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[Assistant] Like sort of, uh, analog, and then he's like, don't have a pterodactyl, man. And they're like, what an original idea. Like wow, it's like watching us on TV.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, those aren't the type of puppets they use in that Genesis music video, right?


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[Assistant] Becoming another character. Always. Yeah. Always.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I'll do the Sean Connery Impression Times and I should talk out of my mouth.


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[Assistant] The critic, the reference to the uh, Orson Welles, like the- I had never-


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[Assistant] I'd never even known those tapes existed until years later when YouTube does the comparison of, well, here's this and then here's this. It's like, oh, those are actually dark. There's footage of it. We all love that stuff.


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[Assistant] This is a party trick I would do as a kid, uhm, and growing up one of my mom's friends said, that's useless, it'll never do any good for you, stop it now.


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[Assistant] Let's see, so the connecting tissue there is gonna be... I mean, we can get out of that crit, uh... What's that?


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[Assistant] Who, who's the, I can't think of his name. The guy who played Castle.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Well that was, that was the debate at the time too, cause loss was out and then like, see?


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[Assistant] Who's, there's another actor, I always see his name pop up, he's a, he's a man with like a small little ponytail, glasses, Fred something. Even sicko. Fred Taddish? Yes, that, he's literally in everything. He is. Like any video game credits, any movie, it's his name. I love Fred.


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[Assistant] Give some respect to your fellow voice actors. They are, they're worthy of your time.


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[Assistant] As the Mouse House's media monopoly grows, it looks like Disney may edge its contenders out of the streaming landscape. We're gonna talk about all that Disney Plus news in this, uh, I don't know, goofy filled bowl of dude soup.


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[Assistant] Uh, www.wortbyparker.com slash dudesoup. Uh, we'll hear more from them.


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[Assistant] It kind of, you know, the bit got old and then we got past it, but like there are a lot of fans that like never let that go.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but to get into some news, this past weekend Disney hosted their D23 Summit, which is kind of their big event every year. They have their con and they drop a bunch of news and trailers and stuff on us. And this year they leaned into Disney Plus, which is their upcoming streaming service coming in November.


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[Assistant] It's, it's crazy because they've already dropped a bunch of Disney Plus info, but then they just taught, like,


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[Assistant] But do you worry that they'll do something on Disney Plus that will tie into any, like, feature films?


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[Assistant] It is set following the events of Endgame where, spoiler for Endgame if you haven't seen it, this is where he takes the Tesseract. Yea. Interesting.


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[Assistant] Which, they haven't started shooting anything yet for it, but when they showed off uhm, stuff in the hall, it was just kind of a tonal?


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[Assistant] Uh, intercut, it was like shots from the Dick Van Dyke show, which I don't know if any of you guys have read the Vision family comics. I know Omar has.


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[Assistant] Uh, two more Logies in Marvel's Falcon and Winter Soldier. Short haired Winter Soldier too. Yea, they cut him up. Honestly, neither of these dudes ever do it for me in the movies. I dunno.


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[Assistant] We kinda had like a discussion this weekend. Because did you guys see the Brie Larson hammer?


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[Assistant] But they were, they were upset because they didn't feel like real Arsene was worthy to live.


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[Assistant] Uh, I wish Marvel would sort of like speak out a little bit more and be like, hey,


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[Assistant] Yeah, Disney announced that they'll be making an unscripted short for a Muppets series called Muppets Now, which is a little bit more like, I guess, improvisational comedy. I'm assuming that it would be like...


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[Assistant] This is what they had to do to fund the movie.


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[Assistant] But yea, I do feel like it's dizzy saying like, okay, well let's keep Muppets in the public consciousness and see how we can continue to shape them and their characters while we're figuring out the next thing.


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[Assistant] Speaking of Star Wars though, they also announced the Rogue One series coming to Disney Plus, which is Diego Luna and Alan Tudyk reprising their characters from the movie.


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[Assistant] Was there, before Endgame came out, was there any messaging that was like, there's a heist in it? I don't remember there being.


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[Assistant] And it follows a lone Mandalorian gunfighter beyond the reaches of the New Republic.


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[Assistant] That's awesome. He's great. There's a lot of interesting people in this, including Nick Nolte.


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[Assistant] Uh, in the form of smarter interest rate, which not many lenders tend to do.


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[Assistant] Thank you Upstart. We can talk more about this if you guys want.


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[Assistant] It's been rumored for some time now. The fans have been clamoring for it. But Ewan McGregor is coming back. Oh yeah. Obi-Wan Kenobi. Yep.


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[Assistant] I don't think so. Because I don't think, like, cause like, they, they are, are they together prior to the start of...


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[Assistant] I mean to your point though, like, it is bold to just announce something with no title, no title, no, you know, graphic.


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[Assistant] I mean, the more I think about the Marvel stuff, I'm like, if they do these series, they ultimately bypass having to do any origin story in a feature. Like they can do their next big avenge, they can do their next big ensemble and not have to have built any of it on the backs of movies. Which is kind of cool for me, who's probably not going to watch all the series, but will definitely watch the movies and look up Moonlight, or Moon, what the hell is this name?


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[Assistant] But yea, I'm definitely gonna get Disney+. I mean, I was gonna get it for The Simpsons. Oh right, that's true, yea. Which, they didn't announce anything at D23, but the EPs did talk about how like, maybe they'll do a second movie now. Maybe they'll do some like, character spinoff series. I like The Simpsons movie.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it wasn't really like Disney Plus news, but there was the Star Wars trailer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely watching that trailer this morning, which was albeit really short. It was maybe, maybe 45 seconds of like actual news stuff, because the beginning just had all the like homage stuff, but uhm, not homage, but like stuff from the old features.


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[Assistant] I don't, I didn't watch that and feel it was connected to, uhm, what's the, uh, The Force Awakens. Like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, like, there's the implication that she turns to the dark side.


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[Assistant] So, one of them's gonna fi- I think one of them's gonna find it. One of them's gonna find whatever this like-


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[Assistant] Whether it's destroying the force, I mean, I don't think you can destroy the force. You can maybe just mutate it, but yeah, that's the thing. I have no idea.


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[Assistant] Well thank you to you guys, thank you to our sponsors, and thank you for watching at home. Thanks Omar.


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[Assistant] You can order a pizza, mom! The shrill screech of a VMU that's out of battery would scare women away.


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[Assistant] Oh my god, American Glide, yea. They were trying to, cause it kinda got a little like tongue in cheek later, and kind of embraced itself, but it was trying to be a legitimate variety sports event. And it always has been, don't get me wrong.


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[Assistant] They had that, they did have assaults, they had jousts, I believe. They didn't, wait, they had normal jousts, but they didn't have the one where you're on a giant rope swing. The swinging cannonball? Cannonball, yea. I don't think they had that.


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[Assistant] Sorry, so Adam, I love where you're going with this. You put non-stick pads on, well, well, we'll see. On the bottom of the raft, you have one person throwing things in the raft, and then their partner is pulling it like a sled dog throughout the store. So you combine the thrill of the athleticism of American Gladiators plus the raw capitalism of supermarket swingers.


