message some overly polite people simply can't not send. Okay? That's literally what this quote is right from this article.


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[Assistant] I feel like that thank you, overly polite thank you message is not wholly useless or wholly unnecessary. I think it's part of everyday conversation. And after all, how much energy does an email use? Okay. I don't think very much, but apparently.


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[Assistant] So apparently if all of those shit emails, which people send per week, so apparently 10, I send way more than 10 shit emails a week. I send hundreds of shit emails a week, right? But apparently if everyone in the UK didn't send those 10 shit emails a week, that is the equivalent


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[Assistant] Well, apparently though, actually this was a problem in India because, um, there's this thing, this phenomenon in India. I think it was on WhatsApp or something where they, they all send each other these like good morning messages, right? So you wake up in the morning and you have like a little.


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[Assistant] But the problem was it was this cultural thing where everyone would send it to everyone in their contacts, right? And so it was like crushing the servers in the morning and like causing massive outages and stuff. And so apparently like they either


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[Assistant] Um, bandwidth issues and you know, it feels, that does feel.


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[Assistant] Honestly though, it ground my gears so bad, cause it was such a trivial thing, it was almost like counter to what we should be doing, cause I felt like emails, unless they're emails, I drop in the fucking ocean of the carbon that's being used.


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[Assistant] But if anything, I think that the pandemic is probably great for climate change. You know, I think there are a lot less cars, a lot less smog. It's been a great step in the right direction and I'm sure we're all going to go back to where we were before.


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[Assistant] I don't want to, I don't want also if you're giving it, if you're doing a face to face doctor, sorry, if you're doing a digital doctor thing where he's looking at your rash, I don't want anyone else seeing that. No, of course not. Of course not.


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[Assistant] So no, seriously, like, I know there's like this fallacy where you don't do something because you're like, well, this is worse. So I'm, I'm not, you know, I know that this is bad, but this is worse, but that's not it. Like, you know, I just don't think the emails thing is a big deal. I don't think so either. Feel free to send emails, but there are lots of things that we can help with. You know, you should.


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[Assistant] Alright, see you next week everyone. Thank you. Jingle Jam's happening if you didn't know. By the time this podcast goes out, you've got just enough time, if there's any left, to get yourself a bundle.


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[Assistant] I've been, uh, not as sick as you this week, it sounds like. You sound a little bit raspy.


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[Assistant] Some people do. You hear that more so in the UK. It's like, uh, you know, they say I've got some sort of virus or whatever. They don't necessarily just default at cold.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is my, this is the first time I think I've been affected by COVID beyond the sort of general lockdown or whatever. We're currently in full isolation and we have been for a couple of days because


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[Assistant] My son, uh, was in contact with somebody last Monday. Not like, sorry, the Monday before last. Uhm, they think that he was, uh, on a bus.


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[Assistant] With somebody who has subsequently tested positive for COVID.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so in my son's case, he's on this bus, they use this bus to take them up to do swimming every Monday. Right, right. And they've identified that whoever has tested, has gone on test positive for COVID was on the same bus, right?


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[Assistant] So everybody who was on that bus has to isolate. Uhm, but the rest of his class doesn't. So half of his class or like three quarters of his class are still


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[Assistant] Going back to school, um, you know, operating normally or whatever. And it's just the kids that were on the bus that are now having to isolate. But we've only found out about this like seven, eight days after the fact, right? So like, I don't know. It feels like he had the whole rest of the week at school.


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[Assistant] We'll all have to isolate with them, you can't leave the house, nothing. And it's like, I get it, like I know that kids aren't like able to spread it as easily or whatever, but it just feels like the time that it takes for somebody to show symptoms, to then test them, to then get a result and everything.


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[Assistant] I feel like if my son does have it, which I don't actually think he does have it, but he might. I mean, it's possible.


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[Assistant] I'm pretty sure he passed away. Yeah, he did, he died two years ago.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he was looking really rough. I don't know what he died of, but I remember he did like some, uh, Dale goes to Florida show or something. And man, I couldn't believe it. He looked like he was on his way out. Even in that he just looked awful.


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[Assistant] This wasn't that old, you know? He was only like, he was, he was born in 1972, he's only 8 years older than me.


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[Assistant] Tess Stanley looks like she's 20. It's crazy. And she's like 50 or something.


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[Assistant] Vernon, you're not getting it, okay? I'm sorry to say. You can't, you can't treat someone like that and then expect to get a vaccination. I mean, it just doesn't work like that.


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[Assistant] I think uhm, I think, you know, I hate how they say the new norm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well they have to incorporate it in. Most soaps are based, well, British soaps at least are based in some form of present day reality, right? So they usually, uhm, will try to tackle topics like, like EastEnders for example. I don't really watch it. My wife watches it. But there's always, there's always like, uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's a bit like that, but yeah, I think uhm, I think they just basically, because they do have to distance while filming and wear masks and stuff, I think they've incorporated a lot of it into the actual shows, you know?


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[Assistant] That's not set, I don't know if that's meant to be hyper realistic, I mean most soaps aren't, but I think the archers is like, uh, it feels to me like it's a little bit more of a, I don't know, like an idealistic view of life sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Can we, can we talk about things that, I feel like December for me has been a month where I have, I feel like I've had a bit of a rut where I haven't really, you know, like fallen in love with anything, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] By that is like TV shows, gaming, stuff like I think I feel like I've had two or three months where I just haven't really found anything overly exciting.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no I didn't, I still haven't. But listen, what I'm saying is, this month I've been surprised because I've like come out of the rut. I found TV shows that I really like, uhm, I've been playing games that I really like, like the surprise one for me,


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[Assistant] Recently has been, uh, Call of Duty, Black Ops, Cold War, Zombies. I've never played like a Zombies mode before. Holy crap.


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[Assistant] I've been playing it every day since. I knew that you'd like it. I've been playing it every night. I've been streaming it, everything. I've loved it. It's really nice to find something that's not like, like just naturally that you like that you get into and you don't feel like you're being like duped into it. Like I know if I would have played WoW,


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[Assistant] I probably would have liked it on the one hand, but part of me would have always felt like, oh fuck, you know, I'm wasting my time playing this. Like, you know, it's not going to lead to good things sort of thing.


