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Episode 32. Love Language Indulgence & Pikachu vs. Darth Maul (Feat. Luke of Talk Far Gaming) · High n' Dry Podcast

• 0:16
  SPEAKER_01: If you don't I'll have you by your balls.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm hoping to start doing some Red Dead Redemption streaming uh and talk like a cowboy the whole time.
• 0:28
  SPEAKER_00: So I th Oh that sounds great.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: I'm an old uh old pro of that particular video game.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: I was playing that a bunch, you know, when we thought they were gonna put content out.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: They didn't?
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_00: No, they really didn't.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: But uh oh, I had a great time with it though.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: My guy was a badass.
• 0:51
  SPEAKER_01: I think it's just super cool how like if it yeah, if you want to just like pretend to be a cowboy and like feel what it's like, that's that's pretty much as close as you're gonna get.
• 1:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's pretty pretty realistic.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Well, it's gonna it well, it's gonna be that.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: Remember when you were on a while back and we were talking about what time period we'd want to go to?
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: So that's going back to the fantasy version of it.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's not the real version.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: Where we're in actuality, we'd be shot dead in the streets, you know.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: You'd be a barber.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_01: All the all the all the hookers would be all toothless and have syphilis.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: And then we'd have syphilis.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: Go crazy.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_01: Syphilis eats our brain.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, red red dead redemption doesn't get let us see all that, so we just get to be the fantasy cowboy.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, haven't washed my pants in two weeks.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_01: Trench foot.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_01: Two weeks, that's impressive.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_01: You must be rich.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you got money.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_01: Geez, every two weeks you're doing the laundry.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_01: Fuck.
• 1:57
  SPEAKER_01: Excuse me, sir.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: Sounds like a goddamn nightmare.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_01: We live in a golden age.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_00: So you guys ready to do this?
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm ready.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'll still do this shit.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: So welcome to High and Dry, everybody.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: The only podcast where we do all our own stunts.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_00: I'm Ryan Barron North, your host and drunk philosopher.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: With me as always, James Crosslin.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: James, what's going on?
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, not much.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_01: I uh uh you know what's great is I I turned in a big project again on Saturday.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: It got rejected.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_01: It needs work.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's my first needs work I've ever gotten on a project.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: So that was a little humbling.
• 2:39
  SPEAKER_01: It was a little humbling.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_01: I uh so the problem was I had to validate a form and they told me what fields needed to be required, and I required an extra field.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_01: And they were like, this isn't unacceptable that the year was required on this book entry.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, oh motherfucker.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_01: Damn.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_01: So I just gotta go back and change one thing.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, hey.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_01: They rejected it and said, no, it needs to be perfect.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: That's what's up.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it does need to be perfect, and I was imperfect this time.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_01: Very humbling, very humbling to learn that I was not perfect.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: But I mean, that that's good for you every once in a while.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: A little that humble bumble.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, well, so joining us this week, returning again, um, our guy from TalkFar Gaming, Luke Thede.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: Luke, what's going on?
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: How's it going?
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: What's happening?
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_01: What is up, everybody?
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: We are um, you know, rocking and rolling.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: We actually have a stream uh, you know, uh when this goes gets released, it'll be on a Sunday.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_01: But you know, as we're recording it, we'll have a stream tonight.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so it we're excited.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_01: I'm kind of setting up for that, getting ready to rock and roll.
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's it's good.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: Everything's good.
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_01: The streams.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_01: What are you guys playing on Mashup Monday?
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: Mashup Mondays are a variety of games, and tonight we're actually doing um it's gonna be called Randoms Monday, and I'm gonna be playing Rocket League and Warzone, and just trying to get people, random um people in my lobby with me to play with me um and just see if we can get mics and just interact with some random people tonight and stuff like that.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah, uh it's every every Monday we just kind of random games.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_01: I mean anything.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_01: You James, you've seen the games we've played.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um jumped in with us, so yeah, it's um Mondays are always I like them.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_01: I love I've I've played more games doing that this mashup Monday than I have in a long time.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_01: So it's been cool to like actually explore some new games and stuff.
