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[Assistant] We gotta watch this for Filmhouse, Adam. Maybe we don't. We don't have to, but we will. Hey look, home video releases. Released on VHS in 92, DVD released in 2002. Thanks for letting me know.


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[Assistant] That's what people will want it again. Alright, uh, Annihilation. Except, uh, we're- Let me cream it in ad-radar real quick. Oh yea, I can do that. I have a quick rant on IMDB Trivia.


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[Assistant] Uh, well, if, if you're in a weird bubble of distorted space-time reality, you're gonna wanna watch! To figure out how to get back. That's a little Annihilation reference for you guys. Oh. Uhm. Nice for you, Jack. Not yet.


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[Assistant] Uh, movement makes quality watches for low low prices and since they sell direct to you through the internet, you avoid any retail markup. So you don't have to go to a Sears or a JCPenney or any store that if you're younger than 20 you probably never set foot inside of.


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[Assistant] You can just buy it on the internet, like a civilized human. And uh, they've got a variety of styles, and actually they're always updating their styles and adding new styles. So if, if maybe you've looked before and didn't find anything that fit your particular likes or dislikes, maybe it's time to check again. Uh, the first time they started sponsoring this podcast, you're like, you get a free watch!


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[Assistant] Uh, and I scrolled through and I picked the one I liked the most, but it wasn't super, super long my vein. But then the next time they sponsored again, they were like, get another watch! Then I found this one. It's like, it's nice black, silver, there's no, uh, no huge, uh, I don't like...


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[Assistant] I'm not, yeaah, I'm not a Bear Grylls, alright. I don't need to know which way is north. I just want to know the time. And I want it to look nice. And that's what this does. And another tale of woe from me, uh, Lawrence the hero. They've been, uh, renovating my apartment room, uh, building, whatever. And it involves them busting down the door at 8am. I gotta get up at 8am, guys.


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[Assistant] But you gotta get out of bed and shit. I gotta be up at 730 to take a shower cause they go in there. Anyway, they're replacing like the bathroom fans. And as part of that, they shut off power to the whole apartment. And I came home.


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[Assistant] And it was like, they're gonna be working on this for four days, so every day they're shutting off the power. So all the clocks in my apartment are like at random weird times and they're all blinking.


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[Assistant] And it's kind of like being in Vegas if you're inside and there's no clock, uh, and my phone was like I think dead or across the room or whatever and I can't be bothered to get up and go look at it. But I had my watch. So I was able to maintain my anchor to reality much like the protagonist of the hit film, not quite a hit film, Annihilation, there's another reference for you guys.


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[Assistant] Uh, but Movement is offering, uh, discounts for all of you. So you should go check out the watch styles. If you find one you like, you can get 15% off your order with free shipping and free returns in case you get it. Doesn't fit, doesn't do what you like. But everybody going to movement.com slash dude soup. That's mvmt.com slash dude soup. Check out your watch today. You don't need it. You don't need texts. You just need time. I love the idea.


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[Assistant] Continue to play Zelda. I finished Uncharted Lost Legacy, so that's something.


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[Assistant] Well, and that hits on something that I feel like maybe people don't know is that for movies, video games, any work of fiction, a human being made the whole thing. Or a group of people. It was made with intent and knowledge.


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[Assistant] I feel like there's this, uh, I feel like that was hints of like the reaction to Last Jedi.


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[Assistant] Is that no, you're, you're messing with what actually happened. Yeah. And it's like, well no, people haven't-


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[Assistant] Well I'm gonna, you know, consider this James. Okay. Maybe some people...


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[Assistant] Either actively or passively don't want to know the process because they don't want the magic to go away.


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[Assistant] Speaking of changing things. Annihilation. Something interesting to run in theaters. There's an interesting story behind it. I also have, I got out of the movie and was so...


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[Assistant] What's the word? Intellectually frustrated? Which is not a bad thing, I wasn't mad at the movie, I actually really enjoyed it. But, some movies like that, Nolan films have this quality where they will, fuck, we're watching the trailer for The Black Hole and there's dumb little robots, anyway. Uhm, there, there is like,


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[Assistant] So much intent to what is shown and how, that you presume there must be, there must be an explanation for some of the less explainable things. Uhm, and I get very frustrated at Nolan films for sort of backing off of any sort of finality in that. Nolan films tend to leave their open-ended questions very open.


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[Assistant] It's definitely open to interpretation, and I think I've come up with a theory that unifies most of the weird shit in that film. So, uh, I guess, spoiler alert, we'll be talking about some of that stuff, so.


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[Assistant] So I thought this, I've got the definition here.


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[Assistant] This is, this is a very plausible and believable future that could actually happen. Whereas other sci-fi as well...


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[Assistant] What if we just swapped around these things and took some liberties with what could happen just to frame the human experience in a different way?


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[Assistant] I mean it's a hunter, I mean there's knights, there's magic, there's sword fights, it is a space fantasy.


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[Assistant] I think the movie was, this is glancing off of the theories I have that I'll get in, I'll read my excerpt or my dissertation in a moment.


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[Assistant] But it seems to be more about relationships and how they, how they change, or how people change. Change is a core thing to the film, obviously. So, uh, I guess,


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[Assistant] There's kind of two really fascinating topics about Annihilation. One is the movie itself, because it certainly has a very psychedelic, trippy ending that you could interpret in a number of ways. Uhm, and if you're not into that stuff, you will check out. There is a titular line that's not delivered the best way right before the movie goes well off the deep end and...


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[Assistant] Man, that, that, uh, I watched it with Stephanie and she was like, yep, I was out. And I was like, well, I was super in, but I also have a lot of faith, uh, in Alex Garland, uh, the director writer.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but as far as the story surrounding it, uhm, Paramount, uh, sold distribution, international distribution rights to Netflix, which has a lot of people upset in, uhm, foreign...


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[Assistant] Non-American country or non-North American places because they don't get the movie going experienced and that is kind of a movie that


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[Assistant] Works really well in the theater. Yea, it's got great, it's got great, uh, great sound effects, great visuals.


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[Assistant] So as a consumer, or as a movie-going enthusiast, that's a bummer. But there's a couple of interesting articles. There's a really good opinion piece on IndieWire.


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[Assistant] Uhm, basically laying out that, look, you have to appreciate that all of Paramount's recent high-concept sci-fi movies have bombed horribly. Those being Blade Runner 2049, Mother, and downsizing. I don't know if Mother you could classify as science fiction, but...


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[Assistant] Yes. I mean, maybe not so bad, but it did make its budget back. Is my understanding.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, so that's kind of an interesting back and forth. I think that dynamic happens a lot in video games of publishers making certain calls based on the affordability of features or ports, and then the consuming audience not understanding that, or choosing not to understand that, or not even wanting to invest the time to understand it, whatever. They don't have to.


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[Assistant] Uhm, to be honest, but it is interesting the back and forth between


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[Assistant] Consumers wanting what they want and a company needing to make money and trying to find the middle ground. But hey, at least people in foreign areas get to watch it, even if it is at home.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh. So Annihilation? Yeah, so let me get into my, uh, my, my short essay about, about Annihilation. It's uhm, it's really fascinating. And, and maybe, maybe I felt...


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[Assistant] There are certain lines that, in retrospect, after you've watched the whole movie, suddenly have a lot more resonance, but this is also my desperately trying to find amounts of or aspects of cohesion to it, because it can seem pretty all over the place. So one of the things I did really appreciate is that, uh, the, the,


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[Assistant] Hammered topic of like separation and distortion.


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[Assistant] Was beautifully represented visually, I thought. The way the shimmer looks is very prismatic.


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[Assistant] Cause when white light hits a prism, it separates into the rainbow.


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[Assistant] And there are other themes in the movie of that like separation and change is not destruction, it's just changing form.


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[Assistant] Which is weird, because the movie's titled Annihilation, which is the complete destruction of something. But then again, uhm, I have thoughts on that too. There was a...


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[Assistant] Uh, energy is conserved, it's never destroyed, it just radiates out into nothingness and the blackness of space. So in that you kind of get notes of the same themes, of that separation is not destruction, it's just changing form.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that again is a thing that's hammered over and over in the movie.


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[Assistant] So I was, what I was confused about is that one of the early comparisons they draw with change is cancer.


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[Assistant] And that's when cells start replicating abnormally in the human body, that's cancer. And then once that happens enough, then your organs fail because the cells aren't doing the jobs they were originally programmed to do because they've been altered either through radiation or bad diet or


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[Assistant] Or genetics, or whatever. There are similar, similar lines where they talk about how aging and death is a flaw. Uh, that the change of cells to break down is, uh, is like baked in. It's a, it's a genetic mistake. Yeah, something that can be fixed. And then there's a, there's a very brief conversation about whether or not that's the natural state of things.


