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[Assistant] No, after landing, they finished the airlift, they landed, and the goat then jumped into the helicopter.


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[Assistant] And uh, and attacked the pilots. Uhm, and also one hiker is quoted as saying, He done attacked my dingaling! So.


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[Assistant] Uh, beer can. There it is. So does that make you say?


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[Assistant] Uh, last article here before we wrap up the show.


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[Assistant] Bear wanders into grocery store, grabs bag of Tostitos and Tostitos brand queso, dines by trash can. Uhm, so, uh, this happened, uh,


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[Assistant] This happened in Kings Beach, California, uh, which we know is very popular, uh, with bears, uh, large bear community, uh, both human and animal.


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[Assistant] And this bear, there's actually a video of it, we're not going to show it because that's not how squeeze me works. Uhm, I tell, not show. Uh, and so this bear walked in, one hand a bag of Tostitos chips, other hand a tub of Tostitos queso.


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[Assistant] Uhm, walked out and camped up next to the garbage can and ate both of them. Actually shared them with two raccoons.


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[Assistant] So, uh, and I'd say the most interesting thing is that uh, when almost everything was gone, the bear went back in and demanded a refund.


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[Assistant] That's it. That's it for my wacky, ex-squeeze-me news for the week.


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[Assistant] They're all true, that's the thing. You can, if you open up the doc now, I have links to all of these articles. They were all true.


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[Assistant] That's what I thought we were doing here. No, no, no, no. This is Excuse Me, where it's real world news. Open up the document, look at the links, they are all real.


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[Assistant] Well there, I did, there were some admonishments, uh, so.


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[Assistant] These spicy, juicy news, uh, things. Uhm, and uh, that's it for this week in Dude Soup. Uh, so. Thank you, John.


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[Assistant] This episode of Dude Soup is brought to you by ExpressVPN. Protect your online privacy today at ExpressVPN.com slash dude.


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[Assistant] I just wanted to kick off, can I kick off this, can I kick off this episode with just letting you know.


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[Assistant] If you had to guess how old Russell Crowe was when he started smoking, how old did you guess?


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[Assistant] I mean if you could get that cat, you could become Adam Exotic.


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[Assistant] Well, God forbid they find something wrong with the cat, right? And then it's like, what are you saying? Now you are, now you are the fake decider of the cat, you know?


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[Assistant] The cat doesn't look malnourished or like have like matted hair, it just seems like a cat that the owner doesn't care and then it wanders wherever it wants to go and it knows that if it goes to your backyard it might get some treats and it probably also smells your cats too.


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[Assistant] So it like, is more likely to investigate that part of the neighborhood. I mean, I think the GPS, it depends on how much the GPS is.


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[Assistant] And whether or not you can theoretically hide it in your partners underwear or something like that.


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[Assistant] Why would you need to? There's already a natural organic pocket in the underwear itself. Interesting.


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[Assistant] You saved me some time, so that's nice. It wasn't entirely fruitless, because you did save me some time.


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[Assistant] Satellites aren't free, Adam. You know this. You know satellites aren't free. How else are they gonna go around the earth, perpetual motion? No? Yes.


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[Assistant] It seems pretty, I mean it seems, that's a suburban thing is sometimes animals wander up. I don't know where this animal is from or what it is doing or what's going on. And I think if you're a child, you assume that the animal has chosen you and you must take it in. But if you are, you're an adult.


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[Assistant] You go, if this animal isn't hurt or in pain or seems like it needs help.


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[Assistant] To be so freak. You know? To be so freak.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I mean it's not, yeaah, LA is different for strays because they're probably not gonna survive that long. Uhm, but it doesn't see it sound like this is a stray cat. No.


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[Assistant] It sounds like this is a cat where the person doesn't care and they're like, cats do what cats do, except it's a burden for you, you know?


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[Assistant] Don't beat yourself up about it, I think everything's fine. I mean, the only thing where you went wrong is you cared enough to try and buy that GPS. That's probably a step further than I would have thought, but uh, I'm glad it's all been resolved.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, yeaah. The Democratic National Convention was, night one was last night, so yeaah, I keep up with the news.


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[Assistant] Well, Google did it though too. At first I was like, uh, we'll see how this pans out. But Google doing it too, I'm like, okay. Who's the bully? I don't know. We have so many giant corporations that make so many billions of dollars that I don't know who the little guy is anymore.


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[Assistant] So, sorry, I know you just explained it, but the situation is, if you have Fortnite on your, I'm admittedly very ignorant on how it works. Yes. If you have an Epic account, right?


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[Assistant] You can log in to your Epic account and you can play Fortnite on your desktop, but if you're on the bus and you want to play Fortnite, you log in through your phone to the same Epic account and then you play Fortnite on your phone, right? More or less. Yeah. Interface. It's the same. It's, it's a cross you cross cloud, save whatever account.


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[Assistant] So if you wanna buy V-Bucks, if you wanna buy V-Bucks, then you, and you're gonna wanna do it from your phone.


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[Assistant] Then you have to go through Apple pay or whatever, right? In the app store. What happens if, if there's a deal on the Epic store and then you go, you, is this what happened? And then you can just go on your desktop and then buy the deal on your desktop. And then it loads that currency in your phone, right?


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[Assistant] So to put this in terms that I would understand, Marvel Puzzle Quest.


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[Assistant] You wanna buy hero coins from Marvel Puzzle Quest.


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[Assistant] You press I wanna buy hero coins and then it takes you to the app apple payment system and then apple takes your money and then it unlocks the hero coins on your phone. Right? But what epic is saying is just go to the epic store. And then bypass apple.


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[Assistant] And then you can then basically get the same hero equivalent of hero coins on your phone. Yes. It's interesting. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah. It's just interesting because there have been situations in the past where I have played Marvel Puzzle Quest and there was a feature that allowed you to share your save


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[Assistant] Cross because there's a steam version of the game and you could some people now it's locked out but I was one of the early adopters of this game so I was able to link my steam to my phone.


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[Assistant] So theoretically, if I make a change on Steam, the Steam version of the game, it will update to the phone version.


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[Assistant] And I don't know if I should be saying this, but there have been times where they've had sales on Steam that are exclusive to Steam.


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[Assistant] Can we, can we do the thing where we finally say that independent research firms that you hire for a hundred million dollars are probably not as independent as you may have liked them to be? Like, the information they gather, that might be unbiased or that might be more, uh, analytical.


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[Assistant] But the way they present it to you, and I assure you the way they sit down and, and put you through the slideshow, cause I have been in these meetings where an independent group comes in and explains something to the group to like, make them see. It's so sugar coated and there's no way someone's going to be like.


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[Assistant] I made a big mistake when you're going through one of the- even if you made a horrific mistake, I never see a point where everyone goes like, ooh, this is bad. This is bad. Because it's like-


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[Assistant] The sad truth of it is the cost of technological advancement and when you put that advancement in one basket, like,


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[Assistant] That's kind of where we are at. The Twitch example is a great example that you mentioned, but the truth about Twitch is that the reason they can give a bigger streamer a better deal is not necessarily because the, uh,


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[Assistant] It's not necessarily because they're trying to incentivize them to stay while I'm sure that's how they phrase it. The truth of the matter is, a bigger streamer who gets more viewers and has more subs and is generating more met revenue is probably more likely to pay.


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[Assistant] For themselves and the services that Twitch is providing by creating that platform and the effort that goes into


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[Assistant] Making a streaming site that works that anyone can use and a chat and like all of those systems, then someone who streams to a smaller audience, like


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[Assistant] They are probably offsetting the cost. They need to charge the smaller audience more. It sucks, but this is why you need to put systems in place that protect the little guy in most situations because the truth of the matter is that a capitalistic world


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[Assistant] The little guy doesn't offer as much value as the big guy.


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[Assistant] And if all you're counting are the dollar signs, then the streamer who only streams for, you know, five people or whatever, you know, infrequently and you know, they, their streams are amazing and they put so much effort into it, but they just don't have a huge audience. They're probably not paying for the cost that it costs to stream them.


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[Assistant] You know, if that makes sense. Twitch is probably losing money on them.


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[Assistant] We don't have wars anymore. This sounds dramatic, but we don't necessarily have...


