Latest / Replay Reviews / When Did Joe Get Smart? | MAFIA II | Part 4
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- 0:00In this episode, we go undercover as Mario and
- 0:02Luigi. We experience perhaps the worst time for
- 0:06tequila to play on the radio. And my feet are
- 0:09getting cold. Thank you for coming back from
- 0:13our replay reviews. My name is Leah. And my name
- 0:16is Kathy. We are two friends who are here to
- 0:18replay, review, and analyze your favorite video
- 0:20games. And since Kathy has never seen the games
- 0:23before, it helps me view them through her fresh
- 0:25eyes. almost like I'm discovering them again
- 0:27for the first time. We hope it will be a similar
- 0:29experience for you. Scene 1. To summarize it,
- 0:39Vito and Joe are tasked with an act of mafia
- 0:42warfare, but when things don't go exactly as
- 0:44planned, the collateral damage leaves Joe emotional.
- 0:48So we're on Chapter 10, Room Service. Villa Scaletta,
- 0:52June 15th, 1951. It's been about a month since
- 0:56they joined the family. Vito's in his new home,
- 0:59so things are going well. And he's woken up by
- 1:02a phone call from Eddie. He can't tell Vito what's
- 1:05going on over the phone, but tells him to get
- 1:07over to Joe's. Vito arrives to see two men outside
- 1:11Joe's door. One is Marty, who we met. And while
- 1:13chatting with him, Vito is called in by Joe.
- 1:16They're waiting for you. They is Falcone, Eddie,
- 1:19and Joe. Falcone is happy with Vito for handling
- 1:23Luca. and giving them proof that Clemente attacked
- 1:27them. He says that this means war, and they're
- 1:31planning to get rid of him and his top guys at
- 1:33a meeting that they're holding at the Empire
- 1:35Arms Hotel. What Joe does is bring a freaking
- 1:39bomb and slam it onto the table. Who does that?
- 1:44Nobody's sane. His bright idea is to plant this
- 1:47bomb in the meeting room. Turns out Marty is
- 1:50their getaway driver. Vito's not too happy about
- 1:52it. Marty is not allowed in the room to partake
- 1:56in this conversation about strategy, yet immediately
- 2:00Joe's like, yeah, he's not part of the family,
- 2:03but we still need him to do the family's work.
- 2:05And I just, that doesn't sit well with me. And
- 2:09then there's a whole other side of the conversation
- 2:11about, hey, he might be too young to be doing
- 2:15this stuff. And Joe's like, no, he's not. How
- 2:18young were you when you did this? Wasn't Joe
- 2:21the one who brought Vito into doing all these
- 2:23crimes and now Joe's doing the same thing to
- 2:26Marty? It's the same and it's different because
- 2:29I think they met in school, Joe and Vito, so
- 2:33he's not that much older than Vito. If he is
- 2:36older, I think he looks older, but apparently
- 2:38he's not. So I think that's a little different.
- 2:40That's like two young people doing stupid things
- 2:42together, but this is like an older person who
- 2:45knows the life, bringing a younger person into
- 2:49it. I don't understand their dynamics. But at
- 2:54the hotel, they get into disguise, which includes
- 2:56cleaning uniforms and fake mustaches. They leave
- 3:00Marty in the car and then clean their way up
- 3:03to the 18th floor. While doing so, they see Henry
- 3:06walk by and say, I hope you don't come back before
- 3:08we do our thing. Reactions? We haven't seen Henry
- 3:11in a hot minute. Yeah. I'm curious what his relationship
- 3:16is with... all three of them at this point you
- 3:19know he's kind of two -timing both families yet
- 3:23they're okay with not ratting him out or going
- 3:26to him for help when they know he could have
- 3:29been an in i'm confused with that relationship
- 3:33yes and it seems like there's a lot of crossover
- 3:36between the families in this city that's something
- 3:39we keep seeing well hopefully he doesn't come
- 3:43back before the bomb goes off and speaking of
- 3:46They plant it under the conference room table
- 3:47and then make their way to the roof. Joe complains
- 3:51after two sets of stares. Joe. Vito keeps saying
- 3:56that, oh, Joe, like, when are you this smart?