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[Assistant] Old people have so much shit. I have three freezer bags of tamales from...


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[Assistant] Christmas is years past that we still have not gone through. I tell myself one day, one of these days, I'm gonna like get one of those illnesses, like one of the cool ones, where you get to just chill out at home for like months, and that's gonna keep me alive.


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[Assistant] You spent the last several months of your life trying to develop your own personal hack around to iMessage right?


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[Assistant] But what was Apple TV? Oh, Apple TV was the hardware. Yeah, but now it's a service.


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[Assistant] Emily Dickinson's life. Because all she did was wander around her house, sigh a lot, and write poetry. Yes. I love Emily Dickinson.


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[Assistant] As a marketing beat, they kept saying, this is the first time we've called anything pro. And then they like say, wow, there's another lens. Yes, truly for professionals. Like they really hammered the pro thing.


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[Assistant] I mean, they've always been, ever since, ever since the Steve Jobs Renaissance of the early 2000s, they've been masters at, I mean, even before that to a degree just weren't as good at it, they've always sold lifestyle and image over functionality or price.


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[Assistant] Well yea, so it's, I think it's a symptom of like, they sold in as many, they hit, I could be wrong about this, but I did some very light research a couple years ago, so this is already out of date. But it does feel like to a degree they've sold iPhones to the maximum amount of people that they can. At least in America. North America.


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[Assistant] Well, South Korea actually is wrong because they have Samsung, but, uh, so it's like they have good programs now to keep people buying new hardware every year.


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[Assistant] And then we'll have to move on to the next thing, which is controlling payment systems. So Apple Pay, get people on Apple Card, then starting your own bank, and then we're in Mr. Robot territory.


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[Assistant] You can buy a lot of dirt out in the middle of Arizona for like $60,000. But my Apple Watch won't get reception out there. That's the problem. That's a problem. That is a problem.


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[Assistant] Close the book on that one. Was that Rambo? Yeah. Rambo was...


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[Assistant] Vietnam, I think. But Patrick Dennehy's character. Not a lot of people know this because nobody listened to the director's commentary.


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[Assistant] Uh, Brian Dennehy's character was a Korean vet, and that's why he hated Rambo so much, because he was resentful.


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[Assistant] Well, iMessage did something similar, where back in the day there was like a text limit on an SMS message. And if you were on iMessage, you never knew that, so you would just bash out this long ass scribe and send it to somebody. But if it was going to an SMS recipient, it would just cut it off.


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[Assistant] Get a lot of good, get a lot of good memes that way. Okay. And that's how I communicate so.


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[Assistant] Okay. Let's just, I'd love to be part of that duel. I'd like people's, people's ankles are swelling up. Our hands are getting red and.


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[Assistant] I'll set you on fire. I'll beat you up in the parking lot of LA Stadium.


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[Assistant] Looper is weird because it goes so hard on establishing the rules and trying to make this narrative work within time travel and all that stuff. And then it's like, oh, also psychic powers.


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[Assistant] I'm just like, why did you spend all that time, like, drilling down into the practicalities of this one aspect, just to go full on, like, fantasy ridiculous with this other one?


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[Assistant] It's like your, uh, Apple conference sketch idea that someday we might get arra-


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[Assistant] Aiming is really good. Really good. Uh, I, if it were between like PlayStation 4, Xbox One, or Switch,


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[Assistant] For a first-person shooter that has gyro aiming, provided it's also running at 60fps, I would prefer the Switch. Because Splatoon really trained me up on it, and it works really, really well. You have almost, I wouldn't say mouse-style precision because you still can't turn quickly, but you can absolutely hit stuff a lot easier than a finicky, like, analog stick, so that counts for a lot for me.


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[Assistant] Dragon Quest XI. That game's fantastic. It's coming to Switch. It's gonna be better. You can play it now.


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[Assistant] There are occasionally Nintendo will have like one graphical effect that looks like it just doesn't belong in their weird child's toy of a game. Uh, I remember it was like, I think it was Mario 3D World or one of those, one of the DS Marios.


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[Assistant] Oh, Tokyo Mirage Sessions. Yes. Yeah. Tokyo Mirage Sessions. It's the port of the Wii U version. Something. Which, Tokyo Mirage Sessions is like Sharp Fae or whatever. Yeah, yeah, it's just words. It's just nonsense words. I mean, we're gonna use that in the Kingdom Hearts world. Fuck yeah, dude, that game's actually really good. Yeah. I mean, it has the persona duality of like, there's the...


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[Assistant] Nintendo's gradually pulling anything of worth off the Wii U and dropping it on the Switch, which also plays into the Switch being very, very good.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I was curious about that. Because like, Link's Awakening is not a big game. It was big for me when I was...


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[Assistant] Six. And couldn't wrap my head around it. But I did eventually beat it, which I think is a testament to how consumable that game is. So, as an adult going back with my adult gamer skills, I feel like I could annihilate Link's Awakening in a couple of evenings.


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[Assistant] Everything's curry. So it's funny that you talk about this because, uh, in a weird way, like, we opened talking about the Apple presentation and now Nintendo. It's interesting how both


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[Assistant] I have very clear value propositions and it's like, if you want these things, just buy this thing. And then it's in and the path is very straightforward.


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[Assistant] Whereas yeaah, other people bristle at the idea that their options might be limited or hampered in any way either by performance or by choice or modifications or whatever. So yeaah.


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[Assistant] I think the answer is right in front of us. This is the beloved character, Coke Nail. Coke Nail. Okay. Great. Great guess.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've learned that when you're new at something, you need to say, I'm learning instead of I suck. And then that gives you permission to fail.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't want to deprive you of that pride. People shit on you all day. You just look down on those comments, but maybe this will turn it around for you finally.


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[Assistant] Oh, I thought you were talking about Last Skywalker for a second. JJ Abrams doesn't make mistakes. No, I think they are doing reshoots.


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[Assistant] So it's not like, you know. Do you think more services like Verve will show up? Where that tries to collate a bunch of those different services?


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[Assistant] Doesn't cumly mean you wanna cum in him? No, that's cummable.


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[Assistant] I don't know that we ever sold that thing. I think that is a candle holder that you're holding. No!


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[Assistant] Does it taste like wax? Insulated to keep the heat in, Joel.


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[Assistant] We're gonna get a little personal little storytelling. Uhm, I wanna touch on some things because I had a personal experience last week. But I don't wanna make it all about me, so I wanna make sure I got some people that can make it about themselves too.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but no, I had a, I had an interesting personal week. We, we, uh, last week we did the Games Done Slow charity, which was, blew my expectations out of the water.


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[Assistant] Slept for about three hours, and then, and then the next day.


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[Assistant] Elise and I went on a long planned world win trip to Las Vegas for about 36 hours. Uhm, for one specific reason.


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, but yea, so, so I went specifically, he announced late last year, I think that he was gonna do a Vegas residency, just a very brief Vegas residency of like a week and a half in March. Uhm. And you're about a two decade Robbie Williams fan. I've, since millennium.


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[Assistant] That song came out, I was a big James Bond fan. Well, I put together a slideshow. Bruce, I took this for you.