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[Assistant] I mean, there are obviously places where war is happening, but I'm saying like, we don't have world wars anymore, but where we have our giant corporations waging legal war with each other.


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[Assistant] Is my, uh, angel fire address, cause I, I'm off the grid, Adam. You see, I'm off the grid. Right? Cause I'm not part of this whole, this thing, you, whatever you guys are fighting down earth, I'm out in the clouds, okay? I'm off the grid. Okay. Is an angel fire.


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[Assistant] It's the, it's the best way to be certain of, of a person's location. Cause if you put a tracker in their hand, they can reach their hand away from their body. But if the tracker's in their butt or in that general area, it's where they are. So, I'm just saying, just note to anyone watching.


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[Assistant] Yes, actually, yeah, they, they, uh, roguelike. Yes, it is, uh,


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[Assistant] That's a perfect place for it, probably.


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[Assistant] Isn't it an unbeatable game? Correct me if I'm wrong, but like...


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[Assistant] Cause they kept adding new worlds and they're like, oh, now we added a new god and a new world and it was always...


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[Assistant] That voice acting and the art design of that game were just like, mwah, just fantastic. Uhm, but I remember thinking like, ugh, but no matter how good I am, I'll never beat this. That's my only-


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[Assistant] I don't think I actually own the PlayStation 2 version of it, was it?


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[Assistant] I'm interested in that for sure. I wonder how like restrictive it's going to be. Cause I feel like that game is pretty much a go anywhere, do anything kind of vibe. So the idea of now there's an online co-op that seems like that adds a ton of variables, but it actually does.


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[Assistant] I mean, so many, I didn't beat it, but so many of those missions are go to somewhere, meet a guy, and then walk alongside them for 20 minutes until you're attacked. You know?


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[Assistant] Your friends keep you grounded. Oh well the prospect, that's the thing though, the prospect of a large, wide open world is way less frightening to me when you know that you can do it with friends. Right? Like, eh, but it's, you know, cause Ryzen Zero Dawn is, I wanna try and get


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[Assistant] And do it maybe on PC or something, but yeah, I think the time from when I was able to access the map to when I stopped playing was like an hour.


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[Assistant] Like, I played the beginning part of it and then I did like the map. Well, also there's like a cutscene that's 45 minutes before you actually get to pick up the controller. But, like, there was a map, brought up the map and I went, oh, it like felt like the wind got knocked out of me. And then I.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then I shortly thereafter, I was like, okay, well, I don't think I'm going to be able to play this game anymore.


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[Assistant] It doesn't feel like there is, it doesn't feel like there is much. I was talking to John the other day about playing Cuphead. I feel like he'd get real serious into it, but I mean, that's not exactly a new game. I don't know, I don't really know what there is out that's...


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[Assistant] Someone in chat, Cyrillios mentions a way out, which if you never played, is a very fun game to play with someone.


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[Assistant] Everyone's preferences is gonna be all screwed up. There's gonna be the people that are gonna lash out.


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[Assistant] They're gonna, they're gonna be like, I've been confined so long that now I'm just gonna be bursting out of my shell like a, like a 26 year old virgin after having sex for the first time, right? They're just gonna be like, this is the best and they're just gonna go crazy on themselves.


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[Assistant] Or there's gonna be the people that'll be like, I have decided that I don't want to watch new things, and the only thing that brings me joy is Adam's family values.


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[Assistant] I love that. They fed her to the pigs. They fed her to the pigs. That's what I want.


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[Assistant] See, that's the thing, the, the, the burning, the, the fuel it requires to burn, it has a negative impact. So you, the only, honestly the only way, and this is what I want for myself, the only way is to just, when you're dead, they take your body and they throw it into the nearest alley. And just let nature do the rest.


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[Assistant] I don't think, I don't think, you're bombed, you're out, you're out kid.


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[Assistant] I was not. I did watch many of the trailers in a YouTube playlist.


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[Assistant] How long was the event? Tell me about it. Hey, for someone, pretend I've never heard of Gamescom. What the heck is it?


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[Assistant] I love that you could tell that trailer was really thrown together last minute because


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[Assistant] Is the like lead designer on it, but he's using like his gamer headset microphone. So it's all this flashy imagery and then it's like.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I played it like two or three times by myself and was like, I'm good. Uh, but it is really fun to play with other people.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, alone, you're like, who am I gonna cheer for?


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[Assistant] I mean, that has to be something they're working on. Cause I mean, like you said, you know, they just found their success when the game launched, but I'm sure seeing how many people are streaming it and how much fun people are having streaming it, they're going to prioritize.


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[Assistant] Being able, streamers being able to, uh, play with their fans, whether it's custom servers or something like that, cause, I mean that was something that happened with, uh,


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[Assistant] PUBG, like, very quickly after PUBG blew up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they made the effort to introduce custom servers so that people could do that. Uhm, I'm guessing slash hoping that will be the case cause, yeaah, that could be pretty fun.


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[Assistant] Well, when it's Battle Royales, where it's like 160 to 100 people each, your odds are much better. And I'm guessing that there's maybe...


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[Assistant] Like, you know, if it's a big streamer, there's maybe at least like a hundred people trying to do it. Uhm, I don't know the science behind it, because I don't do it. Yeah, you do. Adam, you accusing me?


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[Assistant] Uh, no, but I did see what, who's it, it was Forzen, who's like one of the original Twitch streamers. Uhm, he, his community is known for always trolling him, like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, if you want to hear my picks, or things that I'm excited for from Gamescom. I do, I do want to. I got three games for ya. One, uh, Tear Down.


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[Assistant] Which, here's the thing, I'm in all of the like, indie game, game dev, subreddits, so all of these smaller games...


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[Assistant] I've sometimes not all of them but a lot of them i've seen you know like the prototypes and stuff being put like gifts of them just being posted one of those games is tear down which is it's like voxel environments where. You basically have a prep period where you can like.


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[Assistant] Blow up walls and lay down planks of wood and stuff to pretty much create a path for you to then.


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[Assistant] Turn off alarms in the shortest amount of time and then get away. Like the idea is that you're preparing for the perfect heist or whatever. Right. But it's super cool in how interactive everything is. Uhm, it's, it's, it seems like a very, uh, a game kind of based around systems. Like a systemic mechanic.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think I posted the trailer for it in Office Slack like a year ago.


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[Assistant] Dude, I used to see this game in blockbuster every week and I said, no thank you.


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[Assistant] That is one of the worst, or one of, not one of the worst, but one of my least favorite mechanics in a game is when there's a countdown timer constantly.


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[Assistant] What's the, what's the zombie game where you build weapons and it's super goofy?


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[Assistant] That game with the timer counting down from when the military is gonna show up or whatever, and even when I was, yeah, when I was younger, I wasn't even able to play Majora's Mask because...


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[Assistant] Uhm, no one told me that you could reset it, but like, I was like, I only have three days to do this?


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[Assistant] I loaded up Blast Core's, uh, Blast Core, Corp, Corpse? Blast Core. Oh, Blast Core. Uh, gameplay footage, and there's just a giant silver robot doing somersaults through buildings. So, this looks great.


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[Assistant] It was like a review of Alien 3 or something, uh, it was, it was a-


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[Assistant] No, it was a first person shooter, but the controls, it was the first time that the standardized first person shooter controls work now, where the left stick is your horizontal movement and the right stick is your...


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[Assistant] Kind of camera angles, but the review was like, it was scathing saying


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[Assistant] From my church who owned Goldeneye and was a terrible fucking asshole.


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[Assistant] Cause we'd play together and he would always, he would pick odd job, of course, and then he would, he would be like, let's play proximity mines.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then what he'd do is he knew where all the spawns were.


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[Assistant] So once he killed you, he just run back and forth, throwing proximity mines where you were about to spawn. So I just keep spawning and then blowing up and I'm like, dude.


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[Assistant] Please, let's do something else. He's like, no, let's keep doing this, this is fun.


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[Assistant] The perfect robots game already came out. It's called Robots, and it's on Game Boy Advance. Uhm.


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[Assistant] So, I mean, it's from the movie. It's on Game Boy Advance. We don't need 3D. We have Game Boy Advance!


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[Assistant] Come on, Adam. Uhm, one thing I'm noticing, cause I'm watching the trailer, I'm having the trailer play silently right now, I'm still listening to you guys.


