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They represent. All right, welcome.
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Welcome to Aries Brewed podcast. My name is Lucas and we're going
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to be talking about one of my favorite films, one that I don't
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get that not many people may classify as a horror movie, but
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I I like to. I thought Jaws was a fishing
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movie. I, I, I, you know, some could
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some could certainly say that I I can, I can see the case being
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made, but but. Yeah, it's not, It's not filmed
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by Discovery Channel, right? Right.
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Is that shark week? Documentary.
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Yeah. So Jaws, it came out in 1975, a
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long, long time ago, and I remember.
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So I believe that everyone here has seen Jaws.
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I remember seeing it when I was when I was a kid.
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And if if I wasn't afraid of the ocean already from just
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jellyfish and you know, and all those little monsters.
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The ocean I was afraid of the bathtub shit.
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If you weren't afraid of the water already, you know, I think
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the the jaws, Jaws would do it for you.
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It it was absolutely terrifying and I don't know, do you all
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remember the the first time you saw Jaws and how'd you feel
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about it? Yeah, Jaws was definitely up
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there with the movie birds and arachnophobia.
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Like if you wanted, if you wanted fears, then you need to
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tune into movies in the early 80s to early 90s.
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That was the era where we were giving phobias.
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To anyone. Oh man, I I swear like I watched
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Arachnophobia so many times. Like we I I I wore out the tape
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like on our on our VHS player when I was a kid watching
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Arachnophobia. Yeah, and Pet Sematary.
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I still hate cats. Oh yeah, that'll do.
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I hate cats. Dogs I'm OK with.
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Cujo didn't do anything to me about dogs.
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I love dogs, but cats, they can go to hell.
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Right, cats are the devil. They're the.
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Devil. I've been allergic.
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To sucking bastards. Yeah, I I've been allergic to
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cats my entire life, so yeah, I needed no help there so.
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But. Well, so you know, so you know,
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Jaws actually came out in 1974, the book.
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And then a year later they they, they made the movie out of it.
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So it was that popular as a book that they converted to movie
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that fast. Yeah, he was telling me about
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that. He's like, have you ever played
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a game that had anything to do with the movie?
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And I'm like, well, I, I remember they made the board
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game Clue, and then they created the movie and a movie was just
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boring. Clue.
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Clue. Yeah.
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Yeah, my, my beef with Clue is just the fact that you get
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everything at the very end of the film.
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Now, if we were following a lot of these facts, you know, like
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up to a conclusion, then that would be interesting.
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But but that's my, my, my big beef with with Clue is just all
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the exposition at the end. It's just, yeah, it's just a
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Curie, you know, Tim Curry, you know, just summing up everything
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at the end, which didn't like, no, no, didn't like that at all.
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But especially for like a like a murder mystery, you know, like I
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I was kind of hoping, you know, that we kind of get there and
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kind of like piece it together ourselves, but that's just
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impossible. The the the movie is just
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convoluted as hell. So but but yeah, so so Jaws has
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like you mentioned earlier, it was it was originally a book
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Peter Benchley wrote this this book that was wildly successful
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actually. Like it is even one of our fun
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little Jaws facts. Actually, go ahead and put up
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our Jaws fact I believe is. OK, so the the number one Jaws
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fact is Jaws was released in 1975, was the first film to be
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released on a massive scale in 400 plus theaters and the first
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US film to gross over $100 million.
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It it was the first blockbuster. Yep, Yep.
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Wow, $100 million now would be considered a fail and a broke
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movie. I know, right?
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That that it'd be considered a Disney movie.
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That's the new Snow White. Right.
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So I, I believe there's one about Peter Benchley.
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I want to say it's #3 maybe I don't know, but but yeah.
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So, so yes, Jaws was a book and that was on the best sellers
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list for 44 weeks. And, and then, you know,
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blockbuster film and then about six years ago, then this board
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game hit the hit the market. And I don't know if you've ever
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played a board game that is based on a movie or based on,
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you know, much of anything. You know, it's, it's not
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something that's that's all that popular or or or or no, I
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shouldn't say popular because it is popular unfortunately, but
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it's just not executed all that well and.
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So, so how do you, how do you, how do you play like when you,
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when you first start up, I, I'm sure you had needle.
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I have 3 or 4 players like Monopoly.
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You, you, you give everybody like money and stuff.
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What? What does everybody start up
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with on us? So, so Jaws is, you know, is
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great in that. Well, I mean it's you know, it's
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three guys and a shark, you know, So you got Hooper, you got
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Quint, you got Brody, and then you got the shark.
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And so the shark player is trying to eat up as many
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swimmers as possible and and everybody else is trying to save
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as many swimmers as possible. And they all have unique powers.
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They all have you unique abilities.
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And so while the Jaws character, you know, is kind of is, is kind
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of so this is what what's called kind of like a a hidden movement
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game. And so the the shark player has
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a little shark tracker and they're.
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A little fun fact for you, for this shark player.
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Oh yeah. Shark by the crew of the movie
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was called Bruce, named after Steven Spielberg's lawyer.
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So the mechanical the mechanical Jaws was named Bruce.
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You're stealing my my. I need to put my list away.
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I should. Put my list OK.
