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Episode 49. Vegas Odds on 1000 More Years & Scrooge McDuck vs. Guy (Feat. Nathan Scammell, Author) · High n' Dry Podcast

• 0:15
  SPEAKER_05: It's uh it's Columbus Day, so there's a lot of reason to uh Indigenous People's Day.
• 0:21
  SPEAKER_05: Is it is it like officially not Columbus Day anymore?
• 0:24
  SPEAKER_05: Because that's awesome.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_05: It depends on what state you're in.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_05: Um when is Leif Erickson Day?
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_05: Uh I don't know.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_05: Poor guy, poor guy he gets well, he gets a lot of credit.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_05: I think people give him a lot of credit.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_05: People have been had been visiting for a long time before that, you know.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_05: I mean that's that was from SpongeBob, right?
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_05: He started getting popular.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_05: No! Anyway, that's not our conversation.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_05: Indigenous People's Day is great, but I wouldn't suggest getting fucked up as like a celebration of Indigenous Peoples Today.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_03: Welcome to High Dry.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_03: Alright, so, alright, folks, welcome to High Dry Podcast.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_03: Another podcast where we do all of our own stuff.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_03: Today we're getting fucked up on Indigenous People's Day.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_03: As uh, you know, as you should.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_05: Um we have to to to to not be crushed by the horrors.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_03: So I'm your host, Ryan Barron North.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_03: With me as always, James Crossland.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_03: James, what's up?
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_03: What's going on?
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_03: Uh things are going great.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_05: Looking forward to uh looking forward to today's conversation.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_03: I'm really excited.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, there you go.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_03: Also, for everybody out there, it's 10 a.m.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_03: for us.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_03: So we're about to have a great time.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_03: It's gonna be a crazy day.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_03: I still gotta go to the gym after this.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_03: Um, joining us again one more time, one of our favorite guests, Nathan Scammel, author, um uh foot model.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_03: You have to pay for that website.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_03: Nate, what's going on?
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_03: How are you doing?
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, I'm good.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for having me back.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_02: It's been a while.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_02: I'm uh I'm looking forward to it.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we're excited to have you on there.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_03: Um this should be a good time.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_05: It's always a good time when you come on.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so uh so you always make sure to put the feed picks behind a paywall, right?
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_05: Never give them up front.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_02: Well, um on my on my OnlyFans, the um the socks are on in the you know in the free picks.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_02: But um, you know, if you pay, that's when the socks come off.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_05: Love it.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_03: It's hard out there.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_03: So there you have it, people.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_03: Um you could catch that only fans out of Nate's uh social.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_03: So uh so for those of you who are just joining us for the first time, or Nate, if you don't remember, this is how I try works.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_03: We start every episode off with a philosophical question, a debate, a debate, a conundrum, and then it devolves into a fist fight, as those things often do.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_03: But what makes us so special and why we give the guests like Nate is because first we get fucked up.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_03: So speaking of getting fucked up, Nate, not Nate, your last Nate.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_01: No, your place crash.
• 3:13
  SPEAKER_05: James, what are you smoking today?
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_05: Today I've got a wonderful stream named after all of our some of our greatest human advancements in providing food.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_05: Um GMO.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_05: GMO's on the table today because I have stuff to do later.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_05: Alright, alright.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_05: It's it's Leif Erickson Day.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_05: No, it's not.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_05: It's Indigenous People's Day.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_03: Stop trying to take that away and give it to Leif Ericsson.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, Nate, what about you?
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_03: You're coming on as a uh what kind of philosopher are you be today?
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I'll be I'll be drinking tonight.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_02: Um so I found myself being quite um teetotal uh lately.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_02: Um so you might recognize my little store brand bottle of vodka.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_02: Oh that um it's been the same bottle of vodka, and I only ever drink it when I do a recording with you guys.
• 4:06
  SPEAKER_02: So uh we're kind of halfway there.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_05: You're trying to break the author cycle, huh?
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_05: No stereotypes for you.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_03: No, I'm gonna go the way of having way for sure.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_05: You're gonna shoot yourself in a brothel.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_03: I already feel it.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_03: Me too, man.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_03: Well, so you're gonna be joining us with vodka brand vodka.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_03: I'm going to be I'm gonna be drinking our featured alcohol right now.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_03: This is Santori Japanese whiskey.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_03: Closer to the screen.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, for those of you folks right there, yeah.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_03: Santori Japanese whiskey.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_02: It's gonna be thank you, Japan, for sponsoring this video today.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you, all of Japan.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_05: You know, we have a lot of countries that are fans.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_05: It's pretty great.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it's weird.
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know when that happened.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_05: But uh we just appealed to governments, foreign governments on our own.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_03: So Santauri whiskey, it'll get you fucked up for about 20 bucks.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_03: So, warm up, everyone.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_03: That's what, like eight euros?
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_03: Or oh no, it's like seven pounds.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_03: So his first toast, this one goes on to Timeless Sandworms Avenue everywhere, Carl Urban, Cher, and our guest, Nate.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_03: Cheers, who's you?
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_03: Cheers.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, how's back a brand vodka?
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_03: Is that good?
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'll laugh.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_02: Put hairs on your chest.
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_02: No, no.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_03: I uh I found that when it comes to uh working out and everything like that, having a few shots beforehand, it really gets the muscles move.
• 5:52
  SPEAKER_03: It definitely helps.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_05: Really causes that dehydration cramping to set in quick, so you don't have to work out as much.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_01: Uh uh.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_03: Can I stop this?
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_03: Alright, now our second toast, second hit, this one, goes out to our newest viewers, and these ones are in the Rehavat Central District of Israel.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you, Israel, for listening.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_05: Um, if you support this podcast, we know you're some of the we know that you probably support Palestine, so that's good.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_05: We need some advocates on the inside.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_01: Oh God, it doesn't all right.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_03: 10 a.m.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_03: 10 a.m.
