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[Assistant] Well there you go, so yeah, check out TrackLib on YouTube, check out Factfulness if you wanna get a good book, it's really good, really really good. And check out...


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[Assistant] Ted Lasso and the father. There's some top recommendations for this week. There you go. Thank you. Uh, I was on Pitch Please. You can check that out. That's our sister podcast. I listened to the Spiffing Brit episode this week, which I really enjoyed. So if you want to think about, if you like, if you're anything


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[Assistant] Like me, you'll just want to play all the games that you hear instantly. Uhm, but yes, that's out. Pitch please. Thank you.


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[Assistant] It's on Spotify, as long as, as well as we are, uh, Spotify, every Wednesday, new traffic


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[Assistant] I'm leaning back in my chair, I'm having a sip of Huel to give myself brain energy. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna say you're, uh, Sagittarius. Cause nobody's ever Sagittarius.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's a great show, man. I think Jeff Stelling was a good choice when he did it. I just think it's meant to be, look, Countdown is meant to be like a nice cup of tea. You sit down, you have a nice cup of tea, you watch Countdown, it's very gentle and you get a chance to play along with the words and some clever clogs will solve the numbers thing, it's very good.


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[Assistant] Hold on, let's think about this. Cause there's the ghost of Christmas past, present and future, but there's also Marley, his older lad. So I reckon it's four.


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[Assistant] It's gotta be with the repeats as well, so it's not 78. It's 12, then it's 11 plus 12, then it's 10 plus 11 plus 12, then it's 9 plus 10 plus 11 plus 12, and so on. So it's a much bigger number. I'm gonna have to estimate, uh, 356. Okay, how many do you think?


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[Assistant] He actually, that's Billy Ocean, aka Leslie, Sebastian, Charles, MBE. Man. Nice.


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[Assistant] Who else is it gonna be? There's only two famous angels, Gabriel and Satan. That's it.


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[Assistant] And you can't even skip intros, you can't like fast forwarding and rewinding is really shitty, finding stuff is really shitty and slow.


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[Assistant] They're so good! Listen, cut them in half, and then you put them in the gravy, and all the channels in the mini cabbage that is the sprout.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, Lewis Capaldi, I think is his nephew, the singer, he's very good.


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[Assistant] Uh, so, I used to really enjoy that show. The first few minutes, big Test Daily fan, and I loved it.


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[Assistant] I'd like to say to all of our listeners, over the last nearly 200 or over 200 episodes, we've lost count. Fuck you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I'm playing with all those guys, yeah. Just, um, I'm just, I'm just doing my own thing though, which is kinda nice to


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[Assistant] of the entire World Trade Center circa 1960, and maybe a life-size replica made of paper of New York City as well to compliment it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, uh, you know, brothers in arms kind of thing. Like, they've been through that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm now a little nervous. I feel very guilty, uhm, about the fact that on the Monday night, I was like, I probably could go down with them. But they had all committed to going down, just the three of them.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and sometimes people that know better might just need to assuage their fears and say, look, don't worry, you know, it's fine, it's not what you think or whatever. But if my kids went to a town or a city that had particularly rough parts, I'd think, well, London has a lot of those, but they haven't been in those areas.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I would hope that, uh, they would have common sense and the people that they would hang out with would have common sense.


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[Assistant] Like around here you see, like on my little neighborhood whatsapp group, where we sort of post all our ring doorbell captures of sullen youths looking shifty, they're always walking up and down the road slowly, looking.


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[Assistant] Cause most of them are looking for something easy to steal then and there.


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[Assistant] They don't want to fucking have to spend an hour in an alleyway like a hunter.


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[Assistant] Because if no one comes along, what a waste of time, they might have missed out on something. So you cover as much ground as you can in what you consider soft areas that have high target potential. For either bumping into someone who you can mug, or someone's left their bike unchained, or some- or a fucking window is open. That's what they're looking for.


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[Assistant] So I don't agree with the alleyway theory because who's gonna fucking hang out in an alleyway? Maybe if you were in the middle of town on a Saturday night, they're looking for someone, some drunk walking past so they can bump into the alleyway. I've been approached, I'm sure this has happened to other people listening to this. This is a famous con.


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[Assistant] Especially happens around train stations, coach stations, bus stations. The guy comes up to you and you will have heard this one instantly.


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[Assistant] Like that's the angle they want to get you to come with them down an alleyway to sort this deal out, give them the money, and at that point they knock you on the head and take your wallet, I guess. Like that's the plan, right? If you fall for that, that's not street smarts, that's just being too nice and trusting and thinking, oh this poor fellow, I must help him.


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[Assistant] Well, not without stopping and looking both ways very carefully. Exactly. They'll look left, they'll look right, they'll look left again. By that point you're long gone, so yeaah.


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[Assistant] I am ditching at the start of the trip. Like, we turn up there in the 4x4, we got all the gear, and before we take one step to climb this perilous mountain, I'm like, lads, I'm going home. Good luck.


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[Assistant] I'm doing it because you don't want me to. That's not human nature. That's being a dickhead. Maybe that's good advice that your parents are giving you. Please don't climb the mountain. Just two of you. You're gonna die. Oh, now you've made me do it. Look what you've done. That's projecting. That's your own failures. You're projecting onto other people for trying to help you. I say bullshit.


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[Assistant] They slept with a tiny model of a motorcycle every night. Really? Okay. And my, my, my poster of Erika Eleniak that I had on my wall when I was a young lad, I replaced her head with a motorcycle helmet and she, her boobs were tires. So yes, very much so.


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[Assistant] I have a tattoo of a chopper motorcycle on my actual chopper, meaning my penis, right there.


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[Assistant] And Brendan Sanderson is also the bad guy in the video. Oh wow, okay. I'll come to that one in a sec. This is from a guy, uh,


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[Assistant] He's called Max. He says, love the show, uh, whenever he's doing something mundane.


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[Assistant] Which leaves behind salt, because you can't have salt in a gas. The salt builds up over time to make really salty water, which sinks to the bottom of the sea and then spills into the Atlantic Ocean.


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[Assistant] Right, but that wa- I mean it's- it's not a lake, is it? It's connected to other things, isn't it? The Dead Sea?


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[Assistant] Just bear in mind, the Americans are very good salespeople. They can sell anything, right? So, we, we, when you hear Salt Lake City, you think, well this place must be unbelievably salty.


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[Assistant] Here's another, uh, okay. Hyperion, this is from Lois.


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[Assistant] In the, in the Lois, not Lois, Lois. In the latest Triforce, Lois was arguing that no one is doing filing as a job. And you said, meaning me, that someone is doing filing right now listening to this. I was! I work for the NHS, so I can't take any pictures.


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[Assistant] So listen, imagine a huge warehouse filled with rows of filing cabinets and medical files. My job is to mostly find the files, file them away at the end of the day for a few hours. It's boring, but listening to Triforce Podcast makes it more bearable. Anyway, fun fact, there is a team here slowly scanning each file.


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[Assistant] Alright, so here's the last, last email for the week. This is from Chase, right? So to give you some idea, this is his name is Chase. To give you some idea, there's a lot of capitalization in this email. He's livid, alright? I am emailing you in the five seconds of you saying how disgusting Brian Sanderson's little Kickstarter is, before Lewis and Sip shot this through and defended him.


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[Assistant] Not sure if you cover this on live stream or something, busy college student can't catch the stream. In short, I agree with your opinion on the tickstarter and think it is disgusting. Thank you, Chase.


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[Assistant] You get people popping up, I get people popping up in chat and making some joke from some old episode, and it looks like they're just insulting me and I ban them, and the unban request comes through, and they're like, it was something you said!


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[Assistant] You know, I mean, if we'd set a topic, like this week's topic is cooking utensils or whatever, you know, then, then that would be, we would remember that we'd done a lot of chat about spoons on that episode, go back to the spoons episode or whatever, we're just talking shit.


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[Assistant] Alright, so you bought some plants from the garden center, right? Yeah. You brought them home. Uh huh. It's been raining a lot here. I don't know if it's been raining a lot there. When you went to pick up the plants, all water poured out and got your shoes wet.


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[Assistant] If you arrange with other people, you can place things to draw a thing. Isn't that how it is?


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[Assistant] It's like, I'm reading all the time, and there's no funny


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[Assistant] So, let's move on to the second Hooters restaurant, which has been approved for the UK despite a backlash. A second Hooters restaurant will open in the UK despite a fierce backlash.


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[Assistant] Exactly, people are calling the restaurant degrading and concerns that it could perpetuate a misogynistic environment. Right now there's only one in Nottingham, of course, which we've all been to, I'm sure.


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[Assistant] He went on a stag do, where he said he was living it large like Pablo Escobar. Will Turton, 18.