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You're good, Amber. It's.
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All good. So, but yeah, so the jaw, the
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the shark character kind of has like this little, little full
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shark tracker there that they are finding.
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And basically like you just kind of document, you know, on your
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turn, you know, where you are, you know, kind of like as you
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move about, you know, like this board and and so shark, you
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know, kind of goes, goes first in, in that manner.
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And then everybody else is basically just trying to find
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the shark and they're trying to they're trying to find the shark
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and they're trying to slap a barrel on him.
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So like anybody who may be familiar with the the film,
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you've got these, these these little, little barrels, you
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know? Oh yeah.
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That you're trying to pin on the shark now the only person who
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can do this is Quint. So so you want you know, like,
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you know, Quint to be kind of like the last person to go and
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hopefully Brody and Hooper like will be able to find where where
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this the shark character is. And so then now they've got,
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they've got 4 actions. And so then you, you start, you
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know, like, you know, like every turn.
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So with a, with a Amityville event, you know, and so these
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are just kind of like things that are happening.
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So Mayor Vaughn steps in and what does Mayor Vaughn step in
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to do? So So then what you do is, yeah,
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you place swimmers. And so we got so I need 2 in the
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North Beach and then like 2 in the South Beach, one in the east
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and one in the West. Oh, except not him now.
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So this is kind of a fun, fun fact of the film.
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You see this little +2 on this guy.
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So this is Michael. Now, Michael is Brody's son.
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And so only a card kind of like brings him into play.
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Kind of a kind of a fun little little detail in the game.
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But but yeah, So if you take yeah.
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So, so then if Michael, you know, like kind of comes into
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play, then that basically gives more motivation, you know, like
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for Brody to save his son basically, you know, and and and
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then also it kind of increases blah, blah, blah, No the.
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Z must say hit the wrong button. Hey, while Z is gone, I think we
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might have a troll. They want to know if you're from
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Minnesota because you have an accent, no.
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Born and born and raised in Denver.
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So. But no, I I mean, I wish I was.
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Have you ever seen them the film Fargo, one of my favorite movies
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of all time. Oh my God, takes place in
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Minnesota and it's and if it's not in Minnesota, it's somewhere
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it's somewhere close. But they've just have like this
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ridiculous, don't you know, accent that is amazing.
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But. MIDI Island?
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I wonder if they got that from the MIDI whorehouse.
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So it is loosely related because it's I'm trying to to recall,
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but it's like around like the New Jersey area that's but it's,
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it's completely complete fake, you know, but.
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And Amber says North Dakota North.
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Dakota. Fargo.
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Fargo was Minnesota. I think somebody's leading us
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astray. Yeah.
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No, it's it's it was based out of Minnesota.
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I'm almost yeah, that that's what I.
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Thought and actually no. And actually North Dakota as
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well. Grand, fortunately.
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I don't know but that region so but but yeah, Fargo.
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Fargo is a great movie actually. Yeah.
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Fargo, ND. Then they then they became a
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bank. Wells Fargo.
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If we're going to make up lines, let's go all the way so.
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But but yeah, so you know, each player, you know, just kind of
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like has like their their, you know, their identity, you know,
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that that they play as they all have different abilities.
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They're all trying to find the shark, you know, in their own
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way. And and then, and then
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ultimately, you know, Quint, you know, will then pin like these,
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these two little barrels on him. And, and so by the end of like
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the, the, the first act, then you have figured out, you know,
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like how many swimmers you know that the shark has eaten, you
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know, and, and so then this then decides how many, how many crew
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cards and how many shark ability cards that, that the players
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will have in Act 2. And Act 2 we'll get into a bit
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later. But so yeah, we'll, we'll just
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dwell on Act 1 here. 1st So how do you figure out act 2?
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Is that like how many times around the circle?
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There you go. No, so, so once, like all of
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the, so once the two barrels have been put, you know, on the
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shark, you know, pin pinned on the shark and, and then or once
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all of the, the swimmers, you know, have been eaten up, then
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then that's when you advance to Act 2.
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And and so, yeah, the then and, and then you, you then toss the
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board, you know, perhaps even in frustration, I don't know, but
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but then you turn over to the the board and then you build Act
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2. And so, so we'll get, we'll get
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into that, you know, like a bit later.
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But but yeah, but but it's, it's just great how this game
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articulates the the movie so well.
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Like for one, you know, just the the fact that you've got like
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this, you know, hidden movement. I mean, so the, the mechanical
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shark in, in Jaws was largely just, you know, malfunctioning
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for most of the film. And so they had to be creative
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and just went with like a first person point of view, you know,
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like like for, for Jaws and, and just really found a way, you
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know, to, to make it work without the shark.
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And so now, like almost all of the footage that we see of the,
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of the mechanical shark in the film are what they had.
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I mean, like they, they pretty much used all the footage that
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they that they had of the shark and, and it was really, you
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know, like only functional for, you know, like the the last part
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of the of the film. And, and that's really when they
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needed it. That's, that's really when you
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needed it. You know that that last 10
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minutes of the film, really. Now this setup is neat.
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Now did did it come with the shells and the?
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Oh, no, no. Oh, OK.