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[Assistant] He has a great sense of humor about himself. But yea, I've been a fan since basically millennium.


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[Assistant] No, yeah, so, uh, he had a brief residency in March, and it was around the time where we weren't sure whether or not Arizona Circle was gonna be shooting, and so I wasn't


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[Assistant] Most well-known song, maybe like, if you, yeaah, can count, America, too. Maybe. Cause Jessica Simpson covered it, like, later on in her career, and she, it became way more popular than his initial song was. Oh, really? Um, but yeaah, so. It was a pretty cool one.


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[Assistant] It was a pretty cool experience for me, but I couldn't help but sit there and think about how alone in that appreciation I was, at least in the past two decades. Feeling pretty alone.


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[Assistant] Just because, yeaah, because I grew up in the United States, and I don't know why I got it, but I just was cued into it, and it's weird because it kind of held true. He's got a, he basically does a stand-up act while also doing music, so he's kind of like, almost like an old crooner.


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[Assistant] Millennium was a one hit wonder type song in the US.


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[Assistant] And I was really into that. And then I, so then I was like, oh, who's this guy? And then I went out and bought an album because it was one hit wonder. You do that with a lot of stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it might have been CD Warehouse or something like that. Uhm, and so I had that album, but then it just like, you don't think about, there's no internet back then, so you're not really tracking things. You don't know that you just, things sometimes just disappear and they go away. Uhm, but then he had Rock DJ come out.


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[Assistant] I didn't say any of those things. I always like the vibe of like, he's got a unique voice, I feel like he has a pretty unique voice, but then he also is humorous, like some singers are just like singers and they have no personality or whatever, but he's always been very


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[Assistant] So then, but by that point I was like, oh, I understand now. I'm the only one who cares.


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[Assistant] So I, every time a new album would come out, I'd have to find out that a new album came out on my own. And then I would buy it and I just kept going that way. I just keep listening to Robbie Williams. But knowing


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[Assistant] At that point that he was never gonna be popular here, or most likely never gonna be popular here, it just came, became this weird thing. And there's so many other musical acts that I saw before this, like,


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[Assistant] Kiri Pamyu Pamyu, pop star from Japan, I've seen twice, uhm, before seeing him once despite having loved his music for 20 years, uhm.


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[Assistant] And so just getting that, I went to the show, it was great. A lot of Vegas hits, he did Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, and then also he did rock DJ and some of his more popular songs and stuff.


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[Assistant] No, he's saying it in his voice, but I mean he kind of has like one of those voices anyway, I think. Like I don't think that he's like, I'm all about range or whatever. He's more of a personality singer. Frank Sinatra's got a good voice, but it's Frank Sinatra's voice better than an amazing singer's voice kind of thing.


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[Assistant] It's really funny. He brought this woman on stage. He was like dry humping her on this couch. And then was like, well he was like, I'm gonna sing a very romantic song to you. And then, uh, and then, but then he's like lying on top of her, and then at one point he's like, go right now!


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[Assistant] Who hears from the UK? Huge. Boom. Who hears from Canada? Boom. What about Mexico? Yeaah. Australia? Boom! He goes, alright. Here's the ticket.


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[Assistant] He goes, who here is from the US of A?


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[Assistant] And it was me and like one woman that was like two rows down and then like a handful of other people down towards the front. Oh, in Vegas? That's so weird.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but the whole thing was like riddled with that kind of humor and stuff and he did this one bit where he was like, you know, this stage used to be where the Sands casino was and this is where the Rat Pack


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, so I was like, that isn't something unique to me, but I feel like everyone, you know, there are things we have now, and I especially think coming from our generation, it's easier to have those interests that you're like,


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[Assistant] You may not be the only one, but you can feel like you're the only one. So I wanted to bring you guys in to kind of ask you guys how you feel about that.


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[Assistant] The first person I thought of when I mentioned it, or actually at least was like, you should ask Joel, he's got tons of interests no one cares about.


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[Assistant] So like, it was like five people went in with the first group, three people went in with the second group, four people went in with the next group, and then everyone else, then all remaining hundred passengers went in with it. It just seems like weird organization.


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[Assistant] But I do feel like, I feel like that isn't necessarily your fault, because that's kind of the business model of musicals. That's how they distribute them.


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[Assistant] Like, I don't, I remember for what, I signed up for Amazon or something and they gave me Book of Mormon for free. I never listened, I just sat there in my Amazon.


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[Assistant] Things of like available, never listened to it because I was like, why would I?


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[Assistant] Why would I do this? Like it's, there's more to the show and then like whatever two years later we finally saw Book of Mormon when it came to LA for the fourth time or something.


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[Assistant] Well, I think when you know it, when you have the context, it makes the songs better. Yeah, I would agree. Like, Hasadige Ibuwai, like, when you understand it, like, and you're like, oh my god, that's so funny when you're thinking about what the characters were enduring at the time.


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[Assistant] Which, which is potentially why I think this may be a, uh,


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[Assistant] I mean, it makes sense, because you just make one of the movies, and then you just send them out. Like, you're paying for the initial cost of making the movie, and then the very minor cost of duplicating the movie. Whereas, every single time you go to a theater, you're paying for those actors to be performing, and the stagehands, and everything would happen all at the same time.


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[Assistant] That wasn't even my thing. Well real quick, we're gonna get into Bruce's thing, but I'm gonna do an ad read because I want to talk about something we can all agree on, saving money.


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[Assistant] Boom. You don't have to do that extra Google. 90% of the times those coupons are expired and I have to pay full price for Six Flags. It's like, uh, uh, but honey does all that work for you. Save yourself some time. Save yourself some headaches.


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[Assistant] And then so the tongue coming out, but it's the lowercase P, so it's, it's like they put the tongue out the center and then had more mouth out to the side.


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[Assistant] I didn't think I needed it. Definitely needed it. Five stars. Flowing review from Anne in Kansas. I made up that second part. Maybe. We don't know. We don't know where that review is from. Uhm, thank you honey for your sponsorship. Bruce. Yes.


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[Assistant] That's my thing. That's good. It's funny, it's funny too because the only thing separating you from your peers in that scenario was the onset of information, kinda like the information age. Cause like, I mean, you can't, you don't know that at the time, but if you're thinking about like, oh I can, there's 50 books.


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[Assistant] Well they don't make books that people don't read, you know, so like, but you don't think of that, you don't think of that when you're 10 years old. You think, you think, well I'm the only person who has any of these books so no one else cares. And I guess they just keep making them for me.


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[Assistant] Did you ever, was there ever a scenario like either before or after you had a negative interaction with friends coming over and seeing your Star Wars stuff where you felt inclined to put things away or hide things before people arrived or were you like, no, it's part of who I am and I'll kind of accept the consequences.


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[Assistant] The Jim Henson Studios does parties, you can like book out parties, and I had looked into having her birthday there once, but you need like, it's like parties of 200ers, like you need to, they have to be big events. You could get that together. That are really expensive.


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[Assistant] But New York seems like the kind of thing where as opposed to something glamorous, like that was a glamorous experience with something that you love, New York seems to be...