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[Assistant] Uh, and he looked at his thing the next day, and it's just a list of dances, 120 pound a time, sometimes he's having two girls at a time, or he's saying, yeah, do it again, another 120 pound, three and a half grand.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you, it comes out as, out of K1, and ronal events and hospitality, it appears to be what it's called.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, it is literally 120, 240, 240, because each of the transactions is listed separately, but it doesn't list the name of the dancer.


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[Assistant] Well, I'll tell you, it's 120 quid to dance. This is the funniest part. He went, he went on, went to the strip club. Him and, he was in there at 4pm. Hours passed. And he leaves the club.


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[Assistant] Right, but this is my favourite part. He's in there at 4pm, hours pass, and he leaves the club roughly 1am, feeling a bit worse for wear, and reckons he's been spiked. He's in there for 9 hours. He drank a lot of booze, I'm gonna say.


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[Assistant] I've been to a Spearmint Rhino once and I think the dances were a hundred quid a pop and it's like, it's a, it's a stag do thing. You know, you've all gone there prepared to be debauched and do this kind of stupid expensive shit. I mean, but there are people that are clearly in there all the time. I know that the ones in London, it's a lot of money like that for the VIP ones.


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[Assistant] We should do, we should do a vid where we go to a strip club. Yeah, we should.


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[Assistant] But we're gonna promise you the longest piece of hot meat between two buns that you've ever seen in your life.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I would just say I don't want to do that. But if I turn up, we're doing it.


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[Assistant] I'm just gonna make the wise decision that we should not do this straight out of a gate. I'm just saying. Right. Let's not do that.


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[Assistant] He was a good mate, like we were hanging out a lot, we were talking a lot, he was a really good guy, we really got along really well. And I overheard him.


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[Assistant] Well, you'll have God on your side at least. You know what my dad always used to say whenever uhm, you know the way a lot of old people suddenly start going to church and stuff like that, right? Like my dad always said they're cramming for their finals.


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[Assistant] I'm saying, if there is, God's gonna know when I turn up, he's gonna look at my soul and be like, look, I know you didn't believe in me, and you actively in fact spoke out against people that were trying to convince people of my existence, you are damned.


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[Assistant] On the day that news broke, some guy who's got all these is like, you mean my axes are worthless? If only he'd come to this realization earlier. Yes. A week earlier. Yes, they are worthless. Please stop. Please!


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[Assistant] Mrs. F every year says to me, how big a tree do we want to get? And I always say, 10 feet. And she laughs every time. Like it's like, it's like our go-to Christmas joke.


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[Assistant] ...originated during the Renaissance in early modern Germany in its 16th century origins as sometimes associated...


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're, we're, you know, our society's kind of based on disposability.


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[Assistant] But they all get together, the cardinals and all the rest of it, whatever they are, I don't know what the highest rank is, it's like the field marshals of the church, you know, and they all get together and they say, who's going to be like, um, El Capo de Tuticapo? Who's going to be the big dog? And they literally say, well, God's telling me to vote for this lad. So they all vote.


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[Assistant] And then the smoke goes out and they say, we got a new pope. And they've, they've chosen him, but he's, he's elected, but it's like, you know, in the past they would think,


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[Assistant] Battles to the death and, you know, that sort of trial by combat, God would decide who the victor was and that's how you discern the truth.


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[Assistant] Is that the one, is that the one where it's about the choosing of the pope? Yes. It's really, really, really good. I watched it, I watched it. And Jonathan Price.


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[Assistant] What do you guys have for your Christmas, uh, meal? As you're both, you know, disgusting non-meat eaters. How do you get through the day without a delicious roasted...


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[Assistant] Can I let you guys in on a secret? My favourite part of the roast meal is probably the vegetables.


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[Assistant] I mean turkey sucks, let's just, let's just pop that on the fucking menu of discussion topics there.


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[Assistant] I read a very interesting article actually about chickens, uhm, the other day, which was that the average chicken now costs £3.


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[Assistant] And 50 years ago, that would have cost £11. Wow.


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[Assistant] Which is insane. You should not be able to buy an entire chicken for that much. And I think about this quite often when I look at the margins for things I think


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[Assistant] So you're saying like, what would we do if all food supplies, like the entire food supply network for the country was shut off and there was literally no food on any shelves anywhere? What would you eat?


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[Assistant] Like a lot of rapeseed, for example, is a big crop. And a lot of stuff that we export. And a lot of the stuff that we fish, we don't eat. Like we export a lot of our fish. I mean, we haven't been able to feed ourselves for a long time as an island. And you know, if we just ate turnips, we'd be fine. That's what we used to get by on.


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[Assistant] Like based on original IPs, rather than just either remakes or like an addition to or a sequel or part of a franchise or whatever. And how that's gone downhill, uh, and I, I just think


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[Assistant] You know, people worry that cinema is dead and all the rest of it. If you look at stuff like Netflix and Amazon and all the rest of it and Apple, there's a lot more originality there and a lot more risk taking. And I think as much as cinema complains that streaming services are what's, I think a lack of invent, of risk taking is actually what's killing them.


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[Assistant] There was an awful lot of just pretty bad crappy looking sets and lighting, some really bad shots, some really really lousy camera work and all the action in it was really really dull and there's the cocking doorbell AGAIN!


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[Assistant] So there are actually 15 books, because there's also New Spring, which came out, that was number zero, came out in 2004.


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[Assistant] 4, 5, 6, 7, well they're all, there's one of them that's 675 pages long, and there's one that's 672, those are the short ones.


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[Assistant] Bonkers. That is bonkers. Can I just give you, this is why, I remember a couple of people have tried to get me to read Wheel of Time, Lewis, you were one of them, uh, my friend Bruno was another one of them, and there was a couple of other friends of mine. This is what puts me off. This is the premise on Wikipedia. At the dawn of time, a deity known as The Creator


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[Assistant] You've got three series to watch of that, so you should do it. And I just started watching a show where it's got Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell in, and I wasn't expecting to enjoy it, but I watched the first episode, I can't remember what it's called, it's basically about a psychiatrist. It was quite good, it was quite enjoyable.


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[Assistant] That was series one, that was series one. Oh, you didn't like series two? Series one was really good. Series two, uh, this is not an attempt at critique, cause I like shows like Ted Lasso, I like the fact that it's an original character, and you know, it's engaging and all the rest of it. Series one was more about the differences between an American coach coming to the UK,


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[Assistant] of why Nate became a bad guy and the minutiae that he has to go into to, to let you discern that actually this character was not a great guy and even he's speculating.


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[Assistant] That's where the creativity might come from. Cause we've fucking given up. I hope this is going to inspire people to start making new shit.


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[Assistant] I am a big Tarantino fan, I've seen all of his movies. He's had some belters, yea. Even the stinkers. And, you know, this is just a change of Tarantino.


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[Assistant] And Grindhouse Planet Terra was not very good. Like I just thought they were fucking gross.


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[Assistant] Inglourious Bastards was okay. I think it was a massive missed opportunity in some ways and some really weird decisions, but it was alright. Django Unchained was decent.


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[Assistant] Hateful 8 was decent, once upon a time in Hollywood was, was really good and then ruined by what in my opinion was a terrible ending. Uhm, but uh, it was uh, he's just got into a weird revenge only thing, which is kind of getting on my tits, you know, let's fucking move on a bit shall we?


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[Assistant] No, no, that was not what I was doing. These were parcels. I am not doing anything illegal. I do not smoke nor possess weed. Thank you.


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[Assistant] And burrows in, like, eeeeh, drills into the asteroid, and it's got rocket boosters, and it sort of aligns itself where it needs to be, and fires itself. It doesn't even need to be going very quickly, it just needs to be travelling on a trajectory where it's gonna collide.


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[Assistant] Uh, she said, Hello, Perian, huge fan of the Triforce. Thank you. I noticed in one of your latest podcasts, you were talking about stem cells. That was a couple of weeks ago, I think, talking about stem cells. She is doing her PhD in stem cell engineering. Right. And thought we might be interested in knowing.


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[Assistant] And her research is looking at whether you can use vibrational stimulation, which they call nano-kicking, to stimulate stem cells into producing bone cells, and that way,


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[Assistant] Someone's getting older or they're an astronaut or something like that and they, you know, there's going to be a lot, lots of bone density. You'd then kick their stem cells and it, you know, gives them, uh, better bones.


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[Assistant] Little pump, little, little pain, little, like there's little caesars, like there's like a million little.


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[Assistant] Can we stop? Win the little? What is the deal? Just come up with something else. Well, for every little there's gotta be a big out there. I wanna see big ones.


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[Assistant] I want moderate baby, as well as little baby.


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[Assistant] It's good to be, it's good to be here with you. Sips, how you feeling today?


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[Assistant] It's where it's finally hit you that there's just enough children. You've got three, and it's sunny, so I'm assuming they're wanting to go outside more, or they're actually doing more parties, and things are happening, you're being invited to things, and you can't say no. No. It's busy times.


