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[Assistant] Alright, let me get a running start here then. So, legendary Triple Crown winner, Justify. You may be familiar with Justify.


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[Assistant] Justified, fail the drug test.


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[Assistant] Justify failed a drug test in the weeks leading up to the 2018 Kentucky Derby, but for some reason was still permitted to race. This has rocked the horse racing world.


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[Assistant] We don't know where this is going right now. Uh, his-


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[Assistant] Uh, which, if you're not familiar with it, it's something that humans- Yeah, something humans can take, and they- and you do get high. But, uh, with a horse, it- it- it acts as, uh- Also known as the Devil's Breath!


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[Assistant] It, it, it helps, uh, enhance your bronchial ways, so that way that your airway and your heart rate are optimized, so you know, you can, as a horse, you can breathe better, your stamina is better, uhm.


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[Assistant] And it's something that I think is naturally occurring or might be in certain foods. Like, there was a case where he tested positive and maybe they thought, oh, he was consuming contaminated food. However, the odds of getting a positive test from food is very low.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So, there's suspicion that yes, justify was doping, uh, in his races, and maybe- Did his trainer-


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[Assistant] To your point, Freddy Justify cost $500,000 when he was purchased in 2016.


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[Assistant] Something about, like, breeding, cause horse breeds, like, you know, or-


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[Assistant] An adult male red deer? No. No that would be a deer. Service?


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[Assistant] Well, to our listeners and viewers, you should go listen to Storybreak and this season, Heaven Heist. Heaven Heist for this season. Cause I'm way into it. Thanks, Freddie. Thanks so much for coming in. Oh, and our other podcast real quick. Our other podcast was just that.


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[Assistant] Everything's kinda, but yeaah, thanks so much for, I hope you come back soon too.


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[Assistant] Thanks for watching and thank you to our sponsors. Thanks to Omar and the booth. Hey Omar. And we'll see you guys on the channel in next week.


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[Assistant] Neil deGrasse Tyson, more like this heel dungaft. Bye, son! Bang! This astrophysicist swallowed his whole foot on social media live, and we're gonna dunk on him on this too smart for you bowl of dude soup.


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[Assistant] People have been talking a lot about Grease lately and I don't know. Have they? No one talks about Grease. I remember somebody doing a whole breakdown of, of, uh, what is his name? Something did Luke, Tommy DeLucos? Joey Zuko? I don't, whatever. It's Joey Zuko, yea. The way that he- Wait, no it's not. I saw like a, a three page breakdown of his expression when he sees Olivia Newton-John all greased up at the end.


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[Assistant] And I was like, why did I read that? Also kind of correct, I think I agree. Danny Zuko. Yeah, Danny Zuko, thank you.


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[Assistant] I gotta read some sponsors. Oh, go for it. I'm never gonna get in. All right. This podcast, this star studded podcast, we got a lot coming up for you guys. We got a random information trivia because Neil deGrasse Tyson taught us the way to live. Uh, that's coming up. Uh, but we got, it's brought to you by three fine sponsors, honey calm and express VPN. You can get honey for free at join honey.com slash dude.


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[Assistant] Uh, DudeTube listeners can get 25% off a Calm Premium subscription at Calm.com slash Dude.


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[Assistant] And you can get three months for free with a one year package at expressvpn.com slash dude.


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[Assistant] I feel like I've seen the Scooby-Doo crew donning instruments and playing some like groovy 60's tunes at some point.


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[Assistant] Sorry guys, we have to justify our title. So, uh, yeaah, sorry to drag everyone to this, but, uh, yeah, Nailed It Grass Tyson kinda made an ass of himself on social media over the weekend. After some very appalling events, he decided to chime in with all of these stats that


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[Assistant] I don't even really know what the intent was, uh, here Omar, I'm gonna select it to you, maybe you can throw it up on the monitor there.


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[Assistant] Clearly I believe so, yes. So, he says in the past 48 hours he would say horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings. But then he followed up with on average across 48 hours we also lose 500 due to medical errors, 300 to the flu, 250 to suicide, 200 car accidents, and 40 to homicide via handgun. And then he closes with, often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.


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[Assistant] There's also active effort being taken to prevent all of those things, whereas there are things that...


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[Assistant] Not gonna get into it, things that could be done to curtail the people that- the other kinds of deaths that aren't being done.


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[Assistant] He will often chime in with needless unrequested information that ruins anyone's good time about anything. Not to say that that's what's happening here, but typically yes. He'll, he'll, he is the there is no sound in space guy. You're having a good time. I still love him, but. I do too, cause Cosmos is great.


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[Assistant] Realism is always a weird buzzword anyway. When people apply to things like Call of Duty, where you're twirling around in the air and carrying 18 guns and just like hockey throwing, uh, reloading in a second.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, uh, in, in response, uh, Neil posted a follow-up on Monday, which is yesterday at the time of recording, on Facebook, uhm, basically a winding non-apology, so for


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[Assistant] What I learned from the range of reactions is that for many people, some information, my tweet in particular,


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[Assistant] Can be true, but unhelpful. Especially at a time when many people are either still in shock or trying to heal or-


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[Assistant] There is that like, what are you, why are you booing at me, I'm right! Like that kind of thing.


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[Assistant] But there's a read the room kind of element there, uh, that's just not present.


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[Assistant] So yes, there is that moment when somebody is like, how do you not get this? How do you not feel this? What made you think that that was okay? So yea, everyone collectively dunked on him, but I think we've done that enough. It's time to celebrate him with Neil deGrasse Tyson's bullshit game of useless trivia. Da-da-da-da-da. I wanted to get it. I was looking for a graph.


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[Assistant] I mean yea, if you let it scroll, it is there. Well maybe not. We won't. Just trust us.


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[Assistant] Uh, so what I have here is a collection of number-based stats, because that's what we're all about. That's what Neil's about, that's what we're about now, because it makes us feel better, clearly.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and there's six rounds, so two for each of you. And I encourage you at home to play two. I'm gonna ask you a question, and you have to tell me which one's more or longer, because we're dealing with like units of time and units of measurement. Okay.


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[Assistant] The number of eyes a bee has, or the number of eyelids a camel has.


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[Assistant] That was close. You're also wrong. Bees have five eyes, and camels have three eyelids.


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[Assistant] Three eyelids total? Yeah, I guess per eye maybe, so maybe six.


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[Assistant] They are both odd numbers. Well that would mean that a bee has ten?


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[Assistant] Alright Adam. It's fine. Oh yeaah. You're in the Neil hot seat. Yeaah. You're getting Tyson'd.


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[Assistant] Uh, what's more? The amount of pounds of skin that you shed in a lifetime?


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[Assistant] Or the average species of bacteria inside your bellybutt. Da da da da da.


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[Assistant] Well you would be wrong! Okay. And you've yet again disappointed Neil. Uh, you shed about 40 pounds of skin in your lifetime. Jesus. But there are on average 67 different species of bacteria living in your belly button at any moment. What if I have an Audi? Mmm, probably less. Or more?


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[Assistant] What takes more time here? Okay. The amount of time it takes your stomach to produce a brand new mucus lining? Or...


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[Assistant] The time spent over your entire life sitting in a red light.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think it's just always rotating, but from two weeks to two weeks, it's a brand new lining completely. Otherwise your stomach would digest itself. Uhm, whereas the average person spends six months waiting at red lights over their entire lifetime. Oh boy, Neil's real smug right now.


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[Assistant] They're annoying. Flies are idiots. Spiders at least hang out in the corners, like they're awake.


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[Assistant] Alright, round two. Uh, Neil's acing you guys right now. And that- I bet that just burns you up. You guys are all just-


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[Assistant] So yeaah, you were close actually. Uh, sprint speed of a cheetah is between 65 and 75 miles an hour. However, you sneeze at 100 miles per hour. Uh, so that's cool. Cool. Uh. Is that a kilometer?


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[Assistant] Huh? What's that? 100 miles per hour? It's like 60? Like 120? Yeah, it's way more. It's higher.