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I was going to say, yeah, I mean, they really did outdid
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themselves. No.
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OK. So, you know, not sure if I'm
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jumping the gun on any of your trivia, but the reason the shark
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wasn't in the first movie as much was because it kept
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breaking. And then the audience actually
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thought that that added more mystery and scariness 'cause,
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you know, you're always more scared of the things you don't
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see. Like my kids are scared of the
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dark. There's nothing in the dark.
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What are you scared of? So that's the thing with the
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with with Jaws. Yeah, yeah, definitely.
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Yeah, so, so having that hidden movement in the game really, you
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know, really is a accurate depiction of the movie, you
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know, and, and also just the the motivation, you know, like of of
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Brody because you got you can potentially eat Michael, you
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know, and and his son, you know, and, you know, come further, you
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know, kind of like motivating him to kill the shark, you know,
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and further, you know, kind of like motivating him, you know,
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to kind of. Amber has decided to join us.
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Hey. Let.
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Me, but it's all. Right.
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OK, hold on a SEC. Let me add a little camera thing
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there. Hold on a second.
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We're. Going to have the whole crew.
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Hell yeah, I can't even take myself off the screen because
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Amber is way prettier than me AM.
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Oh no, you can keep yourself up there.
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I'm, I'm good hiding. I'm just, I'm sitting here
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reading Gypsy Foyas. Oh, OK, All right, there we go.
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Oh, here I am. OK.
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Hello everybody. Howdy, welcome.
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So, Amber, have you seen Jaws? I have.
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What did what did you think of the film?
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It made me scared to go in the water.
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Definitely I I was born in 79. I don't remember when it came
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out, but. I'm pretty sure it came out in
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78. 70. 575 Wow, I was way off. I know it's been a part of my
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entire life, you know, Jaws Knee, stuff like that.
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So it's scary. Yeah.
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I mean. It's it's an indelible film, you
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know, that just just really just, you know, just stuck in,
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in our, in our culture for for so long.
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I mean, the, the fact that we're celebrating the 50th anniversary
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of Jaws this month is yeah, just really shows the the film
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staying power, you know, and just the the fact that it is now
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been immortalized by Congress as as a film, you know, that that
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so it will be, it will be protected, you know, in the, in
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the National Library of Congress forever, forever and ever.
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And yeah, so. They make a Did they make a Jaws
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two and three-game as well? I I am sure that they have and.
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Let me check the Mac computer. And I'm certain that they're
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awful. Just like the movies.
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Oh my God, they're so bad. They're so bad.
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I mean, the, the, the only good thing that the third one had
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going for it was that it was really pushed in 3D, which was
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kind of like new at the time. And so that kind of helped it
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out. Maybe, maybe you know, but yeah,
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it's, it's so bad so. Yeah, I think I remember
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watching it in 3D and I watched The Three Stooges in 3D.
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Oh wow, when the slapstick comedy really slaps you.
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Yeah. So it's interesting the board
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game it just says just says a the game of Jaws 1975.
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Ideal Toy company, a simple removes the junk texerity game
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where you carefully pull pieces from a shark's open mouth.
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If you're unlucky, the shark snaps shut.
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That's kind of like a hungry hippo.
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It's rare today, but ideal 1975 version of the naked 2025
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release both exist. And then it talks about the
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board game of Ravensburg 2019. It's a suspenseful Symantec
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hidden movement game where one player is a shark and the other
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plays as Brody Hooper and Quinn. Kind of like this one.
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Oh, that. That that is that one.
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Yeah, OK. And then what?
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You know, I don't know why it just didn't tell me.
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No, on two and three. It it, you know, gosh, it's like
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Siri, if I wanted to, if I wanted to look shit up, I would
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have asked Siri. I just wanted to answer another
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question. But yeah.
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All right, so there's your answer.
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Answer's no. So Amber, so we, we talked a
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little bit about this this earlier, but is there a, is
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there a, a game that you have played that has been based off
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of the film? It's been based off of the film
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Oh ET I actually, I actually have it up there.
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My daughter was so afraid of ET as a kid.
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I mean, like I had to blindfold her when she went into
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Blockbuster. I it was bad.
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It was real. Yeah, it was bad.
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And see, I've been feeling dumb 'cause I was scared of the
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bathtub for about a month after Jaws.
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And so she finally got over it. And so as a joke, we have the ET
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game up there that her grandma had when she was a kid 'cause we
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had to actually hide that game for years.
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She didn't even like we couldn't even tell her where it was at.
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I know that there's like an ET Atari game like that.
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That's like an ancient game. No, I didn't.
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I was not aware that there was a board game.
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Hold on, let me get it. I have shorts on so I'm going to
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put my avatar on real quick. Everybody just waits and stares.
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OK, so let let let's let's do a, let's do a roundabout.
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Let's let's see how this thing plays out.
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A roundabout yeah. So the the shark player, which
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I, I got to admit, you know, is perhaps like my favorite I I, I
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love playing as the shark. It's so much fun.
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I mean, cause in, in a way, you're kind of the, the game
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master I get, or you know, of, of the game, you know, you know,
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you're, you're kind of you, if you, if you've played the game
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before, if you have some familiarity, it's best to play
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the shark just because there's some things that can go wrong.