• 4:32
  SPEAKER_01: I like this like like human fall flat, which is just a puzzle game.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: I love playing.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: I love watching you play human fall flat.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_01: I've I whenever I see that you're playing human fall flat, I'm like, hey, it's noodles up, noodles up.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, everything's good on my side.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm excited to be here today.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um I I love being on high and dry, so I'm ready to have you know discuss a good fight again.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: So are you a high philosopher today?
• 4:57
  SPEAKER_01: I will be a high philosopher.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: I'm out of order.
• 4:59
  SPEAKER_01: I'm out of order.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta let Ryan handle this.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_01: I gotta let Ryan handle this.
• 5:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but uh so yeah, Luke, you're also a Patreon subscriber with us.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: So thank you for that.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: We just did our after party, so you could check that out on our Patreon page.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: We always love having you on, Luke.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's the pre-game.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's the pre-after party pre-game.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so but we got a good show today.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: We got a fun little question.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_00: So, for those of you who are this is your first time listening, how we do this, we'd start it with a philosophical question, a little something that teaches you about yourselves, and you get to learn a little something along the way.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: And then it goes into a fist fight because that's probably what you clicked for.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um but before we do that, what sets us a little above is that we gotta get a little drunk and we gotta get a little high.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: So let's get that started, James.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_01: We're better than you because we're drunk and high.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: We've discovered the secret.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_01: At the very least, we're more entertaining than you.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: So, James, what are you smoking today?
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, today I'm going to be doing flour because I still have a bunch of shit to do today.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna be doing flour instead of concentrate.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go easy on it.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna smoke a whole bowl basically of flour.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and I'm smoking, it's called Wi-Fi 06.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: And it's uh it's something that uh a friend from uh 100 devs, which is uh coding boot camp, I'm I I mentor in.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: I got to meet someone, uh, Rob, I think we've talked about this before, he brought by some weed for us, so I'm smoking some of that weed, and it's really good Colorado stuff.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_01: Very nice.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's even better because it's free.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, even better.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know, all the flour I've I think I've only bought flour like three times, and and somehow I've gotten like eight pounds of weed.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_01: People just love giving me flour.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_01: It's fucking awesome.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I know you said it's 100 devs, and I know we also got some uh some bonus you know content for them as well.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: So I hope they get that pretty soon.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so Luke, what about you?
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: What are you smoking today?
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: I will be smoking uh strain called Gorilla Cookies.
• 7:03
  SPEAKER_01: Um, gorilla glue and girl scout cookies combined?
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um apparently.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, I'm not positive, but yeah, it's supposed to be um a hybrid.
• 7:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's been pretty nice.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_01: I've had it for for uh a little while now, so this strain in particular, but I'm liking it.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: Nice, nice.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: All right, and I'm gonna be joining you guys today with my Deep Eddie Lemonade.
• 7:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I've you know, every time I come here to record this, I leave a little something here.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: So I got a little mini bar started over at James's place.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: He's got like eight bottles sitting on the table.