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[Assistant] Be like 160. Whatever. Adam. Yes? Alana's the only one to take a bite out of, out of Neil. You think you can knock him down a peg? I think he deserves it, yes. Life, a life spent giving, uh, information and research to the world. Alright, what's longer? What took longer?


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[Assistant] You're right, but also wrong. Okay. So again, this could be entirely incorrect.


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[Assistant] A pig orgasm is about 30 minutes long. However, the shortest war, according to the bullshit, like, trivia website that I looked at, was between Zanzibar and England in 1896, and Zanzibar surrendered in 38 minutes. So the world's shortest war was longer than the pig orgasm. What was the cause of the war? No. Oh man, it's fucking amazing.


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[Assistant] Real thing. That's the best Wikipedia page ever. God. So were you right or wrong? I think I was wrong. You're wrong. Yeah, I think I said the, you said the pig was longer.


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[Assistant] I was watching some documentary about cocktails and like Hemingway obviously was a pretty big player in it. And there was some anecdote about how he timed out perfectly.


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[Assistant] Well, Neil is smug as fuck because you are wrong. Are they the same? No, they're not. A blink is 100 to 150 milliseconds. Or as a jiffy, is the amount of time it takes light to travel one centimeter in a vacuum. So everyone tells you they're gonna be vacuumed.


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[Assistant] They're wrong before they finish talking, because it's 33.3 picoseconds, which is one trillionth of a second.


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[Assistant] I thought Feige, like, addressed that. Of, well, I mean, I guess the infinity stones are gone.


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[Assistant] But one thing you can get is, is fine savings when you buy those Infinity War tickets for the 8th time.


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[Assistant] Alright, moving on, kind of an extension of our opening topic, I want to talk a bit about like, bad takes, because I've had a few.


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[Assistant] She's like, what's, what's something that you said that you were like, or, or something that you later revisit and you're like, okay, I get why that didn't go over so well, even though it was kind of ignorant at the time. Um, this is a bit of a, this is a bit of a stretch, but personally, I.


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[Assistant] I think because of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, uh, Stephanie put on Rosemary's Baby over the weekend.


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[Assistant] I watched it like four years ago and I wasn't super into it. Uhm, you know, pedophilia notwithstanding. Uh, it was like that little disclaimer. He wasn't a known pedo at the time. That makes it okay, I'm sure.


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[Assistant] Okay, so he didn't pedo himself until later? It was after Sharon Tate died.


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[Assistant] But I watched it again and I was actually super into it. I thought there was a lot of like subtlety to it.


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[Assistant] Like, very, it was meant to be very slow and off-putting, like the original Friday the 13th is very strange by today's standards, I'd say.


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[Assistant] It's really good. Uh, I guess what kind of led to it is also I watched Gaslight for the first time. There's a ton of that in Rosemary's Baby about basically her being like, hey, these things are wrong, and then a bunch of dudes being like, no, you're stupid, also don't talk to anybody. Uh, so, it's a great movie.


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[Assistant] I don't mean to like yank it back here, but just kind of keeping with that tone. You mentioned that like people are waking up to Speed Racer again. This is like a weird one year cycle. It seems like there's like planets aligned and everyone goes to Twitter to remind everyone that Speed Racer was actually amazing, but at the time everyone dismissed it as


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[Assistant] Uhm, along that note, and I think also very identically, Pacific Rim is a pretty divisive movie. When I first saw it, I didn't get it and didn't really like it.


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[Assistant] Well, well, I'll go watch it again. And then everything clicked. I don't, it's just coming at it from a different angle. But yeah, if, if I were to go to write to Twitter, be like, oh, Pacific Rim garbage trash, like,


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[Assistant] Uh, so yeaah, it's kind of interesting how time can sort of change your perspective on things.


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[Assistant] It's the illusion of being well read or well informed, is that you have something to say about everything. And a lot of the time, since people that are in that cycle don't actually have time to read up on stuff, they just absorb opinions that seem right and then spout them back as their own.


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[Assistant] Uh, yes, uhm, or rather, so it's confusing because the hosting didn't go down, the Cloudflare withdrew their protection, opening up the DDoS attacks.


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[Assistant] And I think because of that, they were like, oh, we don't want to deal with this. And I think they shut it down for now. I only know about that because uhm. But then they got an offer from another one and then that company got attacked, so. Okay. It's the same one that does like the DDoS protection for Breed Bart and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] Because yeaah, kinda like what you guys were saying, it was, it was a behavior pattern that took me a long time to recognize, is that if I didn't know something, I could never admit to it, so I would just-


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[Assistant] Hard stance on everything, and then if somebody called me out on it, I'd retreat further into that stance. Because how dare they? And also I'm committed to the lie at this point. I'm projecting to be this kind of persona, and to me the ultimate weakness is to change your mind.


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[Assistant] Or to admit that you don't know something. So yea, and it was a horrible feeling of like, doing it, but also having this voice in the back of my mind being like, why are you doing this? Just shut up. Just stop. Just say, okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't know what I'm talking about. Uh, it took, it took a long time to actually get to the point where I could be comfortable enough with myself.


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[Assistant] To one, not offer unsolicited information, cause that is a weird thing, it's just, I always thought that's how you contribute is just by chucking as much information at the wall as you can.


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[Assistant] Yes, uh, and thinking that that was my value to people. But then also if I didn't know something to not try and pretend to be the smart guy by assuming.


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[Assistant] That's everybody. That's also true. How do you like, how do you message, cause ideally you do it through social cues.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, if you're losing sleep, uh, staring at the ceiling with bloodshot eyes, thinking about all the social faux pas you committed, perhaps you could use the app Calm. Calm is an app, and Adam, I think you've used it a bit. I have it, yea.


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[Assistant] It's an app that provides a variety of services to help you go to sleep. Uh, and that's a pretty widespread problem. Column says that one in three US adults doesn't get enough sleep. And if you aren't sleeping enough, it can affect your cognitive functions during the day like learning, problem solving, and decision making.


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[Assistant] Like, deciding maybe not to opt into that stranger's conversation talking about Miles Morales. Uh, sleep deficiency also does serious damage, not just to your brain, but to your body as well. The sleepless are more prone to accidents, weight gain, and depression. Adam. I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] Thank you, Calm, for helping Adam get the sleep he needs so desperately. Man, everyone's on this thing. Calm?


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[Assistant] Really weird. That's something I've struggled to empathize with because, uh, Stephanie has a variety of anxiety issues. And to a degree, at certain points in my life, my brain was in the mode where it would instantly latch on to negative thoughts and dwell on them and really simmer in them. So I don't know what, I wish I could understand maybe more fully what that's like when it prevents you from sleeping.


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[Assistant] That's what, that's what happens. The snowball. You, you skip, what do they call it? Uh, catastrophizing is when you like go from a small incident and then you imagine negative consequences that snowball into a very, very, very negative consequence and then blow up.


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[Assistant] Thematically similar. I imagine huge action set pieces in my head and then think about how to link them. Oh nice. So it's like, how do you get from the inside of an office building onto a helicopter jump?


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[Assistant] Like, hey, what a good segway. Uhm, so, I used to do a segment called Bruce Reads, but Bruce is on vacation now. Or, sorry, sabbatical.


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[Assistant] Uh, but I did find something amazing to read, speaking of eliminations and being a fan thereof. Uh, Omar, I guess, is it appropriate to roll the bumper? I feel like it is. Yeah, let's do it. Let's just all remember Bruce for a second.


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[Assistant] Ah, join us by the fire for a nice story. Alright, if you could, uh, put the gentleman on screen here. Uh, we're about to make fast friends with a new member of the Funhaus family. Uh, Mr. Brown the Bear. There he is.


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[Assistant] Uh, there is a fine content creator out there that is responsible for Mr. Brown the Bear. I don't even know who S2 is.


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[Assistant] I don't think we should poopoo this man's love of his work. Boom boom, you mean.


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[Assistant] Sorry. It's a book of maps or charts.


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[Assistant] He did say the best part about feces is when people fart while crapping. Yeah. But I imagine the sensation has to be different if it's in like a North American toilet. That's a personal bias that he has.


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[Assistant] Also, Australia has like, really awesome public toilets too.


