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>> Skylar: Welcome back, everybody. I say welcome back.
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>> Skylar: That feels interesting.
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>> Skylar: I don't know. I don't know how to describe that, but welcome back, everybody, to
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a special episode of Benders and Bruise. As
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if every episode of Benders and Bruise wasn't
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special. But I digress. Today we're
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doing a Q and a episode where we're going to answer all
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the questions that you guys sent in to us or that we
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kind of came up with for each other. There's some of those mixed in there as
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well. and yeah, we're gonna find out some
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interesting details that we didn't get to explore during the show.
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We're gonna talk about those. It'll be a lot of fun. So, kicking
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things off, I think the best way to do this probably, is to go around the
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table. I've got a list of the questions that
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either we got sent to us or that we came up with. Like I mentioned before,
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and I've divvied those out to everybody. So I think it'd be best to just go around the
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table and have each person pick one of the
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questions, and then just ask
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whoever it is that it's directed to. And then we'll go from there.
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So, Connor, you want to kick
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things off with one of the questions? Sure.
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>> Cameron: Let's see here. So, I got a question for
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Mister Bildore. Ash ketchum.
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>> Cameron: Cameron over here starting it off with me.
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>> Cameron: Okay, yeah, I'll start off with you. Were there any, like,
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hints that we missed that you were trying to drop
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of your guy actually being a
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firebender? Aside from his name being Ash and brothers being
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named Ember and Blaze?
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>> Skylar: Well, and he's from the fire nation.
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>> Cameron: None of that. It was
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hints to him being a bender, more
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that he was from a fire nation. And his family had a lot of fire
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themes to it. And I
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mean, you could take his whole
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background being from the Fire nation as a hint to him being a
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firebender. But the thing is, there's plenty, plenty of people in every
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nation that aren't benders. So it's not like
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I was ever, like, pushing at that. The
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only major things that were like,
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I rarely hinted at him being a bender
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because a big part of his character was he
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was afraid of fire. He's a pyrophobia,
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because of his accident. And, because of that,
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he resented the idea of using his powers. So
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even in any crisis situation, the last thing he would
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do is use his powers. Right. And so because of that, it was hard for me
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to hint about it. And so his best hints
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were probably, like, his pyrophobia
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and his. All of his, scars
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from his burn damage and stuff. And, like,
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he, in some way is related to fire,
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whether he self burned himself, which,
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surprisingly isn't a thing you see all the time in Avatar,
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but, like, pyro people aren't flame
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immune. So I don't know why there's more people in the
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Avatar universe that aren't, like, covered in, like, burn
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marks, especially.
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>> Skylar: From the firing age. I mean, you got, like, dudes that are, using fire.
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>> Cameron: Like, the only one was Zuko.
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That was it. And it was just like, that's kind of weird
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knowing, because, like, I was asking Skyler when I was running the character
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specifically for our paw episode. Cause that
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might have been a. That was the one time I was almost gonna hint. It
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was our prequel episode, and we had to cross
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that hot floor. And Bill, I
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even messaged Skylar. I was like, does Bill
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have an immunity to fire damage? And could I just, like,
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walk across these hot coals and just not, not feel it? And he
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told me, if you do, it won't be as
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harmful as, like, someone else doing it, but
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it still would hurt, but just not as bad as, like,
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if a non firebender did it. And I was like, that makes sense.
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Cause I can use heat, so my body probably handles it
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better. But from the way he sounded, it sound like
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if I stood on them long enough, I would start burning still,
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so. And, like, I can fall in lava and burn to death
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still, so it's.
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>> Skylar: Like, it'd be an interesting thing to, like, look into the
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avatar world and so on and so forth
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to see, like, I mean, all things considered,
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again, they don't. I mean, there's nothing to suggest that they
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have immunity. I don't know if it's just a situation where people that have
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firebending just have calloused
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fingers and feet to the point where, you know, when they're
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kicking because the fire is, like, right there, like, within inches of their body.
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So it only makes sense that to some extent, they're feeling that
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heat and that burn, but obviously
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not as much so as other people. I don't know.
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>> Skylar: That's it.
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>> Skylar: You know, it's an interesting question. It's an interesting question, but, like,
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you referenced Zuko having a giant burn on his face
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suggests that they absolutely can get burned.
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It's just like, why are they also able to control fire
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to an extent? You know, I don't know.
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>> Cameron: Like, if I didn't know about Zuko, I definitely would not have made
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Bill have a giant scar on his body because I
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would have just thought, oh, firebenders can't get burn marks, right? But
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Zuko clearly shows you the opposite. So
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there isn't actually an answer to the question, though I never
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really hinted at it. The only real hint is my burn scars and
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his extreme phobia. But people definitely could
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have just chalked that up to, he's
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from. He's from the Fire nation. He's afraid of fire because
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he got badly hurt by it in the past. But that doesn't mean he has bending,
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so. But as we saw, he does have bending and that's
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what caused his damage.
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>> Skylar: But, yeah, tough to say. Cameron, you got a
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question you can throw to somebody in the group?
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>> Cameron: Sure. I could pass this to the next person to
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my left and go for Mikayla as Micah.
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it says, what does life
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look like for Micah once her father returns from his final
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mission with the rescue team squadron in 20
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years? What is Mika up to? From
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llama lover.
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>> Skylar: From who?
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>> Cameron: From llama lover.
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>> Skylar: Llama m lover.
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>> Cameron: Llama lover.
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>> Skylar: Thanks. Llama lover.
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>> Cameron: I love llama. Clearly this person
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does too.
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>> Skylar: Yeah.
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>> Cameron: but basically, I think the storm of this question is it's
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a two part one. What does she do when her father comes back?
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And then what do you imagine
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Micah's future looks like?
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>> Mikayla: well, I imagine when her father comes back, they
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probably find a place to kind of settle down.
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>> Skylar: is that in gowling or do they just.
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>> Mikayla: I would say in gowling because
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Micah has a lot of trauma with the water
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niche.
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>> Skylar: That's a fair point.
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>> Mikayla: and, I mean, she's
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currently staying at the
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hot. I mean.
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>> Skylar: Whoa, whoa.
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>> Cameron: That's a dramatic.
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>> Skylar: She goes and she does open up a hot
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brew.
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>> Mikayla: and so I figured when her dad comes, they probably settle down there until
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they figure out more of what they want to do long
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term. I think Micah would probably be
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very interested in doing,
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like, what do you
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call it?
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>> Skylar: Arts and crafts.
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>> Cameron: Describe it.
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>> Mikayla: well, I'm trying to. You guys keep interrupting.
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>> Skylar: Sorry, I. Pottery.
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You're doing the same thing. She just complained.
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>> Cameron: What else was saying?