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[Assistant] There's definitely less of an interweave between politics and religion. That seems a lot more so in America, right? There's definitely some influence on religion.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, yeaah, I was gonna mention this as well. Yesterday they did a town hall which was like uhm, like people who sort of like high ups or like community managers at Twitch or whatever.


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[Assistant] And uhm, so they've decided to now take action against people who routinely use terms like


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[Assistant] Uhm, but man, I'm gonna miss calling people virgins. Like, that's like my go-to insult. Like, if somebody beats me at a game, automatically they must be a virgin, right? Like, and I'll be pretty vocal about it, so I don't know.


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[Assistant] What I'm gonna do, but at the same time I feel like, from what I can tell anyway, most people in my chat are, uhm, really sexually active hunks, so uhm, maybe it's not that much of a problem at all.


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[Assistant] Crazy that these, that some of these words are, are chosen to be, to be banned when there's, when there's other terms that are being used that are not, um, that, that seem to be like far worse, right?


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[Assistant] I don't know, like, like, go on any sort of like, uhm, first person shooter stream or whatever and like, uhm, you know, there's still like, still old sort of terms being used that were like, used a lot maybe like in the 90s and, but have just sort of like,


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[Assistant] But I think that I feel like, uh, like language policing is, is, is never a great thing, right? Like I, I, I, at the same time, I don't want to support toxicity. Obviously I don't want these, these places to exist where people, um, can, can like, you know,


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[Assistant] Sort of all subscribe to this like strange idea or whatever and take it very seriously or whatever, but


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[Assistant] I feel like that, like there's a lot of context being missed with a lot of this stuff too, right? You hear people use the term simping for all sorts of things, right? Like it's kind of, it's one of those terms now that's just lost meaning. And in a way it's just a made up word anyway, and it's just going to get replaced with another made up word.


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[Assistant] Well it's like the, it's like the word retard. I think at one point, uhm, that was, they,


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[Assistant] People could say and use that word and it wasn't deemed like a, like a sort of like a derogatory toxic thing. Like this is a long time ago. I think, I don't know. Uhm, but like, I mean, I remember like, I remember hearing adults use that, use that term quite freely when I was growing up in like the eighties and stuff. Like it wasn't.


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[Assistant] But here's the problem with that. What is a simp? A simp is like, kind of like, it's kind of like a white knight, but implied that you're like a big turbo virgin as well. You're like, you're watching. This is my understanding, maybe that's wrong.


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[Assistant] But like I always thought that it meant that you're like, um, you're, you're, you're kind of like,


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[Assistant] I've donated multiple millions of dollars to you in hopes that we could play Twitch things together one day and you know, like that. I think that's a simp, right?


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[Assistant] Being massively invested. Yeah, and I think like, so the term, like I think traditionally it was meant to be sort of, uhm, a term used for, for guys with, who watch girl streamers, but I think,


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[Assistant] Now it's being used for, you know, people watching guy streamers. It's being used for all sorts of different things, right? Like you, you, you hear that that term used a lot around various sort of things, right? Like, um,


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I mean, like, separate, separate issues, obviously, but yeah, like it's, again, I think that's something that may come around eventually, you know, but for now it's just not, it's not there and that's because the industry in question is so fucking behind the times.


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[Assistant] You're still people playing copyright music on stream, like still people doing


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[Assistant] So yeaah, so if you don't, if you don't create vods and uhm, or you don't allow people to create clips either,


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[Assistant] But again, without VODs and clips, it's, you know, this is sort of...


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[Assistant] There's no context for it either, like at the time it was kinda funny I guess, like I was playing Red Dead 2 and uh, I discovered that you were able to kick dogs.


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[Assistant] You can, you can kick a dog, but like how come, okay, this is gonna sound a bit weird and I don't want this to appear in a game, but-


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[Assistant] I mean, okay, so that, I mean, we're just talking about GTA, I'm just mostly talking about GTA here, but actually, honorable mentions to Red Dead, the daddy of all animal abuse, right? Because,


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[Assistant] How many animals in that game had, must they have had to animate, like, you know, being shot in the head or kicked or being like, uh, T-boned by another horse or, you know what I mean? Like, god damn, like, so much of their budget.


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[Assistant] Like that's why there's no children in any of the Fallout games or like there are children that you can speak to, but you can't shoot them or anything. Like it's, it's a thing, right? I'm pretty sure it's a thing. There's no children in GTA games that you ever are able to like run over with your car and stuff.


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[Assistant] Like I'll quite happily plow over anybody, but you know, grannies, you name it, whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a bit of uh, maybe not so POG actually when you think about it. No, that's not POG.


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[Assistant] Oh, I mean, I'm meaning to watch that actually. I wanna see that. I kinda like, uh, the history of the Royals and stuff. I know it's not meant to be super realistic, but I still kind of am interested enough that I'd probably get around to watching. It is interesting. It's really interesting.


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[Assistant] I think she must be a rare sort of case where Americans can come over and do British accents because I find for the most part they are not very good at that. Whereas on the other side, British, um, actors going over to America and then doing American accents, um,


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[Assistant] I've been, I've been fooled many times, like, like Stringer Bell, before, before anybody really, uhm, knew who Idris Elba was, uhm, in the wire, Stringer Bell, I just assumed he was just like an American guy, you know, like he was, I was totally-


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah, some of them are terrible, obviously, like, and vice versa, but I, I, I find,


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[Assistant] No, I didn't, I couldn't get into that. That was way too, I don't mind weird, but that was just like, I just couldn't.


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[Assistant] No, Chernobyl was, uh, Sky, uhm, Sky funded, I think. Not, not, not like made by Sky, but Sky Money for sure was involved. Let's have a look.


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[Assistant] Oh, I hate when shows are like that. You're just slogging through it just to see if it's worth watching and you know already that it's not.


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[Assistant] I'm just curious like where you got up to where you decided that it was too boring for you to watch. Cause there's kind of like a point in the show, I feel like every show, where it sort of hooks you in. Like I tried watching it previously.