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[Assistant] But even though it is this very stylized, you know, not realistic, uh, visuals, there is a lot of stuff going on graphics-wise still. Like, there are a lot of reflections in everything that seems like it would be very hard to do on the current gen.


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[Assistant] Platforms and just in terms of.


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[Assistant] Just the number of elements on screen at a time with the fidelity of the models and everything is like.


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[Assistant] This definitely is a next-gen game, even though it's not the hyper-realistic style.


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[Assistant] They're really, I think they're really using it, uh, to its maximum potential, at least it seems like.


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[Assistant] The, uh, the other thing, like you guys, like you guys are saying that we've peaked with gameplay, uhm, and what other things can we explore? Something that was at the Baldur's Gate 3 gameplay, uh, like, presentation that the creator did.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that the processing power in the background, uh, that was running all of the systems and like AI and everything were so intense that only playing on Stadia would you get the real experience. Uhm, but that really is the thing, I feel like I've talked about it before, but uhm,


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[Assistant] The leap from 360, Xbox 360, Xbox One, there was the Shadow of Mordor game, uhm, with the...


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[Assistant] Nemesis system, which they basically they released the game on the 360, but it was a neutered version because even though it wasn't anything graphical, it was this whole like system that made all these decisions and, and, uh, you know, change the game on all these.


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[Assistant] Kind of low level back end ways that just wasn't possible on an older machine so that I think that will be really interesting to see.


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[Assistant] You know where we go with stuff like that like you know they could make.


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[Assistant] There's this game, this indie game I play called Rain World. I haven't beaten it, but it's, what I love about it is that


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[Assistant] It was made by an artist and a musician or something, like it's two guys that neither of them knew how to program, uhm, and one of them just learned how to do it to make this game, uhm, and so it's almost, it's kinda like Goldeneye, because Goldeneye, what do they say, like 8 of the 11 developers had never made a game before, uhm,


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[Assistant] Rain world basically what they did was they made all these creatures and they programmed them to have their own wants and needs.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so what they ended up with is the whole world. There is, uhm, it's a functioning and flowing ecosystem that will, that it can exist even without you.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so you're just moving through it and there's creatures that are hunting each other and gathering food and all these different things that has nothing to do with you.


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[Assistant] And because it's a very small, like 2D, very, you know, very small game, they're able to do that without a lot of processing power, but it would be interesting to see, you know, games like, you know, The Sims or, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, like Assassin's Creed or just any game that has, yeaah, any game that has, uh, you know, maybe like a city or something.


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[Assistant] How far can they go with the NPCs living their lives? Like Skyrim, uhm, whatever, whatever the next, uh, Elder Scrolls game is, the depth that they could actually give their NPCs could be much greater, uhm, in terms of their, like, living cycles and everything.


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[Assistant] Well I have this playlist, there's a hundred and one trailers in the playlist.


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[Assistant] You could, you could slap, you could cut down bullets. I didn't, I didn't watch the uh, yea I didn't watch the trailer. I only did it on accident.


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[Assistant] I was never able to willingly do it. Why would you waste the time? Yeah. Uhm, but uh, so yeah, like you said Adam, most games do have a kind of,


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[Assistant] Once you boil it down to the game loop, it's not that great, but I think what really matters more is how satisfying is the core gameplay. Uhm, and that's something


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[Assistant] That in the game dev community, there's two terms for it is the juice and game feel.


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[Assistant] And combat, like, with everything stripped away, like what you have to do in the game, objectives and everything, just moving around and doing what you do in the game, how satisfying. Like, like Mario 64, uhm, the developers said that they spent like,


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[Assistant] Two or three months just programming the jumping around before they started anything else in the game development because they wanted to get that down.


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[Assistant] And make sure that it was fun to move around before anything else. So that's what I think of when I think of Ghostrunner is that you have the dash.


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[Assistant] You have the, you know, the wall run and every, and the grappling hook and those are just so fun to do.


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[Assistant] I was, I've also been playing Hollow Knight recently, and once I unlocked the dash and the wall jump, cause you know, like, in the beginning you just kinda run around and jump and you can't really do anything, but once I unlocked those two and I was just bouncing around and dashing and stuff, I was like,


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, I remember why I freaking love this game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so it was once I hit that point in like my mobility,


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[Assistant] Reached like another tier that I was like, this game is so, so wonderful and so great.


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[Assistant] One other honorable mention I have, uh, we were talking about game feel, um, midnight fight express. Uh, it's all it is. It's just a game where you punch people, but the core, just the, just the basic gameplay and fighting and stuff just looks so satisfying that it looks like crossy


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[Assistant] Makes me think of a Jackie Chan game or something, cause you can like pick up a chair and use it. Pick up a stool or a ladder.


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[Assistant] Yeah, in the, in I, in another game that I saw in like the, the game dev subreddits where, for the first, I, I can't remember how long, it felt like a year. All he was doing was posting his characters fighting in like,


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[Assistant] Just a gray grid floor, like no environment, no anything just.


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[Assistant] Him with his characters jumping around, slapping each other and grabbing each other and punching and stuff and it just got cooler and cooler and cooler just how it looked, that basic gameplay looked and then


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[Assistant] Yeah, fast forward to now, it looks like, you know, he's tied it into some sort of story. Uh, but.


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[Assistant] And the development company is called main6mane, like a horse's mane. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Scrolling through the comments, every third profile picture is a furry, so.


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[Assistant] It's a picture of an animal wearing sunglasses.


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[Assistant] It's like her computer, she literally had to stop playing because her computer was making crazy noises while she was trying to run it. Ant Man is in there.


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[Assistant] What were you gonna say, Jon? Oh, that, uh, you were right on the money. Tron Legacy Worldwide Profits was $400 million in $62,000, so. That's so much


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[Assistant] Is they should recreate, uh, someone, maybe, uh,


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[Assistant] That guy from that 70's show. Uhm, you know who I'm talking about? He recuts Star Wars. Yea, the dad from Robocop. Yea, the dad. Red.


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[Assistant] Someone should make a huge cut, that's, that is the movie, but using all of the shots. Idea! Topher Grace, get in here! Topher, we're calling you Topher!


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[Assistant] Hey everybody, welcome to this podcast this week. I'm your host, Elise Wilms this week, and I'm joined by the


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[Assistant] Yes, it was. It was. I think, if I recall, cause I remember working in E3 where we had a big had to do about it, but we're joined by two people that we love very much.


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[Assistant] And that's Hannah McCarthy and Fiona Nova, who I thought I'd actually maybe let you both introduce the other. Oooooh.


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[Assistant] One, because it would be a test to see if you actually know what the other does at the company.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you're both very important, very HBIC, very accomplished.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you're both- My Apple Watch. Is that an Apple Watch?


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[Assistant] Uh, you are both stars of the newest season of Red vs. Blue, RBB Zero.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna cast the show ourselves. Uhm, no, but you both are


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[Assistant] Mixed reviews, uh, sex swing the animated series.


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[Assistant] If I had a red versus blue character, and I don't even know if this works in the universe, but I would want to be a robot.


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[Assistant] No, I love that this feels like a refresher in a few ways, like the way that you're describing the cast and how everybody is genuinely friends and just loves making it together. Yeah, it is.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, so, Super Nintendo World.


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[Assistant] Uh, but we got shown off some of the, the ride. There are two main rides, flagship rides that are opening the world and one is a Mario Kart ride called Koopa's Challenge that uses AR headsets. It's on rails though, but you can do.


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[Assistant] A few little things like collect items and throw shells. And this is all, some of this is just conjecture to or context clues because more details are pretty under wraps.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and it begins in Bowser's castle and you...


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[Assistant] Of course, like race through different worlds and then it naturally goes to rainbow road.


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[Assistant] That's right. When we went to Bush Gardens.


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[Assistant] I have back problems and I do like roller coasters a lot. And the day we went to Bush Gardens was amazing because I think we rode like 15 roller coasters or something. But, uh, uhm, I always have really funny doctor's appointments because I'm a child and so, you know, you would get your prognosis from your doctor or your report and I feel like any average person would be like,


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[Assistant] You know, don't lift anything over 50 pounds. Mine are always like, don't ride roller coasters, don't eat cheeseburgers.