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>> Mikayla: Something like, when you, when you. Like a
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private investigator.
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>> Skylar: Oh.
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>> Dave: Oh, yeah, I think you had mentioned that before.
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>> Skylar: Yeah.
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>> Mikayla: she probably gets her start. You know, she
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works dishwasher. She has a great
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backdoor business opportunity. I
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feel like, of just, like, literally.
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>> Skylar: Out of the back door, like, she's cleaning dishes and then somebody runs up to the back
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door and they're like, are you. Are you Mika? Mika
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investigation agency.
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>> Cameron: Well, I'm sure Mia.
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>> Mikayla: I'm sure. I'm sure over time, she'd have
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some kind of code or whatever, but, like.
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>> Skylar: Also, like, they knock on the door three times, then two
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times, then six times.
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>> Mikayla: Also, who was her friend from the board group?
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>> Skylar: Oh, Chicra.
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>> Mikayla: Yeah, chicra. I mean, you know, Chicra could give her a
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great in with the community.
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>> Skylar: Oh, I thought you were gonna say they're gonna start a business together.
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>> Mikayla: I mean, that would be probably a high potential.
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>> Skylar: That'd be kind of cool. But as, for.
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>> Mikayla: As. For 20 years? I don't know.
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I don't know. She. I don't think that she's really
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interested in settling down and starting a family.
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I just think she's probably more making a name for herself.
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>> Skylar: Yeah, no, that makes sense. She
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expands her investigative tendencies to
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go past the earth nation and into other nations.
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Who knows?
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>> Mikayla: Solving mysteries play off those, role playing
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skills.
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>> Cameron: Whoa.
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>> Skylar: Like Zoink's scoob, you know, she had.
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>> Mikayla: A lover in that.
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Well, that's where it was going, but it didn't actually end up that way.
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>> Skylar: Are you talking about the prison?
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>> Mikayla: Yeah.
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>> Skylar: She takes that seriously. She goes somewhere with that.
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>> Mikayla: Well, I mean, like, as a private investigator, she
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could just see her role playing.
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>> Skylar: Not like
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she bending snaps all over the
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place.
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>> Mikayla: Saucy. Has experience pretending
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to be something.
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>> Skylar: Okay, I understand. That makes sense. All
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right, well, moving past the
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question given to you, do you have a question for somebody else?
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Michaela?
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>> Mikayla: I can do Guo.
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>> Skylar: Sure. Everybody's just passing around
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the table.
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>> Mikayla: Well, I feel you're next.
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>> Cameron: So.
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>> Mikayla: what's Guo's long term goal? In reference to the
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blissful full brew in his career?
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>> Skylar: Oh, is he gonna keep it up? Is he
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gonna. Is he gonna be the next Okaran?
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>> Dave: I would say that he probably definitely
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keep, like, all the tea on the
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menu.
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>> Skylar: Nice.
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>> Dave: but he would probably branch out
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and either do something to compliment that more
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or open up another business, maybe,
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like, next door, you know,
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maybe have other. Other ventures separate.
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>> Skylar: Sure, that makes sense. And, like, yeah, it doesn't all
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have to be in the same place. I actually imagine that a
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lot of the stovetop space was going to be used for just
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a bunch of tea kettles, so it just doesn't leave a
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whole lot of room for all the other food prep
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and stuff. So, yeah, if he had, like, a building next door or something,
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and maybe.
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>> Dave: Someday he'd expansion.
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>> Skylar: Yeah.
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>> Dave: He'd have his own version of like,
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guy fieri's.
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>> Cameron: Diners.
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>> Dave: Diners, drive ins and dives.
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>> Skylar: I love that idea. Dropping those, pebble
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ratings all over the place. That's awesome.
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That's awesome. I love it. Well, and, you know, all things
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considered, I did imagine personally when I was,
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like, described, especially near the beginning of the series when we actually see like,
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okaran's getting things ready in the kitchen and stuff like that. We're kind of going
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through what everybody's position within the
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blissful brew. And I imagine it being really
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crowded. Like, the sink is back there. So Mika's, like
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doing dishes. Mika and Brock, who, Brock is like massive,
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obviously, and they're doing dishes and it's crowding that
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whole section of the back area. And then you've got
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Okaran is trying to, like, cook stuff and Bill is
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trying to take stuff back and forth from the floor. So he's grabbing this stuff. You know,
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it's just like a really crowded environment in the back there. So,
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yeah, either an expansion or just like getting a second building,
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I think is probably necessary.
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Awesome. All right, guo, Dave,
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you're up.
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>> Dave: Let's go. One for Skylar.
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>> Skylar: Oh, my gosh. Who could have
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guessed?
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>> Dave: All right, so what was the
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plan for the plot of the missing
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sea serpent? Scale.
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>> Skylar: Ah, yes, the scale. Okay, so
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this is one of those situations where like, the DM
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obviously writes out like a whole elaborate thing and then
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expects the player. And that was my fault. I foolishly
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expected the players to just follow through with it and
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do the mystery as it was meant to be.
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>> Skylar: And you can never, you can never.
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>> Skylar: Put a thing into place and expect your players to do it the way that you thought
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you were going to do. That's not how that works. That's not how that
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works. I just thought you guys would, like, go in there
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and you would. I thought Cameron, honestly, I thought you
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would have the grid. I made a griddenne
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while I was plotting this out. And I had all the suspects
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listed and then I went through the entire mystery and stuck
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clues in and different points where I was like, if
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a person explores all these avenues, they'd find the clues
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and if they put them on this grid, they would know
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exactly who did it. Because there's literally one person
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that has every single element in their,
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their character. And at the very least, you could
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probably narrow them down to, like, two people. And just by
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attitude alone, you might have guessed that it was the right guy. But instead,
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Brock's like, flipping people over and shaking their pockets
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and then essentially torturing them into just admitting. And
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at that point, I was like, oh, my gosh.
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Episode or season two is gonna be 300
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episodes long. What is this one piece? so I was
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like, I need to move this along. And just like,
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okay, fine. Yeah, you shake him, and the scale
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falls out of his pocket. Like, there you go. We got to get this
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plot moving. But where's the other scale? Oh, you don't know where the other
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scale is? So, yeah, I don't know. To be honest, it was kind of
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a filler episode just to have something goofy going on. And then,
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of course, Bill wanted nothing to do with the whole thing. Just
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beeline straight for the boat after he was, like, sick of it. And
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I'm like, you know, what's gonna
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stop them? I guess. I don't know. They just need
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to get to the island. This is a fair point. I can't deny
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it for the purpose of convenience. So, I mean, I don't know. There you go.
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It was a filler episode, technically. I just wanted to
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throw a mystery in there. I didn't think it would take three episodes to get
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through it.
