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[Assistant] And then, and then the other thing was, they were like, the bed is electric, so it can go up into a thing, but that's only because the room is so small that there's no couch, so it goes up into a couch, and then once you lay it down into a bed, you can no longer cross the room because it fills in the gap. And then, and then the bathroom,


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[Assistant] But if we do this, we'll save five dollars per room. And he goes, yeah, but if anyone comes with anyone else, they're gonna be able to hear him take a shit. And they're like, but we'll save five dollars per room. And they're like, alright.


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[Assistant] I, I, I think, I think that putting the technology of video games back into it, I will say this, when I went to Vegas when I was very young, like I was like 13 or something, we went on a family trip to a bunch of places, one was Vegas. I, all my brother and I did.


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[Assistant] Casino, aw, you walk through it. Where's the arcade? There it is. And they would always have some sort of integration, because they have to do something for the people that aren't old enough to gamble. It's family destiny.


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[Assistant] I, I was going to pitch you guys, you can tell me what you think, but what about a two week long Fortnite cruise? We call it the Fortnite Fortnite cruise. Cool.


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[Assistant] Well, the only problem is I don't want to go on any cruise that encourages families. Oh yeah. Of course. That's honestly why.


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[Assistant] So maybe that's what Atari's Hotel will be. Atari's Hotel will be the, uh, child-themed


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[Assistant] Well, either way, while you're traveling to all these locations, make sure that you're not spending more than you have to on your cell phone plan.


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[Assistant] Windows 7, MoviePass and Tony Stark.


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[Assistant] And last but not least, our old wireless plans that charge insane monthly bills. Nobody's gonna miss that when they make the switch to Mint Mobile.


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[Assistant] Mint Mobile can cut your bill down to 15 bucks a month. Seriously, it's the easiest decision you'll make all year and you can get it out of the way in January. Why wouldn't you do that? You'll have access to great coverage, super fast sell speeds, and none of the burden on your wallet.


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[Assistant] Every plan comes with unlimited nationwide talk and text, plus crazy fast 4G LTE.


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[Assistant] But I don't wanna buy a new phone just to save money on my cellphone plan, you might ask.


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[Assistant] Go to mintmobile.com slash dude. That's mintmobile.com slash dude. Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com slash dude. So thank you Mint Mobile for your sponsorship. Uhm, yeaah. Never spend more than you need to as you're traveling all around. Do you, do you remember?


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[Assistant] I love cruising. Well, I'll say the Atari Hotel, no matter your opinion, is a win for gamers. But.


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[Assistant] There was a big, big loss for gamers this week. It turns out, US Federal Court has decided that if you're muted,


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[Assistant] In a, in a video game. Say you're playing COD.


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[Assistant] You're calling someone a racial obscenity.


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[Assistant] That is not a violation of your civil rights. Sorry. Good. Sorry gamers. Sorry.


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[Assistant] You're probably wondering, why was this even discussed? Because there was someone out there who thought their civil rights were being violated, their freedom of speech, there was last year a person who got muted in RuneScape.


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[Assistant] A guy got muted in RuneScape. Well, I don't know if it was a guy, but I'm gonna assume. A person. And, uh, and then basically filed a lawsuit against the company that owns RuneScape.


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[Assistant] Saying that his freedom of speech was violated.


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[Assistant] Well, he was muted, so it appears he was muted.


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[Assistant] And then he appealed to have himself be unmuted, so I don't know, maybe it was a global mute?


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[Assistant] Which, to think about what you'd have to do to be globally muted by a game. Right. And so, but basically his right to


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[Assistant] Which side are you guys on? The side of gamers? Or the side of the law?


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[Assistant] You basically agree to be the equivalent of in Greek mythology when you just see the souls of the underworld as shadows walking into the darkness. That's essentially what everyone is when they click yes on the terms of service.


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[Assistant] So we agree that the U.S. Federal Court is in the right on this one. For once.


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[Assistant] One of my favorite pastimes is the inherent misunderstandings of our civil liberties.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, the hits always come in twos, so this isn't the only strike against gamers.


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[Assistant] We got one more that I just wanted to show you guys. Adam, you sent me this story. Red box, no longer carrying games. You're gonna have to rent your $8.99 for one night to play God of War. Uh, somewhere else, guys.


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[Assistant] I loved Gamefly when I had it. When I was, when I was only making a little bit of money and knew that I couldn't afford $60 games all the time, Gamefly was amazing and so good.


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[Assistant] I, uh, even back then when I stopped using Gamefly, they were switching to a more digi- they were like, oh well you can just have access to these games. Here's SplitSecond. Everything- for some reason everyone had SplitSecond and they just wanted to give away SplitSecond.


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[Assistant] And they're gonna go, they're gonna go, ah, remember the thing we showed you at the cube? They're gonna have it on stage, they're gonna pull the thing off, they're gonna clap or whatever, and they're gonna go, but we have one more surprise, and then it's gonna be a cardboard box with a thumb drive, with like a thing this big, and they go, this is the Xbox One Series XX.


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[Assistant] Okay. I mean the XS? Whatever it's called. XS? No, no, this is it. That's it. That box was a distraction. We were tricked. It is a thumb drive. All the information is on the thumb drive.


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[Assistant] And then you just pop it into whatever you want to. You pop it into the back of your TV. Boom, you got Xbox. Pop it into your-


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[Assistant] How much, how much would it cost for us to just get like an old school bus and drive it around? Make a vlog. Too much money. Too much? Aww, we gotta do the both.


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[Assistant] What do you mean? Like, you know how they had those old boats that just cracked through the ice in the Arctic? Oh yea. We need that for land. So that way I can take cruises to like- Gotcha. To Ohio. Right, right. We both wanna go to the Jewel of America, as they call it. I'd just be going home.


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[Assistant] And when they do, they should get a website and a domain so that way I can find out more about it. And the best way that they should do that is a Squarespace.


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[Assistant] Thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs up for guests, thumbs down for no guests, and then, uh, and then we'll open our eyes at the same time. Alright, are you ready? Open your eyes.


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[Assistant] It's fun. I think, yea, I think it's fun. You never know what you're gonna get. Like Forrest Gump's mom said.


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[Assistant] I wanted to say that I checked the numbers.


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[Assistant] And Countdown to Cats was the most successful.


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[Assistant] Segment slash might as well be full-blown show on its own.


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[Assistant] of dude soup since it began. What are you basing this on? The numbers. So, so the numbers are in and they say it's the best and so I just want to say that while people have been telling me that at the box office it didn't do that great, countdown to cats was my baby and countdown to cats was a box office blowout.


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[Assistant] But it did leave, it ending did leave a hole in my heart. Good. And so I wanted to find something to fill that hole.


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[Assistant] We got a brand new segment. God damn it. Coming to you right now, check it out.


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[Assistant] Mounted up for Morbius, uh, kind of similar with Cats. It was so successful and I think it's because people learned a lot. It took something that no one ever heard of before.


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[Assistant] Alliteration. Mount up for Morbius was the best version of it.


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[Assistant] He's affiliated with a lot of things. Uhm, I don't really have any trivia.


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[Assistant] He said good riddance. Alright, here's Screen Rants. Things you may not know about Morbius. Number 10, he's a supervillain.


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[Assistant] He has a rare blood disorder. That's right. Morbius is from Greece.


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[Assistant] And he has a rare blood disorder which causes him to get weaker. He's getting weaker as he gets older. He's like Stephen Hawking. Slow day at the screen.


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[Assistant] There's all sorts of bats out there. Who's a not living vampire?


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[Assistant] I think it's an AI program that just writes things. It says, number five, he could encounter Tom Holland's Spider-Man, question mark. There's an Easter egg if you pay close attention to that first teaser with the Spider-Man in the background and Michael Keaton's in it too. Except it's Tobey Maguire and it makes no sense. Alright, he does have a love interest.


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[Assistant] He had a fiancee, but she, I guess, wasn't crazy about him being a vampire, so they killed that. He has a friend.


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[Assistant] First time Morbius fought Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Six-Arm. How about that? I remember that from the cartoon, yes.


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[Assistant] It's a war represents the war. Hey everybody, that's our show.


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[Assistant] That's our show, everybody. Look forward to more. We're gonna make sure everyone is ready for Morbius. You did it all. No, there's so much. It goes much deeper. They're gonna make sure everyone's ready for Morbius by the time that movie comes out. Can't wait. Don't know why it cuts. There's one point in the- Can you roll it one more time to wrap?


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[Assistant] You won't have to by the time we've done eight of these. You won't have to, you'll know all the beats in your head.