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[Assistant] That is just comes up to your chest and then on both sides of the urinals you walk up and pee and another dude walks up and pee and you're just staring at each other right in the eyes while you're pissing into both sides of a chest high wall. I like that. That way you can have a nice little talk, you know, just high five people, bang. Put your, put your like drink there. You could do something else.


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[Assistant] That allows you to encrypt and anonymize all of your internet traffic. Uh, that's a problem because if you're on public wifi, your information may not be encrypted. Sometimes it is, sometimes it's not. And if it's not, somebody can just snoop all that stuff and get all your private secret data.


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[Assistant] Uh, if you use a VPN though, essentially you establish an encrypted link to a VPN, basically another server somewhere, and then all of your traffic goes from there out to the internet.


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[Assistant] So that means that basically no one can tell where your traffic's coming from, for one, because it all looks like it's coming from that server node. And then all the information between you and that server node are encrypted. So there's no way to see what it is.


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[Assistant] Uh, that allows your, your connection to look like it's coming from another place. Maybe useful for you if maybe there are regional services that you want to use.


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[Assistant] And it's also very easy to use. ExpressVPN has easy to use apps that run seamlessly in the background of your computer, phone, and tablet. And turning it on only takes one click. You basically just pick your server and boop, turn it on and it's on. It's that simple. Using ExpressVPN you can safely surf on public wifi without being snooped.


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[Assistant] Thank you ExpressVPN for making sure that my Google search results aren't wall to wall poop while doing my very important podcast research.


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[Assistant] Nice. I can't believe no one's made movies out of that.


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[Assistant] What accent is that? You don't really have beef there. What do you mean?


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[Assistant] I mean, they don't have like, they don't have like, just the, the beat, the like, the


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[Assistant] Steak. So yea, I wonder what that's gonna be like. Like, I want a sizzler in Japan. See what that's like. It's just mostly fish. Well anyway, James, if we've learned anything, it's that we can't let realism get in the way of our good times. So Shogun is a masterwork.


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[Assistant] We are all, uh, we have all been educated because of Neil's spirit here chiming in with all these useless information. So thank you, Neil. Appreciate it. Keep shining on you, Crazy Diamond. And we'll see you all next week on Dutsu. Bye. Goodbye, everybody.


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[Assistant] Just anecdotally, Black Ops 4 sold, uh, or made 500 million dollars in like three days last year when it first released. So it's a ton, but it's nowhere near the Call of Duty Glory days. Uh, Infinity Ward,


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[Assistant] If there is ever a week to watch, this is the one. We're talking about bad breakups and porn star payouts in this jellicle episode of Dude Soup.


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[Assistant] Boomers think that they're going to live forever, and so as they creep closer to death, they're going to get more and more desperate. Tried to take down as many as they can with them. Scream, crying and screaming.


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[Assistant] Uh, no guys, I have some, I have some bad news. Oh. Some stuff went down over the weekend. And I think you know what I'm talking about.


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[Assistant] We'll get there. Suspicions were confirmed by Liam on Instagram shortly after Miley was seen making out with Kaitlyn Carter in Italy.


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[Assistant] Which is what he Instagrammed after pictures of her making out with another woman.


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, not all breakups can be so mature. Which brings us to a much less beautiful story. It's the sad saga of Twitch vs. Ninja. And it took a petty turn this weekend.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, and, and recently, uh, Ninja left Twitch, kind of a big news story, he left Twitch to join Mixer, which is Microsoft's streaming platform, which is way smaller, and wasn't taken seriously at all until literally Ninja joined it.


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[Assistant] Well there's, I mean, periscope. Is periscope still a thing? It's done, right? That's a great question. Oh well. But remember how you, like, if you were watching a periscope, or you were doing a periscope, it'd just be hearts. Heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart. It almost meant nothing. I feel like that's the interactivity that people are trying to get to.


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[Assistant] Which, used Ninja's channel, which is still a massive thing, I guess it's like any other website, right? It's a channel on their page. They use the traffic to...


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[Assistant] That's fine, whatever. But then they also changed it so that way they had a bunch of other recommended channels.


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[Assistant] On the page. Which is something that they don't do. If any of us had a Twitch channel, some of us do. Uhm, but like, if you have a Twitch channel, it's not like it's just gonna have recommended channels, like you can put in links and stuff that, whatever you want to, but Twitch doesn't just jump into your channel and say, here are also other things, especially if you're big.


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[Assistant] I always like to imagine these scenarios as the two parties involved.


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[Assistant] One of the channels that was recommended was a Russian porno streaming channel. Which looks bad for Ninja.


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[Assistant] I mean, I would also argue that when you're as large as say Ninja or Howard Stern, you can move somewhere new.


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[Assistant] My thing though, which is kind of a funny thing, and we've been in the new media world landscape long enough to know that this is a reasonable thing to expect, but


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[Assistant] Pure base ho- I love when companies build these platforms and have way less control over it than the people using their platforms. Like, and this happens a lot. I mean, it happens with YouTube for us where it's like, oh, they're recommending these videos and this serves no one.


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[Assistant] You're taking the video that already has 10.5 million views up to 13, so I guess it does serve them. But still, it's like, you're not, no one's finding new things through the tools you've made in this website.


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[Assistant] I went to Target, just to brief aside, I went to Target this weekend, uhm, and they like,


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[Assistant] Influencer games are a thing now. Yes, like board games? Yeah, uh, and I wouldn't, I wouldn't even call them board games. Well, maybe not. They're like party games. B-O-R-E-D? Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] But, they are, they're like party games or like shitty things. So, what's it, the uhm, what's his name? The son of Howie Mandel.


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[Assistant] He, like, has a- Is this the son of Mandel? Yeah, he has a- he's a YouTuber.


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[Assistant] And I was like, I was like, what could this be? And I looked at it, it's a frisbee.


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[Assistant] I was like, this is, it was the greatest, I was like, dude, perfect, the game. And I was like, what? And I looked at it.


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[Assistant] The, how things move and shake out in new media, probably what happened is there was some of that discussion and it was insulting.


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[Assistant] Even that was brand management. Yes. You know, like, he's treating himself like a business and the biggest shortcoming of a lot of influencers is they still think they're individuals and they are human beings, which they are not.


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[Assistant] Like, that's the best thing about it. Uhm, yeaah, it's weird. This is only an aside to your aside. Have you ever seen the graphic that WWE distributes if anyone comes, like,


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[Assistant] Someone comes to you about the bad things that WWE has done. They give you talking points? They've distributed this thing into their community of like, if someone says like,


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[Assistant] Well, what about the donations WWE makes to politics? Like say like, whatever, man, I love Seth Rollins. It's like, it's like, if someone asks you this, tell them this. And it's like cult-ish. It's like really, it's really nightmarish. That's for the employees or just for the fans.


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[Assistant] It's like really very creepy, but the thing that blows my mind is that some social media person made that who gets paid probably nothing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sometimes you, I guess sometimes you don't realize what something is actually worth. You may think someone is a millionaire when they may not actually be. Which brings us to our next story, Elise. What have you been up to?


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, but so, so it recently came out that, uh, well, one, she's, she's admittedly said it was, it's a stigma that she's carried.


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[Assistant] It's like a Twitter video, basically. Oh, okay, I haven't listened to it yet, but I'm fascinated. But the big thing that a lot of people are latching onto, and some are even calling her a liar or stuff, is that she said that she only made about $12,000 in her entire run in adult films.


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[Assistant] That's how, again, not to sound like an atom here, making excuses for my behavior, but that's actually how I first heard of her too, was that whole, like, oh, there's an adult film actress who is being threatened by ISIS. And I was like, I'll find out what this is all about. Then I googled, and just kept googling.


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[Assistant] Like 50 weeks, and you're like, please god, let someone show up and get threatened by ISIS to get me out of this list.


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[Assistant] So weird. I mean, there's a couple things. I included this not just for the Salacious headline, but also because it, like, some things about it spoke to me. One, the whole people finding things.


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[Assistant] Year, months, years after you've already done them and then coming to you and going, this is how I know you.