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>> Cameron: And all it took was Brock just chaining everybody's
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feet to the floor and shaking them
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upside down.
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>> Skylar: That's right.
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>> Cameron: That's right. If you want to get anywhere, kids start torturing
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people.
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>> Cameron: Violent.
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>> Skylar: Pick the kid up and shake his milk money out of his
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pockets.
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>> Cameron: Violence.
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>> Mikayla: We don't condone bullying, actually.
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>> Skylar: Oh, yeah, we don't.
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>> Cameron: Yeah.
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>> Skylar: Don't. I
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appreciate Mika being the voice of reason.
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>> Cameron: What?
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>> Skylar: Yeah.
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okay, so question for everybody. We'll do. We'll do rapid fire around
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the room. This is mighty mine to you guys favorite NPC.
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Go. Connor.
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can you come back? I was worried where you. Okay. I was worried we were gonna
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go. Cameron.
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>> Cameron: it's one of two characters.
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Oh, there's three. There's so many good ones.
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>> Skylar: Oh, no.
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>> Cameron: I'll just quick say my three favorites. One was the explosives guy.
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The other one was the 90 degree man, old guy that
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we. That was on the hike with us.
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>> Skylar: The guy was ridiculous.
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>> Cameron: I think the last one was kido
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Kito.
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>> Skylar: All right, Michaela.
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>> Mikayla: I liked Chicra.
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>> Skylar: Yeah, that makes sense.
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>> Mikayla: But I also did like the butler guy.
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>> Skylar: Butler guy. Yeah. Almost
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forgot about him. That's a throwback. He was fun.
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Hey, wait a minute. So you're not going to integrate him? I feel like he would
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come up at some point in Mika's future endeavor.
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>> Mikayla: I mean, maybe he could be my butler someday.
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>> Skylar: Yeah, maybe you take him on as, like. Yeah, the blissful
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brew gets, like, really wealthy.
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>> Mikayla: He could be, like, our host.
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>> Skylar: Oh, you guys could hire him. M at the blissful brew?
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>> Mikayla: Yeah, yo, I'm sure we could, because.
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>> Skylar: Bill doesn't work there anymore as the host.
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>> Cameron: You don't have a host.
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>> Mikayla: There you go.
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>> Skylar: He'll be pretty. Good job. He's brilliant. All right,
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Dave, favorite NPC.
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>> Dave: Mister Okaron.
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>> Skylar: Okay, he's right.
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>> Cameron: Okay, I forgot about it. He's got a good
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point.
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>> Skylar: Dang it. All right, back to Connor.
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>> Cameron: Okay, so either the pirate, the lady
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pirate, the lady pirate, the lady pirate that
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Brock tried to give me a second.
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>> Skylar: Hold my eyes.
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>> Cameron: Or Chicra for nothing else than her
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saying, what's your favorite thing to do without a dad?
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Still, I think the best line of.
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>> Cameron: The entire campaign, my magnum opus, NPC.
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>> Skylar: Spur of the moment line right there. What's your favorite thing
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to do in that?
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>> Cameron: Probably my favorite line of the whole
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campaign.
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>> Skylar: that's true. I forgot about that. I
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need to put that on a t shirt.
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>> Cameron: Like, make some stickers.
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>> Skylar: What's your favorite thing to do without a dad?
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Dang. And I'd cry. A tear would fall.
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Every time someone bought that sticker or that t shirt. I'd
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go, oh, somebody out there? I'm sorry.
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Wow. man, I don't know.
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Kido was really fun to play. I also really
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enjoyed old man Gunja, which was voiced by our good friend
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Doug. that was just a goofy character to write
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for in his spoons.
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>> Cameron: And his spoons.
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>> Cameron: And then him and, Guo having, like, pie fight, like,
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trying to fight over the same pie eating entire
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spoonfuls of cinnamon.
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>> Skylar: And he wanted interest on you borrowing his spoon.
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That was weird. All right, Connor, what do you got?
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>> Cameron: I'll throw it right over to. I'll throw it over to
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Dave. Mister Guo Han from
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thinkbee 63. did you
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feel that Guo's backstory at the carnival would have
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shown up more throughout the campaign, or do you kind of wish
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it showed up more so he could flex his carnival muscles?
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>> Skylar: Oh, man.
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>> Cameron: Or circus muscles.
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>> Dave: I mean, I did try to reference back to
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different skills that he had from the carnival, but the
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only thing that maybe I would have liked more to
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come through was the, lady he
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left behind.
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>> Skylar: Mirabel. Yeah.
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To see her pop up again. That would have been interesting, for
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sure. I feel like there's a lot of
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opportunity we could have taken with the, with the carnival
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showing up again. I know. I kind of just threw chinks and Ani in there.
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>> Dave: Oh, and also I did kind of leave it open
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to like, oh, Guo's
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parents are potentially alive
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still.
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>> Cameron: Yeah.
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>> Skylar: That would have been intense. I feel like, I mean,
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I think we hit two pretty emotional points
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with withdeze. Bill's backstory, Amica's
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backstory, like throughout the series. But I feel like, and no
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offense to Connor and Brock, but I feel like the
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only other like really emotional note that we probably
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could have hit would have been with whoa and his parents.
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>> Cameron: I mean, that's fair.
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>> Skylar: I mean, yours were like fine. Honestly.
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>> Cameron: Brock was just a earth rumble six
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fighter.
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>> Skylar: Yeah. Yeah. And your family was like all good. They're out
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there, they're doing their farm. You're sending them some money.
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>> Cameron: Yeah, they're just over there harvesting their cabbages.
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>> Skylar: I want to, I don't want to give too much away because I know there's a question that'll come
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up because I already read through them all and, and I have more to
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say on that. But I digress anyway. Okay.
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Cameron. Yeah.
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>> Cameron: I have a question for you, Skyler.
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>> Skylar: Oh no.
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>> Cameron: If you could go back and change anything about the
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story, what would it be?
18:03
>> Skylar: Okay, so that's a
18:05
really tough question. I was, I mean, it's tough to
18:09
answer as the DM because the idea behind Dming is
18:11
that I, I just come up with like the titles
18:14
for the chapters. Right. And then
18:17
you guys are the ones that are kind of creating the story that
18:20
happens within it. Right. Like I just coming up with the headers, you guys come
18:23
up with the actual like content within that. So it's hard
18:26
for me to say like, man, I wish I could have changed that because I don't want to change anything
18:29
that you guys sort of use to develop your characters
18:33
with that, being said.
18:37
That's a tough one. I was really happy with everything that
18:40
happened. I might, I
18:43
guess I'm not trying to cheat off of what was just discussed, but
18:46
I probably would integrate whoa's backstory a
18:49
little bit more because I felt like, like I said
18:52
Conor or Brock's. Brock's backstory.