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[Assistant] No, Sonic comes out in a week or so. There's no time. I've heard nothing but good things. If I did Sonic, it would be too quick.


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[Assistant] Hey everybody, thank you for watching this episode of D2. Uhm, we talked about a lot of things. Uh, I just wanted to shout out a quick reminder that early bird RTX tickets are on sale.


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[Assistant] Coming up on the channel this weekend, we played Half-Life 2. We played Half-Life 2? We!


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[Assistant] So make sure to check that out. That's a fun video. And then also one last shout out to Retro Replay and their campaign to raise money for WWF Australia to rebuild those habitats, help fight against the wildfire.


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's still a little bit of time to donate there if you want to. Look them up on Tiltify. And, uh, yeaah. Thank you guys for joining me.


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[Assistant] Smash that, smash, slap the like and smash the bell.


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[Assistant] And you'll never miss a mount up from Orbeus again. That's a promise.


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[Assistant] Kinda like the fade out in the middle of the mount up from Morbius trailer that Omar's gonna play right now.


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[Assistant] Yes. Inside Gaming. Which was also weekly. And then Inside Gaming YouTube channel. Which was something else entirely almost. And then the Inside Gaming now owned by Warner Brothers. Yeah. And Rooster Teeth.


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[Assistant] It's the beauty of inside gaming. Everyone's a multi-hyphenate. Exactly.


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[Assistant] There's always a conceit that both groups are very busy. Both departments are working very hard to turn out. We somehow managed to get everyone under one roof.


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[Assistant] That set these bars for how much content we have to make so high. That we could never interact with one another.


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[Assistant] There's also, there's another point in time where the very few instances where we got scoops, actual scoops, with verifiable information and anonymous sources and everything like that, and we put it up and it would be actual news and people would be like, just make the jokes, idiot, instead of lying about the news.


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[Assistant] I play mobile games, here's what my life is, I play mobile games, we did a Marvel Strike Force video, and I had to play it to prepare for the video, and now I still play it, so they got one.


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[Assistant] At least one person was converted by our video.


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[Assistant] That's fun. Yeah. I've heard it's a completely different game than when we played it. When did you play it? Two years ago.


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[Assistant] Anyone remember what the demo for the original demo for Final Fantasy 7 was included with? Toeball number 2. That's what it was. I'm sorry, I wasn't listening to the question. Is it toeball number 2 or number 1?


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[Assistant] And it was a, it was a fighting, a 3D fighting game with characters designed by Akira Toriyama. Toeball. And that's funny. And, and it also had these extremely elaborate like dungeon crawling modes and the fight system was super wonky and weird. Um, and then Toeball number two came out and they were like, we put fireballs in it. But yeah, it also had chocobos if I recall.


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[Assistant] Kind of, yea. But no, no, I mean, it was- These are like, in not- There's like, if you- There's like their way of getting you to buy Toeball. They're like, if you buy it, you get to play the- Oh, you can do the first two minutes of Final Fantasy, and people would just go, What?! Yes! Yeah, yeah, Toeball!


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[Assistant] With $60 that I had saved up, and I said, I'm coming home with a game, and it's gonna be for my PlayStation, and then I went into the store, and I was like, alright.


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[Assistant] Hmmmm, and then Final Fantasy VII was in the three disc box. You had a huge case. A huge thing, and then, and Battler Anatoche Shinden 3 was just the single jewel case, and then it went, mmm.


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[Assistant] Right? When they're just gonna remake a, uh, or make a worse version of something, right? But video games are interesting because it's unlocked by new technology, new game potential, new interactivity potential, that like,


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[Assistant] You can make Breath of the Wild and you're playing it going, holy shit, this is what my brain filled in the blanks with when I played Ocarina of Time.


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[Assistant] Like, and I thought it was the biggest role I'd ever seen and I could go anywhere and do anything, interact with anything. This, now I actually can. And the same goes with Resident Evil 2. Like, that remake is like, oh my gosh, like the fear and the...


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[Assistant] That kid that was dying of cancer said there was snow. Sure. Huh?


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[Assistant] Again, Half-Life Alex hasn't come out yet, but the way it's been pitched is it's more just a showcase.


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[Assistant] I mean, the VR development cycle doesn't appear to be the same as a AAA game title in most cases because VR was like, is it going to be a thing? A bunch of developers going like, is this going to be a thing? Is it going to be a thing? And then it was a thing. And then all of a sudden there were a billion VR games flooding Steam. So that's not the same to me as going like,


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[Assistant] It's easy to imagine that Valve was like, alright, we gotta push our Valve Index, so we need something. So, you get started, you know.


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[Assistant] You played Pistol Whip? No. Oh man, Pistol Whip is real good too. Shout out to Pistol Whip. Cause it's basically Beat Saber, but with a gun.


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[Assistant] Okay, so it's like, it's like you're moving through a cyberscape and then everything has a music track and it's a shooting gallery of dudes that come running out, like you're always moving forward. So all you have to do is just move left, right, like and kind of dodge around. Oh, that's cool. And then so the music will come out and then it'll be like, like,


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[Assistant] It is, but also it's kinda cool. Gambling isn't a fun addiction.


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[Assistant] I mean, just for the sake of my life and my schedule, anytime a new Switch thing is announced, I'm like, yes! I may play this, because I can put it on in the toilet.


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[Assistant] It's almost guaranteed that I'll go to play the game and it will play as opposed to I'll go to play the game and then I'll be told that I need updates for whatever.


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[Assistant] I received two games as gifts for Christmas. I got Astral Chain and New Super Mario Bros. for the Switch. That's a good game. Not new at all.


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[Assistant] But they got them as physical things. Physical little, little micro disks or whatever cartridges. And I popped them in because we were going to fly to Austin. I was like, well, I want to make sure they're ready to go. And then I popped them in and you know what? They worked.


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[Assistant] What? There was no update. Without a patch? For either of those games.


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[Assistant] Dead Cells? Dead Cells. That one had to update.


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[Assistant] What was your pitch, James? My pitch is to do a Doom Eternal drunk stream.


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[Assistant] Uhm, where a bunch of a group of us will get together and we'll play and we'll take turns and once everyone has died then we have to-


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[Assistant] So, we're still, we're still figuring out the details, but the plan will be for Lindsey.


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[Assistant] To be playing Animal Crossing with us.


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[Assistant] While we are playing Doom. So we'll be playing Doom. Lindsay will have a switch with Animal Crossing going, establishing the world and doing stuff like that.


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[Assistant] She'll also be taking shots with us as we're taking shots, of course. And then after we've done, uh, X amount, once we've gotten plenty drunk by playing and failing at Doom, then we will switch over and do Animal Crossing as well.


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[Assistant] Something, maybe it won't be doing shots, it'll be like maintaining a buzz type, type drink. So it'll be two, a twofer. Can you maintain a buzz?


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[Assistant] Without, with the keyboard, without the key, and I was like, well, there's a device called a controller.


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[Assistant] The show, while being an Ikea furniture building show, is envisioned as our version of Iron Chef. It's Iron Chef, it's Great British Bake Off, it's the funhouse version of a reality competition show, so there's talking heads.


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[Assistant] Played games. It was great. They were co-directors. Yes. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] To the scariest thing we've ever attempted here at Funhaus. I'm here with Maeve.


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[Assistant] Mave is the star of Extraordinary. Mike and Enda made the movie. It's coming to theaters, and we are


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[Assistant] But, uh, but we were trying to think of something spooky we could do, cause the film deals with the supernatural. The very first thing you thought of was-


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[Assistant] Why's that? No, it doesn't work that way. Alright, so one's with us now. Why's that? Alright, we have a spirit, so let's ask the spirit a question at least. Okay. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] Sate. Did video kill the radio star?


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[Assistant] Well, cause in vertigo he goes uno, dos, tres, quatorce. And is quatorce 14?


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[Assistant] How high is Greta? Okay. I mean, if you want closure on this, I feel like this is the best way to do it.


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[Assistant] Sait, we don't mean to offend you by asking about another spirit, but if you could, find out, using Spirit Google or whatever it is you guys do, was Greta, what was her last name? Cole. Greta Cole hot and on a scale of 1 to 10.


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[Assistant] Regardless, it sounds like our spirit has great taste. You guys should definitely check out Extraordinary in theaters this weekend. It's super great. It's made by Mike and Enda, starring Maeve. And uh, thank you guys for joining us. Thanks for having us. We had a lot of fun.


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[Assistant] It's like a supernatural romantic comedy. It's very, it's very funny. Like it's awkward and funny and like...