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[Assistant] But you know what's crazy? Something I think about too is how adult film stars really


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[Assistant] Celebrities can make sex tapes all they want. And it's, I mean, there's a different thing, maybe because the sex tape appearing is often times a non-voluntary thing.


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[Assistant] You can still be- You can still appear in-


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[Assistant] No, it's the actress who played Peter Dinklage's like, girl prostitute girlfriend. She was like a German.


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[Assistant] I don't know how much of her is out there. It feels like a lot.


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[Assistant] I think, again, it's just weird because there are also people who are like nude models.


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[Assistant] Who I feel like also don't deal with the same stigma.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say, if there's one thing I know about porn, it's whatever technology they're using to monetize and protect their content is light years ahead of whatever mainstream YouTube is using.


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[Assistant] I think there is an adult film actor's union, but I don't think it's as big and organized as say SAG-AFTRA or something like that, so I think it has significantly less leverage.


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[Assistant] Prince covered Radiohead, and that's the video that got filmed. Remember that happened? And then Radiohead was like, no, you can put it up, because you played our song.


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[Assistant] And so it became this whole big messed up thing, but it was like, ultimately it came down to figuring out what the actual IP


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[Assistant] Sorry, we'll get back to that right after a quick word from Fleur. Let me guess.


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[Assistant] Flur makes great smelling, non-toxic, gender-free perfumes perfect for any individual or occasion. Adam actually told me he's a Greylock kinda guy, whereas Elise is more of a soft and subdued Hanami. What scent are you?


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[Assistant] That's what you're saying. You're saying in your head there's, yeaah. But it's true. It's true, John Lovett doesn't always have money. There's also a perspective where no, I don't think anyone in the world has ever said, I have enough money. I think we've yet to come across that human being.


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[Assistant] Because some people are like, well, I could, I could get more money and then I could use that money for the charitable thing that I want to do. So they still continue to raise money. Like maybe a monk somewhere. Sure. But even that monk is Chaoyang Fat.


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[Assistant] How much mid-tier, mid to low-tier people.


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[Assistant] I feel like I'd run into problems with that because they would try and match the anatomy.


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[Assistant] of an unrealistic, like, when they do cartoons or video games and stuff, it's like, we're trying to match the anatomy, and I'm like, but the anatomy, she would fall over in real life, this wouldn't work, so that when the person that they find that is closest to someone who would fall over in real life is not, is like frightening to me, is more scary.


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[Assistant] Maybe I underestimated this and I think that sparks a conversation and I do think people should be compensated and I think it's also, I think it's also not a warning because I'm not against


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[Assistant] Uh, sex as an industry at all. I'm totally down with it in fact.


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[Assistant] But it is kind of a, hey think of this, just remember when you're young and you're thinking about doing something and it seems like this is the best option right now. We haven't gotten to the point as a society where you can then just go, I'm done with it and leaving. I think it's something we deal with too, probably to a lesser extent. There's things that we've made and things that we've said.


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[Assistant] I'm just more saying like the one where it's us and Bruce doing the Zach Anner clip.


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[Assistant] Yeah. It is hard to assume that with the amount of content we've put out that we have been portraying characters that whole time. I would argue that we have, for most of that. I don't think any of us sit down and say, let's say what we really think. We say what's gonna make this video funny or make the kind of statement that we want to make with the comedy in this video.


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[Assistant] We are, we don't have a lot of time left. I have two, I want to discuss one more story very, very, very, very quickly. Very, we don't have to, we don't have to touch on it really, really quick. Um, cause it is kind of talking about that. You put in work on the front end, you may not get something out on the back end. And I just want to touch on it.


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[Assistant] I'm also interested, maybe people in the comments can enlighten me on how the whole thing works, but uh, Will Wheaton is suing Geek and Sundry, that came out I think last week.


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[Assistant] I mean, other than Critical Role, the only other thing that I feel like Geek and Sundry has that is pretty mainstream and blown up is his table.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, we're gonna play the game in a minute. According to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles last week, Wil Wheaton claims he was hired to create, produce, and host a Geek and Sundry web series called Titan's Grave! The Ashes of Volcana. Of course he was.


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[Assistant] No questions asked. Eat it Mia. Eat it Mia. But then also 50% of the net profits from the series. That was already kind of a red flag for me.


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[Assistant] Gross profits and then it has an opening weekend of 250 million dollars. Jack Nicholson can do the math on that and know exactly how much money he made that weekend. But if you say net profits, they go, well, you know, we still have a lot of 250 million dollars in the opening weekend. Who knows?


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, uh, Wheaton, not surprisingly, claims he never got any of that net profit. Uhm, and that could be one thing, it's a web series. If a web series ever makes a net profit, I will be blown out of my chair.


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[Assistant] I mean yea, like, if he's basing it off the views, it's probably not great because I haven't heard of it, but like, I think that it's, they have been using it, leveraging it to make money.


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[Assistant] And so he, uh, he is pretty upset, and uhm, in no surprise when he asked Legendary to show him the numbers that say that it hasn't made anything, they're like, no. Uhm, and so now he's seeking a hundred thousand dollars in damages.


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[Assistant] I'm glad that Will got his 50k, at least, because man, the idea of getting 50k to make a web show, like, blows my mind. And again, I actually enjoy a lot of Geek and Sundry content, but when you just like,


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[Assistant] Like, in terms of the revenue that channel makes just from indirect ads, like it's kind of all over the place for views.


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[Assistant] Well, I do think that the deal is between his company


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[Assistant] Hey, it's hard out there for people who like board games and want to make content out of it, Adam. I feel for him. What are we doing in Season 3?


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[Assistant] Tomorrow. Really? No. Oh. I'm like, I'm not ready for this. I want, here's the thing. I'll do it. Rooster Teeth, if you're listening, I want 50% of the net profits of the show.


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[Assistant] Okay, uh, I just wanted to touch on that. I just thought it was really interesting. I like Econ Sundry. I think it sucks that they're caught up in this, but I also think it sucks for Will Wheaton that he...


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[Assistant] Alright, let's move on. We have only a few moments left here and I love to play games on this show. Generally movie related, sometimes trivia related. Last time was Lion King.


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[Assistant] This time I'm premiering a new, a new segment which will be running as long as I'm hosting for the remainder of the year. And it's a little segment called Countdown to Cats.


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[Assistant] I don't know why that played at double speed. Probably because...


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so I have created a little game that's designed to challenge and educate us.


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[Assistant] Everyone knows, everyone knows the plot of Cats, but people go, what are the names of the characters? That's the second question. It could be either or, yes. So let's go to the first slide here.


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[Assistant] Okay, so what I've done is I've shown a character, and I want you to guess the name.


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[Assistant] Okay, interesting, very interesting. Uhm, let's see who that is. Rum Tom Tugger!


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[Assistant] We'll see. You were so excited to play this game. We'll see if you know all the names.


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[Assistant] Featured heavily in the trailer. Maybe the, I think she's the point of view for the film. So, and I'm gonna say, just looking at her, you got half the name. White. Uh, fetish maker. Fetish maker, good guess.


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[Assistant] And her name's Victoria. So her full name is Victoria the White Cat. Let's move on. Who is this one? There's a clue.


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[Assistant] This is also, by the way, not from the film. I wasn't able to get a good clean shot of this character from the film. This is from one of the many numerous performances of the musical. Please take a guess.


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[Assistant] Is that a real photo? Okay, so it was Rolly Polly, Rappy the Wrapping Cat, and is that a real photo? Actual cat's name? Rumpus Cat. Close. That ER stands for Rumpus. Let's move on. Okay, Taylor Swift.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna say she's, um, SWAT cat, but not the skinny one. SWAT cat, but not the skinny one. Got it. Release.


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[Assistant] Old Deuteronomy, great guess. Uh, Taytay the Baebae. Taytay the Baebae, great guess. The correct answer is?


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[Assistant] Whiskertins. Whiskertits? Whiskertins. Whiskertins.


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[Assistant] Famous cats from all cats, come on. Just think it's very formal.


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[Assistant] Oh boy. Think of a formal title. Captain Ferdinand is good. Uh, Sylvester? But formalize it. Mr. Sylvester? Okay, great.


