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[Assistant] Also, I feel like it came out at a time when the idea of just being able to explore this vast open ocean was like really cool and like new and exciting. But like, there's so many games that do that now, doing really well, that like it is, it's a harder sell for me.


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[Assistant] To do that, but I mean I like it when I'm actually playing the game and not just exploring the world.


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[Assistant] I have it, we have it downloaded on my Switch, but I never beat it because if you step away from it for like more than a week, you forget where you are because it's so deep in anime lore.


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[Assistant] Well, you have your little, your little guy and, uh, you like, they're attached to you by a leash. You have a little pet. Yeah. And then you can send them out to go and attack and then you get, you get into the VR realm. But then there's a whole nother aspect of the game, which is, uh, like the, uh,


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[Assistant] Kind of like investigation, because you technically work for the police department, essentially. Out of my way, you little thing.


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[Assistant] Okay, cause you've been telling us you've been really busy, so are you not? Yeah, I've been getting a lot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it was the kind of thing where there would be points where I was like, I'm good, and you're like, nah, come on, like, let's finish, let's play more, or whatever. Like, and I feel like if you're alone...


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[Assistant] What'd you say, speaking of something, and then that was what it was.


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[Assistant] I am still of the mindset that like next gen for most people is not gonna be like a game or whatever. You know, like everyone's pointing to Miles Morales as being like, oh, it's an incredible next gen game. But like for me, I think that again, the ability to play on the go is more next gen.


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[Assistant] And then I only, I didn't, and this is another thing, I only found out recently that if you have a PS4


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[Assistant] If you have a PS4, you can remote play in to your, uh,


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[Assistant] Wow. Uh, yeaah, you and Greg Miller can play together. Yes!


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, so I don't, I don't think, I don't think people that don't have next gen right now are missing out, truly. Uhm, also, I mean, if you have a PC. Not that I am a PC theorist or whatever, but.


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[Assistant] I mean, who knows? I've read several things that's like, this has been such a highly publicized, like, thing to find this vaccine, that to really determine the


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[Assistant] True community impact of it. It's like, you know, what is it, the medical...


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[Assistant] By, uh, publication or whatever, like they're like, this, we figured out that this is a super fruit where there was one clinical trial that showed some minor success, but they're hoping sometimes people that do investigations will publish things with the hopes that it will lead to more funding.


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[Assistant] So who knows, who knows the true legitimacy of it or how long it'll take to get it?


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[Assistant] I was gonna say, don't forget the fact that in X-Men The Last Stand, when, when they're, they wanna make sure there aren't riots at the facility that's taking it, so they make sure to issue a bunch of guns that fire the anti-mutagen virus or whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I, I, we wanted to go to, we were supposed to go to Mexico over the summer. There was a lot of stuff, actually. We were supposed to go to, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, Vegas, basically like the weekend after everything got bad in LA, because that was kind of like middle end of March. We were supposed to go to Vegas for my birthday.


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[Assistant] That, of course, got hard canceled. And, uh,


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[Assistant] I mean, basically every single time I've gone abroad I've had like an amazing time.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, I don't want to think about some of some, some things, stuff like that, having like, the only explanation here is that there was a ghost. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Maybe I'm a ghost. I hope at some point someone sees me and they go, that's a ghost.


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[Assistant] That was for sure Ghost. Or I hope that if I haunt, I do it in a very useless kind of way. Like that. Like I just meet people going to apply for jobs at Crunchyroll.


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[Assistant] It always starts with something like that and then in pursuit of more explanation it opens up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but uh, yeaah, it should be fun.


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[Assistant] Look, I did. There was something inside of secrets. Did you step on the button?


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[Assistant] Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of DudeSoup, which is sponsored by ExpressVPN, Upstart, and Mint Mobile.


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[Assistant] Today we're talking about next-gen consoles, accessibility improvements that we really need to see, some PS5 stock issues, the Xbox Series X and S and One X and all of those, and maybe we'll even get to Aliens in this hot bowl of dudesuit.


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[Assistant] He wants to believe in aliens, got it. We are also joined by a special guest today, Steve! Welcome Steve!


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[Assistant] Of course it does say in the background of your set that blind gamer steve what does that mean exactly.


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[Assistant] Good pun. Very good. Well yeaah, we're excited to have you!


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[Assistant] He's got a balaclava and a backwards hat, classic ET, he's got, he had to find work somewhere, you know? 2020, it's been a long ride for him, especially in video games. Exactly.


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[Assistant] Uh, well we're excited to have you on the show today to talk about next-gen stuff, uhm, and accessibility, but like before we get into it, uh, you know, I've seen your content, I said this before we started the show, but for anyone who


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[Assistant] You know, doesn't know who Blind Gamer Steve is. Uhm, how do you play video games while blind, Steve? That doesn't make sense.


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[Assistant] So where accessibility is concerned for people who have any kind of ailment where their eyesight is concerned, like how much room for improvement is there? How bad are video games for people who have trouble seeing?


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[Assistant] That is correct. I have spoken to devs about this exact thing. Uh, you probably already know this, but for the audience at home who doesn't, um, it is just that they are using monitors that are directly in front of them when they're making things and they don't realize until the play testing phase.


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[Assistant] Even then, where a lot of people are sitting at a booth in front of a monitor really close, uhm, where they actually separate people from their screens, it becomes a problem.


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[Assistant] Rather than when the game's just about to ship, cause otherwise it just, it just breaks all your UI apparently.


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[Assistant] You need that text. They just came out with a new DLC, didn't they, this week? I think they did. Uh, love that game. It was, it was, yeaah, one of the inside gaming top fives last year. It was fantastic. Uhm, but yeaah, I mean, there are, this, go ahead.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I think it's interesting, like, video games don't have, uh, as many regulations where that stuff is concerned, either. Like, I remember when I was working for IGN.


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[Assistant] If we didn't have the descriptions of the image written as text, we could get in trouble. Uh, we did have someone reach out to us and be like, this doesn't comply with basically accessibility laws. I don't remember the exact legal terminology, but it was like, you aren't describing what's in the image.


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[Assistant] Meaning that blind people will have difficulty using your sight, you need to change it. Uh, and we did. Uh, but those things don't quite apply to video games yet, which is a huge bummer because I think an especially important part of


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[Assistant] Video games is that certain people have disabilities that mean that they are socially isolated a lot of the time and video games are such a good escape for those people, especially what mental health is concerned.


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[Assistant] So to have video games be, uh, something that they can experience when they can't necessarily leave the house or can't necessarily, uh, partake in other social interactions is absolutely awesome. Uhm, and definitely something we need to push for. So with all of that in mind.


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[Assistant] Uh, Steve, I'll ask you first. Uhm, what do you, what do you most want to see for next gen? What's the thing you want the most?


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[Assistant] Do you have to call them out for it? Uh, I did want to mention, like, so my particular accessibility issue that, uh, people might know about through FunHouse is I have tendonitis in both of my wrists, so I can't do any rapid button presses.


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[Assistant] Uhm, anything that requires like frequently tapping a button, fighting games are difficult, games like Guitar Hero are difficult, it just gets very painful and then my wrists will flare up and I won't be able to use my thumbs for like two days. Uhm, so related to Microsoft, Battletoads was terrible.


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[Assistant] Uh, in terms of that, I did not have, so Naughty Dog for example does do the option to change.


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[Assistant] Taking a lot of strides in a very positive direction.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but there are also a lot of different people with a lot of different accessibility restrictions that, uh, you know, I understand that it's difficult to cater to all of it, but...


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[Assistant] Like there's just some stuff that I feel like Naughty Dog is the leader on where this is concerned from from what I can tell and there once you do that I already know with my particular problem that I can play absolutely every game no issue which is very nice to know so.


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[Assistant] Definitely agree with you there, Steve, that having more of a push from this from both of them and knowing where they stand and what their guidelines are going forward would be awesome, especially leading into next gen. And, uh, we will hear what Jon wants from the next generation after this quick ad break from ExpressVPN. Listen, let me talk to you for a second. When you use the bathroom,


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[Assistant] You close the door, right? So you go to a friend's place or whatever. Or you know, you've got people around.


