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[Assistant] No, yeah, so, it's just fu- you know, we're going back to the roots. It's as if the fir- you know, the first season of RVB was the same way. New voice actors, new type of...


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[Assistant] Way of making a show, new everything, brand new story, brand new. So we're just doing the same thing in the same universe of Red vs. Blue.


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[Assistant] Ugh, I want to be in th- I want to just be there.


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[Assistant] That, it looks crazy. Are they ever gonna make one here?


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[Assistant] Well, I guess I'm, doesn't matter, I'm going to Japan. Yeah. I'm not waiting five years.


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[Assistant] Me too. I love, I just love, I love Disney World. I went last year, I think.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Disney World, not land, but like Disney World, and it's just, I love being there.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And, I don't know, I just love being there.


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[Assistant] And even when I came to LA for uhm, we did like that Overwatch thing.


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[Assistant] When we went to Disneyland, we did the Tower of Terror, which is the Guardians of the Galaxy ride, and Matt was not happy.


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[Assistant] We used to, like them using parks, parks would be in New Jersey, so I would go there for like Six Flags or, um, and I remember Hershey Park and I remember, um, yeaah, I ate the chocolate. Yeaah, I ate the chocolate. To answer your question.


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[Assistant] Well they did it with the, uhm, like the influencers, like the Instagram models.


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[Assistant] Who was on Louis Vuitton, the, like the model? There was like a, like a, like an E, E model.


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[Assistant] It was actually lightning from final fantasy. She did something like that, but then I'm talking about like an actual Instagram person who has like probably 3 million followers, like is a personality, but is just CGI.


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[Assistant] I don't know if like, it's not certain at least.


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[Assistant] You see, I wasn't sure about that. I didn't know about that.


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[Assistant] And you know, to get the viewers, I have to be relatable to them.


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[Assistant] Uh, likes to drink, uh, mango White Claw. Ooh.


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[Assistant] Just like, yeaah, yeaah, and you know, he's just chillin', like, has he changed his shirt?


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[Assistant] Right. Yeah. And he's just a cool guy, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I mean, same here. I got the opportunity because I was there at the right time, Torian knew who I was.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess it's, but yes, like, but like, James is right, it's like, I don't feel the need, like, if ever I do get another role, and I don't know, like, I just think, yeah, there are people who do it better than me.


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[Assistant] And they should get the role. But I feel like because of the position I'm in right now, I get it.


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[Assistant] It is very, it is a lot of fun. I think I'm with you on that at least every time. I thought my voice could not ever be.


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[Assistant] In anything, I was just like, my voice fucking sucks, I don't know, I could never, that would never happen, and then...


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[Assistant] Yeah, someone didn't think it sucked. I mean, there are people who think it sucked. I read the comments. I hate myself. I know. I hate myself.


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[Assistant] Frank skipped the ads. Frank still wanna help the content they want.


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[Assistant] Here's the thing, here's the thing, it says sex swing the animated series, is there a reason why series is spelt wrong on IMDB?


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[Assistant] Okay. Uhm. I'm gonna watch it. You are... Anyway. I'm just, I'm just learning.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, you know, I, I, yeah, I came in not knowing, like, I cannot emphasize enough that I did not know.


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[Assistant] And then I started looking at it, and I've learned so much about like, just animation in general, just like how-


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[Assistant] Machinima is a thing that I was like, what's that? And now I know about it. Or like, just with different animating styles. So I'm like, oh, cool.


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[Assistant] There was a tour? Wasn't there a tour happening? I don't know, I'll be honest, I feel like I became an achievement hunter officially.


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[Assistant] I like, officially became Achievement Hunter then.


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[Assistant] You know, I also wasn't like in the office or anything with them, so I felt like, it was like, okay, those are like, I am part of Achievement Hunter, but like, that's Achievement Hunter.


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[Assistant] I'd be, I'd be the plan, uh, plan C.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, you know, it was, I pitched it as a, we need to make something in quarantine, and this was what it was. So, it's really fun.


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[Assistant] I am very excited, uh, and next week we'll have a update, uh, hopefully, so.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well that is the name I generally go by. I have a YouTube channel called Blind Gamer and I am, yes I am technically legally blind according to the government. I have my card and everything.


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[Assistant] Yes, uh, it happens more often than you think. Uhm, but I'm also an accessibility advocate and I'm a consultant, uh, within the video game industry.


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[Assistant] It was either that or the, uh, the life size, uh, statue of ET, but I figured this is probably more camera friendly.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yes and no, he's kind of guarding the doorway into the bedroom, so there is that.


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[Assistant] So I actually have a condition that's called nystagmus, uhm, which basically means that my eyes move back and forth, uh, involuntarily, so I can't control it. And what it really does is just basically makes my entire vision really blurry. Uhm, and normally when you kind of like, kind of describe sort of like,


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[Assistant] Uh, so something that's 20 feet away, looks like it's 200 feet away. With glasses off, it's more along the lines of like 20, 1700.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but the way I'm able to play video games is I have to be pretty much extremely close to as large of a screen as possible. Even right now, I have, I'm like sitting about a foot and a half away from me, I have a 50 inch


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[Assistant] But it does a pretty decent job where I'm not having migraines at the end of the day, where my eyes are just so fatigued that I, that it's hard for me to be able to see what I'm doing or what I'm playing. And uh, essentially that's kind of how I'm able to play video games in a nutshell.


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[Assistant] Compartmentalize that, uhm, because the way I sort of say it is that generally blindness is not necessarily an on-off switch.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's, it's a spectrum and that's kind of across a lot of disabilities. Everything is a spectrum and there's never gonna be kind of like that one setting that's gonna fix absolutely everything for each disability. Uhm, the way I best would describe it, at least for blindness, is that


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[Assistant] Nine out of ten people who are blind have at least some vision. It's very rare that you would have someone, uh, like a Stevie Wonder, uh, who is completely blind, uh, to, like, who can't see at all. And there are people and people in the accessibility community that are sightless that have trouble trying to be able to play games and usually have to have, like, a sighted person


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[Assistant] It's okay. It's there, but there are definitely a lot of things for improvement. I think probably the biggest thing in games right now, at least from a blindness perspective is,


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[Assistant] I don't know, I don't know why that's still a thing. I understand why people have done it and developers and students have done it.


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[Assistant] Because they love the 4K and they want to be able to make everything look gorgeous in 4K. But when it comes to like a usability standpoint and accessibility standpoint, it makes it really difficult to play. Especially if you're sitting at like a, like a living room setting where you're six feet away from your TV and regardless how big your TV is,


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[Assistant] Having to strain just to be able to read the lore text in Death Stranding.


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[Assistant] I mean, I want to read those emails. Of which there is a lot. Exactly. Like I want to read those, I want to read those things. I want to read the craziness that is Hideo Kojima. But I can't. So.


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[Assistant] So I have, I have two interesting stories about that. One of sort of a bad, a bad thing. So I know a developer has told me this, this happened.


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[Assistant] That the art director of a, uh, a particular studio


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[Assistant] Basically was really like trying to be able to push down the size of the text because


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[Assistant] of just how like they want the environments to just to shine and be the forefront of everything and just make it so beautiful but they kept really trying to push this font size down so there was this one developer on his team that kept going in guerrilla style after hours and just slowly increasing the font size


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then the second one in show how, like how much work, uh, that can go into to be able to make.


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[Assistant] Font size, uh, as big as, uh, like, uh, try to be only make it as, as good as possible. So the Outer Worlds.


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[Assistant] Came out last year and it was in the same kind of boat, had very small text.


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[Assistant] And it was difficult to be able to read. There was one developer, uh, on the team that was like, you know, I want to make it so that you can be able to adjust the font size yourself. And you can have like a sliding scale from one to 10 and it'll work pretty much across all the UI. He told me that it took him about an afternoon to, to implement, but it took three months.


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[Assistant] To try to be able to fix all the UI bugs that it had caused. And thank God for Obsidian for allowing them to be able to work, him to be able to work on that and a team to be able to kind of work on it because they basically released it as an updated patch about three months later. And uh, now you can, a lot of people can be able to play out of worlds without having really small techs and you can adjust the size.