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, but it's like, New York also has that too, but it's just them living their human lives, not wanting to be disturbed, and they also have to use all the same walking and transportation that everyone else does.


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[Assistant] Well, that's pretty awesome that everyone had all those experiences.


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[Assistant] That's revenge for the time that she set up a set. Sorry. No, that's fine.


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[Assistant] I'm curious, I guess this is a question to anyone watching, uh, is it, is there a gap there? Like if you are a child of the social media age, do you feel like there's


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[Assistant] Something that you love that you couldn't find a community for somewhere, you know, like have you ever felt truly alone with an interest? I know people sometimes just feel bad and feel like alone, alone, but like with an interest specifically, have you ever felt like there's an interest that you don't have to share with people?


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[Assistant] You can reinforce your own outlier interests using the internet and social media and what it is, which is a positive use of that kind of stuff.


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[Assistant] Well, thank you guys for sharing that with me. I wanna, I have another news story that I just saw the other day that I think is worth discussing. I mentioned it to you guys earlier. Uhm, theme parks are fun. We got all kinds of themes. Disney themes. Harry Potter! Nintendo Land!


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[Assistant] All kinds of stuff. The composter? Well, if you could make a theme park out of anything, what would it be? Star Wars! Okay, we already got that. Anything. Lord of the Rings! Okay, that's a good one. That's a good one.


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[Assistant] A Lionsgate themed theme park.


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[Assistant] The production company that makes tons of huge franchises, such as Hunger Games and Twilight.


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[Assistant] The, the, it will span 22,000 square meters of indoor space and will feature 25 attractions including six based on Lionsgate franchises including


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[Assistant] Hunger Games. Huge franchise. Twilight. Massive franchise. Global sensation. Maybe even a phenomenon, a la Robbie Williams. The Divergence series.


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[Assistant] Alright, what about this one? Gods of Egypt?


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[Assistant] What is this? I think I re- Oh Sylvester Stallone? What? Nope. I think Sylvester Stallone was an escape plan?


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[Assistant] That's why, that's my favorite thing. I saw this and I was like, wow, they got a couple there that yeah, made money and the rest just seems like they're scraping the bottom of the barrel.


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[Assistant] 140, 150, that's 10 million dollars. If someone gave you 10 million dollars today, would you think that's a good deal?


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yeaah, I think, I can't wait, apparently the uh, Twilight and Hunger games will feature via simulators, while Gods of Egypt will be the subject of a purpose built indoor VR roller coaster.


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[Assistant] I think the best of that is the Transformers, right, honestly?


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, yeaah, I, I, we did, actually when we were in Vegas.


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[Assistant] That's the problem everyone had. That's what everyone said.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, I guess, I guess, what other properties would you guys, if you could have other stuff in here? From Lion's Gate? From Lion's Gate.


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[Assistant] Buffalo 66? Was that that movie where that guy got a blowjob from Chloe Sivigny? Or whatever. Gods and Monsters.


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[Assistant] I don't know what that means. The red violin? That'd be a great ride. Jesus Christ. Uhm.


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[Assistant] I mean, we got a lot of stuff here. Oh, which if I recall was that remake of Othello, it was.


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[Assistant] I know for a fact that there was a billboard for a Saw themed escape room in Vegas. There was also a Hunger Games


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[Assistant] It's gonna have shopping opportunities and restaurants as well, just so you guys know.


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[Assistant] Well, when you get home, make sure you're smelling good, Joel, because this episode is also brought to you by Flir.


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[Assistant] Uhm, every morning, I wake up, I spritz myself with a little bit of scent, because even though I might maybe want to smell a little bit better, uhm, I already do smell pretty good, at least, I smell pretty good when I wake up.


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[Assistant] But sometimes I want to smell different, maybe smell a little better, smell a little fresh. Uhm, but you know what I don't do? I don't check to see what I'm actually spraying myself with.


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[Assistant] You do this all over yourself, you're covering yourself. Do you ever actually look to see what's in it?


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[Assistant] This, they actually give you kind of context as best as you can without using your sense of smell.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, best of all, you can then try them out, see how they work in your own life. Uh, Fleur's World Class Perfumers, which I didn't even know, really even think about being a job, but is a job, are scent artists, and these perfumes are their masterworks.


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[Assistant] Masterworks Joel, you can appreciate that. You've been to a museum.


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[Assistant] Also, every flur scent is gender free, the way all scents should be.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Fleur is completely transparent, uh, it's a completely transparent fragrance company, they tell you every ingredient that's in all of their perfumes, uh, and why it's there, which is important too. Bruce, you've tried, you've tried some, I got a quote here from you, do I have permission to read it? Hit it, hit it.


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[Assistant] It's hard to describe, but HEPCAT, which is the name of the Flir Perfume,


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[Assistant] See? Uhm, is like that cologne your cool uncle would put on before peeling out on his motorcycle into the sunset.


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[Assistant] Give me with it. You said that hanami is soft, subdued, and refreshing. I also appreciate that it smells like a cool uncle as he pulls off the music.


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[Assistant] Hold on tight, kid! Uhm, but yeaah, these are more than just smells, these are scents, these are things that can kind of...


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[Assistant] Big blockbuster movies are coming. One of the biggest of the summer is Lion King.


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[Assistant] Disney's Lion King. Yeah, biggest of the summer. All africa. Okay, huge release, massive cast. Big characters.


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[Assistant] I made a little quiz. I'm gonna show you an image of one of the characters


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[Assistant] Alright, Omar, let's bring us- pull up the first one here. Simba! Alright. Oscar!


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[Assistant] Simba. Simba? Older Simba. Mufasa?


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[Assistant] Jake just rigs these games. No, it's not rigged. They're just jokes.


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[Assistant] Alright, next one. That's Nala. That's Nala. That's Nala. Gotta be, it has to be, right? Or what's the- Nairobi? Nairobi, yeah.


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[Assistant] Alright, well that one is, that one's, that was a tough one though, that was a tough one. Come on, give us like, Tomoda Boomba here, jeez. Well no, we already do that, they're not lions. No, there's more, there's more. Alright, let's keep going. Who's that? That's Scar.


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[Assistant] Alright, okay, uh, I think we got maybe one more. That's a picture of a real lion.


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[Assistant] I don't think that- that wouldn't help Bruce. That would- Bruce would just be- what- what are the names of all three hyenas? Shinji, Ed, and Banzai. See? Did you get that? Did you know that? I would never have- I think I knew Ed. So I mean it defeats the purpose if you can't even know the name of the characters. I would never have known.


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[Assistant] Anyway, that's a real lion. I hate dangling. I'm really excited for this movie to come out. Oh wait, I saw it.


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[Assistant] Uh, anyway, I think that's a pretty good end to our episode. Nice job. You guys did really well on that quiz. Really good. Only got two wrong. Yeah.


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[Assistant] No tricks in there either. I think the only thing I did was I took a picture of Simba and then I horizontal flipped it because it was almost the exact same shot of Mufasa and people will put that on movie details and say it's an intention thing, but it's not.