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[Assistant] I have a really bad, I have a really bad back and it's the kind of thing where


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[Assistant] I'll go get a massage, and I've had multiple masseuses ask me if I've been in car accidents. Uhm, because it's just like, so bad back there. I keep all my tension in my shoulders. Uhm, so it's like rock hard. But, uh, I think I would be a little robot.


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[Assistant] Just enjoying my bowl of magic spoon cereal. Now, like me, you might remember being a kid and picking out cereal and you picked it because you liked the box art and the promise of the sugar in it and how good it was going to taste. But as an adult, you can't really eat that way because it's not as healthy for you.


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[Assistant] Look at this box art. It's a pink monkey with a cereal. This lady loves a spoon.


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[Assistant] This is the cereal you want, okay? And it also tastes delicious. It's got zero grams of sugar.


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[Assistant] Okay, four flavors, cocoa, fruity, frosted, and blueberry. You can get, you can get a variety pack, alright? It's keto-friendly, gluten-free, grain-free, soy-free, low-carb, GMO-free, it covers all the check marks, and it still tastes good, okay?


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[Assistant] James Willems Fitness Nut, he loves it. So you can click the link below to grab a variety pack and try it today. This is the link in our description. And be sure to use the promo code DUDESUPACHECKOUT to get free shipping.


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[Assistant] Go for it. Well thank you to our sponsor, we are back.


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[Assistant] And something we had talked, we were talking about before the show was the rise of the VTuber. Uhm, because James...


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[Assistant] You want to be one. And then I feel like it's come into the, to the zeitgeist now. Everyone's like talking about VTubers.


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[Assistant] It's funny because it's like when you think about the point of that marketing is that you, the, the, uhm, consumer imprint yourself.


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[Assistant] I was saying to James the other day, the one thing I am very grateful for in the COVID pandemic is that to the greater extent,


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[Assistant] When I was like, how do I do this? Okay, what if somebody came to you and they said, I will pay you an exorbitant amount of money to be the voice for my vtuber. But you can never tell anyone what you do.


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[Assistant] I guess so. I guess so. We do know some voice actors that do voice matching.


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[Assistant] But they can never really say that was actually me.


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[Assistant] Like Hannah's saying, you can inject more into it beyond just doing your voice.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I know I'm not meant, like, I lost a part to Joel Rubin.


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[Assistant] He was a consultant for the film. I bet that knowing who you are, Hannah, and your disposition and your good nature,


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[Assistant] That writing that kind of character for you is really fun.


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[Assistant] Okay, this will work. It's like the opposite of Christopher Lee filming Lord of the Rings and getting stabbed and Peter Jackson saying that's not how someone sounds when they're stabbed and Christopher Lee saying have you ever stabbed a man because I have? Uhm, it is. I just like you telling that story.


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[Assistant] Yeah, episode 6 I can't recommend enough. Okay.


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[Assistant] My favorite thing, my favorite thing Fiona, cause like, I didn't really know too much about Rooster Teeth when I started working for them. Didn't know too much about Funhaus either.


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[Assistant] And my favorite thing would always be like, like, they'd be like Achievement Hunter and I'd be like, I'm sorry, I'm not familiar.


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[Assistant] Hannah, what was your experience coming into Rooster Teeth? Tell the truth.


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[Assistant] I was totally there with you because I feel like there were years where I would refer to everyone else's fun house.


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[Assistant] Something would happen and maybe the guys would go do it. Right.


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[Assistant] And is there anything else you want to push or promote other than red versus blue? It can be any, I mean, Hannah, if you want to, if you, you want to talk about pet adoption even, it doesn't have to be work related.


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[Assistant] Hyrule Warriors, Age of Calamity and that, and there's some Smash Brothers happening in that, and GTA.


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[Assistant] Uh, with special guest Ian Kang, and then also, uhm, what? What?


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly, thank you Hannah. And uhm, and also we have uhm, oh my gosh, I'm trying to think of the simulator we played with Lindsay and Rye and it's like the small business simulator. Oh, right.


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[Assistant] Okay! Alright, to the point! Thank you both again so much. Uh, thanks to our TV Cody.


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[Assistant] Not guaranteed. Over 400,000 people have used Upstart to pay off credit card debt or meet their financial goals, including myself. That's right.


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[Assistant] You know what I'm saying? You know what these days? It feels like online shopping is the only shopping we really do. It should be the only shopping you're doing. It's the safest.


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[Assistant] Basically your BFF for online shopping. Here's how it works. You get Honey on your computer for free in two easy clicks. One, two. Then, when you're checking out from over any of their 30,000 supported sites, that's right, a 30,000, Honey pops up.


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[Assistant] Search that site, and boom! If it finds any working codes, it will apply the


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[Assistant] Then you redeem those rewards for gift cards, products, discounts, and other stuff from quip and partner.


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[Assistant] Solar battery charger. Say what? That's right. It powers your quip with the sun. Just like Superman. And they got a refresh bag. Bring your good oral care habits everywhere you go. Plus you can get your brush head, toothpaste, and floss refills delivered to you for five.


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[Assistant] We were taking bets on how long it was till he was going to get to the ants.


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[Assistant] Avatar, Pocahontas, we've seen it all before and we'll see it again.


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[Assistant] I asked him to show me a bear stock and it was a drawing of Winnie the Pooh in a corn field.


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[Assistant] Which is what I was reading someone in an Amazon, I was just looking up soap on Amazon and then someone in a review was going on about their Botox for their glands and I was like, I just want to know if it smells good. They were going off on it.


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[Assistant] There's already all the fan art of, of, uh, Doomguy and Master Chief.


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[Assistant] Also like Ninja Theory, James and I just played through Hellblade together, uh, and I was, I'm excited, really excited now for the sequel.


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[Assistant] The console exclusive stuff with this one, where with Deathloop and with Tokyo Ghostwire, if it was contractually from Bethesda's side, pardon me, not Bethesda, but from Zenimax's side, where they said, you have to keep, you know, the word with these exclusives, you have to still, you know, honor this. Or if that was Microsoft saying, well,


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[Assistant] We learned our lesson with the Xbox One launch how bad PR can just set us back so much, we don't want to even


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[Assistant] Dance with the idea of saying, you know, you're not going to get these on PlayStation. So we're going to be good guys. We're going to go for the PR win here and we're going to say yes, you can still get these titles. We're not going to lock them to.


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[Assistant] Our software. But I also have to be curious as to whether the delay for Deathloop had anything to do with this acquisition.


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[Assistant] I do think it's directly connected to Game Pass, that this is part of that strategy of not necessarily acquiring studios so that they can have exclusives or IP exclusives, but just a broader library for Game Pass and to say to consumers, sure, you can also play this


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[Assistant] Todd Howard was interviewed about this and he specifically said it's not about the platform. It's about getting the games in the hand of as many people as we can. And Game Pass definitely seems to do that.


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[Assistant] Part of me feels like we saw the three heads of the dragon all share the stage at the 2019 game awards.


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[Assistant] Anything is possible, we don't know what conversations were happening behind that curtain. However...


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[Assistant] I do think that to Sony, a lot of those IPs are jewels in the crown and they love having those exclusives.


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[Assistant] They love building those franchises, acquiring new ones, and finding those unique takes.


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[Assistant] Well, I think it would be really cool and honestly usher in a really new and interesting and, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're going to get you to buy into the Microsoft ecosystem. It might not be by a console, but it's going to be by our subscription platform.


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[Assistant] Like, it's almost like Microsoft's like, let's remove the Xbox from the equation even.


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[Assistant] There might be tears. There might be tears to Game Pass. I'm not really sure. I can't.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think if you're getting the highest tier of Netflix, it's 15.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I have to say that I think they're competing in two different buckets now, especially if Microsoft is seemingly using Game Pass to target a more mobile audience. An audience that doesn't necessarily have to buy into their console ecosystem. It's just, it's just maybe two different arenas now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you can Google it if you want, but like, there's just so much confusion or, and I mean especially come this holiday season if you're a grandma and you're trying to sort this out, man, that's a whole can of worms.


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[Assistant] That's cause in 2013, Sony goofed us. They said, you want to share games with your friend? Just hand them to him.