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[Assistant] And I couldn't really get through half of the first episode, but I was watching it dubbed and I'm not a fan of dubbing generally.


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[Assistant] So when I came back to watch it subtitled, I enjoyed it more, but it took, it definitely took me a little while to get into. It was interesting enough to keep me going, but I feel like after a certain point, and I'm not exactly sure how to pinpoint that, I was hooked and I really, really liked it. I loved where it was going and stuff.


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[Assistant] I love the whole like, I'll spoil it a little bit. So if you're listening and you're planning on watching it, maybe don't listen to this bit, but, um,


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[Assistant] The thing, the thing I found really interesting about dark and part of what kept me going was I loved how


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[Assistant] I loved how characters from present time could travel in time, either to the past or the future and get stuck there and still age, um, relative to like, you know, the time that we're on right now or get stuck there. But then the, the, the repercussions of people getting stuck there,


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[Assistant] Uh, in those times, but then having to live there and just sort of having to put up with it had huge consequences down the line, right? Cause it meant that they would do things that normal humans would want to do obviously, like create children or create a life for themselves.


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[Assistant] It was just such a cool, it's just such a cool idea, but Season 3 is like a bit of a trip at first, but it just wraps up so nicely, like it makes the end of Season 3 and therefore the end of the entire show.


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[Assistant] It explains it super well and it's, you're not left feeling like, oh shit, like there's a couple of things that you look back and you're like, okay, some of this stuff wasn't explained super well, but it was just like kind of used to bridge you over to like other parts of the story or whatever. Right. And you kind of look back and you're like, what do I want to know more about?


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[Assistant] Actually, like overall, the whole thing wraps up really nicely. It's good.


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[Assistant] I don't know if the crown will cover modern day. Eventually, no. It'll probably, I'd imagine that the crown will probably, because kind of like after, in terms of like royalty and stuff, kind of after Diana passed away and stuff.


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[Assistant] I think, I think history for the Royals has been pretty... It's been boring. Yeah.


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[Assistant] William and Harry grew up, um, and got married and had kids.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I suppose, but again, there's like, maybe eventually they'll do it, but I can't imagine that they're in a mad rush to get to that timeline.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's a major historical thing. I mean, that was the big turning point for Thatcher, right? Like, like without Falklands, I don't think she would have ever even been reelected, right? At the time, like she was pretty unpopular and the whole Falklands thing just sort of turned it around for her from my understanding. I'm not like super into history.


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[Assistant] Do you think that like uhm, you know with everything going on with Covid, the second wave is like hitting pretty hard, there's like, there's lots of...


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[Assistant] No, no, she's not, like, people lose their minds for Christmas.


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[Assistant] I would not celebrate Christmas if not for having children. I just wouldn't bother. Like I wouldn't, I wouldn't decorate. I wouldn't put up a tree. Nothing. I would just be like,


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[Assistant] That's fine. I used to love it too when I was a kid, but like it's a lot of work when you're an adult, right? And a lot of work that almost just doesn't really seem worth it. If not for kids, you know, like I do, I make the effort for, for my kids because I know they like it so much, but I wouldn't make that much effort like without kids. I just wouldn't.


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[Assistant] Maybe some years, maybe if I was feeling like really fruity, I'd put up a tree, but I wouldn't every year. Like, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] I think it's interesting from a point of view of tradition as well, like I know my parents, like their, their view on Christmas and how they celebrate Christmas and stuff feels very much like


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[Assistant] You know, like, like for them, Christmas is like Bing Crosby Christmas, you know, like the North, the very North American over the top, like, you know, chestnuts roasting on an open fire and you have your eggnog and you have your sweaters and stuff and like, it's a big deal, right? Like that's what they grew up with.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, and therefore I grew up with it being kind of a big deal, but maybe not so much of a big deal, and like I'm passing on this tradition, but I'm just, I'm, I'm interested to see


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[Assistant] And if you were lucky enough to be high on the pecking order, you could, um, you could swing a bit more time as well, right?


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[Assistant] The skeleton crew over Christmas was almost, uh, was, was, was almost just as good as, as fully being off, right? Cause you just, in a sense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Well, maybe you might get another one before the new year, depending, but uhm, but yeah, have a good Christmas, stay safe, be responsible and stuff and uhm, thanks for listening and goodbye. Goodbye.


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[Assistant] Podcast, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. Sips, how are you doing on the island? Man, just great. How are you doing? I'm doing fantastic. And P-Flex, fresh out of hospital from having heart surgery. Holy shit.


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[Assistant] No, it is absolutely, uhm, like hacking your hormones or whatever. Like this, this, this thing isn't there about how there's certain, you get certain hormones from cuddling and certain hormones from like exercise and certain hormones and they're all like.


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[Assistant] It's like, you know, there's like different things that you're supposed to do and try and, you know, like keep your body in shape in order to, I think there's this like list of like four or five hormones that you get from different locations you can get them from and you're supposed to try and


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[Assistant] You know, like this is why you should try and do a little bit of exercise every day and also, I dunno, hold hands with a dog.


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[Assistant] You can't help looking at, you really have to work hard for your eyes not to just pop down there. If there was like a completely nude woman in front of me, and I was, I would have to work so hard to not just have my eyes, especially if I was a


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[Assistant] Do you reckon that white oranges like, um, works doubly as, as sort of hat, like a walk, like you know how road workers have to wear the orange jackets, the, the fluorescent stuff. Right. Do you reckon like it keeps them aware of where the cotton balls are at all times?


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[Assistant] So Christ, sorry, sorry, sorry, so the taser tube was a different tube to the burn tube.


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[Assistant] I think they have to have this distance though in a sense. It's part of their training to see your problems as things that need to be fixed.


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[Assistant] It's market forces, right? So for example, I know that the Philippines exports, if you like, a lot of nurses.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because I think they have this, it's almost like a kind of cultural thing where they have a lot, actually a lot of nursing schools in the Philippines and you, you go there and you train as a nurse and you go


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[Assistant] Um, away as a, as a temporary or, or, or worker to, to, to a foreign country and you work there and it's, it's partly because there's not many jobs there locally, but also I think relative to income levels, it pays quite well, even though I'm sure we pay the nurses not very much at all. Right. But it's, it's this thing where almost,


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[Assistant] The Philippines is not a country that you think of in the global stage as this large place yet.