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[Assistant] It's more physical tasks, right? Sure. As opposed to mental tasks of like trying to deal with multiple ages of having their own- Emotions and- Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Okay, and it works well. You rarely get issues with the sewer system.


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[Assistant] But how do you feel about if it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown, flush it down?


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[Assistant] Well, the thing is that you don't want to wake up people in the night though, you know, if I, I sometimes wake up in the night, actually almost every night now. Really? At some point. Really? Uhm, I drink a lot of water and I don't


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[Assistant] This might, this is, this might be upsetting to some listeners as well because we do discuss sensitive emotional topics here. Yes, of course. Not just pee and poo, although you might think it was just-


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[Assistant] Okay, a few things. One, quick math on P-Flex's poo. If each poo weighs about a pound, that's around 11 tonnes of poo that you food, which is quite a lot of poo. Second, I feel like


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[Assistant] Building all of the poo tracker chips would take more resources than dealing with the extra amount of poos, you know?


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[Assistant] We might be already. And the third thing, uhm, if you're pooing like three times a day with diarrhea, I think you need to go to a doctor. Yeah, it's not gonna...


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[Assistant] One flush a day. That's all you can do. You could have like coin operated toilets, you know, that might cut down people's toilet use.


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[Assistant] But you can keep that in reserve for if she finds out, which, you know, is almost inevitable.


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[Assistant] It was really weird, it's really weird, like the difference between when we were kids though, like there's this really interesting...


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[Assistant] I was talking about maps and things, and tracking and data and all this, it's really interesting to see how far parents let their kids roam now, compared to what they used to do.


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[Assistant] That was a big thing that I did as a kid though. As a little kid I was always out with people, meeting the neighbours kids and going and messing around. But yea, I was able to go pretty far actually. We were the same.


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[Assistant] I think it absolutely has, you know, people are more scared than ever, you know, nowadays, but that's because everywhere's busier and more packed and noisier and more urbanized than it was before.


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[Assistant] Uhm, for sure. So anyway, I just thought that was really interesting. I'll tell you what I've been worried about though, generally, is the future. Right.


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[Assistant] That is very general, yes. Well, I just found it really interesting because there was big news this week that that Google dev was, um, suspended.


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[Assistant] He's, he's a Christian minister I think as well. Right. And so we worked on AI kind of, uhm, design. And they've made this, this, uhm,


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[Assistant] AI called Lambda, which is really a very advanced...


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[Assistant] Uhm, positive, or whatever it's called, where, you know, the true interest is if you think you're talking to a human, right? Yes. Also the void cam.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know what that one is. That's the one from Blade Runner. Oh, right. Well, in either case, it's amazing to see it respond to this guy. He posted a load of chat logs. Which he wasn't meant to do.


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[Assistant] Well, they're more sick, but they are alive though.


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[Assistant] Behaving on the internet, chatting with each other, chatting on Twitter, chatting all the fucking time.


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[Assistant] I don't know whether it is or not. I don't know. That's it. We don't know. Wow. But I don't feel like this lambda from reading the chat logs is sentient in a sense, right? It does feel like there are moments where it isn't saying the things that


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[Assistant] To me you feel like should be a sentient creature saying them, you know?


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[Assistant] Well actually we don't. So actually it's kind of, it's a, actually this is one of the things that's covered in the chat logs. This is such a huge cloud of algorithmic kind of self-learning code that's been used to make this latest AI.


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[Assistant] You should definitely prioritize the comfort of your crotch. Uh, that's why the kings of crotch comfort manscaped have spent two years designing the most comfortable boxer briefs out there. I actually have a pair. Same. I have been wearing them. They're very soft. They are excellent. I think they're great. Uh, very breathable. Like gills for my groin.


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[Assistant] You'll never go back. Oh shit. Oof. Nice. On with the show. Thank you.


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[Assistant] That's a good question. Well, I think that it's probably a different form of animation, right? Right.


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[Assistant] Why not? I think it needs to be less dimensional, you know? Maybe it's, maybe, you know, we go from our 3D or 4D world.


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[Assistant] It's best not to go too deep into this rabbit hole of things. It's fun! I think if you start unpicking where the line is drawn, is ball and stick sentient? I guess so, you know? Stick and hoop? Like where does it...


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[Assistant] I just think it's more likely that American tourists didn't know what the Queen looked like, and that's fine. Yeah, I think it's than it was made of, probably.


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[Assistant] Uhm, was playing around with some other, uhm, AI stuff this week. I forgot to mention it earlier. Oh no. Well, I got, I went down that rabbit hole and I found there was this, there's this thing called GPT-3 which like generates text, right? Human-like text. And in fact, some people have been making


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[Assistant] These, you know, like, uh, the green texts, like from 4chan. They're like the, you know. They've got a very specific thing. But I saw a few I thought I'd share with you because they're quite weird.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so the Dali is the AI one, which is the art one, which is absolutely, the original version of it is pretty shit, but the new version Dali 2 is mind bogglingly, terrifyingly good.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's brilliant. Anyway, it's like we've just taught robots how to do Photoshop like better than anyone else. It's very terrifying. Very, very cool though. So here's a green text, okay?


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[Assistant] Dude says, see, it's not so bad here. I look around and see that the moon is a barren wasteland. Dude teleports back to earth, leaving me stranded on the moon.


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[Assistant] Right. That's just a very standard, randomly generated, green text. Okay? But then they go, they go weird. Okay? So here's a weird one. Be me. My mum owns a nuclear warhead. Okay, be at school. Get detention. Have to stay after school.


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[Assistant] See my mom drive up in her car. Get in the car. Mom says, I'm so disappointed in you. Drive to a secluded area. Get out of the car. I'm sorry son. Pulls out the warhead. I love you. Detonates the warhead.


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[Assistant] In charge of making sure the bottomless pit is in fact bottomless.


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[Assistant] Occasionally have to go down there and check if the bottomless pit is still bottomless.


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[Assistant] One day I go down there and the bottomless pit is no longer bottomless. The bottom of the bottomless pit is now just a regular pit. Distress.jpg. Ask my boss what to do. He says, just make it bottomless again.


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[Assistant] I say, how? He says, I don't know, you're the supervisor.


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[Assistant] Quit my job. Become a regular pit supervisor. First day of the job, go to the new hole. It's bottomless.


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[Assistant] Take a shower. Get out. Hair is still dry. WTF.png. Put on a hat. Go outside. See a guy with a dry head.


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[Assistant] Go to store. See two litre bottle of water for one dollar. Pick it up.


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[Assistant] Look at the nutrition label. See that it has zero calories. Look at concrete instead. Concrete has 250 calories per serving. Put water back. Buy concrete.


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[Assistant] It's so weird, like, that's the wonderful thing about these AIs is that they just, they come up with these really odd ideas that don't, like, it just takes them in such a weird place. Uh, like the whole calories thing? It's so weird.


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[Assistant] He gets really mad and starts yelling at me. I don't know why he's so mad.


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[Assistant] I wrote, who is the cooler dad, Sips or Perian? And it replied, very diplomatically,


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[Assistant] So I can link you to this screenshot, but it's genuinely generate that. So I assume it uses like Google searches and stuff like this and tracks things.


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[Assistant] There's a standards and practices department at Disney and you know, he has had literally thousands of interactions with them over the years of them complaining about things. So one thing, for example, they picked up on, they said


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[Assistant] In the movie poster for the movie Horse Dad, please remove the pipe from the horse's mouth.


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[Assistant] Right? And he was like, why? Is the concern that we're going to influence horses to smoke pipes? Stuff like that, right? So, one of them is like, uhm,


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[Assistant] Please revise the line, let's go get two dodos and force them to make out.


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[Assistant] These standards of practicing are so ridiculous, like, it's, I reckon it's just guys who have...


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[Assistant] They obviously miss certain obvious things and they always will do, right? But sometimes there's some of the things they're just so bizarre that they pick up on. So one of the things they picked up on was they said,


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[Assistant] It may call to mind the people who dress up as stuffed animals as a furry fetish. Okay? This is coming from a company with mascots, but people dressed up as that, like the Robin Hood movie, like the Lion King, like Zootopia, and they're like, nobody's dressed up as animals.


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[Assistant] Where they, where they, they just, they just pick up on the weirdest things. Like, one of the things was uhm, there was a flyer for like, in the background of a scene that said like, spin the bottle party or whatever, and they were like,


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[Assistant] This implies it's some kind of sexy event where people will be like a makeout party. And he was like, what is a makeout party? That's not a thing that exists!


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[Assistant] Exactly. And I mean this wasn't even like, necessarily like a super kid show, it's more like a teens.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, it's, it's, it's crazy. Oh, unrelated, uh, this week a court in the Bronx ruled that elephants aren't people.


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[Assistant] I sort of mentioned that a dog was sentient, which I still sort of, I still feel like these animals, I feel strong about animals, and uhm, there's an animal called Happy, an elephant called Happy, now I don't know whether the elephant is happy, but certainly,


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[Assistant] The court of appeals rejected an animal rights group that claimed Happy was being illegally detained and deserved to be transferred to a larger sanctuary. But they lost the thing.