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[Assistant] So okay, getting into, getting into various lines that at least to me had a lot of meaning. So,


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[Assistant] It's tough because I don't, I don't wanna spoil everything but at the same time this isn't gonna make any sense unless you have some framing device. So the broad beats of the movie are


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[Assistant] Uh, and in, and it's, the rules of the world are essentially that this area, there's like a meteor that hit earth and caused this, and it's growing, and people are trying to understand it, but everything that goes in never comes out. Uhm, and that includes people, radio waves, any kind of thing.


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[Assistant] So the premise is that this, uh, bubble is actually just distorting everything into- that goes into it or through it. That includes DNA, light, radio waves. It basically acts like water. It refracts. And there's a lot of water imagery as well, which has another meaning.


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[Assistant] Now, there are certain lines that are odd to me. There's a line where...


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[Assistant] Uhm, Oscar Isaacs is the husband. There's a video where he's...


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[Assistant] Yeaah. He's basically talking to a copy of himself. And there's a line of,


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[Assistant] And to me, what that felt like when I heard that line is...


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[Assistant] When I underwent moments of great change in my life, I could almost feel myself changing as a person. Like I could feel my thoughts shifting, I could feel the identity of who I was or who I used to be start to go away.


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[Assistant] And this new image of who I am start to take shape, basically incorporating this experience that I'd have, either loss or gain or changing or moving places.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I forget her name, but she was talking about how she had lost a daughter.


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[Assistant] And there's a line in there that says she's mourning two people, uh, in this process. She's mourning her daughter. And she's mourning the person she used to be. A mother, you know, with a daughter. And in that way I felt like there was a bit of cohesion there in describing how you as a person


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[Assistant] And to me, the greater theme of the movie then seemed to become that it's more about appreciating that you as a person


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[Assistant] Can change. The old you can die, a new one can come along.


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[Assistant] And when it comes to relationships, that gets really complicated. And I think that's ultimately the point of the film, is that when you're in a relationship with someone for long enough,


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[Assistant] And you change as a person, your relationship is not what it was because you're effectively a new or a changed person.


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[Assistant] So, when one or both people undergo those changes and become different people, they have to find a way to come back together. And part of that involves recognizing and letting go of your previous self, which is kind of what I read into the third act of the film when it gets really trippy and weird. So,


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[Assistant] That's kind of, those are kind of my thoughts on it. I've got more details and stuff, but I don't know that I necessarily need to get into that much detail about it. Cause also, because I'm trying to keep some of it a little bit hidden, in my, like in my opinion, how I feel about spoilers is like,


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[Assistant] A good movie, you can tell someone what happens, but that doesn't remotely give you the experience of seeing it yourself.


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[Assistant] So I'm hoping that that's the case with annihilation. If you haven't seen it and somehow decided to stick around for me just dumping a bunch of random thoughts.


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[Assistant] I don't know, what did you guys think? What were your thoughts on it? Because I feel like it's one movie that can probably have endless discussion provided you're of the temperament to do that.


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[Assistant] I'll give the movie credit though, and maybe, like, doing the thing and admitting it doesn't change the fact that you did the thing, but at least, at least the movie sets up of like, oh, people go crazy in there, and then once she starts going crazy, she's like, oh shit, is this happening? Am I the crazy one now?


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[Assistant] It's a cool movie. I agree. I'm, I'm, I think the world is richer for it. Uh, which sounds, sounds like high praise, but I also think too, it's something that's gonna have to mean something to you, I think. Uhm, you know, I think anyone can go watch Black Panther and have a great time. I think Annihilation will either frustrate you with its, uh,


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[Assistant] I don't even know what the word would be. Implicit nature?


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[Assistant] That, and, and that's sometimes that conflict frustrates me when there are so many lines that are said with such intention.


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[Assistant] You just, you set all these things on purpose at the exact time, the exact way you wanted, and then you're just gonna say, I don't know, in the last five minutes? I don't know. I'm okay with it, in the sense that as I get older, I'm more okay with, with...


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[Assistant] I think the antagonist was the self. As, again, my interpretation.


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[Assistant] The, uh, area X allowed people in an almost Silent Hill kind of way to confront themselves or twisted versions of themselves or just the idea of change or death or ending new beginnings, the unfamiliar, just fear in general. It is great when there doesn't-


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[Assistant] Like big dragons or like people with dragon skin. No, no, no, straight up dragons. Like wise dragons that have existed for thousands of years. The whole premise of Shadowrun is like grim cyberpunk feature and then magic happened. That's it. And then elves were born and now there are trolls. Also dragons started flying around. That's really it.


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[Assistant] Yes, uh, Mute was fun, fun trash, uhm, but still trash. Sorry Duncan. I'll watch your next thing, but damn. Alright, I guess that's enough, that's enough movie talk for today. And just by the way, yes, we have a movie podcast. The only reason I brought that up is because I really wanted to talk about it and Adam said they weren't gonna talk about it.


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[Assistant] That's the next Darko movie? Did it? It already came out like seven years ago?


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[Assistant] We did that already. Oops. Yeah, I was there. You were on it? Nevermind.


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[Assistant] I was just thinking of bad sequels. What about the Boondock Saints sequel? That came out, right? Yeah.


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[Assistant] A brilliant billionaire named Carl Durant is experimenting on bull sharks, which soon rebel to cause a havoc for a group of scientists. I mean, this is what we call a soft reboot. We should, we should do- Soft water fi.


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[Assistant] Alright, so, uh, last week, the hardening winner, the garbage man, uh, who makes a variety of delightful inventions, actually immediately recognized us.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you got an ignomious start garbage man, but, uh, to thank us, he, uhm, he decided to gargle an entire package of hot dogs. One for every dick.


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[Assistant] Lawrence. My pedophile story apparently. Perfect.


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[Assistant] Anyway, he's gonna do- That thumbnail. Rats. Sorry. So yeah, uhm, in case any of you are unaware, he makes a variety of barely functioning- The one right there, bottle flip device.


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[Assistant] And usually he ends up hurting himself. Aww. He, he made a, like, a portable chair. Mm. Which essentially just broke the back legs off a chair and then strapped it to his back so when he sat down, like, the two pegs would go into the ground and he'd be able to sit. Uh huh. Cause the first time he went down it collapsed and then he scraped open his arm. He was in a park, it was fine. He's an inventor.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, he's a, he's a dreamer. Alright, here goes. Let's see that bottle flip!


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[Assistant] I don't know, seems pretty decisive. Yeah. Alright, the competitor, uh, this might be a bit of a softball, uh, but there's this gentleman who drinks a shitload of vodka and then just goes and rolls around in the snow.


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[Assistant] Uh, his name- was this a Rahul recommendation? No, just some dude on- Tor Ekhoff, 53, lives in, uh, Sandefjord in Norway? Worker in a paint factor- paint factory. But, uh,


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[Assistant] Alcoholic in Snow, live cell phone video, let's open that up. So it's uh, it's basically exactly what it sounds like.


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[Assistant] Uh, he also makes it very clear that he is not paid by the vodka manufacturer of his choice because, uh, that would be illegal. You're not allowed to, uh, not allowed to advertise alcohol in Norway. Really? That's what he says. Hey man, I'll take his-


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, it's Norway! Oh, he's having a good time out there.


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[Assistant] Usually he whips up a giant bottle of vodka, there it is, yep, and he's knocking it back.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, doing, doing this, he doesn't just waddle through the snow every time. Sometimes he jumps in a frozen lake. Other times he has a bathtub filled with ice water out in the snow that he's laying in drinking vodka. It's always chilled though, right?


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[Assistant] Woah, that's pretty intense. Got a surge, gonna knock back a 2 liter of surge.


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[Assistant] I've never, uh, said that it must be underground or unknown.


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[Assistant] No yeaah, that's fair. So that's up to you guys, I leave it to the voting po- that's weird.


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[Assistant] He has 52% vodka? Whoa, it froze on the doll as soon as he poured it. Holy shit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's bad for vodka. Oh wait, maybe it was water inside of it. Maybe he was cheating. Oh, little guy. There you go, buddy.


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[Assistant] Smells good. Oh yea, he was knocking back that vodka, cold as hell, running around. Just living life, you know. Eating that thing.


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[Assistant] Goats? Man, they're always beautiful. Oh, he's already, he's already in his skivvies.


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[Assistant] Well it turns out I guess if you knock back an entire bottle of 56% vodka, you can ignore any amount of extreme cold for a little bit. Yeah, maybe that dude should have just knocked back an entire bottle of grocery store vodka.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I gotta vote. Alright, Garbage Man, with his bottle flipping, uh, portable chair. Let me look up that portable chair video. The only new invention he's made is the-


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[Assistant] Uh, I mean it takes some time to put these together. Yea, the license plate armor was four weeks ago. He puts out a video every month, every other month or so. Where's that portable chair? That's some good shit. Where are you? Where are you?