- 3:59And it's just a 180 change. I mean, it's not
- 4:03like he was dumb before, but all of a sudden
- 4:06he's smart and Vito's praising him. It seems
- 4:10like he just wasn't thinking before. And now
- 4:13he's thinking. So I don't necessarily know if
- 4:15Vito's saying smart is the correct phrase, but
- 4:18he's at least using the brain he has. When they're
- 4:23at the top of the stairs trying to enter the
- 4:26roof, there's two guys, and Vito wants to just
- 4:29shoot them. Since when was he the hothead? And
- 4:33then Joe kind of pushes his hand away, and he
- 4:35even... at one point said that oh there's Clemente
- 4:39let's just shoot him and it'll be done let's
- 4:41not do the whole bomb idea but yeah Joe's like
- 4:44no no you're gonna get shot and we're both gonna
- 4:45die why are they all of a sudden so out of character
- 4:48between the two of them it seems like they switched
- 4:50it almost makes me think that Joe needs this
- 4:54to go really well for some reason that we don't
- 4:56know about because they're already in the family
- 4:59so I don't know what he'd be benefiting from
- 5:02this other than money I do get A sense that Joe
- 5:06feels threatened by Vito. I don't know what exactly
- 5:09it is, and there's not enough evidence of it,
- 5:12but just the way Joe is coming off right now,
- 5:16I feel like he's threatened or he wants to demonstrate
- 5:20that he's just as good as Vito. They get in a
- 5:24shootout on the roof, and after that, they take
- 5:27the window washing platform down, I guess to
- 5:29plant a detonator? Vito is a bit nervous about
- 5:32being too close to the bomb, but Joe assures
- 5:34him. They'll be fine. He says, use the squeegee
- 5:38to stay in character. Which is a line I don't
- 5:40think I've ever heard before. Oh, Kathy. What
- 5:45happens next? Yeah. I don't even know how to
- 5:49describe it. Can we make sure we have that scene
- 5:52included in this? Because we need to see how
- 5:55stupid everything just looks and is. And, I don't
- 6:00know, they're just ragdolling around on a platform
- 6:03in midair. I don't know what happened. Did he
- 6:06press the detonator too quick? I don't know.
- 6:08They weren't far enough away. Then they lower
- 6:10back down to see the aftermath and Clemente stumbles
- 6:14out of the bathroom. Lucky guy. So Vito and Joe
- 6:17give chase. I feel like a bomb is the worst way
- 6:20to guarantee someone's dead because you don't
- 6:23know where that guy is relative to the bomb when
- 6:25it goes off. Poison. Yeah. Poison or like rooftop
- 6:31a sniper. There's so many other options. All
- 6:35right, so they do manage to shoot their way back
- 6:37to Marty, but he's dead. And then they continue
- 6:40to chase Clemente by car, and it's a miracle
- 6:42I pulled off this driving section. So long for
- 6:46Marty. Yeah. I wasn't expecting him to die so
- 6:51soon, but I do like seeing Joe in distress. Yeah.