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[Assistant] An enormous amount of money to build flats on there.


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[Assistant] We have to modernize a lot of these zoos because they weren't like these city center zoos especially were very much pending and-


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[Assistant] That's really good. Oh, I have to see it. Alright, well that's, that's good. Uhm, that that's happening. Yeah. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'll maybe go visit that when you come down next. Yeah, maybe uhm.


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[Assistant] I'm fine. Do you suppose if you kept a lot of cattle, uh, you could call it a broadcast?


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[Assistant] You'd be mad to try. You would be mad to try. Yeah, I know, but- How do you move them around? You need a prod, right?


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[Assistant] These are some big strong animals, you know? Yeaah, but-


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[Assistant] That would be like, you know, if your fucking machinery is broken down at the old box factory, you decide to go smash it with a sledgehammer to teach it a lesson. I don't think you would. I'm not saying, I'm not saying I'm pro or con electric cattle prod, I'm just saying, I can't imagine that they would be that bad, because otherwise why would you use them? There are some that are really bad.


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[Assistant] No, I think they genuinely thought that they were gonna overthrow what they saw as a corrupt election and, uh, bring Trump back to power.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, you're not putting your best guys on that, are you? Because, you know, how often are you gonna run into trouble, really?


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[Assistant] To chill, and as long as you've got enough to survive, or this is the thing, it's not even on an individual level, you need a lot of people to be fucking hacked off or furious for some reason.


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[Assistant] Like the threat that they're looking at and that they're worried about is the lone nutter or like a couple of terrorists, right? Like that's what they're protected for. No, no system of government is really set up to defend against 10,000 people.


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[Assistant] Uh, because any revolution, if you like, if you wanna call it that, whether you're pro or con it, you could still call it a revolution. Any kind of insurrectionist act. The fact is,


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[Assistant] Are you willing to charge them and very, very likely die if you're near the front? Most people are gonna go, no, they're gonna throw some rocks and go, we're not happy and then go home. So it's very, it's unnecessary.


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[Assistant] You suppose different kinds of rioters gravitated towards different...


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[Assistant] Who is this strange middle-aged man who is at all of these major historical events just waving to the camera?


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[Assistant] It is the strangest thing, it really, the whole way it's all panned out, the whole thing, him running and winning and then everything that's happened since is just...


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[Assistant] And I feel like if you could divide things up, it would be like, one nation is going for the science victory, and they're pouring everything into the app. And the other one is just having open...


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[Assistant] Revolts and revolutions and, and, uh, like is, is, you know, we've, we've got this, this fucking war going on as well. It's all like kicking off. But then there's one, one bunch of people just quietly trying to figure out what's inside a particle, you know, and


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[Assistant] Here's my question, right? This utopian society that he created, and long-time listeners, I do apologize because I'm almost certain we've spoken about Star Trek's lack of money before, but it is interesting.


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[Assistant] Because people see that Star Trekian utopia as the inevitable goal of humanity. We are united, we are one planet.


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[Assistant] We are all getting along, we can replicate anything we need, we've got infinite energy, money is gone, you don't need to worry about that anymore, everybody's taken care of, and I don't know where we get all these resources from, but I guess space, you know, we went out and mined stuff, we've got all kinds of mining stuff in space, whatever. Loads of stuff in space. Yeah, tons of space. So I guess they've done that.


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[Assistant] Well, but in next-gen that's not the case, because in next-gen there are aliens on the ship. They have a Klingon as their security officer, right? Yeaah, I know, but I mean, come on everybody.


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[Assistant] No, but, in the, in the original series, Bones McCoy is extremely racist towards, uh, Spock. You blue-blooded bastard, or whatever, he says he's always, he's hearing stupid Vulcan headfuck, big fucking pointy- Hey, stupid ears, come over here and do an analysis on-


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[Assistant] Oh, speaking of kisses, and talking about the original series having racism in, uh, remember they had, at the time this was the height of the Cold War, and they had... So he was meant to be like, oh, we're chill with the Russians now. Yeah. And Uhura...


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[Assistant] Was the first interracial case on television was of course Captain Kirk.


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[Assistant] And, uh, Uhura, and, you know, they had that episode where the guys were half of their face was white and half was black. And it was depending on which way round the way in black was. And they were like, those white on the left, black on the right bastards will never be in charge. How dare you, you black on the right, white on the left.


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[Assistant] They look like Vulcans, because they're related, aren't they? The Romulans and the Vulcans are basically the same people.


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[Assistant] So you're saying like, things ain't changed that much?


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[Assistant] What if in the future, uh, when all these corporations are, uh,


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[Assistant] What if they just went and bought all this art and they now own it and they can do what they like with it? What if Starbucks bought that cafe picture and just changed it? Paid someone to paint the word Starbucks on the cafe and then exhibited it? Could you imagine that happening?


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[Assistant] Well, you went to a gallery, let me ask you a question. How busy was it?


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[Assistant] But were there literally people queuing around the block to see this?


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[Assistant] Because I went to Thorpe Park not long ago, and getting in was a fucking bastard. More people gonna go to Thorpe Park, but if you tore down Thorpe Park, you'd have a revolution. People don't care about this stuff, the matter is they don't care!


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[Assistant] If he was a content creator today, you could, you could be the greatest artist of all. Mozart, right? Van Gogh, all of them.


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[Assistant] If they were content creators nowadays, the YouTube comments, there'd still be people that, like, rubbish, sounded like his last one, who needs some new stuff from Mozart, this stuff's a bit so me. It would be like that. I think people do not appreciate fucking anything in their wankers and shitheads and idiots. I'm one of them.


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[Assistant] So imagine that, Lewis. This is at a time when there was no alternative. There were no photographs, there were no films, there was no Instagram, there was nothing. None of you TikToks. Basically, if you wanted to go see something that looked like, you know, something like a painting, that was it. You had to go look at paintings.


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[Assistant] What if, yeah, like, what if they worked the Wu-Tang Clan into all of her songs?


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[Assistant] Man, Ill Communication, when that album came out. Yeah. Uh, in 1994, I was just, I was approaching like, I was like 17, I think. Yeah. Maybe I was 18, and it was just...


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[Assistant] No, I think he was like, he was very popular with, with women.


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[Assistant] He was like a heartthrob, Barry Manilow, uhm, and, I mean, you know, ironically, because they didn't know he was gay.


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[Assistant] So yeah, I don't think they went, I mean Barry Manilow played like big stadiums and big concerts, he was a big artist, I don't think he played that little tiny venue, maybe early on he did, but then I think he was resident in Vegas for fucking years and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] And the Beastie Boys was completely different. So my question is, when you go to see the Wu-Tang Clan or you go to see the Beastie Boys if they played now, would it just be an old crowd and young people would be saying, that's old bad music?


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[Assistant] Right, so my point is, would young people, and I'm talking teenagers and people in their twenties, have any interest in their music? Would they see it as old person music?


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[Assistant] I know there are a lot of young people now who think that music now is rubbish. Yeah. And they still listen to stuff from the 80s and 90s as being like the golden age. They probably do. I know lots of people that say that. Especially when it comes to metal and rock.


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[Assistant] I left me absolutely cold. I just seemed so- I think the start of all that was kinda- It seemed like none of them ever fucking washed. No. You know what I mean? I feel like this- Just made me think of the insane clown posse, stinky crotch, stank ass bitches, just disgusting, fucking smelly, fucking disgusting, ugh.


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[Assistant] It's angry music, right? But it's also kind of modern so you don't feel like you're just playing ACDC again, like it's something that's current.


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[Assistant] Like I'm not. But do you think that they had a big influence on NuMetal? Because they were, and still, you know, for a long time, they were massive.


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[Assistant] They were always tops off, very tan, lots of tattoos, you know, they looked like a bunch of surfers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they weren't like, enormous or whatever, you know, they weren't like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but they were pretty big. I mean, there were a lot of bands around like that, that California rock sound, but I think that was what led into Limp Bizkit and stuff, and Insane Clown Posse, that kind of, but that was more of a, I could be talking absolute bollocks here, but this is how I feel about it.


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[Assistant] But bear in mind back then, like, we're talking tapes, CDs, and records. You put that on,


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[Assistant] I'll give you, here's an artist for you, he's re- he's very young, he's- he's been around for a few years now, but uh, but he's very young, he's like 27 or something, and he- he's got, I think he's got two albums. 27. So he's very young. He's very young. His name is Sam Fender, he's British, he's excellent. Is he British or is he British?


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[Assistant] He, he is from Newcastle, so he's, he's British.