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[Assistant] The, uh, I mean the invention didn't work out, clearly, so it's gotta go back into the lab. Anyway, alright, let's vote, cause we're well over time. We only have two reads this week, so. Our time is money. Uh, Garbage Man, Apator, uh, James, who do you think is netting harder?


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[Assistant] Alright, well, just for record-keeping sake, Elise, where do you- where does your vote lie?


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[Assistant] Okay, well, I gotta admit, I thought this was gonna be a soft volley against the garbage man, but turns out, uh, he's got that for a reason. Oh, gotta thaw out the old bathtub. Trying to cut the ice out of his bathtub so he can lay in it?


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[Assistant] I think that's what he's doing. Anyway, uh, congratulations Aperture. Or wait, that's not his name. Uhm. Aperture. Tor Ekhoff. Tor. Tor. It's a strong name.


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[Assistant] It is. So congratulations Tor, you are the hallowed winner of this week's Hard Netting. But you know who is the actual winner? Me. Cause you had to listen to me for an hour and a half.


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[Assistant] Sweet, sweet validation. No, it's you, the audience! Thank you for listening this week. You're the winners in all of our hearts. And our bank accounts. No, seriously, we love you. Uhm, I'll just do this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, James is wailing on out of here. All right, well, yes, seriously though, legitimately, thank you for listening this week. Uh, hope you continue to listen. We'll have, every week will be a little bit different, trying new things, trying different things, but hopefully it'll be interesting.


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[Assistant] Uhm, if, if I've learned one thing from being in the internet media game, it's the lack of consistency keeps people around, so that's what I wanna do here. That was a joke. Anyway, thanks, uh, hope you come back next week if you enjoyed the show. Appreciate it if you leave a rating, leave a comment, whatever you like. I do try to check as much as I can, uh, sometimes there's too many comments to read them all, but I try to do what I can.


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[Assistant] Anyway, we've got the post-show coming up, if you're watching live. We're gonna check out some fan art. Take your comments, address your concerns and issues in a very professional and medically, medically licensed manner. So please stick around for that if you're watching live, and if not, thanks, and we'll see you next week. Goodbye everybody. Bye-o.


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[Assistant] To Daniel's credit, uh, a couple things is, he's, he, it's not 100% all the time full blast with him on social media. He said a couple things here and there. And then when people call him out on it, he, you know, will defend himself so that, you know, prolongs the discussion and makes him seem maybe a little more, a little more, uh, a little more vociferous than, than he could have been.


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[Assistant] She only wears clothing as long as the line, the line's logo is a really buff dude holding a barbell, but it's bent.


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[Assistant] Make as many, I would say make as many different friends as possible. Don't, uh, find your group and then stick to that group. Cause you're never gonna see them. You're in different classrooms with different kinds of people. You can open your mind to all new perspectives and don't fuck with them.


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[Assistant] We weren't planning for the Beachbody sponsorship when we named this dude Soup, but in hindsight, it's such a great coupon code. It works. Nice job, Lawrence.


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[Assistant] Well, Greg is also married now, and so it's, I bet he found a common love of food with, uh, with his wife, and then, uh, they probably decided that that could be a thing that you can share, because you can cook with another person, and it's a bonding kind of thing. So I bet that kind of encourages it.


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[Assistant] It's like, why didn't the- why didn't the pizza place cut the pizza? Why does he have to cut it with scissors?


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[Assistant] I mean, most of KZ, nice that stuff, is him, he like, he just takes a DSLR and he sets it, and then he goes, and he talks at it, right?


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[Assistant] And if I'm there with Elise and Elise hasn't met them, I don't, I don't say a word to him. Cause I don't say a word. I let her handle the introduction. Cause maybe this person who I've known for 20 years, maybe I got their name wrong. It's called being safe. Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] James featuring Funhaus. Talk. That's a good name for a podcast. We can't come back


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[Assistant] Hi, thanks for having me. Not many stories that are interesting.


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[Assistant] I think getting to play Odyssey outweighs the no snacks.


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[Assistant] My first memory is playing my uncle like showing us the NES, the original NES, and then showing us Mario and just having our minds blown.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's funny cause like Mario are such pivotal games in a young gamer's life, but, and such, you know.


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[Assistant] Famous games, but I don't really feel like I have that many personal experiences. I had an amazing summer when I played Mario Sunshine during the summer, so that was like...


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[Assistant] So if you know, I didn't go outside, I just stay inside and play Mario Sunshine. But uhm, as far as like, most loved Mario memories, that's probably one. Uhm, but yeaah, do you have one Lawrence? You must.


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[Assistant] Do you remember if there was a level that specifically like, you guys would be, have a difficult time with, or? Well for me it was, for me it was all of them. I mostly just watched.


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[Assistant] On the east coast, northeast coast, sort of during the blackout that happened in like the mid 2000s. No.


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[Assistant] No, well I mean it happened in New York and some of the like northeastern seaboard, but like...


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[Assistant] I think everybody just kinda had a chill time, for the most part, for what I know. But uhm, it's one of those experiences that, uh, you're like, that kinda thing doesn't happen often now, we're also submerged in our tech.


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[Assistant] Uhm, direct perspective on it because you see the direct...


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[Assistant] I have a question about the, like, so like a mint wipe. If you wipe your butt with a mint wipe, can you taste it?


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[Assistant] I've never, I've never done it. I've never personally done it. I read it and I thought that's an interesting, the body, the human body is capable of- Do you read it on Goop?


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[Assistant] I said to them, I said, I said, I bet if we have bones on, he'll know Mason Reese, and he'll have been to Halloween Horror Nights.


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[Assistant] Okay, good. I wanna hear you- I wanna hear your thoughts first. Okay.


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[Assistant] Look at him. How did he change clothes? Probably too much Mason talk. Yeah, yeah, probably.


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[Assistant] And the most beautiful creature emerged. Yes, I was a princess.


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[Assistant] In the mouth, with San Francisco. Or with Francesco, I don't know why I read San Francisco.


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[Assistant] You gotta wait to find out. Lawrence, can I shout out Twits and Crits? Yes, you can. Uh, we brought back our D&D show for a mini-series this season called Twits and Crits, The League of Extraordinary Gyarmen. If you haven't watched it, you can watch the first two episodes thus far on Roosterteeth.com or fun.house. Uh, The League of Extraordinary Gyarmen. It's kinda spooky.


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[Assistant] I know, 15 seconds, that's your rule, cause you watched that one episode of Nathan for you, now you're all about it.


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[Assistant] Why are you alive? I thought they were all addicted to pain medication. Cause they can get it for free anytime they want. They can write their own prescription. Is that just cause you saw house? Uhm, no. Nice, good recovery.


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[Assistant] Those creators, and this isn't necessarily a bad thing, they're rewarded for being reactionary. Because then they get more views, more subscribers, more people watch them, and they rally a cause around them. So even, even if YouTube


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[Assistant] Well, yeaah, then, then they'll have to go somewhere else. Like, it's, it's, there, right now, there's a very, there's very little disadvantage to being reactionary.


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[Assistant] That doesn't make any sense though, because humans created them.


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[Assistant] I mean, we all agree with you, Lawrence. It's like when people say that some system is impervious to hacking. It's like, well, the system was created by a human, so a human can definitely hack it. That's sort of the way it works.


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[Assistant] Or maybe YouTube should just, I mean like, I feel like that should be a YouTube-wide...


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[Assistant] Uh, issue, even if ABC is selling those same ads, they're still running on YouTube.


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[Assistant] Provided it doesn't hurt anyone. I told you. What? You're not the only one. I'm not the only one who loves the Alliance of Universes. I love Bud Charles more than ever now.


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[Assistant] One way. Woah, yea, one way. He's gotta, he's gotta find his way back.


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[Assistant] This is him on his vacation. On the road! He's on the vacation. He went to the ghost town of Austin, Nevada.


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[Assistant] No. Oh, because of the Symmetra skin?


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[Assistant] You can marry me if you want by law. What? Everyone's marrying AI now. Let robots marry.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and repetition sometimes breeds human error just because there's, like you said before, there's only so much you can kind of take and like, you know, in terms of your psyche doing that over and over again.


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[Assistant] And you will get into very grey areas that are subjective in terms of like, cause what, I mean YouTube would have to be like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I do think that gets a little dicey if say, you guys go, alright well at least get certified, because you're gonna be our YouTube professional, but I have a conflict of interest, because I'm still involved with the channel, though I didn't create the channel, I don't own it.


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[Assistant] Did say, you know, we don't have the money or the infrastructure to do this, but a company did, uhm, a company did


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[Assistant] It's, you know, someone, someone created a company that that was the purpose and went to YouTube and said, well, we'll.


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[Assistant] Partner will provide you the service and perhaps you, uh, if somebody wants, if somebody wants the service,


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[Assistant] They, uh, essentially hire us as if, as if we're like their legal counsel, and we will argue on their behalf with YouTube, we'll...