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[Assistant] It's not, it's not a romantic comedy that would start Katherine Heigl. Right. It's a romantic comedy that you would actually think is romantic and funny. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I would say, cuz like our whole motif is we play video games, but the video games are generally just the starting point for where the entertainment comes from. And so I would say with you guys, generally when I watch it feels like, yes, there is a news story. You'll be informed on the news story, but that's the starting point.


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[Assistant] And then it's where you can go from there that I think makes the content so unique and entertaining.


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[Assistant] Lindsay, I miss you. Compared to what we were last week, we're like a real show again.


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[Assistant] Man, uhm, it's, this week's a lot better than last week for sure. James and I recorded a gameplay this morning. Uhm, I think we were both crying at one point. That was good. Of laughter. Last week it was tears of sadness. This week it's tears of happiness. So uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, honestly, I feel like we're still making good content. We're just doing it in a really weird, different way and we're also...


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[Assistant] Uhm, making a lot of weird sort of micro evolutions, uhm, we can talk more about that later, but like I was just on a Slack call with uhm,


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[Assistant] Matt, uhm, and just talking about kind of like this new format that we're messing around with. I'm excited about it. Like it's really cool that we're trying out new things. So uhm, yeah, feeling a lot better this week.


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[Assistant] Oh no, sorry, I was saying, remember, Lindsay, I saw you at the office, we were, we were passing by.


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[Assistant] So we can still go to our office, it's still, it's still there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, right now it's just securities there, but uhm.


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[Assistant] I didn't want to use my own printer, so I went to the office and I needed to ship some stuff out for the uhm,


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[Assistant] The, uh, Doomstream winners. And I saw, I heard someone come in. I'm like, oh, this is how I die. Someone breaks in while I'm printing something. And it was Lindsay, of course.


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[Assistant] No, no, he wasn't there. He wasn't there that day, yeah. Uhm, but yeah, it's just weird because the kitchen is just, it's just rotting bananas and, uh, empty coke cans. You gotta grab those something else and get them in that peak.


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[Assistant] Yeah, someone just threw away a cup of water I saw. It was weird. Don't know who did that.


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[Assistant] Um, and so are all of our conversations go out into space and then come back and there is a one second delay. So everyone talks at one time, but then everyone hears really nice except for me. And so then we all have to like wait to see who talks. That's my least favorite part of this whole thing.


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[Assistant] Is just dealing with technology and the delays. There's still no delay free way of doing anything.


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[Assistant] Well, I think it was, I, I returned it and I said, hey, this doesn't fit and there's a stain right here on the, on the lapel. And the guy goes, oh my God, that's embarrassing. I'm sorry. So he gives me another one and has a stain on the shirt sleeve. Like, well, at least I could hide that, but.


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[Assistant] Curse, curse Joel in his black tie wedding.


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[Assistant] On top of the quarantine video that just went up, but uhm, last week when we got the VR video out,


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[Assistant] And the fact that we recorded it, got it edited and everyone really liked it and a lot of the...


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[Assistant] Uh, sort of, uh, the, the opinions of our audience was that like, hey, this is...


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[Assistant] Just as good as ever. I was like, oh good. Okay, cool. We can still keep doing our jobs. So.


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[Assistant] I think that was probably my biggest worry was that we were gonna keep doing what we're doing and then it was gonna be bad. So, uh, we're, we're surviving. We're doing it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we did a Resident Evil 3 video that I thought was...


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[Assistant] Pretty funny too. In the moment, it felt, it felt like we were doing a gameplay. Like it felt, it felt good. So, yeaah, fingers crossed.


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[Assistant] Well, I guess for the room, personally for you guys, has your porn watching gone up or down?


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[Assistant] I think, I think, uh, just being, being home with a significant other definitely curbed it.


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[Assistant] It's like, I don't know, it's, it's been, and also I think the world is still feeling kind of in a weird, depressed kind of place that it's like,


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[Assistant] Like there will be time for this later. We must be adults. Uhm, we must focus on the more important. And I just, I think I've just been so focused on work and everything else that it's like.


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[Assistant] Look, we've barely had time to watch Tiger King and that's been my pornography. And so far it's really good. So thank you Elise for the recommendation and the world.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but is, is there a difference between what PornHub is doing and what Denny's is doing and like every other, I don't know if you've watched any television commercials where they're like, like, we know you like to eat like shit, so we'll still deliver it to you, you know?


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[Assistant] I think Pornhub saying like, we know you like to masturbate, uhm, why don't we just give you, give you a taste of the sweet life, you know?


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[Assistant] I just for once want to be on the wrong side, you know, like I want to double down. You want to game stop it?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah, I want to charge double for the website and then also deny that there's a problem.


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[Assistant] We're heroes, I would say. We use that word often, and I think this time calls for it now, more than ever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think the bigger challenge of this whole, this is, this is a really,


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[Assistant] Crazy thing, and I think, you know, once history sort of, the dust sort of settles and history sort of writes itself, it's going to look really interesting where this, this is a worldwide changing event that people still were able to


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[Assistant] Continue on the fact that people could still work from home. You couldn't do this a hundred years ago.


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[Assistant] And that, that to me is sort of this, this crazy, like, is this that next step in societal evolution where?


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[Assistant] Like cause I know even for us at our own office, there is a stigma of working from home. There is like that feeling of, well, if you're working from home, you're just, you're just, maybe you're just being lazy. Maybe you just want to work from home or something. But like, I felt that way where I was like, Hey, I'm going to go home and do some work. But then I'm like,


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[Assistant] What are people going to think of me? And I think that that stigma is far from gone now because we show that we can.


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[Assistant] Continue doing our day-to-day jobs, which is really cool. And I think a lot of people have been figuring that out. Uhm, but then unfortunately, that's, this is the really crappy part is,


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[Assistant] There are a lot of people who are unable to work from home and still have to go out into the world and that part is like the super bummer, but like, how do you protect those people in the future or something like that? That's like this crazy crossroad right now. Uhm, which once again, I just want this all to be over so we can move on.


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[Assistant] And see how history remembers this thing so we can all, you know, move on with our lives.


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[Assistant] Didn't you need the Wiimote though for it? Like wasn't it a Wiimote kind of centric game? They'll figure it out.


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[Assistant] This is good for me because I, I haven't, I never played Mario 64 all the way through, uh, cause I didn't have a 64 cause I wasn't rich.


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[Assistant] James, uhm, and then same thing with Gamecube, didn't have one, uhm, didn't...


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[Assistant] No, no, no, Odyssey was the, the, since Mario, god, Super Mario World, uhm, I hadn't played a Mario game.


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[Assistant] When Mario went 3D, I remember as a kid, I scoffed at it. Said, that's not my Mario. Uhm, I guess maybe, yea, I played the new Super Mario, uh, on DS and stuff like that, but, uhm, I never played any of the 3D Marios until Odyssey. I skipped Galaxy, I skipped all of them. Cause yea, I didn't even have a Wii.


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[Assistant] So I never thought there was a reason to own it. I always like, yeah, play it at a friend's house, play Wii Sports and move on. Uhm, you know, after Red Steel didn't do it for me.


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[Assistant] $1,200 in typical Nintendo fashion. Like, how old is this game? Charge double.


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[Assistant] Worse news first, not last, you monster.


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[Assistant] This is less of a mount up and more of a mountain up or a mosey up. We gotta, this is much longer. I think you need to change the name. This is an expedition.


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[Assistant] It was a birthday gift. I did not buy it. Someone gave it to me. My mom.


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[Assistant] No way. We have 90, like what, 95% of Americans haven't had it, so there's a lot of us. There's a lot of us. True.


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[Assistant] I just want to know which of the categories allows me to go back to a hookah bar.


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[Assistant] But everybody smokes from the Commuter One, and that's probably like the third or fourth leading reason people get COVID is hookah bars.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like, but it's like really serious chores. You're like, I'm in the middle of, okay, fine.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, no, not that either. I'd go yes. The answer is yes. If it was like Hawaii.


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[Assistant] Guys, I got back issues and stuff. I gotta be able to sit by the pool and have a Mai Tai for my back.


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[Assistant] Like she'd want to, but we have a baby so we actually have a plan that, no, I'd go somewhere else.


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[Assistant] I want them to have to do exposition somehow in a movie where they don't talk.


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[Assistant] Uh, things that I don't like, like, I don't like to see messes being made in movies. Cause I'm always wondering when I'm gonna-


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[Assistant] I always want them to put in a scene where somebody's picking it back up, like later on you cut back to it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, in really weird ways. That's fine. Like I'm not that clean. Yeah. But I don't want to see messes in movies.