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_03: Oh god.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_03: All right, now finally, our third toast, our third hit.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_03: This is Guests Toast.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe once it too.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_02: I I actually have one this time.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm quite famous for like taking 10 minutes to decide, but um, I need to tell you a little story backstory so you understand.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_05: Never mind.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_05: We're taking it away.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_02: It's gonna be it's gonna be quite political as well.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_02: So um I don't know if you hear much about British politics, but Brexit has been this big thing that happened a few years ago.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_02: Well, like the big biggest campaigner for Brexit, Nigel Farage, he has kind of set off a chain of events um that's led to like the last two weeks there's been no fuel in Britain because you can't get the drivers, we can't get the things, so no one's had any petrol.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_02: Um and Mr.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_02: Farage has spent the last he spent a while, I think he drove to seven different petrol stations looking for petrol.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_02: And as he got out of his car at one of the petrol stations, a van driver hit him and knocked him over.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um, this post is to that van driver.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_02: I really hope so, because it is like the biggest like karma story um ever.
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_02: So uh this is to that van driver, that anonymous van driver.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_02: Cheers to the van driver.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_02: The irony.
• 8:13
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• 8:21
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• 8:25
  SPEAKER_02: I think yeah, you're not allowed to send glass, are you, through Oh, I didn't know that.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's been so I I was trying to, I was going in there, I have everything done, and she hands me this form, and she's well, you've got to take care of all this stuff, and there's like a process to get a shot glass over there right now.
• 8:43
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• 8:51
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• 8:54
  SPEAKER_02: Smuggle them to me, and I'll get them out black market of pie and dry shot glasses.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_02: I'll get them on inside of my jacket.
• 9:03
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• 9:05
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• 9:06
  SPEAKER_02: You can only get them, yeah.
• 9:08
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• 9:11
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• 9:15
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• 9:20
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• 9:22
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• 9:25
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• 9:29
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• 9:32
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• 9:34
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• 9:35
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• 9:57
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• 10:03
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• 10:05
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• 10:07
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• 10:12
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• 10:14
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• 10:17
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• 10:18
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• 10:23
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• 10:24
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• 10:25
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• 10:26
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• 10:26
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• 10:28
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• 10:29
  SPEAKER_03: Well, so with that being said, we've done our toasts.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_03: I feel that Japanese whiskey flowing straight to my brain.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_03: It's a warm sensation.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_03: Is Vodka Brand vodka helping you out?
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_03: Are you feeling good?
• 10:41
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• 10:43
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• 10:45
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's the point.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_03: I have to feel something.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_02: It's for people that's not looking for a good time.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_02: They're just looking for a quick time.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 10:53
  SPEAKER_05: So massive erection.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_05: Got it.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you for keeping the keeping the camera high level.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_02: I've got another camera on the bottom half, but that's streaming on my OnlyFans.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_02: Listen to me discuss philosophy while I masturbate.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_04: He was still the coins coming in.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so with that being said, it's time to get into our philosophy question.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_03: Um so I have two in the chamber.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, we're we're fast approaching episode 50, so it's hard to keep track of the philosophy questions I have asked.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_03: So the first one, have we done the age old, would you rather know uh how or when you die?
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_03: So with that being the case, the question I have for you guys is not that one.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_03: The question I have for you guys is taking into context and just thinking about just everything that we've been through in our own age and then everything that we've read about and seen and everything like that, um, do you believe humanity is going to last another thousand years?
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_03: Or are we on the home stretch?
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_03: Guests first, Nate, what do you think?
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_03: Do you think humanity has another thousand years left in itself?
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_03: And what do you think that if it does, or what do you think the next thousand years looks like?
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I I honestly I I don't I think that no, we don't have another thousand years in the tank.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_02: Um just the way the way things you know, when you look at even sort of in the next 50 years, and compared to how we saw so 50 years ago, how we saw today, like if you look at Back to the Future, how they imagined 2015, how bright and how colourful, how awesome it was, and you actually get to it, and it's kind of shocking, it's you know, you'd think it's uh yeah, it's uh it's like we've already had Armageddon and we're recovering from it.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and to think that you know, in a thousand years' time, without sounding too kind of neurotic about it, I think you know, 1984 could be you know, that sort of environment could be a possibility.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_02: If we are around in a thousand years, I don't think it's gonna be a pleasant uh pleasant environment.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_02: I think it's uh things don't seem to be getting better.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_02: You know, technology advances, but we don't.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_02: Um that is my depressing spin on it.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, well, but I I like what you said there, technology advances, but we don't.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean, yeah, technology is there to make things better, but for like your average everyday working person, what has it done?
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sure there's like little bits you can pick out.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_02: Um, particularly, you know, people with health problems, there's been advances in healthcare.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_02: Um, with you guys, you couldn't afford it anyway, even if there was.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_02: Couldn't afford it.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_02: Um But even even with us, you know it's limited and it's you know, things things are advancing technology wise, but you've got to be kind of in the super rich to make use of it.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_05: The human portion kind of gets in the way is is the issue, is that humans, the way we've chosen to function for a thousand years, has uh has put us in a position where we're our own worst enemy.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_05: Um and it kind of sucks because like you said, advances get better, but we as people haven't necessarily gotten better.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_05: Things are pro things are progressing.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_05: People are moving to be more considerate and stuff, and right now we're seeing the backlashes to that.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_05: Like it's it's kind of the the thrashing of a of a dying animal, to me, is what I think.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_05: I have a more optimistic view, but I also don't think humans are gonna be around in a thousand years.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, well, yeah, so um but yeah, what an aposid.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_05: What the hell do you think then?