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[Assistant] He loves this. We got, we got, we got a ton. This is the first of many. I hope everyone learned something. All of our favorite cats. Uhm, there's a ton, there's, we only touched scratch.


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[Assistant] Scratched the surface of cats names, but we'll have future stuff coming up again. Thank you for joining us for our first episode of Countdown to Cats. Thank you for joining us for this episode. There it is again!


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[Assistant] Uhm, one last thing I wanted to shout out, uhm, I was laughing too hard. I didn't see it in my notes. Uhm, if you...


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, or Monday afternoon, so make sure to check that out. Uh, way more, not way more comprehensive, but a lot more details are discussed in the sequence of events, so make sure to check that out. Smart words.


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[Assistant] Much like the cast of Game of Thrones, we're back. The whole crew's here. We're talking about things like GTA 6, maybe some Jedi stuff, but what the hell are we doing in Austin? Tune in to find out on this edition of Dudesuit.


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[Assistant] I guess for those who don't know, we're shooting a show right now called Arizona Circle. All of us shot today. Alana, Bruce, you guys were up very early. James Elise, yeaah, I was the only one who, I came in later, I was lucky. I got to come in at lunch. Yeaah. I noticed why, I noticed why.


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[Assistant] Hasn't been jarring for you guys, being out here, being like, being on, cause we get it in little bits, we fly, Bruce and I have been flying back, Lawrence flying back, uhm, I think, Alana, you fly back tomorrow? Yup. Yeah, so it's like we're constantly kind of back and forth, you guys are just basically living in Austin, with dog.


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[Assistant] And I wanted to just address that individual and let him know that you guys are working really hard and you're killing yourselves. But he doesn't, he doesn't think it's worth your time, so.


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[Assistant] Will there be any continuations from any of the sketches from the pilot? I don't know. I'm looking at my monitor. I'm making it up in my head and saying it to you guys. Really? It makes it a place though. I feel like these are questions that I have seen on Twitter or Reddit.


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[Assistant] And then the last question, be able of asking, how many episodes, if you can tell us, are there going to be for the entire season?


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[Assistant] Did a weird kind of Xavier Renegade Angel voice. And they kept saying like, I dunno, kept saying the word load over and over in his face. And it's just trying to break him. Uhm, but I think, I think everyone's been having a good time. It seems like it's working together. The show looks great.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we see the dailies and all that stuff, and it's like, at the end of the day, it looks like a television show, which is crazy. Uhm, so, uh, coming soon, would you say at least next month? Next month. Summer of 2020?


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[Assistant] No, I'm just saying the comparison of people caring. Like you said, they are insane, but there is a quality control there, as opposed to...


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[Assistant] Right. But either way, Russell Krogus go through tunnels and we don't.


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[Assistant] Yes. Famous night at Disneyland, everyone. That's your Arizona Circle catch-up, or all we're willing to talk about right now. But for now, let me remind you that this episode is brought to you by Stitch Fix. So what was your favorite item that you guys can think of that you wore recently?


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[Assistant] Anyway, see that happened, uh, Bohemian Rhapsody made 800 million dollars. Uhm, we discovered a black hole. Okay, okay. And there's a rumor that GTA 6 is getting a release date and it's gonna be a PS5 exclusive, but timed.


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[Assistant] It's, it's been making the rounds, but the story comes from uhm, one of the many websites, the author Tyler Fisher put this one together. Uh, but they're saying that the game will be coming out as a next-gen title, and Sony is looking to pay much, many, many dollars to make it a time PS5 exclusive.


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[Assistant] This doesn't sound like a very good source. Well, the source, according to an anonymous European developer. Okay, great, good. What? That's what I mean. Regardless, I'm giving you guys sort of the bullet points here. They're saying that the game is most likely going to be coming out in 2022, so we're always- That sounds right. That's so far away.


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[Assistant] So, that's about it. That's sort of the broad strokes there. Who knows? I think you can make any wild guess at this point, but at the end of the day, I thought, hey, this is actually probably a good time to speculate. What the hell is GTA 6 gonna look like?


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[Assistant] Yeah, if it takes place in Miami, yeah, there's probably gonna be some sort of Colombian extra part, but then New York seems to be like Scarface, which a lot of Vice City was sort of based on, is basically Scarface the video game, until they made Scarface the video game.


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[Assistant] Basically, the idea was, what if Tony Montana didn't die at the end? Great. Everyone wanted to hear this. Yeaah. Uhm, I guess the weird thing is, so, we still play GTA 5 today.


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[Assistant] So my thought is that with the lack of GTA 5 single player DLC, does that mean GTA 6, whatever it is, is going to be devoid of any single player? Is it going to be an online only game? Or do you think Rockstar still wants to keep in their single player route?


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[Assistant] I just, I feel like with GTA because GTA 5 is still popular and will probably eclipse Red Dead Online. I think it will continue to do it just because of the setting you're allowed to do much more. Red Dead I don't think could ever keep up and then you're sort of competing with yourself in that arena.


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[Assistant] Possibly. I mean, they have eight studios right now. Something like that. They're all working together now. It used to be one team would be working on one thing, one would be working on the other. Now it's just all hands on deck. You all make all games. From my understanding.


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[Assistant] So, in their mind, I mean, obviously they have their, uh, the parallel cities, obviously. It's Vice City instead of...


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[Assistant] Miami and those sorts of things, but is there a make-believe city that we would want to go to in a Grand Theft Auto game?


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[Assistant] Well actually, on that note, uh, just because this is a similar story about the PlayStation 5, Mark Cerny, our favorite bug-eyed crazy man,


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[Assistant] running on a PS4, and now here's it running on a PS5, and the load time went from 15 seconds to an eighth of a second of a load time going, uhm, where they're, he's talking about they're using some state of the art solid state that no current PC even has access to, so they're doing, I don't, they said,


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[Assistant] So they got some early hardware, but uh, basically saying it's gonna be able to do 8K. Who even has a 4K TV these days? I think people are slowly getting them.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well it was just, I was only mentioning because they mentioned that uhm, they wanted whatever the next version of GTA is going to be is most likely going to be a next generation game, it's not going to be this generation. Absolutely. Uhm, possibly maybe, I don't know because GTA V was Xbox 360 PS3 and then it made the jump and we still play that, basically that game.


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[Assistant] But wow, lights bouncing around that room. They, they showed, they saw some Battlefield footage of things, Battlefield 1 online, and they're like, in this shot, you just see a window, but in this shot, you see the reflection of the building, and just went, I don't know if that's worth $2,000.


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[Assistant] Is that just pass fail? Or is that grade AA?


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[Assistant] And it's me. While we ponder on this question, let me remind you that this podcast is brought to you by Honey. So have you guys ever bought anything online? Only find out later that you missed a discount. I recently did that and I was so mad. I blame Steven Suptic for this, but I'll tell you later about that.


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[Assistant] Anyway, I no longer overspend anymore thanks to Honey. After finding this out and I will never make that mistake ever again. Honey is a free browser add-on that finds me and all of you the best deals online. The app magically auto applies the best deal to any cart at checkout.


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[Assistant] So, Honey finds discounts and coupons across 37,000 sites. Bruce thought I was only going to say 37, and he didn't look impressed. But then I added that thousand at the end. And then I went BOOM. He saw the zeros and went, I can't even count that high.


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[Assistant] So uhm, this, this app, actually, I've known about this app for a long time. Uhm, man, if you wanna know how long this was, uh, referred to me, remember DIG?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was on there like, guys, I got a secret. Check it out. And I was like, cool, easy browser add on. It's there. So you can easily save my, I think the first time I bought anything, I saved $53. Wow. It's pretty ridiculous. Um, and that was like early Amazon stuff. So, but yeah, it works. It saves up. It definitely works out in the long run.


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[Assistant] Henry Winkler deserves it, but I'm saying if you want to save money, you act more like, was it Kevin Costner? Who was it? No. Dennis Quaid. Dennis Quaid. Be more like Dennis Quaid. Be less like Will Ferrell. Save your money, because that's what you take the Valhalla with you when you move on.