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[Assistant] But fighting fantasy, now you're talking! Death Trap Dungeon, World of Fight-


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[Assistant] Well, I was on vacation, uh, until Saturday when I traveled home, and I had one of the worst Saturdays that I've had in some time. One of the worst days I've had in some time, actually. We left the house at eight, we had ten hours of travel ahead of us to get back, unfortunately, it's just the way it is. We got to Madrid, where our connecting flight


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[Assistant] But the airports were just a bit shitty and the airline was obviously at the back of the list of importance.


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[Assistant] So we land and we're just sat on the runway for like 20 minutes and me and Mrs. F are like sweating and looking at our watches. And they start to let people off and then they stop and I realize it's one of those things where they've got a bus, which I fucking hate. You get off the plane, you have to get on a bus, it drives you like 10 feet, you get off the bus. Annoying.


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[Assistant] But this one isn't driving us ten feet, it's driving us about eight, nine minutes away, and I can see other planes of the same airline, the one that we are gonna be on, right here, and I'm like, I bet one of those is our plane, and they're driving us fucking miles away, and that's exactly what happened.


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[Assistant] Get off the plane and there's a huge queue of people just standing there. And this is like one of those queues that snakes about through the little, the little divider rope things, you know, the, the, the things where you, it's like a, it's like a seatbelt, you know, the seatbelt queues.


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[Assistant] I shouted out, is anybody here on a connecting flight? And everybody goes, yes. And I said, well, ours leaves in half an hour. And they go, well, mine is in an hour. And I was like, I'm sorry folks, but I've got to do this. And I just flipped the divider, the little thing that connects to the


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[Assistant] So we just go, and another couple of British families will come back to London, look at me, and they're like, yes, this man is right. We're all just fucking left.


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[Assistant] No, not even once. So we started running, and we're running, and I'm thinking, we're close, we're close, we're close, and all of a sudden, there's a massive queue. And there's passport control. And me and the other British families who have also been legging at a look at each other, there's all sweat coming off us.


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[Assistant] First of all, if our bags go on without us, that's gonna suck. We're gonna be stuck overnight. I don't know where we're gonna stay in Madrid. We're just gonna have to fucking get a hotel. None of us have got anything. Like, we've just got hand luggage. So it's gonna suck. And we're gonna have to, you know, our car is, is uhm...


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[Assistant] Waiting for us at Gatwick, and we're gonna have to pay more parking on that. My mum's gonna be on her own, all the rest of it.


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[Assistant] And I just thought, oh, this is gonna suck. Please let us make this plan. We somehow made it. As soon as we got through the passport, I just legged it to the gate and they were there and they were like, final call. And I was like, you do realize you've got like 30 people on another one of your airline's flights. You can't final call this. You gotta wait for them.


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[Assistant] And they were like, we know, we know, don't worry. Everybody's going to get on. I was like, then why did you put final call up and all these terrifying announcements? We've all been stuck in this queue shitting ourselves for half an hour. And you know, Jesus calm down.


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[Assistant] So we get in the car, we get home, and the dog, Aggie, is in a terrible way. Like, she is really really poorly. She can barely walk around.


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[Assistant] Well, because he was also Italian and it was the way he spoke. Right. Put the dog on the table. So I put the dog on the table.


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[Assistant] Alright, and uh, you know, what happens now? He goes, well, he goes, if all goes well, you'll never hear from me again. Otherwise...


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[Assistant] They're like, oh, she's fine. I was like, alright. I said, we're gonna keep her in for a few more hours to do a few more tests and then you can come get her around four o'clock. Went to get her. She was back to her old self. She was fine.


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[Assistant] How many discussions about the route people have taken to get to the party? Because that's always a failure.


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[Assistant] But we're not like, we don't really have big conversations, it's mainly about the only thing we have in common, the stuff that's going on on our road. Like, or in the immediate area.


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[Assistant] I think the only reason it's not British is because it actually involves talking to other people, which is something in general we don't like.


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[Assistant] Steve's gonna bring his band down, uh, they play a mix of funk and blues. Yeah, of course they do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's all they ever play these bands. Uh, but yeah, it's like we see all the other families that we know in the area, people that I know from my kid's school and we, you know, have a chat and everything and everybody says the same thing like, Oh God, crazy.


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[Assistant] Um, and that's it, and I wore a wig this year, which was an effort at a costume, a big red wig, and... Horrifying. It was horrifying. People didn't recognise me. I'm not even kidding. Wow. One of our good friends in the area completely blanked me and talked to the people I was with, and I was like, hi, and they were like, they looked at me and they were like, oh my god, Ted! Oh, I didn't recognise you! I was like, yeah, I know.


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[Assistant] A coat and a hat and I wanted gloves. That's how cold I felt out today. I'm wearing gloves at the moment. Just don't find my legs.


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[Assistant] Y'all, so I assume he's from the place he's referring to.


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[Assistant] Y'all were talking about cremation on Triforce, so here's an interesting example from Louisiana. In Louisiana, they can't bury people because the swamp spits the bodies out the ground after a while, so they got these big above-ground tombs. Problem solved. Well, not really, because above-ground crypts are pretty big, so it came up with a real interesting way to deal with the problem.


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[Assistant] You couldn't cremate people for religious reasons, so they'd make these above-ground crypts like big boxes with a human-sized compartment at the top and a hole at the far end from the door.


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[Assistant] And you put the body in the top compartment. The top compartment is designed to accelerate the decomposition process. So after a number of months or years, the body's decomposed down to bones, you can shove them to the back of the box, where the hole is and...


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[Assistant] Yeah, but then it gets, it gets a little stinky, I guess he's saying. So they found a way here where it's not stinky, uh, and the body's decomposed in a, in a way that is easier. And then you just get a broom and poke the bones to the back of the hole and slide another body in there. I guess that's what he's saying.


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[Assistant] Well, well, may I make a suggestion, gentlemen? Uh, if you have a box, uh, and that you can fit a lot of bones in it, and the body, one person's body goes in at the top, if you compare that to what people have with above ground tombs, it's a whole coffin-sized thing for just one body.


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[Assistant] We could, we could do that. I mean, that's a thing we could do with this. If we had a big enough catapult, just, you know, your body gets wrapped up and they just fucking haul you out into space. You could do that. Why not?


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[Assistant] People can't just, like, you don't just get, like you sometimes get unlucky, so for people that don't play Dota, there are different queues that you can join. There's just a queue called All Pick, unranked, which means that


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[Assistant] This match isn't going to affect your MMR, like your skill rating in the game. Because as that goes up, you get queued against other people who are also high skill level. So imagine you're ELO in chess or whatever it is, right? Uh, it is called ELO, isn't it? In chess. So, it's like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, so unranked is, you're playing against people that are around your skill level, but this game isn't going to affect your rank. Then there's ranked, which will affect it, and then you have other modes, random draft, which is when half the heroes that are normally available to pick from are greyed out, and you can only pick from the remaining 50% is random.


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[Assistant] And single draft, which gives you three heroes to choose from out of the pool of like 120.


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[Assistant] So you only get three heroes to choose from, everybody only gets three heroes to choose from.


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[Assistant] Fantastic. But what you don't get very as much, anywhere near as much, is queuing into people who play one hero


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[Assistant] You know, ban Morphling or counter pick it. So you, that's a kind of extra tool that I don't really like because it kind of ruins it. But at the same time, if you're just going to fucking pick Morphling every game and roll noobs with it, fuck off. You know what I mean? You're, you're subhuman scum. Morphling, nobody, nobody likes Morphling. Get out of here.


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[Assistant] Is it fair that something that has essentially been created outside the game, that not everybody has, gives some people an unfair advantage? Possibly. That's all I'm saying.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's fun. Uhm, he obviously knows what he's doing. He's played a lot of Age of Empires too. Right. I really, it's satisfying when you build stuff, and I love the, the mechanics for building walls and all the rest of it, and your little peasants are great.


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[Assistant] The way the language they speak changes as you level up and stuff like that is great.


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[Assistant] One of my favourite things on the, on the calendar every week this is. He loves it.


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[Assistant] To catch up, my two favourite dads, and, y'know, pick their brains.


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[Assistant] Well they independently booked to go to the Van Gogh interactive exhibit that I went to fucking last week. Come on, really? Yeah. So I went there last week and I thought it was awful.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I talked about it on this podcast. Yeaah. Yeaah. I talked about it. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] It was, uh, they obviously, I don't know, I don't know if they're fans, if they just felt like an excuse to come down, if they, like, got caught up in the, it's got good marketing or something, I don't, I don't rate it, but-


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[Assistant] Yeah, a couple of my friends have been like, independently, I don't know whether it's like, dropping ads or something. Uhm, I don't know. It's probably TikTok ads. That's what they, yeah, that's where they would have seen it, for sure.


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[Assistant] Well arachnids are like, generally... Oh, scorpions are arachnids then I guess as well.


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[Assistant] Sounds like one of the guys who would hold up a stagecoach.


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[Assistant] Do you, do you answer the phone? You know, hello? Jersey taxi service? Is that your, like, little dad patter?