18:55
It felt very like it was good where it
18:58
was at. I feel like Bill had a very obvious
19:01
like progression to get to.
19:03
Michaela playing Micah had like a really fun kind
19:06
of angst. You had the most like angsty team
19:09
and that left a lot of opportunity to like
19:12
throw the angsty teen into situations and see how they get
19:15
themselves out of it because this angsty teen gotta grow
19:18
up. but like Guo I felt like
19:21
didn't get enough representation. I say that probably be my
19:23
main thing that I'd want to adjust to like
19:26
get, get Dave on a little bit of more
19:29
and get Guo to like have an opportunity to,
19:32
I don't know, have some big growth moment or something like that.
19:37
Yeah, that's probably what I changed. Oh my,
19:40
oh yeah, sorry.
19:41
>> Mikayla: My turn.
19:41
>> Skylar: Yeah, sorry.
19:42
>> Mikayla: I should have, I got a question for Brock
19:45
Connor.
19:46
>> Mikayla: Do you, I feel like this is gonna come
19:49
off very mean, but it's fine.
19:52
Do you feel like Brock really learned anything by the end
19:55
of the series?
19:57
>> Cameron: That's a good question.
20:00
I thought that a lot in the last season.
20:03
>> Cameron: It's a fair question. And I feel like the
20:06
answer is no.
20:08
>> Skylar: I think we can all agree it's no.
20:10
>> Cameron: Yeah, I mean, he kind of learned how to read.
20:12
>> Mikayla: Yeah, well, he was starting to, he.
20:15
>> Cameron: Was starting to learn how to read.
20:16
>> Cameron: But emotionally, no, no,
20:20
he's not a character arc. He's just a character
20:23
plateau.
20:26
>> Cameron: he was the base that everyone's arcs were built off of.
20:29
>> Skylar: Yeah.
20:29
>> Cameron: He had a good foundation and that was Brock. He was the
20:31
foundation, the catalyst for everyone
20:34
else.
20:35
>> Dave: Yeah.
20:35
>> Cameron: It's like by seeing Brock stay the same, you could see
20:38
the growth of everybody else.
20:41
>> Cameron: That kind of makes sense.
20:42
>> Skylar: Brock stood still so everybody else could run.
20:45
>> Cameron: Exactly. And that's his role.
20:48
And he filled that role.
20:50
>> Mikayla: I mean, he was really embodying a Brock there.
20:53
>> Cameron: He was. Yes.
20:54
>> Skylar: Brock started out punching his problems away
20:57
and Brock ended punching his problems away. That
21:00
was his plateau, I think you did.
21:02
>> Cameron: And he helped his friends punch their problems away.
21:05
>> Mikayla: I would really love to meet Brock's parents.
21:09
>> Skylar: one m is the cabbage man.
21:10
>> Cameron: Apparently one is the cabbage man.
21:12
>> Mikayla: And I, well, I just want to see if they're
21:15
just as like,
21:17
yeah.
21:18
>> Cameron: Well, the cabbage man was, they're probably.
21:20
>> Cameron: Like the nicest people.
21:21
>> Skylar: They probably are. Actually.
21:23
>> Cameron: Brock's just weird. He's just the, yeah,
21:26
he's, we just kind of let him do whatever.
21:28
>> Mikayla: Like a dude.
21:29
>> Skylar: I mean, in the prequel episode, the cabbage
21:32
man is kind of like, oh, we better not mess with the
21:35
firebenders. They're more powerful than us. We're in the
21:38
prison camp. Let's just roll. He's like, he's grandpa
21:40
grape in, in veggie tales in the
21:43
Egypt one where he's just like three square meals
21:46
a day.
21:47
>> Cameron: It was paradise.
21:50
>> Skylar: Paradise. And then Brock's like, no, I'm gonna punch
21:52
it.
21:54
>> Mikayla: Yeah, I just, I know how
21:56
Brock became the way he did.
21:59
>> Cameron: Yeah.
22:00
>> Skylar: How did Brock go from. Yeah. Having such nice
22:02
parents that are very passive.
22:06
>> Mikayla: Hidden psychopath.
22:08
>> Cameron: Maybe he just got. He took too many rock naps.
22:11
Like he hit himself in the head too many times with a couple rocks.
22:14
You know, maybe, amount of concussions he got from earth
22:17
rumble or something.
22:17
>> Cameron: He's sleeping underground and no oxygen does something to
22:20
him.
22:21
>> Cameron: Lack of oxygen doesn't do well for brain
22:24
development. You could be on to something.
22:28
>> Skylar: Good to know for. Yeah. You're out there raising your
22:31
kids, make.
22:32
>> Cameron: Sure they get oxygen.
22:33
>> Skylar: You want them to just punch everything.
22:35
>> Dave: This one is for Micah's
22:38
character or
22:40
Mikaela's character.
22:41
>> Cameron: Micah.
22:44
>> Skylar: Sometimes it's hard to distinguish.
22:45
>> Dave: Would you say I'm nothing like her.
22:48
>> Mikayla: Okay.
22:49
>> Dave: Micah is more willing to make friends now
22:52
than she was at the start of the series
22:54
is from distant dreams.
22:58
>> Mikayla: I mean, I feel like she'd be pretty content with the one she has.
23:02
>> Skylar: Dang. So. Even less so.
23:03
>> Mikayla: Well, I mean, like, you think about it, you know,
23:06
she was really close to her
23:09
parents. The whole thing happened with, her
23:12
tribe. Mom died, she lost her
23:14
dad. M. Well, she thought she. I mean, she didn't. She did lose
23:17
her dad, just not in the dying sense of. And then Mister
23:20
Okaron dies. She just. I feel like
23:23
she's probably just. It would
23:26
be hard for her to allow more and more new people to come in
23:29
because attachments would form.
23:31
>> Skylar: Right. And she's tired of loss. Yeah,
23:34
makes sense. Makes sense. But she did
23:36
make remake friends with Chicra at
23:39
the end.
23:39
>> Mikayla: Yeah, see, I mean, Chica is all she needs.
23:42
>> Skylar: Do you think she becomes friends with,
23:45
what's, her name?
23:47
>> Cameron: Oh, Kai?
23:49
>> Cameron: No, Sora.
23:49
>> Mikayla: Sora.
23:49
>> Skylar: Sora.
23:50
>> Cameron: Probably,
23:53
ish.
23:54
>> Mikayla: I don't know.
23:55
>> Cameron: What about the wild coyote boars?
23:57
>> Skylar: What about the other wild coyote boars? Yeah, I feel like
24:00
scoliosis and the big guy.
24:03
>> Cameron: They seem nice.