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[Assistant] Uh, so yeaah, there's really no other reason not to use Honey. It is free to use and easy to install on your computer in just two clicks. That's it. Bruce, count with me.


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[Assistant] I'm just thinking, if another fappening happens, and they access his Google Drive, which I'm sure he has an easy password for, like, John Smith 1.


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[Assistant] So if that, if you guys find that interesting, we talk about it. The other headline is Twitch streamer banned for using blackface while cosplaying as Apex Legends.


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[Assistant] Hey, you don't change the subject, Alys. We're gonna talk about Lifeline, aren't we? Much like the final Sith battle, or the final battle that will happen in Revenge of the Skywalker's. The Rise of Skywalker. Fuck me. Uh, Bruce and Alysha duel it out. Oh, I'll provide the music.


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[Assistant] God no. No, I think she's apologised, no. She, she's like, from what I understand, she was sort of like, why are you guys mad at this? What's wrong with you?


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[Assistant] Uhm, dressed up as Mr. T at a Halloween party. Didn't do makeup, just wore the jewelry and they said, you can't do that because you're white, you can't do that. But I love Mr. T, I legitimately love Mr. T and I want to be like him. So, it's sort of like, it's that question too where... Well, she had just done the Lifeline cosplay, but no


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[Assistant] When Bruce was Black Panther, it was fine, because he didn't- We didn't see the skin that he painted underneath, because he wore a mask.


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[Assistant] Now here's the thing though, Bruce. At the time of the stream, she only had 160 people watching. Which is a pretty low number by the time you get banned. Way more people are gonna be watching her now. Do you wanna buy the makeup now?


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[Assistant] Have you guys ever had that moment where you looked at yourself and said, am I the bad guy? Yes. Every fucking day of my life.


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[Assistant] You could just be tan. I think Elise is alluding to the fact that it was voiced by a singer whose name I can't remember that was popular in the 90s. And not even that popular. I have no idea what you're talking about. Paula Abdul? No, he's a man.


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[Assistant] He was born in 1976. He's 42 years old. No, it wasn't Bruno Mars. Um, Alana, I'm sorry you haven't seen a goofy movie. It is...


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[Assistant] Probably a childhood rite of passage. It is, if you've ever had a rough patch with any sort of parental figure, I think it, everyone, hasn't we ever lash out at a parent and then you feel terrible about it?


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[Assistant] Well, we're getting towards the end of our show, and before we go, I'd like to remind you that this episode is brought to you by Squarespace. Domains, websites, online stores, and marketing tools. From websites and all those fun things, Squarespace has it all as an all-in-one platform to build a beautiful online presence and run your business. Where you going, Elise?


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[Assistant] Okay. Say you wanna start a mail campaign to find Benson. Where is he at? We can email everyone here right now. And we could, we would have an actual... Where'd he go?


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[Assistant] Pretty much everyone I know runs their business on it. Uh, you can create a beautiful website. You can turn your cool idea into a new website. You can showcase your work, uh, if you have a blog or anything easily publishable. There's so many templates and other things you can use. It's a fantastic service. Uh, you can also own your own domain and promote your business using Squarespace.


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[Assistant] The technology always amazes me that we have gone from trying to make this website a doc versus an awesome website service like Squarespace. So they have also built in search engine optimization, free and secure hosting.


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[Assistant] We are at the end of the show. Is there anything else you guys want to throw out? Any mentions? Anything else? I feel like we talked a lot about, I mean, there's, I guess there's not much we can really talk about what's happening with Funhaus because it's, right now the ship is just...


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[Assistant] Okay, well, we'll get that up soon enough. I know people keep asking about it, but until then, uhm, please bear with us as we try to catch up on rest and try to get Arizona Circle done, make it the best show we possibly can make it while keeping, uh, two other channels afloat.


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[Assistant] His sexuality has been in contention in the UK press. Some people criticize him because they think that he uses this like pseudo gay angle to attract an audience, but he is married to a woman.


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[Assistant] I mean, usually people's bodies get more tan than their faces, cause I feel like you, you know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, during like the ego has landed album release and he got a lot of radio play so all his singles made it, all his music videos made it over. So I knew all his songs.


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[Assistant] It was really funny, he brought out this old man in a tux and he's like, this is my dad, you know, he was a singer for 18 years. I used to watch him on stage.


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[Assistant] The couple Nexos had flown in, they were like UK...


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[Assistant] But it taps into something bigger, I think, cause like we all have like weird little interests.


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[Assistant] No, I should say first and foremost, uh,


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[Assistant] For the most part, you appreciate people that...


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[Assistant] Have a wide array of differences from you. Because it fills in the gaps. And it makes things less boring. So I personally like when people have like weird little, you know, uh, hobbies or weird little like fetishes for stuff, non-sexual.


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[Assistant] But, sometimes sexual. Uhm, but like, I kinda like that. I like, I think I always kinda gravitate toward weird people. Uhm, sometimes to my fault, you say.


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[Assistant] I would say that although most everyone likes to rip on you for loving musicals, it's by far one of your most enduring characteristics and what people, it's one of those things where it's like,


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[Assistant] I would not change a thing about you loving musicals, like, uh. It disarms your otherwise imposing demeanor. It's true, yeaah. But yeaah, I guess it's the same thing with like, you love Scott Bruce. Right. In an unironic way.


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[Assistant] But I would, I would not, I would not accept, well maybe I would accept a certain amount of money for You Do Not Love Ska.


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[Assistant] And I hope that as you become an adult, like, it's not as ostracizing as you think, like, that the people that are your friends and you really care about you, even though they might not be as hog wild about musicals as you are, they would still go to, like, I would go to a musical with you, because I know you're passionate about it.


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[Assistant] Was there ever like a more young adult series of books? I feel like I remember seeing those at the library, because I was at the library all the time.


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[Assistant] Just coming back and being like, I was a Whovian for four years.


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[Assistant] I guess you can, like, go online and find anyone that shares your interests. It's a bad example and I don't mean it to sound as egotistical as it's gonna sound, but like, when someone will post on our subreddit and be like, I met a Funhaus fan in the wild, and they're like, I never thought I would meet anyone else who likes Funhaus, and I'm like, I didn't think you would either.


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[Assistant] Oh god, I mean, yeah, it is very much the experience of, uhm, a lot of things that I was very lonely and as a child have become mainstream, or at least, you know,


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[Assistant] I was a pretty lonely kid, like I was alone a lot. I didn't really hang out with friends outside of school that much. Uhm, so I did a lot of independent activities. Uhm, I was always like writing or drawing.


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[Assistant] Doing something like that, but uh, I...


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[Assistant] I, my mom gave me like a, an old typewriter when I, cause I was, I was a very avid reader from a very, very young age. Like I, probably from the ages of like four to ten, I always had a book. Like to the point where my mom would tell me to stop.


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[Assistant] No, I'm not gonna, you know, I'm not gonna show anyone. But I mean, I had lots of like really nerdy interests that I was always all in on. I like to build little dioramas. I just, I just imagine the process.


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[Assistant] I was like, being a mystery writer would be so cool. I also love the Muppets, as you all know. I love the Muppets from a very, very young age.


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[Assistant] Joel and I have, uh, you know, we've sympathized with one another about this because it definitely was not cool to like the Muppets when I was a kid. It was perceived as something that babies liked.


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[Assistant] Yes, it was, it was, it's a very, uh, like the, the, the messaging in the Muppets is very, uh, sweet. It is. And very wholesome.


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[Assistant] And so it definitely was not, like it was something I did not share. I did not share in like elementary school that I liked the Muppets.


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[Assistant] And even though, like, I was going home and, you know, when Muppets Tonight came out, I record every single episode and I was watching it three times. It's something I did not tell anyone. There was one kid in my class that I also knew liked the Muppets. So in secrecy, I did.


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[Assistant] But uh, I think it's like, it's not something that I think I look at with resentment. It's like really nice to have other people appreciate the thing that you appreciate now.


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[Assistant] It's my favorite one. It might be, it might be the best, I don't know. I think it's the best muffin movie.