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[Assistant] Anyway, that's our episode one. A couple things that I just want to shout out. Thank you for watching. Uhm, we got some more stuff coming up from Funhaus RTX's this weekend. Austin, Texas! By the time you're, uh, hearing this, watching this, uh, we're on our way probably, uh, cause we have to get up. We're, we're gonna, we're gonna be there. Fudgeadon.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Bruce, uh, Lawrence and I played Team Sonic Racing, and I think we did pretty good. Pretty good. I could have done better. Actually, after we played, I was like, I could have done better. Well, we got, there's, you'll see, we got a little screwed in there. Uh, another, new Google Trends. This is all this weekend. New Google Trends, this is just this weekend. Sinking City gameplay.


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[Assistant] And uh, last but not least, um, Joel, suffering from


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[Assistant] I keep waiting for it to come back around like everything on the internet does, where eventually somebody's gonna go, guys.


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[Assistant] I want to say I played about 10 hours of it and I really enjoyed what I got to play, but the barriers to entry were so, there were so many because there was like loading screens and there were glitches and my computer was crashing. But then once I got into the game and I was able to play with Omar and Jacob and like friends.


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[Assistant] It was fun. It was fun to fly around and like pick stuff up and do the Destiny stuff. The grind. Cause Destiny, in my opinion, is just as boring or as fun as Anthem is when Anthem is working. Uhm, because they're both boring or also fun. Where Destiny is like, I'm like, why do I have to do this fucking thing for the fourth time in a row? But then I go and do it cause it's fun.


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[Assistant] It's not broken. There's no glitches. It doesn't crash, right? So it was the same with Anthem where like once I actually was able to do the things in Anthem, I was like, cool, this is fun. I might do this, you know, like over the next six months off and on like I do with this.


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[Assistant] They really tried to tell a story in Anthem. They tried, I mean like really hard. The lore is there. Cause there's so much, it's like...


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[Assistant] That's what it is. It's a show bible. So it's like if you guys know what a show bible is that's written for like a game of thrones, it's basically just...


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[Assistant] Like, lists of lore. That's all it is. It's just paragraphs. Like, reading this simmarillion, uh, which is also really boring and stupid, but, um, but, uh, there's no story there. It's just lore. And that's what that, that's what Anthem was. It's like, you walk up to somebody and they'd be like,


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[Assistant] On the eighth planet of the stars, and you're like, why are you, what the, like, this has nothing to do with the story, they're just, like, offloading a bunch of information into you.


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[Assistant] You can't swap between those suits on the fly either in Anthem.


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[Assistant] I remember when I watched it, I was like, I'm gonna go play the game, and then I sat there and I was like, aw fuck.


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[Assistant] Other than Jacob? Yes. Uhm, Jacob, cause Jacob's really good. I, I, like I said, I enjoyed it. I thought it was fun. Omar and I, we, we enjoyed it with, as friends. Like we were like, this is cool together. Cause you could fly around and do things together and like do the adventures together and sort of try to figure out your progression and like what you got and all that other stuff.


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[Assistant] I don't know that I'd ever touch that game alone, ever. Like in a million years because of the story. Cause like walking around Fort Tarsus was so stupid and boring.


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[Assistant] He's right. And I think the only thing it does for people like that is it gets you back into it. So at least you've broken the barrier to entry of loading Destiny or whatever. So like, you get your Christmas tree and you're like, alright, I'll go do a strike. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. Cause you get your Santa hat, your two like seasonal thing and then everyone's wearing their hats.


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[Assistant] Like it didn't have those other things. Cause it'd be neat if it had them. But the other stuff didn't work either. So it's like, like, almost none of it worked. So like, so for me adding that other stuff would be cool for the players that I played it a ton. Cause like, they played through all the content and then you get some new content. They also have to make it work. Like, it was not debugged. It was, there were so many things that were broken about it.


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[Assistant] Then I don't even know if they really even had a skeleton of a game there. They had the, they had the gameplay of the Iron Man suit flying around shooting things. Right. But that was it.


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[Assistant] So I can, so I can tell you, so accounting has sent, they've sent all the money. So it has gone from our PayPal account. It is now either with PayPal or with Games Done Quick.


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[Assistant] It's long gone, so now ideally they will get it at some point, I just don't know when.


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[Assistant] Uh, what do you mean, the community messages? We, we, we said- We sent them a message being like, it was like, long-winded. Oh, gotcha, gotcha. But it was like something to the effect of, you know, like, hey, we tried to be- What'd you say?


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[Assistant] I mean, they can sit for weeks. You can give it to homeless people.


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[Assistant] I went the opposite. I ate none. Because I was like, if I eat any, because I wanted it so bad. If I eat any of this, I'm gonna have a terrible time. And man, thank god.


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[Assistant] I was awake, I slept for 45 minutes in the period, like three times over the course of the 24 hours, but...


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[Assistant] Man, I felt so good yesterday in the sense that I was like, I'm glad I didn't eat McDonald's' work. Destroyed me.


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[Assistant] Just do it. Just do pushups. Just do pushups. And like, and then I think James added it to the $1,000 mark. Gotcha. And I was like, oh, that's perfect. No problem.


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[Assistant] I was like, I felt better once I got outside and walked around. I was exhausted, but I was like, you know what? I'm not gonna go to sleep. So I didn't. Uh...


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[Assistant] I walked around and played Harry Potter for an hour and a half. I got my car washed. I did some work.


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[Assistant] Uhm, like I wasn't gonna crash, uh, and plus it was like I was driving a mile or whatever. Anyways, uhm, and then I had really heavy Mexican food for dinner, and I was like, okay, I'm gonna stay awake for the next, and I passed out.


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[Assistant] That's like your pre-gram. Towards the end of it, people were bailing out and so at one point I got the couch in the front to myself and I finally laid down and I felt so good. Yeaah. I was like, awww. I thought I couldn't be here at the very end.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I did it for entertainment value because you can also fall asleep, which I did, uh, somewhere in another room. Oh yeah. I went and fell asleep in a room for like 45 minutes.


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[Assistant] I mean yea, I got through to, well I got through to 11.30 last night, like I didn't, I never fell asleep for more than 45 minutes for 38 hours.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. You're right. Yeaah, don't recline your seat. Why not?


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[Assistant] It was. You had a choice between three games and you had to play one of them. And they're all awful. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, my scent on Fleur is not the scent of diapers. No. Good. That, that autumn smell yesterday. Good.


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[Assistant] And now he has a Twitter account. You gotta watch Chernobyl. It's the same deal. You have the same like, why is this real? I keep trying to think of what you-


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[Assistant] I think we, do we do it? Are we here? There we are, alright. Game of Thrones, dude soup, round two. We did one last week too.


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[Assistant] Two or three weeks. See, I'm still happy. I've had a great time, uh, but a lot of people are not. So the Game of Thrones series finale just aired this past Sunday and it was...


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[Assistant] An ending. I brought closure to some of the stories over the past eight seasons and eight years, but many people, including I think some of the people here, were left wanting more. I would agree. Like six to ten more episodes maybe, guys?