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[Assistant] There are Filipino nurses all over the place. And there's something also, it's something like, I think nail salons are the other thing.


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[Assistant] So it's one of these things where they actually, they have a big culture of it in Vietnam and it's something which they've got a big community of people doing in America. So there's lots of support for it. And it's like, oh, you know, I know someone who's opened a nail salon. We can tell you how to do it. This is, this is exactly like the guide you need to, it's almost like opening a franchise in McDonald's, I guess, or something, you know.


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[Assistant] Um, it's, it's kind of this strange phenomenon, right? So I think you've got to understand that when there are.


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[Assistant] What's the incentive for us to pay them or what's the incentive for us to train up and be, be paid? Not so much. You know, I think, I think like the, it is the market that's caused this in a sense, and it's a strange phenomenon, but I don't want to criticize what, what, what we, I think that we need to,


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[Assistant] I think that teachers and nurses and these kind of jobs for a long time were, especially before the pandemic, were looked down on a little bit.


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[Assistant] Um, whereas in fact, I think they're some of the most important jobs in society, you know, and


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[Assistant] They are hard jobs too, right? Like, you know, you can imagine like, teaching every day and nursing every day. God, that's like a, that's like a hard job, you know, not like sitting on the fucking like, like spending half an hour in the photocopy room, like smoking, like pretending that, oh, the photocopy is broken, you know, just hiding in there.


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[Assistant] It's like, I don't know, it's not, it's not the same, is it really? It's like, you can't slack off as a nurse or a teacher. That's a really important one. Okay, so this week's sponsor for the Triforce podcast, it's ExpressVPN. That's right, you can get three months free at expressvpn.com slash triforce.


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[Assistant] If you're not using a VPN, you're basically just flopping your cock and balls out of a sheet for everyone to see. You know, why not get a little patch, sew it over there just to keep it secret and keep it safe from prying eyes.


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[Assistant] I like that. ExpressVPN.com slash Triforce. Thank you. Thank you. We'll carry on.


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[Assistant] What's next on the list of things you've done? Yeah, go on, give us the next news.


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[Assistant] Ah, they're making documentaries about Bitcoin, it's not gonna go anywhere, like, do you know what I mean? And all these other things. And I don't know, you constantly go through life seeing things that you think, oh, if only I'd kept my... I was too old


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[Assistant] For Pokemon cards, right? At school, at school when Pokemon cards came out and stuff, I was in sixth form or whatever. So I was kind of like past it at that point. And they were never something that I was interested in. But I guess Logan Paul maybe was secretly, he's a nerd or something.


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[Assistant] Um, and now he's just, cause he's just so ludicrously rich. He can just do that as an investment and they're not going to lose value, right? Pokemon cards. Pokemon's going nowhere. You know, don't see Pokemon ruining its reputation anyhow, do you? They're not adding like,


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[Assistant] Anything too weird, like a dick Pokemon or anything, you know, it's all gonna stick around forever. It's not gonna offend anyone.


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[Assistant] Well, maybe some of the old ones will actually, but do you mean it's like, it's, it's, Pokemon's gonna stick around for 20 years. They're gonna keep making Pokemon cards. People love card games more than ever. You can't know that.


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[Assistant] Well my mum, my mum's way of dealing with that for me, I remember very well, is any time I wanted anything new, she would make me chuck something out, right? So I would always be like,


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[Assistant] I was always wrestling with that. I guess like, I'm the same. And I guess the extreme end of it is hoarding and never throwing anything away.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and you see those kind of people, and you can see the rationale for that, right, where you think, oh, you know.


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[Assistant] It's horrible to have that feeling that you think, oh, I really need that thing, but I threw it away. But so I, I, I'm the same. I don't tend to chuck stuff away. I tend to build up stuff and put it in, put it in boxes in case I'm going to play that board game or that thing. And the other thing is like actually


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[Assistant] It feels bad to throw these things away because you want to take them to a charity shop. You know, I've got like a whole, I've got like three full bags of stuff, like old books and old games.


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[Assistant] I think a good example of something you can buy which suddenly gives you lots of stuff is like Lego. Like that's the thing where suddenly you've got this thing that you've spent a lot of time assembling. It feels like a pain in the arse to disassemble it.


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[Assistant] Nice. I loved it! See, these, these, I've looked at a picture of it, the balls are made of basically fake Lego bricks. Yes! Uhm, and so, I mean, you, as a kid, I'm sure, Sips, you probably saw adverts for this fucking game on TV or somewhere. Maybe.


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[Assistant] Kind of both of them became what they thought was really, really good. And so then one day they went online and they were like, together we're going to go and


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[Assistant] But also, it's more of a globally, like chess, I guess, you have to, in order to be good, you have to understand what strategies have come before. You can't just look at a chess board. A brand new chess player needs to study a century of chess, as opposed to...


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[Assistant] I'm sure the modern game does require that and probably would benefit from it, but it certainly feels different to how


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[Assistant] You know, there's like a raw talent there, right? Whereas I think that these games where you have full information, uhm, like chess are


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[Assistant] It's something you just have to put such an incredible amount of work into. It's because I was talking to various people about chess this week and people are so interested in chess, you know, it's, we talked about it a couple of weeks ago as well.


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[Assistant] And uhm, I've been trying to, I've been playing a couple of games and every time I'm like, oh, I'm so fucking hopeless at this. I just, I just.


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[Assistant] I don't see really obvious stuff that is, like, I don't even see one move ahead almost, like, and I can't, like, I try and look at it and it's like...


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[Assistant] I think of myself like Beth Harmon or whatever from that, the Netflix show and I'm like, I need some kind of drugs to just help me like, pass what I'm looking at, this complexity. It's just too much.