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[Assistant] You don't want to see a random person walk past when you're doing your business.


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[Assistant] So why would you let people know everything you're doing on the internet? That doesn't make any sense. What are you doing, you weird dude?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know there are also, like, Giz 5 was very good for the hard of hearing community because it did such a good job of in text describing absolutely everything that was happening.


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[Assistant] So, you know, for the opposite problem, people who have trouble hearing cues from video games, that game detailed things so excessively that, uh, it was, I think at the time, awarded as the best game.


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[Assistant] Uh, for the hot of hearing community that had come out and it's just, again, just stuff like this that you just.


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[Assistant] You need the studios to think about, you need to have conversations like this on podcasts, you need to have people talk about them so that any developer who happens to come across something like this is like, oh.


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[Assistant] I think technically Inside Gaming bought into that, and then Steve Spawn had a conversation with, uh, whoever wrote that piece about it to be like, I don't think you understand. And like, I mean, I know you're a huge FromSoft fan, John, and that's, that's a recurrent conversation that keeps coming up, is like,


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[Assistant] This isn't about a game being easier. It is, it is just about people with disabilities being able to play these games. It's not about an easy mode. Like it's, it's a completely different thing. And if you're like, well, that's the way the developers intended it. Then you're saying, well, then the developers, if they know are intending that their games are not accessible to people with disabilities.


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[Assistant] That was a really interesting perspective when that conversation was coming out. Cause my first take was like, I don't know what the answer to this is. Cause I get it. If they make those games and they want them to be.


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[Assistant] That's the, the direction they're going for and then it might have even been you, uh, Steve. I don't remember who I saw speak about it but someone was like, we're not asking for the game to be easier.


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[Assistant] We are asking to experience the game the exact same way that you do. It is still going to be extremely challenging for us. You just don't opt into those things that you don't need, and you will also have the same challenge. And it was like, oh shit.


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[Assistant] That makes perfect sense. It's not making the game any easier. It's making it the same.


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[Assistant] Which across the board I'm in support of. Sounds awesome. Also a thing I want for the next gen, Bloodborne 2.


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[Assistant] Uh, didn't have a great amount of accessibility options for that kind of thing either.


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[Assistant] And it is worth mentioning we're not live today because of RTX. The podcast will go up usual time, which means that we are.


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[Assistant] Recording before the PlayStation conference tomorrow.


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[Assistant] So there's potentially things that we could be talking about here that we could miss. I don't know if that's gonna happen, but I did want to ask you guys.


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[Assistant] This is going to be immediately outdated, so please say it with the most confidence possible. How much is the PlayStation 5 going to cost?


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[Assistant] Uhm, I feel like, like John, you certainly, uh, know more about hardware than I do in general, I see you might too, I'm not sure, but, uh, I don't know that a disc drive is worth a hundred dollars.


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[Assistant] Everything else is the same, so it's potential that they could do 450, 499, but I imagine they'd probably be willing to even take the loss on that and have it be 399 just to have a significantly cheaper option.


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[Assistant] There are still people playing without internet, that does still exist, or people with very bad internet connections, but you're right that even bad internet connections don't matter anymore because you still have to download it.


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[Assistant] But like I, you know, I get codes now and I was a die-hard like must-have-all-disks-physically person, uhm, and I had to separate myself from that because...


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[Assistant] Frankly, it became unreasonable. Living in small apartments and moving in California, it's just carrying around cases of video games is a bad idea. I still have like, a pretty solid collection. I've got


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[Assistant] PS3, 360, Wii U games, like all chillin' over there that I haven't touched in years. So what I've been doing now is instead, because I still feel anxious about not physically owning things, is I buy my Game of the Year physically every year on every platform.


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[Assistant] So I'm like, I still have it, yeaah. It just makes me feel slightly better about things. But I honestly don't know the answer to that, John, and it is super embarrassing that I don't know the answer to that.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yikes, that's not great. Things that don't do sales, like Nintendo is such a weird company in that we love them so much and love what they do so much, but they have so many trash policies.


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[Assistant] Like, they have our hearts, they know they do, but then they're like...


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[Assistant] Never gonna put our game on sale, you're gonna have to buy it $60, and then we're gonna make you pay another $60 for it, even though it's literally an emulator, which is the thing, the story about today is, uh, just as a short, because we totally won't get to it. The Super Mario 3D All-Stars, uh, has leaked onto the internet. All games are emulated.


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[Assistant] It's not. Yes. Which in theory means they can emulate everything.


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[Assistant] But also means that they aren't even necessarily.


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[Assistant] Actual ports. Uh, we're paying full price for the same thing.


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[Assistant] Uh, god, another story here. Just kinda wanted to see like how you guys feel about this. So there are potential PS5 stock.


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[Assistant] Pretty significant cut, it's like 26%, I said. I think, sorry, total.


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[Assistant] The company has come up against manufacturing issues such as production yields as low as 50% for its COC.


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[Assistant] Increase the yield, meaning not as many are failing now, but that is massive production costs.


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[Assistant] That are just completely lost, which, you know, in theory, if you look at it from a business perspective, it means that every unit that does work.


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[Assistant] Costs more money to make fire the ones that don't and they are shipping them as well rather than shipping them by sea to try to get more of them out in the wild which means this whole.


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[Assistant] Thing has become a lot more expensive for Sony than they expected, uhm, and of course that means


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[Assistant] Uh, 11 million units available for the next 12 months, in theory. Uhm, A, do you guys think this means we should be concerned about dodgy chips with the PS5? Is this a concern? We're gonna have another Red Ring situation?


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[Assistant] If it's, if it's a thing, yeaah. And then 11 million units. Is it enough? Sounds like a lot.


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[Assistant] Wow, that is good. I didn't think it was that many.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I think that that pre-orders will be closed from the jump, I think we're gonna have probably similar to what the Switch had, right? Where, uh, they were back-ordered, I believe?


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[Assistant] The Nintendo had to increase production significantly because they were selling out, Amazon was cancelling people's pre-orders because they had sold too many.


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[Assistant] So it, I don't, you're right that I don't know that the PS5 will be as popular as the Switch. I feel like that's so hard to guess though. Like it absolutely could be. Obviously Sony's like,


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[Assistant] Such a huge brand in gaming, especially in 2020. They are the biggest, really. Um, massively successful. Again, the PS2 still the highest selling console if you don't include the Game Boy family, which, you know, was also massively successful.


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[Assistant] But I, I imagine what's going to happen and the reason why they opened up those early pre-order links, uhm, is probably...


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[Assistant] That's I think, I imagine part of why they're airshipping them is like shipping slow down across the board and like that it's supposed to be really expensive to ship things by air like that's why it's like does the 2020 thing.


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[Assistant] Look, I think part of that comes from the fact that we have so few games announced across the board. We have, it's not Playroom.


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[Assistant] That, that, the thing that Sony has that's basically the controller demo, Miles Morales and Ratchet and Plank, uhm,


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[Assistant] Technically Destiny counts, so it's that we have very few games and also don't know the games after this. So like, I just made a video on this yesterday.


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[Assistant] Xbox magazine, very exciting to read through what they said in 2001, but apparently when the original Xbox came out,


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[Assistant] We just don't know anything, so it's a really weird place to be, but it's also that with the way that, uh, I think we're basically at a point where games are moving,


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[Assistant] To our perception, slower. Things are, uh, where just literally what you're seeing is concerned. Uh, the things that are changing are things like loading screens. Uhm, it's not necessarily, you know,


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[Assistant] Things that are immediately perceptible. That's why I keep talking about how cool I think Ratchet and Clank is and that you have teleportation through worlds. It does seem like it's scripted now rather than that you can do it on demand when the screen goes purple in those gameplay demos.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that is completely like, you are literally going to a different world without any loading screen other than that, which is a tiny animation. Uhm, you know, it's, it's so, so, so fast. That kind of stuff is next gen. But most people are like, eh, okay, by the way, whatever.