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_01: Mini bar, that's like an actual bar.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so I got a bar here, and uh today I've selected the deep eddy lemonade because it's just too good.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: Can't say no.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: So that means it's time to get a little drunk, it's time to get a little high.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_00: Our first shot today.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: Heat up this flower, mate.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's gonna go out as always to Cher, Carl Urban, and to Luke.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_00: Luke, thanks for coming back.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: Cheers, guys.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_01: Cheers, Luke.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's great to see you and talk to you.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_01: We haven't gotten to talk in a while.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: It's either it's either you talking to me through stream or me talking to you.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: And we never we haven't gotten to talk to each other.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, like actually have a conversation.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_00: Our lives have turned into just all business and self-promotion, all content creation.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: I know for real.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just con we're and just sharing each other's self self-promotion.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, cool.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: Stop.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_00: Well, hey everyone, check out our stuff.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, check out your stuff.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_01: But don't forget to check out my friends' stuff also because I want you to look at their stuff and my stuff, and then also my other friends' stuff.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so yeah.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_01: We want you caught in an endless cycle of content.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we want just a whirlwind of it.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_00: But I mean, it's kinda the point.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: So I just had surgery and which put me on like convalescent leave from work and everything like that.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_00: And then me, I'm like, all right, this is an opportunity.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_00: I have a chance now, we gotta get an episode done.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I'll limp to wherever I gotta go.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know when I'm gonna get this chance again.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we gotta get out there, get that content.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: People need shot glasses.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's not even just the main content, it's the it's the side content you have to make to to get you know for the socials and stuff like that.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_01: That's the that's what takes even more time.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_01: You're just like you're like, oh yeah, I've spent uh you know eight hours doing this just this week, and then you're like, and I didn't post one extra video or anything.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_01: That was just the one just the one.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: And I gotta remind myself, this is all to publish my goddamn book.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_01: I uh I wrote a program, I wrote a program to make my posts on Twitter, like a form so I could make Twitter a lot easier.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: And I realized that they're not posting, they only posted one time, and I verified it that one time, and then they haven't been posting, and I was like, what the fuck?
• 9:48
  SPEAKER_01: I looked at it today.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, God damn it.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_00: It did not work.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: All right, well, that's good.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: That's good.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_00: So, and that brings us in to our second toast.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: So last week we did an episode with uh horror writer Joshua Marcella, and his his episode's been doing really well.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, that's great.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks, Josh.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_00: With that, he brought us in some new visitors, and our second toast is going to go.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_00: I can't I can't even pronounce it.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: Let me see.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: It's I'll I'll tell you.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_00: Trust me, trust me.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_00: The Ontario it's Winnipeg, dude.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: Come on.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: You said you said Ontario.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_01: So it looks like well, I don't know.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: Etobicoke?
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: Etobicoke.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_01: I'm guessing it's uh Native American word.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: I I it it looks like it looks like Etobicoke, but I don't think that's I bet it's I bet it's Etobicoke.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_01: Etobicoke.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_00: Etobicoke.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: So here is to Etobicoke, Ontario.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: Cheers, guys.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: That is a mouthful.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: What a bit, come on.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_00: And then finally, Luke, you know how this goes.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: Third shot.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: Guests toast.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_00: What's it to, Luke?
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'm gonna say this one's to the creators of Avatar, the last airbender.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_01: Um I was watching I was watching it earlier today, and just god damn, is that show just so fucking purely beautiful, honestly, just all the way through.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's so entertaining to watch.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_01: And I I just read an article about how so often they found that um parents were writing the creators just saying, Hey, we love watching the show with our kids.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_01: Like, thank you for creating a show that's like both entertaining for us and our kids.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, just kind of appreciation to Avatar the Last Airbender.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_01: Fuck yeah.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: You know, and uh I gotta get we gotta get Ryan to watch it.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: We gotta get Ryan to watch Last Airbender, and and we all have to come back for one with Aang on it.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's the goal for the future.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_01: We gotta we all gotta come back for one with Aang.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: Well, here's the Avatar, and here's the parents who have time to write a letter to a TV show.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: Cheers, cheers.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't even think of that now.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's great, like it's great content with a great message, too.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm thankful for it.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Avatar Last Airbender, one of the best television shows I've ever seen.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it it's it's a comfort show for me.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's something that even as an adult now, I I appreciate and watch um just like for I had it in in the background in my office today, just as I was working, and just uh look up and just you know, my favorite scenes.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_01: The for example the I'm in season two where um they do the mini episodes and you get to see Uncle Iroh um just kind of walking through and then the songs.