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[Assistant] I went through a phase of watching, trying to watch the best movies ever, you know, and if you watch these highly rated movies, they tend to be like,


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[Assistant] They get pretty heavy pretty quick and it's like, you know, this movie's about AIDS, this movie's about autism, this movie's about a teenager with cancer, this movie's about a dad whose child's been abducted, this movie's about paedophiles, this movie's about, I don't know, do you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] You're in this like pretty, there's not that many kind of comedy movies that aren't just zany and hangover and wacky kind of throwaway garbage. I don't know, like most movies are to take themselves a bit more seriously and


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[Assistant] I don't know, sometimes I don't want that, and sometimes also it's a little bit the same with a book, like you read a bad book and it puts you off doing it for a while, you know? Yeah, yeah. Uhm, and so you have to kind of overcome that, but actually there are some really amazing movies out there coming out all the time. Oh yeah, I know.


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[Assistant] I feel like, I feel like TV is like that now, though. But I mean, TV is, TV is more, it didn't, it used to be episodic, but for reasons, you know, broadcast, but now it's, people just consume it like you do, Sips. I think that's a very, and they design that in mind. The episode kind of breaks are more just for, you know.


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[Assistant] Um, about a game dev company and apparently it's pretty crap, but one of the episodes is really, really good at the middle somewhere, which was written by, you know, someone, they're written by different people and you know, that's how it works. Some of them are probably


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[Assistant] Now, make sure you've scanned that and understand. Post it on the internet. Send it to your girlfriend. Send some dick and titty pics. And do it well.


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[Assistant] With uhm, with like, with people who vape and just vaping in general, like, uh, when I used to vape.


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[Assistant] I remember not having much of a, much of a sense of taste or smell. So it's like, it's kind of like, those are, those are the sort of early warning signs that maybe you've, you've got it. Right. And, uh, you just kind of don't notice it. Yeah. You wouldn't really notice, right? If you're, if you're an active vapeist.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess with restrictions and stuff, it's a bit weird for getting people together and stuff anyway.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, if I brush my tongue, I'm like gagging. So I don't know how like somebody gets like a big monster horse cock in there.


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[Assistant] I feel, I, I feel bad, okay, uhm, just, I would just like to preface by saying I feel bad because uhm, I have like related stories to all of your big stories today, uhm, but like at the same time.


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[Assistant] Okay, listen, okay, so, Flax, my son had to have the same test, uh, because he was around somebody who tested positive for Corona. Thank God he didn't test positive and none of us have gotten it. This is very good for us at this point in time.


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[Assistant] And as sad as it is and everything, she was like 95 years old and she lived a really good life and she wasn't like very sick leading up to passing away or anything. She was like on palliative care for like a day.


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[Assistant] Uh, but before that she was like, she was totally with it, she was fine, everything. Uhm, but she was just very old. And, uh, she passed away.


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[Assistant] Uh, but I don't know what they're gonna do for funeral or anything because in Canada, the lockdown is different. It's a lot more strict where my parents are and stuff like that, so.


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[Assistant] I don't know what's going to happen. Uhm. I think there's a, yeah, I mean I actually went to another funeral this month, but it was on Zoom. Good God, lads. I know. Well, that's, that's my last, uh, grandparent. All my grandparents are gone. Oh, sorry, dude. It's one, it's that, that point in your life you get to, I guess, when, uhm, the generation before the last one is, is pretty much gone, right? Same with my wife's side, no grandparents left.


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[Assistant] I'm sad, but like it's not devastating or anything. Like I think you were a lot closer to your, your Nan and your family in general. So it's like, it's probably hit you a lot harder. And like I said, I don't want to like steal your thunder or anything. It's just, uh, it's just a related, uh, a related thing. But I would also like to say.


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[Assistant] That uhm, it just shows how beautiful life really is when you think about it because


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[Assistant] Honestly, like we're, I mean, cause it's like, uh, like a fresh topic because like we're, you know, expecting another child and stuff and like, and, and, and having had two children and I'm sure flax can agree with this, uh, there's, there's really nothing, uh, in this world like,


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[Assistant] Holding your own child. Like it is, it, it's beautiful. Like the connection. It is an incredible thing. It's just an incredible thing and it's like, if you can have kids, you should.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's not like, don't, like, don't get bogged down with all this, oh, it's irresponsible to have children in the world. Like, every generation has had that. Like, you hear people saying that in like the 60s and everything.


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[Assistant] But honestly, like, uh, we, we, we have this ability to, to do this, like, incredible thing, uh, while we're here in the short, very short time that we're here. And, uh, I would say to you that if you can do it,


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[Assistant] You should do it. It's a, it is amazing. Like it's work, but it's the best work. It's the best work.


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[Assistant] It just, it's like, there's nothing like it. You'll never, you'll never have an experience like it. Like, you could seek out experiences like your whole life, but actually creating your own person and holding them and then helping them grow into


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[Assistant] Uhm, like a, you know, a bigger person and stuff is the most incredible thing.


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[Assistant] You don't need to be set on that either though. You just sort of take it as it comes. You know, you, they, they come out, you have, you, you think one thing and then, you know, you're, you're slapped with the reality of the situation and your perspective changes and stuff. And it's, I mean, it's, it's spicy, right? It keeps you on your toes.


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[Assistant] Uh, or your parents absolutely hate you, but at some point I think uhm, I think somebody felt like some joy to bring you into this world. Maybe even if it was just uhm, you know. Fleeting. Fleeting.


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[Assistant] No, that's not even the limit. For males, it's different. For women, there's definitely like a time thing, like a cutoff point. But I mean, if you are an older guy and you are with a younger woman, you can still feasibly have children. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] Four weddings, four funerals, and a childbirth announcement. Wait, before we move on though, this will be the first time that we've had a baby in the summer months. The baby's due in July.


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[Assistant] Both of my kids are October and December babies, so colder months. So we're looking forward to not having to wrestle with a newborn into like a snow suit to keep them warm and stuff. When leaving the hospital and other really annoying things about newborns.


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[Assistant] But that's okay, if I clear all the junk out of here, there's plenty of room for pacing and getting rid of the colic and rocking the baby to sleep in the AC.