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_05: I think that we're on the precipice of a biological, a huge biological or technological shift that will that will kind of push us past what we call humanity.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_05: And it's gonna be a little different.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_05: Um you know, the the strain I'm smoking today, GMO, I opened this show talking about how like genetically modified organisms have have completely changed how this world functions because of our ability to grow food in so many more environments that's pest resistant, that has more nutrition.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_05: Um essentially we can feed the whole world.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_05: We don't because we're so fucked up.
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_05: But but we could, you know, um, and and a lot of people really push for that.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_05: And the problem is things are just these are these are the this is the the the way a flame like flickers really hard trying to get fuel before it finally goes out.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_05: Um that's just kind of how I feel for for like the bad humanity portions.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_03: That's uh um that's I wasn't ready for so this was a super simple question.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_03: I thought it was gonna be like everyone that we talked to was gonna have a yes or no sort of answer to it.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_03: Um but so is humanity gonna last for another thousand years?
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_03: Um what constitutes a human?
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I mean that's when we start genetically modifying ourselves, are we human anymore?
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_05: When we start integrating ourselves with nanotechnology, are we human anymore?
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I think uh so I think there's a good thing to look at right now is a lot of people, I mean, at least I see a lot of things about how we're in the next big extinction.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_03: Every five minutes, another creature has been wiped out.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_03: Um and you know, at what point are we next?
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, right with me and James, we're in Vegas right now.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Lake Mead is the lowest it's ever been.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_03: Um we're running out of water.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_03: Nestle feels that uh that it's not a right to have that anymore.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_05: That all water should that the free market, the three listen, there's there are no problems in the world because the free market has solved them.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_05: And and Nestle is like, we're on it.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_05: We got it.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_05: Give us the water, it'll all be good.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_05: Not like they it's not like they malnourish Africa for like 30 years by giving them inferior baby formula and let their kids starve while it's it's really uh it's really crazy.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_03: Point of hope, however, as far as what you're talking about, uh a malaria vaccine has just been approved and by the I'm pretty sure it's uh Who that pushed out the malaria vaccine.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_05: Doctor Who, new season coming out.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_05: Thanks for malaria vaccine.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so that's what but all right, so my personal opinion of it, um are we gonna be around in a thousand years?
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_03: I I think we are, but I think it's gonna be in this ravaged, horrific nightmare scape.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um I I think we're gonna have roving bands of Mad Maxian style gutted Camaros.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_05: Where are they getting their gas?
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_05: Um in the UK.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he doesn't have yeah, no, no, it's just we've already we've already run out, yeah.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_03: So well, I think see here's my here's my prediction, alright?
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_03: And you guys could put this up on the Vegas spread.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_03: This is my prediction.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_03: What's gonna happen is Elon Musk is gonna get us close enough to electric power that gas becomes absolute.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_03: We're then going to eat him as a society.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, split him up like a Eucharist?
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_05: Uh oh, we'll do a Eucharist thing where just a piece of bread represents Elon Musk, and everybody will get to take a piece of him, and we will devour Elon Musk alive.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_05: That's amazing.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_05: What a great idea.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_05: That is gonna be a future holiday for sure.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_03: It is the Eucharist of the billionaires.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_03: The day that we decided to eat Elon Musk will become a holiday a thousand years from now.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um he's gonna refree us from the requirements of gasoline, however, um, we're we're already too far.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_03: All the species are dead.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_03: We're eating each other.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_03: So basically, it's a Mad Max world that we're flying into a thousand years from now, but everything is super electric.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_03: And we won't it won't be Mel Gibson fighting over a gasoline plant.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_03: It's like a blade runner.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_03: It's gonna no, not even that.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_03: No, but it's gonna be Furiosa murdering people for that.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_03: But on her solar bike.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_05: On her solar bike with a lightning gun.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, exactly.
• 19:40
  unknown: Exactly.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_03: Well, so Nate, bringing it back to you, uh, any final thoughts on the topic?
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_03: Will humanity survive another thousand years?
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like right now I would say no.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I think that kind of in within the next sort of 100 years, there's gonna be a a moment or something that happens that gives us that answer for sure.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, there's there's gonna be some sort of event.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_02: It basically needs everyone to pull together um to do something about it, you know, countrywide, um, or like worldwide.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_04: Worldwide.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, worldwide.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_02: Um, it's gonna it's gonna rely on people kind of coming together, and I think with recent past events like COVID and stuff like that, it showed us that we can't, um, and we'll struggle.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_02: But hopefully I'm proven wrong.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_05: There needs to be a radical redistribution of wealth from wealthy countries to less wealthy countries in the form of like direct action to help improve their supply situation.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_05: It needs to be direct action in improving their situations without asking for anything in return.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_05: Like, that's kind of the problem with the way society functions right now is that we all ask for stuff in return rather than like radically helping and then trusting that the person we radically helped will help us back.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_05: Um, you know, there are horror stories where that kind of thing isn't isn't you know repaid, that someone does take advantage of you and stuff.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_05: But if those but if we could have spread that like radical kindness earlier in that person's life, it could have fixed it.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_05: You know, it could have given them the perspective they needed uh to not fuck someone else over.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_05: It's gotta start somewhere, right?
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_03: That's true.
• 21:33
  SPEAKER_03: And uh uh Joshua Marcello, um, an old guest we had on the show some time ago, we gotta get you back on, man.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um he just says boo in the Instagram feed.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_03: What's up, man?
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_03: How you doing?