• 12:55
  SPEAKER_01: Uncle Iro's best.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the best one of my favorite, you know, he he teaches, you know, he's someone that you look up to, like in all honesty.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: So um that episode, like it it that episode just when it he's singing out there to his uh to you know at the memorial of his son.
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it it got to me.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_01: I'm just like, this show is just so deep, like you can't tell me it's a children's show.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: So great, dude.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: Seriously.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I mean, there's a lot of like I do not knock adult animation.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_01: I mean it's not adult animation, it's like family animation, and with great with great like anti-fascist presences, great anti-fascist propaganda.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: Get that out there, get that out there.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: Well, all right, well, cool.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: Also, um, so there was a third one.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: So again, Luke, thank you.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then you know, audience at home, thank you guys so much for all your support.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: We wouldn't do this without you.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um, this episode will be releasing when our tournament has been underway.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: So hopefully you voted on that.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: If you haven't, just get to any of our social media.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna tally it all up, get your votes in there for that first round of voting before the uh the you know the the recorded rounds get underway.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then, you know, as always, please just put our shit on repeat um you know while you're buying that new jet ski or um you know choosing between Miller Light or Keith Stone.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um just uh put us on.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um and thanks again.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: So it's time to get into our philosophical question.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: You guys ready for this one?
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_00: I got uh a classic one for you.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: It's classic.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: So probably bad.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: The past is bad.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_00: So you see a child walking to you.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, you have Mossberg.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_02: No, no.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh um, no one will ever know.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_01: But anyway, you can't make me kill someone else on this podcast.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_01: You just can't.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_01: Please don't ask us who we're gonna kill.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_01: Please.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: No, so the question this week this one, this one might be a little difficult.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I I'm I'm interested in this one.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: So the question I have for you guys is what does it take for you to feel loved by yourself and someone else?
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_00: So it's a two-part question.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: I said no more killing and dying ones.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_00: What does it take for you to feel love from yourself and then as a sidebar from someone else?
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: Guests first.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: Luke, what do you think?
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_01: So I have to say, as far as for myself, I'm so much harder on myself than anyone else probably ever will be, um, in all honesty.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_01: So in order for me to like truly be happy and kind of at peace, and I would say, you know, love myself, it's doing the best of my ability at just in general, at whatever I'm doing.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like cont you know, whether it be work, whether it be working out, you know, if if I'm working out and my body looks a certain way, but I'm still, you know, putting in three days a week type of deal, and it that's how it looks, you know, I'm not gonna be upset with myself, type of deal.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_01: So um, I think just making sure that I'm doing the best of my ability.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and I'm pretty self-aware of what that is as well.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_01: So, you know, I'll recognize when you know something's out of my grasp, or you know, I've told my boss even like, hey man, you know, I think this is too much for me.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_01: Like it either can I have some help, can you train me, or like you're gonna have to give it off to somebody else.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_01: So um just recognizing kind of what my ability is and then um making sure I'm doing the best of my ability and not and I'm not always that doing that, and so I'm not always happy with myself, but I would say that's as far as that goes.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um and then um I'd say for someone else to love me.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_01: I I'm a big just time person.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um not necessarily like I'm not cuddly, I don't want to be like hanging all over each other, but um if I'm sat there.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: I mean I cuddled with you.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_01: We went when we were in basic.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_01: That was different.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_00: He's a cuddle monster.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but just like if I'm if I'm playing video games, like I want her to be still in my room, but just doing her thing, whether it be um on her phone on TikTok or watching her own TV or whatever it is.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: So um I like just general time and then also um I like communication is just a huge thing.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_01: So anytime you know um I'm in a relationship or just needing to commute being able to clearly communicate with someone, if I can feel able to say what I need to say to at any point, whether whatever it is, be a very open, vulnerable with somebody, um that's important in any way to feel love, in my opinion.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: Well, good stuff, good stuff.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um and yeah, he definitely likes cuddles.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um James.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: Culling is great.