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[Assistant] No, no. Oh, I did. I just didn't like it. Say the whole title.


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[Assistant] That was one of my favorite quotes. That was one of my favorite quotes from that.


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[Assistant] Dude, this whole county, bro, the township, all of it, bro.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. I was a stand-up comic here, I finished college here in Austin, where I am.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that's worth it probably for the first three or four shows and then you're like, I'm gonna drag this fucking thing down to caucus now? Great.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, I moved to New York in 2000 from Austin and, uh, started to stand up there and, uh, you know, just did whatever little.


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[Assistant] ...gig thing on the side and was doing okay and eventually kind of


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[Assistant] Yeah, just doing the scene and that was really cool because they throw you into the pit right away. You're like right away you're on shows with like, I mean, they closed the show and you're like some dummy that has to bring people to it. But like, like Jim Gaffigan and you know, Patrice O'Neil and Greg Giraldo and, uh, you know, just tons of super firepower comedians. So, I mean, New York's a great place to do that. You just get like pounded.


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[Assistant] I'm not bagging anybody, but like, let's say the generation of the Smosh guys grew up. They never had to do that shit to anybody in person. You know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so they're like, you know, ah, this is funny, this is funny, and younger people haven't seen everything are like, oh yeah, I really like that. Whereas, you know, you're 28 and you go in front of like a crowd of metropolitan people from New York City, they're going to be like, oh no, no.


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[Assistant] Like, I like you guys and you can kinda do whatever I'm gonna sorta watch it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, I did that stuff for, I did that for 6 years in New York and then left to LA and I was gonna quit. And...


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[Assistant] One of my friends who's a writer on Conan now was like, yeah, but the only thing


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[Assistant] I just kinda did more sketch stuff and this and that and then I started, I got back into standup and I started within, by about 2008, 9, 10 I was doing like more professional stuff, colleges, clubs and


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[Assistant] corporate events and stuff like that. And then a guy I had performed with, uhm,


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[Assistant] In New York, like we used to do these just wacky sketch shows.


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[Assistant] Kind of like just dicks and we get into the fights with the audience and like, I would do whatever weird characters. So my stand up was always like weird characters crammed into stand up. So I was actually a more natural sketch comedian.


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[Assistant] So he was on, his name is Mark and he was hired by


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[Assistant] They brought brought on in 2010 and it started being like political stuff and we started weaned off from that and then.


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[Assistant] The Key of Awesome came out around, I don't know, 2009? It was like funny music videos, a lot of parodies and some originals and stuff like that. Uhm, I was always more partial to the originals, like the parodies were like,


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[Assistant] They were written very cleverly, but it's like, I don't know, it's low-hanging fruit, but we were just trying to survive.


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[Assistant] We were dudes in our late thirties who were, who had been through the wringer for like, you know.


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[Assistant] But yea, so we, we, we, I was on the Barely Political channel and they eventually changed the name to The Key of Awesome. I did like, I dunno, some of the bigger things I did were like,


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[Assistant] These pitbull parodies, and I have a, I basically have the world's best pitbull impression, but I'm not like a guy to milk one thing, cause I try to do a lot of different things, so.


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[Assistant] You won't see it a lot, but uh, I did that. I dressed up as Voldemort and go on the street. One time I dressed up as Voldemort and went to SantaCon and I was like all in black and then there's just thousands of people dressed up as Santa.


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[Assistant] Google slash YouTube, it's the same company, right? Uhm, bought the company that owned us.


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[Assistant] Next New Network. So I actually worked within YouTube as an employee of YouTube while making comedy videos.


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[Assistant] So we were like a piece of the company that they bought. We were the piece that got that company to the place they were. They were like, oh, look at this. Look what we do for our creators. We enable these creators. And you have like these, it was the Gregory brothers and like us. Gregory brothers were like,


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[Assistant] On a different deal, we were fully owned, they were like kind of side owned, but it was like you have these people, really talented people making these great things. And then the company kind of takes the credit and goes, look at what we're able to do for the company. And the corporate people are like, oh yeah, yeah, companies do that. And they buy the company and they're like,


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[Assistant] Uh, which was really fucking irritating because we were making like 500 million views a year and like.


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[Assistant] Working our asses off 90, 90 hours a week, shooting outside in freezing conditions. Like we were just really, really grinding. And uhm.


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[Assistant] But eventually we, you know, we started doing things for Google, like we'd make like,


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[Assistant] Videos for them, we'd make funny things. We, we, we guinea pig YouTube features. Like we actually talked to the YouTube team.


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[Assistant] They didn't like really know YouTube. They didn't use it. We were on it every day and used it and they were just kind of like, oh, we think the creators would really like this and that and we're like,


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[Assistant] But eventually a new like a lot of corporate things and a new guy got put in charge of the division.


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[Assistant] And that division was, uhm, the YouTube spaces. So you'll hear about these YouTube spaces. You guys work from around the corner from one.


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[Assistant] There's ones in Germany and Tokyo and all this stuff. So that was the department that was doing that. That was the company that got bought.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so I, we would like work within that, but also we're doing like YouTube videos, big YouTube videos for the whole.


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[Assistant] You know, sketch, fake commercials are my favorite thing, music parodies, this, that.


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[Assistant] So at some point somebody else got in charge and he's like, okay, we don't need fucking comedians here, uh, shut this off girl. And, uh, I was, my wife and I were, uh, just, you know, dating at the time and.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, honestly, a lot of that comes down to like phase of life. Like I was kind of like, you know, I've been sort of tap dancing and performing for, for


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[Assistant] Years and like a lot of that was not successful, like financially, you know, it was a struggle. So once I got to a point where I was like paying my bills and doing okay, you know, it's like I, you know, I'm, I'm in my early forties, so I was like,


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[Assistant] You know, that's okay for me. I kind of like, how do you transition that, out of that?


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[Assistant] I'm always like writing jokes and like making things. We actually have, uh, Andrew Rosas and I started a show.


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[Assistant] Very amazing, but we like to do a little comedy piece up front.


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[Assistant] So that's, that's kind of the difference is like a lot of the core stuff, the RT core stuff is, uh, you know, kind of just going with the flow more podcast-y like reaction stuff. But you know, I think Andrew and myself and a couple of other people are from a world of like had done a lot more writing and it's just a little more uncomfortable to do that stuff.


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[Assistant] You guys are like in between though. You know, you guys are all really funny and a tight group and so you multiply.


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[Assistant] And uh, having that audience is the thing though. Then, if you really want to do stand up, you know, then you can actually have a room full of people for sure.


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[Assistant] So this is me showing John and Andrew from my group my video that I made, my presentation video for the investment.


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[Assistant] Oh, for sure. I mean, I've learned to, cause like stand up, there's like the setup part, which is you. And then like, I would always escape to the character, you know.


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[Assistant] Within the joke, but I think I got enough of that to where I can like be myself. Actually, the first thing like regular acting is hard and that's actually the first thing we actually worked together on was for, um, Arizona circle.


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[Assistant] Are you guys not amazed? I'm amazed that it took a pandemic for people to actually start using in mass, like video talking.


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[Assistant] I was really prepared for this. I mean, I went to high school and college in the nineties, so I'm like, dude, I'll just play my CDs and call people on the phone. I've been doing this forever.


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[Assistant] I saw some reddit post about that too, but.


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[Assistant] Would you watch it now? I'd like to. Ah yea, I was a big basketball nerd in the 90s, so that was like...


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[Assistant] I couldn't wait for that. I watched it. On TV, like, at a time. I felt like, uh,


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[Assistant] Although there were tons of messes in that movie created by Venom, I kinda liked it.


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[Assistant] But that was the case where, you know, I saw it in the timeline where everybody panned it and then it just went away. And then it was like for like $2 or something, like wait. And I was like, hey, hon, you want to watch these things? Whatever. And we watched it. We're like, that was fun.


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[Assistant] I believe I got stuck in the Aussie accent. Gonna have to talk to the wife about some things. Not cleaning up enough, right?


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[Assistant] Relax. We have a beer, we make some jokes, and then we cry because it's Sunday night and then the next morning is Monday.


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[Assistant] I think this type of thing is really vital too because something I see a lot on the internet is people talking with great conviction and confidence and


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[Assistant] There's ten things that come up through the course of that day that distract you from what you originally set out to do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for me it's like, what's, what's your jumping off point of, uh, your prompt, really? It's, it's, it's just like finding like, like you guys just did improv and the prompt was the game, but then it's saying like, well, what if we added another prompt when it's this thing where it's your skaters and surfers?