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[Assistant] I guess we did. I guess people didn't want that. They didn't want it five years ago. I will say as someone that when all hell broke loose, pandemonium across the internet and pre-orders were leaking early across retailers, I of course went to Target and was spamming.


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[Assistant] Uh, and bought a PS5, and I bought the disk drive. I bought the...


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[Assistant] But it was an easy decision made for me because the diskless drive wasn't available.


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[Assistant] You know what I miss is the era, the simpler times of red-ringing Xboxes. One story that I love that never left me was someone sent their Xbox to get repaired because it red-ringed.


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[Assistant] It was refurbished or used, it was a new Xbox they claimed and they found a chip bag inside.


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[Assistant] Xbox? The creators went out. No, because I just did the PlayStation 5 and it-


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[Assistant] This is finally with the launch of the PS5 when they're going to announce that release date for Agent. I know it. I wish someone in the community would make a super compilation of all the times I like to do Agent references, because it's my favorite defunct game.


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[Assistant] It was supposed to be a rockstar title that was, uh, announced during, I think in E3. And then it just kept getting strung along for years and years. And, nothing. It was the last guardian of our generation, which was also the last guardian of our generation.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so many games, I think, get second lives on the Switch.


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[Assistant] I just mean some of these like kind of smaller indie games where it's a really intimate experience and just being able to do it on a handheld is great.


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[Assistant] I've confidently looked at it ten times over those two years when I've been looking through Steam for games, specifically for multiplayer stuff, because it always kind of came up, but yeaah, it didn't seem like it was, it did seem like it was similar to other stuff that was up.


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[Assistant] I'm happy for them. Same with Fall Guys, because Fall Guys, you can just kind of tell from their PR presence that they...


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[Assistant] Seem like they're player conscious, they have a pretty great back and forth with the community. When accessibility was in question, they tackled that.


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[Assistant] Um, so it's, I think it's a situation too where it's some of these developers that are maybe deserving of this level of success or getting it, which is nice.


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[Assistant] There's not always going to be the game of the week though, I think.


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[Assistant] Let me tell you, there were two, two things, two things that fall in this category, Among Us and Cobra Kai are these two things that existed for years but have rocketed. Since some little change happened, a platform shift in the case of Cobra Kai, exposure on the case of Among Us.


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[Assistant] We have a thing where this light in our apartment glows gold and at night it has also a reddish hue and James does this thing where he goes and he stands in the shadows and does the crane pose.


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[Assistant] Oh, don't even get me started on Dark Crystal. Adam, give us an ad or a segway or something. I can't even.


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[Assistant] The totalitarian regime thing, I was like, he's gonna talk about China.


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[Assistant] It's tough because you know how Beyonce tried to get all those pictures of her performing at the Super Bowl taking off the internet, but it's only because she was dancing really aggressively.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think Joseph Stalin, uh, uh, has the record for, uh, most, um, deaths per his regime, but Mao's up there too. Mao, not to be, not to be out there.


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[Assistant] I should go without saying that people should be treated, you should treat people the way that you yourself would like to be treated by the people around you. There's compassion and respect are two very easy things to give to someone else and uh, expect that in return.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Yeah, and just to reiterate,


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[Assistant] Today on the show, we have a very special guest when we talk in some headlines, and if time permits, we're going to learn a little bit about history. This is Dude Stoop.


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[Assistant] Right. We'll get that out of the way now.


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[Assistant] We'll talk more about that later. Hey everyone, welcome to another edition of dude soup. I'd like to introduce my guests, James and Elise Williams and a very special, this, this means actually a lot to me and I'll tell you why in a little bit, but you may know him as random Frank P from the internet. How you doing Frank?


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[Assistant] Uh, real quick for, sorry, real quick for our audience, Frank, uh, can you please let our audience know what you do on your, your wonderful YouTube channel, which I do frequent quite a bit now.


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[Assistant] I feel like the YouTube algorithm has been very kind to you and your best tech under $50 has, it will show up on accounts that I have that are not subscribed to you, uh, or will just be reckoned.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Well, I mean, I have to check things on our funhouse account in my work. Like I have to use different accounts for it. We have a funhouse clips account, you know, those sorts of things. Why would I subscribe to someone's channel? It doesn't stop. Get out of, stop making that face, James.


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[Assistant] It's funny because I see your stuff around a lot, uhm, which actually I think is, I think is awesome because you actually started out, as I recall, as a fan of inside gaming and you made some fan videos, right?


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no. He came out of the womb saying, I like inside gaming. Goo goo Gaga. Give me milk. Oh, look at that.


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[Assistant] It's always against all of us at all times. And I see you pop up on the reddit battle stations subreddit every once in a while. That seems to be a pretty good resource for, uh, for doing, you know, for a channel like yours.


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[Assistant] This is what YouTube was founded on. It is just stealing from everybody. This is how, no, I did not.


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[Assistant] I stole it from Good Mythical Morning, uh, so moving on. Or actually, well, I took our dumb idea. See, Frank, you have good ideas. We have silly ideas. Mine was, uhm, two people in my life were interested in Five Below.


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[Assistant] So then I said, we should make a show around that because then everyone must be into it. Turns out no one is into it and no one really knows what Five Below is, so.


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[Assistant] So, I would describe Frank's channel, your channel Frank, as a...


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[Assistant] It is, I like, I guess it's a tech channel, but it, it seems to be more focused on like the everyday sort of office setup. Whereas like there's like the Linus kind of tech tips, which is, seems to be like all over the place. It's almost like if G4 or tech TV still existed, it'd be its own channel. And then there's like MKBHD, which is kind of more of the sleek modern minimalist or like the newest phone, that sort of thing.


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[Assistant] What I really appreciate about your channel is like these, I see more of the stuff that like I would be more into or seems more attainable. We're like, here's a $50 little gadget.


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[Assistant] You might actually using your day to day life. How do you go about sourcing those sorts of that sort of tech that you actually want to put on your channel?


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[Assistant] I just assumed with all the stuff you're getting that you just become numb to technology, like you are some sort of cyborg human man where, I don't know, almost, almost like a Cronenberg type thing where you're gonna roll over on a keyboard and it will become part of you, but hopefully that hasn't happened yet.


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[Assistant] We could be, we could be. So when, when this whole, whole thing work from home thing started, one of the first things I did was, uh, we got smart lights. We were working with a potential sponsor and they sent us a bunch of smart lights. And so this, this room became like a smart light room, except it all, you know, works with a Google assistant. So now everything's voice controlled. This room used to be simple. It used to just be on a switch, hit a light.


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[Assistant] But then now it's like, oh, now I have to always say it and I have to set it on a timer, all this stuff. So then I was like.


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[Assistant] We're in this weird age where it's almost like if you can think of it, the product exists. So my, my brain went, I wish there was a motion sensor that I could put in the room that when there wasn't a certain, if there wasn't motion for a certain amount of time, it would just all the smart lights would turn off. Of course that exists, except now I'm going down this rabbit hole.


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[Assistant] What is Zigbee and Z-Wave and all these things that I've never heard of, but I basically, I bought a smart sensor. Uh, it was a Samsung smart thing sensor. I put it in the room and I'm like, I'm so excited to do this. And then I set it up.


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[Assistant] Frank, I believe you and I are peas in a pod in that situation where I will, uh, spend an insane amount of time and probably unnecessary amounts of money just so that a light will turn off and on based on a light sensor. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yes, I, I, I'll be happy for another week. That was a trick question. That was a trick question.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I feel like I definitely get bored with uhm,


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[Assistant] I'll always switch my desk around or like I try to improve small little things here and there. But uhm, I do, there are certain things and I'll, I'll ask this to you too, Frank, but like there are certain things in my life where like, like I have a pretty good smart TV and I bought it I think three years ago and I don't really want to touch it. It's 4K. It's OLED.


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[Assistant] I'm good. I'm done. Like I don't think I need anything. Is there anything that you've, that has come across your desk in recent years where you're like, they can't improve upon this. It's done.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we got some b-roll here actually. It's from your channel. This is Samsung's, it's the Odyssey, the G9. I've seen this pop up on a few channels. I was happy to see that you got it as well about a week ago. So I'm guessing Samsung sent these around.


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[Assistant] Is this the future or is this still, do you think this is potentially a gimmick?