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_03: Um but uh thousand years from now is humanity still gonna be around.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_03: I I think the fact that we collectively just decided to give everything to a couple of rich white folk.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um Well, that's like so many, so many that's like a thousand years already.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I I think that was that was the main problem.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_03: Um pretty much every society, you know, and then this has been just sort of a It's been a rule of all the societies is that eventually we wind up giving the power away to a few rich folk.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_03: And by a thousand years from now, that's going to be what, like, whoops.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_05: Shouldn't have done that, maybe.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, like, we could take a lesson on Indigenous People's Day.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_05: We should make a note that maybe we could take a lesson from Indigenous people, like in Las Vegas Valley specifically.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_05: Indigenous people lived here before settlers came here and like fucked all fucked up the balance of this ecosystem.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_05: People were able to live here.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_05: They were totally able to live here without all these modern conveniences, and we kind of came in and kind of tried to shape the land to our needs instead of adapting to the to the land of this valley, like Indigenous peoples had done.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_05: That may be a thing to consider.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_05: Maybe we need to think more about a holistic approach to how humans live instead of an individualized, compartmentalized existence.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I just personally hope it's not too late.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_03: And with that being said, it's time to move into the second part of this podcast.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_03: It's time to get into a fist fight.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_03: But before we do that, it's time to get a little more drunk and it's time to get a little more high.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_03: It's time to pull out that Japanese whiskey, because we're not drunk enough, apparently.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 23:34
  unknown: Woo!
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_03: And uh Joshua, I'm pretty sure for you, if I remember correctly, for you, Josh, it's uh it's probably about one o'clock in the afternoon.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_03: It's time to pull out your alcohol and join us.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_03: Uh so who's fighting?
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_03: Wait, no, I remember.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_03: Good, good.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_03: So toss it to me.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_03: I'm ready.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_03: The spinal toast goes out to our fighters this out this morning.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_03: Our fighters this morning are James.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_03: Scrooge McDuck versus Oh, I forgot.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_06: Shit! Oh no!
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_03: Oh no, who is it?
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_03: Scrooge McDuck versus shit.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_03: Oh no! Nathan!
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_06: Nathan, who is it?
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_03: Who are we fighting?
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if I should say, I'd rather you like kind of snew on it for a while.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_03: Oh god, he's making a stew on it.
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just gonna sit my store brand Volka and like enjoy the uh Scrooge McDuck Nathan.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_03: We really need you.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_03: Who's fighting?
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_06: Hold on, let me try to.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_02: I hope you're enjoying this, listeners, because uh we're gonna be here for a while.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_05: Hold on, I'm drinking my phone.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_05: I'm drinking my search history.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna perform a reading from my book while we wait.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, great.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_03: Please go for it.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_03: Oh uh Josh Marcella says uh Scrooge McDuck versus Jeff Bezos.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_03: Damn it! I can't remember.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_02: It's uh it's Guy.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_02: Free guy.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_03: It's so general.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_03: It's such a general.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_03: No, that's why we forgot him.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_03: Alright, so today's fight is a guy is going to be Scrooge McDuck versus Guy.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_03: Uh Ryan Reynolds portrayed him in the movie Free Guy.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_03: Free man for you?
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_03: Free guy.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_03: Free guy.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_03: That's why it's called Free Guy.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_03: I've been drinking.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_05: So Scrooge McDuck versus Navy Conventions.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_03: There is to them.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_03: Cheers.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_03: Cheers.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_05: I was worried that Nate forgot also that he was fucking with us.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he was just fucking with us.
• 25:44
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, Josh, if you come back on for one more, I'm gonna send you a shot glass.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_02: Don't believe him.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_02: He's been promising me shot glasses for you.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's been promising a shot glass for like three months.
• 25:56
  SPEAKER_05: I gotta fucking make it through customs.
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_05: He lives he lives in Maine.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_05: It might as well be a different fucking country.
• 26:02
  SPEAKER_05: That's true.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_03: That's true.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_03: Alright, so um we now have Scrooge McDuck versus Free Guy.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_03: Um he was portrayed by Ryan Reynolds' newest movie.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_03: So um cool.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_03: Anytime, pick a date.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_03: So how we do it in High and Dry podcast, we have a patented method for determining who's gonna win between your favorite bullshit.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_03: How we do that is round one, these characters enter into an Applebee's basement that is legally distinct from Fight Club.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_03: But as close as you could get.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_03: As close as you can get.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_05: Like imagine the closest thing to Fight Club that you could get, but slightly different so that we don't get sued.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_03: Um Tyler Durden portrayed by Val Kilmer brings the characters in.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_03: These characters are now going to take off their shirts, shoes, and belts, and they are just going to punch each other to death.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_03: Um we transition into round two, where these characters now zoom out into a city view where they've received a manila envelope underneath their apartment doors, and they now know that they have 24 hours to kill the other character, and they could utilize anything that they could find.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_03: They could just buy a fucking shotgun if that's what they need to do.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_03: And then finally, round three, we continue in the city view.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_03: Um, except now these characters get to bring a friend.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_03: So, transitioning into round one, we have just entered the Applebee's basement.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_03: Valve Kilmer has greased himself into some leather pants, he's explaining the rules.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_03: Cher and Carl Urban have driven into the box seats on a timeless sandworm.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god, we're so close to doing.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_03: We're almost there.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_03: We're almost there.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_03: And the high-end dry philosophers have just been seated.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_03: Mate, guest first, punch for punch, pound for pound, who's gonna win?
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_03: Scrooge McDuck, five uh four foot five, you know, anthropomorphic duck.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_03: Um, or see that tall, Ryan Reynolds.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_02: Well, uh, I think this one is quite open and shut for me, and that is Scrooge McDuck.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_02: Um, because of how angry he gets, and kind of, you know, when he loses his shit and he's his arms start flapping, and you know, he does he's got a temper, you know, and free guy is kind of a he's kind of an every guy, you know.
• 28:23
  SPEAKER_02: He's he's kind of lame, he's got no you know, that's his character arc, is that he's just like this this NPC in real life.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_02: And I think I think Scrooge will take him.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_05: Doesn't uh doesn't guy end up being like really capable by the end?
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, probably.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know, I haven't seen the movie.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_03: But I I just think you know, by the end he gets like the powers of video games.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_03: However, I don't think he'd have that in the first round where it's just them as they are.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_03: Um, you know, and he's he's entered now officially into Fight Club World, legally distinct Fight Club World, and and that might make it a little more difficult for him.