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[Assistant] Yeah, for me it's always like a cost benefit analysis in terms of your programming of like, what is the...


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[Assistant] Uh, the low risk, low cost stuff that we can do that's gonna fill out our programming. That's just like, you know, our standard game plays. It's like, we find a game like Advent Rising.


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[Assistant] Let me find some like trash and we go, okay, well, like there's no real theme to this. There's no real prompt. It's just, we're going to play it. But then finding, like I love stuff like...


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[Assistant] That's a big part of it too, is just like, putting, giving yourself a deadline for something, forcing yourself to do it. I like, for me, in terms of how my role has changed, like, this is gonna sound arrogant.


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[Assistant] My, you know, role here because you guys found it all together.


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[Assistant] And I want to be included when I'm asked to be included. I don't want to be like...


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[Assistant] You know, trying to wedge myself in on camera. I don't want to be trying to wedge myself into these, you know, meetings. Like I want to be, be asked and whatever and...


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[Assistant] And, uh, so there's been, you know, several years now where it's, I've been just producing, constantly producing, producing, producing. And so my intention was never like,


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm just gonna make stuff without thought of like how this plays into the grander scheme of the channel.


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[Assistant] But now I do really feel a lot like I am trying to think of, you know, broader things that will grow the channel.


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[Assistant] And also, a lot of people don't realize this, but the strategy that we get, sort of, as a directive from Rooster Teeth can change, like,


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[Assistant] My focus has like changed a little bit depending on, you know, that and I, and that plays into it too.


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[Assistant] I, I tell James this like, I'll be the kind of person that like, I'll agree, I'll go, I'll go, yeah!


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[Assistant] Maybe a guest on YouTube, you know, gaming all access live or whatever. And then, and then that's like three months before and the date rolls around and I'm driving to it and I'm going like


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[Assistant] How do I drive my car under this guard rail? Not because I, like obviously it's an amazing opportunity, but just because I'm thinking like, I'm not, I'm not a person that's meant to be on camera or do any of these things. Why am I doing this? Like, and that's how I feel about like sometimes when you just have to like set those goalposts for yourself and go like,


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[Assistant] We can't fuck around and just not, we have to do it. We have to deliver this, so we gotta like get it together.


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[Assistant] You're right, and to your point of what you said about like, you're doing, you do one thing and it's almost like R&D for something else. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, there was an example today where like, I don't want to spoil it. Actually, when will those podcasts go up? The 6th.


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[Assistant] The 6th? The 2nd? The 2nd? The 2nd? The 2nd. Okay, well it's in January. So, so, Fan Manager 2 has come out.


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[Assistant] And there's a song that's used in Band Manager 2, which is a dupe of Another One Bites the Dust. And so James found a service to create that song, and it kind of led to us thinking of some ideas of like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, and Lawrence became more dedicated to that, like his role in Funhouse became reduced.


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[Assistant] We work with Roosterteeth.com to make money and I think that there's a push with all creators to find different revenue sources. And we will too, but ones that are true to us and aren't just exploitive trying to make money.


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[Assistant] I guess you could just rename it to Funhouse After Dark, the website.


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[Assistant] They had a recent Kingpill sketch, Inner City Hogwarts. Yeaah. Or something. Which, I don't know if you remember an idea that I had. Yeaah. A risque idea. Yes, there was a Hogwarts idea. Which, I watched it and I was like, okay, thanks, thankfully this isn't close.


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[Assistant] You know what I wanna do again? I wanna be the Colonel again.


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[Assistant] What game was it, Lindsay? Grounded. It's like the honey I shrunk the kids with.


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[Assistant] It's weird because I think there are situations where we bring in a guest and the audience perception is like, oh, there's some PR that made them have this guest in their video. Or you know, they were, and it's like,


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[Assistant] Whether they realize it or not, it's like taking pleasure in someone else's perceived misery.


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[Assistant] If you don't want a first membership, that's totally fine. We understand, uh, buying merch too, cause then you get something tangible out of it as well.


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[Assistant] You know, if a television show lasts six seasons you're like, that's a pretty substantial amount of time.


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[Assistant] But we're not trying to settle into any complacency either. I think we're not like, this is a status quo, and this is what we do, and we're good with it, we're just gonna stay with it. That's never our MO. We're constantly worried we're gonna age out.


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[Assistant] We're constantly trying to think of like, great new stuff we can do.


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[Assistant] For me on a personal level, cause I think about this with, uh, like, retiring, which, you know, our generation can't retire, of course, but I do think about, like,


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[Assistant] As long as I can make things, whether that's, uh, making videos.


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[Assistant] Writing a show, writing a book, writing a comic, like I, I for my entire life as long as I can do it until the dementia hits want to be making things, like I think it's, it's like a switching, oh man, it's for my greatest fear, uhm, it's a switch in, oh I think a lot of people just have in their brains where it's like, you can fight it, you can turn it off, but, or you can try to turn it off, but you can't, and it's just, so like, I mean, yeah, I think-


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[Assistant] And I was like, no. Like I think you do them three times a year, four times a year. And it's like, okay, but we also do it to ourselves where like,


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[Assistant] We could doom on a Thursday and then be like, you know what? We're going to take Friday off. So if we lose our day Friday, we still have like Saturday and Sunday to get the shit done that we need to do.


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[Assistant] I'm telling you, we have to do them because when we do them, Matt Peek comes alive. I've always said it.


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[Assistant] And, and that's a, I think that's also like part of the up producing element too, where when you guys originally did it and it was like the four of you taking shots, you, you didn't spend a whole day like producing it, I imagine. You just sat down and were like, we're gonna play this and we're gonna take the shots. We'll play Dark Souls and we'll take shots. Yeah, so like there's a version too where we have like some fun elements to it.


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[Assistant] Yes. People in the comments often say that I bully Adam.


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[Assistant] Understand that it isn't just YouTube, uh, it is a job, uhm, everyone here works really, really hard and does a million things behind the scenes that you don't see across the entire staff. So, you know, when you think like,


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[Assistant] We can't change that, uh, we don't do office stores unfortunately. Oh yeaah. I mean, uh, video.


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[Assistant] Reddit and YouTube, like, just people are just being genuine. Like, I think it's fun that our audience also likes to joke around with us, but I just...


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[Assistant] The, the, the genuine, uh, approach is just so refreshing and nice. I love it.


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[Assistant] Be in here, uh, so I will do it. But, uh, yeaah, no one said anything to me.


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[Assistant] I don't know, like, that's, that's, I mean, I think because we've come from jobs too that have like closed down or like, you know, you see stuff passing, like,


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[Assistant] There are community managers in gaming that, geez, they've got a new gig every six months, like...


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[Assistant] I don't know. I think it's just the fact that like, the idea that you get a job when you're 22 and then you have it until you retire and you work at that same company forever is pretty dead, especially in Los Angeles. So, I don't know, it's like...


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[Assistant] It's a, it's one of those things too where you always hope that like someday you'll circle back around with those people.


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[Assistant] I wanna work with Joel again someday. Like a hundred times, yes.


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[Assistant] Doin' stuff. I like, like, uh, I've done a couple things with, uh...


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[Assistant] There's stuff that I just enjoy doing, like the character bullshit, that I'm like, I can't do that all the time here, our audience will just get so tired of it. So when Cowchop's like, come do our Christmas video and be Mad Marge, I'm like, no, I'll come there, I'll give it to Previn, it's like,


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[Assistant] It's fun. I'll do it forever. Like I said, till I die.


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[Assistant] I'm hoping that those people will come here and do stuff too. Like, you know, it's kind of, we can't always just be like, come here and do stuff and then not go like, we didn't do the smosh laugh challenge. And then I feel like we don't feel as bad being like, hey, you want to come to our dump hole? One for you, two for me.


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[Assistant] I look for it, like, I used to go to, uhm, Indie Rock Cafe, listen, I mean, this is like over a decade ago, but I used to go there all, I would just, I would just have to like, dig for it, like, even on Google Music, when there's like new albums, I just have to go and look at the new releases.


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[Assistant] I think it's like, uh, Google Music does the like, you know, if you have a band that you like, like say, like I love Arcade Fire, listen to Arcade Fire Radio and they play music from all the bands that they...


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[Assistant] How to explain this? No, I've had to explain this to my mom, so. I bet. Can I read you the text that Freddy sent me? This was, I think at this point I've been on a new phone, it's been so long since he's texted me. So this is the first thing, this is the first thing. It's just a number.