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You know that because if you've got, you know, like somebody's
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just playing it for the, playing it for the first time, you know,
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then then you might, you know, kind of kind of mess up like
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where exactly or how exactly you move.
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So, so the shark has three. So you can start anywhere
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technically and nobody knows where you're starting from.
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It's, it's all you, you're, you're in your own world, like
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on your little shark, you know, in your, on your little shark
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tracker, you know, so and yeah. And then you don't like the the
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shark is just going to just kind of decide what they want to do.
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As sharks generally do. As they, as they do, you know,
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and, and so thankfully, like because of this shark tracker,
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you, you shouldn't be able to mess up, but you know, it
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happens. And so then I'm going to decide
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where the heck I'm. I'm going to start here.
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Kind of like Battleship. Right, exactly, exactly like
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Battleship. All right, so I know where I'm
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starting and. You know what's going on, I'm
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just watching. Probably we have no idea either.
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Yeah, we're we're all lost in the weeds.
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Yeah, right. Well, no, I mean, because,
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because quite honestly, I mean like jaws, like you are, you're
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in, you're in, you're in his world, you're in his habitat,
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you know, and so so really, you know, Bruce is kind of doing
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what Bruce does, you know, and has and so he is.
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So I have decided where I'm starting and and then so we
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have. So we we did like, you know,
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like the what will even go with the the that that first event
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card. So this first event card.
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So it kind of so you see here that.
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After placing swimmers, remove all swimmers at any one beach
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and close the beach. Yeah, all.
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Right. This is deja vu, OK?
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Yeah, so so then. So Mayor Vaughn then like has
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has decided to close and remove after police swimmers and then
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remove all swimmers at one beach, you know, so which so
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which beach would you like the, the the swimmers removed from?
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So we've got North Beach here, South Beach, E Beach, you know
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where, where would you guys like to?
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I say North Beach, yeah. All right, so you've you've
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told. It's colder in the north, right?
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That's where. That's where fish are OK.
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So we so we removed this and this beach is closed.
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So we. Got winter?
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Winter's coming. Beach is closed.
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So we got like this this handy little.
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All right, no swimming. Hazardous area.
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Beach closed by the order of the Witty Police.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, all right, so being that
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you that you made that that call, we're going to we're going
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to say that you're Brody here. Since Brody Brody's got the
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authority, he's got the badge. Oh, so I'm Brody.
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Yep so bro. Look it out.
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Look out Deputy Doofy. All right.
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So you've I'm glad we. OK, our podcast just went back
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to the 70s. The things we do on this podcast
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we can't do in the 2020 fives pretend like we're in the 1970s,
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guys. That's.
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Going to be interesting. So, so the the event has been
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resolved then and, and so then the shark is going to do what
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the shark does. OK.
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Gobble, gobble. Do I make sound effects or Oh
31:00
no, I'm really. That's right.
31:04
OK, and so then it's it's almost like a little like a like, have
31:09
you played like mafia or what's mafia or the.
31:23
Werewolf. It it'll, it'll, it'll come to
31:25
yes, werewolf. So in like in werewolf, you
31:28
know, then you see somebody has died, you know, like over the,
31:32
the, the, the night, you know, and then everybody just has to
31:36
kind of decide. So a swimmer has been eaten in
31:40
in the East Beach. Oh oh oh, so it should have
31:44
closed E instead of north. Nice job.
31:47
Your your board game camera went out of focus.
31:50
Yeah, oh boy. So, so then now now we know that
31:56
the shark has three moves. So the the the shark and and
32:02
that the and that the shark. So it takes 1 action to move a
32:09
space and it takes 1 action to eat a swimmer.
32:12
And and that the shark has not used any of his special
32:19
abilities. So he has four special
32:21
abilities. And I'll kind of go over like
32:25
what each of these abilities are maybe when they're maybe when
32:30
they're used, I don't know. But but basically like the the
32:34
shark does not trigger like a motion sensor.
32:37
The shark may eat all swimmers at a beach, the shark may move
32:43
up to three spaces with one move, and the shark is invisible
32:47
to Hooper's fish Finder. So, so these are these are all
32:51
like things that can happen, but none of those things happened.
32:55
So. But none of those abilities were
32:57
used. And so are those cards finally
33:00
founded? Like when you move across the
33:01
board it tells you like pick it up.
33:03
Or well, so so when the shark, you know, on their turn uses
33:08
those things, then they'll let you know.
33:09
So then, so then it gives you just more information to make
33:12
kind of better decisions and such.
33:14
So, so you know that. So here's Quint over here and
33:19
where's. Oh, yeah.
33:21
And so. All right, so Brody, you know,
33:24
is, is at his police station right here.
33:28
And then we got Hooper is at the dock and Quint is over here as
33:35
the other dock. And and so then it comes down to
33:40
what do you guys want to do? So you see that there's two
33:43
swimmers at South Beach. You have you've been notified
33:48
that that you have lost a swimmer at East Beach now and
33:55
the North Beach was closed. So that that's.
33:58
Yeah. So then next turn, then swimmers
34:02
won't be going to where the beach is closed.