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[Assistant] Or he, uh, will have, uh, we don't know yet, by the way. Um, he'll have, uh, my, my, my five year old daughter and my nine year old son to, uh, to run right after. So we'll probably have, be like fully in a business suit and ready for work, uh, within like six months.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, yeah, unfortunately with COVID and stuff, I just couldn't go. So my wife had to go on her own, which is not great, but it was all, it was all good news and stuff. So babies, everything's where it should be. And the baby was bopping around and stuff.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you what, you know what I did a lot over the Christmas, um, period? I played Jenga, which, uh.


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, no, but my son got Jenga in his stocking and loves it. And so he's been like parading around the house saying he's the Jenga champion because nobody can beat him.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we've tried as well. Like I've really tried. My wife has tried a couple of times as well. My daughter's hopeless. Like she, she takes one block, the tower falls down, she starts to cry. Uhm, but yeah, so we've just, like our whole family has just played way too much Jenga.


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[Assistant] And all of a sudden in my mind, jenga, jenga, I'm fucking singing this song. So of course I had to go on YouTube and find it and play it. And uh, now, now my son, it just plays it on the iPad.


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[Assistant] I think I'd rather him be impressively good at Tetris, cause those guys get my respect.


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[Assistant] Some of the lines from, from like, like they're like peak Simpsons. That was, which was, I mean,


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[Assistant] But it's always like, I mean, maybe I'm getting this wrong, but I kind of dislike the whole, like, uh, American view on the world, like, through their, like, culture and media sort of thing, and The Simpsons is, it does that.


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[Assistant] Guys, I just want to say today has been great. What a roller coaster. Good news, bad news, ranting. We got a couple of dick jokes in there as well. I mean, actually to close out 2020, this has been a, like a buffet of Triforce, hasn't it? We've had a little bit of everything.


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[Assistant] Just good, just good podcasting.


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[Assistant] That's right. Hey, guess what? Guess what, uh, crack pipe I smoked last night. Uhm, Tarkov. Right back in, baby. Oh my god, dude. I did as well the other day.


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[Assistant] Just that thrill after a reset of putting like a key in your ass pouch or like a paracord or something like, oh man, it's just so good. That hit that I needed.


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[Assistant] Like the sneaking chocolate cube. It's huge. It's crazy. It's just like a sign of the times, I guess. People love chocolate. What are you talking about?


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[Assistant] She says people in WH Smith buying chocolate. Oh my god. They've gotta be the biggest confectionery retailer in the UK right now. Like, a store previously known for selling magazines and books and stationery is now competing with like massive grocery stores and everything.


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[Assistant] Confectionary. Like they sell so much chocolate, it's insane. And it's all because the queues to get out of this, to get to the tills to pay are just lined with confectionary now. It's insane.


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[Assistant] I remember like even, even when I used to smoke in like the 90s when I was like in my sort of late, later teens.


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[Assistant] They had all of that, all of that stuff. And, uh, you used to get the, we didn't collect them because they were kind of gross, but you saw the gum disease ones and the, and like, you know, the, uh, the diseased lung and the, and the rotten teeth and everything. And I don't know, I mean, it didn't bother you. It wasn't a deterrent patch. So I don't think it would make sense.


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[Assistant] Isn't that true of your whole life though? I don't think that's unique to younger people. I mean, look at the people during a pandemic who are still travelling, still trying to go on holiday, still spreading a virus, you know what I mean? I think everybody carries that with them, or at least certain people do, where they're just like, this doesn't affect me.


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[Assistant] I've got my own rules. I'm just gonna do whatever the fuck I like. You know? Like, I think it's the same.


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[Assistant] We did this thing over here where there was a couple of cases, we had a whole bunch of cases of COVID and uhm, we went into like another lockdown and the cases went right down. And uhm, but they were still finding every once in a while like these, these sort of bursts of cases would come through.


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[Assistant] And they did like a, I think they, they basically followed up to see, they were interested to see in, in this particular case, how the spread happened. And uhm, without naming names, they just sort of like walked through.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, the events that led to a bunch of people getting COVID.


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[Assistant] And uhm, and the whole time it's like, person A went to a party attended by person B and person C. Person D later on got it and then went to a party where person E- and you're just thinking, why are you going to-


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[Assistant] Sorry, but this is, uh, yeaah, I'm really sorry to hear, that's crazy. Uhm, this is just to reinforce the point that I think people, uhm, continually throughout their lives believe that they're somehow invincible, or somehow exempt from the rules that everybody else seems to have, no problem following, uhm, and then, you know, going to a party or whatever, it just seems crazy to me.


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[Assistant] I don't know though, I feel like I would be even more careful. Like, like if I was a cop, I'd be looking for extra cautious drivers. Because those are the guys that are transporting all the horse.


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[Assistant] So she, she has to like, you know, come into our room and get, get into our bed, which is, you know, fine. Like we went through the, the whole thing with my son as well. But on, on the odd night, uhm, my son will come in as well. He'll hear the commotion. He'll come in too. And he'd be like, oh, you know, like I want to get in too. And then they'll actually have a full fight like.


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[Assistant] All, all parents or, or soon to be parents out there, the best advice I can give you is get your kids into like, uh, like a single bed as soon as possible. As soon as they're like, like it's safe enough and comfortable enough for them to get into like a full size single bed.


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[Assistant] You, like, you just spend all night back and forth, you know, like, okay, are you, like, you're, you're less frightened now, you're fine, yeaah, okay, okay, go to sleep, see you in the morning, great, like five minutes later, uuuh.


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[Assistant] It's fine like when she's just going to sleep, but once she's, once she's actually asleep, oh my god. It's just, it's like, I woke up one time and I thought somebody was jumping on the bed, I turned over, she's just like flailing. Like, but she was completely asleep. It was unbelievable. I couldn't believe it. Yeah, it's just, it's weird, right? They're just different. Like, like our, our oldest is the same. I always send her back.


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[Assistant] The primary goal is to, uhm, try to discover if there was life on Mars at one point. Which I think they're pretty sure there was. Because I think where they found evidence of water indicates that there's at least gotta be some organisms that lived on the planet at some point. Which is interesting. There might be microbial life.