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[Assistant] And that's honestly one of the reasons why The Last of Us Part 2 was kind of widely celebrated for the amount of accessibility options that it had. One of the things they did was they started from


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[Assistant] This, like, design for accessibility kind of from the top down. Uhm, it has some improvements that definitely need to be made, but uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, I, I, that's kind of where we get games like that is when those things, uh, happen. And no, I'm not paid by Sony to, to say all that. They paid me a while ago, but it just, it goes to show that can work.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, now that we've started to kind of see obviously a big push within accessibility within different studios, or at least there's conversations happening, uhm, I think neccessarily from a software and hardware side, we're kind of seeing


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[Assistant] Uhm, definitely studios experimenting with different features and they're trying different things. I think that yes.


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[Assistant] While the last of us had an amazing array of accessibility, uhm, had over 60 plus accessibility options, uhm, which is great and it's awesome.


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[Assistant] We're probably not gonna see the true impact of that, uhm, until at least about a couple years from now, cause of course how development cycles work. Uh, so, I think that now we see that there is a...


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[Assistant] Sort of a playbook that you can be able to, that studios can use to design games and develop games based kind of on, uh, from an accessibility standpoint. I think that going into next gen, just now that we have sort of like the hardware capabilities and the software capabilities to kind of do pretty much


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[Assistant] Even more than what the current gen has become, I think we're definitely gonna see a lot more, uhm, inclusion, which is great. I think it's really comes down to...


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[Assistant] Mostly the culture of accessibility, uh, in the fact that we need to talk about it more. Uhm, I've said it before that essentially the marketing of accessibility is something that I think drastically needs to change, uh, for, for just, not only just next gen, but just in any form, shape, cause,


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[Assistant] We don't get any accessibility marketing at all. We know about a game years beforehand, uhm, but we don't see anything for accessibility at all. For instance, we knew about Cyberpunk 2077.


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[Assistant] Since 2012. It's been a while. Yeah, exactly. And we know you can customize the genitalia, but we've had one tweet about accessibility. And that was just to confirm that you can adjust the font size and the color of subtitles. That's it. There's nothing else. So I think, I think their culture really needs to change. And as far as like,


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[Assistant] With the two big ones, Sony and Microsoft, kind of like, what would, what's...


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[Assistant] In a way, Microsoft is in a great position, uh, for accessibility, and they've kind of done it by a few initiatives. One, obviously their Game Pass subscription is


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[Assistant] Absolutely amazing. Not only just from a consumer level, but actually from an accessibility level because


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[Assistant] I'm, I miss the times where I could be able to get like a CD from my PC gamer magazine from the bookstore.


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[Assistant] Many times we're trying to decide whether or not we can be able to play a game.


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[Assistant] Exactly, so the fact that Game Pass exists where it's just a set subscription, you can download a game, try it out.


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[Assistant] If it doesn't work, you can delete it and try another one. It just creates a lot of peace of mind for disabled players.


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[Assistant] But then also as well internally, uhm, they have obviously the Xbox Adaptive Controller that has been confirmed that will work for the Xbox Series X and S as well. Uhm, so you can be able to use that same controller for, within Next Gen.


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[Assistant] And then internally they have actually the like accessibility guidelines that studios can be able to, their first party studios can use to create accessibility options in their games. It's a slow run, like roll out for that, uhm, it's kind of,


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[Assistant] Been one of those that's just only happened just recently, uhm, where they have that internally, but it's also available publicly. So actually, if you do a Google search for Microsoft accessibility guidelines, you can find it and it's a really great resource, uh, to.


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[Assistant] Like, who are passionate about accessibility, and they have an accessibility team.


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[Assistant] That I think puts a lot of weight on Microsoft to like moving forward that they can really push next gen for accessibility. Sony, I don't want to say that they're


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[Assistant] They just don't have as much available, uh, like, as of right now. They don't have a hardware solution for accessibility. Sure, they have, uhm, internal studios or their PlayStation studios have pushed accessibility forward, but it's kind of really been


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[Assistant] Uh, like, it has to, it's depending on the studio to really kind of add that in. Uhm, we've seen a little bit more of it in recent studios, like with Ghost of Shima this year had a pretty decent accessibility options and they were constantly updating with their updated patches for adding accessibility based on kind of user feedback and we do know that


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[Assistant] The options and feedback and testing that.


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[Assistant] Naughty Dog has done for Last of Us Part 2 will be shared internally for Sony, but it really kind of depends on what studios want to be able to implement it. And also they don't really have an accessibility team.


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[Assistant] Per se, at least that's their kind of full-time position to work on accessibility. I think there's about maybe two or three people, uhm, that kind of like are in it. They are passionate about it.


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[Assistant] But it's something that's going to take them a little bit of time to really kind of implement it fully for next gen. I'm really curious to see what, like once we get our hands on the PS5, what accessibility options will entail because with the PS4,


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[Assistant] System options were great and the OS was fine, but a lot of accessibility didn't get implemented until after the PS4 was out and it's kind of like halfway through its generation. So it's gonna be interesting to see if they want to be able to include accessibility from a system level, uh, just moving forward into next gen.


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[Assistant] Uh, around for so long, uh, or at least longer than previous generations, uhm, obviously accessibility kind of wasn't really talked about even at that point, uh, cause I think even when the PS4 launched,


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[Assistant] Uhm, we had games that didn't even have subtitles at all. Uhm, calling out Assassin's Creed on that. The original Assassin's Creed did not have subtitles.


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[Assistant] That's something. So accessibility has kind of been a much bigger push within the past five years. Uhm, and I do agree with you. I think having the ability to be able to tap into the system options


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[Assistant] It would be great for developers because it kind of takes a lot of load off of their development cycle. It can be tricky, at least currently. As an example, I do know the fact that the narrator function on the Xbox system, in order for it to actually work,


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[Assistant] It technically has to load a second operating system on top of the current operating system just to get the narration to work. The narration is a completely different OS than the actual OS of Xbox. And that's just to get that to work.


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[Assistant] I think right now it's kind of like a, it's sort of a patchwork kind of system to get things where. So it'll be interesting to see.


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[Assistant] Like, whether or not Microsoft or even Sony can take that feedback and, uh, and implement that from a system-wide, uh, purposes, because yeaah, like you said,


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[Assistant] It would, it would be great to be able to just like have that load on the system than just having it in, in, in the software itself. And then, cause then you might get bloated software, you might get bug issues and stuff like that. So having tools that are already developed for that, that they can just tap into at APIs for instance.


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[Assistant] Would be great. Uhm, yeaah. That sounds so obtuse to me.


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[Assistant] Oh no, the studios and developers are just like bad and like they just know, like we just don't want to bother with it. Uhm, some people have, I've heard, uh, but it's, it's like, they, it's, the fact it's like now they know and to kind of even use Gears as an example and this ties into, to you, Alana, like the fact that


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[Assistant] Being able to go, like, in gears and being able to hear, like, see the lines of your NPC talking.


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[Assistant] Like that's, that's a huge deal, and that's something that not a lot of games do, cause a lot of captions, like a lot of subtitles and captions in games, they don't pick up a lot of the sort of the NPC environmental, uh, dialogue that, uh, that we hear all the time in games. So, uh, the fact that they, that Gears 5 was able to caption that,


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[Assistant] 100%. Exactly. And the fact that like, okay, yeah, like in a way.


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[Assistant] Holy boy, I'm not going to get too deep into this, but this is the, this is just kind of like one of those sore spots in the industry about the whole Sekiro debate. Uhm, but yes, I mean, sometimes in games,


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[Assistant] So that kind of makes it a little bit less barrier, like, there's more, less barriers to, uh, for us to be able to play. Uhm, and to kind of give an example of what technically an easy mode would do for those who are disabled. So think of it this way, okay, so you, you jump into a, you jump into Sekiro, you want, like, you, you love it because of the challenge.


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[Assistant] Like, you want to play it, that's kind of what they're designed for. Like, it's supposed to be hard. Okay, you get this. You have that challenge. Now try to be able to play that game blindfolded.


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[Assistant] Or try to be able to play that game with headphones on, or like with earmuffs on. Or try to be able to play that game with your hand, one hand tied behind your back. It'd be a much, it'd be a much larger challenge for you to be able to play that game at that point.


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[Assistant] And all an easy mode does, or at least adjustable difficulty options does, is just remove the earmuffs, remove the blindfold and untie your hand so that we can still enjoy the same challenge that you do and the same love that you have for playing those kind of games. It just now puts it at an equal playing field for those with disabilities.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm gonna say probably the main PS5, I'm gonna probably guess is gonna be the same as the, uh, the series X is gonna be $4.99 and I think the...