• 17:50
  SPEAKER_00: James, um, what about you?
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_00: What does it take for you to love yourself and what does it take for you to feel loved by others?
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I really love Luke's uh answer.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um I'd say that my answer is probably a little similar.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: Um I would say that in order for well, no, I guess I guess we are I think that an idealized version of myself would be like someone who said all those answers.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: But I'm a lot I'm a lot different than that.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: I would say I would say it it doesn't take much for me to love myself.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um I would say that's actually probably a problem that I've had.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: Chocolate sauce and champagne.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_00: That's really a little music, maybe.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: Just to just somewhere dark.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_01: One dirtier than the darkness is really all it took.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um but um, but I don't know.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_01: I guess that kind of loving myself, I guess there's a difference between loving yourself and like indulging yourself.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's hard for me to separate those things sometimes.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: Isn't that weird?
• 18:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I think our culture kind of talks about loving yourself, about like indulging the things you want.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's like you should love yourself, take some time to love yourself.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and and I think that a lot of that is not great behavior.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: I think we need to redefine what loving ourselves is, and it's not about indulging ourselves, it's about trying to be better.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_01: And I think in order to love myself, I have to realize that I have to actually be treating myself and the people around me with dignity and respect.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_01: I say that a lot because it's so important to me.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: I have to like refocus myself all the time because it's very easy to get distracted with the things I want, right?
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: Like I'm gonna love myself today and and indulge in let's say dessert.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_01: Like I've been doing great.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_01: Let me love myself and indulge myself.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_01: That's not a great way to display love.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: I should I shouldn't be indulging for as for love.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but uh I think I need to gain f I guess that's a separate question, fulfillment.
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: This flower's got me all over the place.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not usually like this.
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: Honestly, I felt the same way.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_01: I was I was at one point I was like, dang, I just need to stop rambling all that.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: I was uh the flowers got me to say.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: Well then, what about what does it take for you to feel love from another person then?
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: From another person.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: Um I think to feel love from another person, they have to call me on my bullshit.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: I think they have to call me on my bullshit first off, and then when I have a concern that I bring up to them, I'd really I really love you know what I need from them is to treat my concern uh as valid.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: I think that those are two things that I really need from someone that I'm going to love.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: You have to felt heard and and always like by by that.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: I I need to feel heard by them and and in order to love myself, I need to hear them.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_01: That's those are the things I need.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: In order in order to feel loved from someone else, I need to be heard.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: And in order to love myself, I need to be able to hear other people.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_01: I think that those are the two things for me.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_01: And I know that might sound a little weird, um, but I truly think that that's what I need because because my self-love comes from respecting them, right?
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_01: From listening to them.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_01: I'm able to love myself when I'm open to other people, and I'm able to love other people when they're open to me.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_01: That makes a lot of sense.
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_01: And they gotta call me on my indulgences.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: If I'm indulging unreasonably, they have to call me on my bullshit, right?
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: So I guess it kind of does kind of tie in.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um this is a tough ass question.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: See, this is why we just we just talk about people died.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: It's black and white.
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: We should just talk about death.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's so much easier.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I killed him.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um obviously, yeah.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_01: I drive away.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um I you made me promise to everyone that if they hit me with a car on accident, they could leave.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, it's a thing we did.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but uh as far as Jesus Christ.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: As far as myself and love, I love doesn't enter the equation.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: Tolerate.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't even say not loath.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't even say tolerant.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: I would just say this is a situation.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's just you and me, with the you being me and the me being, I guess, the id.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just, hey, it's just you and me.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: We gotta chug through this fucking life.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: Eventually we're gonna drop dead.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um that's so negative.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, we need to really work out these negative.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: But it's like it's nothing.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um see, I you could love yourself so much more.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_00: No, I could, but like, but I don't know where then I don't know where this drive of mine comes from.