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[Assistant] It's probably their fault for marketing things that way too, honestly, is that they've tried to make us buy into like,


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[Assistant] You know, this is the next generation of gaming. Things are going to look better than ever before. This many flops, but then things kind of look similar and you get disappointed. Uh, I just don't know that it's necessarily possible. And we sort of need to lower our expectations.


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[Assistant] But I actually ultimately don't think it's going to matter that much or really all in terms of sales when you think about the 3DS family or the DS family in general and how well it's sold with the DS and the DSi and the DS Lite and the 3DS and the new 3DS and the new 3DS XL and the 2DS and the 2DS XL. Like there are so many of those. New 3DS XL is a ridiculous name for a console, but it's still sold really well.


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[Assistant] I sort of suspect that it's a marketing tactic that we are being manipulated, uh, to not think of something with a new number as a huge event, um, so that they can start iterating more freely and people will be more inclined to buy something rather than thinking, oh, it's a six.


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[Assistant] Already, what the hell? And then they just diminish consoles because I expect Xbox to start bringing out consoles every second year.


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[Assistant] Um, that's just what I feel like is going to happen with the all access program that was, uh, well announced a while ago, but is confirmed to be tied to the S and.


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[Assistant] I think it's like $25 a month for a Series S subscription and you'll pay off the console in 2 years and you get Game Pass for free for the first 12 months I believe, so technically the value, you would save money in the long run.


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[Assistant] But anyway, uh, to the earlier point, like I just think that when not going to see


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[Assistant] Dramatic leaps in graphics this time around it is more about lighting effects and hair effects and improved water simulation things that will look really good but are a bit more subtle.


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[Assistant] God of War 2 would be real nice. I don't know though, I have no idea what we're gonna get tomorrow. The only thing I'm anticipating right now is the price and release date. I mean yesterday, no, we've already seen it. We've absolutely already seen it. Uh, conference was good.


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[Assistant] So astronomers found a possible sign of life on Venus.


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[Assistant] From CBS News, Traces of a rare molecule known as phosphine have been found in the hellish, heavily acidic atmosphere of Venus, astronomers announced on Monday, providing a tantalizing clue about the possibility of life. Why did this writer get so poetic?


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[Assistant] That's sort of the way that this works, is gassy farts have been discovered.


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[Assistant] On the planet and they're like, but who did the farts come from and was it something that is currently alive? That is the mystery that I absolutely love.


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[Assistant] That this is in the news this week. Of course they have to do a lot more testing to actually verify if the phosphine came from something that's alive rather than the atmosphere generating it in some different way.


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[Assistant] I'm not a scientist so I can't tell you it's not possible. All I know is that phosphine is created by microorganisms that live in environments on earth that do not have oxygen.


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[Assistant] So for it to have left Earth and traveled there, I feel is quite difficult.


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[Assistant] On an intergalactic scale that it fought it and we all had to be like IT'S ALIVE!


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[Assistant] I'm so sorry, Venus, for bullying you. Uh, Steve, any, any, uhm, pseudoscience, uh, takes is we are all real astronomers on what Venus farts mean.


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[Assistant] Any single aliens out there, you let us know. You hit us up. I do think aliens exist and I think one of my hottest takes, uh, that I will stand by is that if you don't believe in aliens, you're arrogant. How are you gonna tell me that the universe that big and you don't think aliens, you think you're the only life form on this planet? Okay. All right, get your head out of your ass. I'm sorry, no offense, but I think you're a bit arrogant.


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[Assistant] Aliens totally exist. One of the coolest things about them is our brains can't comprehend things that we haven't already seen, right? So you know how if you're dreaming,


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[Assistant] Every face that you see in a dream is a face that you have already seen in real life or a combination of those things. The same happens with art. You really just have to pull a bunch of things from other things you've seen and then put them together.


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[Assistant] Because we actually are very bad at conceptualizing things that we've never even comprehended before or never experienced before. Uh, unless I guess you're not paying attention to what you're putting down.


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[Assistant] So in theory, aliens could exist and they would look absolutely nothing like anything we could ever even hope to comprehend until we've seen them and then suddenly you know and it changes everything.


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[Assistant] Shout out to Dreams, also very good video game.


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[Assistant] Don't know how the accessibility options are. Steve, do you know anything about Dreams?


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[Assistant] Alrighty, uh, Steve, before you go, where can people find you?


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[Assistant] Alright, cool. Well, I will see you on Friday at the Fodhouse Paddle, everyone. Alright, see you guys next time. Bye!


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[Assistant] By just learning a phonetic thing and then applying to something without necessarily having to do any translation in my head. So I had my, I had my, uh, dad's sisters who I knew as TT Ani and TT Milta.


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[Assistant] But everyone knows all stories have been told, we all know the story, it doesn't matter, it's how we experience it. It's like music guys, like there's only so many progressions of notes that we can make, so many combinations. It's how you use those progressions that tells you whether or not Kevin Bacon can dance.


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[Assistant] I almost considered Filmhouse this week being a review of Mulan and then I was like, I don't want to talk about it anymore.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna use my limitless stock knowledge to invest your money for a small fee. Uhm, there's no risk unless I go to jail.


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[Assistant] In which case, all of your money is gonna be used to pay my legal fees. But yes, I am kind of known as the stock guy.


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[Assistant] Well no, I meant like to be applied to the stock market in such a way and say,


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[Assistant] No, again, I don't wanna take the, I wouldn't wanna take the, it should be like a bull market or like a human market. Cause I feel like human is one of the lamest animals. That's in my opinion.


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[Assistant] It's hot. No, we're impressively made biologically. It's just, it's our brains.


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[Assistant] I mean, they're already basically the most, yeah, they're already essentially the default video game protagonist, so, I might as well put them in something.


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[Assistant] That was one of the first tweets I saw of Luz. Does this make it more or less likely that we'll see Doomguy and Master Chief and Smash Brothers because I lose a game.


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[Assistant] I feel like there's a bunch of legal documents that have all of this sorted out.


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[Assistant] Like, but I mean, I'm sure that when Zenimax signed whatever contract they signed with Sony about Deathloop and, you know, Tokyo Ghostwire,


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[Assistant] It didn't say unless we get bowed out and then, you know, we gotta do what we gotta do. It probably had clarifications in it. So when they went to the table for the deal with Microsoft, I think it was probably like buying a used car that has a slight ding in the door. It's like.


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[Assistant] It's like, well, we're gonna sell you this car, and then Microsoft goes...


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[Assistant] We love the car. There's a ding in the door though, so we're not going to pay full blue book value. And they're like, yeah, we get it. But if you get to the whole thing, then you're going to have to figure out what to do with the ding in the door. And they're like, alright, fine. So then you buy a car with the ding in the door.


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[Assistant] I bet that it wasn't, I don't think it was like generosity or like a moral high ground from any of the parties. I bet it was just like, well, we really like the idea of this deal going through and so we understand that there are these prior legal things that we can't break, uhm, because of contracts.


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[Assistant] I don't think so. I mean, I think, I think if we had gone back a few years ago, you might have seen a different version of Microsoft that crossed our arms and said, Harumph, well, that looks real. How, if it's our studio, why are we making games for them? But I think we're really beyond that. I think both of these organizations, Sony and Microsoft and everything in between, have made billions and billions of dollars


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[Assistant] Well, quote unquote competing with each other for the last decade and a half and they're like, oh, like we are finally at the point where only a handful of companies have survived.


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[Assistant] To be like, oh, there's plenty of money for all of us. And we own them all. And so, and so I think there's, it's probably more of a decision of like, ah, that's fine. Yeah, they can take those. We're gonna have all the rest of these. And in the future, cause what I think is at the heart of all these Microsoft acquisitions,


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[Assistant] Is that, you remember how every single time they wanted to put a blu-ray player in, uh, Microsoft Xbox, they had to pay Sony?