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[Assistant] What if, uh, what if somebody invents like, uh, you know, like in The Expanse, the guy that accidentally invented like the super hyper...


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[Assistant] Mega Drive or whatever, you know? Like, you never know. I mean, you can't be too...


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[Assistant] This, uhm, I don't know if you guys have seen this on Netflix, it was the documentary about that Canadian girl that went travelling to the US and disappeared from the secret hotel and then was found dead in one of the water tanks on the roof of the hotel.


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[Assistant] I think it could have been two episodes probably with a combination of episodes 1, 2, and 4. And I think they could have just left episode 3 out. It was just too weird with the whole internet sleuth angle and stuff. But overall though, I enjoyed it. Like I wasn't familiar with the story.


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[Assistant] I hadn't, uh, I was, uh, I was creeped out by it as well.


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[Assistant] It's really, it's really sad though because it's, she, she had, she, she had, uh, she was bipolar, she was on a lot of medication for it, she had episodes of psychosis like previously, and uhm, I think her, her family were, were sort of like,


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[Assistant] You know, helpful with it, but didn't really want many people to know that that was the case and stuff.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like when you, when you sort of look at it, you piece it all together and certainly the conclusion they came to was that, you know, she was under-medicating at the time. Uh, she had a history of sort of doing that as well and then disappearing or, you know, thinking that she was seeing things and stuff. And, uh, if you look at like the, the, the footage of her in the elevator,


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[Assistant] I think it's just a, I think nobody wants to just accept that it's just a really sad story of, you know, somebody with a diminished mental health at that time sort of thing, even though there was medication and help available. It's just really sad. I mean, she's 21 years old.


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[Assistant] To be like, I know like, you know, cities are changing and you know, there's probably some gentrification that's happened there or whatever and they're trying to...


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[Assistant] I've been to places before and I've never thought twice about uhm, going on public transportation or going into a building or, you know, whatever. You just take for granted that these places are safe and you never even think about it. I can't imagine how fucking scary that would have been.


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[Assistant] A couple years ago in Montreal, there was like a highway overpass that collapsed. I can't remember if anybody was hurt or killed.


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[Assistant] With all of the, all of the guidelines and the, and the investigations and everything, you know, health and safety.


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[Assistant] All of that had to, had to come about from off the back of people getting into accidents or there being disasters or people dying, right? Cause otherwise nobody's really gonna forward think most of that. Some of it is, of course, but like,


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[Assistant] So what's a little bit of not great though, it still can't be worth watching.


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[Assistant] Oh, Big Bang Theory, yeah. It probably would be. I don't know, but I mean, Seinfeld's gotta still be top, right?


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[Assistant] We just finished watching a bunch of stuff and we were looking for something new to watch. And uhm, I've got a Now TV subscription because I used it to watch Game of Thrones when it was on and a bunch of other stuff. And that's just how I can get access to HBO stuff over here too.


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[Assistant] I was looking around for something to watch and I saw True Detective Season 3. And I was like, okay, I loved Season 1. I thought it was amazing. Season 1 was great. Season 2 I was not fond of. I thought it was pretty bad. The script was so bad. Yeah. And so I thought, you know, 3 could be good.


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[Assistant] Might be bad, but let's try it out anyway. Man, we were hooked. Like, uh, kids went to school. We watched four episodes in one day. Like it was, yeah, it was one of those shows. It was just like, bam. It was great.


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[Assistant] Uh, really, really enjoyed it. I can, I can highly recommend it. Season three. It's a bit like season one in terms of quality. Okay. Story is, um, not, not like identical, but like there's similarities and there's some, there's a, there's a tie back in it to, uh, season one as well, which is kind of cool.


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[Assistant] So, Season 3 seemed to almost lead up to something like that, and I was a bit worried that it was going to be kind of the same, and then was pleasantly surprised. The way Season 3 works is kind of the same as Season 1.


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[Assistant] It's a lot of it is retrospective. So like it's, they're older, they've moved on, but this case haunts them and they have to talk about it. But there's three different timelines. There's like the case when it happens in 1980 and the detectives that are working it.


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[Assistant] And then in 1990, 10 years later, there's a whole bunch of threads of story about the aftermath of the case when they moved on and stuff. And then.


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[Assistant] Uh, much further on, 2015, they're like old ass men, they're in their 70s, they've got, you know, grown kids, you know, whatever. Uhm, and that's when, like, you know, it goes on all that time, and then in, in 2015 is kinda when they finally,


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[Assistant] Start to figure out what's going on sort of thing, but it's really, really well done. It's really well written. It's really interesting. Like it just keeps you hooked. You know, you just like.


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[Assistant] Same as season one, you know, like just the theme of it, like the acting is, is phenomenal. Like, oh man, it's so good. I can't recommend it enough actually. Like it's really worth a watch. It's, it's not, it's not too upsetting either, you know, it's not like, it's not so dark that it's like unwatchable or anything like that.


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[Assistant] No, that's, you sound more like some, like, uh, sort of like, uh, like, uh, you know, like the, uh, the dramatic guy. Uh, you remember that scene on Father Ted when they're in the lingerie department and the guy can't stop speaking dramatically? That's what you sound like. Right, like Matt Barry.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, uh, but yeaah, no, I'm just surprised, like normally I have a high tolerance for most games, like I can't really think of too many games that I...


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[Assistant] I, I dislike, but I, I found the experience, uhm,


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[Assistant] Just miserable. It was just not, not great. Uh, like I, I get that you need to have played CSGO or whatever, but I just, I'm, I'm not, I'm not sure I subscribe to the whole, well, you, you gotta be good to have fun. I mean, it's, where's the, I just don't know where the, where, where the motivation to pour hundreds of hours into a game just


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[Assistant] For it to eventually be fun is like, you know what I mean? Like I feel like there should be things about it that are fun out of the box, you know? Like maybe it's just me maybe, I dunno.