• 23:00
  SPEAKER_00: I have no idea.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I I think I love the drive of doing things and accomplishment infinitely more so than myself.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but like I don't hate myself at all.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, it's just like, well, this is this is the meat um robot I've been put in.
• 23:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's not your body, it's like who you are, dude.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's not you you keep thinking of yourself as your body, but yourself isn't your body, it's your consciousness.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um well, I think in order to it's your soul, baby.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: It's your soul.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's your soul, baby.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um well, in order to love myself, I have to accomplish things.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: Um that's so interesting, though, that you immediately thought body.
• 23:41
  SPEAKER_01: Um that's I think that I think that hits something deeper because you are concerned about your body lot.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: You've I don't I don't know if you can cut this later if you want, but you've talked about having body dysphoria.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, no, I definitely do.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: Um and I think maybe that has something to do with you thinking of yourself as your body and your meat suit, you know.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: Well, no, and that's gonna come in, that's gonna be an issue I have to deal with later when a later not now.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_01: Don't do it now while it while you can while I can.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um that's an issue for later.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's an issue for like 50, you're gonna get future, Ryan.
• 24:16
  SPEAKER_01: We'll be able to deal with that much better.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_00: The future me will be way more equipped.
• 24:23
  SPEAKER_01: Definitely not have a huge breakdown, get your ear pierced.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: But no, in order to love myself, I have to uh accomplish things.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, whether that's um, I mean, it's this podcast, it's um I you know I have to see the end product of my of my efforts, which is difficult because I have no satisfaction from any sort of um normal job I've ever had.
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and so satisfaction and love, like uh my my mind has to feel that all right, you've done enough this week.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_00: I guess I could love you.
• 25:02
  SPEAKER_01: I could see myself with you under the right circumstances.
• 25:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, so when I've when I've worked out, when I've dieted enough, when I've uh done enough editing on my book, when I've done enough work on this podcast, um, I don't even really consider myself.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but then when I haven't done those things, that's when I start looking and being like, ah, you didn't do enough this week.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then that's when I actually finally that's when I start, you know, considering myself as being a being walking around instead of just a force that's plummeting through this uh you know life I've created for it.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um you know what I think you need are stronger expectations on yourself.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: You're right.
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_00: You're right.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_00: What I've been doing is not enough.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: Agreed.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then uh um uh to feel love from uh another person, I I think I'm I mean if you're looking at uh you know what Luke was talking about with the uh what what is that called where it's the um goddamn when you when you realize that uh you've been doing the dishes for someone who just wants you to spend time with them.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: Love languages.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's the answer in the love language route of it.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm definitely a quality time person.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um I need time spent together and you know, I need us to be interacting with each other and that sort of thing.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_00: Now that's what I require in terms of that.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, that's interesting.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't think about love languages.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um well on the next episode I'll ask, what's your love language?
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: Sure, why not?
• 26:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um but uh yeah, I think quality time is my love language.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we're we just answered it there, so I guess my love language is like is like uh service, right?
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
• 26:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_00: And then it sounded like yours was quality time as well, Luke.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yep, quality time.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: And um I yeah, quality time is pretty much it.
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's my main love language.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
• 27:07
  SPEAKER_00: Well, um, so then um now that we have our love languages down, we're gonna move back to our guest, Luke.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_00: Can I get your final thoughts on what it takes to feel loved and to feel that you are loved?
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so kind of final thoughts, you know, to feel loved.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's that quality time like we discussed, and then um I actually liked what James said.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_01: I am a big person that I need some um someone to drive me, so someone to call me out of my bullshit, someone to um drive me forward.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_01: You know, at the end of the day, it's it's life's fucking tough sometimes and it's gonna beat you down.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_01: So sometimes it's nice to have that other driving force in your life to bring you up.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_01: Um so I really liked when what James said with that.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna add that to mine.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um and then it's my joke.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: I stole that.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: So uh and then uh also as far as like to um what wait, what is the first one?
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_01: To feel loved and then also to love someone.
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_00: To love yourself.