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[Assistant] Exclus- they're gonna say, oh yea, Sony, you can have any game you want to, you're just gonna have to pay the Microsoft.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I mean I think there may be some, I think they like the idea of having the financial accountability for everything because they want to see all the numbers so they can know exactly how much they have to make off their games pass, you know, streaming games platform to justify it, you know. It's like why Netflix started


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[Assistant] Buying up IPs as opposed to licensing IPs.


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[Assistant] It made more sense for them to be able to control all the numbers. So now, most of what you see on Netflix is the Netflix original.


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[Assistant] I don't think Sony would do that and I have no idea, never been in a board meeting, I don't know that I've ever spoken to anyone that works at Sony.


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[Assistant] But it just seems like the approach that they're taking is very different. I think the reason we're having this conversation about Microsoft is because their business practice is like, whoa, okay, this is worth discussing. Whereas I think Sony is more,


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[Assistant] We are down with the kind of conventional system of things, you know, we want a box in your living room that you put a disc in or download something to and play a game off of.


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[Assistant] I, I, yeah, I agree with Elise. I think that, I think another thing too is Sony has been really successful with their exclusives.


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[Assistant] So in terms of changing the narrative, it's like if Microsoft isn't successful with exclusives, and Sony is, that's like, I'm trying to find a good analogy here, but basically like some sort of competition where it's like, oh well that part of the competition is important to me, because-


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[Assistant] A triathlon, but this person isn't very good at biking.


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[Assistant] On a phone, I am very excited because


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[Assistant] I'm very excited because of the how I've been playing most of my games and most of it is either I'm on PC devoted to game time or I'm sitting on the couch


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[Assistant] I mean, Elise and I don't have a ton of living space and so it's not like I can go into my gaming room while she goes and reads in the library. Like we basically have one room.


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[Assistant] The, I can see the couch and the TV, this is where we would do everything, so, you don't have that separation, which-


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[Assistant] Means you have to find a way to live together in that lifestyle, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, to coexist is the term for it. And so to coexist, it's to have the lowest profile way to access gaming and Switch has been that for me in spades, you know, like sitting on the couch, just doing some gaming and she's doing, maybe she's playing games too. Maybe, you know, maybe she's reading a book about something women would read. I don't know. How to get a library.


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[Assistant] I didn't know I was getting a controller, and you can go back and find times where me pleading with this being what games eventually be, like, in the future. So like, I mean, Stadia, it's like, I think all of us were like, if this worked, this would be great. What was the one before Stadia? Oh, uh, Gaikai.


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[Assistant] Or on live. No, before that. On live. I played split second on on live and it was terrible and I was like, man if this worked this would be the best!


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[Assistant] Weird how it all works, but. I mean, I played Killer Instinct on it, which is a fighting game, which is like, like, other than maybe a shooter, some of the most, like, best testing you can do to see how the quality of a game's internet connection and latency and stuff and so.


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[Assistant] This is, this is if Fall Guys was whoever can make it to the last round and then everyone's awarded winner.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean, it's not like they got rid of the console too, you know? They still got the console.


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[Assistant] The naming convention of Xboxes at this point is what I consider to be the equivalent of a television show that features video games where the video game, the writing about the video game is wrong or it's two people with the controller playing a single player game. Like, there is someone present who should raise their hand and say, this is a disaster.


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[Assistant] Did they release the specs? Is it the same size hard drive in each? I believe so. So they're charging $100 for a disk drive.


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[Assistant] That's like when I bought my first car and it broke down so then I opened it up and then, or I went to replace the radio to access some electrical stuff and it was just crammed full of Mexican newspapers.


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[Assistant] You knew what it was. They have colors now, they brought back the colors.


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[Assistant] Hades is fun, because I played it like...


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[Assistant] Eight months ago or whatever. I was like, man, this game's so much fun. This is so cool. And they were like, more Hades updates coming. And it was like version .7 or whatever.


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[Assistant] I was like, oh, I mean, it feels like they could just release this game. And I was literally thinking about it like two weeks ago and I was like, oh, then maybe that'd be a fun game for me to just like play.


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[Assistant] And then they, and then there was like an announcement and they're like, alright, it's done.


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[Assistant] And everyone's like, it's great. And now people are like playing it and like streaming it and stuff and they're like, it's great. And I'm like, I mean, yeah, and it was eight months ago, but it makes me want to play it again. You were on the cusp. I was, I, by the time I found it, I was late to Hades. I will, I will never admit to being a trendsetter in that fashion. There are like three updates.


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[Assistant] I mean, there's a ton of things that I go trolling through, uh, uh, steam early access. And, uh, trolling? Trolling. Trolling.


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[Assistant] I mean, I've seen it around forever. We've seen it. The thing is, it's really hard for me to rally 10 people to play anything, like even at Funhaus.


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[Assistant] So you see it and you're like, I also know those games, like it's basically just Resistance or Werewolf or Mafia. It's all of those games. Not that that's a diminish against it. It's the way they've managed to adapt it to this is one of the best. But uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's just crazy how like some people realize things are good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is a byproduct of our streamer culture that we live in.


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[Assistant] I mean, I always wish that there was a documentary crew that knew something like this was gonna happen and then they'd go to whatever, the five people that made Among Us or whatever.


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[Assistant] And they were like, we're gonna document their lives six months before their game explodes.


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[Assistant] Cause like, I don't know anything about the dev, but like, I assume it was just a small little indie thing that they went after and then when it explodes like this, it's like, how do you accommodate that? How does it actually transit? I mean, with that many players, if you get $5 per, you know, they


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[Assistant] Ideally they recoup their cost and now they're gonna be able to do this full time if they weren't already which is all awesome for those devs but how does that change, how do you go like, like even Fall Guys was


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[Assistant] Maybe better prepared because they had a launch, they had marketing, you know, they had a publisher, they had all these things, whereas this team, I,


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[Assistant] They're just probably like, oh my god, like, oh my god, uhm, what do we do now, how do we do this, you know.


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[Assistant] When then, when your game might be the next game.


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[Assistant] Provided it's a time-tested format that's easy to understand and easy to play.


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[Assistant] Well, I think the bigger thing is you picked it up and then you were like, I'm a little confused as to what to do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, it is, it is, uh, it is wild to think about this landscape. I, I always do the thing where I'm like, man, there, you know, for every one dev like this that hits the jackpot, I wish we had less jackpots and more just, and there is, you know, steam early access, there are


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[Assistant] Games out there that get more money than they would if they tried to go just hopefully find an audience somewhere, but like, I wish we could more blanketly share some of that success, you know, so that, cause we are really in, like Elise said and has in the notes, like it's a quarantine thing I think, but like, I'm getting kind of tired of the game of the week format.


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[Assistant] Cobra Kai you may found be familiar as the Karate Dojo.


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[Assistant] When they were trying to be a Netflix, they, one of the things that they came up with was Cobra Kai, which I always thought was like a cool concept where they got back Ralph Macchio, uh, and William Zabka, I think is his name. And Hilary Swank.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I don't think that it doesn't acknowledge that, it's hard to tell.


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[Assistant] To pick back up in the world of Karate Kid, uh.


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[Assistant] And I'd assume no one watched it because YouTube Red isn't a thing and they're not doing those premium things, those premium movies anymore. And then they sold off the rights to Netflix and then Netflix bought it, put the show, both seasons, which had, had been out available on a different platform for however long, put them on Netflix and then boom, it was number one for like the entire week.


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[Assistant] I could have watched it. I, and I always said, I should go watch Cobra Kai. I love the Karate Kid movies. And I was like, I should watch Cobra Kai. Just, even if it's not great, I haven't heard anything. No one said a single thing about it.


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[Assistant] But I had net, I had interest, I just was like, like it's not on my brain, I'm not programmed to think. It's on your radar, man. Now I'm gonna go find Cobra Kai, youtube.com, search Cobra Kai, like.


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[Assistant] But when you press one button and it's on your TV and it's like press now for episode one, I've been watching Cobra Kai.