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[Assistant] Oh I see, it's being too aware. It's realising that they're in a position.


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[Assistant] Wow, this is uh, you've turned over a new leaf, are you on like super nice mode at the moment?


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[Assistant] Oh man, yeah, so uh. I think there's obviously certain, there's certain like, landmarks, right, in our history, where we've kind of become accepting of certain things, right, and I think, you know, racism is still a thing, definitely, but it's, it's a lot, but the older generation now


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[Assistant] Pretty much aren't too problematic with that. I think the previous generation were a little bit. But now I think, then it became like, you know, sort of a broad acceptance of gay people and


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[Assistant] Um, now it's becoming a broad acceptance of trans people, but I think, like, that's another 20 years from now, right? We are gonna see, you know, problems with old people being biased these ways, because it takes a long time for it to filter through. For them to die out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think like, but some things, like hating immigrants, seems to be pretty persistent. Oh, that's all the rage?


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[Assistant] The thing is, this has happened in every country, and it happened in America, and then the idea was that the seasonal workers would... The thing that happened in America was they put up this wall to stop people coming in. They need them so badly! But the seasonal workers came in anyway, but then they couldn't get out. That was the thing.


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[Assistant] I think immigration, this whole thing is, it's kind of this idea of, it's like this idea of veiled racism, right? I watched this documentary about, about, it's really interesting, it's Wild Country, it's on Netflix, it was out a while ago. Is that the one where the thumbnail's got like a guy with a beard? Yes.


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[Assistant] Well, so he's this Indian guru, like all Indian gurus, who seems to get loads of Western followers into his sort of slightly offbeat spiritual guidance.


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[Assistant] And you know, people go to India and they have a spiritual awakening and they fucking meditate and shag each other and you know, the usual, right? Uhm, and so what happened was he obviously was pushed out of India for tax evasion or whatever.


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[Assistant] Okay, I can't remember talking to you about it, but basically I watched it, and there's this one bit where, so they settle in Oregon next to this tiny town of like 40 people, and it's so funny because there's this bit in the documentary where basically the 40 people of Antelope are so kind of


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[Assistant] Well they've got like a concentration camp going on there, you know, they're like Hitler. And then the other side, you know, the Indians or the religious followers are like, we're being persecuted, they're like Hitler, and so they're instantly


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[Assistant] Both jump to call each other Hitler, and you can totally see it from both angles, right? In a sense. It is kind of like a cult, but it's not a cult, and it's problematic, but it's not problematic. It's a bonkers story.


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[Assistant] I think America that prides itself on being built, they've got such a short memory, do you know what I mean? They were built out of immigrants a couple hundred years ago.


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[Assistant] But it isn't, you know, especially if you ask it to someone who isn't white, in a white place. Where are you from? I mean, yeah. It's a funny... it's easy for people to... I'm sure people are culturally aware and they'll say, oh, my family's originally from Hong Kong or somewhere, but...


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[Assistant] Okay. Thank you, that's so embarrassing. I feel like this is, you know how there's this big debate going on in the world about the overturning the Roe vs Wade abortion thing, right? And how half of American states are basically still hostile to abortion, like it's the fucking 1960s again, right?


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[Assistant] And, but the problem is, we get all this spillover here, like, we're getting angry on behalf of this American dumbassery. And we talk about this a lot on Triforce, but it's weird how a lot of us get upset about these things that happen in America, even though it's a very different place.


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[Assistant] I guess you're right, like, we do definitely take our cues from certain nations, I think it's automatically osmosis from American culture and American


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[Assistant] Things that happen. In a way, like, we should try, and some people do try and use Scandinavia, and maybe we should be using Germany as more of a model, you know, sorting out, you know, giving people


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[Assistant] Amazing, um, and I have huge respect for those people who've, who've done that. Cause I, I worked in Sainsbury's for two years as a, when I was at uni and it was horrible. I hated it. It was very hard to try and


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[Assistant] Not everyone has that opportunity even at that age, but I think that, you know, you're supposed to. I think sometimes when you're that age as well, you just kind of are washed along, you've got your own priorities, you're worried about your appearance and your other things. I worry about my appearance constantly. Will, my head dazzles.


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[Assistant] I think teen, as a teenager I didn't really think about, or feel like I felt about those things, y'know, I was invulnerable and brilliant and y'know. Yeah, very different teenage life to...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think a lot of teenagers think that they'll live forever.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, hit me. I'm definitely down to listening to what the listeners have dug up this time.


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[Assistant] The constipator, that's the new Marvel legend I heard. That's the next one, yeaah. It's gonna be shit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they had an after the credits. He had an after the credits appearance in Morbius. Fuck's sake. Alright, that's a good email. I did see a few complaints, bathroom related, not complaints, you know, but thoughts. Let's just leave it there. You got any more? I do, I have one from...


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[Assistant] I only cry at an epic. I think I've said this before, I cried in Lord of the Rings when the army of the dead all came out and uh... The army of the dead? That bit was the worst bit! Oh no, I don't know why, I just teared up.


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[Assistant] Ghosts! Ghosts! I'm enjoying the old... I dunno, epic moments get me teary-eyed. Like, y'know. Revenge, and like, people getting their kemoppens. Yeah. Yeah, there's some really epic moments.


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[Assistant] I get wrapped up in the swelling epic music as well, the fantasy music, that gets me. I think music too, like- Music gets me all the time.


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[Assistant] I think it's all surface level, but unfortunately that all blends into a deeper level, and then you get people who don't really understand that it's not serious, y'know. And they, they're, unfortunately the average football fan isn't the sharpest, y'know, tool in... Rude. Rude.


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[Assistant] I'm banning it. It's got staff. You know? I'm embargoing it. Let's carry on with this email. What about filing?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I guess like your bitcoins, you gotta put them on...


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[Assistant] I dunno, yeah, like, that's the worst thing about this, the digitisation and everything, isn't it, that, you know, it could all just be lost in a flash. But in the same way the archives can burn down in a fire, and that's happened for centuries, so, you know, we've lost plenty of records over the years due to mould or people, like, leaks, you know, something, you know, someone doesn't go in and it's all fucking, you know, ruined. And I dunno.


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[Assistant] Is it? What's worse? I feel like it's gotta be safer just to have digital backups in three different places, you know?


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm sure they have more than one server. It's kind of a very low chance, you know, it's like, if it's like a 1% chance your hard drive will fail, sure, that's really terrible, but if it's like two 1% chances it suddenly becomes very, very, very, very secure. Yeah. Yes, that's exactly, that's how it works.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's the changing way we, we consume content. Indeed.


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[Assistant] Oh crap. Well, anyway, thank you for checking in. I've gotta go back to the Van Gogh exhibit.


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, welcome back to the Triforce Podcast.


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[Assistant] It's nice isn't it? Now it suddenly feels like one of those crappy talk shows on American TV where a lot of assholes feel like they have to make their opinions heard. Oh shit, that's what this podcast is. So, controversial opinions, what have you got this week?


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, something you feel strongly about that other people don't seem to just mind.


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[Assistant] If you were having a Christmas bash, right, at your mansion, uh, sips, and you had all of your friends around you, all of your family, it was like a really great event, and then Michael Buble was doing a live concert for you. Nah. No? No way.


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[Assistant] I dunno, but at what point it became... cause sometimes they have a kid, these posh people, and that kid actually is legit into opera, or, y'know, Ancient Greek, or something weird, y'know what I mean? And they're like, totally weirdly obsessed with it, as if it's actually good.


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[Assistant] So yeah, I don't understand. Maybe it's just the fact that we were brought up.


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[Assistant] Watching Aquatine Hunger Force and garbage like that, instead of, um, and Beavis and Butthead. Beavis and Butthead, my god. Instead of, instead of... You have to go back and watch some...


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[Assistant] I don't feel like superheroes are in the spirit of World Book Day.


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[Assistant] Well I think, if you have to dress up though, a lot of classic books are just people, and they don't have that odd of a costume, do they? I mean, even Sherlock Holmes obviously had his deerstalk, or his pipe, and you could probably tell from that, but a lot of classic books are about regular people, and it's hard to get an exaggerated costume.


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[Assistant] You can't pick some critically acclaimed book, like The Skull Letter or something like that, and try and pick out, like, someone's gonna know who you are, and no one's gonna... Like, I guess it's just easier for kids to default to superhero, right?


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[Assistant] I mean, reading a book, I've always thought, go read a book, it's somehow supposed to be seen as healthier than watching telly or playing the video.


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[Assistant] I see. And then that evolution leads them to games that are deeply shallow because of it, and have no value. You're right. I think that, back in the day... I used to complete games. Like, if I rented a game...


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[Assistant] Like I didn't have anything else. I have no real knowledge of what it's like bringing up a kid in the iPad generation, right? Because I mean, it must be completely different. And I think, I think the question I guess we ask is like, I guess, I guess


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[Assistant] The only thing I can draw from is my own experience, and my assumption that, y'know, I was in my room playing some game on the Super Nintendo or the N64 and I was really into it, and y'know, my parents came in to get me to do some chores or something. Of course I'm gonna be like, no. And be angry about that.