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[Assistant] We, they will have some kind of certain, like, like vetting process where because we are, you know, it's within YouTube's system that, that we are vetting the videos. It works like, sort of like, you know, the partnerships that you see with like Rooster Teeth where,


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[Assistant] Hanabi is putting on conventions and there's, there's a partnership. It's another company, a third party coming in.


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[Assistant] And sometimes we can't possibly predict why something would get flagged, like it's, it's the most perceivably random things that to us aren't really...


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, I would hope that you as a parent would imprint in your child.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but you never know, though I do think like, that is, that is horrible.


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[Assistant] Change and evolution because like you said, given that your online experience is being targeted at you, the videos that are in your queue are being selected for you and that's all based on an algorithm that's seeing what you've watched and predicting what you want to watch next. So there is a linear funnel where you're getting only a certain type of content.


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[Assistant] Whereas when we were kids, I watched fucking everything because nothing was ever censored for me. I have a- I know lots of- I know I have a friend that was not allowed to watch anything that had a witch in it.


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[Assistant] She's 29 years old or 30 years old and could never watch her parents and I was like, oh my god, like I can't even imagine. She's a witch now.


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[Assistant] But I had, I had, I think I, I though I would watch things that were potentially too mature for me, inappropriate for me, I still had a plethora of content I was consuming that was different that provided


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[Assistant] This, this span of world views. So for every episode of Melrose Place I would watch when I was seven years old with my mom. I would also watch an episode of like, Fred Penner. You know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Do not pull up the Fred Penner intro. Whatever you do, Lawrence.


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[Assistant] But yea, so especially with television because it's TV, you know, aside from children's channels that would have a slate of content that was...


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[Assistant] And it opens up, you click on it, and it opens up an email that has the, uh, congressman's email auto-populated. Yeah, yeah, his address.


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[Assistant] I am immediately attracted to muddin' in Wranglers and Boots. You scrolled past it, but, uh. Oh, well there's multiple. Oh, there's another one! And Spurs!


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[Assistant] Get to him. Wow, that's it. I have no my winner.


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[Assistant] I'm of course going for MarbleLympics because I was just enamored by that.


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[Assistant] He's got some great cheekbones. I could see us seeing MarbleLympicsGuy on the runway next season.


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[Assistant] Ryan, he loves the camera, and it loves him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I can give you a little quick tidbit of what's gonna happen in this episode. So, uh, uh,


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[Assistant] So Miri might be in danger in this episode. As in every episode. What about his anus?


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[Assistant] Uh, well, we encountered some lagoon monsters and, uh, I don't know if his anus can take it.


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[Assistant] It's Jedi's more than anything. It's true it is. I don't think that's me.


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[Assistant] I have a relationship with Benson that is basically me, like, imposing emotions and feelings and memories onto him. That's true. When he probably just thinks of me as tall thing that feeds. Food bucket. Right? Like, so, so at a certain point, if I'm having a good time,


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[Assistant] And this is the perfect, this is the perfect, like, sociological test. I love it. Like, I'm not angry about this patent, uhm, but I think it's hilarious because it's like,


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[Assistant] Man, so they're going to be lying to me to trick me into spending more on the game by making me have a more enjoyable time playing with bots that know what I like and know how I want to do it and when I like to win and when I like to lose.


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[Assistant] Patent filings I think are fantastic, because it's like, I had a dream last night, I wanna own it. Oh yea, I know, I know. Like, a pig, but with, uh, chicken wings. You can patent it.


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[Assistant] I just think some of that thinking underestimates how garbage humans are.


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[Assistant] Talking about, you've heard it before, but like two twins separated at birth, right? And did you know that they grew up married a woman? Both married separate women. They didn't know each other existed. Separate women that, uh, had the same name.


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[Assistant] And they both used to go to the same beach or whatever. It was like a bunch of things and you're reading and you're like, Jesus Christ, what is it? Is it in the twin brain that makes it like this happen? And then someone accurately pointed out and goes, well, if you're a statistician, you'll look at this and go,


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[Assistant] No shit, that's what happens. When you take these qualifiers, it's only a matter of time or matter of rolls of the dice before something like this happens. Then you identify it and you go, yes, it looks like a wild coincidence. It's a low probability, but there's still a probability that this is going to happen.


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[Assistant] And when you look at the actual qualifiers and how many human beings are out there living their lives and stuff, it's gonna happen.


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[Assistant] The weird thing though is that, uh, for Overwatch at least, it's a game, I can't speak to console, but on PC, it's a game that's like,


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[Assistant] Out of any competitive first person shooter or team based game I've ever played, there's the most voice communication, just rando people, like not your friends, rando people online willing to talk.


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[Assistant] It's weird, it's like, it's again, we've talked about this before about like privacy and stuff. It's like people are prepared to wage war to maintain their privacy. It's gone. You're fighting a war that ended decades ago, right? Like the whole disclosing how we're going to trick you into buying something.


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[Assistant] That went out the window. That went out the window with black and white TVs. Like, they have kids, they market stuff to kids now.


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[Assistant] Knowing that then in 20 years we can make a Transformers movie.


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[Assistant] Easy to make meals that came along with it. And that was just for like one of the programs. I was like, oh, I didn't realize that stuff was in there.


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[Assistant] This is me. So I'm like, yeah, I fucking, yeah, I was on fire all last night. No big deal. Four gold medals. I'm carrying the team, but I'm winning.


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[Assistant] There, this is gonna be the direction things are gonna go in. Because, kinda likely said, you can vote with your dollars and everyone always votes for the worst possible scenario. As much as, as much as a small minority of people vocally protested on the internet.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so then the big budget games will be this, and then some other developer will step up and say,


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[Assistant] This is, this system is not good, we're gonna make a legit shooter where you only play against other human beings, and it's, there's no background AI support system for any of it, no microtransactions, no nothing, and it's gonna fail.


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[Assistant] It doesn't matter. It's gonna be the genre. It's gonna come out despite a bunch of hype and a ton of animated cool gifs of it running at, uh, 60 frames a second at 4K. We should patent this. And uh, we don't want to patent it because it's going to fail.


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[Assistant] I think he confused himself. You'd have to matrixify a cow. Right. Then you'd have to put that cow into a human being.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But it's still a fake cow. You'd have to eat that person. So it's a moot point.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean people treat it like the Olympics. This is the ultimate test of person versus person skill at this particular thing. Except it's not though, because sometimes my fucking pain jumps up, and then I get killed.


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[Assistant] As soon as things start getting really expensive, then you start getting more and more generic iterations of those because they're higher risk.


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[Assistant] There's a higher risk, higher reward kind of trade-off there. If a game like Destiny 2 failed, like if it wasn't tested to see what they thought would be successful, and then that's what gets put out. By the way, successful to everyone. Not successful to that one, what is it, Famitsu.


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[Assistant] The Japanese magazine, like, is like the be-all end-all for whether or not games are good or not. Used to be. They've been handing out those 40s a little too much lately. A little too much. General audience is what is what is going to succeed, so. Just like movies.


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[Assistant] Unfunny trash. You know. Well, they want a Brandsafe. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's just, it's like, well you watch like Disney shows and you're like, oh okay, well this is brand safe because the target demographic is...


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[Assistant] Right. You know, or whatever. And, and so I understand that, but man.


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[Assistant] I follow, I follow human nature and the world I would say pretty well to know that most humans are pretty boring and garbage.


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[Assistant] People that have dog allergies but still love dogs. And cat people can't be trusted.


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[Assistant] I hate the stagnation of it, but I gotta go Dyson. Okay. I feel like he's more committed to his, his brand, his craft and his community. Um, finding a small home on the internet. Uh, there's a certain amount of exposure. Fartmaster has over a hundred thousand views on some of his videos, which means he doesn't need.


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[Assistant] Hard nettin' to showcase his talents. Uhm, so I'm gonna go Dyson.


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[Assistant] But it's been over years, right? He's been doing this character for years.


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[Assistant] It's so interesting because humanity is simultaneously more connected than it- connected than ever and more isolated than ever. Absolutely. And, uh, I think it's the fuckbots that are gonna really, like, bring us back together.


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[Assistant] The first documented case of someone being destroyed by a robot was like in a factory in 1920 or something when a robot arm fell on some dude. And that is like considered the first documented, or at least Imgur tells me that. That's where I get all my news facts.


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[Assistant] It'd be really cool if like an indie horror dev did sort of an anthology where they tried to like build a


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[Assistant] So I do appreciate ultimately what happened with all the lore there. I thought it was, I don't know if he intended there to be all of that when he did the first one or if it was like kind of a retroactive, oh I have a platform for this so now I'll, I'll, you know, backtrack and make this all work. But I always appreciated it.