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_05: So hold on a second.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_05: So free guy, so spoiler, uh guy, he ends up getting out of the game.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_05: But in the physical world, he's just he's just uh a guy.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_05: He's just he's not even a guy, he's like a piece of code.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_05: So so it's like we're setting up an iPhone that has Guy on it across from Scrooge, and that's what's gonna fight.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_05: It's just Guy's face like on a tiny screen sitting on a stool, and uh because he has no physical form.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_05: He has no physical form without his environment.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_02: Are we to assume that the basement is- I guess for like for plot reasons, we have to assume he has physical form, otherwise, this will be very easy.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, where it's like Scrooge would just uninstall the app and in all three rounds.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_05: Possibly.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_05: Well, he doesn't have access to his cell phone.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_05: That's true.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_05: So so I gotta say, I think we have to assume that Guy is in his environment, that this environment that Scrooge McDuck in, this Scrooge McDuck is in, uh is a virtual environment.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_05: And therefore, uh Guy gets his powers.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_05: He gets his powers.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_05: Because he can pull, oh wait, he doesn't he doesn't get items, right?
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_05: But he ends up super strong and fast and stuff.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_05: Is that only because of his environment?
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_03: Well, but he's only exists in his environment.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so um I think uh what happened here, you know, Cher, she comes in and she's got Wi-Fi enabled.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_03: And from there, you know, we have a Ryan Reynolds.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_05: Is it just Ryan Reynolds?
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_05: Because because Guy is not just Ryan Reynolds.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_03: He has anything that's intrinsic.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_03: So if if his strength has been enhanced, if his speed has been enhanced, he will have that as well.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_05: But those are all upgrades from the game, from his environment.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_05: This is a tough one.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_05: This is a real tough one.
• 31:05
  SPEAKER_02: I think and also every every character Ryan Reynolds plays is just Ryan Reynolds.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_02: Because he plays the same guy in every film, which is Ryan Reynolds.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_05: He's a he's uh he's a character.
• 31:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, he's a no.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_03: It's like Steve Buscemi.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_03: Um well see and well now I'd like to talk about Steve Buscemi because I I don't feel that's fair.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_03: I feel that's fair.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_03: I feel Steve Buscemi's done some pretty shitty movies.
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_05: But I feel that his range is is pretty far and wide.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_05: I don't think that I don't think that Ryan Reynolds has had an opportunity to explore his range yet.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_03: No, eventually when Ryan Reynolds gets like to be in his 50s and 60s and he looks like a foot.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_05: He'll have an opportunity to explore his range.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, but until then.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_03: Um we'll see how you pull it off, uh, Van City Reynolds.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_03: So um so for me, I I think what we have here, uh I think that Ryan Reynolds will, or Guy, will be capable of his speed and his strength and everything like that, but he's dealing with a duck who has the same fucking thing.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah um we we were talking about a duck who is capable of swimming through mountains of gold.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_03: But he doesn't have any gold.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but that that indicates a very powerful fucking you know wing flap there that he's just sort of pushing himself through a solid mound of gold.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_05: I think I also think fighting an anthropomorphic duck is terrifying is terrifying.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_05: Um I think that would be fucking horrifying.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_05: I don't think that'd be.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_02: I think at first he'd be reluctant to hit a duck.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_02: Um it's just gonna be one of those things that come back and bite him on the ass.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_02: Like he's he's already let his guard down.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I think he would be reluctant to fight Scrooge McDuck either out of just abject horror or that he's not super violent immediately.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_05: Guy's not immediately violent.
• 32:54
  SPEAKER_05: Um yeah, I'd say Scrooge McDuck would get him on this one for sure.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_03: Well well then bring him back to our guest.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_03: Um Nathan, final thoughts on a vote?
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with I I think Scrooge and his temper uh is what's gonna push this one.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_03: Alright, um then uh James.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I voted.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, okay.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_03: Alright, and then for me, uh, yeah, Scrooge McDuck.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_03: I I think this duck is gonna waddle on up to him and then fuck him up with a wing that is capable of smashing through a mountain of gold.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_03: And that'll be it.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_03: So round one goes to Scrooge McDuck.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_03: Moving into round two, we've now zoomed out of the city view.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_03: We have 24 hours where these characters are aware that they have to kill the other one, and they have access to everything that makes them them.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_03: And this might change the tide and for Guy.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_03: So let's see what happens.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_03: Guests first.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_03: Nate, what do you think goes down?
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_02: So this one, I guess, we kind of have to decide is is Scrooge McDuck modernized, or is he still the same character that he is in kind of the 60s where he has his gold in a stuff, you know.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_02: But gold is still worth a lot.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's still really rich.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_02: Is he gonna be the kind of the rich where you'll have access to kind of technology, um, or is he just gonna have his shit plane um stuff that flies around?
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_03: At that time, we had a rich character and we sort of made them benign, where where the only issue they had was learning to give more.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_03: You know, he didn't really go into the the havoc that they wreak on the housing market or healthcare markets.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_05: And you know, but but Scrooge Wake Doug's story is actually pretty interesting because he wasn't always rich.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_05: Um so actually, in his backstory, in his backstory, he was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1867.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_04: So he would be 140 years old, 160 years old.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_05: Uh nearly.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_05: Um he got ripped off by a rich person.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, and then he and so he got rich by for revenge.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_05: He got he got rich out of spite.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so we know that's not possible anymore.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_05: Um yeah, so so he so he got rich out of spite.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_05: Um and so I think he's the kind of person who would continue to grow to find out new ways.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_05: Because that is like a competition for him.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_05: It's not really, he's not like he's never content, which makes me think that he would continue, he would modernize.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_03: You're saying that Guy isn't the sociopath that rich people are, and that would probably give Scrooge an edge.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_02: Plus he'll have the resources um to help.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_02: Because I mean, Guy is just he's a he's a bank teller.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, yeah, he can get access in his game to money, I guess, through through cheating.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_02: Um button.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_02: Scrooge Scrooge has already got it, he's got the resources, he's got you know, he's probably got the drones flying around looking for him.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_02: Um he's got his you know his his armies of ducks.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_02: You know, um all the ducks are kind of leaving the ponds, marching the streets looking for Guy.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_02: All because they're all on a payroll.