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[Assistant] Well, someone was talking about it, the way in which it's curved, you could technically surround yourself by them, right? And it would make a perfect circle.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you just get a chair that shakes around. Well, uh, that was some fun tech talk. Uh, we're going to talk some more headlines moving forward, but first a quick word from our sponsor. ExpressVPN is the software that we and thousands of our fans use every day to protect our data online.


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[Assistant] Well, now that you bought this $1700 monitor that wraps around your face, why not buy a game console that matches it that costs a fraction of it? Uh, the Sony PS5 looks like a big surprise. It's coming out this holiday according to some leaks from Amazon and Sony put their hands up and said, we don't know where that came from, but you know, eh, uh, based on


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[Assistant] Uh, the time in which people buy things looks like the console will be coming out around November, probably December, but we'll see. Uh, but a fun thing is that when people were trying to preorder the console, they were limited to one per customer.


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[Assistant] Uh, there is a theory that Sony might be limited on the number of consoles they can produce and they won't be able to produce enough for people this holiday, especially with people, uh, being stuck at home and looking for, uh, some new tech. So that's, that's going to be interesting. And this also comes on the, the Eve, uh, I guess to Eve's away from.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, sorry, we have to make believe that stuff happened. Uh, man, Beyond Good and Evil 2. Lookin'... good? I don't know. Is it ever coming out?


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[Assistant] I actually want to ask you Frank, I know because your channel seems to be more PC focused, would you, are you still going to be doing console coverage since this is, I think since your channel has been tech focused, new consoles have come out, right?


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[Assistant] I'm not sure if they announced this, I was just watching the Inside Gaming video news episode that they put up recently. I wasn't sure if this was confirmed or not, but it looks like the PS4 controllers would be, I guess, forward compatible with the PS5, which is...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think I heard that too. Yeah, happy about that. That's good that since, you know, controllers cost.


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[Assistant] Even if the games aren't all going to be backwards compatible, I was actually happy to hear that news. Even though I'm not crazy about the way that new controller looks, it looks like it's trying to be futuristic. Uh, I would be okay with a normal PS4 controller.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I could totally be wrong. It's funny that the Samsung Odyssey, the G9 actually looks kinda like it. Yeah, it matches.


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[Assistant] So weird. Uh, in other news, Rocket League will be free to play soon on all platforms. Rocket League.


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[Assistant] No, no, they did before but they're gonna have obviously more now. There's also a funhouse flag in the game. There is a funhouse flag.


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[Assistant] I feel like I got outplayed in that game so quickly that it scared me.


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[Assistant] Too much to jump on, like the skill, the skill ceiling is so high.


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[Assistant] And I'm just like, okay, so how do you keep your eye on the ball? And then someone's already doing the backflip and scoring.


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[Assistant] I have it all. I tried out my phone, I tried the desktop client, they said it's rolling out, but either way this happens in the same week that Mixer has also been removed from the Xbox One via update. Uh, RipMixer, we actually enjoyed you as a service and we hate to see competitors go down, uh, just kind of-


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[Assistant] Well, uh, someone did tune in accidentally because Lindsay's account's name was Shroud's Mommy.


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[Assistant] And they found her on accident, like we saw some comments people after we're done recording, like, what is this? What are you doing? Why aren't you? And they're like, here's an Ember talk to me. And we're like, what? No, we're not using it in that way.


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[Assistant] We're using it because the technology is really cool. So I am sad to see Mixergo for that reason because the technology behind it was actually really, it seemed like it wasn't being utilized that great and they just couldn't get that audience unfortunately.


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[Assistant] Uhm, on that note, I just want to say Spotify is now trying to get into the video game, but they're doing it instead of, you know, with gaming and live streaming. They're trying to do it with video podcasts. I know actually Rooster Teeth is one of those partners being included in that. And they also gave Joe Rogan a lot of money to be exclusively on their platform. So I guess a question for everyone here who works in online video.


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[Assistant] Is there room for another competitor as the YouTube and Twitch giants continue to gobble up more and more?


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[Assistant] The, uh, the best comment I saw was, if we continue to collect enough crumbs, we will have a very disappointing sandwich. So I look forward to more Dr. Disrespect news. Uh, I mean, my, my mom texted me and was like, what's happening with Dr. Disrespect? I don't know. I don't know. Like I.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I know as much as you do because the only person who knows anything is that.


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[Assistant] Uh, so yeah, I guess we'll have to wait and see how this works out for Spotify. I guess they have the, I don't know if they have, I mean, I feel like they're, they're


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[Assistant] Twitch is becoming, it's this weird sort of hodgepodge beast. I mean, it's kind of, it's reverting back to what Justin TV was in a way, but like now that there's a tab for musical artists and live events and just chatting is one of the, you know, it's one of the biggest constant, you know, uh, channels on there from the browse category. It's.


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[Assistant] So I always think of the picture of the kid sitting next to the cardboard cut out of the people holding a sandwich and just laughing with them.


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[Assistant] That's what podcasts are. Alright, moving on to our final news story for today. This one's a little bit older, but since Frank's on the show, I want to talk about it. Looks like we're going to be getting surprise, some new Nvidia cards this year. Uh, and this is going to blow your mind. Instead of last year's 20 80 line, this one's going to be called a 30 80 and perhaps a 30 90, but


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[Assistant] I wanted to ask you, Frank, I know there's no official specs or anything out there right now, but since last year's big push was ray tracing, what else can they do to get people to buy into another, you know, potentially thousand dollar plus video card?


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is a headline from Tom's Hardware. I'll just read the quick byline here.


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[Assistant] Uh, the RTX 3080 is shaping up to deliver better game performance potentially with sleeker and more power efficient designs. A lot of what you're talking about there. Same with AMD really stepping things up in recent years. The pressure is on Nvidia to deliver big.


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[Assistant] If you're in the PC camp, you're, you're already there. I just, I think it does come down to.


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[Assistant] Uh, price and performance. I know a lot of people, I myself included am looking at AMD a lot closer these days. I've been on Intel for so long and I'm just, I've been seeing what they've been doing with their processors and just how.


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[Assistant] You're, you're getting a pretty good deal, uh, and, you know, but you're in that, in that field and I'm wondering if Nvidia can still keep up.


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[Assistant] Uh, with AMD, or is it going to be a closer race? And it's not really going to matter anymore. But hopefully with technology like that, you're, that's why you're buying into it, right?


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[Assistant] This is not a headline for this. What happened? I did not look into any of this happening. All I know is Twitter went down because of Bitcoin. Explain the story to me, please.


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[Assistant] I know, I know, I know it was a flash in the pan, but I just, all I saw was Twitter, Bitcoin, and I just continued not using Twitter because the wasteland it, it hath become. It's just, yeah. Anyway, on that happy note, a quick word from our sponsor. We'll be right back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, hey, if you ever want to make the move to California Frank, just get rid of all your stuff and, uh, get a bunk bed, because that's how living is out here.


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[Assistant] All the YouTubers moved to Glendale. I don't understand it. They're like, ah, sunny California to the valley. It's like weird.


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[Assistant] Uh, a couple of our friends said they're moving to Santa Clarita soon. Uh, for those who don't know, that's where Magic Mountain is. That's a, that's where I grew up. Um, you couldn't pay me enough to move back there, dear God. It's a, I don't know. Yeah. It's if Chili's 2 had a face, it would be Santa Clarita.


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[Assistant] What happened was someone was at the airport and goes, I just want chilies too.


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[Assistant] Anyway, I have been wanting to do this segment for a while. At one point we talked about it just being its own podcast and I said screw it, why not, let's just do this because I think it would be a


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[Assistant] It has the potential to spin off. It's something I like to call Billy Joel teaches history.


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[Assistant] A long, long time ago, uh, its lyrics include brief rapid fire allusions to more than a hundred headline events between 1949 and the year of Joel, which was the year of Joel's birth and 1989 when the song was released.


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[Assistant] And came out and everyone got to enjoy one of the most brilliant songs that he does not do live anymore because he can't remember the lyrics or he's just too damn lazy. And I was awful alcoholic. So the song was nominated for a Grammy award.


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[Assistant] I know him as like a blip in my childhood, but my god, the guy dominated the 80s. It's intense. He wasn't just an Oliver & Company. That's all I'm saying. He was.