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[Assistant] That like, even more so than like playing the games to a point.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I feel like I've read it before, or like Matt Pat went over it, but, and my favorite thing too is when Matt, whenever Scott Cawthorn has something new coming out, Matt Pat always tries to like,


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[Assistant] It's really interesting when there's a company that kind of has the monopoly on one thing and you're like, how the fuck did they get this? Like there's that company that does all the like credits for films. I forget what, James, you know what it's called?


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[Assistant] He has a tip slip, is he held accountable? So I have the tip slip on company time?


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[Assistant] I have a friend that's playing Breath of the Wild on the Wii U right now, and is fucking flipping out over how good the game is.


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[Assistant] Well, Benson loved that stuff. He, uh, he could not get enough of it.


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[Assistant] I see, I think those guys are working within the parameters and infrastructure of the internet to net really, really hard. And then it was a very, like, calculated and long-term thing that ultimately, like, I think there was just a lot more put into that and utilizing the internet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, real hero cast said how frail must your masculinity be if you feel the need to tear down a little girl's pick. Yeah, seriously.


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[Assistant] Oh, Canada. That's the only sign language I know, but I saw apes, uh, this weekend, so.


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[Assistant] It could be the kind of thing where if you go to traffic school you can decrease your fine.


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[Assistant] I think you can provide the best commentary on this because you ride a motorcycle sometimes.


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[Assistant] James, I was laughing yesterday because you tell him, you tell him, baby.


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[Assistant] This is distracted driving that only specifies it was technology related, right? Like cell phone. It just says distracted driving. Cause then like, I can't tell you many times like, I've gotten fast food and like,


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[Assistant] To go back to this, Lawrence, I think, yeaah, those numbers seem small.


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[Assistant] But I will say, uh, I know that people always like to say, you know, they make those, those comparisons of, well, if you're worried about being eaten by a shark, the likelihood of that happening to you is, you know,


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[Assistant] 300 times, or 300 million times less than being in a car accident. Right? When everyone's like, or you die in a plane crash if you're worried about flying. The statistics are just way off.


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[Assistant] This might seem like, oh well, you're so less likely to die because of distracted related driving, but it is something where it's not within, it's not something that you are in control of.


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[Assistant] Because if you're on the road and someone else is distracted and they crash into you, that's, that's somebody else, you're taking somebody else's life into your hands. Like if you choose to go swim in an ocean that might be infested with sharks and you get eaten by a shark, that's on you, you know? But this is, we are all traveling in these thousand pound vehicles where we're driving, we're driving, you know,


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[Assistant] Yeah, with DUIs, you are risk- that's- that's- I think the greater thing is it's not even much that you're endangering your own life, you're endangering someone else's.


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[Assistant] I wonder if people would be less inclined to text if the penalties were as high as the DUI, where like, you lose your license, you have to go to AA for a year or whatever. Uhm, I knew somebody that, like, back home that got a DUI, and it essentially, like, changed her entire life, of like, you know, the kind of work she could do, cause she was like,


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[Assistant] Can't drive to work anymore, so I've gotta figure out how to get to work now.


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[Assistant] Oh man, so now if I were to become a police officer right now, there's a chance I would become a bus cop.


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[Assistant] That's not- that's not- I don't like that. Wow.


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[Assistant] Things usually happen in threes, so Fire Festival, Pokemon Go Festival. What's the next one? What is the next one? The next festival! Maybe it's us!


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[Assistant] Fun AIDS medication. Fun AIDS. Billboards. Cause you guys like the- House of AIDS. Tummy AIDS guy, right? Oh, Tummy AIDS. Oh yea, AIDS.


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[Assistant] I don't think that, either or not, this isn't for me, I think the other guy.


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[Assistant] Uh, I vote for the other guy. Ivan Dorns? Yea. Okay, we got one market for Ivan.


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[Assistant] They're doing it. I appreciate that they're having fun. They look like they're having a great time. But still, I'm dorn.


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[Assistant] Also, I'm pretty sure that said that they have to be 16 years and up.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's not a problem. Sooo. One minute. What? We don't wanna be... 16? Shouldn't it be like 21?


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[Assistant] Next time, next time, Undead Soup. Alright guys, I'm not gonna be here next week, so I'm going to Portugal.


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[Assistant] No, I pressed, oh I guess I pressed start. I wanna skip this though. You can't. Why would you? I don't wanna see Knuckles again. Wait.


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[Assistant] Just keep going. You gotta go fast. It's fucking Sonic. You press right. Hold on a minute. Geez. You guys.


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[Assistant] Well yea, you were what, 5 or 6? Yea, I was born in 83. But that's different though than being a kid of the 80s. Like, you were like 12.


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[Assistant] The people that are making the stuff that Lawrence is talking about are older than you. They're like 45, 50.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Well, no, they're not, they're not, they're, now they're making what was for them 12, 12 years old to 16 years old in the eighties. And then when you get to 45, 50, you'll be making the nineties. Oh, I have to be older to make them. Yes. Yes. That's, that's, that's how the generation gap works.


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[Assistant] I'm sure a psychologist would say, yes, subconsciously people want to recreate the stuff they...


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[Assistant] Right, because they've always wanted to get something new, and Sonic has always kind of been bad. So, but it was, but it was the best when it first started.


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[Assistant] So uhm, so, and this is something that I talk about this a lot. Uhm, I don't know if I talk about it on the podcast, but I always talk about nostalgia and how it affects what you watched and how you felt when you, uh, saw those things. So like, like I'll stand by it to the bitter end. Will is a bad film.


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[Assistant] Willow? Yeah, Willow's a bad movie. And, uh, like it's just generally a bad movie. Not a very good film.


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[Assistant] Those are all bad. Those are all bad films. Uh, and so like a good example for me is Last Starfighter. I watched Last Starfighter hundreds of times.


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[Assistant] Yes. It's like, it's like Ender's game basically. Yea, yea, yea. Yes, like, I guess what I'm saying is, you played the video game and then you got to be in the video game. So regardless, it's uh, it's terrible. I just watched it the other day. Boy is it bad. Just like Adam at this game.


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[Assistant] But the thing about nostalgia is that nostalgia gives you a good feeling because when you were 12, everything was fine. So you probably like, let's say you had a good childhood or whatever you love, you know, you had your bet. This is when you first fell in love when you're 16 years old and then you lost all last starfighter a hundred times. That's why you like that movie.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I think that's an interesting side effect of what Lawrence is talking about, which is...


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[Assistant] But, uh, we have a lot of measuring tools nowadays, like Rotten Tomatoes, et cetera, that are supposed to be as objective as you can get for movies. So uhm, what are you supposed to do here? You'll see.


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[Assistant] So nostalgia and I, uh, I've tried to get really good at figuring out what I'm nostalgic for and what is actually objectively a good movie, television show, whatever.


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[Assistant] I'm really trying to be, uh, I try to stay ahead of things. I try to stay progressive when it comes to music.


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[Assistant] Right, well, and that's bad. I mean, like, that's just generally not a good practice. Uhm, because then I think we get into the strange world we're in now, where we've got, you know, the older generations like, I remember when things were great! And that's because


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[Assistant] They were young and they, you know, like they are nostalgic for those things.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, of course, of course it does. And that makes sense because again, you've got a whole new generation discovering these people and those things, and since we pulled the coolest parts out of it, then they see only the coolest thing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, uh, just like every other time in human history.


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[Assistant] Uh, there are lots of bad things and lots of good things. So, in the 80s, we can, you know, for every one amazing band, like the Pixies, there were 50 that were garbage.


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[Assistant] Those are, man, that's another really important thing that you bring up, because uhm, and if I'm talking too much, let me, aah, you're dead! Uh, if I'm talking too much, let me know. Uhm, the, uh,


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[Assistant] Well, you can go, alright, so that's a, that's a, alright, so that's another one. It's Willow. Willow's a, like, Willow's a good example because everyone's like, oh, the special effects are so good! And they immediately look dated. Five years later, they look dated.


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[Assistant] Jurassic Park is a good, a good example of a film that still looks pretty good. And the movie was made in 1993, I wanna say?


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[Assistant] So, uh, a lot of that has to do with how the director shot everything, if they used practical effects in the right way, if they used CG in the right way, uh, and


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[Assistant] There are films that stand the test of time. Like, we all know those films. Casablanca and uhm, you know, like Citizen Kane and those sorts of films. They're still good. Like, I saw Casablanca for the first time a couple years ago. I was like, holy shit, this is a great movie.


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[Assistant] Right. And, and what's, so another interesting point there is that


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[Assistant] You have to be a little bit informed. So I think the older you get, the more you kind of can see patterns and realize, uhm, what was innovative and what was cliche.


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[Assistant] Um, so it requires a little bit of effort on your part to do some sort of, uh, you know, educate yourself.