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, to love myself, sorry.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_01: So to love myself, um, I think it's like I said, and I'll kind of hold to the fact that as long as I am holding myself to account, you know, good expectations and I'm meeting those expectations um regularly or you know, most of the time, that's that's how I'll love myself.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um just kind of hitting goals and making sure I have goals, and you know, that's also where having that significant other to drive me forward will help me love myself even more.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um so all right, and uh James, and final thoughts on loving yourself and feeling love from others.
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think that I think that after our conversation, I've been able to refine it down a little bit and say that uh the things I need to have like a happy relationship are a joyful service to each other.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: Like in just be enjoying doing something that makes the other person happy and their life easier and more enjoyable on this blue rock that's just hurtling through space, right?
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um, like we we have an opportunity to joyfully give and and getting a gift of time, whether that's time, because I certainly need time with my signature with my wife.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_01: She's she's amazing, and I want I every hour, I mean I'm sorry, every day I take two hours at the end of the day to spend time with my wife.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: And we get high and we chill and we talk about our day or watch cartoons or whatever.
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I need that also, but that's a service also to tear myself away from all these things that that I'm stressing out over and spend time with her.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_01: That's a service, and she gives me that same service.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you know, we both make our lives easier, and that's what I need.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_01: Both both to love and be loved is to be able to give and receive openly.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_00: All right, yeah.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_00: And then uh, you know, for me, uh I I would say like I don't know.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_00: I just uh when it comes to my I mean, I'm and I'm sure this is a thing to talk to a therapist about, but uh just when it comes to the thought of myself, I you know, I I don't define love, I don't even think about love.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: I I think in terms of all right, we got shit to do.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: But therapy thing for sure.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um like we got shit to do.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: But uh there's a you're so productive though.
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um very productive.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_00: And but uh there but it's just uh but I enjoy it at the same time.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um when when there's something crazy to be done, when there is some when someone's like, There's no fucking way you can pull that off.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, this is easy.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: I can manipulate you now.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks for giving me this insight.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_01: There's no way you can sell my penis.
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_01: But I mean, it has to be so it doesn't actually want to do.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um so yeah, so it'd still work.
• 30:55
  SPEAKER_02: Boom!
• 30:56
  SPEAKER_00: Bam, nailed it.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it's like uh for me, it's just like alright, watch this shit.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: And uh from that, that's that's where I find, you know, but like if it's something I don't want to do, like if I'm fucking like slogging at things and like because like work, it makes me miserable.
• 31:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it makes me absolutely miserable.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I wonder if being upset by work is like a common thing.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: No, I'm thinking I think a lot of people are just happy at work.
• 31:23
  SPEAKER_00: I think so too, yeah.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_00: And they're weird, they're really fucking weird.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just kidding.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but like I need to make progress on things that actually make a damn to me.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I will chase it just to a probably an unhealthy level.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I will go after those things.
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I'm I'm here um if doing this thing after surgery when I should probably should be resting up a little bit.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_00: I mean the drive here was painful.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um but you know, uh but then when it comes to another person, I think, yeah, just hear me when I talk.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like actually listen to what I'm saying to you.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: Spend time with me.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you don't want to spend time with me, then what the fuck are we doing?
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um and uh, you know, that that's that's really it.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm super low maintenance when it comes to it.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like literally, I have so many projects and shit I gotta be doing.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: If you just stop talking to me, I'll be in the corner occupied.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um you know, and if you want to show around.
• 32:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you just want someone to be in proximity to you.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_00: So just when I need to, I can reach over and be like, okay.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, there's another person in this world who knows whether I'm alive or dead.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, you got eyes on me.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_00: You would you'd care if I drop dead.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_01: Right, yeah.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: If you drop dead, you can call emergency services.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_00: No, don't do that.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_01: It says very clearly God process.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: You want someone to catch your final words, is what it says.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_00: I need someone to catch my final words.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_00: Peace out, keep it 100.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_02: Like, what the fuck do you want to say?