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[Assistant] I think you could still be immersed in a book or a comic book, but I never felt as, I dunno, angry or like, broken out of it by...


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[Assistant] My mum coming in and bothering me, do you know what I mean? And I wonder whether that's because of the nature of video games being this interactive thing, rather than the book, which is very, your...


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[Assistant] Being given information and having to interpret something. I wonder whether it's part of your, part of your brains that are, are bothered almost like the same way that like, um, you know, when an animal's eating something, it doesn't want to be bothered or it'll snap or it's going to be angry. It's like the food is linked to the anger kind of thing. Do you know what I mean? Like the protection or something in our genetics that causes us to behave or act a certain way in response to certain stimuli. Anyway, I think it's just a really, really interesting question.


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[Assistant] I think they're chasing a feeling, right? As well. They're chasing this dream of, they've had a really good experience in a video game, and they think that by searching around and trying different ones they can find that. I can see the same thing happening


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[Assistant] You did, you, you gushed about it many times. Oh my god. So good. But, you had a, you had a wonderful time. What were you gonna say about quarter machines, pflags? About what machines? About quarter machines or so.


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[Assistant] A bit reckless in some ways, you know. I went in with this idea that I could beat the casino, you know, and I had this sort of idea and...


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[Assistant] You had a plan. It worked really well, but then obviously after that I sort of got into poker a bit and then it went not so well. I had somehow convinced myself, I guess, that the risks were worth taking, or that I had a way that I could beat the


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[Assistant] I watched this video the other day, um, which is this guy who does, like, day in the life videos of this casino worker, and it reminded me of going to Las Vegas and seeing just how many people, you know, almost like queue up outside to get their machine, you know, cause they're convinced that this machine is somehow lucky. Is the one, yeah.


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[Assistant] I dunno, they get sucked in, and it's kind of, I think it's largely they've convinced themselves in some ways, that they are smarter, or know more, or have an edge, or...


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[Assistant] They can't win over time, right? Like, they must know that the house has to win. A house always wins. It's ingrained, right? It's gotta be in the back of your mind.


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[Assistant] So I think they've had to do some mental gymnastics to kind of come up with this idea that they are like, somehow gonna get away with it, or get one over on them. And I think that that is a big driving factor, you know? I think people...


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[Assistant] I think also that being surrounded by other people, you know, who are doing the same thing, is reinforcing that idea, often.


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[Assistant] They see, when they join the queue in the morning, you know, or to open, and they...


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[Assistant] You know, it's kind of a weird thing. Let's move on from that.


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[Assistant] You don't wanna talk about your gambling addiction anymore? Speaking of shit from the 90s, uh, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have released Californication, the video game. Oh, nice.


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[Assistant] It's not exact- it looks like shit. It looks like something from the 90s. I think that may be on purpose. Um, there's like eight levels, and they all are kind of, like, it's kind of stupid, like-


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[Assistant] It's like a, it's like a runner. It's like a death runner. So you're running, or falling, or flying through things. Swimming, or... Yeah. This looks abysmal. It does. It does. It looks so shit.


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[Assistant] In the ten minutes he spent up there. So, yeah, games have been delivering Steam decks around to people. I thought that was nice. Have you got, have you ordered one? Did you get one, P-Flex? Uh, no. No? No. I've got one. You got one? Did you?


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[Assistant] Yeah, not by, not by Gabe. Gabe came round, hand delivered it.


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[Assistant] Obviously everything is adapted to have Steam deck controller controls, in the same way that the Steam controller allows you to play XCOM.


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[Assistant] It obviously was fine, sure, it was good, but I dunno, like, just the way he wouldn't even, like, host the conversation, y'know, I just...


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[Assistant] This harkens back to the core of what we were talking about today, which is really hard video games. Games used to be punishingly hard, and maybe that was something that we forgot.


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[Assistant] We always leave this to debate, and I think it's different for everyone, and obviously there's a certain audience of people who played Chivalry back in the day, and then they're like Mordhau and For Honor and all these types of games, right? It's the same with Dark Souls, it's got its own...


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[Assistant] Genre, and, you know, this is the same team who made Dark Souls, what, fucking, more than ten years ago.


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[Assistant] You know, like 15 years ago Dark Souls, and then Dark Souls 3 was at least 6 years ago, it was in the old office.


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[Assistant] There's certainly people who have played one. I played that one.


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[Assistant] Just don't find that enjoyable really. Yeaah. Like, I remember playing Dark Souls on Xbox in the lounge with Simon, for some reason.


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[Assistant] I just remember, like, it was the only time in my life I ever broke an Xbox controller. Or a controller. Of any kind. Cause I was just so, I guess, like, frustrated, or like, I dunno, like, I dunno, I'd probably, cause I was playing it with Simon, I'd probably be showing off.


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[Assistant] I wonder though, like, I wonder whether it hones you. Like a blacksmith's forge. You know, it turns you into a tougher, more resistant gamer. Able to deal with the trials and tribulations that life throws at you.


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[Assistant] Well, I think people play them a lot and learn a lot and research them a lot and people get into them. I think that, you know, if you're into a game, you're going to discuss the strategy and things and read the forums and join the Discord and talk to other people and play with other people and you're going to


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[Assistant] Okay, before we, before we finish, I want to talk a bit about this. We've got time for this, right? Uhm, this might take a while. I don't know. We'll see.


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[Assistant] Uh, Ben sent me this article and I was reading it. You know how we talked a bit about billionaires before and, you know, these guys spending their money to suddenly, you know, it's like, it turns out that they've been, you know, diagnosed with some illness that's untreatable and suddenly they're putting millions into it, hoping that it will...


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[Assistant] No, they'll find a solution before they die of it. Uhm, Jeff Bezos has been meeting Jeff Bezos. Bezos. Bezos. Richest man in the world.


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[Assistant] Has been meeting with large groups of scientists and he's just set up a company, okay, uh, to rejuvenate, uh, I assume himself, but currently animals. Um, so there's this ambitious new anti-aging company called Altos Labs. I guess Bezos, Altos...


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[Assistant] So he's set up several institutes in San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, Cambridge, Japan, and has recruited a large cadre of university scientists with lavish salaries, uh, so that they can pursue unfettered blue sky research on how cells age


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[Assistant] Ultimately how to reverse the process. Dun dun dun. What do you think?


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[Assistant] Yeah. So, so obviously Larry Page has done a similar thing, um, with Calico Labs, which is a longevity company, um, and it's been working on some stuff.


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[Assistant] There's a few very strange people involved, so there's this guy Juan Carlos Belmonte, who's a Spanish biologist, who has mixed together human and monkey embryos. He thinks that he can increase human lifespans by 50 years. But that's not good enough.


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[Assistant] So there was this guy, Shinya Yamanaka, right? He...


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[Assistant] He thinks, he had this discovery that cells can be instructed to revert back to stem cells. Right, right. That's the idea. And so, he actually did try on mice, and sometimes the mouse showed some signs of age reversal.


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[Assistant] Sometimes they were covered in horrific tubers.


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[Assistant] Excellent. It sounds like some shit out of a Hollywood sci-fi movie. It's a work in progress. Uh, it sounds like mad science, and I'm terrified. Personally, I think that, you know, these things, we can't talk about extending life.


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[Assistant] Without, like, talking about, to some extent, allowing death, right? Because...


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[Assistant] Death is this great taboo that we don't talk about and that we try and prevent at all costs and human life is sacred and even if it's illegal often to, you know, for terminally ill people to


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[Assistant] It's easier for me just to not say how I feel. But I guess what I'm saying is that I don't... I, the way I see this science happening, as someone who has been in this world...


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[Assistant] Is that these things take a long time, and the first wave of them are pretty shit.


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[Assistant] Um, and often have unexpected side effects and often, you know.


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[Assistant] Medicine normally, unless in a pandemic, takes, you know, 10, 15 years to get to market. Um, you know, unless you're a real special case or you're in a kind of case study. Sometimes, you know,


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[Assistant] Like, you know, we've got sort of medications for cancer and stuff and like this now, but they might not be available for 10 years because they have to go through this very rigorous process, right? So I don't think in our lifetime, uhm, this stuff is going to happen. I mean, also you think of it as this dreamboat


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[Assistant] I dunno, like, I dunno if we can de-age our brains and stuff like this, I dunno what we


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[Assistant] Tell him he is! So yeah, I dunno, like, I dunno how I feel about this in general. I guess I'm happy that his money isn't just being spunked into more pointless space garbage and yachts.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is. I hate it, but at least it's something that isn't just nothing. I'd rather that he was slightly aware. I mean, even Bill Gates at least tried to sort of get rid of polio and do a lot of work and try and


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[Assistant] Right, he's gotta work on, work on him. Good for you, Jeff, you do you.