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[Assistant] I thought I was supposed to spell like that. I mean, to be fair, this is a modded version of the game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, I mean, and that's like the, like I said, it hasn't aged well and that's a really good phrase because the more that you watch a movie, the better it should get.


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[Assistant] Uhm, ideally that's the way it should. Like, there are very few movies that are only made for one viewing. They're like...


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[Assistant] So I know, I know exactly what you're saying, but that's what I'm trying to say is that that's why they're bad. Is that somebody basically was like, it's good enough. And they moved on. Uhm, and that's, that's, that's somebody that doesn't care about their craft is, is usually like the devil's in the details for that kind of stuff. And, uh, if at this point,


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[Assistant] A movie is only made for you to watch once, then there, that's a, that's a cash grab. Uhm, and uh, people are allowed to do that. Obviously it's a capitalist society, we can do whatever we want, so.


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[Assistant] He did SWAT, oh that was a television series? Oh, that's on the way, that's on the way.


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[Assistant] But some of those directors, uhm, have proven themselves.


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[Assistant] And I think then from there, like, basically the movie that they made, like, Get Out, is a good example of a film that's very, very tight and they cared about the details. Uh, it's, uh, Peel, right? Yeah. And he obviously gave a shit, right? He gave a shit about that movie. He gave a shit about how it was written and directed and shot and a lot of other stuff.


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[Assistant] And that's the kind of filmmaker, oh, that's the kind of filmmaker that you want. And I feel like maybe like Michael Bay, while an amazing filmmaker, maybe just the Transformers are just cash grabs. They're crazy, crazy films and they take, you know, a lot of production, a lot of work.


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[Assistant] I guess, sure. I'll take the Chris for no one's any day over the Michael Bayes. Somebody who is making original productions and also cares about what they're doing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yes. Uhm. Well, so that's the difference though, right? Painting games. He gets to pick which projects he cares about, and I don't, I, that's not, I'm not crazy about that. I would rather somebody care about everything they do, than just a few of the things. Some people don't have that liberty.


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[Assistant] Shredded. It was awesome. I lost like 25 pounds. Yea man. It is far and away the best workout I can recommend.


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[Assistant] Welcome to Knuckles Land. Can you get out of this please? It's driving me crazy. I hate it.


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[Assistant] I heard two or three separate people over the last few weeks mention this place. And so then when Brett...


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[Assistant] And by the way, this is a totally impromptu thing, it wasn't like I had a party, it was just sort of like, let's go to a bar.


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[Assistant] It really honestly wasn't a thing that like, uh, Brett was just like, we need to go to this place called the bungalow.


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[Assistant] Uhm, no, no, we hadn't, we hadn't been. And I think it's reaching like a fever pitch of popularity. Yeah. Cause when we showed up,


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[Assistant] There were hundreds of people, uhm, all crammed into this, like, it's a huge area too. But it felt like I was at a music festival or something.


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[Assistant] So here's the thing, we weren't outclassed in the sense that we might have had more class than people there, but...


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[Assistant] Uh, they were all like really young and beautiful and we are not.


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[Assistant] So, like, we all look kinda old and dirty. And then when we arrived, it was just a bunch of 22 year old, I mean,


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[Assistant] The whitest guys and girls I've ever seen.


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[Assistant] Okay, so picture, they're all 21 years old, wearing less clothes, and more wasted than that girl, earlier.


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[Assistant] And Lawrence, I think you said it was like what people imagine a movie about Los Angeles to look like. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] That's exactly what the bungalow was. It's a bunch of people that were not from LA. It's like they're cosplaying as LA people. They weren't from Los Angeles, and they went to be like, okay, now I am finally Los Angeles.


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[Assistant] But I, I made a point, Lawrence, of, well, you're running into everything. I made a point of, uh, asking people the, ooh, arrow, uh,


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[Assistant] of talking to, like, whoever I was talking to at the thing, to ask where they were from.


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[Assistant] Um, cause I was always like, hey, where are you from? And they'd be like, oh, I'm from Ohio or I'm from New York or I'm from blah blah blah. And I was always like, oh, cool. Like how long you been out here? About a year. And I was always like, interesting. Okay, cool. You're going to run out of money.


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[Assistant] And uh, that was another weird thing is that a couple people came up to us and were like, yo, fun house. And really it would be like, yeah, like some really preppy dude with like a backwards pink hat and a sweater tied over his shoulder. And that was even weirder.


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[Assistant] Cause then I was like, oh, this guy's a nerd. He's a nerd, but he's pretending to be like a rich preppy dude.


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[Assistant] I watched you guys, uh, griping in the corner. Well. And you were griping, I was just more of like a, I could tell you were like, we're old.


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[Assistant] You gotta get blackout drunk with him. That would be great. Because he gets blackout drunk really easily. And then I don't.


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[Assistant] So I get to watch, yeaah, I get to watch them. It's really funny.


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[Assistant] Anyways, yeah, Adam and Omar, we missed you. We would, uh, we would love to have you.


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[Assistant] Alright, Lawrence, I have been meaning to tell you, these do not count as lessons in movies. Cause you talk about how like, I feel like you always talk about these like you're educating yourself. Yeah, I'm learning about the world and how it works. No, that's not what these are. These are just bad movies. Well, hold on Bruce.


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[Assistant] You need to watch other films that you haven't seen that a lot of people like. Like, Rocky. I've seen all the Rocky. Godfather. I love Rocky. I haven't seen Godfather. Have you seen Rambo? Yes. Have you seen First Blood? I've seen all the Rambos. Okay, good. What other movies haven't you seen? Godfather. I haven't seen Godfather. You need to watch one and two, don't watch them.


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[Assistant] I mean, I guess whatever's hot enough is determined to the user. Yea, you just watched a bad porno movie. That's all you watched. It wasn't porn!


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[Assistant] That's the, that is hard netting, and we were arguing about that last time, and I feel like that is absolutely hard netting.


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[Assistant] Holy shit, this is awesome. So this is like Special Forces but with T-Rex, or Lizards.


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[Assistant] It's basically like a live action cartoon. Who's that? Who's that person?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's basically like they made a cartoon but with just action figures. Kinda like Robot Chicken but with T-Rexes.


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[Assistant] Obviously, that's the political alien. He's, he's in, uh, maybe that was North Korea.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm voting for Lizard Force. Ditto. All the way. Okay. Omar?


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[Assistant] So that seems like a lot. I feel like there should be, it should only be like 500 followers. Click its Facebook page. I want to find out how many people are on its Facebook page. Uhm, come on, come on Lizard Force Facebook.


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[Assistant] Nevermind, I vote for Lizard Force. There we go, fuck. How many likes?


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[Assistant] Did you see him nod? Wow, alright. They just fist bombed. Yea, they win.


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[Assistant] I mean, they're not an experiment, Lawrence. They're a human being.


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[Assistant] That's not, that's not, I mean like, there are things that you can do that are not normal, I mean like, you do it every day, Lawrence, like you record content and all that other stuff, that's not what people do every day, but then it's all about your perspective.


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[Assistant] Those spiny weeds are really hard to see in the game. They kinda blend in.


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[Assistant] When inherently that's not at all what kids are watching these days.


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[Assistant] It's, well yeaah, but jobs have paid vacations. Yeaah, and that's the difference is that, and usually like those, those sorts of jobs are 7 days a week.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but the difference is, with a nurse, nobody has the experience, and if a nurse complains about it, there aren't thousands of people saying, fuck you, I'm not gonna give you any more money. Uh, and that's the difference with a YouTuber, and I'm not siding with a YouTuber at all, it's in the sense that, if you think about it that way,


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[Assistant] Your job depends on the audience. Whereas with the nurse, their job depends on whether or not they do a good job as a nurse.


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[Assistant] I think there is a certain exhaustion to it, to having to be beholden to an audience and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Especially with a YouTube audience, because you're constantly interacting with people. And I think it's a risk that you accept when you jump into this. You know. I don't think you're ever disillusioned with the fact that, well, they'll understand if I leave for three weeks or, you know, two months or something. They may not. They can go other places. Thousands of other places.


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[Assistant] And there are ways. We do that every holiday. Every single holiday when we take a week off or two weeks off or whatever, we don't actually take those, we just end up working double.


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[Assistant] Well, that's another thing, when you come back, when you come back from that, you're out of content. So then you have to work twice as hard to come back.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's a, it's a, it's really interesting. It's a, it's an interesting grind that I knew from television long before YouTube.


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[Assistant] We're a little further ahead now, so it's like we don't have to worry too much about, uh,


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[Assistant] Whereas before when it was only like six of us, five of us or whatever, that's when we would be like, oh shit. Yea, I remember right, we would come in and you would just like hit record. Yea, it was really tough. Uhm, but it's easier now that we have more people. Yea. That we're a larger company. Or a larger company within a company.