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[Assistant] Not that it isn't deserving of the number one spot of everyone watching it but i did notice that in the month or so leading up to cobra kai coming to netflix three karate kid movies were being the three of them are being pushed really hard.


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[Assistant] And I don't know if they were just ceding it to me based off my interests.


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[Assistant] That they have access to all that information, but I think they were ceding it to everyone, reminding people using nostalgia about Karate Kid, and then, and then,


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[Assistant] Cobra Kai started and they removed all the Karate Kid movies.


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[Assistant] I still think stuff like that, especially with Beyonce, who's been in the limelight her whole life, cause she's queen, right?


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[Assistant] I wish those didn't exist and then her plucky young assistant's assistant said,


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[Assistant] Can we do, because it's been weeks, can we, so it was.


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[Assistant] No, he was a serial killer and he wanted to hold the record for the most victims.


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[Assistant] He was already basically prowling around as a Grim Reaper. He just was trying to beat other famous serial killers for body count.


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[Assistant] Having watched it only two weeks ago or whatever. Uh, no, he's just trying to beat, he's like a weird crazy guy who


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[Assistant] Wants to beat other serial killers body counts.


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[Assistant] He does it pretty handedly, like, I think he does it pretty close.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but the thing is the cheetahs, they don't sweat. So you can just keep running.


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[Assistant] Oh, I don't know why. I saw that there was some place that was a former Hollywood video that still had all the, like a lot of the exterior on it. I guess another video company or whatever had moved in but kept the same Hollywood video sign. But that company had gone out of business and now it was being sold as a studio apartment.


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[Assistant] And it was like, it was like, it has a bath, but no shower. Uhm, but there's a lot of living space. Yeah, a Batman Forever mural.


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[Assistant] That's the one, that's funny, it was funny cause that one came out, Terminator.


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[Assistant] Not Genesis, what was it? Terminator? Dark Fate. Dark Fate. Yeah. And it came out and people were like, you know what? This is the best one since...


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[Assistant] This is the best one since Salvation, which is like a weird thing to say. No, they were like, this is the best one since Turbinator 2, and I was like, alright, I'll check it out, and I watched it, and I was like...


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[Assistant] No, it's not the games, it's us. We're bad at them. Yeah.


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[Assistant] In two years, our crucible video. That you will not find it on the channel. Alright. Bye everybody.


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[Assistant] And then it just makes me want to go and play the game that I already am familiar with. Even if I haven't played it in like, you know, a year for example. I haven't played Overwatch in a year, but me looking at this, I'm like...


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[Assistant] So, I might use that, but I am gonna play P-Paper-Paper Mario.


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[Assistant] Makes sense, makes sense. I'm probably not gonna play that, the other game at all.


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[Assistant] I'm very excited about this game because this is totally my cup of tea. I played the demo and, and I'm fully excited to maybe do a video for this one.


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[Assistant] I think I saw this game like trailer maybe during packs of last year when I was still at Cow Chop and I was like, I want to play that game. And then when I started working with you guys, I put it on my list of like, I'm going to make sure that we play this game and it's almost nine months later, year it's coming.


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[Assistant] So basically, you know those kind of sandbox games or-ish where you're building and you're crafting, it's like rust, it's like arc a little bit, it's like...


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[Assistant] Rafter, what are the, what are the other ones? Where you build shelters and you hunt bark. So it's, but it's that, but it's like, you're in your backyard.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So what did you do in the demo that you played? I fought a couple of bugs. I had to find some, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, like, materials, like leaves and blades of grass. You cut a blade of grass down like a tree and you take big planks of grass to build your little shelter. So I did that.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I had to climb up a big, a big wire, so I could get to the top and figure out why the thing in the, I didn't know what it was that I was messing with, because it was some sort of science experiment, but.


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[Assistant] It looks really cool, cause it looks like there's some little quests essentially that you gotta do, while still having sort of like a creative-ish like build and craft kind of world, so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I hope so. The demo didn't have anything like that. It had like, uhm, some sap. So I had to eat some sap, I think.


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[Assistant] And you have to drink the water from the droplets, like, of dew. Cause if you drink it from the ground, it's dirty. Uhm, but I don't remember what the food stuff was. But I think, like, I hope that they would put something like that in where it's like a piece of an oatmeal Korean pie and you're like,


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[Assistant] You can dive into it. I want that in real life. I want an oatmeal cream pie piece that's like this big and then on top of it it's just like a big glob of frosting and I want to eat it like the kid eats the cake and, you know, Matilda. I want to eat an oatmeal cream pie that big.


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[Assistant] Yo, what up? I got way more than 12 games because there's at least 20 expansion packs in the Sims 4 collection.


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[Assistant] The whole Sims 4 franchise is on sale between I think like 30 to 40 to 50% off for the base game.


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[Assistant] Wow. I feel like if there's- if you have the base game, maybe have one expansion, like this is your moment because then-


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[Assistant] There's expansion packs, game packs, stuff packs. That's too much Sims 4.


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[Assistant] The seasons are still going. So now you have your dog and it's snowing. And the dog probably has different things to do in the snow than it did in the summer, you know?


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[Assistant] So maybe get a gig as like a show pup, I don't know. Uh, but the seasons is definitely one of my favorite ones because it just changes the way you play the whole game through all the other expansions. And then the other one that I think is really good is get to work because it sort of solves a little bit of that thing where


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[Assistant] You send your sim off to work and you're like, cool, I'll just fast forward time until they're done and I can come.


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[Assistant] Pour this liquid into this, uh, you know, beaker. And you're chemist. Like you're doing basically these little mini quests as your job. So that's a fun, uhm, expansion pack.


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[Assistant] As far as all the game packs go, they just add like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, the other game that I would recommend because I love it. We were just talking about it this morning. I'm gonna play it tomorrow. It's Ark. It's ten dollars. It's ten dollars. It's crazy. This is like a fifty dollar game now. And it's a huge game. I have so many hours in this game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, if you're into that kind of game, open world, riding dinosaurs, fighting.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so it, they have different maps which basically makes the whole world that you've already played in, but then you explore it again in a new layout and maybe different dinosaurs and different biomes and different zones. Uhm, so yeah, I think, yeah, he was saying you can get all those for free, so uhm, I think that's really cool too.


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[Assistant] Is it? Oh yes, get Terraria. I didn't even see that cuz Spider is already in my library. Terraria is another one I would recommend if it's $4.99. That game...


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[Assistant] I also have hundreds of hours in, and John and I were playing through it recently with Jacob, fighting the bosses, so, you guys gotta get it, come join us and play us, play a little bit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and basically they added like, I guess, a kit where, to, to turn it over to the community where like, if you wanna,


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[Assistant] Uhm, but that one is a super fun game, so I would highly recommend that one. Elise, I'm very excited if you get it, if you can play with us. I'll get it.


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[Assistant] The other game that I didn't put on this list but I just saw when I was scrolling through is that Ori is on sale and I haven't played the second one so I'm probably absolutely gonna buy this and play it. Cause I loved the first one so it's on sale, I'd be stupid not to get it, you know?


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[Assistant] I will play it probably occasionally, like when I'm just checking in to see like, what's going on in Animal Crossing? But I just don't ever see me playing it the way I was playing it for too much straight. Like, wake up.


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[Assistant] I mean I'm gonna go and play it, of course I'm gonna play it, but I'll probably play it for like an hour and then I'll be like, cool. I did it.


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[Assistant] Also often combined with, can I speak to the manager haircut?


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[Assistant] Oh gosh, you know, I've been watching TikToks.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean I'm watching the last season of that. Actually I did watch two episodes of that last night and I think there's only a couple episodes left. Which show is this?


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[Assistant] This is the 100 on the CW. It was like the show that in the first season it's like a 100 kids, like basically the apocalypse happens and then everybody goes to space and all the different nations form a big station called the Ark.