- 6:58He is in the mafia. I think he knows what he's
- 7:01getting himself into. And he, again, looked too
- 7:04happy shooting people. So it's not like he was
- 7:08innocent. He probably didn't deserve to die this
- 7:11way. He had a lot of life ahead of him. So I'm
- 7:15feeling pretty somewhere between mother neutral
- 7:19and under that into mother territory. I struggle
- 7:23with this one too because I don't care. I don't
- 7:27care about Marty. So, like, I don't know. We
- 7:30don't get much about him. I feel like he's just
- 7:33stupid, you know? And he was way too into, like,
- 7:37shooting everything and shooting people, shooting
- 7:39up the bar. So, yeah, I feel like he's got to
- 7:42be a slight mother. I do want to talk about Vito's
- 7:46reaction when he sees Marty dead. I'm starting
- 7:51to wonder if Vito just doesn't have. emotions
- 7:55for people who die or he just has seen so much
- 8:00in war that seeing Marty dead isn't affecting
- 8:03him because he did seem like he liked the kid
- 8:05because he was just trying to say like Joe lighten
- 8:07up on him don't bring him and then now he sees
- 8:10the kid dead he knows the consequences but he
- 8:13doesn't really care like he leaves the body there
- 8:16to sum up the rest of the scene they do catch
- 8:20up to Clemente and finish him off before heading
- 8:23back to Joe's Joe calls Eddie. He's upset about
- 8:26Marty, but Eddie says it's a small price to pay,
- 8:29which angers Joe, but Eddie responds, it was
- 8:32your idea to bring him along, basically. Vito
- 8:34seems to be taking Eddie's side, and honestly,
- 8:36I am too. What did Joe expect? And that's why
- 8:40I like seeing some of the guilt and remorse he
- 8:42had. I kind of wish we got more emotions from
- 8:44Vito, though. We haven't really seen Joe express
- 8:48much remorse, even though he got Vito set to
- 8:51war. But now he's all broken up about this. And
- 8:55yeah, Vito's kind of like, it's matter of fact,
- 8:58you knew this could happen. Which is interesting
- 9:01because a lot of choices that Vito's made have
- 9:04been like, why are you surprised? But he still
- 9:07does them. But Joe's not happy and says, you
- 9:10should go home. So they're kind of fighting a
- 9:12little bit, which honestly, finally, about time.
- 9:15I like when there's more emotions from both these
- 9:18guys. Moving on to scene two. So Vito has to
- 9:23deal with an unstable Joe and his mistakes. He's
- 9:27awoken by another phone call, this time from
- 9:30some guy named Leon, the bartender at the Lone
- 9:33Star. He says Joe is drunk and out of control
- 9:36at the bar. He's even waving his gun around.
- 9:39Joe is a terrible friend, Kathy. Yeah, I agree.
- 9:44Vito gets there. He tries to control Joe. But
- 9:49his gun goes off and he accidentally shoots and
- 9:51kills Leon, which prompts Vito to say, what the
- 9:54f*** is wrong with you? Valid question. I'm glad
- 9:59that Vito's getting irritated with Joe, but he
- 10:01should have left him there to deal with his own
- 10:03mess, in my opinion. There's that. The other
- 10:06part of me also wished that Vito took the gun
- 10:09away from Joe, which would have saved them all.
- 10:12This is like being proactive and that could have
- 10:15saved you time and so I wouldn't have died. I
- 10:19do find it weird that Vito is mad at Joe for
- 10:22shooting someone versus Vito is upset that an
- 10:26innocent man is dead. So he should have had Joe
- 10:30just deal with his own stuff, but instead, Vito
- 10:33single -handedly drags Leon's body into the trunk
- 10:36of his car, then drops Joe off at home, says
- 10:40to call him tomorrow, and then takes off to deal
- 10:42with Leon's body. All by himself. surprised that
- 10:47no one's after him or down the road there's no
- 10:51consequences again that's my issues there really
- 10:54is no consequences in this game how is he not
- 10:57in trouble they didn't clean up the crime scene
- 11:00at all i'm sure there's blood there i hate that
- 11:03they keep getting away with stuff though i mean
- 11:05i know veto's been in jail but when is it gonna
- 11:08be jill's turn that's what i want to know that's
- 11:11what veto should be asking what bugs me is he's
- 11:13in jail For the smallest crime he's done out
- 11:17of this entire game. He's killed people and he's
- 11:21buried people. Yeah, he goes to jail for what?