24:04
>> Mikayla: I mean, I feel like having an in with Chicoro. She'd almost have to
24:07
be right? Like, that's, in a sense, Chikura's family.
24:10
>> Skylar: Oh. you make it seem like they're gonna start the
24:13
gang back up again with a different purpose.
24:15
>> Mikayla: I mean, they could.
24:16
>> Cameron: It's gonna be one of those fun.
24:17
>> Skylar: Games.
24:22
>> Mikayla: And tear them down.
24:23
>> Skylar: Oh, my gosh. It's just Scooby doing the
24:25
game. Without the dog. I don't
24:28
know. Yeah, without the. I don't know. Maybe you get something.
24:31
>> Dave: No, they have a fox dog.
24:34
>> Skylar: Oh, the fox dog. Ah. it learns to sort of
24:37
talk. What?
24:39
>> Mikayla: I mean, it was in the spirit realm for a little while.
24:41
It's possible.
24:42
>> Cameron: Yeah.
24:43
>> Skylar: All right. Fair enough. I'll give you that. That sounds cool. Is it back to
24:46
me?
24:46
>> Cameron: Think so.
24:48
>> Skylar: okay. Everybody's favorite,
24:50
moment in the series.
24:53
>> Cameron: Connor, are we talking
24:56
about plot wise or, like, outside of
24:58
here, like, between
25:02
us talking?
25:03
>> Cameron: No.
25:03
>> Skylar: No.
25:04
>> Cameron: Okay, well, I kind of have two answers to
25:07
that. Plot wise. My favorite part was
25:10
just the wild coyote boar fight.
25:13
>> Skylar: That was a pretty crazy fight because.
25:15
>> Cameron: I mean, Brock got to punch chicra through a
25:17
wall, and then the last guy
25:20
who tried to run away, my role was so good
25:23
that he. I was able to take away one of his abilities, and I
25:26
decided to take away. He can't run away.
25:28
And so we, like, we not only got the money back and got
25:31
them to not mess with us, but we also took his money
25:34
out of his pocket. So I think that was my favorite
25:38
plot part. My favorite part from, like, just us, like,
25:41
on the outside breaking the fourth wall here was how
25:44
frustrated you got when we were in the cave
25:46
that I think it was, me and Guo were able to just
25:49
sort of earth bend tunnels, around the
25:52
puzzles you had built.
25:53
>> Skylar: It's like the entire series of
25:56
challenges when you're in and you
25:59
have two.
26:00
>> Cameron: Earth where it's like, can we just make a tunnel?
26:03
>> Skylar: You're like, I sure.
26:05
>> Cameron: Like, it doesn't not make sense
26:08
just how frustrated you were getting.
26:10
>> Skylar: That's true.
26:11
>> Cameron: That was fun.
26:12
>> Skylar: I mean, how do you win against the bendy element bend? I'm like,
26:15
man, anything I throw at them is in this world.
26:17
Like, as it is, like, there's no technology and stuff, so everything's
26:20
just elements.
26:21
>> Cameron: Like, you had to do it in a mountain.
26:24
Unfortunately, there were two earthbenders who could.
26:26
>> Skylar: Just make a door back
26:29
on the pirate boat because at least that
26:32
presented.
26:32
>> Cameron: Some challenge that would have worked. Can't bend wood.
26:35
>> Skylar: That's right. Cameron, favorite moment?
26:38
>> Cameron: it's probably my favorite moment because I think it's the start to
26:41
where I personally thought it started getting really good in
26:44
terms of the character development and the storytelling
26:47
in was season three. It was the factory.
26:49
>> Skylar: Oh.
26:50
>> Cameron: I think that's when a lot of stuff started, like,
26:53
hitting the fan, really. And a
26:56
lot of stuff, like, a lot of things came to
26:59
play all at, like, one moment. I think the
27:01
distinct moment was when Mika had to
27:04
choose between hitting
27:06
Bill right to hit Madame
27:09
Yang or to not hit Madam Yang. I think that one
27:12
moment was a very crucial moment for the whole,
27:15
where everything had led up to that moment, and that moment was a
27:18
giant tipping point for a lot of stuff.
27:20
>> Skylar: Yeah.
27:20
>> Cameron: So I think that singular moment, I think, was one of the
27:23
most important moments and one of my favorite moments.
27:26
>> Skylar: In the show that was pretty intense. And we're all looking at
27:28
Mikayla like, is she gonna choose it? Is she gonna choose it? Cameron's like,
27:31
dude, if you gotta do it, do it. Like,
27:34
do what fits best. Yeah, it was pretty
27:37
intense. Mikayla, on the flip side, what was your
27:40
throwing boiling hot water in Bill's face?
27:43
>> Cameron: Definitely the ocean. Yang just got
27:46
in the way.
27:48
>> Mikayla: Oh, my gosh. I don't know what my
27:51
favorite part would be.
27:52
>> Skylar: I think Mikayla, out of everybody in the group, got the
27:55
most frustrated every time Madame Yang got away at
27:58
least.
27:59
>> Cameron: Are you kidding? I had her on the ropes, man.
28:01
>> Skylar: I sound pretty upset, but I feel like
28:04
every time Michaela yelled, are you serious right
28:07
now? You've got to be kidding me.
28:10
>> Cameron: Having a lot. so was your favorite moment when we
28:12
finally knocked her out, finally took it away?
28:16
>> Mikayla: I mean. Yeah, but
28:19
I don't know, I feel like the side conversations
28:22
between some of the NPC's and
28:25
our characters were kind of,
28:28
I don't know, it's just nice to have something
28:31
outside of the story sometimes.
28:32
>> Skylar: Yeah, yeah, the side. Side conversations and such.
28:35
Yeah. That makes sense.
28:36
>> Mikayla: Just to see what direction that takes. I mean, because it does
28:39
have effect on the bigger story.
28:41
>> Skylar: I feel like, like how you basically
28:44
befriended chicra, like, from the get go, which was kind of
28:46
ironic because she was coming for the very
28:49
tea shop.
28:50
>> Mikayla: That well, and then, like, you know, after
28:53
we did the factory, and
28:55
I basically was like, sorry, Bill, for being a
28:58
brat. I just felt like that you can see,
29:01
like, the character growth.
29:03
>> Skylar: Yeah, absolutely.
29:04
>> Cameron: She liked the quiet moments.
29:06
>> Skylar: Yeah, quiet moments, which.
29:08
>> Cameron: No great moment.
29:09
>> Skylar: Absolutely. That dialogue is so necessary to really,
29:12
again, build the characters and tell a story. And
29:15
that's really cool when it works out that way. Sometimes, you know, you get a
29:18
quiet moment. You're just looking at the players like,
29:21
nice fire just sitting around it, I guess. I mean,
29:24
are you guys just gonna go to bed or.