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[Assistant] Minimum. Minimum? Minimum? Understood. Uh, I should say that this podcast is not about our opinions of Game of Thrones, the television show, so much as it is about the internet hate machine that's been riled up by bad television. Uh, watch our Filmhouse podcast on Saturday for the funhouse opinions of Game of Thrones and also spoilers. Spoilers throughout the podcast.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it's now that the show's over, I kinda don't have an excuse, in my opinion. Uhm, but there'll be spoilers, so just be aware of that. And spoilers for the books, probably. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. If you haven't read the books. The books have been out for 15 years? 20? Something?


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[Assistant] There's a Change.org petition that says David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have proven themselves to be woefully incompetent writers when they have no source material, i.e. the books, to fall back on. This series deserves a final season that makes sense!


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[Assistant] Subvert my expectations and make it happen, HBO. So anyone here mad enough to actually sign the petition? Criken, what about you? Did you sign that? No. Uh, thank you for saying the reasonable thing. Alana, what about you?


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[Assistant] It's, uh, so it's- You're just being mean. It's interesting, yeah, because the, the first thing when I saw this petition, I think it was a couple weeks ago is when I first saw it, uh, or whenever it first came out. I think it was right after episode five. Is that what it was?


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[Assistant] So either way, uh, so we're all kind of creators here. We're all people that make content for the internet. We're obviously subject to a lot of mean comments and also nice comments.


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[Assistant] And I was just kind of curious for you guys, do you think this petition is disrespectful to the writers, showrunners, actors, crew, the people that make the show and have been making it for the last eight years? Uh, do you think it's disrespectful or do you think it's more of just like it's trying to be a wake-up call? I don't know. What do you, what do you think?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, uh, it's interesting you bring that up because that's kind of my point with this whole podcast is that it's very reactionary. So in the last few weeks, especially with Game of Thrones, I've just, I've seen the internet become more reactionary than it normally is. And normally it's pretty reactionary. So, uh, and that, that for me is, uh,


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[Assistant] Generally what you want to do is take a step back and think. Obviously your job is to do that, but a lot of people's job is not to get out on Twitter and bitch about Game of Thrones.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it, and they're doing it now. And it's like, take a step back, maybe wait a little bit to see how it sets with you, how it makes you feel, before you really lean in to how bad the writing is, or how bad the characters are, or how bad the story is, or whatever else.


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[Assistant] Uh, I understand sort of your point of view because you're, you have to be reactionary.


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[Assistant] I feel like that was their goal. They wanted this show to be talked about. They didn't want it to peter out. They didn't want it to be like, oh fine, like Game of Thrones season 13, jeez, like here we go again, I gotta watch 10 episodes of this garbage.


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[Assistant] They wanted it to be something that everybody that's sort of at the height of its popularity go out. Seinfeld's another good example of that where they stop the show because they're like, this is the funniest that the show will ever be and we're done with it. We want to go out on a high note and they did.


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[Assistant] Right. It's just, I think it just angered a lot of people. It wasn't, I don't know if it was exactly what they envisioned in their head.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and actually to that point, uh, I have sort of another question that I'm just curious to see. Because this is something I've seen a lot on the internet. A lot of people have been saying this to me when I'm tweeting about Game of Thrones. Uh, is it possible to say that objectively?


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[Assistant] Objectively, the writing has been bad these last two seasons. Objectively.


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[Assistant] Right. That's an interesting point that we have to make.


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[Assistant] So that's, that's important. See like, it's, it's one of those things where it's like, cause I, you're absolutely right. Loosens or plotholes or things like that, that I feel like everybody can point at and be like, that's bad. Like that's something that, right, a good writing shouldn't have, that I feel like that's probably pretty.


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[Assistant] No, no, and it does. And so personally, yes, the show has felt satisfying for me, but that's sort of besides the point. Uhm, but I'm interested to honestly hear how you can say something is objectively bad. Like, that's a good way to put it, is like if there are...


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[Assistant] So those critiques are interesting, cause I, I, uh,


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[Assistant] I agree with you, but also at the same time, I think this speaks to a larger point, which is a lot of people were bought into the original, let's say five to six seasons of the show, which was never that show. It was never the show of White Walkers charging it, like it wasn't an hour and a half battle scene, right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it's, so it's, so to me that's, this is where I've noticed a lot of Game of Thrones fans, they felt betrayed because seven and eight, season seven and eight were so different from one through six, or maybe one through five.


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[Assistant] And I think that people were bought into a longer, more dialogue heavy, more thoughtful show. And this show isn't that now. Uh, it's a different show. That's the way I see it.


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[Assistant] Just to give you a context and of me personally, I read, I read 60 of the Expanded Universe Star Wars books. I read those books from 12 till about 35. And then, or whenever they, and so just recently it was like the last, I think it was 2014. They were like, none of that counts. None of it counts. Oh boy. And I went, ah, that's okay.


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[Assistant] I went, that's alright. You know what, it's their story. Yea, it's their story. Good for you. And I went back and the books that I read and the books I enjoyed, I still enjoyed them.


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[Assistant] Sure, no, you didn't like- see, I- it's funny, so I'll give you a counterpoint to this. I love them. Uhm, I thought the entire series was building up to the last two seasons.


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[Assistant] Uh, the narrative for me, the overarching narrative, was always about dragons, was always about the Starks, was always about the larger implications of this world. Uh, and while I really enjoyed the smaller stories along the way of, you know, Prince Oberyn and those sorts of things, I really liked that stuff.


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[Assistant] I knew we were getting to the big stuff and I was really excited about it.


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[Assistant] No, and a lot of people don't. I did. I was able to find justification for a lot of the characters and what they were doing, but a lot of it made sense to me. Some plot holes absolutely didn't. So like, I totally agree with you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and that's a good way to put it because I think a lot of people haven't made that distinction. Also, it really helps that it's your job.


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[Assistant] With Sonic, they're re-editing Sonic, which is crazy. I can think of something before this, uh, Star Wars. Uhm, or Lost. In 1997, when they re-did the special edition.


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[Assistant] I remember thinking when I was a kid, I was like 16, I was like, oh man, I'm so excited, I can't wait. New stuff, that means it's gonna be better.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't know that I have, no. They're gorgeous. Oh, okay. Alright, well there you go. Uh, just one thing to know about these, the writing is bad in the last two seasons. That's something I see a lot. A lot of people have said, the writers changed, the writers changed. It's worth noting that Benioff, Weiss, and Martin are credited as writers on IMDB for all 73 episodes.


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[Assistant] Uh, there were two new writers this season, uh, Gersimmeren Sandu and Ethan J. Antonucci. They both worked as assistants to Benny Oppenweiss on the show since 2015. So they've been on the show since 2015, but they're new staff writers for season eight.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, did, uh, question I've seen a lot on the internet, again? Did Benioff and Weiss do whatever they wanted with the ending? Did they consult Martin, or did they just go, fuck it?


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[Assistant] We're going to do whatever we want. Uh, I've, I pulled a bunch of interviews, um, about this because I've seen this a lot. I've seen them say, yeah, they said they've talked to George RR Martin, but they probably didn't.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so here's an Entertainment Weekly interview in April 2019 with Benioff and Weiss. Uh, EW asked them how much of the season is from discussing the ending with George R.R. Martin.