- 11:26Stamps. Should we move into chapter three? Move
- 11:31on to chapter three? Gosh. Scene three, chapter
- 11:3411. Yes. I have not eaten in a while. Okay. So,
- 11:40to summarize scene three, Vito's friendships
- 11:43start to cause issues, and as the war draws lines,
- 11:46Vito steps over them, putting friendships before
- 11:48the family. Chapter 11, A Friend of Ours. We're
- 11:54back at Villa Scoletta, July 27th, 1951. So,
- 11:58another month or so has passed, and Henry shows
- 12:00up at Vito's house and says he wants to get a
- 12:03drink. On the way, he tells Vito he knows Falcone
- 12:06had something to do with Clemente's death. and
- 12:09asks him to put in a good word for him with Falcone,
- 12:11because he wants to work with them due to being
- 12:14worried about his own safety, being in the Clemente
- 12:17family. Said that the worst possible way I could
- 12:19have, but I think I pulled it out. No, it makes
- 12:23sense. The good thing is that Vito agrees to
- 12:27vouch for him, because had he not, it was later
- 12:30revealed that Henry saw both Vito and Joe go
- 12:36in. Right. Those mustaches did not fool Henry.
- 12:40They could have at least worn a wig or something.
- 12:42Yeah. So they're talking about the life and Henry's
- 12:46like, this is what I am. I don't know what else
- 12:49I would do. And Vito says, I guess it pays a
- 12:52hell of a lot better than being a fucking taxi
- 12:53driver. Is he referring to himself as the taxi
- 12:58driver? I think he's referring to Tommy. Oh.
- 13:04I think it's an Easter egg. I totally missed
- 13:08this. I was waiting for it to click, but it didn't
- 13:12look like it was going to now. So they get to
- 13:17Falcone's bar where Vito gets paid and then introduces
- 13:20Henry to Eddie. During the conversation, a plan
- 13:23forms. Eddie says that Leo needs to be taken
- 13:26out as Frank Vinci will crumble without him.
- 13:29He says, I'm thinking this could be the perfect
- 13:31opportunity for Henry here to prove himself.
- 13:34Yeah, and I'm glad. Vito was saying that, I know
- 13:38this is for the family, but I can't do that.
- 13:42And Eddie seemed cool with it, respecting his
- 13:44boundaries. He's actually going in and he's going
- 13:46to try to warn Leo. But during this entire interaction
- 13:51of trying to save Leo, this is crazy how this
- 13:54is the first time we're seeing someone that Vito
- 13:57cares about. We've never seen him have this emotion.
- 14:00Yeah, he hugged his sister in the beginning.
- 14:04And he was kind of sad that his mom died, but
- 14:07he never showed any emotions of needing to rescue
- 14:10them. Versus Leo. I just don't understand what
- 14:15earns loyalty with him. But yeah, he does burst
- 14:18into Leo's house. I guess it was unlocked. And
- 14:21frantically tries to warn him. But Leo just says,
- 14:23come on up for a drink. My feet are getting cold.
- 14:26Through their conversation, Vito's trying to
- 14:28warn him and says that Clemente lied and said
- 14:31Falcone was in the dope business. But Leo says
- 14:34he was in the dope business, and Falcone got
- 14:36rid of Clemente when he tried to muscle into
- 14:38his business. So he killed him. And now he wants
- 14:41the rest of us dead, he says. Just kill everyone.
- 14:45Problem solved. Then Leo says, why don't we just
- 14:48get rid of whoever Carlos sent to whack me? And
- 14:51this is when he learns that Vito's friend is
- 14:54the one who's supposed to kill him. I love his
- 14:57line, though. You hired your friend to whack
- 14:59me? I think it's... Kind of funny that Vito and
- 15:04Henry are very similar in the way that Henry's
- 15:08okay with helping out two different families
- 15:10and switching around. And Vito is now in the
- 15:13same boat where he's helping out his family and
- 15:17getting Henry in it, yet immediately he's also
- 15:21trying to help Leo out. So he's like a two -timer
- 15:24too. Yeah. And even Leo kind of is. Because he
- 15:31helped him, even though he was part of whatever
- 15:34group he was initially. Again, lots of intersecting
- 15:40threads, lots of stepping over lines going on.