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[Assistant] Discless version, uh, I had to enunciate that specifically. Uhm, I think we'll probably be, I'm guessing gonna be $100 cheaper, so yea, $399. I don't think it's gonna be as cheap as the S, cause I don't think that they can be able to compete, like Sony can be able to compete with that.


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[Assistant] I was, I was saying, I wonder if that's probably what they originally were going to price it at at $450, but then maybe because of Xbox they were like, you know what, screw it, we'll just take $100 or $50 off more and make it, make it $399. Who knows.


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[Assistant] In a way, having, like, I know everyone wants to be able to push for sort of the alt-digital future, uhm, and, and I get that. And I, I understand that, and there are many games that I like, I have and own digitally that I don't own physically.


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[Assistant] They don't offer refunds for digital purchases at all. And the reason for it, and this is on the FAQ page, is you need to take a look at the reviews and screenshots and videos provided online to see if you want to be able to play this game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I wonder if there's just like, you know what? We have these in the archives. People want it. Let's just slap a box on it and retail art and just say, okay, there you go at like the least cost possible.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think, I don't think it's like, I don't think the PS5 is gonna have that same of an impact as the Switch did, cause I think the Switch kinda took a lot of people by surprise. Same with a lot of things actually Nintendo has, like Animal Crossing this year. Uhm, so I, I,


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[Assistant] I would be conservative to say that, okay, so 2 million kind of at launch, that's maybe a good spot to reach, uhm, and especially with the price point that it's at.


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[Assistant] I think Sony will be okay. I don't think there's as huge of a push for wanting to be able to buy the PS5 on day one.


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[Assistant] And then plus also the biggest variable, good and bad, is 2020. So.


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[Assistant] I, I think probably at some point, I think definitely within the first, like, launch year, I'll, I'll definitely get one, uhm, so, but we'll, like, we'll see. I'm definitely not gonna be lining up day one at my local EB Games here in Canada, and, uh, and buying one, uh, I, I don't trust the...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't trust the Amazon shipping pre-order. No, no, I want to go physically and no, I have it in hands.


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[Assistant] I think in a way like that was kind of their original goal, I'm assuming from the marketing, was to be able to kind of like lead up to, okay, here's the hardware stuff, and then now we're going to kind of talk about sort of the games and kind of what's going to be launching, but then obviously 2020 changed all that. I think, and I've also noticed this too, like even on the Xbox side,


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[Assistant] I've seen a massive marketing switch where instead of like, yes, they're promoting the consoles, but they're promoting sort of the services and the features that are like, they're going to be in it, not necessarily the games. I mean, of course, cause they don't have halo to kind of.


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[Assistant] The event tomorrow or today, whatever you watched last year. Yesterday, technically. Yesterday, whatever. Uhm, so, well, we don't know specifically, but this could become moot. But, yeaah, I mean, I don't, like, to answer your question, I really, I think probably the Xbox is probably the only one I would think to upgrade because I'm still running on a 1S.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I, I would love to be able to kind of get into that next gen. I'm kind of one of those, I'll jump a generation, but I think with games, it's a little bit different, so I think...


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[Assistant] It ultimately doesn't matter. Also the fact it's like, I mean, you just gotta take a look at Apple. They have the multiple names for all their new iPads, iPhones, whatever. And it's like, okay, just give me, just give me the, just whatever's the new thing. I just, I don't care. Just give it to me.


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[Assistant] I mean, it just basically, without spoiling, uh, the show, uh, I'm just saying The Expanse, um, uh, it kind of, uh, I'm expecting that to happen. If you, if you watch the show, you know, but, uh, we'll see.


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[Assistant] It's very, the first season's very hard sci-fi, like it's like really into the science, I mean the books are kind of into the science, like it's really, like you have to like almost need subtitles to be able to watch so much, just cause of the, the lore and the universe of that, of the world.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but if, like, I honestly think it's actually one of the, one of the best, uh, shows on, online. So, uhm, it gets better and, uh, I would say Thomas Jane is amazing in the show. So, I'm all for some more Punisher action.


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[Assistant] Yes. As the movie Contact basically shows us, it's just like, if there isn't any, it's a lot of wasted space.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would say, you know, because it's, it's dreams, but yeah.


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[Assistant] You may have noticed already that there's been some uploads that haven't been going off and basically as a result of everything, we decided as a team to take some time away to kind of process everything and uh, and you know, figure out how to proceed and do everything like that. So that did cause, you know, some, some ripples in our production and things kind of got slipped. And so.


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[Assistant] You're probably gonna see over the next, you know, couple weeks or maybe even months, the effects of kind of that, which are gonna be things changing and we're gonna be trying new things and, you know, just, you're gonna see things, it's not gonna be the status quo, uhm, but that's just how it is, so.


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[Assistant] Everyone's working really, really, really hard and busting their butts to keep making really cool stuff to keep entertaining you guys and, uh, make sure, uh, everything is fun and exciting and really cool. So I'm really proud of everyone and I can't wait to see what's in store.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but it's sexy too, like, cause you know, you can draw something that's nice, a beautiful image of a bridge, but it's not sexy. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Well wait until he finds anyone, like any character, whenever they talk, every single god, cause the games, the premise, I'll just jump in with the premise. You play as Sanchez.


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[Assistant] Well, you got hit by a lot of bombs, lost a lot of health in this minibus room. Uhm, but you play as Zagreus, the son of Hades, who is the god of the underworld, the Greek god of the underworld. And, uh, you are trying to escape to try and find your mother.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but unfortunately because of the way gods and stuff works, you're confined to the underworld, so everyone's trying to keep you down there, and your dad's trying to keep you down there, but you're meeting all kinds of gods. The Olympians are escorting you, uh, or giving you power-ups because, you know,


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[Assistant] It had some amazing voice acting in this game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause I had played it early access and it was, it only had the three world, the three biomes or whatever and they were still adding new gods. I think like Hermes was a new god that they had just added. Um, but uh, but now it's, it's a full game. It's a full game that you can play that is totally deserving of your money.


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[Assistant] You can give them gifts of ambrosia, which will make the gods like you, uhm.


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[Assistant] But, there isn't, there isn't too much dating. There's a little sexual tension between Zagreus and Thanatos for sure. Uhm, but.


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[Assistant] I don't think someone will probably leap down my throat, but I'm pretty sure Zagreus is an original character for this game.


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[Assistant] They ascribe personalities to other mythological characters. So like right now, John is fighting, uh, one of the furies, you know, being the, you're familiar with the furies of, you know, Greek mythology. This just happens to be one whose name is Meg.


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[Assistant] And she, you know, she's- Also hot. Yeah, also hot and uh, burdened with having to-


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[Assistant] And, uh, no, I mean, because the whole game is trying to escape the underworld and everything's trying to keep you in the underworld. So you die over and over again. And so you're, you're trying to escape and then you get almost to the end and then you die.


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[Assistant] Cause the game gets significantly harder the more, the further away from the underworld you get and then you respawn back at the beginning. So each one counts as a run.


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[Assistant] But every single time, the best thing about it is, like John was saying, you don't lose your progress every single run, then...


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[Assistant] Unlocks new things so you can talk to a whole cast of characters that live down in the, uh, down in Hades's kingdom and stuff and.


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[Assistant] Tartarus. There's all kinds of people you discover along the way and so every run you're checking on them.


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[Assistant] Exactly. I beat it on my 20, I think it was my 23rd run, was the first time I managed to escape the underworld.


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[Assistant] But then, but then the game opens up again and then you find out, oh, there's still so much more to do. So, but that's Hades in a nutshell.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, so I don't know what the, I don't know what the average is. Oh, there's an urn down there that you can break to get gold. Uhm, right down there, shiny. To the right.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, so there's stuff, every single run you're getting like boons from gods which power up your abilities and power up your weapons and stuff like that, but all of that is temporary. As soon as you die, you lose everything, you reset back to zero, with the exception of, uhm, your, what are they?


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[Assistant] Well there's, there's keys which can unlock, uh, different, uh, power-ups that you can feed a dark energy into to get stronger.


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[Assistant] People twitch enthusiasm, which is an indicator, but not the only indicator of player base. So is it the kind of thing where everyone has just officially stopped playing Fall Guys or are we just not seeing it in our circles as much anymore? Cause I could still see it.