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[Assistant] We're going to dissect each of those headlines one week at a time or whenever I get the host dude soup and hopefully teach everyone a little bit about history from the perspective of a serial drunk driver. This is Billy Joel teaches history. Uh, so I want to play a quick sample from the beginning, from the first lyric.


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[Assistant] Okay, Harry Truman. That's the very first thing he talks about. So the question is, who is Harry Truman? I don't know. I'm just a hip young millennial looking to.


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[Assistant] Yes, but why would he say that? Why would he start with Harry Truman? Because he was president.


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[Assistant] Anyway, uh, but not all times were good, Frank and Elise, who my two cohorts who know the most about Harry Truman. Corruption was in the Truman administration and became a central campaign issue in the 1952 presidential election.


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[Assistant] Which he wasn't even running it. There was two other candidates, Eisenhower and the guy who lost. And they were like, what about corruption from your last guy? And he's like, I'm not even in this anymore. Just. God damn it. My friend died. Just let me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, Elise, can you do me a favor? Do you have the document open?


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[Assistant] Can you tell me a little bit about the Berlin airlift? If you're not hard now, you're gonna be after you hear about this, this piece of history.


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[Assistant] Yeah, this is Cold War era where the Soviets were blocking off a part of Berlin and saying like, nine, nine for ye.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would love to spend more time talking about all these things, but unfortunately we're pretty low on time.


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[Assistant] You're my audience, that's what I want to do. And James, he should have rated it at a 44.


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[Assistant] The way the story goes is FDR rolled in and woke him up and said, I did something bad. What do I do?


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[Assistant] Uh, well, to close this story out, he died in December, on December 26, uh, 1972 at the age of 88. Uh, so this, for everyone, has been...


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[Assistant] Billy Joel teaches history. If you have any suggestions, that's too bad because the song has been cemented in stones like the Ten Commandments before it. And we'll just continue going down the li- we have to do the lists. That's the problem. It goes in order. And it repeats itself too, by the way. Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next- Can you preview what the next-


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[Assistant] Frank, we'll have links to your channel and everything else, but tell the audience please where they can see more of your wonderful videos.


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[Assistant] Nice. I want to thank you for coming on. Yeah. You're, I cannot recommend your channel more than enough. Um, I am, I am very like, like a, a proud uncle from afar. I am very happy that you are finding success in this. You didn't even send a VO.


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[Assistant] Well, we'd love to have you back sometime in the future, talk more tech. I, I love talking all things technology and I will continue to check out your channel when you keep uploading new videos because it's been keeping me pretty busy and my Amazon cart very full.


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[Assistant] All right, cool. Uh, thank you everyone. All the, uh, RT first members for watching this live. If you want to become a first member, please sign up at the website. It helps us out a lot and we'll reach out. I've been reading chat here. You guys have been fantastic. I know we don't always address you.


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[Assistant] Uh, one on one, but I appreciate all your comments. You guys have been really awesome. And thanks for showing how to frank in the comments too there. You've been great. We'll see you guys next time. Bye everyone.


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[Assistant] There's been one or two days where I sort of, uh, you know, rearranged my schedule because, especially because I'm moving right now. So everything's crazy. It's like I have to go to the part, the new place in the middle of the day. And I did that like twice last week, but then I found that when I came home that night and I was like, cool, it's seven o'clock. So I'm going to pick up where I left off.


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[Assistant] And I worked for way longer. It was like 11.30. I was like, I should only have been working on this for like an hour or two, but it's my mindset was just like, well, yeah, I need to make up for some time loss.


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[Assistant] But because when you're editing or you're in a creative project, it's so easy to get carried away. And without knowing like that normal time that you stop, like I stop at 6 o'clock so I can eat or I can like relax or turn my brain off or do something else. It's very easy to get carried away.


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[Assistant] I do say that sometimes it does feel good in that moment though, cause you're like, you're just so into it and then you do, you are maybe tired, but at the end you're like, I feel really good, like I nailed it, I got a lot of done. So sometimes it's just like balance, but.


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[Assistant] You said you had an emotional reaction watching it. I did, I cried tears of tears.


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[Assistant] Uh, well like before that, like all the like the good news things, I was sitting there like...


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[Assistant] You know, it gets to me. I need that. I need like the good happy cries. I need the laughs. You know, so.


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[Assistant] You need those moments where you just laugh out loud at something, you know?


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[Assistant] My list is incomplete, but I'll tell you what I do know. I know that I would be in the desert.


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[Assistant] In like, you know, one of those ranch style homes, just like a really chill, you know, okay, uh, zone.


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[Assistant] Okay, my reality TV star is gonna be Cromwell Brown from Queer Eye.


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[Assistant] Culture expert, the guy who's always having those one on ones being like, what do you feel here? And I would be like-


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[Assistant] Nothing. And he'd be like, we'll work on it.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I think if I, but I know that if I was going to pick one of the Fab Five, I'd pick Karamo Brown.


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[Assistant] I love them all, they have such good...


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[Assistant] Energy, each in their own right, but I'll go with Cromwell Brown. Okay, so my famous actor.


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[Assistant] I was trying to think of somebody funny who would also be a comedian, so I went with Kate McKinnon. Modern, classic, super funny. And I watched her in an episode of uhm,


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[Assistant] Ugly di- or no, uh, breakfast, lunch, and dinner? I don't know if you guys have seen that. It's on Netflix, it's like, uh,


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[Assistant] David Chang, I think, is the guy who co-hosts it and they go to different countries and they go to Cambodia together and she-


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[Assistant] Yeah, you should watch it, it's so good. Uhm, my historical figure, I didn't have anybody, but it's funny because somebody, Jonathan, wrote for me, Sexy Abe Lincoln, and my answer that I was thinking was like, a handsome historical prince.


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[Assistant] Uhm, my fictional character, I went with Leslie Knope, I think maybe because I'm watching a lot of Parks and Rec lately, I'm watching through it all again, and there's just so many scenes where you're watching it, and she's a little crazy sometimes, you're like, okay, calm down.


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[Assistant] She's always trying to problem solve. She's always trying to make everybody around her feel really great and


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[Assistant] She's funny. She's got those funny moments, you know? Uhm, I am always like, man, if I think, who am I? I always think I'd like to be a Leslie Knope, but I'm more like,


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[Assistant] Like, I'm more like April and Andy combined into one. So like.


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[Assistant] Compared to the greats. Uhm, for the animal, I couldn't think of a specific animal. I was like, should I pick, like, one of the pets from Harry Potter? But like, I've been watching so many TikTok lately, like, and I see the, uh, the cutest dogs. Oh yeah.


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[Assistant] The most precious fluffers, and I just want to be with any of the cute, well-trained TikTok dogs. Send me your TikTok dog. I wanna hang out with him in my quarantine house.


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[Assistant] The one that's deaf who the guy is training her with the hand sign language. What? I haven't seen that one. It's so cute.


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[Assistant] My parents live, uhm, in Phoenix area and I like driving through the desert and every time I go there, I do feel very relaxed because it's very quiet and it's, at least in this time of the year of March 2020, it would be warm during the day and cool at night. It's quiet, smells good, the air is clean.


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[Assistant] There's this really great app that I have, sorry just to add to that, there's this great app that I have that is literally just about soundscapes and whatever and sometimes I use it when I'm super anxious at night and I can't sleep.


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[Assistant] I will put it on because it's not like TV where it's like light coming at me and people talking. It's called Relax Melodies and I love it. You have all these, I mean I'll try to show you but.


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[Assistant] You have all these different kinds of sounds that you can like, customize with. Uhm, like.


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[Assistant] If you don't work here, don't even think about coming on this show ever in a hundred years. Plus we're talking about some big gamer wins and losses in a huge say goodbye to cat's bowl of dude soup.


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[Assistant] I read a funny tweet that was like, Benedict Cumberbatch was waiting in that last room for like months until they got it right. I will sit here and plan. Spoiler.


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[Assistant] Hey everybody, welcome to Dude Soup. Uh, it's our podcast where we talk about basically anything we want to. Uh, generally pertains to stuff happening around that week. And this is the week of January 28th, 2020.


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[Assistant] Not to be confused with January 28th other years.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm glad you guys made it and I'm glad you guys could join me. I'm Kovac. Hey. Elise Willems.