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[Assistant] On the first try. I did not think that was going to happen and I kept three of them.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry. I was actually gonna say the most, probably the biggest example of bartering is buying a car.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I dug a well. I'm a very healthy goat. But either way, that's, you have to, you have to do that sort of thing, uh, all the time. Like, no, no interest for three years, like, or, yeah, my firstborn thoughts. Well, there's also, you do that, like, when you're, uh, renting, or when you're, if you can, you can, sexual favors.


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[Assistant] I wanna hear from Elise how this works. She's the one that knows. That's true.


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[Assistant] It's more of like, it's a really loose, it's a very loose story, but like, James always has a pure internet, uh, meaning like, it's kind of like, it's all about passion, it's all about, and that's why it's called passion dust by the way, uh, but it's all about like sort of, what is this person doing that makes it, uh, that makes them passionate about the ridiculous thing that they're doing, but it's on the internet.


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[Assistant] I wish that we had passion dust for our urethras, so that we could pee like you were talking about earlier with the wine.


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[Assistant] Joel is right, and, and also I wanted to go with Elise on whatever she, she guessed since she's a woman. And she would know better than I would. How progressive of you. Well she brought up a fantastic point, there's already glittery lube. I'm almost positive there is, I think I've seen it. So Passion Dust is a little, uh, they're a little behind on that one.


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[Assistant] Actually, you can put passion dust in your butthole. Does it say that? Yeah. As long as you got a moist butthole. You can use it. Well, but you can have a moist butthole with lube. That's easy. Yeaah. Not a problem then.


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[Assistant] This has never come up, but we're old friends.


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[Assistant] Was us and another friend of ours going to this other guy's house and just playing, uh, Mario Kart and-


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[Assistant] Well you can't, it's not real. Shitty name. Concept that was already out there. They just took away the barriers between a person booting on the game and getting into it. That's it. That's all they did. I will say, the first time I saw PUBG, like a livestream of it, I was like,


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[Assistant] Oh, when did- was there a mod for, you know, H1-


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[Assistant] Happy Victoria Day to our international listeners.


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[Assistant] Yeah, do your parents need to send you out to Utah? To go to, uhm. What's in Utah? Uh, the article I sent you guys this morning with that kid that was addicted to CSGO and his parents sent him out. His parents sent him out to like camp in the middle of Utah and get over his addiction.


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[Assistant] But then like, they were measuring his brain waves before and after to see like how his neural activity had changed and I guess...


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[Assistant] Yeah, his brain done broke from too much CSGO. Wow.


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[Assistant] But uh, I mean, I guess, I, I think from the perspective, the business perspective of yeaah, these, these events definitely drive scarcity like you said, Adam. But I also think that they are...


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[Assistant] Like you, you purely have choice for those cosmetic items, but then they do such a good job of, like, of getting you addicted because you guys played so much Heroes of the Storm. That's true. Just for ten loot boxes.


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[Assistant] When we were in the office and they had just walls of fan art, uhm, I bet they get a lot of like hybrid fan art where it's like, here's, uh,


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[Assistant] I-I bet they think about that. Plus, I-I have to imagine, like...


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[Assistant] Just kind of the culture that they exist within and we all exist within, like, it's the same sort of interests. Like, shared interests and, and, uh, genres and things like that, so.


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[Assistant] Uh, like Stephanie really being into something and then it popping up in a game. Kinda, it kinda makes sense to me.


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[Assistant] I honestly didn't even know that you really paid for stuff.


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[Assistant] I can't get into the psyche of someone that gets into a 7000 person YouTube chat and starts typing in the chat. Yeah. Because you are just really putting that out into the ether for, for what I, like,


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[Assistant] That's just a mindset and a psyche and a brain that I cannot relate and get to. And I know it happens in our chat, but I apologize, dear viewers. Ho ho.


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[Assistant] Why is it taking so long for Seaman to come back? Is it like, is it geopolitical climate? Is it just the studios? Like what?


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[Assistant] Was that Seaman again? I can't see a lot back here.


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[Assistant] So it's very anime, which makes me a little nervous, cause I think it looks cool, but most of Netflix's in-house anime has seemed like shit.


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[Assistant] I do, I'm going to give to their Patreon, actually. I haven't, uh, actually I would like to see the Patreon page so I know how much I need to donate to get whatever they're taking.


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[Assistant] Laurence, can you find their Patreon? Cause they were talking about how there's some stuff on their Patreon they can't post to YouTube, right?


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[Assistant] Looks like she got a giant caterpillar on her stomach. 129 though, that's at least 129 dollars.


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[Assistant] It's very self-aware. Almost too self-aware.


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[Assistant] I recognize this. Uh, the first step to knowing you have a problem is recognizing that problem like, like this person did. Um, and uh, I guess if it seemingly is a problem, it's kind of one of those things that you can then start to address once you've admitted you have it, which is great. Um, good for him.


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[Assistant] Well, that was the thing I always heard, uh, speaking to your point. I always heard about pornography.


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[Assistant] Where it was always like, you masturbate so often to something that's digital and not real at all and like, and in most cases fantasized, that when you try and interact with a human sexually, you may not know how. Uh, because you've only seen videos of it, you know, you only know like, oh this is what you're supposed to do at this time or this site you're supposed to talk to.


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[Assistant] Nobody sees me waiting in line in the bathroom with a poop in my pants, uh, you know, just about to blow.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say the, I think the, probably the best, the best scenario for this guy, cause it's, like I said, is it a girl, guy, girl, we don't know. A they. A they, uhm, the best scenario for them is that they are, they're going to have rewarding social interactions. And it's gonna happen, uhm, and,


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[Assistant] I think you'd be hard pressed to find a human, typically, for the most part, that wouldn't say that their most rewarding


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[Assistant] Aspects of any life is typically interaction with somebody else. Whether or not it's their best friend or their family or their loved ones or whatever else.


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[Assistant] That's usually the things you kind of remember the most, uh, above all else. Whether or not it's a video game or, you know, a movie, usually you remember movies because of the social interactions that go along with them. Uh, and I think he, he or she or they has sort of taken the step into a larger world, which is awesome. And it's, it's super exciting to, to


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[Assistant] Have those interactions and remember them and be like, yeah, like that's kind of what you're striving towards and what you said Lawrence is true.


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[Assistant] You're constantly fucking up. I don't think that there's ever a time that it's not a phase. You're gonna fuck up all the time. Like, you're always gonna say something like, the other day I said something to someone where I was, it was like a, I said something about their dad and their dad had died. And I was like,


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[Assistant] I was like, I am so sorry. Like I immediately apologize. I was like, I don't know what I was thinking. I obviously wasn't thinking. I'm very sorry. And, uh, you're still, you're going to do that all the time. You're going to do it all the time. And, uh, so that I feel like I'm getting better at.


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[Assistant] To James' point, uh, I had somebody tweet me last night being like, oh, I didn't want to say hi to Bruce. He was on my flight. I was like, come say hi! Like, anytime. You can always walk up and say, hey, I know.


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[Assistant] That's what I always say, I always go, the first thing, somebody yelled at me the other day, like, BRUCE! And I turned around, I was like,


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[Assistant] I think there's a restaurant right there, cause I keep seeing people pick up menus. Oh, okay. And I'm like, that must be what it is.


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[Assistant] Well, we can move on to the next- Those serves are garbage, by the way. Yeah, I was- I was gonna say-


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[Assistant] Is that a good stuff restaurant? It might be, oh is this a channel? I was wondering if that was the restaurant. We would know where it is. We could find it.


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[Assistant] I saw one, I saw one already, I don't know what it is. A crazy taxi, we'll knock that off the list.


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[Assistant] But I am ultra invested now. When are we going to get the Final Fantasy VII Remake? It's going to be a while. Remake. Well no, soon.


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[Assistant] This game looks unplayable. What? I thought you said they fight fires. Yea you did. This is training.


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[Assistant] Why would you try and do that? Also, you wouldn't be able to do that because you'd be in a self-driving car and that self-driving car wouldn't allow you.


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[Assistant] She epitomizes taste. Different flavors surface at various stages. Oh, we have close birthdays. Yet they are controlled like a great opera singer at work. She begins with a time-honored noble creaminess then surprises with a touch of fresh mint. She's young after all.


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[Assistant] Wait, $100 for just a video? Yeah. You didn't even get any of the milk?


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[Assistant] Uh, they can order it directly to their house. So if you have $100 and you feel like you want to find out if this thing is real, order it and then send us a video of the packaging and the milk that you get. Cause I'm curious to see if it really is real or not. We're not telling you to do it.


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[Assistant] It's more about whether or not, if you actually want to. Adam, look. Adam.


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[Assistant] This is probably just a... Look at her, she's so happy. This is like a suicide girl's thing.


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[Assistant] But at least that has class. Why doesn't this have class? They don't do anything other than gargle milk. Yeah, it's just put it into a bottle and then you get to drink it.