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[Assistant] I mean, Fortnite is like one of those things where if you would ask me is Fortnite still popular, I would, I would say no.


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[Assistant] This would always be one of those riff, like, if you like, whatever, you know, any of these other games that are, cause you know, like we said, Unfortunate Spaceman is essentially a more complex version of this same game, right?


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[Assistant] And I think the simplicity is what's winning so many people over. But, uh, yeaah, it is, it is one of those things where it just takes the most simple party game like mentality.


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[Assistant] But it makes it accessible to anyone and plus the quarantine. I'm genuinely curious if we're still going to see this trend of big game of the month or whatever.


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[Assistant] After we can go back to our normal lives.


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[Assistant] Because I feel like everyone is kind of gathered on the same routine. Uhm, and while I-


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[Assistant] I don't remember where I had that. I still feel like there's something, something other requirement. There's some other requirement, like, you can have these things where big streamers play it, but there still requires another X factor of something.


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[Assistant] Uhm, to really create the perfect storm for something like that to happen.


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[Assistant] Do you think maybe it has to do with how a place like Japan has adopted their mobile technology differently? Like with iPhones being less of the standard here, like maybe maybe so much of the


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[Assistant] Breakout as well, but in Japan, since they have a bunch of...


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[Assistant] You know, I feel like in Japan the phone world is a little bit different.


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[Assistant] I don't think, I don't think iPhones are as popular there as they are here. Where it's like basically you have an iPhone or an other phone.


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[Assistant] Not in Among Us, not in Among Us. I feel like in all the times we've played, I've probably only been the imposter like three times. There are way more- John Holland has been the imposter more times than I have been the imposter.


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[Assistant] You want it to be hard to suss out and you want it to create unnecessary conflicts? And Secret Hitler is so good because


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[Assistant] You, there's so many variable factors where something gets, you know, it could be the chancellor who's mixing things up. It could be the president. You never know where the things are coming from that they're going to basically like suck you in. And I've seen, I've seen old friends.


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[Assistant] Like, nearly leap across the table and like...


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[Assistant] The game is also based on sound, so it's hard for the monster to see when there isn't sound, and so the mice can squeak, which will cause little dings to pop up on the map to help keep their little friends invisible.


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[Assistant] Like, Elise and I have so many things that are shitty about our setup of having to be back to back in terms of audio recording and even stuff like this where it's like, you know, we have to crowd into one computer to be able to do certain recordings and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, not being able to play Phasmophobia in like the way it should be played where you're isolated except for the radio is like...


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[Assistant] We've talked about it before, uhm, but there is this...


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[Assistant] Before Achievement Haunter, there was an MTV show.


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[Assistant] Uhm, where they basically, it was like a reality show and they would take a group and they'd put them in a scary location and they'd give them a bunch of challenges. Oh. But, and it was great, and I remember, again, before Achievement Hunter being like, we should steal this idea, uhm, but a lot of the challenges were very simple. Like, it would be in an abandoned prison.


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[Assistant] And uh, and so they would tell you a horror story about the abandoned prison and then you'd have challenges, but like one of the challenges was just like straight up, go to this point on your GPS, it'll be a room that has a chair in it. Like a lone chair. And then it'll be like,


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[Assistant] Sit in the chair, and then we're gonna turn off the radio for 90 minutes.


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[Assistant] But like, that stuff was so cool, just the silent, the anticipation of fear is like such a cool thing and games that feel like they don't need to overstimulate you.


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[Assistant] Like that really just trusts the ambiance of the game. It's like really hard to come by and really impressive.


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[Assistant] And I think it's, I think it's interesting too that it's coming, we're getting these stuff from these small devs. These small indie devs because they're just focused on the, what is the game?


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[Assistant] Well, but even concept games like high concept games like say Evolve. I've been thinking about Evolve a lot lately because like Evolve had a great premise which was this asymmetrical system of one person plays the baddie and another person and the other team work together to stop the baddie. Uhm, and, but it's just interesting that it didn't


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[Assistant] It didn't catch on because it felt like there was too much. They put too much into it.


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[Assistant] But then you have something like Dead by Daylight which just stood the test of time because I think maybe it's a more pure gaming experience.


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[Assistant] There was like phases to things and like, you know, the monster spent so much time going around eating berries or whatever, like, or eating corpses and stuff. Cause they were trying to like flesh it out, like really build out this big game as opposed to just going one person plays as a monster, the other plays as a team and they have to fight it out.


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[Assistant] Real quick, John, you are about to fight Theseus and Asterius. Correct. Have you ever fought them before?


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[Assistant] Focus, focus Asterius, because all Theseus will do will just throw his spear at you from a distance. So you just focus him, hide behind the pillars, and then once Asterius is done, then you can focus Theseus. Good luck.


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[Assistant] Someone can do a really good impression that makes all other impressions accessible. So Jermaine Clement basically like unlocked David Bowie.


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[Assistant] No. Uh, no, he's blocking your way. Jon has reached the bridge of sticks. And uh, Cerberus is blocking his path like a good boy. Cerberus is a good boy.


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[Assistant] Where a good story is showing how someone can overcome and become better and stronger and despite what everyone tells them they are, they show that there's something else. As opposed to maybe Alita and Mulan where it's like, you built magic.


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[Assistant] And it's gonna be the first year in forever that Charlie Brown pumpkin Halloween isn't gonna be on.


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[Assistant] You ever think about the fact that you're probably older than Charlie Brown's parents?


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[Assistant] Which means that your wire bowl talk is even worse than theirs. Cause as you age, it gets worse. That's it.


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[Assistant] All games should add, uh, local co-op to, uh, to it. There. I said it. I'm brave enough.


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[Assistant] He's hot. Go get Aphrodite's aid. You can charm them. They'll work for you, John. Even it works on the bosses.


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[Assistant] Because it looks really scary. But I do, I, oh, I'm constantly, just for work and stuff, digging around on Steam to try and find potential games, searching in genres and stuff, and we were planning a lot of Halloween stuff, I was like, oh, Halloween stuff. Uhm, but one game that always keeps popping up is World of Horror.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because it's about a town and the more you explore the town the more the town degrades and like falls apart and the people there like go crazy and weird and stuff like that and has, it has just on Steam alone the imagery for some of the stuff is like really creepy and so, uh,


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[Assistant] I'm gonna recommend that having not played it because I'm too cowardly. Uhm, but it does, it definitely looks, I read reviews as well and people seem to support that it does definitely have a creepo vibe and might be a fun thing to play on a lonely dark Halloween night.


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[Assistant] Stay in. Order two dozen cookies, variety cookies to your home, wherever it may be. That's what I'm going to be doing for Halloween.


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[Assistant] Hey, uh, before we begin, I would like to send a message to everyone that's watching or listening.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I wrote this out, so just bear with me. I initially wanted to do a podcast that had nothing to do with the quarantine to take people's minds off of the situation. But that proved difficult because there's no fucking news. So instead, I decided that we could focus on how we're all adapting to and overcoming the situation.


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[Assistant] Great job. Keep us spoke post and Mint Mobile for sponsoring this podcast. We'll be hearing more from them later in the show. Now, first things first, how's everybody doing? How's your week been?


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[Assistant] Uhm, how are you doing? I'm actually, so my therapist has me this.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm doing wonderful because this is how I live my life. Day in, day out. This, like, you know, this, this, uh, this quarantine, it's the best time of my life.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, I was just saying like that I feel like I'm handling a lot better than a lot of other people because most people go outside and like have social lives and stuff. Whereas I never did. So.


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[Assistant] Well, the Mic Gang was one of the few benefits of interacting with other humans.


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[Assistant] Uh, how have you guys been like occupying your time? Have you basically just been watching a buttload of stuff? Or have you been trying to mix it up? Uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the very first day that we did work from home, it was the day before California announced like,


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[Assistant] And we're actually doing like a quarantine thing. It was, we were testing it to see if it was viable. And at like four in the afternoon, I was like, why am I so fucking angry? And I realized that I hadn't eaten at all that entire day and I was just sitting there like,


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[Assistant] I eat breakfast at eight thirty. I eat, I get up and eat lunch at noon and then I get up and eat dinner at like six cause I, I never feel hungry. I only realize that I'm hungry after I've like punched a hole through a hole. So, yeah, metaphorically.