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[Assistant] The show has become so different in recent seasons that people will have no way of knowing from watching that what will or will not appear in the books. And honestly, neither do we.


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[Assistant] Uh, and Benioff said, we don't. George discovers a lot of stuff while he's writing. I don't think that final book is written in stone yet.


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[Assistant] It's not written on paper yet. As George says, he's a gardener and he's waiting to see how those seeds blossom. So that's sort of the advantage to reading a book versus watching a television show or movie. You get a lot more time to expound upon what happened to every character and what, uh, all these stories sort of tie up.


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[Assistant] Does it have to matter? Like, it's, a lot of people, I saw a lot of, again, a lot of tweets and a lot of threads about, like, what was this scene about back in season three? And what was this scene about back in season two? Like, all this, and, and,


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[Assistant] I don't know, I'm not sure exactly like what they were getting at. Did they expect that every single storyline would tie up in the last season?


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[Assistant] Well it was, they showed the hair go by. So to me that was like, okay, she was able to easily evade them no problem. That's what I got from it.


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[Assistant] Right, well I guess that's sort of the point of a television show is like, you don't, you can't include everything. Right. So that's sort of, it's like a, and it's one of those things that you heard a lot about Lord of the Rings, which are now widely considered classics, is that they left out Tom Bombadil. And I was always like, I mean but the movies are great.


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[Assistant] We were talking about this earlier, it was like, I could take these as individual...


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[Assistant] Like arts, like a movie is a movie whether or not it's based on a book or whatever. If it's a good movie, it's a good movie.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, that's totally valid. I just never, I never expected them to pay off because I never saw them.


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[Assistant] I love dogs too, but also like I just didn't ever see them so for me I was like I would always ask the question almost every episode like


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, uh, it's hard to predict, but also I think they were making a good television show. And the reason I say that is because if they had kept expounding upon whatever, let's say, I mean, George RR Martin, I have something cited here where he said he could have gone 11, 12, 13 seasons.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and everyone's like, see? See? And I'm like, that would not make good television.


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[Assistant] And, uh, to my point, the highest ratings ever were in the series finale. The show had only been building, and that's exactly what, uh, Benioff and Weiss wanted. They didn't want to make this show something that was here for the next 15, 20 years. They probably didn't want it as their whole career either, but regardless, when you've overstayed your welcome, nobody's watching anymore.


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[Assistant] Well, I see a lot of people say that, uhm, and it's again, this is one of those things where I think people are coming to terms with the fact that this was a television show, and not like some overarching epic that's gonna last their entire lives.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's good, that's good. Well, I mean, like, the books should satisfy, hopefully, I think the more passionate fans, the ones that are complaining about this the most, it should satisfy that. Uhm, I still think the decisions that


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[Assistant] No. And that's the point. They're making a television show and that's unfortunately the sort of the world we live in.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and like, this was, this was trying to make, obviously trying to make money, but also trying to make a good product. I thought they did both, a lot of people didn't, but regardless, uh, it's one of those things where, again, I, like, so they, the, they watched, 19.3 million people watched the show, the series finale. Um, and the final season has recorded five of the six most watched episodes in the history of Game of Thrones.


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[Assistant] Uh, the season 7 finale is the 6th. So with continued streaming DVR and on-demand viewing and additional replays, HBO says season 8 is averaging an unheard of 44 million viewers through Sunday.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that's, that's sort of, to me, that, like, I can guarantee that everybody behind closed doors, HBO's going like, yeah, we got a lot of whiners, but you guys did it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we were just talking about, what were we talking about before this that you had a really good segway for? You were talking about, what was it, Mike?


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[Assistant] HBO needing people to be satisfied. Prequels, spinoffs. This was something that I sort of asked out loud on Twitter. And why not just stop watching the show if it's so bad. Just stop watching.


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[Assistant] Uh, that was one of the things that happened last season in season 7, which was a year and a half ago now. Uhm, people complained about it a lot, and I was always like, but why, why go through this? Why push yourselves through another whole season, another two years of pain? I know it's your job. Uhm, yea, I do have, I have a better answer.


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[Assistant] Man, is that the right, the wrong way to do this. That's totally the wrong way to do it. And the reason is, is because they're gonna keep making more. So, uh, going back to your point about, like, building up ill will.


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[Assistant] Boycott it. Don't watch Game of Thrones. Like, don't watch this next prequel.


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[Assistant] This is something that I think is important to, not the wrong words, nerd culture, but is important to like, fan culture. Which is, no one will ever learn if all of you guys keep doing what you're doing. Uhm, because they're gonna keep making garbage. And since you guys are like, well, I'm invested, I gotta keep watching.


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[Assistant] Absolutely. I'd do it again. Absolutely. Well, there was a, it was one of those things that I was, cause it's like, I just say it out loud and everyone always gets so upset about it. I'm like, you can just stop.


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[Assistant] Like, if you really, yeaah, and that's, and, you know, you're gonna go through life and realize, oh, I don't like doing this, I'm not gonna do it anymore. So, so don't watch. Uhm, and, and that's, I think that has been breeding a lot of negativity on Game of Thrones is because people who hate it are still watching it. And I'm like, just stop. Like, don't kill yourself anymore.


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[Assistant] Because, uh, I got a bunch of stuff to that point. Uhm, and it is absolutely true. Those guys, uh, Benioff and Weiss have been saying that.


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[Assistant] Since, uh, 20, I think it's 2015. No, 2014. They've been singing for years. They've been singing since 2014. They only wanted to show sevens.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and this is something that again I've seen a lot on the internet. People are saying Benioff and Weiss just wanted to move on to Star Wars. They got Star Wars and they're like, we're done with this show. That's not true at all. They've been saying this for five years now, but they wanted the show to end after seven seasons and HBO's pulled another season out of it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that's, that's sort of the thing that I wanted to sort of point out is that they didn't, they've been trying to make this a sort of a complete story from the very beginning. And they knew it was gonna be like,


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[Assistant] Benioff says, we always believed it was about 73 hours. Uhm, and a lot of people were like, they're bullshitting, they're bullshitting. And I was like, I don't, I mean, like if they've been saying this for years, I don't know that they are.


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[Assistant] That's why I feel that way. And I feel like it leveled up as a television show. I feel like, okay, yeah, the first two seasons are just literally people talking in one area, and then it's, it's leveled up. Seven, seven seasons in, we got three dragons, we have huge armies, we have an epic that they have to tell.


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[Assistant] And I knew that they had to tell the epic, so I'm glad that they're skipping the traveling of four episodes. Yeah, I'm fine with that.


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[Assistant] That's what Game of Thrones has always been about. Game of Thrones has always been about the shittiest people. Like, and it's one of those things where like the Starks to me were the reason at the beginning of the show they're


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[Assistant] They're like getting killed and raped and murdered and like all sorts of terrible things are happening to them and they're the best people in the show.


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[Assistant] So to me, it was always like, this show is trying to teach me a lesson that if you're like, and I'm not saying that you shouldn't be good, but it's more of like, if you're going to be good in a bad world, you're going to get persecuted.