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[Assistant] And then they send, and like a hundred years later or something, they send down a hundred kids to see if the ground is survivable because the arc station itself is gonna run out of oxygen eventually. This is the last season, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've been watching it. I watched like the first two seasons like on Netflix, binged them like four or five years ago, and then I didn't watch it for several years because I was like, I don't have time to like watch it week by week, and then I binged all the other seasons like a month or two ago, or maybe in the late fall, and then now the final season's out so I'm watching it. That's cool.


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[Assistant] Why? What are you doing? Are you playing a sound? Alright.


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[Assistant] Adam, I have a question for you. Oh, please go right ahead. Did you copy the tech under five dollars from Frank, the five below?


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[Assistant] Cool tech under $50 that currently is in your brain that you'd recommend to us. Something, something new and recent.


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[Assistant] So your videos are influencing the market, like headline reads, tech companies fear him.


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[Assistant] I had a su- a su- question. It's a question and a suggestion for Frank. Have you ever done like a best baby monitor video? Because I honestly think if you did, it would do so well. Why?


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[Assistant] Because I think it's an underrated piece of tech that a lot of people would be searching for.


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[Assistant] Also those lights emit so much radiation, we're gonna have to put them in the thing Marie Curie's buried in.


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[Assistant] Yeah, she's, she's in a crypt that, that, uh, compensates for the amount of radiation she had, I believe. Anyway, that's what's Adam's situation.


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[Assistant] In terms of screens, you did mention that Samsung monitor earlier.


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[Assistant] Well, in all seriousness, the monitor as a curve makes more sense to me.


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[Assistant] I know that the point of the television is that that way your perspective is widened from wherever you're sitting.


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[Assistant] When I think of the monitor being curved, I'm like, okay, there's more intimate experience here. You're closer to the monitor. It makes sense that it would be.


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[Assistant] Little bit enclosed around you. It feels more like a command center that way. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I'm also curious if the rumor that they're limiting one per customer is true.


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[Assistant] If they may be cutting back or reducing on.


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[Assistant] You know, the boxes, the kits they would be sending out for press or coverage or to influencers or anything like that.


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[Assistant] I mean, I guess the thinking if like you can't get more people to purchase the actual base game, you know, maybe try to get an audience you wouldn't otherwise hook and then get them with the purchases.


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[Assistant] I could have sworn that I saw a headline that like it's desktop only or something.


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[Assistant] That's what my mom would be like, what's going on with Ben Affleck? And I'm like, he's inside me right now.


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[Assistant] And for either of these, is there any question that if they'd be suffering from, uh, production due to, you know, the pandemic?


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[Assistant] I know, I know that that's just a conversation that's always happening now, I feel like with new tech.


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[Assistant] So you and Adam had John Smith tweet out that everything was okay because you guys couldn't.


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[Assistant] Like, beer and stuff makes, it gives you a really dynamic feel. Like, this is a guy that is doing stuff.


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[Assistant] No, I don't know about the Berlin, the Berlin airlift. I can tell you about NATO. I can tell you about his Marshall plan. I can tell you about


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[Assistant] But the Berlin Airlift, I don't know the specific incident. I did study Harry Truman quite a bit because I specialized in international relations in my degree and just by proxy of, like, this was a very big


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[Assistant] You know, mo- this was a very big s- big 20 years in international relations, right?


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[Assistant] Some of the biggest international relations, uh, tenets, like the escalation spiral, deterrence, containment, I'm just getting hot thinking about it.


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[Assistant] I love, I used to love this. All this, all this stuff is kind of like tied to, you know, Truman and


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, foreign policy. Truman, he, he was, I think, the leader that the US needed.


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[Assistant] Compromise with Stalin. He did not want to. I do think that because of that, Truman, if I remember correctly, got a little bit in the weeds with some of the McCarthyism.


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[Assistant] And the, you know, red scare stuff, and maybe it wasn't the best about that. But, uh.


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[Assistant] If I remember right, Truman didn't even know about the bombs.


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[Assistant] Do you want to hear an amazing Richard Nixon story?


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[Assistant] She rejected him, so for like two years he would drive around dates with other dudes.


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[Assistant] Now that you've been in Funhaus and the curtain has been pulled back, is it as disappointing as you thought it would be?


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[Assistant] This week's episode of Dude Soup is brought to you by ExpressVPN. Protect your online privacy today at expressvpn.com slash rttv.


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[Assistant] My name is Lise Williams, I'm the host this week, we do a rotating host here if you're new to the show, and I'm joined by Adam Kovac.


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[Assistant] Illustrious leader of Funhaus. Adam, I feel like a lot of our audience is either... You and I are very close. We're very good friends.


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[Assistant] You and I give off like a lot of strength each of us and a lot of energy and that might be part of it too. Someone who my other compatriot on the show.


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[Assistant] I think this person is someone that anyone would choose. You don't have to make a choice when it comes to this person. It's John Smith.


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[Assistant] So before the show began, John told us that he would have an impressive trick.


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[Assistant] A human feet, I believe he called it. And I guess it was sticking the berries between his fingers.


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[Assistant] I mean, you probably just have a bowl of mashed up berries somewhere on your desk that you jammed your hands into and fished around for some berries.


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[Assistant] I always buy raspberries. I'm a big raspberry fan.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there are some flavors that don't taste like a food, a correlating food. They taste like a color.


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[Assistant] Usually I don't, it doesn't get close enough to my nose for me to really have that experience with it. I direct it at the bowl.


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[Assistant] That movie was filmed in, well I think it was filmed in Scarborough, which is like outside of Toronto. It's one of the boroughs. It's got a Canadian name.


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[Assistant] For me it's just tough cause like, I get that way with any stuff that I recognize as being Canadian. Cause of my innate national shame.


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[Assistant] That's why I feel like Toronto always dupes as New York in movies. It feels a little less than.


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[Assistant] Uh, people may not know this, but, you know, for this podcast, it's not always willy-nilly fly in the seat of our pants. Usually, whoever's producing for that week,


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[Assistant] Couple days before we'll choose the cast for the episode and that can be a little bit dicey because you know if there's news breaking.


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[Assistant] You want to make sure that you have a cast that can speak to that topical relevant news. I really lucked out today because I had in advance asked Adam and John to do the podcast. And then of course today, Jeff Geely kicked off his summer game fest, or as I want to say, kick flipped off his summer game fest.


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[Assistant] Uh, with a big unveiling of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 and 2 remake. Not really, I think it's a remake, I think we'd call it a remake. Uh, it's not really a remaster, it's a newly built version of these two games.


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[Assistant] Jeff Keely, uh, who you know from the Game Awards, Game Trailers.


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[Assistant] GTTV, he is doing a four month Summer Game Fest event, where periodically over these four months, he's gonna be...


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[Assistant] Drop in game releases, interviewing devs, celebrating games, and I think, if you'll remember, prior to the COVID, uh, crisis,


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[Assistant] Jeff had backed out of E3. He was like, I'm not doing E3. I usually, he usually, you know, would host the gaming calcium. He's like, I'm not doing that this year.


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[Assistant] And so everyone was kind of like, what does Jeff have in store? And I would have really liked to have known what he did have in store because I'm sure this is a pivot to some extent due to the circumstances.


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[Assistant] But he's, he's kinda, I think he's also sort of doing this fairly independently. Like, he made a tweet, I believe, just saying that he's kind of like the editor, the


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[Assistant] Events, you know, even in Greg Miller, our friend at Kinda Funny, he's like hosting a big event that's gonna be happening and stuff, so they're all turning to digital in this time.


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[Assistant] Yes, I think Sony has on, this episode will come out the day Sony does, they just announced today I think that they're doing something Thursday. We're filming this on Tuesday the 12th, so Jeff is doing another Summer Game Fest thing tomorrow on Wednesday. But today they announced, uh, he sat down with Tony Hawk himself and then Jen.


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[Assistant] Jen from Vicarious Visions. Uhm, Vicarious Visions is the, the developer. They, uh, they did the Crash Bandicoot trilogy and they did a bunch of the handheld Tony Hawk ports. So they are doing this remake that's coming to PS4 and PC on Epic on September 4th. Uhm, it's gonna be 4k 60 frames per second. And- Oh wow.