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[Assistant] It's super surreal. It's like, and I think it's one of the things about living in this town, because I think we've had lots of weird, super surreal experiences among us now, like when Nintendo had the


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[Assistant] Uh, they did the Star Fox Muppets a few years ago at E3, and then they had like the Reggie Iwata and Shiro Miyamoto Muppets, and Jim Henson Studios made those, and then at E3, I was like, I'm standing.


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[Assistant] But mere feet from something that the Jim Henson studios made. It's like really weird stuff that, like have you met any of the Star Wars actors?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I do think, like, it sucks when people- I'm sorry, I know you're turning around.


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[Assistant] Sorry. Life's, anybody that's young and impressionable may be watching, like life's too short not to enjoy the things that you like and to kinda wear that proudly. But I do think, I think


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[Assistant] I want that Grinch screaming in my face. That's what I want for an amusement park. Is there a Grinch? There's a Grinch one? Grinchmas, yea. I think I'm walking around the park. Oh, oh, just the guy in the Grinch costume. That's not a ride. I want that experience. He's the one's downtown LA.


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[Assistant] That's Mufasa. That's the ghost or the darkness. That's Mufasa again. Simba!


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[Assistant] Yeah, is Mufasa Nala's father as well? Do we know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, Friday, 12pm, uh, pacific time. We have the start of, uh, we gave you some Ox episodes last week.


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[Assistant] This week we've got four of the classic theater mode episodes starting. We're leading with Samurai Cop, which is a classic. Red Letter Media has like, delved into it.


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[Assistant] Disappointment to a major corporation who's made millions of dollars off a property, and I think that we should do that, but when it's written like that, now I'm like, oh, maybe not.


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[Assistant] HBO already has all of your money, so why would they even acknowledge it? I didn't think it was inherently disrespectful until I saw the way that it was written.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because again the screenshot that I saw only had remake Game of Thrones Season 8 with the last part cut off because that image is formatted terribly so I can understand how that happened.


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[Assistant] You can disobey that. Objectivity is such a...


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[Assistant] Set in stone thing that I don't feel like it can be objectively bad, but there are rules of writing that I feel like it has betrayed that it didn't previously. Like I feel like characters who had developed for several seasons basically lost themselves and stopped being those characters and became inconsistent and didn't follow their own values a bunch and so that gets muddied and I feel like if you're a


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[Assistant] Person who professionally critiques writing that you would look to that and be like, that is bad.


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[Assistant] So I feel like, yes, maybe people who are writers would think it was bad. It seemed like a lot of the actors on the show thought it was bad from a lot of what they've said.


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[Assistant] I mean Battle of the Bosteds I think is one of my favorite episodes. It's a fantastic episode.


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[Assistant] You were like, it was so good and then it wasn't. I had this thing with slight sidestep, Assassin's Creed, I'll always feel this way about this franchise, where game one was fine, game two...


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[Assistant] Built into this lore that they'd built for a really long time, and then Brotherhood added to it, and Revelations added to it, and then 3 came out and shat on all of it so that they could just keep making more of the games.


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[Assistant] I feel like it has to be super different. It's not possible for it not to be.


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[Assistant] I was going to say, I imagine it does all matter. It's just that they didn't have time to keep it all in. So like they were introducing all these concepts initially that as the seasons went on, like we can't pay that off. We don't have time or money to do it. So they just cut off things. And that's why I know my parents got really hung up on the red witch. They were like, where is she?


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[Assistant] But I also, when I watch something for that amount, that one's easy for me to answer, when I watch something for that amount of time.


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[Assistant] It would be insane for me to not watch it until the end. It would be like watching like five of the Harry Potter movies and then being like meh. It just feels crazy to do that. Like if even if I get to


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[Assistant] Like the seventh book in a nine book series, I'm going to be like, wow, I did seven. So let's just get the hallway.


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[Assistant] No, I agree, like I don't buy DLC and I haven't put any microtransactions, haven't spent any money on that in six years because I don't like any of it so I just stop doing it. If I'm gonna tell audiences don't buy DLC because then you'll just get more DLC and microtransactions will just get worse, then I'm gonna stop doing it. I haven't done it in a really, really long time and I think that applies to people who hate it.


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[Assistant] For people who are criticizing it but still enjoying it. I can super easily rationalize why I've still watched the whole thing and I'd do it again.


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[Assistant] Even the first two episodes of this season were pretty slow. They were.


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[Assistant] I think the point there, and I'm in the camp that I feel like that was rushed, but from


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[Assistant] Like, I can excuse that one, as the point was, they finally did all work together and proved that the throne didn't matter at all.


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[Assistant] No Jorah, he got stabbed a ton in the Battle of Winterfell.


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[Assistant] I think it used to be a show about consequence and became a show about action. It used to be, this happened because of this.


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[Assistant] He, I guess I'd never looked at it before, but I had seen him one day, every time it was done, he would flip it, and I'd be like, what are you doing that you keep flipping that for? I didn't ask, but I was like, that's really strange, but I guess it was that it looks that cool that he just kept


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[Assistant] That's an interesting one because like they said in an earlier season that dragons are supposed to be smarter than humans in some cases.


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[Assistant] So Gibson in hackers is definitely influenced by this specific scene.


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[Assistant] A lot of fun. Me and Matt Peek got the race after chugging beers. Uh, John did a fantastic job.


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[Assistant] Running the show and everything like that. And all the guys just like, they did their thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I saw you guys sneak in. I saw you for a second because that's when I think we were like, I was on me for our origin story and then I saw you in the back as well. Uhm, and I appreciate you all coming through because I know you guys get whisked all over the place all the time with very short time to stop. Oh, we wanted to see it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, which like, I think you pay like $500 for those booths. Oh no, it's way more.


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[Assistant] A lot of people want to get a lot of hugs, uhm, a lot of compliments, which is nice because, you know, I only go maybe like 10 comments deep on any video before I'm like, let me get out. Uh, so it's nice to, to kind of get good face to face, like real, uh, constructive criticism from people. And a lot of it was positive.


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[Assistant] Uhm, a lot of just like technical questions about things and a lot of people looking to be inspired to, to do the work that we do and kind of like saying, hey, you just got to work hard at it and you know, kind of deal with the ups and downs and you'll get right where we're at. Nobody asks for a job, which is good.


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[Assistant] You guys do a very, very fantastic job. Like I'm more of a purist when it comes to things. So like a lot of times I see you guys do bits and I'm like, I don't want to Photoshop. I don't want to do anything other than just let it play out because it's, it's great.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I'll put in Tom Hardy, brackets warrior, except that he's short.


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[Assistant] Can we be co-guests? Alana and Eric, co-guests. Yes. You have to share the responsibilities.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I'm always tired, always. I'll get dizzy, whatever, but it can take me a while to fall asleep. Everyone I've ever dated falls asleep in two fucking seconds. And I'm always like, how do you do that? They lay down and then they're dead.


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[Assistant] There was a period of time where I was working full time and studying almost full time. I was doing three subjects instead of four. And I was sleeping in three hour chunks.


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[Assistant] So I would like sleep for as long as I could, I would like maybe try to find a way to sleep at uni in between two classes and then I would be awake and I would just keep doing that over and over and over again. It worked for about three months, but it fucked my social life.


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[Assistant] Thankfully the first time I saw it was on, uh, Twitter, someone had done a screen record, so I didn't feed into the channel at all, which I think is what has a lot of views. Let me see how many that is now.


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[Assistant] That will get her punished and she's worried about what her husband will think because the punishment is that she is ugly.


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[Assistant] And when we see the reveal that she's ugly, this is what it is, and that she is now significantly darker than she was and has bumps on her face.


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[Assistant] Is there some way like creepy sexist shit you could probably argue in Pokemon that like in Japanese culture is considered funnier than it isn't? I don't know.


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[Assistant] There was an article that went viral about how if you Google search for, like,


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[Assistant] I found a tweet here that I like, uh, that was in response to that original video, which is, Why does this tale even exist when Shrek is a thing? It's the same story. Princess gives up her beauty and sacrifice to love and then realizes beauty is subjective and love is not important, but it's not racist. You're saying they copied Shrek?