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[Assistant] Well, we'll get there. But before we get there, I just wanna shout out a couple things. Number one!


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[Assistant] Uhm, so please come, come see us down there. Uh, Lindsay, what was that thing you were promising to everyone who buys an early bird ticket that you were gonna do?


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[Assistant] Uhm, to raise money for those wildfires and, and rebuilding those habitats.


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[Assistant] Uhm, while the livestream has concluded, their, their Tiltify account is still available. You can still donate, I think, for the next couple days. So, if you want to donate to a good cause, uh, those guys busted their butts to make sure everything came together. Uhm, and I basically got to meet the entire cast of Spartacus. Pretty cool for me.


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[Assistant] So it was a win-win. Uh, no, Lucy. But yeah, you can, you can check out there's, I don't really have a short link for this, but they have a tiltify. If you search for retro replay on tiltify, it's the pull your finger out charity live stream.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then we also have some sponsors this week. Upstart, Mint Mobile, and Squarespace. Hurry to upstart.com slash dude to find out how low your upstart rate is. Get your new wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com slash dude. And head to squarespace.com slash dude soup to save 10%.


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[Assistant] At least you were asking a question earlier. What was that question?


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[Assistant] All kinds of things. We're gonna talk about all kinds of things, but the first thing I want to discuss is something that is heated. And internal. Did my results come back?


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, uh, I just want to say it, we're not going to ever have another dude soup guest ever again. Thank god.


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[Assistant] No, that's not true. I'm lying. We're probably gonna have more guests.


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[Assistant] We did have a couple podcasts in a row that featured guests, uh, outsiders, strangers if you will.


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[Assistant] Well, here's the thing, there's an interesting dichotomy because, just to address it, we had, uh, Mark Plyer and Ethan, um, from, uh, Miss Unum.


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[Assistant] Or whatever. Then he had Freddie and then, and I was thinking, well, Freddie's coming on next week. We don't like guests. Then we had Freddie on and people were like, I love this podcast. This was fun, but some people still had the immediate reaction of like, no more guests. So I just wanted to go around and kind of let us talk about our thoughts on having guests on this show.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what we think brings to it and what we think takes away from the show.


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[Assistant] Well, you do think about some, most other podcasts, if they're not, uhm, topically exploratory.


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[Assistant] They generally have guests. ConanPodcat. Like a lot of them are like talk show style where they get a bunch of guests lined up. So the-


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[Assistant] Maybe we're bad interviewers or something, but I think it's more that we've just kind of trained the audience to assume that this podcast is only us talking about what's on our minds or our thoughts every single week again and again.


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[Assistant] Omar has only been on a handful of podcasts as well.


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[Assistant] Technically he's on lots of fun. No, I just think it's an interesting thing, uhm, for me, I'll go ahead.


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[Assistant] So why is it even worth it? Why would we, if it takes that extra effort, why is it even worth it for us to do it?


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[Assistant] No, yeah, no, but she also has like the same interests as us, we've s-


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[Assistant] We've been in the same circles as her. We've, I know that I've had at least one or two, I don't know if she remembers, but I've had conversations with her. It's like, oh yea, she's really easy to talk to and everything like that. She's a very interesting person. Uhm, I just, I think the, oh I guess the question is we talk about how the effort that goes into it, but then it's like, well then why? If, if sometimes the audience, if it's not going to necessarily reflect in views, in a lot of cases, uhm,


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[Assistant] And sometimes the audience doesn't like it, why do we put in that effort?


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[Assistant] Uhm, well I, like, this is podcast number 423,000 or something like that. It's really, this is podcast number, we've done so many of these. So many hours of our lives. And they've, it's changed in it's form, like it used to be only video, only talk about video games, that's the only thing. While playing a video game. One story.


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[Assistant] No, it's okay. That's what, that's what, I kinda like getting into it. I do feel like that there's, it refreshes things. When you kind of get, like, in this instance, I think you are refreshing this conversation, if it was just the three of us talking about the same things that we think over and over again, but you, making it about soup, stupidly, has turned into a funny discussion. You moron!


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're, yeah, they're both twins and brothers. And one of them sucks up, he can suck up the entire ocean and some little asshole kid is like, I'm gonna go explore! And he's like, get back here girl!


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[Assistant] So then eventually he has to spit it out and he kills the kid. And so then they're like, they're like, well, we're gonna murder him. Luckily, one of the brothers...


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[Assistant] Impenetrable skin. And also his twin has his impenetrable skin so they try and cut his neck off but they can't do it. Yeah. And so he survives that and they're like ahhh.


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[Assistant] It's always that, it's either man, crawl like baby, crawl on four, walk with cane, or it's ice, it's an ice knife. Uhm, no, I think, I think that sometimes having guests, my reasoning is, thank you guys for asking, my reasoning is generally because I feel like a guest kind of reinvigorates the conversation.


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[Assistant] I think that it means that we don't just have to talk about ourselves, cause while the audience sometimes is more interested in that kind of thing, we do it all day.


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[Assistant] To each other. We come in in the morning and we go, how was your weekend? And we talk about it.


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[Assistant] So when it, when a red light turns on, it's like, alright, now do that again. It feels disingenuous sometimes.


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[Assistant] But, uh, but yeah, so like, so when you have a guest, it feels like you are genuinely having that conversation with the guest for the first time, because they're not just hanging around all day. They're not just around.


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[Assistant] He's Dunkbutt. Uh huh. I'm Dunkbutt? You're Dunkbutt. Okay. I'm Chunkbutt. I'm Wynlow.


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[Assistant] And find an excuse to introduce ourselves to that person.


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[Assistant] I'd say Joey Ryan coming on was a wish fulfillment thing for me. I wanted to meet him and talk to him and


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[Assistant] Come on the show. I think this person would be great for Dude Soup or for podcasts or whatever. There's someone that I've wanted to have come on our film podcast forever.


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[Assistant] Vince Mancini, uhm, is a comedian, very hilarious, uh, film writer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've been following him for a while and I was like, oh man, I think reading his work, I think he'd be really good on the show. I've been trying to do it, but.


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[Assistant] It was funny how they were like, no more guests. I'm not trying to generalize. The community is a lot of different people. It's not just one entire thing. But when they go, they go, no more guests. Get Henry Cavill.


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[Assistant] He's training for like a really long race though, so he's probably gonna lose some muscle mass.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna photoshop a cock where his nose goes. Speaking of cock, uhm, I think there's one last factor, then we can move on and talk about cool stuff. One last factor is that sometimes having guests of certain caliber


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[Assistant] To legitimize what we do a little bit more.


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[Assistant] I know, I know some audience members like when we're kind of more niche and they think of us as this niche thing and I don't think that we'd ever try and do something that compromises our comedic integrity or creative integrity just for the sake of-


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[Assistant] Whatever, you know, but there are certain doors that do get opened when they're like, oh, you've had, you've had Felicia Day on your podcast. Oh yeah. Then we let's get, you know.


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[Assistant] Jennifer Lawrence, come on, or whatever, like, you know. Misty Cursel. Misty, she'll do the bl-


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I don't know, I just did something, a discussion I saw that I was like, oh well we can have our own little discussion about it too. I'll talk about it all day. I love talking about it.


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[Assistant] Atari branded hotels. Full of e-sports and game rooms. For all the Atari


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[Assistant] They, uh, they reached a deal with a real estate developer.


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[Assistant] To license their brand to eight hotels. Okay. Austin, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, San Francisco, San Jose and Seattle. Okay.


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[Assistant] And so you ca- it's gonna be a sweet gamer hotel. Hmm.


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[Assistant] And you can do all kinds of gamer stuff. You know, thinking about this, I'm like, oh well, you know, we're getting the Super Mario world.


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[Assistant] Florida, like in two or three years? Well...


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[Assistant] I mean, this one's gonna be finished construction in mid 2020. Sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but is Atari the brand that's gonna drag us into that?


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[Assistant] What Atari has to offer to the modern gaming landscape, I would say Sega has way more.


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[Assistant] You know what this feels like? You know the Hooters Casino in Vegas? I do, I've been there once. And it's like, it's almost like,


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[Assistant] Well I just care, like again, I understand why Atari's doing it. I think the real estate developer maybe just said, maybe just took the only one that responded to their phone calls, but is there a better