34:05
So so we definitely want to close the East Beach now.
34:10
So you so you won't be able to cause like you can only close
34:15
like 1 beach. I mean, because so this is this
34:18
is July 4th weekend and so everybody with so the the mayor
34:24
wants to keep as much of the beach open as, as possible.
34:28
That's the idea, you know, so you guys just kind of have to
34:31
like decide what you guys want to do now So you can move, which
34:39
costs one space, you can rescue a swimmer and that takes 1
34:43
action or you can pick up a barrel and that costs one
34:46
action. And so all of you have 4
34:51
actions. So then so, so who wants to go?
34:58
So, so Brody, you are landlocked, you know, you are
35:07
you're kind of kind of stuck to, to this area now.
35:12
Quint who? Who's going to be Quint?
35:18
Who wants to be Quint? I don't know.
35:21
So Quint, you've already got 2 barrels and now, now ultimately
35:27
you want, so there are no barrels on the shark right now,
35:38
you know, and so you want those two barrels to get, you know, on
35:43
the shark and, and it just takes an action to, to basically like
35:48
drop a, drop a barrel like into a, into an area.
35:55
Now, if it's an area that I'm at that that the shark is at, you
36:00
know, then it, it pins to that shark.
36:04
So you guys just have to kind of find, find the shark.
36:10
And so that's why it's always best for Quint to go last,
36:14
because then Hooper and Brody, you know, can spend their turns
36:19
trying to find the shark, and they might find him.
36:23
And in the event that they do, then Quint can come to the
36:27
rescue and pin him, you know, so, so.
36:34
I guess I can be Hooper because I've got the matching glasses.
36:37
There you go there. You.
36:38
Go. And so is it Hooper's turn.
36:42
I think he said it was Quinn's turn.
36:44
I thought Quinn's going last. No, so, So this is also part of
36:49
the the fun and part of the cooperative nature of this great
36:52
game is that is that go whatever the heck you want, you know,
36:58
whoever whoever wants to go first can go first, you know,
37:01
and, and so it just, it just for, for strategy's sake, it's
37:06
probably best for Quint to go last, you know, you know, just
37:10
because he's the one that you know that can, he's the only one
37:12
that can pin the barrels. Well, I'll go first.
37:15
I'll go first. Let's let's start this party
37:18
with a bang. So, all right, so you're just,
37:21
you're here at the police station and what do you, what do
37:24
you want to do? You got a couple of swimmers on
37:26
the South Beach here. You got a swimmer on the the
37:30
West beach. So so.
37:32
What are my options? So you've got 4 actions, 4
37:35
actions, and so to move to space cost 1 and to rescue a swimmer
37:40
costs one. So.
37:42
So yeah. So I say rescue a swimmer.
37:45
You don't, so you don't want to go for the donut shop, Mr. Top.
37:52
Your priorities are all fucked up, buddy.
37:54
Are we? Let the curse on this podcast.
37:56
Yeah, pretty much. Oops, I should never be invited
38:05
anywhere. No, you're good.
38:08
I I I think you're funny, Z. So do I.
38:11
I appreciate it. OK, so I'm, I'm, I'm going to
38:17
save a swimmer. OK.
38:23
I don't know the the goal is has to do like like a round Robin,
38:29
just one round before before our time's up.
38:33
So, OK, all right. And so then will you?
38:38
Do you want to go to South Beach or West Beach?
38:45
Let's see, I think I want to. So I can only go to South Beach.
38:52
Oh yeah, or West. Beach or West Beach?
38:54
Sure, I can't go to East Beach because you've already closed
38:57
down north. No, because they're next to you.
38:59
So you're at, you're at the middle of the South and West.
39:03
OK, I. You can only jump.
39:05
Over to this. I've failed.
39:07
I've failed Wayne NAV. OK, I'll do.
39:11
I'll do South. All right, great.
39:13
All right. So then.
39:15
So one action gets you there, and then another action rescues
39:18
a swimmer. Do you want to?
39:20
Rescue the other one as well. Is it a woman or a man?
39:25
Good question, Good question. It it looks to be.
39:33
Is she single? Let your damn boyfriend save
39:38
you, girl. I'm not trying to save you.
39:40
That's your boyfriend's job. Let me have your number.
39:45
Why do I feel like I'm sitting in in Harold and Kumar right
39:48
now? They, I, I, I, I don't know.
39:58
They, they, they, they are. They're submerged in water
40:02
either either way. I OK, I I see if we can I say
40:06
so. It's a they we're going to save.
40:08
Both of them save both of them OK.
40:11
All right, and so you have one more action.
40:13
One more action, OK. You're in South Beach.
40:16
Just party. So remind me what, what, what
40:19
other actions I have I I can save a swimmer?
40:22
Yeah, you can. You can come to the the shop and
40:24
maybe pick up a barrel, you know, or I don't know, hang out
40:31
now. So you also have these handy
40:34
dandy binoculars, you know, and and so and you can use the the
40:41
binoculars once per round to look into a beach space.
40:46
So then you can like look out and see, well, is the shark
40:50
here, you know, and so. I think that's what I would want
40:54
to do is I would want to grab the binoculars.