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[Assistant] Well, at the age of 15, Jeff attended E3 for the first time. Uhm, I, I, Jeff, I mean Jeff is a staple of the industry. No, I know, I know.


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[Assistant] Well, here's some deets, I hate that word, on the two remakes that are going to be coming.


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[Assistant] As I said, it's coming from Vicarious Visions. It's coming out at 4k, 60 frames per second. So this is next-gen that we're getting. It's gonna get some later additions to the series, like the revert feature, which is where you could do like vertical, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] Sequences like in air, you would, you would do combos and stuff that was added in Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3.


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[Assistant] It's gonna feature online and local multiplayer, which local obviously is a little bit, uh, useless, futile in our current state if you're not living with people, but.


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[Assistant] Uh, and it's gonna have a creator mode, so you're gonna be able to create your own parks and levels and post them online and you'll be able to create a skater using different, uh, you know, diverse features and characteristics. The thing that they sort of touted in this video was the


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[Assistant] Build a ramp up to the sky if you want. You can take rails and you can kinda twist them to make a roller coaster.


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[Assistant] Uh, so it seems like it's gonna be, uh, definitely like the first Tony Hawk game came out in 1999.


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[Assistant] And, you know, what were the popular musics on the tracks, the soundtrack at the time?


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[Assistant] So a lot's changed, but the music will stay the same.


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[Assistant] Controllers have changed since this game first came out.


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[Assistant] It's almost like you would have had to have made your level, then gone outside, done an ollie so you would fall and hit your head.


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[Assistant] Adam, you had a private audience with Mr. Hawk earlier, was it earlier this year or last year?


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[Assistant] Cool. When you did this thing, was there like any indication of like, there might be something, some news with Pro Skater.


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[Assistant] It was 2012 and yeaah, I think it got pretty lackluster response across the board.


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[Assistant] Uh, it might be a geographical thing or maybe because I was from a very uncool...


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[Assistant] Uh, part of town, but as a 34 year old now, I look back at my childhood and I really didn't know many kids that had skateboards.


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[Assistant] I mean, it was Canada, so everyone had, you know, everyone had five pairs of skates, like inline skates or ice skates and stuff.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, we're gonna talk more about our expectations for these remakes, but first, a word from our sponsor, Honey. Let's talk saving money for a second. You know that Honey is the free online shopping tool that automatically finds the best promo codes and applies them to your cart.


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[Assistant] Buying a ton of turnips in Animal Crossing at 80 bells per and then selling them at five times that


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[Assistant] For a profit. And I know you know what I mean. Cause I know you're in it too. Shopping with honey has helped me feel less guilty about spending since I save money on the things that I buy for myself. Things that I don't need but are just kinda treats like clothes and shoes. I feel relieved to know that if I'm gonna spend at least I'm getting a deal doing it. Which is really nice and results in a lot more treat myself days.


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[Assistant] Where's your height meter at with this? Like are you guys, is this day one purchase for you guys?


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[Assistant] The last one that kind of is etched in my memory is Tony Hawk Ride, where it came with the sensory board, which was kind of, you know, that was a misstep.


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[Assistant] Knowing like, your own feelings toward it then, which is pretty much like a nostalgia buy for you, do you John feel like?


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[Assistant] This is going to be an entry point for a whole new generation of gamers, maybe because of the creative mode.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we don't, we don't know the depth of this project yet in this game, but it would be marvelous if this is a really impressive creator mode.


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[Assistant] And maybe it's like maybe instead of doing GTA, we're doing Tony Hawk maps every week.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I think we're, we're gonna see how this creator mode pans out for, for the time being everyone's waiting with, with faded excitement, I think.


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[Assistant] So does that steal your confidence in them?


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[Assistant] That's a good point that they brought their hands on experience and now they're looking at it at a top down level.


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[Assistant] Oh! Which was, sometimes the top-down is not effective.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I am of course referring to the top-down partnership of Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, uh, who created and launched the streaming service Quibi.


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[Assistant] Which is really struggling right now. That wasn't a great transition. I admit that.


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[Assistant] It's out my friend. I believe it is. It went live on April 6th.


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[Assistant] Yes. And that's, that's, so that's, there's a whole bag full of problems around Quibi. And I'll, I'll kind of delve into them quickly for you guys so I'm not just talking at you.


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[Assistant] Because I also really didn't- Quibi is one of those words, we use it now as a punchline, right? And sort of like floating around in the zeitgeist of this quibi.


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[Assistant] Thing this platform that we've heard about that it's going to be revolutionary but no one's I know is using and I'm not.


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[Assistant] Uh, that, you know, Katzenberg, you've heard of him before, he's former Disney Dreamworks, and then Meg Whitman, who was at the top.


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[Assistant] Media source that was marketed for the kind of fast-paced time deficit 2020.


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[Assistant] User consumer, like it was supposed to be that you could get entertainment and news and five to 10 minute chunks and you would watch it on the go.


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[Assistant] Uhm, if you're too busy to sit down and watch TV or movie, you would, you would be able to just have it on the go with you. The problem became that no one is on the go.


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[Assistant] It launched precisely at the time that people became quarantined and that everyone's movement and mobility became hindered so it launched April 6th.


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[Assistant] It fell out of the most downloaded free iPhone apps within a week, the top 50. It's currently ranked 125 in the App Store behind Knock'em All in Duolingo. This is according to Sensor Tower.


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[Assistant] Uh, it has a 90 day free trial, but even that's failing.


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[Assistant] Sensor Tower claims that only 2.5 million people are currently using Quibi. Quibi says 3.5 million.


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[Assistant] And so, Jeffrey Katzenberg has come out and he's said,


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[Assistant] That, quote, I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Maybe it would have been a wild success. The New York Times sort of delved into it recently.


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[Assistant] The user demand is obviously different, so.


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[Assistant] Also they had completely walled the service off from social media.


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[Assistant] Which seems like a really weird strategy in our day and age.


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[Assistant] So now you're going to be able to interact with it using social platforms. Uh, they're reducing their production on originals, slowing pace just because, you know, I think that's just the trend right now anyway.


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[Assistant] And, uh, their original marketing has sort of been to just push the platform of Quibi itself. That's, I think that's why Quibi has been in the zeitgeist because we just hear the word Quibi, Quibi, Quibi.


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[Assistant] Uh, but now they're focusing on individual content. So instead of just promoting Join Quibi, they're saying, come watch the return of Reno 911.


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[Assistant] Like, John, my question is in that regard, like, do you think that, like, Jeffrey Katzenberg pointing to coronavirus, but do you think that this would have been successful regardless?


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[Assistant] Quibi, existing as it does, the name and everything, is if it was some kind of, uh,


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[Assistant] British aristocrat named Reginald Quibi, who, you know, he descended from money.


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[Assistant] And so he decided because of his due to inbreeding, he has a 12 minute memory, short term memory, and he said, I'm going to make a platform for me, the Reginald Quibi's of the world. And this is, this is what he made. He said, oh, I say, it's going to be Quibi. You know, then I would be like, okay.


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[Assistant] You're so right, especially when you look at what are the biggest platforms right now, TikTok.


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[Assistant] Uh, so, I mean, I guess, yes, coronavirus may be contributing to Quibi's struggling, but I would love to have seen the sliding doors version of this to know what really, uh, you know, the future of this platform would have been.


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[Assistant] Uh, well we've got more to talk about, but first a word from our sponsor Mint Mobile. And John, our Mint Mobile user in the office.


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[Assistant] This next section isn't an ad read either.


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[Assistant] It might seem like that because, full disclosure, Adam and I are connected to this project.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're talking as fans here today on Tuesday, May 12th, Illphonic's CCO Jared Garretson announced new Predator Hunting Grounds content coming May 26th. Uh, as I said, full disclosure, Adam and I provide voices in the game next to our co-star, Arnold Schwarzenegger.


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[Assistant] Uhm, behind someone that dropkicked, Arnold Schwarzenegger.