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[Assistant] And, uh, if a board game is complex or, you know, has a bit of a learning curve, which, you know, some board games do, like Flax was saying,


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[Assistant] Uhm, Lewis, like I find Lewis pretty good at sort of guiding you through it, you know, like telling you the kind of moves and stuff that you can make or whatever, but it's, it's more interesting, right? Like you feel like, okay, yeah, this is a lot to like,


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[Assistant] He's not just like owning me left, right and center cause he knows how to play the game already or whatever. Uhm, and, and, and that's fun, but like, when I was playing Valorant, I just found there's no space to actually have any fun. It's like even if you're playing with somebody who's really good and they're trying to teach you like where you need to be or whatever,


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[Assistant] So you walk around a corner, you're dead. It's just like, uh, you shoot at a guy, it doesn't kill them, then you're dead. It's like,


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's so utterly unfun at times.


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[Assistant] No, yeah, it's actually got instrumentation and stuff to do to get the business done.


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[Assistant] Please don't mention Kerbal. Because I will play it again and it's just, it's one of those rabbit holes.


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[Assistant] I had the exact same thing. I was playing GTA on no pixel, you know, the RP thing. And uh, so the, so it's GTA five, but it's, it's heavily modded. There's lots of extra stuff.


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[Assistant] There's lots of changes. There's lots of characters you can play as that are kind of like, uh, NPCs in the game or whatever, which I think messes up some of the controls and stuff sometimes. So uhm, on PC, if you press V, it should change your camera angle, right? And you can get like this sort of like far, the far back view.


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[Assistant] Love your character. Uhm, but it wasn't working. I was pressing V and it wasn't working.


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[Assistant] Uhm, who weren't listening, or maybe people were just flooding into the chat, like, to offer this advice, but it was just a constant, it's like, just press V, press V. I was like, I'm pressing V. What do you want me to do? I've pressed V, like, that's the first thing I did. Oh my god. How after an hour of having this issue,


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[Assistant] No, no, we pressed V. What was the first thing you did? We pressed V. Oh, okay. Press V again? Nope. Still, still, still nothing working when you press V. But it was like, it was like uncanny. It was like the minute I had an issue.


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[Assistant] Uh, it felt like all of a sudden we gained like a hundred thousand viewers and all of them had the, had the solution. Uh, and then we couldn't fix it or somehow randomly just like mashed my keyboard and it fixed it. And then they, they just all left. They're like, my job here is done. They just walked out in the sunset.


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[Assistant] I just invest in stuff like, well, that's to say I don't really invest in anything, but like, if I were to invest, I would invest in something I understand. Like, there's a hemp farm, uhm, that's going up in Jersey that is open for people to invest in, and I thought,


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[Assistant] Sure, I mean, it's, you know, that's an industry that's just forever growing, it feels like. Like, this is for medicinal purposes.


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[Assistant] This is the plan and uhm, this is going to, cause we got the perfect climate here apparently for, for growing it.


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[Assistant] For some months of the year and then for the other, other months it's just gonna be done like indoors or whatever. Uhm, but yeaah, so it's like kinda exciting I guess. I hope, hopefully it's like a step towards, uh, you know, legalizing it further so that, you know, uhm,


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[Assistant] Well that's what they're calling it, they're calling it a hemp farm. Um, but obviously they're doing the other stuff. They are, right. I don't think they want to call it like, uh, you know, the Jersey marijuana farm, because it doesn't have like a nice ring to it. Cause they're trying to actually attract old people to invest in it, right? Right, so you lure them in with the idea.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well no, I'd say it's more like, they're pretty upfront about it being like, uh, off the back of this, like, medicinal, um, legislation that's gone in.


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[Assistant] I don't think anybody's necessarily against it, but it's like, you know, they have to make it palatable, right? Like they're not, they're not gonna make, they're not gonna make this enterprise like a steeped in stoner culture because it's not appealing to like, you know,


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[Assistant] Well, and now that there's a clear way for them to make some decent money from it too, whereas before I don't think it was.


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[Assistant] Um, they didn't have, it was, I think it was like always like a sketchy proposition, you know, back then, like if it was gonna be legalized or whatever, how would people, how would it be regulated? How would it be controlled? What are the type of people that you'd be doing business with and all that kind of stuff? I think all that's come along a lot.


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[Assistant] It is, yeaah. I think it's, I think, I think the fact that alcohol is legal and people can just get completely pissed and stuff is...


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[Assistant] It's, it was in the middle of nowhere, right? Remember how like, difficult it was to get out there? We didn't really have a car at our disposal, so we were kind of like, either had to take a taxi there or relied on people to like, drive us out there or whatever. Because it was, it was in the middle of nowhere, but.


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[Assistant] It's more accepted in America for stuff to be out in the middle of nowhere, right? And a byproduct of that means that the place that this is in, like the actual physical building itself, is much more generous, right? Like it was huge.


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[Assistant] There was not only was there like the restaurant bit with like big tables where you could play the games, there was like


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[Assistant] But this place was huge, like, I mean, if you, if you think about how big it was, it was like,


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[Assistant] No, not a gaming place like that. I wouldn't personally invest in something like that because I don't see...


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[Assistant] I feel like a place like that is something that you run because it's also your hobby and you have a community of friends or whatever that would use it.


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[Assistant] And then you'd make more friends, like, uh, you know, people who are really into it or whatever. Like, if it was, if it was that, then yeah. You know, if I was really into board games and I love playing board games, I wanted to create a space for myself to play board games with my friends and stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for sure. I would, I would invest in something like that. But just like, solely just to be like a, like a silent partner, just to make money or whatever, I don't think there's much money to be made there, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think there's enough to keep it running or whatever, but you're not gonna be like, you know, buying a super yacht off the back of your board game club profits or whatever, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] No, of course not, but when I think about investments, I want to make some money.


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[Assistant] You know, like stuff that's, stuff that I would do for fun or whatever, I wouldn't really see that as an investment. Like maybe you could, you can kind of cut it as like an investment in like,


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[Assistant] You know, happiness and enjoyment or whatever and, and you can justify it that way. And like, I'm sure I could justify it that way, but if I was actually serious about investing in something, I'd want to just invest in like something that was growing, that was likely to, you know, make some money or whatever. Um, that's why, like I, that's why I thought that this Jersey marijuana, uh, uh, farm,