40:56
All right and you all right. And so you do so, and no shark
41:02
there. All right, awesome.
41:04
You don't see it all right? Oh, I got my fly gun.
41:12
All right, I'm ready, guys. I'm ready.
41:15
This cop needed some backups. This guy lady ass cop.
41:19
Right. So Hooper.
41:21
Somebody said cop. Oh my God, Joe.
41:27
OK, and so so Hooper is the is in his his fancy fast boat and
41:37
he can move up to two spaces and Papa, Yeah.
41:44
And so you've got 4 actions, whomever Hooper Hooper is.
41:49
I'm Hooper. Go Hoover.
41:52
Where? Where am I at on the board?
41:55
All right, so Hooper is right here.
41:58
Yeah, hanging out in. Can we go?
42:01
Can I go and save this lady in the West Beach?
42:03
You sure can. Sure, we.
42:06
Don't. Hey, pretty Mama.
42:07
All right, so one and. Hop on my boat.
42:13
All right. And rescued.
42:16
OK, so then that's two action and so then you have two more
42:20
actions. Oh, and, and also these count as
42:28
spaces as well. So the that's, it's kind of like
42:32
a fast way of traveling, you know, kind of getting, you know,
42:34
like getting around the board such, so, and also Hooper has a
42:42
fish Finder. So he's got this fancy little
42:47
fish Finder on his boat and and when he uses that.
42:54
Didn't I get binoculars? Where's my binoculars?
42:59
Oh, yeah, you, yeah, you got these.
43:02
Yeah, yeah. So All right.
43:09
So, so then yeah, you, you got this.
43:13
You got your fish Finder if you want to to use it and it lets
43:17
you know. All right, Well, yeah, it it, it
43:29
lets you know if the shark is is in an adjacent space.
43:34
So I've got 2 moves left right. Yes.
43:37
So can I use my fish Finder in in quadrant one and then move
43:42
over to quadrant 2? Oh, so unfortunately, like this
43:51
is a diagonal move and it's, it just needs to be, yeah, just
43:55
kind of adjacent. But I don't know, you could go
43:59
to three and then just do like a, you know?
44:01
Yeah. I could go to three and then one
44:03
I guess, right? Yeah, yeah.
44:08
And unfortunately then you wouldn't be able to use your
44:10
fish Finder because you only got like 2.
44:12
Actions. Oh, fish Finder is my move.
44:14
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It takes an action to.
44:17
Oh, I see, I see. OK, so let's just check out
44:19
three and and find some fish in there.
44:22
All right, yeah. And so, yeah, you use your fish
44:26
Finder and no dice. Yeah, there there is there,
44:30
there is no shark there. So now it's and so then you have
44:38
used all of all four actions, you know, and now it is Quint's
44:45
turn. Wait.
44:46
Quint. So Quint is here on the dock
44:50
sitting in his in the orca and and you have 4 actions.
44:59
So. Let's go to East Beach.
45:06
OK, so 1 action. Can I throw my little barrels
45:12
out there in the water? All right, so once per round you
45:17
can launch a barrel. OK, let's launch a barrel.
45:21
All right, OK, barrel launch. All right.
45:24
So one of your barrels has has been launched into the beach and
45:29
it does not connect and it doesn't attach to A to A, to a
45:35
beach or to a shark. But my kids love this.
45:43
But now in the future, whenever the shark passes through this
45:47
space, then it will be then it will trigger.
45:52
And so then, you know, like whenever the the shark moves
45:55
through there, then the shark player has to let you know, you
45:58
know, that that has that that space has been triggered.
46:03
Yeah. So, so all of these barrels, you
46:05
know, then, you know, are useful as you, you know, place them
46:09
about the board, you know, then, then they kind of like trigger,
46:13
you know, like you know, where, you know, it kind of gives you
46:19
an idea of like where the shark may be, you know, And so then
46:23
you can make some educated guesses as to, you know, where
46:26
exactly they might be. OK, so I have two more moves.
46:31
Yes. And I just go to #6 sure, OK.
46:42
OK. And yeah.
46:44
And and so there is, you know, like no, no swimmers out there.
46:49
So. So that's good.
46:51
And and then I guess I want to go to the store.
46:55
Oh, so you sure? Yeah.
47:02
Yeah, you can. You can do that.
47:05
I have. No idea.
47:06
Well, yeah, it's just that it's that usually these characters,
47:14
they don't leave their their boats.
47:16
So, so it's but, but no, but it certainly is possible though.
47:21
So, but yeah, so it's great, all right, yeah.
47:27
And and so then it would then go back to the the shark and then
47:32
round and round, you know, like we would go and so.
47:38
Now this, now this the thing that looks like you put the
47:42
ocean in the basket thing, does that come with jaws or is that
47:46
something you brought from home? The the the Little Quilt Bowl.
47:54
Oh, this little guy. No.
47:56
It's just something from home. OK.
47:57
All right. OK.
48:00
So, but, but yeah, so that is that.
48:03
That is a round of jaws of jaws. I like it.