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[Assistant] I think the show broke me when Oberon died, because I was really excited about Oberon and what he was doing, and I was like, man, Oberon's gonna, he's gonna live forever, he's gonna be the best! And then his head got smashed and I was like, oh my god. So did you read the books after that? Uhm, I think I...


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[Assistant] No, I think this was when I was reading the books and it happened, but the way this show visualizes it, you're just like, to me the show was telling you, this is what's gonna happen.


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[Assistant] You know, like, I was like, okay. So I assumed, I assumed, John was going to die, I assumed, Arya was going to die, I assumed all of these people were going to die. I think in a way that would have been more satisfying.


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[Assistant] No, you're totally right about that. It was one of those things where I was expecting them to be overwhelmed. But that may have been our bias. I was thinking about that too. It may have been our bias that was saying in our heads, oh, they're all gonna die. Game of Thrones always kills main characters. They're all gonna die. Oh, and episode two set it up so well.


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[Assistant] Let me pose this question to you. Because everyone's like, ah, I expected these main characters to die in Battle of Winterfell, blah, blah, blah. I did too. Totally did. And you're absolutely right when you see the pile of zombies.


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[Assistant] The show may have been subverting your expectations again because


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[Assistant] But, it was, it absolutely subverted my expectations. I did not expect them to survive.


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[Assistant] It used to be, this happened because of this, yeaah. That's, I guess that's why I like it. Because it, uh, the consequences, I think, there had been already so many consequences at the beginning. And, truthfully, in life in general.


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[Assistant] The few people, Beric and everybody else, were surviving on that tiny little ice island, where all the zombies were running like, they're all gonna die. They're gonna die. And then survived. I was like,


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[Assistant] It's the, it was the cool, I was so, I was so excited by this because, again, they're paying off narrative that they've been building for years. And I was like, oh finally they're gonna use the dragon! Finally they're gonna use the thing they've been training for six years or whatever.


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[Assistant] You're just full of it. Yeah, you're just full of it. Alright. Well, I, uh, appreciate all of the, uh, discourse we had. Uhm, I've seen lots of different opinions across the internet, especially as well here. Is it meme time? Uhm, it is meme time. Yeah, dog.


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[Assistant] Uh, Grey Worm, you are a prisoner, you are not here to speak. Tyrion gives five minutes speech where he single-handedly decides the fate of us both.


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[Assistant] Uh, we, we will sail to Noth, this is a great word, we'll sail to Noth and leave the six kingdoms forever. And then, uh, Santa, uh, is he gone? Santa, Aryan, Bran are standing there. Is he gone? I think so. Little Jon, you can stay here. It's cool now.


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[Assistant] Uh, what's west of Westeros? Uh, I dunno, probably your spinoff show. Do you guys want that?


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[Assistant] Uhm, season, oh this is bronze, season 3 has no idea how a bank works. Season 8, Master Coin.


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[Assistant] John's lines in season 8, half of it, I don't want it, half of it, you're my queen. There was one thing that I did over and over, I was just like, just aside John, and I was actually really glad he stabbed her. Because I was like, finally, you did something. Yea, no, I know, like, just take action.


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[Assistant] Anyways, uh, yeah, thank you very much for watching. Hopefully, you're a little less angry after this podcast. I'd be more angry. That seems unlikely. Nevermind. Bye guys, bye.


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[Assistant] So, see, like, to me, when she burned up the Tarleys last season,


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[Assistant] And you've come to talk with us about our favorite moments of the C3. So we all had a few highlights. Absolutely.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, I asked, thank you for coming, Yami. I asked you to bring, uh, some of your favorite moments of the show. And you guys all sent those to me and I collected them here in my little document. Uh, we're gonna kinda start with Lawrence. Hey! He's definitely the busiest of us during these Trying E3 times.


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[Assistant] When I used to work Spike All Access, I mean, I've told you guys, it's like 14 hour days where you don't eat, you don't use the bathroom and you just black out at the end of it. You're just like so happy to be alive. I'm don't, I like it was, it's a fun experience when you think back, but in the moment you're like, wow, this is really cool.


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[Assistant] Showcase, yesterday though, I didn't get a chance to watch it, but I, or to play it, but I was watching.


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[Assistant] Uh, another congoer playing it, and he was just stuck on this bridge part where he was just...


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[Assistant] I think it's because it was kind of more of the same. And with a game like that, I guess you had to take it to the next level.


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[Assistant] Question, will it come out to tepid reviews and then three months later go by and then they say we're adding a battle royale?


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[Assistant] You had another game on your list that I was surprised, maybe Adam didn't put on his list too. Or maybe I'm overthinking it, but Elden Ring? The next From Software game? You only gave me five spots. I did seven.


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[Assistant] There's a, another game on your list from a studio that I'm hoping is branch, in this game we'll branch out a little bit out of their formula that we've come to know them for, uh, from Bloober Team's Blair Witch game, which was like, I was so happy.


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[Assistant] To see this game, get in it. I, like, it's, what year is this? It's weird. You know?


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[Assistant] Well, Hymns agrees with you, uh, cause 66% of men start to lose their hair by 35, and it can be too late, uh, once you've noticed it.


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[Assistant] Uh, you could be paying hundreds if you go to the doctor or pharmacy somewhere else. So go to 4hims.com slash dude. That's f-o-r-h-i-m-s dot com slash dude. 4hims.com slash dude. Thanks, Lawrence, for giving that. Thank you. Personal little hints there.


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[Assistant] A man with fantastic hair. Thank you. He was actually the final, uh, your final point from the press conference. We'll get your thoughts on it and then Bruce is actually going to jump in and he's going to tell us what he thought about it. Uh, Keanu.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause we played some of the older Matrix games and they did Kiano, they did him dirty.


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[Assistant] I mean, it is, it is really jarring because we've come, become so familiar with those actors to see, like, I thought it was going to be them and their likenesses in the game, maybe voice matching, but yeaah. Did you think they could afford it?


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[Assistant] She does, I was just curious is, is this, are you excited for this game just because it's more Sims or because it does something new and exciting for the Sims?


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[Assistant] Maybe a cool way of like, rebooting a game. If you had a universe where it's like there were warring factions or something and...


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[Assistant] You know, history's always written by the victors, and if you rebooted a game franchise and you were like, well now we're gonna tell it from the perspective of...


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[Assistant] I mean, I know there's Halo dis- like, I know there's- I'm just thinking like, not Halo necessarily, but like, just any-


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[Assistant] I was, I, okay, so like, obviously we would have to assume, we would have to assume, given how successful Breath of the Wild was, that there was going to be a follow up that either expands


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[Assistant] Builds on that, like, but it was still really exciting to see them say.


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[Assistant] No, yeaah, and like, I love Twilight Princess, I don't think...


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[Assistant] I think it was a little bit more of a...diverse of Zelda. I didn't like Skyward Sword.


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[Assistant] People I know who hadn't played a Zelda game in years, like hadn't touched any of those, yeah, picked up Skyward, like, were you super pumped when you saw this?