- 15:44Okay, so they need to escape without Henry seeing
- 15:46them. But that doesn't happen. I get caught pretty
- 15:49easily. I did not hear Leo say, go to the laundry
- 15:52room to get some sheets. Didn't at all. And I
- 15:56was going to go back and replay it, and I don't
- 15:58know what that would look like, but I'm honestly
- 16:00kind of happy with how it turned out. They have
- 16:02a chat in the kitchen, all three of them. Vito
- 16:05explains his side that he can't let Leo die,
- 16:07but Henry says he can't screw this up or Falcone
- 16:10will think he did it on purpose and have him
- 16:11killed. Leo's like, go ahead, kill me. I lived
- 16:15a great life. So he's totally cool just getting
- 16:18shot and killed just to protect Vito. he's gained
- 16:22some respect from me which i was not expecting
- 16:24it i do appreciate like that that's pretty that's
- 16:29pretty cool yeah and then fast forward a bit
- 16:33you hear gunshot you think that oh henry actually
- 16:37killed leo and then henry comes out and says
- 16:39hey you owe me one and then turns out he didn't
- 16:43kill leo i can't believe i'm saying this but
- 16:45i feel like i he's gained a little bit of respect
- 16:48from me who would have thought henry had it in
- 16:51him to to be like that and it kind of makes you
- 16:54wonder why i mean i think leo is good at making
- 16:56deals which is what happened he made a deal to
- 16:58disappear or has veto just really wormed his
- 17:01way into henry's heart that much i don't think
- 17:03so i don't think so either i don't know what
- 17:06it is because henry was set on killing leo and
- 17:09just disappearing is not enough so maybe henry
- 17:14wants Vito to owe him something and so he can
- 17:17cash in on that in the future. But I do feel
- 17:20like Henry is cool with Vito. They have this
- 17:25special understanding. It's a pretty big risk
- 17:27to take for him. Vito and Leo head out to the
- 17:31train station. Does not take time to change.
- 17:34He says, I'd rather be alive in my pajamas than
- 17:35dead in a three -piece suit. Agreed. Can't disagree.
- 17:39And then, yeah, he drops him off at the train
- 17:41station and heads home. You drop him off? By
- 17:45being on top of, what do you call those? The
- 17:49barricade things? Curb. The curb. Yeah. I don't
- 17:52know. The medians. That's what it's called. Yeah.
- 17:56So I think what happened is I got close enough
- 17:59to the end point. And so I just stopped to do
- 18:04the cut scene of them talking. But I was like,
- 18:07surely this can't be it. So you can see me moving
- 18:10the camera around. But the tires aren't even
- 18:12spinning. So the car is just not supposed to
- 18:14be moving at that point in time. That was not
- 18:16my intended parking space, is what I'm trying
- 18:19to say. Scene four? Yep. Vito arrives home to
- 18:25find Francesca on his porch. She's upset because
- 18:28her husband, Eric, drinks and parties, and she's
- 18:30certain he has a girlfriend. Vito is able to
- 18:34get her to confess that he sometimes hits her,
- 18:36but she still begs him not to hurt Eric. I do
- 18:40have a lot of thoughts, and I don't want to get
- 18:42into it with the whole conversation about domestic
- 18:45abuse, domestic violence, but I'm irritated how
- 18:48Frankie is still protective of her husband despite
- 18:52getting beat by him. And I kind of respect Vito
- 18:56a little bit more now that he's asking the right
- 18:59questions as, oh, he hurts my sister, so now
- 19:02I'm going to hurt her husband. He does find him
- 19:05and beat him up. Give him a stern threat. That
- 19:08was so satisfying. I kind of wish he killed him
- 19:10though. Not to mention this place in general.
- 19:13Just a drunk guy falling out of the door. Someone
- 19:15vomiting. Things are happening here. And it makes
- 19:18me so glad that I'm a boring person. Because
- 19:21that just looks disgusting to me. So Vito heads
- 19:24home to find his phone ringing. It's Francesca.
- 19:27And she's a bit irritated that he hurt Eric.
- 19:30But gets more upset when Vito threatens to kill
- 19:32him. If he hurts her again. She says, I don't
- 19:36know you anymore. You stay away from us. Is she
- 19:38scared of him? Is that where this is coming from?