29:27
Ah, you know, you kind of hope as the DM. Like, I mean, I
29:30
got stuff ready, but if you guys want to talk a little bit, go
29:33
ahead and. But no, that's. That's great.
29:36
That's great.
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>> Skylar: Dave, what was your favorite
30:32
moment?
30:34
>> Dave: probably one of my favorite moments was,
30:37
well, what? None of your characters were looking,
30:40
but Guo did a backflip.
30:42
>> Cameron: Yeah, that was a good one. That was a good
30:45
one.
30:46
>> Skylar: Yes. I love it.
30:48
>> Dave: No, I did enjoy, probably in the first season, the
30:51
whole, like, lead up, to
30:54
the wild coyote boar fight
30:57
also. I just thought that was a fun gang to
31:00
fight.
31:01
>> Cameron: It was.
31:02
>> Dave: but when guo
31:04
inspired the community or whatever,
31:07
and we all did the.
31:09
>> Cameron: Snaps, it was amazing. It was
31:12
amazing.
31:12
>> Skylar: Can you imagine an entire towns worth of people
31:15
just stepping at you with looks of anger in their eyes and just
31:18
aggressively snapping at you?
31:20
>> Mikayla: I probably laughed.
31:22
>> Skylar: It would be weird.
31:24
>> Mikayla: What would you do?
31:25
>> Cameron: I mean, I'd, ah, be intimidated and.
31:27
>> Skylar: You just go win. You're the jets.
31:28
>> Cameron: You.
31:29
>> Mikayla: I just feel like I'd laugh out of awkwardness.
31:31
>> Skylar: Like, probably.
31:35
>> Dave: And then I did, like, the last, like, the
31:38
last fight with Madame Yang, too. I thought that
31:41
ending came together pretty well.
31:43
>> Skylar: M the bit where the guy's pen didn't have any
31:46
Dilberts. Dipped right out of
31:49
Dilbert. Amazing.
31:53
>> Cameron: Amazing.
31:54
>> Mikayla: You are also, like, really,
31:58
I will.
31:58
>> Cameron: Say about that final fight. Insane.
32:01
You put an amazing
32:04
score that did it really
32:07
well.
32:07
>> Skylar: Yeah.
32:08
>> Cameron: Beats and the pacing and the timing of everything was really
32:11
well done. I so applaud you on that.
32:13
>> Skylar: Yeah. Yeah. Well, I applaud, I believe it was monumentous and
32:16
studios that we got the music from.
32:18
>> Cameron: So you just got that?
32:19
>> Skylar: I know. I just got, they just reached out to ask if
32:22
we would be willing to kind of collaborate with them on their kickstarter,
32:25
and I was like, yeah, absolutely. And they just straight up offered. They're like,
32:28
here's, here's a bunch of music you can use, which was
32:31
amazing and super generous of them. And then I was like, hey,
32:34
you know, I just want to check with you guys beforehand, but is it cool if we
32:37
use this music in our show? And they're like, dude, yeah, that's, like,
32:40
the point, basically. So, yeah, I was, that was
32:42
awesome.
32:43
>> Cameron: Yeah.
32:43
>> Skylar: That they, they did that. And, not. Not
32:46
like a sponsor, but they did help us out. Yeah, quite a bit on
32:49
an awesome collab, so really appreciate them. Definitely go check out
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their. Their fantasy plus sound, board. It's really
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cool. So as you can, as
32:57
Cameron can attest, it worked out really well.
33:00
Connor, I think you're up. Right?
33:01
>> Cameron: Yeah. so I'll. I'll ask. I'll throw right back at you
33:04
here, Skylar. what is your.
33:07
I would like to ask, what is your favorite and least favorite
33:10
off script moment where we went
33:12
completely in a different direction than what you had
33:15
planned?
33:16
>> Skylar: Well, I think we can all easily agree that the least
33:19
favorite was the challenge. Well, man, see, now you guys have put
33:22
it into perspective because there was the mystery of the scale
33:24
that lasted three episodes. I didn't expect that.
33:27
and just how you guys handled it, that might be a least favorite. But
33:30
then also, you reminded me about the. The challenges within the
33:33
cave solved almost entirely by,
33:35
well, I can earth bend, so.
33:38
So, yeah, I would say between those two, it's gotta be one
33:41
of those for, like, least favorite. One of my favorite moments.
33:44
Oh, my gosh, I hate to be that guy that just,
33:47
like, says, oh, yeah, that thing that you guys already mentioned, but, oh,
33:50
my gosh, that moment of, what's your favorite
33:53
thing to do without a dad? Was truly magical
33:56
and unexpected. I did not expect Mikayla to
33:59
just, like, start making friends with one of, like I said, one of the
34:01
people that you guys actively had coming after
34:04
you guys. And I thought it was so funny.
34:07
And then things started lining up really well with the whole dad
34:10
bit and everything like that. I feel like it wasn't even just that. It was
34:13
like that and, like, three other jokes about, like,
34:16
can't really play catch, which is me.
34:19
>> Cameron: I don't know.
34:20
>> Skylar: There was, like, three other bits in there that I was like, this is the most,
34:23
like, horrible thing we've ever come up with, but it's hilarious.
34:26
>> Cameron: I don't know.
34:27
>> Skylar: So that was. That was pretty off script
34:30
and hilarious. Trying to think if there was anything that you
34:33
guys did that, like, I didn't even have a plan for,
34:36
like, at all. Like, you guys, like, completely
34:39
went off, but I don't know if there is any. I feel like, and I'm not
34:42
trying to say I railroaded, but I feel like I did a pretty good job of just,
34:45
like, trying to keep the plot going
34:47
with throwing me off.
34:49
>> Cameron: If I remember right early in the first season, you
34:52
had kind of given us, like, even
34:54
directions to where the wild coyote wars hideout was,
34:58
But then Michaela decided, let's go to.
35:00
>> Cameron: The rich people's house.
35:04
>> Cameron: If I had to guess, that wasn't in the
35:07
plan. So that's how we got some
35:10
basket out of it.
35:11
>> Skylar: Well, actually, that's not entirely true. I did have it planned in
35:14
case you guys went there, because I came up with stuff in
35:17
the basement and all of that kind of stuff. So, I mean, like, it was
35:20
an option, but it wasn't what I thought you'd take.
35:23
But I was also kind of worried that, actually, I think the
35:26
base was the secondary plan. I was worried you guys would
35:29
go there because I thought, oh, man, what if they just go there
35:32
and just beat everybody up? Where am I gonna.
35:34
>> Cameron: I mean, that's what Bill wanted.
35:35
>> Skylar: Yeah. Yeah, I remember.