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[Assistant] When it says, it just says, hey, I want to be clear. These are all separate messages.


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[Assistant] So hey, I want to be clear. I'm going to bid on the Five Aces art. I don't want to get into a bidding war with Funhaus for this piece of internet history. I need it! In all caps. My response is, what the hell are you talking about?


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[Assistant] You're scaring me. And his reply is, God damn it, no. You know, Johnny Five Aces, Zyborn Clock, the original art has surfaced and the guy selling it on eBay has said, I just did two minutes of research and I have more questions than answers.


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[Assistant] And people were just doing fan art and shit. One of the rules was like, everything is canon. Like the one rule is everything must go in the game.


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[Assistant] So, okay, I mean, I have questions, obviously. So, one of, one of the, was it five people? Was it the original? It was a few people.


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[Assistant] My favorite part of the story. One of them said, like, I will do the fan art, and one said, I'm an actual game developer, and they said, you stay out of that.


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[Assistant] Well, it's the pilot. Okay, good luck. I'm leaving now. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So now you though, adult Freddy Wong, no longer in high school as far as we know, has his own


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[Assistant] Well, before we get to the action you did take, I want to talk about the action you didn't take. You have your own production company, your group, Rocket Jump. You could have made a Zyborne Clock movie trailer. Oh yeah, we'll get to that.


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[Assistant] Similar but different when Daft Punk did the, uhm,


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[Assistant] Tommy was so entertaining level where I remember he got, he did the, he did the Oticon or the codec phone call and he kept going, there's Charlie's everywhere. I'm like, he doesn't know what Charlie's are. So I remember just being like.


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[Assistant] When your friend sent you home, sorry, you went, it's a website with cartoons? I'm confused. And it was way ahead of anything else that was being made at the time.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's business. So shortly after that text, I thought he was joking. I checked.


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[Assistant] The eBay sale at that, of that day was, I think it was at four thousand dollars.


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[Assistant] Well, I, I was under the impression he was gonna come, come with it in either in a binder or just fold it up in his pocket and go here. But no, you actually brought it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the horse seemed a nice movie. You made a reference to the Mona Lisa and I think that's actually pretty comparable only because Mona Lisa is only famous for being stolen. Yeaah. That's what made it more famous. No one even heard about it or cared until it was gone.


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[Assistant] That we are aware of. That we are aware of, yea. Well, I'll just give it a read then.


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[Assistant] The ancient wooden benches along the room's perimeter are full mostly of women and children, leaving the men to mingle.


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[Assistant] The man sits firmly, offering, avoiding eye contact. Wait, offering, avoiding? I'll read that again, sorry.


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[Assistant] The man sits firmly, offering avoiding eye contact, which could be misinterpreted as an offer of his seat.


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[Assistant] Maybe. I don't know. He clutches the object nervously. Through a forest of arms. Forest felt like forest scum. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I know, it's really pulling you in, I know.


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[Assistant] Drawn by curiosity and free of her unattentive mother's eye.


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[Assistant] He pauses for a moment, considering plots which might have employed his child as a spy, paid in food to inquire.


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[Assistant] Exhausted and drawn to the child's innocence, the walls of secrecy melt for a moment.


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[Assistant] The hazelnut brown tones are ugly- ungluing. Oh yeaah, sorry.


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[Assistant] The hazelnut brown tones are ungluing into silver, melting into swirls of pearl and mechanical shades. Her body loses its shy posture and rapidly conforms to a rigid, upright stance. Her mouth opens slightly, and with programmed precision, she moves her wrist slowly towards her tiny lips.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's great. This could be the dark tower of the internet, where it's always going through different production companies.


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[Assistant] And then the horse riders who looked like Dr. Doom and had lightsabers from Star Wars and then the golden cinch from Harry Potter came to the farm. It's like, it's those things.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's great. It's good. I self-watched Chernobyl. I'm behind.


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[Assistant] It's a weird, rich world that you can mess around with, and it's got kind of the, you know, Lord of the Rings element to it, and the Wild West, but yeah. It's a tough one. But once it gets to Wol's Akala, then it's like, what are we making? I don't know, like, do we change, do we, do we just pretending to get hit by the van, and then we try to get into the headspace of what Stephen King would have wrote had he not been hit by the van?


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[Assistant] He's like, he's, because you know, he wrote it like years apart. It's very like a George RR Martin kind of thing. And then he's like, well, I'm going to cross this street and gets hit by a van. He's like, shit, I almost died. I better get these books out before it's over. And then it's like.


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[Assistant] The whole movie is like, the aesthetic is, use bookshop in old town Pasadena. They somehow took that on a mood board and said, make a town look like this. Everything feels like it's healing crystals and gene vests. Like, it's cool. I like that. Yeah, like James is saying too, like in the movie.


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[Assistant] I mean, we want this to be a midsummer blockbuster. And as much as I like Jason Schwartz, he's like, he's Andy Darling.


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[Assistant] Man, uhm, I bought an Epcot poster. I mean, the art I buy, uhm, is typically- But not the wall scrolls.


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[Assistant] I've been going to, uhm, like art shows like designer con and those sorts of things and I like buying art directly from the artists, even though I know it's a print or whatever they did.


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[Assistant] My whole thing has just been buying art from people whose stuff I legitimately enjoy. So like, I have a, this is the most weird piece of art that I have. Yes, perfect. Is a, uhm, a Bioshock 2.


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[Assistant] A piece of, like, post-release game art done by, uh, Yonin Vazquez from, uh, Invader Zim fame.


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[Assistant] And he signed it. And it means a lot to me because...


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[Assistant] One of the first years, or one of the earlier years I went to Comic-Con, he was there signing, and I just had a badge, and he kinda gave me a look like, ugh.


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[Assistant] Like, that's all you got. And I have no money. I'm just like, I'm just a huge fan. And as years went by, I bought every comic of John and the Homestead Maniac and I feel sick and squee and everything and love so love invaders him.


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[Assistant] I always remember that moment. So that, that piece of art means something to me.


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[Assistant] Wearing a suit can make you feel like a million bucks, but you know what? There's no reason to spend that much on something you like to wear to fancy parties or, you know, a cocktail hour.


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[Assistant] And that's where Indochino comes in. For me, wearing a suit makes me feel like a super spy, or you know, at the very least, the brother of some sort of super spy.


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[Assistant] So I personally went to an Indochino store and went through the entire fitting process and it was a breeze. Super simple. I just went to one of their many fitting rooms. I picked out the fit color and my cut of suit and they took care of the rest. Pretty simple. They also had some rocking tunes.


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[Assistant] I very much enjoyed that. So with Indochino, it's all about you. Choose from hundreds of high quality suit fabrics to pick the color pattern and weight you like best.


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[Assistant] Your suit is made to your exact measurements so you end up with the perfect fit for the shape of your body. Indicino also sells custom shirts, coats, and chinos, those are pants, so you can get a full custom wardrobe.


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[Assistant] So right now get an extra $30 off any purchase of $399 or more at Indicino.com when entering Dude at checkout. That's D-U-D-E.


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[Assistant] Plus shipping is free. That's Indicino.com promo code Dude for $30 off your total purchase of $399 or more. High quality custom suits for an off the rack price. Thank you Indicino.


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[Assistant] Can we just answer this with a look? I don't know if you need to say anything. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we're only getting this guy's side of the story and even from there it doesn't sound good.


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[Assistant] It's a Schrodinger's girlfriend situation, like, did she exist before she met this guy? No. Yes. Depends if you're an asshole or not.


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[Assistant] Hey babe, I'm interviewing at this place. Who works there? Give me their names.


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[Assistant] I want to make sure you're not working with anyone who I may have dated, which is my own personal business.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, the guy too is probably like, this balding, like.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this whole thing is, it's, seems sad because, well, the same thing, you don't know all sides and it's like, yeah, it sounds like from an outside perspective, he's doing the logical thing and it makes sense and all that stuff. Interesting, you thought it was a he. She, or them, they.


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[Assistant] The thing is, too, there is someone who has passed away that I know who their, uh, partner still uses their account.


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[Assistant] You just go, okay, and it's just sort of like, so and so like this thing is like, didn't you, oh, they didn't change the name. Because it was like a shared account.


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[Assistant] Fast forward 75 years in the future. And the final item from the Freddie Wong estate.


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[Assistant] If you're watching this video, it means Freddy got me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know, I like the idea where you make the kill switch thing and you forget about it and then it's like, all this stuff leaks like, no! Damn it! The microfilm wasn't supposed to be released yet.