• 36:34
  SPEAKER_05: Interesting.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_05: Alright, James thought.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_05: So in this situation, I think that this fight has to occur in Guy's world.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_05: Uh because Guy can now disperse himself on the internet.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_05: Like he doesn't have to uh approach Scrooge McDuck at any point and he'll survive whatever fight.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, but this will have to occur in some kind of environment uh that has consequences for both Guy and Scrooge.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_05: You know, like Scrooge gets sucked into some sort of VR or something and has to interact with Guy.
• 37:08
  SPEAKER_05: Um and uh here's the thing about Guy is Guy has while Scrooge McDuck is able to put all his money into purchases for this game and he has access to whatever the game allows, uh Guy has immediate access to game powers from his imagination.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_05: You know, he he he gains an ability to manipulate his own interactions with the world freely.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_05: Um and I think that that will really be his edge because he persevered and didn't die before.
• 37:40
  SPEAKER_05: You know, that was the whole thing, was that he rose to the occasion, whereas Scrooge McDuck is kind of like doing everything out of spite that ends up failing most of the time.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_03: Um I I would say so.
• 37:52
  SPEAKER_03: What I'm seeing here, I I think the the way the movie Free Guy really portrayed itself was that Ryan Reynolds was an NPC in Grand Theft Auto.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_03: Um I I think that was pretty obvious.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_03: And so what I see happening here is Guy is gonna just fucking cheat code a minigun.
• 38:12
  SPEAKER_03: And I I I think that fly a tank at him.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and I think that the the main reason why you know rich people win right now is because none of us is just none of us have decided to just kill them.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_05: We don't have the resources.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_05: That's the thing, is we don't have the resources.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_05: Guy does.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_05: Guy has the resources, and therefore, like the thing is normal people like are clever and stuff.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 38:37
  SPEAKER_05: Like poor people who are who are poor and middle class and not rich, they're pretty clever.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and if you give one of them imagination and access to Neomatrix-esque ability, um, I think the rich guy's fucked.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_03: And granted, so you have a Scrooge McDuck, and he's a duck that's capable of swimming through gold.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_03: That that indicates to me some heavy wing power.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_03: Sure.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_03: Versus a minigun, or versus a tank, or you know, versus just a middle class's person's unending will to finally fucking survive and move on up to the east side.
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I think the guy is kind of like he's in his fight essentially for himself and his livelihood that Scrooge McDuck was in in the first place.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_05: Like when he got ripped off by that rich guy.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, but spite is only can only drive you so far.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 39:31
  SPEAKER_03: Um but but Grant His auto cheap codes can drive you a lot and farther.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_02: Spite can drive you quite far.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, quite far, yeah.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_03: So imagine spite and grant.
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_02: Imagine like imagine like some Jewish person kicked you out of art school.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_02: Like how far you could take how far you could take that spite and anger.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_06: It did go quite far.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 39:55
  SPEAKER_06: Um he did end up losing.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_03: From what I understand, there was a little bit of nasty business in the 40s.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_03: Um but well, so Nate, final thoughts and a vote.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_02: Um okay, so this this one's quite hard because it kind of is all dependent on the environment in which they fight, whether it's kind of free guys world or Scrooge McDuck's world.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's kind of like having Frosty the Snowman fight the Balrog.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_02: Is that they're gonna fight in the North Pole or are they gonna fight in the Earth's core?
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_02: Either way, the other one's fucked.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_03: Well, actually, a ballrog was probably already in the North Pole.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_03: There was 12 of them.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_03: So listen, Ballrog wasn't a mountain.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_02: Alright, some some fire.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_02: Some person that's made of fire.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_05: Alright, so um can free guy exist in Scrooge McDonald's world?
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_05: Is that even a viable, you know, well, uh Scrooge McDubb is order to fight and kill Guy.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_03: So they have to The rules of engagement are that they both meet at a place where both of them can exist to their fullest.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_03: So uh Seneca, what do you think?
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_02: So it's kind of like it's it's money and resources versus uh like cheats and yeah.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_02: Well, it's kind of like money and resources either side, isn't it?
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_02: Because both have what would seem unlimited.
• 41:20
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 41:21
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but I guess uh I would give this one then I would give it to Guy because he's more used to adapting quickly for the the you know, whereas, you know, to to order an army of ducks.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I should imagine that takes a lot of paperwork and a lot of time.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_02: Whereas if you had like the cheat the cheat code for a tank to fall on your head, you know, that's quick, that's done.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_05: That's Guy's kind of thing.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_05: It's just we got one book for Guy.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_05: Uh James, thoughts?
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_05: I I agree.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_05: I agree that Guy wins this one.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_05: I think that I think that the only reason Scrooge doesn't win this one is because he's restricted by the marketplace, which allows him to buy his resources.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_05: I think that it's pretty hilarious that the capitalist is murdered by the functions of a market where you have to like have your product shaped instead of shaping creatively.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, like his stuff is stuck in the harbor of LA.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_05: The only stuff that he gets are stuff that the game makers balance and create it specifically for marketable purposes, which limits it.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_05: And Guy is not limited by a market, he's only limited by his creativity.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_03: And for me, I would have to go guy as well, because I I see an instance here where we're like, wait a minute, all we have to do is kill these rich people?