35:37
>> Cameron: Yeah, Brock. At that point, Brock wasn't
35:40
as hard headed.
35:41
>> Skylar: So I think another element of, off
35:44
script that I thought was hilarious was the fact that after
35:47
season one, you guys still kept all
35:50
that money. And then you guys went throughout the rest of the
35:53
thing, and I sat there and I was like, okay, so the one thing I
35:56
can't do in the whole rest of seasons two, and
35:58
inevitably, three, is put anything in a
36:01
challenge situation that would involve just buying your
36:04
way out, because they can do that right now. They have a
36:07
lot of money. I cannot give them any money challenges.
36:10
>> Cameron: That is fair. We did not spend a cent, did we?
36:13
>> Cameron: I mean, we just were too busy doing stuff. Yeah.
36:15
>> Skylar: Yeah.
36:16
>> Cameron: But we could have, like, bought. Oh, we could have, like, bribed so many
36:19
guards.
36:19
>> Mikayla: We definitely spent a cent. Because you took pirate lady on a
36:22
date.
36:25
>> Skylar: On the expense report.
36:27
>> Cameron: I think, like, the only thing we really paid
36:30
for was that boat ride to the island.
36:32
>> Skylar: And the guide.
36:34
>> Cameron: And the guide. Yeah, and the guide. That was it,
36:36
really.
36:37
>> Cameron: So the boat ride. The guide. And a
36:40
date. And a date to a hot leaf.
36:42
>> Skylar: Juice to a, Well, nobody in this
36:44
entire room except for Brock Lee,
36:47
supported hot leaf juice in any way,
36:51
to be fair.
36:52
>> Mikayla: But, you know, karma, he got arrested.
36:54
>> Cameron: So I got arrested immediately after.
36:58
>> Skylar: That's a good way of looking at it. Awesome. Karen.
37:01
>> Cameron: Well, I want to piggyback off of where you're already at.
37:03
>> Skylar: You could probably piggyback on comedy. Yeah.
37:05
>> Cameron: So this was a question asked by Luke.
37:07
>> Skylar: Okay.
37:08
>> Cameron: Hey, a good friend of ours, and,
37:11
the question plays off of what you were talking
37:13
about, which was, was there anything or storylines or
37:16
NPC's that completely got skipped over because of our choices?
37:19
So one of them was the warehouse you prepared, but did you have
37:22
any other moments or characters that you had in
37:25
mind that we just completely skipped over.
37:27
>> Skylar: Yeah. So this is kind of a big one.
37:29
>> Cameron: Yeah.
37:30
>> Skylar: So the original intent was
37:33
not necessarily to end with season three. I
37:36
had plans that were going to go past that already in
37:39
place, and it was kind of more. I
37:42
don't know. I don't feel like it would have been as, like, fun. I feel like
37:45
it would have kind of felt like, you know, when shows.
37:47
>> Cameron: Go too far, you're dragging up the story. Yeah.
37:49
>> Skylar: But at the same time, I don't know, there could have been some fundamental moments. So
37:53
I wanted you guys to obviously get the best blissful brew
37:55
back, but the overarching concept
37:58
that Madame Yang and hot leaf juice were still
38:01
obviously out there and still obviously kind of a
38:03
superpower. And then on top of it,
38:06
in season three, you guys had that whole look into one of their
38:09
factories and, seeing how, like, they're
38:12
getting orphans from the Fire nation and just kind of manipulating
38:15
them and using them and stuff like that. And so I was going to turn
38:18
them into this, like, basically big corporation that you guys were
38:21
going to take down little by little, and that's what was going
38:24
to be future seasons. So you guys were going to
38:27
travel either across the earth nation, and then, like, each season
38:30
would be you guys taking down one of the
38:32
shops or one of the major factories or something like
38:35
that. So, going off of that, probably
38:38
one of my favorite ones that I had planned was in the
38:41
Fire nation in the Ember Islands, I think
38:44
it was, which in the show is where, like,
38:47
zuko and, Azula go to, like, have, like, that little
38:49
vacation, basically. Yeah. So there was gonna be,
38:52
like, a beachside, like,
38:55
tea smoothie shack, and there was gonna be, like,
38:58
this really chill dude that was running it, and it was technically
39:01
owned and run. Bye. Buy hot leaf juice. But this guy was just kind of,
39:04
like, you know, your. Your classic, like, chill, bro
39:07
kind of guy. And I was like, oh, man, are they going to take this
39:10
place down, or are they just going to, like, befriend this guy and try to
39:13
convince him to, like, convert to blissful brew or something like
39:15
that? I don't know. That was just one of the ideas, but, yeah. So that was kind of,
39:18
like, the overarching things that got
39:21
skipped over. That was kind of the plan. But I know
39:24
that we've got other things that we wanted to run and there are
39:27
some life changes and things and just didn't. It wouldn't work
39:30
out. But at the same time, I don't. I don't know if it would have
39:33
even been a fun sort of series to continue
39:35
going on. On. I think we ended on a really powerful
39:38
emotional note.
39:40
>> Cameron: I think the timing and the ending was a good ending.
39:43
>> Skylar: It worked out awesome.
39:45
>> Mikayla: Mikayla, question,
39:48
for Cameron.
39:51
>> Cameron: Hello.
39:53
>> Mikayla: this is from zcarthe card
39:55
now, something like
39:58
that. there's, like, a lot to it, so
40:02
sit down for a good time. What
40:05
might life be like for Ash now that he had, now
40:08
that he is back in the Fire nation? Like, what are his long
40:10
term goals, such as a job? Does he join his
40:13
father's factory? What about the coming war being
40:16
enacted by the Fire nation? What? His dad choose to leave the fire
40:19
nation to escape being a part of that, and where would
40:22
they go?
40:22
>> Skylar: Dang, the hard hitting bill questions.
40:25
>> Cameron: See, I always thought about that because he's going back home with his
40:28
family and stuff, and it's all. That's a lot of questions
40:31
in one.
40:32
>> Dave: Depends if the Fire nation has a
40:34
draft.
40:35
>> Mikayla: Oh, but I mean, it's all that.
40:38
>> Cameron: Kind of is really important. Like, I feel like
40:41
that would answer all the questions also, like, I don't
40:44
know much about, like, the
40:46
lore of Avatar, so I don't know, like,
40:51
and, I don't know, like, if your family's rich, if you can
40:54
skip the draft, because Bill's family is very rich.
40:57
>> Skylar: I feel like you just get put into a position of, like,
41:00
higher leadership within the military.