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[Assistant] I've definitely, I've definitely just been wearing like, uh, you know, casual bottoms. Cause, you know, we've been filming and everything, so I've been wearing shirts and stuff, but I've just been in like,


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[Assistant] Is it? So the first thing, uh, that I want us to kind of, or that we can, you know, talk about is,


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[Assistant] The future of content creation during this pandemic because currently,


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[Assistant] We're still getting, you know, everyone's backlog, like if you looked at, you know, our fun house channel, a lot of those videos is still us in the studio because, you know, we shoot weeks in advance and the same goes for, you know, Netflix and all these other places that.


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[Assistant] You know, they're still releasing content because it was all shot, but, you know.


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[Assistant] We're going to reach a point where everything's been spent and then we're going to either have a, uh, a lack of content or people are going to adapt, like we have, uhm, and start making, uh,


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[Assistant] In quarantine content, so if you guys have seen, uh, the Half-Life Alex video or the Magic GTA series, uh, you should know that Funhaus is at tippy-top, baby, still truckin', woo!


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[Assistant] Have you ever seen that video of that lady that stands on a chair while juggling things and also spinning plates? That's me. That's Elise.


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[Assistant] So I think, uh, the first kind of content that we saw


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[Assistant] In quarantine, or what, like what's the, what, what, what's a phrase we can have for like the content that's being created from home, like work from home type stuff. We should come up with like a, like a buzzword.


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[Assistant] Homepro, there you go, homepro. So the first kind of homepro content that we saw was from the late night talk shows because


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[Assistant] Uh, as most of you guys know, those are recorded basically daily. Don't they, they record them in the afternoon and then they air in the evening or they air like at night. That's generally, and then I think on Thursdays, most places, most of those shows, they'll shoot Thursday and Friday on Thursday. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But it's generally like a day turnaround. Uhm, and so I don't know if you guys have seen any of the stuff from them. It's very weird to watch a comedic monologue without an audience.


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[Assistant] And I thought it was pretty cool. Uhm, a lot of musicians have been recording from their studios so they can still have musical guests, but it's just like Billy Joel, Joel Armstrong.


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[Assistant] Maybe we should start adding laugh tracks to funhouse videos?


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[Assistant] You sent me a link that Miley Cyrus has like an Instagram live show or something where she just basically sits in her bedroom on Instagram live and then has like Selena Gomez call in.


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[Assistant] Well, I was going to say this is, I think, the beginning of kind of a wave of that kind of stuff. More people are going to get bored. More people are going to be like, well, you know, all of my movies or TV shows aren't working, so I might as well make something. And then, you know, probably a lot, you know, a lot of people who aren't celebrities are also kind of doing that.


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[Assistant] His stuff was actually kind of funny because, uh, I saw a few of them, they're just short little like one minute sketches, uh, and there was one where it's him.


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[Assistant] With a boom mic and he cut himself into like different movies.


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[Assistant] Hey, and the door is wide enough to fit that segway, so come on over. Segway.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so like one of those celebrities is John Krasinski. He has a, uh, some good news show where the first episode was just him interviewing Steve Carell about the office, which is wonderful. The second episode was,


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[Assistant] Reuniting the cast of Hamilton to sing for a superfan.


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[Assistant] Man, that's the question. So for those of you that don't know Wrestlemania, which is like, you know, the big wrestling show that they have every year.


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[Assistant] Every year or something, aired on Sunday and I guess last night as well.


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[Assistant] Saturday and Sunday. The two part event. Oh, Saturday and Sunday. It was so big they couldn't fit it in one night.


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[Assistant] I mean, I, when I clicked around the VOD of WrestleMania, I clicked into a point, Elise, where there were puppets.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that sounds nuts. Sorry, sorry guys. I bombarded you with that. No, no, no, no. I, I, I put it in here. The passion was what I was hoping for you.


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[Assistant] Give a recap because I have no interest in watching it.


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[Assistant] Uh, one other thing, uh, before we hear from our sponsor is that I guess because the NBA has been cancelled, uh, they've replaced it with NBA players playing NBA 2K and it's being broadcast on ESPN2? What?


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[Assistant] I was like, when I, when I, uh, Rick sent me the article and I was like, oh, that's kind of interesting. And I clicked and I was like, where can you watch this? Like on, on the internet somewhere? No, it's being broadcast on television in replacement of the NBA season.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, uh, we're, I think now we're gonna move on to, uh, feet.


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[Assistant] It's sort of like Animal Crossing, except guess what? You get to pick your villagers and you get to pick where your island is. That's right. We're playing Corrin Dreamhouse.


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[Assistant] It's March 2020. The quarantine is announced. You are allowed to choose the location of your quarantine house as well as who you are stuck in the house with. You must choose one reality TV star, one famous actor, one historical figure, and one


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[Assistant] Fictional character and, I keep saying and, one famous animal. That's right. It's Corrin Dreamhouse. Hit me with that theme song again.


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[Assistant] Just don't worry about it and maybe change your password because I'm going to figure it out.


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[Assistant] So for me, I chose the best place in the world to spend your quarantine. That's right. It's the San Diego Zoo. The world famous San Diego Zoo. Have all of you been?


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[Assistant] Well there's, there's two San Diego, well it's not, there's San Diego Zoo and the Wild Animal Park, which is now called Safari Park for some stupid reason.


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[Assistant] Uh, it appears someone edited my entry. Uh, my reality TV star was going to be Anthony Bourdain. That's right.


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[Assistant] Uh, I definitely chose a reality TV cook because you know that they'd just be like, all right, I'll just cook for everyone.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that's what Anthony Bourdain would do. He would feed me.


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[Assistant] Not anymore. All that is, is proximity infatuation. You get her, you separate them.


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[Assistant] Because Anthony Bourdain's in the kitchen, I bring out the food. I say I cook this for you, my love. Mi amor.


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[Assistant] Alright, well, if she doesn't want to hang out with me, my historical figure definitely will. That's right. It's Richard Feynman. Uh... Dick Feynman?


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[Assistant] Definitely, definitely. I know a lot about the universe.


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[Assistant] Uhm, for those of you that don't know, Richard Feynman worked on the Manhattan Project and while he was there, he figured out everyone's, uh,


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[Assistant] Are those called padlocks? He figured out all the padlock combinations. And no one knew how. But I know how.


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[Assistant] Uh, and my fictional character I'd hang out with, of course, because you gotta keep it chill during the quarantine, is the dude.


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[Assistant] I couldn't, even as like a six year old, I would turn that show on and go, I can't watch this. That lady's voice hurts my face. Uh, and of course famous animal, Coco the gorilla. Cause I've always wanted to learn sign language. Of course. Great.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and Anna de Armas loves gorillas, so I could- Well, she loves you. That she does. In this fantasy world, she definitely does. Uhm. Nice. So Lindsay, what about you?


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[Assistant] Fact sh- this is a fact. Had a 12 pack.


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[Assistant] Lindsay, why did you choose the desert?


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[Assistant] Just so you know, when I was a little kid and I saw Titanic in theaters, I busted out laughing out loud when that guy hit the propeller and I was entertained by my family. It's funny.


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[Assistant] That's the whole concept behind this corn dream.


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[Assistant] Have you looked at your wireless bill lately? Because you're probably paying too much. Sure, back in the early 2000s certain providers had better coverage, but these days everybody's offering the same high quality nationwide coverage. So why then are you paying more for the same service? It doesn't make sense!


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[Assistant] I've been using Mint Mobile myself for a while now and nothing has changed. It's the same phone, same phone number.


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[Assistant] Everywhere I've been, my service has been steady and fast. The only thing that has changed has been how much I'm paying for my phone.


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[Assistant] Like, it, it, it just makes sense. To get your new wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month and get the plan shipped to your door for free, go to mintmobile.com slash dude. That's mintmobile.com slash dude.


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[Assistant] Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com slash dude.


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[Assistant] Alright, Grandma, I'm back. I thought you were dead. Alright, Elise, we're back. Let's hear about your Corrin dream house.


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[Assistant] You know, one can dream. I really wish that, uh, I was, I was in a house with Anthony Bourdain and Anna de Armas right now, but, you know, it's just a dream.


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[Assistant] Uhm, now we are about out of time. Uhm, but before we go, I thought that maybe we could share some ideas on how to live your best quarantine life. Uh, because just cause you're stuck at home doesn't mean you have to be stuck.