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[Assistant] Same as video games though, I think. Like we wrote about this on Inside Gaming last week. It was a morning where I was like searching through Reddit comments of people talking about, uh, how much money their kids had spent on microtransactions in video games. And it's the same thing where they're just supposed to be there to


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[Assistant] Entertain the child. You can be in the same room and they can still spend two grand accidentally and you don't know. It's like, because everything looks so innocent, it doesn't mean it is.


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[Assistant] I told her on Inside Gaming. It's fascinating. So, uh, how about Hotels?


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[Assistant] I don't even really know how to describe it, but basically it's like a giant hotel where you hang out and you have your own...


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[Assistant] I just grabbed my parents phone and typed the thing in and didn't make any connection between what I was doing because I would have been I think 10 or so and I just had absolutely


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[Assistant] Thankfully they didn't get mad at me, they were like, we're aware that this is designed to manipulate you to do that, but I had a sweet couch though.


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[Assistant] I think that made me stop playing the game, which is fair. But, uh, here I am.


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[Assistant] This is the thing, is the Sonic trailer I was like, haha, yes, dumb, whereas this I'm like, oh, I hate it. Well, I don't feel that way about things very often. It makes me uncomfortable.


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[Assistant] Adam, I just want to point out that I noticed how long it took you to sign in. I just want you to know that I sold it.


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[Assistant] I'm a lot more impressed by the way Geralt looks in this trailer than he looked in the test photos or whatever. But this trailer tells me nothing.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of weird shit surrounding Comic Con panels anyway though, like I just found out that this weekend that, uhm, the Hall H panels, Hall H is where all the really big panels are, where like, the Avengers, yea.


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[Assistant] Comic Con, like, fully take off as a fan convention, that was a whole H thing.


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[Assistant] And they don't even necessarily know what panel they're seeing just because they either want to be in Hall H or they want to sit in a seat and wait for the panel that they're actually trying to watch. So half the audience in some of those early panels are people who


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[Assistant] Don't even give a fuck about what is on stage. They just want to be in that room. And people will wait for days to get in there. It's crazy. So unorganized.


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[Assistant] I mean, I didn't even go to the show floor because the amount of people, I just didn't want to do it. Yeah, but like I used to really love before Comic Con looking at all the toys would come out and then picking which ones that I want seeing where the boots are and figuring out how to jump between them to collect them all because that's just a fun thing to do but I think the one thing that's very easy for people like us to forget


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[Assistant] Is the amount of fans who go because they want to be with people who are like-minded and kinda nerdy?


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[Assistant] Yeah, when I was about 13, I was going to, it's called, maybe, maybe all of it. It's called Supanova in Australia, which is basically Australian Comic Con. Yeah, Mr. T's been there, I think. Yeah, so that, we had Comic Con and Supanova, and I would go to both every year in the city that I was from.


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[Assistant] And I, I was always going not to meet celebrities, not to watch panels, but I think just because I liked being around the stuff that I liked, which generally not that many of my friends were interested in. They were like one or two, so me and those two people who were reading comic books would be like,


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[Assistant] There's gotta be. Ben talks about them moving it to LA. I know New York's really big now, but part of it is that San Diego Comic Con makes so much money for the city of San Diego. I think it's like they make 25% of their income in that span of four days or whatever for the whole city. If you took it out, they'd be screwed.


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[Assistant] I don't know how they manage it at all unless they just make it two weeks long, like do a South by Southwest thing where it's way more specialized.


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[Assistant] I feel like, probably there would be conventions, but I was thinking like, sports games, people are angry.


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[Assistant] I think that it's like a combination of a lot of live music and video games. So it has like the nerdy stuff that a comic con would have, but they also have live music. Is that like dream hack?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it just sounds very cool, and I've always been interested in checking it out.


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[Assistant] They have an artist alley that was like furry stuff.


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[Assistant] Well, not our words. We didn't say that. You've said it before. It's a safe workspace, so we don't say that unless it's to the same gender.


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[Assistant] Typically? Generally. Generally. And only to people who look like us.


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[Assistant] I was verbally assaulted by a muppet as a child growing up. I guess technically it was a muppet. Puppet. Puppet muppet. I don't know what the real difference is, but this one was in Excalibur in Las Vegas.


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[Assistant] Did you happen to visit the graveyard? It's, uh, it's pretty famous for flooding and bodies coming up.


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[Assistant] No, it's very famous. They shot a whole thing from Easy Rider there? That's a big deal.


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[Assistant] It's a landmark, you fucking puppet. It's a, it's a muppet.


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[Assistant] Wow. Hmm. That's rough. Gotta work on these setups.


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[Assistant] You remember Elise. She pretends like she doesn't know Elise but they're actually pretty close friends. She's that small boy that James keeps around him.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, it's already been- It's like smokescreen. Oh, okay.


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[Assistant] When they go low, we go high. Bye, Sam! Bye!


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[Assistant] I mean, they were still being, yea because his assistant was using his phone, but it's just sort of important.


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[Assistant] I mean, yeah, it's whatever assistant's assistant is running his Twitter account because he has a, you know, like a small entourage of people who handle all that stuff because all the celebrities are either too old, not interested or poor.


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[Assistant] Back to James' point about how Stanley has been a brand for the last 20 years or whatever, I always thought he deserved that because of the legacy he built at Marvel and how he was time over time dicked over and forgotten and buried over.


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[Assistant] And then once the movie started coming around, it was people being like, oh, we're paying our respect to him because so we're bringing him on. He's like, he's an EP now. He's going to get paid every time these things happen. And he was like, just tell me where to sign. You got it. And like, he was still, he was just such a champion for these things where he's like,


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[Assistant] He was always really excited to see his properties go beyond comic books. He always talked about like a Dr. Strange video game being a thing. He's like the opposite of Alan Moore.


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[Assistant] It's this weird period where we're in where like things like Twitter and YouTube are seen as are seen as a service and not a business and they are extensions of your personality.


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[Assistant] He's like, we burn the birds. But is there, is there maybe something you can do with a Twitter account where after someone passes or something like that, it does transform into a mausoleum or it becomes a museum or something of like, it only can honor the history of this person or whatever?


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[Assistant] All crowded around him. I don't- I mean, it's- yeah, whatever they- I don't know-


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[Assistant] See, like, this is fine. These are like, oh, Memories of Stan. Totally cool. And they're probably double downing on this sort of stuff now, where they're like, uh, uh, sorry, sorry, sorry.


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[Assistant] Sure, sure. You gotta put coins in the meter though. The thing that makes me lose a little bit of faith in humanity is when he passes and people shed a tear and then they look over at that 3 million number and they go, that's a lot of Twitter followers.


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[Assistant] We should do something with that. Like it's, it's, you're putting business before human. Here's the thing.


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[Assistant] Someone did some fantastic fanart. I don't know why it's not showing up. Maybe they deleted it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I said something along the lines of like, uhm.


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[Assistant] Rest in peace Stan, something like that. Just something showing that like, hey cool, comic book movies are a thing and they're huge today. Like maybe not do the red carpet premiere, probably be like...


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[Assistant] My, my, my brain goes, didn't he die? Why is he tweeting? And then I read this and go,


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[Assistant] Well, that was poorly done. That's where my brain goes. I'm just saying, I didn't go, ah, yes, corp corporations and greed moving on. Like it was like.


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[Assistant] Maybe don't say, don't make it look exactly like Stanley with his face. And it says the real Stanley and then it's verified being like, hey kids, buy tickets.


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[Assistant] I'm, well, so I'm guessing. People suspend disbelief. I know, I know. But I do too when it comes to this. I'm guessing when he was alive, this would, people would go, okay, okay, cool, someone's using his account. But it's the fact that he's, he's passed on and they're still using it for this stuff that you go, maybe don't do that.


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[Assistant] For a little bit. For a little bit, for a while, until you, you sort of maybe rebranded it as like, the memory of Stan Lee or something.


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[Assistant] But with that, with the deepfakes and the Twitter accounts where when, when do we get to that point where a major celebrity dies and they keep it so quiet for so many years like. Or was never alive in the first place.