- 19:41No, I think it's... Well, it's so hard to justify
- 19:45because she's fine with her husband hitting someone,
- 19:49which is her, but she's not okay with her brother
- 19:51hitting someone. So isn't that a bit of a hypocrite?
- 19:55Yeah, and we don't know. Maybe she thought that
- 19:58hitting him would then make him hit her. I don't
- 20:02know. I don't know how your brain works in that
- 20:04kind of situation, but it hit me as odd at first
- 20:07where I was like, really, Frankie? Like, why?
- 20:09Why are you mad at him? But I think it's just
- 20:12showing her what kind of person he is and what,
- 20:15like, what he gets up to because he did it so,
- 20:19like, without hesitation. Vito goes to sleep
- 20:23and an Irish gang sets his house on fire. We
- 20:26just slept right into that. You have the same
- 20:28question, but how did they not see him? Yeah.
- 20:31Unceremoniously flop out of the window like that.
- 20:34He was like, what, six feet away? Ran right past
- 20:39him. But how did the Irish know where to find
- 20:42him? I don't know. Public records, maybe? That
- 20:47sounded really snarky, but I'm like, could you
- 20:50just look it up maybe in the phone book? Yeah,
- 20:53I don't know. Vito sprints like three blocks
- 20:59barefoot in his undies and then steals a car
- 21:03as he's running for his life. Gets into this
- 21:07car. And what is playing on the radio? I'm like,
- 21:14there's no way. I laughed so hard when I was
- 21:17recording the gameplay. It just catches you off
- 21:21guard. It's such a tone shift. Okay, why go to
- 21:26Joe's, though? He should be going to Henry after
- 21:29what he just did for him. It's his go -to person,
- 21:32and I'm surprised Joe is awake enough and not
- 21:36so in a slump from Marty. I don't know. One day,
- 21:41going to Joe's is what's going to get him killed.
- 21:44Vito wants to go get the men who tried to kill
- 21:47him. Joe makes a call and finds out where to
- 21:49go. On the way there, he says that the new Irish
- 21:52boss Mickey Desmond is Brian O 'Neill's cousin.
- 21:56So they get to the bar and kill most of them
- 21:59before chasing down the last few and ending them
- 22:01as well. Also, so we're in a car chase. Naturally,
- 22:06I run a red light, right? And Joe complains about
- 22:09me running the red light. Versus murder? Murder?
- 22:12Okay. Running red lights? Not okay. And how many
- 22:16times have I ran a red light with him in the
- 22:17car and now he complains? Maybe he's still a
- 22:20little salty. There is another scene in this
- 22:23whole, these last few minutes, where you're in
- 22:27a car. As soon as you get out of the car, a police
- 22:30car slams right into you. I know, and I just
- 22:34ignore it and keep going to the destination.
- 22:36And you're able to go into the bar without getting
- 22:39arrested. I was amazed that that happened. I
- 22:42thought for sure I'd have to start over. Joe
- 22:45tells Vito that he can stay at Marty's apartment.
- 22:48Yeah, that's it. Then Joe glitches over a barricade.
- 22:51And that's the end of that chapter. We'll leave
- 22:56it at that. Alright, should we close this out?
- 23:00Scene 5, Chapter 12. It is titled Sea Gift. Marty's
- 23:06apartment, September 22, 1951. Henry calls Vito
- 23:10and asks him to meet him at a park. I'm setting
- 23:12up something big, he says. Joe's already there
- 23:15when Vito arrives. And Henry says he's done some
- 23:18research to discover that Falcone had Clemente
- 23:20killed because he was stealing dope customers.
- 23:23He says Falcone just needs to get rid of Frank
- 23:26Vinci, the last guy in his way to becoming the
- 23:28main supplier in the city. So a couple of blank
- 23:31filled in there. Kind of understanding why the
- 23:33war has gotten so heated. Everyone's stealing
- 23:36everyone's customers. Except for that one dude
- 23:39who says no drugs. He'd probably... Well, I don't
- 23:43know. Don't they all say no drugs, though? Yeah.