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[Assistant] Like a drone. You know what I'm saying? Don't drone on. Live it up.


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[Assistant] Uh, so this is something we actually talked about yesterday on the, uh, you're the asshole, uh, show that we did, James, which is self-quarantine doesn't mean never go outside. Um, you can still, you know,


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[Assistant] Being careful to stay away from others, uh, you can still take walks or bike rides. You can still be active and healthy.


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[Assistant] And, which is, this is how it came up, you can jump rope if you wanted to. Outside. You don't have to do it in your apartment where your roommate will want to kill you. Uh.


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[Assistant] James, do you want to talk at all about the importance of physical health?


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[Assistant] Like normally I just ignore everyone, but, uh, yeah, lately on my walks and stuff, I'll be like, hello! Because it's just, I feel like because we're in this situation where


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[Assistant] Where we should really make the effort to like remind everyone and even strangers that we're all together we're all doing okay i mean even if we're struggling. Just you know.


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[Assistant] Have love for your neighbor. Basically, that's what we're saying.


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[Assistant] So another thing that, uh, just, I think we're at the end of our time here, so I just want to throw these out.


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[Assistant] One thing, try not watching or doing or anything. Just put on some music or like a soundscape of some waves and just lay down and stare at the ceiling. Cause I feel like, especially in this day and age, there's so much content to consume.


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[Assistant] Um, one other thing, and I know this isn't for everyone, but if you have a smartphone and $30 to spare, you can at least check it out. VR. Uh, it sounds stupid and I know...


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[Assistant] Uh, a lot of people don't like VR, but if you are stuck in your house and you can't go anywhere, VR is a great way of getting out.


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[Assistant] I, you know, if you have a Vive or an Oculus, there's thousands of, you know, things you can do with it. But even if you just have a smartphone, you can buy one of those. This is actually how I first tried VR because I didn't know if I wanted to spend a bunch of money on a Vive. It's like a, it's a headset thing that you slide your phone into. Most smartphones are compatible with it.


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[Assistant] And it's a little janky, but if you're just trying it out and like, if you just want to check it out, it's actually really easy to do and it uses the gyroscope and you can like,


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[Assistant] Go to safari places and you can go all over the world with like either 3D video or 360 video or they have like digital little like scenes that you can just check out.


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[Assistant] And there's a lot of social, or not a lot, but there's a number of social VR.


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[Assistant] I don't think it works with phones, but like there's VR chat, which is ridiculous, but you can actually get out and go and interact with strangers and stuff. There's another one called Big Screen. I actually read about it in this Kotaku article.


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[Assistant] Where he says he went to one room and it was called shut up and dance and everyone was in there.


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[Assistant] You know, dancing with their avatars and everything but he just kind of embraced it.


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[Assistant] And had a blast dancing around with everybody. Uhm, and he actually got lost because it was on this, uh, it was up in the skyscraper and he was just looking out over the city and he kind of forgot that he was in VR until an ambulance drove by and then he was like...


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[Assistant] I even know how to load up custom avatars onto my VR chat character, so we should do it. Alright, let's do it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well I just want to thank everyone for hanging out.


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[Assistant] Here today, uhm, and thank our sponsors Bespoke Host and Mint Mobile. Uhm, and yeaah, I guess that's it everybody. Thank you so much and I guess we'll see you next week.


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[Assistant] I mean, I mean, probably because you're a blood and I'm a crit and people just feel like they gotta pick sides, you know how it goes.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, exactly. Jacob, Edward, I don't know these names, but people just feel like, you know, it's tribal mentality, you gotta pick a side. Here's the thing, no matter what side you pick, like the Alien vs Predator franchise, we win.


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[Assistant] Wow, that was impressive. I, I, I think you should take that on the road. But you know, don't. Not right now.


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[Assistant] What flavor is the pink starburst based upon?


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[Assistant] It's a lot different than the toilet cleaner that I also drink, but it's just also blue, but, you know, what goes down.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're doing the house cleaning around here and I got the one with the tube that has a little hook. So you go underneath the toilet and you wrap it around.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I didn't realize how many, I think if you don't assert your dominance,


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[Assistant] You have them, you probably do, and they're, they're, I think they're actually great housemates, especially the daddy longlegs, the kinkiest of the spider kingdom.


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[Assistant] They, cause they, they don't bite you, right? They just kill flies.


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[Assistant] I was going to say it's the final shot from the movie Enemy, or there's just a giant, I don't want to spoil it, sorry.


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[Assistant] Well, that's, that's what it was like when I saw Battlestar Galactica for the first time. I was like, wow, they're in this, how'd they build this future city? And like, nah, it's Toronto. It kind of, it kind of looks like if the nineties was the future.


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[Assistant] Oh, well if you watch like, was it Dark Knight Rises? I think they shot in like downtown LA, New York, Chicago, Toronto.


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[Assistant] It's just an amalgamation of every city ever made. Like at one point there's like, I don't know, they're walking by a Hong Kong structure. Who cares? It's just, it was just a Chris Nolan wanting to go on vacation.


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[Assistant] Take it all the way back, Elise. Who's Jeff Keighley?


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[Assistant] No, I know, I know. We have a... We all love Jeff. I know you have a long-term working relationship. We have more of a recent working relationship with him.


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[Assistant] In the sense that we've been judges for the game wars for the past couple years and then


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[Assistant] He's been on our podcast, he's a gent, he's a really nice guy.


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[Assistant] He cares about the video games and the kids, and not in that order.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was like Goldfinger and was it Rage Against the Machine was in the second one?


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[Assistant] It was last year, we went to the YouTube gamer summit thing or whatever it was. It was, I think it was usually the stuff Bruce would go to, but it was right around the time he was departing.


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[Assistant] I'm not used to these events where I have to network and talk to people.


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[Assistant] Keep this to yourself, you know, super secret NDA thing. Do you want to interview Tony Hawk? And I was like, for what, a job? Like, what's good? What are we doing here? And, um, she was like, well, out of everyone here, like.


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[Assistant] I think, I think you, you've done this sort of stuff before, so like I think you'd be a good call for this, so like kind of more on the mature level. She called me old, I'm older, yea.


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[Assistant] I have a funny soap story related to Tony Hawk. I'll tell you after this. But uhm, yeah, basically they were just saying like, hey, uhm.


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[Assistant] We, we expect you to be professional and this sort of stuff and we think you'd be a good fit for this. So, uh, we did a phone call and we, we just sort of talked about it and like they just, it was kind of weird because it was like on one side it's Tony's people and then on the other side it's YouTube's people and they go, all right, kids have fun, but everyone's listening in on you having a phone call.


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[Assistant] Hawk, I like, I don't know. Let's, let's talk about stuff, but uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just basically did the thing where I'm like, yeah, I think there's a parallel between online content creators and what you did for skateboarding. It's obviously not the same thing, but you did something


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[Assistant] When no one else was really doing it and you pioneered an entire.


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[Assistant] Industry around it and it's a lot of it is making a career out of your hobby and I think that.


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[Assistant] I think after we kind of had that discussion we clicked and it made sense and then I also said Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 was the best one and he agreed. Uhm, so that was good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we only met briefly in Palm Springs when we did the thing.


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[Assistant] He mostly talked, like I had a few questions, uh, YouTube gave me a couple things to say, but like I basically just sat up on stage and he just talked the whole time and it was just like, he's a really well-spoken, refreshing individual. Like he has, he has a great personal story.


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[Assistant] He, he kind of hinted at something. My assumption was he was working on a completely new franchise. I didn't know they were doing a remake. Uhm, but yeaah, he uhm, oh.


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[Assistant] I think someone from Stadia or something was like, hey, we should totally talk. And he's like, I can't really right now because of things that are in flux. And I'm like, that's code for you're working on a video game. Hey, I got that. Obviously couldn't say anything back then, nor would I. Wires.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I, I kinda, I didn't know it was gonna be so soon. I was expecting this to be like a year from now, uh, from like now-ish. But pretty cool that they're, they're still working with the franchise and it's not that really crappy remake that they did a little while ago. I don't know if you guys played that one, but it was garbage.


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[Assistant] I feel like kids always skateboarded when I was growing up, but it wasn't until yeah, like Tony Hawk came out when I was in like middle school, high school, when it started to like really blow up. And that was around the time, like it was this perfect storm of the skate culture and the acceptance of skateboarding had become.