41:01
>> Cameron: That's probably what would happen. So if there, if the war
41:04
happened, I, so I assumed what would happen
41:07
was Bill would go back to work with his dad, right, and his
41:10
brother, and they would start working to
41:12
basically because the war
41:15
then soon starts building up. And so him and his
41:18
family, since it's very clear his family's anti the
41:21
war and all these efforts and stuff, especially with what bill's seen
41:24
firsthand, and the earth nation heard the earth nation
41:27
reports, and then tells his dad about the stuff really
41:30
happening. They're taking over towns, trapping people,
41:33
killing a lot of people, you know, all this bad stuff. Then his dad
41:36
definitely be even more anti stuff. So I think their factory would
41:39
be like, make their.
41:42
The factory is in charge of making weapons, like the met
41:44
weapons of, like, the tanks and those vehicles and stuff,
41:47
the warships and all this stuff. So I think his dad would start
41:50
basically creating them to have, like,
41:53
misfires and, like, jamming and
41:56
flaws and, basically when they're in combat, they would just stop
41:59
working and stuff, basically because that way gives the
42:02
people a chance to fight back.
42:03
>> Skylar: Right.
42:04
>> Cameron: But then I think what would have happened is they would have
42:06
caught on. His dad probably would have been put in prison,
42:09
lost his seat, and then Bill and Blaze
42:12
would have been probably forced to join the, Because
42:15
that. Because I truly think if they were going against the
42:18
nation, eventually they would find out, and then they would
42:21
throw them in the military as punishment. And then his dad
42:24
would lose his title and probably be forced to retire.
42:27
But since his status, he wouldn't go to the military. Just be
42:30
like, maybe become like a iroh, you know, where
42:33
he's like a general, but kind of being
42:36
forced against his will. Like, iroh, kind of like, iroh's
42:39
a general, but like, yeah, he really doesn't want to
42:42
fight. He's just like, I don't want to do this. I'm just going to, tell
42:44
my troops to do the wrong things all the time.
42:46
>> Skylar: Well, yeah, like, they kind of put him into a useless position, basically.
42:49
>> Cameron: And that's what I think where Bill's dad would or
42:52
Ash's dad would be. But I think truly Ash and his
42:55
brother, probably, like ten years, 510 years, whenever
42:58
the war really starts heating up,
43:02
they would be forced to join the army.
43:04
>> Mikayla: So you think that they would stay and not
43:07
run. You'd think they'd fight behind the scenes and not.
43:09
>> Cameron: They would definitely be trying to
43:14
help without hurting
43:17
in a way.
43:17
>> Skylar: Right.
43:18
>> Cameron: But, like, at the same time, they also don't want
43:21
to get even more in trouble and then killed because
43:24
of what they're doing. So they would have to be like,
43:27
I don't know, maybe they. One time they.
43:29
They. When the army's off in the earth nation doing stuff, maybe
43:32
they run away from the army and escape together, and then
43:35
they start working with, like, that recon.
43:38
What that. What's that? Team squadron. Maybe
43:41
since Bill knows where they, know has connections to them, maybe they
43:44
separate from the war army, and if that group still exists,
43:47
maybe they join them.
43:48
>> Skylar: I can see a really interesting plotline developing. So,
43:51
like, right now, as we're waiting
43:54
for, I don't know, I think it's Netflix or whoever to
43:57
make. They're making an adult, like
43:59
Aang in the gangs animated series of, like, what
44:02
they do once they reach adulthood. Between then and legend of
44:05
Korra, basically what happens. It'd be really interesting
44:08
to do something like that for benders and bruise, where Bill
44:11
grows up with Ember and they get
44:14
forced into the military and stuff. And then they're like the
44:16
bad guys to some extent, because even
44:19
within. Because you guys have seen our dad was trying
44:22
to subtly do things to harm the Fire Nation
44:25
military. Yeah. we can't fall for those
44:28
same mistakes because look what happened to him.
44:30
>> Cameron: Yeah.
44:30
>> Skylar: And so you guys are trying to, like, like you said, maybe
44:33
not do as much damage, but, like, I still got to kind of fall
44:36
in line to some extent. And then you run into these
44:39
guys who are still over in the fire or the
44:41
earth nation, and maybe you guys, to some
44:44
extent, are somehow brought into the fight. And
44:47
then you're looking across the battlefield and you see
44:50
your old friend Bill
44:53
doar, who you would exchange letters with up until
44:56
a certain point, you know, and there's, like,
44:59
obviously some intense tension there. Maybe there's even a
45:01
situation where Bill is part of, like, a specific
45:04
military task force that's taking over
45:06
gaoling. And then obviously you guys get caught
45:09
up in that and you're thinking, oh, it's our friend Bill. He's going to get
45:12
us out of this. And he's like, I gotta continue my
45:15
cover. Take him to the prison camps or
45:17
something like that. Like, whoa. And that means
45:20
Brock goes back to a prison camp, which that would be
45:23
interesting. Mika and her dad would be in a
45:26
prison camp, which means I'd have to do the voice for that still.
45:31
Whoa. I like the idea that, like, hold on. I know
45:34
this is one of my questions of what would be an interesting side
45:37
story, and we're just creating it right now.
45:39
>> Cameron: Well taken. Our very happy ending and being
45:42
like, we
45:45
all know that, yeah, there's a war coming.
45:48
>> Skylar: Here's the thing. It doesn't come back together at the end.
45:51
Usually someone has to die.
45:59
>> Cameron: I was never a fan of Mika.
46:03
>> Skylar: And also Mika's dad's.
46:05
>> Mikayla: You're my brother husband. Come on.
46:10
>> Cameron: I was your brother husband. Baby daddy.
46:12
Yes.
46:13
>> Skylar: That was also a really, that whole episode was another
46:16
really favorite moment.
46:18
>> Cameron: Osha, Osha.
46:21
>> Cameron: Ben and snap. it's high.
46:24
>> Skylar: Rockets high. That's true.
46:25
>> Cameron: The brother husband's baby daddy
46:28
situation.
46:29
>> Skylar: So convoluted. But, I mean, it was different people.
46:32
It was information spread across different people. So it's
46:35
like, oh, I guess it's okay.
46:36
>> Cameron: And then all while that was going on on the outside, I think Guo
46:39
and Bill were, like, juggling or something.
46:43
>> Skylar: Trying to get dips. I like
46:46
how we had, like, a really intense, serious discussion going on, and then
46:49
we're like, no, wait, wait.
46:50
>> Cameron: Let's pull it back because it doesn't fit the vibe of our show.
46:53
>> Skylar: Too much, too much, too hard, too fast. That's
46:55
our, like, our Patreon adulthood. Version
46:58
of the show that you can subscribe. We don't have that yet.
47:01
We'll see what happens. Whose turn was it? I lost, I think
47:04
you.
47:05
>> Cameron: I was done with my answer and then you just kind of
47:08
kept going. No, I don't care. It's a
47:10
great side track.
47:13
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