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[Assistant] Keep on keepin' on. I don't need an extension. Maybe when I'm 70 I'll say different, but I don't think I want to live forever.


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[Assistant] It's kind of, it's, it's harder, some old people, yea, you can mess with, but I think generally it's harder to mess with old people. They're kind of bulletproof, right?


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[Assistant] It kinda does just get to that point though, you know. I think the older you get, you know, you're a little bit more protective of your, uh, your compound, wherever that may be, you know. You're scared. Yeah, and you get a lot more frightened of teens.


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[Assistant] Yeah, not serious ones. I was a bit mouthy in high school one time and the high school bully, well, beat me and my friends. It was, it was funny though, because it was like, there were more of us than him, but because he was so notorious, uh, we let him beat us all up so that he wouldn't do it again.


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[Assistant] No. I guess it has to be influenced from somewhere, right? People who write these shows, if they've had experiences with bullies or whatever. I mean, like the bully that Birian described sounds like a lot like the one at our school.


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[Assistant] Didn't really have any friends or the friends that he did have were just people that uhm, you know, he previously bullied.


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[Assistant] But funnily enough, if you didn't really have anything to do with him, he wouldn't just start bullying you for no reason, I guess. Or at least I feel like that's the case.


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[Assistant] You know, maybe that's not the case for everybody, but uhm, but like in our case, like we, we, we were mounting off a little bit and we shouldn't have been.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, okay. It's like any time my son plays something, he's like, this is the best thing I've ever played. He's like, yeah, I haven't fucking played anything. Of course it's going to be the, you know, it's like the first food you eat. This is the best food I've ever eaten. Yeah, I know. It's like the first as well. I always find it funny. Like, he's just like, he proclaims that this is the greatest thing. It's like,


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[Assistant] Wait till you play some other stuff, you know, he's saying like, like Fall Guys, like Fall Guys is the best game ever made, okay buddy.


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[Assistant] It's, it's alright, it's not that great, like there's, there's better games out there, geez. You know? Just wait till he plays Tarkov, holy crap, it's gonna blow his mind. Oh my god. Or Magic the Gathering. Or Magic the Gathering Online Arena, holy crap. Well into that. It's really hard, but it is fun. It's gonna blow his damn mind.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I uhm, I saw you playing that and I thought to myself, I know how this goes, I also played War Thunder for a bit. It's uh, it hooks you in a bit, and it is pretty fun. Interesting to see how long you play it for. Oh, probably not long. Yeah, it does get repetitively tedious.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, it's, it is good for that, for sure. Like, if you're in between games and you just want something that, uhm, you can jump into quickly, like, it's, there's, you don't sit in queues forever, there's, there's lots of buttons to press on the menu, but, like, the gameplay itself is, like, quite fun, right? Yeah, and there's no communication.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. It's like, it's like the battlefield games. It's like such a huge, there's so much going on. Like if you really wanted to make an impact, you could with like a small squad, but you don't have to. You can just roll around, die quickly, get right back in. It's like, it's not a problem.


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[Assistant] It tries to, yeaah, for sure. And, and successfully so, I mean, there's definitely some, uhm, big time armchair admirals out there playing it, like, full time. It's, it's that kind of game too. It's, it's just like, it's the progression and the unlocks and all that crap, right? It hooks people in. And, uh, hooks their wallets in as well.


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[Assistant] You can hear it echoing through the halls of the study


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[Assistant] Absolutely yeaah. Those ones always sound really good though, right? I know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they talk the talk, but do they walk the walk? Like they're not.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, both good as well. Farthest Frontier is nice and, uh, Cold to the Lamb is really good. It's great.


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[Assistant] It's got, it's got lots of nice little mechanics and stuff, and it's beautiful. God, the, just the, the sound, uh, the, the animations, the graphics in Cult of the Lamb is really nice. Like the, I love the art style and everything too. It's good. Just feels like a nice game to play, but uh.


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[Assistant] mechanic around building up your little compound and uh, the followers like worshipping you and unlocking stuff through the power that they give you.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Twitch integration with it is really good too. You can, uh, you can hold raffles to have followers named after people in chat. So they can, they can opt into it. And then you can like do stuff with them, uh, to gain more power, like, uh, murder them, imprison them. If they start to get like, uh, a bit unruly, you can sacrifice them in a ritual.


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[Assistant] It's really good. They can die of old age as well. You bury them and then they resurrect after a couple of days. It's, it's, it's a bit boring.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, there's, there's definitely a focus on like the battle-y stuff. There's like a little mini-game called, uh, is it Knuckles or Knuckle Duster? It's like a dice game that you can play against various little NPCs that you find, which is, which is quite fun. It's like a, like a dice, like, uh, I don't know. It's, it's super easy when you, when you play it. It's fun though.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, there's like a little fishing mini game in it. There's, there's all sorts of shit. Like it, it, it, it's, it's good. It's really fun. It's, it's, it's a nice one. And I like nice little progressions and stuff as well. You upgrade your buildings, like.


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[Assistant] There's like quality of life stuff for your compound, like you can eventually unlock outhouses and janitors because they're all, all your little cultists just shit on the ground and get unhappy and sick and stuff. Like it's cool. Yeah, it's really fun.


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[Assistant] I've enjoyed it. And, uh, Farthest Frontier is just really chill. It's like Banished and Anno mixed together. It's like, it's got like, uh, the building of Anno, you know, like on that grid.


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[Assistant] So you're, you're, you're trying to like get- That's what I was hoping for. Yeah, you're trying to get little districts and neighborhoods built up and buffing like each other based on like desirability and shit like that. But then you also have to manage the logistics of your industry getting to the places that it needs to.


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[Assistant] Crop rotations, seasons, like all that shit, so. It's good, it's fun, and it looks nice too.


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[Assistant] Nah, they've done, they've done good though, it seems good. I think, uhm, I think if they keep, uhm, keep adding stuff to it and everything as well, it'll be, it'll be real nice. It's good.


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[Assistant] I've been playing a lot of Played Up. It's fantastic though. Like, I mean, when we played it, uh, genuinely, I had such a good time, but I've, I've enjoyed playing it since with all sorts of different people. They, I've been playing more recently with, uh, with Hafu and her husband, uh, who are both like, uh, bonafide pro gamers.


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[Assistant] And, uh, that's an experience, but I mean, it's a five star experience. I mean, we're, we, we were winning like left, right and center. It was crazy. We had all these systems set up. They take it very seriously. Uh, it's been really fun.


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[Assistant] Yeah, which I think a lot of people have. It's a different scene now for sure, but the game arguably is not as big as it once was either. It's still churning out expansions and...


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, it's like those guys that build those, uh, those, uh, radios at home, right? Ham radios.


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[Assistant] You know, stereotypical, but I'd say that's okay. Real ales always, like, uh, like, uh, like craft brews and stuff, especially like in Britain, have kind of funny names too, or can have funny names.


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[Assistant] This is like your like bathtub bruise and stuff.


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[Assistant] The biggest pyramid in the world is in Texas for a sporting goods store.


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[Assistant] Well look at like a lot of the, uh, the attractions in Vegas, on the strip as well, are all like, you know, recreations, like they've got like an Eiffel Tower, they've got pyramids, they've got, you know what I mean, like all these like, all these like big famous places, that make like a cameo appearance.


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[Assistant] So it's, it's pretty easy. It's, it's a weird mentality in North America. My, my, my parents have this and a lot of my friends have it as well, where if I were to say, hey, come to Europe, like come, come visit us or whatever. It's like, oh no, no way. There's no way. It takes too long. Uh, there's too many flights and stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but okay, but if I landed, if I went to say Toronto in Canada, which if my parents wanted to come and visit us, if we were visiting Toronto where they live now to come visit us, they would have to drive in their car for like six hours to get six hours plus. No problem. They would be like, yep.


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[Assistant] We'll see you there. Like it's no, it's no problem whatsoever. They'll hop into their car and they will drive 12, 15, 25 hours if it means that they're in their car driving. Like if there was like a big bridge over the Atlantic Ocean, they'd be in Europe all the damn time with their car.


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[Assistant] It's funny to think like when we're older, old men in the village hall playing a game, they'll be playing like Valorant or something, you know?


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[Assistant] I'm much more interested in history now than I ever was, like as a kid or whatever. I enjoyed it enough learning about it at school or whatever, but not much. But now, like I will.


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[Assistant] I'm kinda like, it's like, it's ruined me a bit because I actually prefer watching factual stuff now than I prefer watching fictional stuff. You know, like I used to really like-


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[Assistant] I meant to watch it actually, yeaah. I've seen it on Netflix, it looks good, I'll give it a watch.


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[Assistant] I remember hearing about it, like, at the time sort of thing, but not much. I think at the time it was reported to be kind of nuts as well, but uhm, I never really looked into it or anything. It didn't resonate that much.