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[Assistant] Isn't he? I don't, I'm just like terrible, uhm, but on a more positive note, uhm, Arnold's back and he's, he's in the, like,


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[Assistant] The new predator game voicing Dutch, uh, there's going to be like a free update where you can listen to different voice tapes that tell you like the story that has been, uh, you know, he's been in from then and now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's also DLC that you can buy where you play as Dutch and you get like a cool rifle and knife and stuff. I'm, I'm, it's just blowing my mind that we're gonna like, play this and listen.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it is very fun. It's, it's like, we have to save disclosure because Adam and I are in it, but we're not getting paid for this. Uh, we don't have to talk about it. It benefits us at no point, uh, to talk about it now.


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[Assistant] Or anything. Uh, but uh, I mean the game itself is, is pretty damn fun. And I think-


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[Assistant] Yeah, when there's no like barrier to entry of, you know, you can pick it up three months from now and even if you're not leveled up a ton, you're not gonna feel like you can't play it with your friends that have been playing it.


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[Assistant] A bit more, kind of funny is like way into it.


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[Assistant] Which, we're also, we're, let's talk about it on here, we're doing a like week long kind of funhouse crossover.


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[Assistant] We're doing like content across, uh, both of our channels. It's pretty exciting.


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[Assistant] He's been waiting at my apartment for two months, uh, so that we could bring him out.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, kinda fun house week. Uh, it's gonna be, you guys recorded a CSGO haunted thing with Andy Cortez.


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[Assistant] She just dyed her, well there was supposed to be that, that Lizzie McGuire, which I had never watched Lizzie McGuire, I don't know. But there was supposed to be a Disney Plus reboot. But then she recently, she dyed her hair blue.


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[Assistant] Glasses start at $95 including prescription lenses.


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[Assistant] Get the frames and check them out. I could get the opinions of my friends and loved ones before purchasing.


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[Assistant] And trust me, they had some pretty, uh, you know, specific opinions about it, okay? It didn't take 20-20 vision to see that, uh, maybe I need some new friends.


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[Assistant] I also need new glasses, which is why Warpy Parker is perfect. Uh, I love my new frames and I see very clearly why so many people love Warpy Parker. They also offer contact lenses now.


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[Assistant] If you go to warbyparker.com slash dudesoup, check out my eyes. These are Warby Parker eyes.


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[Assistant] And we're coming back to the show. Thank you, Warby Parker, for giving me eyeglasses and contact lenses and making sure I see. That's been a sensitive spot for me throughout COVID-19. Throughout this quarantine, I want to make sure that


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[Assistant] You know, cause James, he always says that his thing with the apocalypse is that if uhm,


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[Assistant] Something did happen where the world kind of like disintegrated, shut down, and he couldn't get contact lenses or eyewear. Uhm, that's when he would be like, I'm out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like Harry Potter might break his glasses, you know, on the first day of school. They have wizard magic.


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[Assistant] Oh, Lord of the Flows. They're all sinking up on that island. Jesus. I wouldn't, I wouldn't want to have, I wouldn't want to, trust, okay, since I've been one, I can say this, I wouldn't want to be a 13 year old girl on an island with a bunch of other 13 year old girls that are all getting their periods for the first time.


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[Assistant] Sir Gowan and the Green Knight? Or I guess they were just calling it Green Knight, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, one like quick final story, uh, that I picked up on. On May 5th, Twitter support posted, when things get heated, you may say things you don't mean.


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[Assistant] To let you rethink a reply, we're running a little experiment, or sorry, pardon me. We're running a limited experiment on iOS with a prompt that gives you the option to revise your reply before you publish it. If it uses language, that could be harmful.


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[Assistant] Uh, now Twitter already has a hateful conduct policy in place. It's supposed to prohibit individuals, you know, using slurs or...


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[Assistant] The weird thing about this is it's still not an edit function on Twitter. It's just, you'll have like a little prompt pop up that says, are you sure you wanna?


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[Assistant] They've done it with fighting games.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I still think it's a little lame.


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[Assistant] Agree that you wouldn't want to be on that island. Say it. Say it with the women, with the girls.


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[Assistant] The pilot symbolizes Christ. Or wait, no. Is Piggy Christ? I don't remember. Isn't the pilot Christ? Cause he's like, his arms are as stretched or whatever.


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[Assistant] Challenger. Is it Joseph Conrad?


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[Assistant] I listen to Conan's podcast religiously every week and I listen to his at homes and I go back and I re-listen to them and whenever he talks about Simpsons or SNL it's like


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[Assistant] He just did episodes with Kevin Nealon and then Mike Myers.


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[Assistant] Oh wow. Uh, yeaah, it's just like, it's great, and like him and Kevin Nealon, it was just Kevin Nealon, like, being agro to Conan the whole time. Uh, and those are my favorite when it's like someone that he's clearly like known for years and years.


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[Assistant] And mike meyers is like it's really really sweet listening to them talk about SNL because they talk about it with like such great reverence that it was.


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[Assistant] Well, everyone's terrified of Lorne Michaels. Uhm, that's where Dr. Evil came from, right?


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[Assistant] I think Dr., I think Dr. Evil was, is based on Lorne Michaels.


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[Assistant] Oh, I knew that. I know you knew that. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's a doc on him on Netflix, but I was never a huge fan of his, like I respect him, but he was never my, like, go-to. Yeah, it was like him and Colin.


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[Assistant] Keenan's, Keenan's a whole other level. You can put Keenan in every sketch and he's versatile and he saves everything. And there's always murmurings that he's gonna replace Lorne Michaels someday. Keenan, like, running the ship. But like, no one has a bad thing to say about him.


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[Assistant] And man, I, I think he's just like, uh, you know, and it's weird because


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[Assistant] I did, I was never like a good burger or Kenan and Kel person, like never really like


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[Assistant] Into either of those, or sorry, I don't, I don't even know if I've seen Good Burger. I don't think so. You have.


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[Assistant] So I, my experience with him was really like Mighty Ducks.


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[Assistant] And, uh, or no, he's not in Mighty Ducks even. What am I thinking? Is he in any other kids' videos?


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[Assistant] Oh, you know what I watched last night that like, I think you both would really like is the, if you haven't seen it already, the, uh, Meyerowitz stories.


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[Assistant] I would, if, to me it felt like Royal Tenenbaum's light.


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[Assistant] Uhm, or like maybe Royal Tenenbaum's more grounded in the real world than a sort of like whimsical world.


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[Assistant] Like we have, we didn't finish it, but I was like, oh wow, I can't, I wish I hadn't slept on this for so long.


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[Assistant] We gotta wrap this up because I think we have like a meeting after this or something.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I just wanna, uh, close it out by, with, with a couple things. Uhm, May 25th through 31st, uh, tune in, you know, kinda funny and funhouse, follow us both, cause we're doing kinda funhouse week.


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[Assistant] There's gonna be lots and lots of cool content coming out of both channels as we do this crossover. I'm excited for it.


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[Assistant] But yea, there, there were, there was too much drinking, uh, more than intended. I've been pulling.


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[Assistant] I would never say anything mean to people that I didn't like.


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[Assistant] What I've been meaning to do this for a few weeks and I keep forgetting but want to give a shout out to a new podcast that's coming from Rooster Teeth. It's called I have notes and it's coming from our animation department who we've worked with on projects like


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[Assistant] Sexwing the animated series, we've worked with them on the Red vs. Blue episodes, we've done a ton of other stuff, tangentially, we love-


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[Assistant] So many people that are involved with this podcast. So we just want to mention it because we like them and we think that they're really talented and interesting.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but it's a bunch of these people who have worked professionally in the animation industry.


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[Assistant] And they're discussing just all things animation, entertainment and their creative process.


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[Assistant] Uh, I'm sure that's gonna be pretty funny and entertaining too. It releases on Thursdays for first members and then on Friday.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I have notes and we like everyone involved, so if you're looking for something else to fill your time right now, check it out. And Adam and John, thank you so much for a really fun dude soup.