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_03: And he does.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_03: So, alright, so round two is going to Guy Freeman or whatever the hell we call him.
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_03: Ryan Reynolds, round two, congratulations.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_03: Moving into round three, we're all tied up.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_03: One for Scrooge McDuck, one for Guy, um, a free guy.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_03: What do we think's gonna happen here?
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_03: Round three, same as round two, except this time they get to bring a friend.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_03: So, Nathan, what do you think?
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_02: So I guess uh I guess Guy's friend would be the woman that shows him the way, sort of thing, his mentor, um, which would give him more of an edge to be quicker to adapt because she's already used to all that kind of stuff.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I think Scrooge um Scrooge Scrooge could bring um Walt Disney, who would have already bought the rights to the free guy game, um and deleted it from the inside.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_02: Um but in a in a kind of in this environment, I think Scrooge would probably only be able to bring his nephew Donald.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_02: Um, that's probably the most realistic because he, you know, he is Scrooge, he's a miser.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_02: He's got his three nephews, which he cares about, so he probably wouldn't want to bring them into a fight because they're children.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_05: I think that he doesn't.
• 43:55
  SPEAKER_05: I mean, I think that uh sure he cares about them, but he sure doesn't pay enough attention to stop them.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_05: I think they would count if you wanted to bring Huey Dewey and Louie, I think.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, um, if you wanted to bring them, they would count as one person.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_02: Then I think he'd bring it he'd bring them and it would all be over because they would destroy Free Guy.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_02: Because wherever the thing They are, they'll be somewhere else.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_02: They're the typical kind of I know they're not Looney Tunes, but they are the kind of, you know, they'll disappear, they'll be they'll be here, they'll be there.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_02: And it'll just be a nightmare for Guy.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, children's cartoons are pretty chaotic.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_05: Um But so is like an MMORPG that if you've ever played Grand Theft Auto online.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it's pretty chaotic, so I don't know.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know how I think that he's probably pretty used to dealing with chaos before taking him at his best.
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_05: And you're right that he gets her her character's name is Molotov Girl for most of it.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_05: Um so he gets Molotov Girl.
• 44:54
  SPEAKER_05: Uh I don't know.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_05: And Molotov Girl like inspires him, and they don't force it to be anything more, so there's no like romantic, you don't love me or whatever.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_05: They're just like they're just like really good friends and like support each other.
• 45:07
  SPEAKER_05: Uh and that kind of thing is really hard to break.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_05: That kind of bond and inspiration is really hard to break.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I would all right, so for me, I I would say, first, I think Scrooge McDuck is bringing the half Tom Selleck, half Indiana Jones, giant chipmunk.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_05: Oh.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, from Chip and uh what is it?
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_05: No, it's not Chip and Dales.
• 45:36
  SPEAKER_05: From Chipandales or in Vegas.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_05: What's it?
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_05: Is it Chip and Dales?
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_05: Is that actually what it is?
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's Chip and Dale.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_03: Chip and Dales.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so I think he's bringing Chip, the uh, you know, the half Tom Selleck, half Indiana Jones adventuring chipmunk.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, and the chipmunk is just gonna bring this, is gonna bring a thematic sort of advantage where I am not only Indiana Jones, I'm also Tom Sellick.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_03: And I also have teeth that can bite through a man's sternum.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_03: Chip is a beautiful.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_03: And the how on the other side, uh, for Ryan Reynolds, you know, he's bringing Molotov Girl, you know, in this completely healthy relationship of support and everything of that nature, and he essentially becomes a Neo.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_03: And me, I I've played Grand Theft Auto online.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_03: I have a very nice apartment within that game.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_03: And I'm aware of the bullshit that other characters pull.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you're talking about he's gonna have a flying motorcycle that shoots missiles, you're gonna you're gonna have uh you know tanks rolling through town.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_05: But those are things that are provided by the game world.
• 46:50
  SPEAKER_05: Like you can buy them.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_03: And Scrooge Rick Duck would be able to buy those.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, he's gonna be coming with the same online capabilities plus Indiana Sellick.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_05: Um chipmunk is incredibly like adaptive to whatever sticky situation he gets himself in.
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_03: So the what what I see happening is either Indiana Selleck the chipmunk is going to chop with his teeth right through uh a Van City Reynolds who paid for everything, or chipmunk Tom Selleck, Indiana Jones, is going to realize that Scrooge McDuck is the bad guy and will switch teams halfway through.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_03: And Ryan Reynolds, so free guy, Molotov Girl, and the chipmunk are going to eat the rich.
• 47:45
  SPEAKER_03: Oh.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_03: And um yeah, and change the world.
• 47:49
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 47:50
  SPEAKER_02: There's been a lot of talk about eating rich people.
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_02: Um great.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_05: Maybe now that I'm gonna have money, I can afford rich people.
• 48:04
  SPEAKER_03: That's delicious.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_03: Well, so back to our guest, Nate.
• 48:07
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, final thoughts on a vote.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_03: What do you think's gonna go down here?
• 48:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I yeah, I'm gonna go with Scrooge.
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_02: Um I think he will take this and the victory.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_05: He does love his grandchildren, and he's super concerned with legacy.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_05: He's like a s he's like a timeless sandworm.
• 48:30
  SPEAKER_05: Um he's like a version of a timeless sandworm, but also the timeless sandworm dies.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_05: Timeless sandworm dies with a little bit of water.
• 48:41
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, a little bit of something that he couldn't muster, and maybe it's the I don't know, maybe it's that fight for freedom, maybe he's forgotten.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_05: I don't know.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_05: James, what's your vote?
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_05: Oh I think Free Guy's gonna take this just because of his ability to manipulate the world.
• 49:01
  SPEAKER_02: You could shoot Scrooge McDuck in the face, and all that would happen was his face would go black and his bill would be turned around to the other side of his head and kind of readjust it.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_05: Does he have Daffy Duck?