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[Assistant] Hit an all time high. Like I said, listening to Tony Hawk talk about it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, from his perspective and, you know, doing this stuff back in the 70s and 80s when he was like made fun of for doing it and was just called like horrific names.


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[Assistant] And, uh, just stuck with it and then like got to a point where he got to like skateboard at the White House and like that's, that's a pretty awesome story. Uhm, but.


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[Assistant] It wasn't cool to skateboard, and now it's the coolest thing you can do next to doing drugs.


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[Assistant] I think yeaah, it's gonna be a fun, nostalgic, you know, I'm curious to see what it's gonna look like months from now when people make some really crazy...


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[Assistant] Skate ramps and stuff. I've never been crazy good at Tony Hawk. I've enjoyed it.


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[Assistant] Passively and I think it sort of the series peaked for me at three.


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[Assistant] And then it, it, you know, it's hard to keep up with the yearly releases, but uhm, yeah, it's been a while since I played Tony Hawk games. I'm, I'm stoked.


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[Assistant] That was a weird E3 where right before that, I always remember this, they showed the product demo for the Kinect, which was at the time called Project Natal.


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[Assistant] And in it, they show a kid bring a skateboard into the living room and he scans it and then he's like skateboarding in the living room.


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[Assistant] And then right after that, Tony Hawk walks out with a stupid fucking toy skateboard and goes, this is the future. And it's like, but you just said it's not. You, you're going to.


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[Assistant] That 12 year old model said you can just scan it, I don't get it, and then yeaah, that thing was dangerous.


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[Assistant] There were so many Tony Hawk games too, they sort of over flooded the market.


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[Assistant] The ones people remember fondly but having sort of the mechanics of the ones that.


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[Assistant] I guess people sort of, I don't know what the Tony Hawk community, if there is one, uh, says, but, you know, like it, from my understanding, a lot of people really enjoyed it. Like three was sort of like when it peaked like mechanically, but I'm sure there's more nuance and more complicated.


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[Assistant] Tricks out there that I know nothing. Maybe project 8 was when I got the best item.


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[Assistant] First of all, the thing that solidified him as being one of the coolest people in the world was when I told him, I was like, well in high school I roller bladed and I was a loser and I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] You keep going. I'll sign your goose bump.


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[Assistant] Um, but then I was talking to him about like, oh yeah, I remember like I saved up for some soap shoes back in the day and he's like, oh, check this out. And he pulled out his phone.


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[Assistant] And he's showing me this clip from, he has like a, a Tony Hawk ride channel, his YouTube channel that I think he did with like, in conjunction with YouTube, they paid a bunch of money into it or whatever, but like,


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[Assistant] There's this one part in the video where he's doing this half pipe trick and then he just slides across the rail cause he's wearing one soap shoe.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and there was enough people, the soap shoes came and went for those who don't know their


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[Assistant] It was a short-lived thing, if you've ever played Sonic Adventure 2 you absolutely know what they are, but they're shoes with grind plates on the bottom because baby you just need to grind all the time.


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[Assistant] And they got a lot of sand and crap stuck in there and they're very expensive, but they're awesome.


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[Assistant] Um, but yeah, he found like a guy on eBay and bought like the one size 12 or 13 soap shoe he could find. So he could just do this one trick. And then like people in the comments were flipping out. It was like, how did he magically slide with his shoe? I was like, that's pretty odd. And he was, he was like, yeah, I don't think anyone I've ever seen anyone do anything like this. I don't.


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[Assistant] I don't know why I didn't catch on, I'm like, cause soaps were made fun of, I think.


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[Assistant] Oh, well, anyway, yes, super excited. Tony Hawk and Soap Shoes are coming back, baby.


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[Assistant] I also, that was so long ago, how many people do you think who worked on that Game Boy Advance version are now working on this remake? That's true. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's kind of, I mean, man, there are so many playbooks that you can pull from.


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[Assistant] Of how not to do this, and there, there, there is no proven method of how this works, cause...


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[Assistant] There's like the Yahoo originals thing that we all, you know, laugh at, but like.


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[Assistant] They, they got community which already had a following, a dedicated following that would go anywhere and that wasn't enough to save that platform.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I get apples in their walled garden thing, but it's like, it's, there's all these different ways of like, let's make it a club, I guess, I don't know, and not make it able, make it easy for people to watch in any way. Now they're just giving it away for a year because they want people to watch it, but.


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[Assistant] Like the 10 minute chunk thing is tough too because it's like, well, who are you competing with? The biggest free platform on the planet, YouTube.


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[Assistant] And like, unless you have that one thing, that Tiger King or something like that.


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[Assistant] You know, Netflix started with licensed content and it was just sort of like an experiment. Like, let's just see how this works to come out, coming out of the gate swinging with all this, you know, yeah, whatever it is, uh, uh, quality, what do you call it? It's like, uh,


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[Assistant] Premium, yeah, premium, VOD, content, whatever it is, the, whatever we hear in these meetings over and over. Um, and then also the name is really bad. I'm just going to put that out there.


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[Assistant] It's Jeffrey Katzenberg, the guy who screamed at all those animators until they kicked him out and he tried to take a dead man's job cause he had-


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[Assistant] He can't read a fucking room. He's a psychopath. He started, he's the guy who made Shrek. You're like, okay, these are all good things, I guess. Uh, meanwhile, Disney Plus and HBO Max, um, I, I, and I know we're, we're part of the


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[Assistant] Those in my opinion are the only ways you can even go up against the juggernaut that is Netflix is you have to have a


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean Hulu was doing that stuff a while ago too with, uh, and then Netflix with Friends and then Seinfeld with Hulu, like.


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[Assistant] But those things cost billions of dollars and when Quibi's entire infrastructure was 1.5 billion, it's a huge number, but in the grand scheme of it, it's not enough for them to be a competitor.


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[Assistant] You, you hear these things and like, I dunno, I'm, I'm always, once again, this is coming from our weird world. Cause we're, we're a very.


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[Assistant] Microscopic version of all this with RT first, but it's all, everything we do is personality based and it's a lot, it's a lot smaller, but it's also a lot safer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like uhm, it's, it's, there is a free version and you can ideally watch it anywhere and it's also, there's other ways of watching it instead of like,


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[Assistant] No, John, you watch it on your phone or you watch it on your Apple TV plus and that's all the only way you can do. People are pointing out so you can watch Apple TV on like an LG or Samsung or something like that, but.


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[Assistant] Uh, from my perspective as a consumer, I'm used to everything on Apple just only being on Apple.


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[Assistant] Uh, that goes for trying to watch their press conferences, where they're like, I'm sorry, you're on a PC, you can't watch this. They're like, okay, I guess I'll do the VLC stream thing, you jerkasses. But, they love their walled garden, sorry, don't mean to rip on it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but we've, our work is done. We've sabotaged. We gain nothing from speaking more or less about this. This is purely enthusiast media at this point.


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[Assistant] We finally did it. We're finally, I'm finally doing something that isn't standing in line behind someone who met Arnold Schwarzenegger once. It's great.


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[Assistant] The best part is he doesn't move. He gets kicked at me. He's more of like, are you okay? Have you seen this video, John?


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[Assistant] Random asshole. You drop kicked him? No. No. Some, some young kid in...


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[Assistant] Another country, I believe. I'm not sure where. It doesn't matter, but.


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[Assistant] Arnold's at like a fundraising event and some kid just runs up and jump kicks him in the back.


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[Assistant] And like, the human tree that he is, he is-


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[Assistant] Unshaken. Like, like, a breeze might as well have flown by, but the dude's sixty-something, you know? He's in his seventies, right? Seventy, oh my god, yeah.


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[Assistant] That's my Arnold. I don't know if it was clear. That was good. That was a good Arnold. Uh, this is pretty cool. Yeah, no, it's rad. I mean, we...


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[Assistant] It was like the hope was that, that it was gonna happen and so like, I'm glad that, because like, we were doing voice work for this stuff early on. They told me it was temp, uh, didn't know I was gonna be in the final.


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[Assistant] Uh, they just, they, it was these really nice game developers poked their head outside and said, you there boy, what day is it? And I had my little crutch.


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[Assistant] I have to take myself out of it in a weird way because I'm like, I didn't, I wasn't involved with the development.