48:08
And yeah, and and then, you know, in a in a wild way and I
48:16
think. And while, while, while you're
48:19
doing, you know, I'm, I'm just going to throw this out so we
48:21
get some of these out the jaws. Fun fact #3 you're going to need
48:27
a bigger boat. Was an ad libbed line that was
48:31
running a joke among crew about how small the craft services
48:37
boat was for lunch breaks. That is, that is a true story,
48:44
and that's hilarious. You're about the woman who was
48:48
found dead on the beach and where they filmed Jaws, and that
48:53
she may be one of the extras in the film.
48:57
Oh wow, I didn't know that. No, I didn't know that that was
48:59
that. Yeah, she.
49:05
There was a woman who was found dead on the beach and over the
49:10
years people have looked at film footage and they suspect that
49:16
she may be the extra that they see in the film.
49:20
You have to look it up. I don't remember much about it,
49:22
but. Well, nice.
49:24
Now not only am I scared of the maps, but I'm scared of the
49:27
beats. Thank you.
49:30
Hey, there's a lot of stuff that happens on the.
49:31
Yeah, on July on July 26th 1974, a body was found in the dunes.
49:39
Lady of the Dunes is what they called her.
49:41
That's what it is, yeah. Look.
49:45
At that and FBI didn't identify her until 20/22 as 37 year old
49:49
Ruth Marie Terry. OK, I didn't remember if they
49:52
had identified her or not. Now, did she have?
49:57
Was there a question that maybe Whitey Bulger actually killed
49:59
her? Does that say that?
50:03
Does that say that? And they also didn't confirm
50:05
that it was on set either. Is that the same Whitey from me,
50:09
myself and Irene? No.
50:11
Whitey Culture. The Gangster.
50:14
No, the guy, they called him Whitey.
50:16
I just wondered. No.
50:21
All right. And I'm just going to just kind
50:23
of do like a quickie little little whole run through of the
50:30
the the second act here. So the the second act so ever so
50:38
this is triggered, you know, when when either 2 barrels, you
50:43
know, like have been have been attached to to jaws or all the
50:49
the swimmers you know, like have been have been eaten.
50:53
And, and so then the more swimmers that that the shark
50:58
manages to eat, then the stronger that they are and the
51:01
more cards, more like special cards, you know, the shark
51:05
player gets, you know, to, to, to use in the second act and
51:11
the, the second act, then everybody just kind of starts
51:15
like wherever they would like on, on the Orca and, and the,
51:28
and you never, and much like the beginning, like the, the, the
51:32
hidden movement, you know, aspect of the game is that you
51:35
don't know, like where Jaws is going to pop up and.
51:49
Yeah, that added to the mystery in the movie, right?
51:51
Yeah. Because the whole time they were
51:53
like Oh my God, is it on port side or starboard side or?
51:56
Right. I can't remember much about it,
51:59
it's been so long since I've seen it.
52:01
And while he does that #4 Jaws was nominated for a four Academy
52:08
Awards, including Best Picture. It won best film editing, best
52:12
original dramatic score and best sound.
52:18
Yeah, well, you, you will forever remember Dun Dun.
52:23
Steven Spielberg was actually a little upset and a lot of
52:26
professionals at the time were upset that Steven Spielberg was
52:30
not nominated to be best director is how can you have a
52:34
best picture, you know, film nominated without best director
52:39
just doesn't make much sense. And and it was just the fact
52:45
that it was that he was so early in his career.
52:48
He was 27 at the time. And the, and this was like, I
52:52
think his second film. He had like Sugar Land Express
52:57
before this. And if you're really want to go
52:59
back, his first, his very first, like student film was The Duel.
53:05
And and they're and they're great to watch.
53:08
Great, great films. But but yeah, but Jaws, you
53:13
know, like was very early in his career.
53:15
And so a lot of people felt like, well, I mean, you know it.
53:19
You know, he doesn't deserve the nomination yet.
53:22
You know, he's just too early. He's a rookie.
53:25
Yeah, yeah, so, but. And the theme music is
53:30
considered the most famous of all time for a movie, by the
53:34
way. Movie theme.
53:35
Music da da da da is considered some of the It's the most famous
53:40
theme music of a movie. I mean, how many times have you
53:43
been in a pool you know and are creeping up on?
53:51
At least three times this summer already.
53:59
I would like Steven Spielberg to do a a really good movie.
54:04
It's been a while since there's been a really good movie out
54:07
there. Now, shout out to Steven
54:08
Spielberg, call the show, 720-619-0627.
54:12
Let us know how bad we're crapping on your movie right now
54:17
because of the of our lack of knowledge of the board game.
54:21
Talking about board game, it is that time.
54:23
It is the five minute warning Jaws fun fact #5 Peter Benchley
54:30
novels Jaws was released at the same time in the film and remain
54:35
#1 on the New York Time best bestseller list for 44 weeks.
54:42
Benchley very quickly became an advocate for sharks.
54:47
I remember seeing that book on my dad's table, you know, next
54:52
to his chair. We read all those kinds of
54:56
books. So yeah, so then the second act,
55:05
you know, then happens and in the second act then everybody,
55:10
you know, just kind of has to, you know, look at where they're
55:15
where they're at on the board here.
55:17
And there is 3 possible places that that jaws will pop up.