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_05: I don't think they have Daffy Duck.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_05: Scrooge McDuck is not Looney Tunes.
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's not no, but I mean they're the similar.
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I'm sure I'm sure he's been shot in the face.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_05: Because Disney, Disney's not violent like that.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_05: Disney's not violent like Looney Tunes with their characters.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_03: Can I can I give my thoughts, James?
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_03: Sure.
• 49:33
  SPEAKER_03: Here's my final thoughts in a vote.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_03: That what I I think so his right now, and and this sort of also falls back into our philosophical philosophical question in the beginning.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_03: Are we gonna be around for a thousand years?
• 49:51
  SPEAKER_03: And I would say that right now, like me driving drying up, the UK unable to find gasoline anywhere because you guys fell for the same nationalistic bullshit that we did.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_03: Um it looks pretty bleak.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_03: However, what I see happening in this fight between a middle-class asshole who finally sees through it all and some rich ass motherfucking duck.
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_03: Um even with the Looney Tune powers, if his bill goes the other way, I think because it's Disney, just something will happen in the Grand Theft Auto Universe that turns his ass into a cooked duck.
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_03: Um and for one glorious moment in history, we the people stormed the Bastille and we murdered all those rich folk, and we made that one bitch eat cake.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I think that that'll happen one more fucking time, and free guy will take it.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_05: So it's off of revolutionary fervor that we're giving it to guy.
• 50:56
  SPEAKER_03: I think that one more fucking time the world is gonna make that bitch eat cake.
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_02: That inspired me as well, Ryan.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, fucking.
• 51:09
  SPEAKER_03: Well, then if you'll indulge me with your vodka brand vodka.
• 51:15
  SPEAKER_05: What we're doing is handing over the revolution to an AI.
• 51:18
  SPEAKER_05: And I think that this is a good idea.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's a thousand years from now.
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_03: So here's one one more to storm in the bastille and killing that fucking rich ass duck.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_03: Cheers.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_03: An AI.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_05: Let's do it.
• 51:37
  SPEAKER_05: Uh we'll we'll set it, we'll set it on a timer, and then it'll just go off.
• 51:42
  SPEAKER_05: That one motherfucking time we made that big week.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_02: Do you think Scrooge would use his wealth to like go to space?
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_02: Do you think he'd be like, he tried.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_03: He's been in space.
• 51:54
  SPEAKER_03: But he's gotta come home.
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_03: Scrooge has been in space before.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_03: Um, the good thing about eating this rich is it's not cannibalism.
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_03: We're eating duck.
• 52:03
  SPEAKER_03: Duck's delicious.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_03: I love it.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_02: Big ass motherfucking duck.
• 52:06
  SPEAKER_02: Quite civilized.
• 52:07
  SPEAKER_05: This is what I was talking about.
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_05: Genovose.
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_05: Genetic is created in a lab.
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_05: Let them eat an anthropomorphic duck.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_03: Well, so if I'm understanding correctly, the final round, let's let's eat duck and Ryan Reynolds is gonna take it.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_03: Alright.
• 52:24
  SPEAKER_03: Congratulations, free guy.
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_03: Congratulations, 1789.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_03: That one time we got ours.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and I hope it happens again before those thousand years are up.
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_03: So here's the that.
• 52:36
  SPEAKER_03: Congratulations, Ryan Reynolds.
• 52:38
  SPEAKER_03: You got another one.
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_03: Um Cheers.
• 52:42
  SPEAKER_03: Umgratulations on all your success.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_03: Congratulations, Ryan Reynolds.
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_03: On all your motherfucking success.
• 52:49
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna tag you in this one.
• 52:51
  SPEAKER_03: I hope you respond.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_03: So um there you have it, folks.
• 52:55
  SPEAKER_03: Ryan Reynolds wins again.
• 52:58
  SPEAKER_05: Just can't beat that winning smile at people's super low standards for comedy.
• 53:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_03: For sure.
• 53:07
  SPEAKER_02: Anything fun of the show as well.
• 53:10
  SPEAKER_03: I hear that as well.
• 53:11
  SPEAKER_03: And after this, he'll be fine.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_03: We kind of accidentally made him the face of revolution.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_03: You think he's fine with it?
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_03: He was doing game revolution.
• 53:20
  SPEAKER_05: He was fine.
• 53:22
  SPEAKER_05: I hope he just lives up to it.
• 53:23
  SPEAKER_05: That's all I'm saying.
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_05: I hope he lives up to it.
• 53:25
  SPEAKER_05: He's got that phone, he's got that mobile phone company.
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_02: We delete the new Ryan.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_03: You can do mobile phones to start to start the revolution.
• 53:35
  SPEAKER_03: All right, so there you have it, folks.
• 53:37
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you for joining us.
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know how to feel about it.
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um, Nathan, where can we find you?
• 53:43
  SPEAKER_03: What are you doing?
• 53:43
  SPEAKER_03: Give us some info about you.
• 53:45
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• 53:51
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• 53:53
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• 53:54
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• 53:56
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• 53:59
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• 54:02
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• 54:03
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• 54:04
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• 54:05
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• 54:06
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• 54:09
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• 54:10
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• 54:15
  SPEAKER_03: Lovely, awesome.
• 54:16
  SPEAKER_03: It's always great having you on.
• 54:18
  SPEAKER_03: Um after this, we do have to sober up a little bit, so maybe you'll join us for the after party.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_03: Um and uh James, where can you find us?
• 54:26
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• 54:31
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• 54:32
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• 54:45
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• 54:46
  SPEAKER_03: Awesome.
• 54:47
  SPEAKER_03: So there you have it, folks.
• 54:48
  SPEAKER_03: That was been High and Dry Podcast.
• 54:50
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• 54:53
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• 54:55
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• 54:56
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