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[Assistant] I, I will hear, we'll do this. I will give some hints to Freddy, and if he can guess it, then we'll reveal it.


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[Assistant] Action. Make-up. Guns. Face-off? So close. So close. This one, there's a game based on this one though. Yeah. Oh, I'll give you one last hint.


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[Assistant] Anyway, those are some hints. Someone will figure it out. And I'll tell you as soon as we stop.


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[Assistant] I sat around a bunch of dudes when I was working in the broadcast group here. They loved it. They were just hungry for the stuff.


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[Assistant] Uh, we don't have the questions ready. Do you like McDonald's? Fuckin' sandwich. Seems pretty easy. Why am I not in charge of more Starbucks?


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[Assistant] Does anybody know the last question? The final question of HQ trivia?


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[Assistant] Eh, this ain't gonna take very long, uh, you're done, cool.


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[Assistant] Wait, I was waiting for this other company that almost had the...


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[Assistant] But then we got into that and then that lasted like five years and they're like, hey, uh, YouTube videos don't make no money. Why do we got you?


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[Assistant] Why can't this guy just go and do something cool with his powers? Even if he wanted to be evil, you know how easy you could get 165 million dollars the old fashioned way?


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[Assistant] If you go along with the, him, it's like such a stereotypical cologne commercial or something, and he's out in the desert, like...


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[Assistant] What if he's an invisible man guy? What if only his penis became invisible?


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[Assistant] They're like, sir, uhm, the process was, uh, sort of a success.


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[Assistant] But we don't really know if someone will change your diaper or not.


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[Assistant] Have you seen what diaper technology is like lately?


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[Assistant] Just like a lot of whoever's toilet paper it was.


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[Assistant] I read the article, I read the headline this morning.


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[Assistant] I didn't, no, but that's all I could think about. I didn't actually see this, but I was just thinking, cause I changed a lot of diapers, I was like, god, it's gonna get in her private area.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause the stock's super high, it's at like 2000 something.


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[Assistant] I'm a comedian. You can tell. I don't do stand-up anymore, I used to do it for like, 12 years, and I used to do YouTube videos, barely pull a bone, keep awesome, blah blah blah, lots of videos. And then I've been working at Rooster Teeth in different ways for like, three years. But, I saw you guys, and I knew you were really funny, and I was trying to get funny people on that show, cause the story's about a robot that was so annoying, they trapped him in a prison, and he couldn't get out until he got the answer for every question.


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[Assistant] And so it's just a game show for people to riff, right? And I played the robot. And I, I was like, hey man, uh, listen, I have this weird show I'd love for you guys to be on it. But the first thing you said to me, I was like, hey man, I have this weird show. And you're like, uh, you want a picture, man?


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[Assistant] You look like, um, uh, what's his face from the movie?


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[Assistant] With as much accuracy as a modern weather mirror.


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[Assistant] I guess I should mention, I'm actually the supervising producer of the, the core comedy group. Uh huh. And so, we're doing, just stripping it down right now, doing some, uh, we're doing some gameplay videos. Uh huh. Not gameplay. Real gaming videos. Real games. What does that mean? In real life.


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[Assistant] What do you mean? Yeah, like Mojang's Dangerous Game, like The Pest? Games. Good reference. The little series called Hard Boat. Okay, got it. We're just making a couple of them, they're pretty funny. Cool.


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[Assistant] I think I just look like some dickhead in an office.


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[Assistant] We asked you to like go on a first date for the rest of our lives.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and Couch Hop has decided that they are shutting down. Yes. And we were like, we gotta... So...


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[Assistant] But then like, I didn't know if people liked it, and then Lawrence was starting to use my matches for his prayer candles. Then he just, I don't know why, they weren't scented, and he just lit the prayer candles. So then I was like, wow, I've got this idea.


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[Assistant] That's not the only question we're asking. We're asking about YouTube and their change of service. It's part of a bigger question. It all comes together.


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[Assistant] Because YouTube was a reaction to traditional programming and television saying, we don't need a schedule, we can put up this video whenever we want, as soon as we want. And it's funny because it keeps swinging a


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[Assistant] Back around in, in either direction. Cause I remember like being back at game trailers, there was a certain point where.


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[Assistant] We did, you know, on our YouTube channel put up a schedule graphic and we were like, we all kind of laughed about it because we were, we thought, well, we're trying to move away from traditional programming, but now we're just looped back into it of like, no, people do want that structure and to know.


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[Assistant] Viewer base knows, but to your original question of like is there a place on our channel? It's, it's, the podcasts are so different than the other content we put up day to day.


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[Assistant] It is a tough question because it's like, what do you do when people are coming to this channel to watch game plays?


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[Assistant] Yeah, you have sales obligations. And sales. You know, because obviously like we have stuff like Google Trends sells once a month. So, you know, we're going to put up a Google Trends, uh, every, you know, one Saturday of the month because we sell that.


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[Assistant] It's weird because some people do want the texture of us talking for an hour and shooting the shit or like, you know, all our deep personal insights in our interesting lives. They do, they want that.


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[Assistant] You know, GTA, I would include GTA in that as well. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It, it's tough to do with editorial too though, because like, even at game trailers, you get into the summer lull in gaming editorial where it's like, there's nothing coming out. You have your big hit with E3, but then sort of like July and August, August and even September can be kind of wastelands. So like,


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[Assistant] You know, it's a bag of marbles sort of strategy to an extent. Where like, I do much, much prefer the like, we have regular programming and we know that we're gonna try to build and it's gonna be dependable. Like, we sort of...


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[Assistant] Already it's a little rough. You don't want to exhaust the audience that you have, which is already a little bit exhausted because you're at 268 of your podcast or whatever.


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[Assistant] Well, the only problem with that is that we're too cold to stay at the crime scene for too long. So we have to go.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and what did they change in our terms of service? Cause I was getting emails like


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[Assistant] And also, like, creators are trying to find, like, they're not just like, okay, well these are the, the...


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[Assistant] The rules of content that we, that exist and we're gonna keep creating content to them. No, they're like, we need to think outside the box and keep trying to have new and interesting ways to interact with this platform.


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[Assistant] They're like, okay, like you're saying how YouTube is this living and breathing platform that's always changing and evolving.


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[Assistant] YouTube can't just be like, okay, there it is and then, you know, wipe their hands and say like, this is it. Because creators are just trying to like push the boundaries of it and figure out new stuff they can do to keep people interested and attracted. So it's this weird thing where they're just gonna be chasing that and then creators are chasing it. I don't know, it's a snake.


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[Assistant] Youtube is ubiquitous though. It's strength and it's our weakness to it because we are servants to it now.


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[Assistant] It's the Top Dog video platform. There's no contender that really...


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[Assistant] You know, the new terms of service are saying that they will potentially, uhm,


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[Assistant] Like something like that is really scary because the service, you know, if it ever did get to that, YouTube essentially started as like YouTube. Anybody could be on it and that was the beauty of the platform.


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[Assistant] Stuff like, I feel like stuff like YouTube Red Premium, it kind of like, was YouTube's first effort of saying like, well,


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[Assistant] It's not completely YouTube, it's like a little more inclusive in ways of a paid premium, but.


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[Assistant] So like the, I think the initial sentiment of the platform has evolved and changed a little bit. Yeah. From the, like, anyone.


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[Assistant] That's child labor. I, uh, Lindsay, what's like your, like,


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[Assistant] What's your happy place? Like what do you do that makes you so happy?


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[Assistant] I think when I think like, cause like I associate video games with people and I associate Warcraft with you, but maybe that's not right. Maybe there's a better game.


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[Assistant] That's not true. Except for the one we did last week. But all the others, yes.


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[Assistant] Well, it's a reference to one of the videos we did where Elise, she sneezed and our editor made it appear as though some snot came out of her, but then the snot came back as goo-lease, kinda like goo-ee-gee.


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[Assistant] Uhm, from Luigi's Mansion 3, which was a talking snot version of her.


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[Assistant] It did cool. It's been fun. So November, that's, okay, so two months, almost like three months in.


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[Assistant] And you have 200-something ideas banked. Kind of. More or less.


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[Assistant] I don't know how to count. I never learned. Uhm, but uh, but yeaah, so, so, do you feel comfortable that you guys are gonna make it? Like are you working at a stride that you're like, oh yeaah, no problem. Or is it, is it kind of, are you feeling the pressure?


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[Assistant] I don't know that it's a conscious decision, maybe it is, but like if I always get frustrated when I'm scrolling through YouTube and it recommends me a video that has 36 million views from five years ago, like why are you sending me this?