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[Assistant] Well, cut down fanshow, I'm curious. I'm curious. I just, I want to see if this is, because if it's real, I'm inclined to vote for it.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say, it doesn't look like they've updated those girls for like 3 years. No, it's, wait, a portion of this information on the website has been fictionalized.


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[Assistant] I would agree with Elise as well. They may have had my vote if this was real and confirmed real, uh, but it sounds like it is not, so I'm still voting for Big Meat Lover.


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[Assistant] There it is. Lawrence, you're out. That's what I, that's what I've been led to understand. Of? Closet? MPQ.


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[Assistant] He's our rabbit. Then he leaves. Oh. I am your host. I have a variety of vibrating settings.


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[Assistant] I've actually been wanting to see this game in action, Lawrence.


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[Assistant] Yes, to all that reboot! We did it. It's Roundhouse. I can't believe we got Keenan.


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[Assistant] Uh, I'm writing for a TV show, uhm, it is a cable show for Disney XD. It's gaming based, but I'm also, I also get to write like animations and sketches and all sorts of stuff.


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[Assistant] I recommended two of them for a job at Mr. Teeth.


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[Assistant] It had been owned by Discovery. While I was there, they spun it off into a new digital venture called Group 9 with Thrillist and the Dodo and NowThis News and then the Discovery digital brands that were based in San Francisco, which were Seeker and DNews. And so they all sort of got together and made a new like little miniature digital


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[Assistant] Publishing outlet, I guess. We've got a production company. And uhm.


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[Assistant] Sourcefed didn't make the cut after like 3 or 4 months. So, uh, we were at production in March and we went out like the big livestream was a lot of fun.


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[Assistant] Uh, so a lot of people watched SourceFed when they first launched, and the original hosts were really great, they had a lot of rapport, and over time, obviously, as happened here, people sort of tend to disperse. Yea, they disperse. They want to pursue what they want to pursue, and so the original hosts left, and that, uhm, for a lot of the audience members, made them unhappy, and, uh,


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[Assistant] There were like uptimes and downtimes for the channel after that for a long- for a while, and they were doing some good stuff, I think, uh, but they never had a really concrete crew for a long time, and so...


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[Assistant] My job was to come in and sort of reformat the news, uh, cast a new crew, uh, a new on camera cast, I guess, and revamp.


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[Assistant] Uh, so it took us a while to get our footing, but around about January, December and January, like we had our cast, which was Steven Suptic, obviously, and then a bunch of other guys that I really loved. Candice Carrizales, Mike Falzone, who's a comedian. Candice had a show with SoulPancake, which was Rainn Wilson's, uh, production company.


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[Assistant] And, uh, Eva Gordy and they worked really well together and the comedy was really funny and we, we started working as more, less of a news channel and more of a topical comedy channel.


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[Assistant] The views and everything were going up and it was just really disappointing that, that, uh, we got cancelled.


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[Assistant] I mean, this is really like boring analytic stuff, but we were like growing.


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[Assistant] For funhouse fans, everybody here over time sort of left and you had new people on the channel kind of trying to do the same thing and it just didn't fit their personalities so we had to sort of reformat and we worked through it and everything and uhm.


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[Assistant] On Insight, like the cast on Insight Gaming was never more than the people that were there. With the, with one exception, with, with Matt was the only exception who like came and went.


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[Assistant] There was this history of like adding to the cast and like one person would leave and they would bring people on and so it felt a little bit, it was a lot more gradual and it felt like it did shift over the years. They were like, I think in the end four,


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[Assistant] I was scared, I was really scared to leave Funhaus. Like it was really scary to leave and not be working with people that I knew and trusted and like knew what the capability was and anybody in this room can say,


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[Assistant] Hey, can you do X and you know it'll get done and it'll get done really well and it's scary to have a brand new team that you've never worked with before. Uhm, and so yeaah, maybe it is the gift I gave myself was being scared and kind of failing eventually. Conquering that feeling.


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[Assistant] Even if I gotta- So I'm working somewhere now, obviously. Uhm, taking a little break this afternoon, but I'm working somewhere now.


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[Assistant] Even if I uhm, were like searching for the next thing, I would love to come down like once a week or something or, you know, and hang out. But, I mean, I think you guys know, it's, I,


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[Assistant] Uhm, it's cool for them and it's also like, it's neat that you've got your own sort of independent thing here. Uhm, the other side of that is, come on audience members, if you like them, you should trust that they would bring on people that they want to hang out with and talk with. And if you don't trust, like if you don't trust them to, like it's not just randos walking in the door, you know.


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[Assistant] It's so- it's- as an outsider, it's so weird because I think I felt the same way being here, but as an outsider, it-


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[Assistant] It feels like inviting yourself over to somebody's house, and I know I shouldn't feel that way, but like, that's I think why it took me a long time to come in, because I was kind of like, I don't want to like, invite myself over and make a big deal about it. That makes total sense.


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[Assistant] For any birth, you guys, out of his, uh, what does he have? An ovipositor? A butthole.


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[Assistant] You weren't being given dictums to do X, Y, and Z, and they weren't budding in, and like you were significantly more independent here, and uhm, and,


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[Assistant] What do you guys, like, so, it's been about a year since I've left, a little bit more than a year. What do you think is the difference besides it being worse, the content, that I'm not here? What do you think the difference is?


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[Assistant] Here, like, talking to you guys over the last year, it has been like, oh, you're doing that thing now, and oh, you get to do that thing now, and oh, you're doing the thing that like-


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[Assistant] Like so many of the things that we wanted to do, that, that, and I think you're right, like it makes sense that


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[Assistant] It takes a year to get to know each other and to like trust a little bit.


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[Assistant] I reluctantly understand that. I didn't want to have to go through that again, but I reluctantly understand that.


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[Assistant] I mean, I told James this a few months ago, that like I'm jealous of a lot of the opportunities that you guys have been able to make the content that we wanted to make. Uhm, I'm jealous that I'm not here doing that with y'all.


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[Assistant] I, I, I watch, like I don't watch everything I was saying on the way in. I watch like 20 or 25% of like the videos that come out. What's your favorite?


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[Assistant] Scare Pewdiepie? Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Uh, I, no, I mean, my, my favorite, I think my favorite show when I was here was almost always either Demo Disc or Open House because they're the shows that change the most in, in the edit. And so watching them being, like watching you guys film them


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[Assistant] Participating in them and then watching the output like it was really fun to see how they evolved and I think the demo disk and open house are still my favorites.


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[Assistant] Do you want to come on drinking with Knives? There's a lot of drinking.


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[Assistant] We did, we did no booze February, uh, because it's the shortest month. Uhm, and we felt like we could actually manage it and we still had two cheat weekends.


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[Assistant] My Nobu's drink of choice is, uh, bitters in soda. So I'll get the soda water with a little bit of bitters. It's a little bit flavored and it's got a little bit of color in there, so it feels like I'm holding a cocktail.


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[Assistant] Uh, so there's two, so there's two things going on right now with that robot. Uhm, one thing is on the YouTube side of, yeaah, like they're changing the way that the robot services adds to channels, right?


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[Assistant] The other thing that's happening is that advertisers are getting a lot more savvy about how that robot works and more importantly doesn't work for them. And in fact, before the YouTube adpocalypse, which was more of a result of shit like


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[Assistant] Advertisers discovering that their ads are being shown on videos that they didn't like. Uhm, in maybe January, February I started reading a lot of articles about how advertisers are pulling out of AdSense and AdWords.


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[Assistant] And what advertisers had fa- had started to clue into is the fact that like,


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[Assistant] So I mean, and, and that's also like, that's, that's another reason I sort of resent the fact that advertisers are pulling out of YouTube, cause it's like, so you're gonna rely on this, this construct that you created for TV 35 years ago, because Nielsen, whoever says it works, and you're not gonna rely on


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[Assistant] Last month at SourceFed, we were getting copyright claims from images that were on the SourceFed blog from 2012 that some lawyer had just found. And the blog had been taken offline, but they were like hunting through source code for like pictures that they owned.


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[Assistant] And so, like, the last month that we were, like, trying to deal with the fact that, like, we kind of knew that this whole thing was coming, I had to be answering questions to our company's lawyers being like, okay, this is where this, I think, going through the old website and trying to figure out, like, who posted it, and what the source was, and where they pulled it off of Google or whatever. It was really frustrating. That sucks. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Even though those were books before they were video games? Yeah. Wait, was Metro whatever? Metro 20- It was also a book, yeah. Was it called Metro or was it Metro 2033? It was 2033.


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[Assistant] The only reason I knew there were books is because I did the review for Witcher 1 on X-Play.


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[Assistant] And so, and it, and the, and the game's name with the book. And they were like, do you want to read this, uh, book with the game? Nah, I'm not interested. Oh, you didn't read it?


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[Assistant] Uh, Phil told me that the only good one is the first one. The rest of them are kinda garbage.