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[Assistant] Um, but I know those guys and I know, you know, like Jordan and Gerritsen and Chuck and those guys were like, I've met some of the concept artists. Name dropping.


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[Assistant] These are people I've known for a long time, so I'm like, I'm rooting for them, and I'm like, I want you to do well, and I know there are people who are critical of the game.


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[Assistant] I know they're still working on it, but they're like, they are an indie team. They're very, it's a small group in Seattle. So I'm like.


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[Assistant] I, I, I have fun with it. I've been enjoying it. Uhm, James sort of described it perfectly where it's like, when you get in, it's like, it's, it's a five to ten minute game. You're in and out. And like, that's about all the time I have these days to play games. So I'm like, stuff like that in Room Terra are kind of nice when it's like, you can just jump in and out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it would have been awesome if, yeah, like Omar was back there, uh, just like in his box or like, you guys got milk?


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[Assistant] We're trying to figure out content that works in our current situation.


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[Assistant] And James came upon the custom CSGO maps. Have you played any of these, John, before?


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, yeaah, this is as far from pro CSGO as you can get. Uhm, but like, we, we played the, James found this thing where it's like, it's all very like, gothic inspired, except you're running around with, you know, tactical gloves on and a knife and an M40.


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[Assistant] It's, and it's like, weird Russian game developer, like, modern, done in his free time, so it's a lot of jump puzzles.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's pretty much what it is.


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[Assistant] I think the guide said something like, uh, this should only take 15 minutes to complete. Pretty sure we have a two hour recording from this monstrosity.


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[Assistant] Andy got a little spooked, yeaah. It's not, it's not super scary. Uhm, but also it's, I don't think it's procedural, so like, we would have to keep replaying it because if you all die, you start again.


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[Assistant] And so there, there were definite moments where he was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, this is, it's clear. Let's go, let's go. And then we fall into a pit of lava and I don't know, but, uh, I guess we're going to keep trying to do these things. Oh God, I, they're, they're stressful. So, uh, but yeah, kind of, kind of doing those is like, um, that's going to be like our Monday video for a little while, right? Yeah, I think so.


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[Assistant] Nice. Until, until we get back into like the, you know, the wheelhouse or uh,


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[Assistant] Those types of games. Uhm, I guess, are we gonna do Sin again? Is that happening?


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[Assistant] We, I, I know we have, we have a lot of, we have a lot of stuff where like we start and then we don't.


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[Assistant] I was gonna give you shit for editing during the recording of our podcast but I did actually update a thumbnail while we were doing this because James made a request that he have a monocle in the thumbnail and it is now done.


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[Assistant] If only they had a spell that could fix it and everything else.


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[Assistant] Are they remaking that? Are they? I think they're doing another Lord of the Wives.


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[Assistant] It should just put you in a closed system. So like it should allow you to post it, but it doesn't go anywhere.


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[Assistant] It's like a creed when they gave him his blog and it was just a word, it was just a word document.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so like it sends it and it's like, you say your thing and it gets, it gets thousands of retweets and all this stuff. But then the next day go, so like when you're drunk and angry or whatever, when you sent that stuff, it just, it just sort of puts you in a black box. Yeah. But then the next morning.


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[Assistant] They've done it, they've done it with fighting games as well. Uhm, but yeaah, it's like, if you're gonna pee in the sandbox, we're just gonna put you in the piss covered sandbox with everyone else. So, go play in there.


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[Assistant] I mean is this gonna have you cut down on your racial hatred? Or like is it gonna increase it? What do you think?


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[Assistant] The pilot wasn't in the book, the pilot was just in the movie and he's like, don't worry boys, they're coming. And then they're like, pilot's dead. What do we do? I'm like, maybe we kill the fat kid.


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[Assistant] I dunno, that's that hack author. Who is it? JD Salinger?


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[Assistant] Uhm, hey, real quick, I'm doing this real quick for Omar, the clap thing or whatever. Uhm, the stream went down. So Nicholas is asking me if we were recording. Was anyone recording? I'm recording.


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[Assistant] We had to read it in high school and then as a special gift we got to watch the Simpsons episode that it was based on. So that was cool. Nice. Yeah, that's my familiarity with it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, which is crazy because they just renewed Bob's Burgers for like season 11 or 10 or whatever it is. And it's like, it feels like that show has only been on for four years. It's weird.


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[Assistant] It's, I don't know, it's odd to think that that's been on for a decade, but here we are. Yeah, I, uh, at least you sent Jess and I that clip of, uh, Hank Azaria talking to Conan and like,


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[Assistant] That, if I, if I could have a dream podcast, it would just be.


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[Assistant] Conan talking about the Simpsons and talking with people who he worked with.


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[Assistant] Yeah, growing up, I had two books. It was like the first 20 years of SNL and then it was the Simpsons like seasons one through eight encyclopedia. And I was like, you know, pre internet stuff. So it's like, all I did was read about the history of SNL and read every tidbit that the Simpsons creators were willing to give me.


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[Assistant] I mean, you didn't know this, but Robert Downey Jr. was on one season of SNL, like half a season as a cast member.


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[Assistant] Really? Did you say we didn't know this? I don't think most people know that.


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[Assistant] I mean, all that was a product of its time, which is an awful sketch show, but I watched every episode.


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[Assistant] Ben Stiller is the hero of that movie, but they treat him as the villain.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, that's really, the dialogue's all like super realistic, right? Where they're like, they talk on top of each other and stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're, we just finished Dave last night.


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[Assistant] Yeah, FX is like killing it in terms of those shows that just like grip you, like Atlanta and now Dave. Uhm, but holy crap, I knew of Little Dicky and like kind of followed his stuff, but like that season was a ride.


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[Assistant] It's, it's a strangely meta show. Um, I'm, yeah, I saw a car drive by my window. So weird.


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[Assistant] I just saw, I just got a pop up and I gotta go, I gotta go spray my meat, so.


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[Assistant] Unintentionally. Yeah, I mean alcohol is involved, but I think that's only part of the problem.


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[Assistant] I've been pulling, I've been pulling thumbnails for that and watching you slowly devolve


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[Assistant] Through the episode of like, you're the host. And then when you're, when drunk Elise is like one of my favorite people in the world.


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[Assistant] Just, just all laughs and just all, all laughs and spite. It's so perfect.


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[Assistant] Oh man, just because you become like the sharpest tool in the knife drawer when you have a couple of drinks in you because it's like, I feel like you're just always holding back, you're like Superman. You're just like, I know I can.


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[Assistant] Thank you for hosting Elise. You did a fantastic job. I had a wonderful time. I love catching up with you guys.


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[Assistant] Why they're now called early rooster tickets, I'll never know. This company doesn't lean into its own branding enough.


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[Assistant] It's a conundrum, because you can do the thing where you vet all your guests, you know, the, the glove and two fingers for everybody. You know them very, like, Freddie's one where we know Freddie. We'll hang out with Freddie, see him at parties and stuff, and we go to parties, uhm, outside of work, and so we've known him for years.


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[Assistant] But then there's the, the guest like a Maurice LaMarche, who we obviously are fans. We don't know him.


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[Assistant] But we're thinking, oh, this person might be a great recurring guest. It's building a relationship.


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[Assistant] So it's, it's a, it's a tough call sometimes to make where you, you kind of go blind on a guest and you, and you're like, okay, well we like what this person does. We like their vibe. Let's try it out. Ron Funches came in and recorded with us recently. We had never met him before. Um, I just interacted with him on Twitter.


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[Assistant] And we don't have, it's not like we have a talent agent or someone that's also getting us guests. I think that there might be a perception with the audience that like we have a booker or something.


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[Assistant] And Felicia Day we also heard great things about, always seems like a pleasant person.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think it's refreshing to have a different perspective or just a different brain.


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[Assistant] We all, I think across our staff, we all get caught making the same jokes. We bring in someone


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[Assistant] Like, Freddy is a great example. I know we're always going to talk about Freddy because we love Freddy, but he's a great example because he's just kind of on his own wavelength and he, it's, you know, he's bringing a whole different


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[Assistant] Type of experience, perspective to stuff. Uh, my favorite guests are when...


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[Assistant] It's a guest with a great personality and we're not necessarily talking about, you know, them or what they do, but we're taking a topic and we're talking about that topic. So like the Xyborne clock.