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[Assistant] I watched that, it's 20 minutes exactly to the second, and I was like, that's interesting.


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[Assistant] Are you, are you trying to, are there ideas that like, cause that one sounds like it's a, it came from a place of genuine interest, like something you've never done and something you have some knowledge of and like sharing that knowledge. Are there more ideas like, cause like obviously you mentioned laxative Olympics. That sounds like that's just.


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[Assistant] That's a YouTube title, and both of you shitting your pants while you run down the street. But, uh, but are there more plans for other ideas that are like exploring each other's kind of like character or like... That's almost every video.


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[Assistant] It's, uhm, condom hot air balloon.


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[Assistant] You see how many condoms you have to fill with helium. There you go. To attach to a basket that one of you can fit in and actually lift it up. Put Spencer in it.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you this, that was some creative liberties taken with the film there. Growltiger is not a separate character in the musical. In fact, it is a character that gusts the theater cat Ian McKellen.


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[Assistant] She was famous until she fell in with Macavity and then she became a prostitute cat. And then that's why she's old. She's old.


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[Assistant] So they were like, hey we're putting out a patch. So I have people on the inside. This sounds stupid, but I actually do.


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[Assistant] Apparently, reportedly, they are still working on cats. There are still people working on cats.


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[Assistant] But they're working for free, you know, who's paying them? Someone, Ford, Vod, or I don't know. I have no idea.


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[Assistant] It's so weird. We lapse it out of a thing. We haven't talked since you've seen it. I think it's truly atrocious. We did just get the conference room booked and then we can just have a talk.


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[Assistant] You know what, you know what I thought was a huge snub this year? And you guys can tell me if I'm wrong. Uh, end game.


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[Assistant] I thought it was such an impressive feat, and I also, thinking, I'm like, well it wasn't too long ago that we gave Return of the King.


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[Assistant] You know, last weekend, Lisa and I watched, uhm, The Hobbit. The four and a half hour Hobbit cut. It's all three Hobbit movies cut into four and a half hours. It's so long, and it's a cut down of the three movies.


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[Assistant] Wow, man, settle down. Cats does feel long, though. Yeah, it does. Well, it also has like ten endings. Like, it just keeps going, and then at a certain point you're like, okay, it's over, and then Judy Dench goes...


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[Assistant] Also, Steven Spielberg tried to make an animated Cats film, like 30 years ago. Why? No, but like drawn, like 2D.


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[Assistant] Well, also, also, if you're in the academy...


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[Assistant] You get a, you get this flyer that has all those things that have paid enough to be on the flyer and then you don't watch any of them and then you just tick off the ones that you think should win. And then that's how it works, basically. So.


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[Assistant] And that's only like five years after they were like, Netflix movies shouldn't be nominated, like they don't count.


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[Assistant] You know my favorite thing about Iron Giant? This is such a fun podcast, I love talking about movies. Uhm, is that the whole movie is about him, like, being a pacifist, and like, fighting the urge to be, he's built, designed to be a weapon, but fighting the urge to be that weapon.


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[Assistant] Oh, Klaus is a Netflix movie, it's really good.


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[Assistant] It's beautiful, it's one of the best, it's a 2D film, and if you watched it, you'd swear it wasn't.


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[Assistant] I can't, the number of times I say that in a day, it's just, it's like, aw the girl, aw the girl.


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[Assistant] That's the question. But who had sex with Anakin's mom?


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[Assistant] Well, John Boyega said it wasn't cause they were, he said on Twitter it wasn't cause he was. Now he's not a writer on the film, so take it with a grain of salt. But say it was that he was force sensitive. What?


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[Assistant] What, under what context would you say that to the person as you're dying?


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[Assistant] Also, why didn't they call the second one Rise of Skywalker, where Skywalker comes back and makes a difference, and they call the next one Last Jedi, where Rey is the last Jedi?


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[Assistant] Excitement is gen- the answer to all questions is because it gives you the most instantaneous feeling of excitement.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we just passed technology. Why didn't they?


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[Assistant] That's kind of how I felt. It does make sense.


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[Assistant] There's, there is the watch order now. Someone did the math, and they figured out the watch order, where you watch, uh, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and then that's the, oh no, that, cause that's when all is lost, kind of in the grand arc of things. This is before the new ones are introduced. And then Empire Strikes Back, then you go back, and then you, like, watch at two times speed.


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[Assistant] Uh, like phantom menace attack of the clones at three times speed and then, uh, revenge of the sith.


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[Assistant] This is also confusing because there's two things called the Clone Wars. One is the Samurai Jack guy.


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[Assistant] It's pretty funny. This is a good show.


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[Assistant] The time I got in the best shape of my life was between jobs. So the ongoing challenge has been, yeah, how do you, how do you do it while you have a job? That's tough.


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[Assistant] Yes, I walk around my apartment complex up down the stairs carrying heavy rocks and who needs a gym membership?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, like you said, all the things he brought up about his significant other. It seems like attaining that level sort of threw other parts of his life out of balance. So, you know, it's recognizing that that's what it took.


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[Assistant] Overall, it's like you do have to, you do have to balance things back out to figure out how to do that.


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[Assistant] Perfect. Alright. How does it do surnames and not surnames sometimes? The machine knows.


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[Assistant] Today on the podcast, we're talking about eight hour planks, Xbox Series X, and doing a blindfolded energy drink taste test in the most hardcore episode of Dude Soup ever!


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[Assistant] That's not the intro you said you were gonna do. The intro I was gonna do, I was gonna say, Did you know that the mom and dad of Little People, Big World are divorced? That's what we won't be talking about today on DudeSoup. That was a good intro. That's huge news.


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[Assistant] Well this episode and deleted scenes are brought to us by our sponsors Stitch Fix and Hymns. We'll hear more from them later in the show. That was James' thing that he used to do.


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[Assistant] Well, we specifically asked you to come out, so thank you so much for coming. You're recording a bunch of stuff with us. Uh, which we recorded a video this morning. That was pretty funny. That was really rad. Most people know you from Achievement Hunter.


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[Assistant] But what else makes you tick? What makes Jeremy passionate?


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[Assistant] So you have written two books, you rap and record music.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, Ed saying pinch me.


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[Assistant] But now all these bands are like teaming up to make like- To stay relevant. Yeah, so like Goo Dolls and Lifehouse are on tour together this year. That's a great show.


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[Assistant] Deal with the lifestyle and leaves the band or something and then that band will replace them.


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[Assistant] You know in uhm, Dr. Teeth, the Muppets Band, there's that one guy that like,


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[Assistant] He has a hat and he plays the saxophone. Okay. So, uh, John Ficciante always reminds me of that dude.


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[Assistant] That was, that was, uh, what's his face, uh, Chris Parnell. Chris Cornell.


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[Assistant] Well that- Was it velvet revolver?


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[Assistant] I'm like, good for them. Yeah. Velar Ruelver was Slash from Kings and Roses. Yup. Duff McCaggen.


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[Assistant] Jeremy, do you, have you done any self-reflection and thought about why you like this genre? And I'm not knocking it, cause I still listen to it.


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[Assistant] There was a great story in the news today on uh, today Monday that we recorded this podcast. A 62 year old former, former marine set a Guinness World Record by holding a plank for over 8 hours. Uhm. Oh my god.


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[Assistant] Yes, he had previously held the record and then was, he lost it. And so he was like, okay, well I need to get this record back.


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[Assistant] And he, so he did this by training for months. He would sometimes be, you know, training for up to seven hours a day with a coach. I guess he's just planking every day?


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[Assistant] Well before you disrespect him anymore, his name's George Hood, he's from Illinois. Surprise. And he spends four hours a day in a plank pose, 700 push-ups a day, 2000 sit-ups, uh, and sets of 100, 500 leg squats, and then approximately 300 arm curls a day.


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[Assistant] And Jeremy, you'll appreciate this Jeremy. Absolutely.


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[Assistant] Uh, some of the, some of the stuff that keeps him going, uh, when he's planking is rock music, including Van Halen and Du Haas by Rammstein.


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[Assistant] Stitchfix.com slash dude soup. Thank you Stitchfix. And welcome back. Thank you. Thank you me. For that. Read.


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[Assistant] The Cyberpunk game Twitter has announced that those who purchase a copy of Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox One will be able to play the game on Xbox Series X for free.


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[Assistant] Microsoft's speaking specifically to their smart delivery technology, which means that four generations of Xbox games are compatible with the Xbox Series X.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the quote is that you only have to purchase the title once in order to play the best available version for whichever Xbox console you choose to play on.