- 23:47Even in the first game, no drugs, but what if
- 23:49we end up doing drugs? They might as well just
- 23:52allow it into the system at this point, you know?
- 23:57Henry seems to have found out how lucrative the
- 23:59dope game is and spouts off some math about heroin.
- 24:02Basically, he wants to start selling under Falcone's
- 24:05nose. They'll just cut him in if he finds out.
- 24:08He says he found a way to be the middleman for
- 24:11a Chinese drug runner. But they need to get money
- 24:14from a loan shark to buy the drugs. Vito is pretty
- 24:17hesitant about selling drugs. He really doesn't
- 24:20want to do it. But he folds. We'll later see
- 24:23how happy he is selling it. So come on, Vito.
- 24:27I get that he's now the swanky guy who would
- 24:30rather stay in a hotel than Marty's apartment.
- 24:32He's mad that his house got burned down and wants
- 24:34his cash back. But I feel like that's not good
- 24:37enough reason to all of a sudden switch to selling
- 24:41drugs. Yeah, I was like, did you for a split
- 24:44second forget that year everything got burnt
- 24:47up in the fire? And you're like, oh yeah, I need
- 24:49money now. Or, like, what was it? Because it
- 24:52was a pretty fast flip. Henry gets taken for
- 24:57a ride in negotiations with the loan shark Bruno,
- 24:59but he eventually agrees to loan Henry the money.
- 25:03He says, even if you get rid of me, it doesn't
- 25:05get rid of your debt. It's a pretty rock -solid
- 25:07business model he's created for himself here.
- 25:10Well, I feel like... The Chinese people know
- 25:12how to do math. I say that because I'm Chinese.
- 25:17I don't know how to respond to that. There is
- 25:20no response unless you want to be called a racist.
- 25:23Not to mention Joe in the park using a racial
- 25:26slur. And then Vito's like, oh, you mean the
- 25:30Chinese people? And he's like, yeah, that's what
- 25:32I said. And then says the slur again. I'm like,
- 25:34you're so stupid. Like he's going out of his
- 25:37way to use the slur. And so I'm so confused because
- 25:40in the first half of this episode, he was like
- 25:43smart and cool cum collected. And then it just
- 25:47all of a sudden he flips back to this. I'm like,
- 25:49what is wrong with this character? He's a damn
- 25:51idiot again. With the money in hand, they go
- 25:55see Mr. Wong and purchase the drugs. But on the
- 25:57way out, they're jumped by the cops, except they
- 26:00turn out to not be cops. And a shootout begins.
- 26:03Henry says someone else must have known about
- 26:05the deal. Then starts an extremely loud montage
- 26:09of them selling drugs to dealers. Yes, I forgot
- 26:13how loud that was. I will adjust the audio before
- 26:15I post it. Do not fear, people. It won't be perfect,
- 26:18but it will be better than the original. That
- 26:21whole montage is driving me nuts. So we get one
- 26:26before as soon as they join the mafia and there's
- 26:30this whole two boys frolicking through the city
- 26:33and beating people up. And now we get three boys.
- 26:36selling drugs with an end scene that's super
- 26:39corny where the three of them are just walking
- 26:42down the streets in their suits and isn't this
- 26:45all supposed to be taking place in one day because
- 26:48joe's like veto it's 20 grand in one day and
- 26:50they're like two of them are passed out in the
- 26:52car like you're acting like this is a month here
- 26:56i had like questions because i don't know if
- 26:59this is just one a one -time thing or if they
- 27:02have been doing for a full month because There's
- 27:06too many cut scenes within this montage for it
- 27:09to be just one afternoon. I know. Because I thought
- 27:11it was just one afternoon. But yeah, that's like
- 27:13way too much. Anything else from you? No. That's
- 27:21it for me too. We'll finish out the gameplay
- 27:23next week. And then we'll do the summary after
- 27:25that. Sounds good. Audacity on one. Three, two,
- 27:29one. Thank you for listening. And don't forget
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- 27:42Are we way off the mark? Or do you just want
- 27:44us to take a deeper look at anything from the
- 27:46game? We'll tackle any topics you all want to
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