55:25
And so it's AB or C. Always pick C Always pick C with
55:33
in doubt, right? All the tests has to be.
55:37
I mean, that's the reason why I failed it.
55:39
And so then, you know, like, and at this point, you know, like
55:43
depending on how well you did in the first act, then you might
55:47
have more cards to work with. And like these cards can be like
55:53
a hook. They can be, they can be a
55:55
shotgun, a baseball bat, all kinds of like weird wild
55:59
weapons. You know that that.
56:01
Just like the binoculars. Yes, OK.
56:04
And and so then you can use and all of the weapons like have
56:10
different rules. So like for instance, if you got
56:12
like the rifle or whatever, you know, then then you can you
56:14
know, like shoot at like another, another space.
56:23
So like, so yeah, yeah, you'll see that like, you know, all
56:27
these these are kind of these are kind of like your, your
56:32
crosshairs, if you will. And so everybody, yeah, got your
56:37
got your little crosshairs here. And then, you know, so then I
56:44
don't know, Quint decides, you know, I'm I'm right here.
56:46
I'm not going to move, you know, I'm just going to stay here and
56:49
I'm going to commit to see you and I'm going to you know, do
56:53
you know, and and then, you know, so these these guys, you
57:01
know, then they can now you have to be in the space with the AB
57:08
or C to participate in the attack.
57:11
You know, all right, because you could sit out, you know, I mean,
57:14
because like maybe, just maybe you're banged up, which is very
57:18
possible because so like on so everybody like has like an act
57:26
two side to there and so they can only take so much damage
57:31
before they get before they no more.
57:35
Now we got 3 minutes because we can't stay any longer because
57:39
with the Ferren's shows, next sure thing so.
57:45
Yeah. Well, in that case, I'll take A
57:46
and you'll take B, and let's flip those cards.
57:50
Yeah. And and so they and
57:52
unfortunately, yeah. So then, you know, like, you
57:59
know, much like, much like how it is, is, you know, is that,
58:05
you know, the, the the shark, you know, has decided, you know,
58:08
like what he which space he's going to pop up in and oh, he's,
58:12
he's chosen B, you know. So then he comes up here and
58:15
then you and then you roll for damage and you know, and he
58:20
could very well damage the, the the boat or destroy it.
58:26
Oh my. God.
58:27
And so then you, you start whittling down the boat and you
58:30
know, here and, and then and the game ends when Jaws has
58:39
completely destroyed the boat or has killed everyone and.
58:45
Can you ever kill Jaws? Oh yes.
58:47
OK, all right, so the game ends when you kill Jaws if he doesn't
58:51
kill the boat first. Yeah, yeah, 'cause he's OK,
58:53
'cause he's got life, just like like you.
58:56
Just like we do, OK? And so, so then, yeah.
58:59
And so then and, and every time that I have played Jaws, it is
59:03
just like a crazy climactic ending because, you know, I
59:08
don't know, it's just a very well balanced game that just
59:11
really encapsulates the the movie in a lot of fun ways.
59:16
And, and it has really grown to be one of my favorite games for
59:21
sure. So on the scale to to kind of
59:24
end the show, so from a scale on one to 10, what was you rated
59:28
and what would you rate it for? Like how old do you think you
59:33
need to be to be? Because like a 5 year old
59:35
probably wouldn't do very good on this.
59:37
Yeah, I mean, they get certainly a 5 year old, you know, would
59:40
need some help for sure. But no, I would say just
59:45
because, just because so many movie board games have done so
59:50
badly, you know, I mean, I don't know, 9 out of 10, you know, I
59:55
mean like, you know, it is it is so way it is.
59:59
It's it's done so well. Yeah, that it it definitely
1:00:03
deserves, you know, to be a, you know, you know, incident on
1:00:07
world. Great conversation of some of
1:00:09
the best games as far as. I feel like I feel like 10 and
1:00:12
up could play this game with like adult supervision.
1:00:15
What does the box say on it? Does it?
1:00:16
Does it have an age back then? I mean it is it says 12 and up.
1:00:24
There we. Go.
1:00:25
That was close. There's the answer.
1:00:28
Well hey, I really, I really dig this today man.
1:00:33
Thank you for introducing us to this game.
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I didn't even know about it. Me either.
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And I love. This thanks for having us.
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Yeah, thanks. Thanks so much for for sticking
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it out and and yeah, and. What are we playing next week?
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Anytime, yeah. What are we playing next week?
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Oh, maybe, just maybe the bloody in a a favorite of mine.
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What? Is it a board game or is it a
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role play? It it is a board game.
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OK, yes, a phantom board game. The bloody in.
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The bloody in Is there a role-playing game with 50 Shades
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of Grey? Don't even turn in.
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OK. All right.
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I'm not going to be tuning in for that one.
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No way. All right, bro, you.
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Have to bring your own ball gag you guys BYOG bring your own
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gag. Oh my gosh.
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All right, well, hey man, I really appreciate it.
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This is good. I didn't even know they had a
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Jaws game. Yeah.
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So this is awesome. Yeah, it it's so great.
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I I definitely recommend it to anybody.
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Well, thank you. Yes, thank you, everybody.
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And next week, we'll play the bloody end right here on NPR.
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