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_02: Hashtag blast.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, all right, cool.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_00: So, which means it's time to move into the second part of our podcast.
• 33:21
  SPEAKER_00: Hashtag blast.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's time for a fist fight.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_00: We got an awesome fight for you guys.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_00: Luke, Luke doesn't know the combatants.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_00: He has no idea.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_01: Most times we tell people.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: Most times we tell people what's coming up.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_01: We try and give them a heads up.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_01: We didn't, though.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_01: We didn't.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_01: We didn't try.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_01: I don't mind.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: I don't mind.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: I I don't think I gave you guys a heads up, so I think I'm ready for a surprise.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: The day we ask, if you mind, all right, this podcast will be over.
• 33:53
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but for real though, we appreciate your support and all you do.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so before we get into the actual fight, it's time to get a little more drunk, it's time to get a little more high.
• 34:02
  SPEAKER_00: Uh gentlemen, let's do this.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_01: James, what's it to?
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: So our fourth to our fourth drink is always to our combatants.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_01: Did we ever settle on who it was gonna be?
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, so we I know our first combatant.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_01: I I know our first combatant is Pikachu.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: It's Pikachu the Pokemon of the Pokemon franchise.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_01: If you haven't heard of if you haven't heard of Pokemon, it's this game.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's it's a pretty unknown game.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_01: So against a little known game Pokemon.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_00: Against the other guy.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_00: He's got like a laser sword that comes out on both ends.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_00: Everyone is really impressed by it.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: So it's gonna be Darth Maul.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_00: So Pikachu versus Darth Maul.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: Here's to you guys.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_00: Cheers, Pikachu, cheers, Darth Maul.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_00: This is so fun.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_01: Man, this flower got me fucked up.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_01: I thought this was gonna make it easier.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_01: This Wi-Fi is great, Rob.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_01: Rob, if you're listening to this, thank you so much again.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_01: I thank you every time I see you for all the weed you gave me.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_01: But I've had Wi-Fi.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's good.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks again, man.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks again.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_00: So, how we do this on high and dry.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: Three-round method makes it completely indisputable.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: Round one, Gen X Fight Club.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: Two characters get in the ring, take off their shirt, shoes, and belts, and just punch each other to death.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so horned man versus a mouse that shoots electricity.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um goes into round two, City View.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_00: We zoom out, both characters receive a manila envelope underneath their doors.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_00: They one in a pokeball, one I guess in a subterranean layer.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_01: Wherever he feels like being at that moment, really.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, wherever he feels like being, and he gets the manila envelope.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_01: Sithnet is the is the Facebook yeah.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_01: No, he no, he what what's the one where all gab.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: He's on gab.
• 36:09
  SPEAKER_01: He's on parlor.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_02: It's a parlor message.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's where he would be, and but then all the Darth Maul fans are like, oh, that's awesome.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_00: I love Parler now.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, no, you idiot, you miss the point.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_01: No, that's not what we were going for.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_01: He's a bad guy.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_01: Join Parler.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but anyway, um, but yeah, like Palpatine is definitely on parlor, no doubt about it.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then round three, uh, City View again, but this time they get to bring a friend.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_00: So they have their entire, I mean, because Pikachu's also definitely on parlor, so they they have their whole friends list.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_01: Pikachu's everywhere that they can go to.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_01: Pokemon lovers are in any community.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_01: The official uh parlor account of Pikachu.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, God.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_01: Just uh their Heil and Hitler, and it's Pikachu's like Pika, Pikachu speaking to everything.
• 37:07
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, Pika.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so anyway, so let's jump into it.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_00: So round one's just begun.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_00: Cher and Carl Urban have been escorted up to the box seats.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_00: The philosophers have been seated behind them.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_00: It's very ceremonious.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we're looking down now, and the fighters are just getting ready to beat the fuck out of each other.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_00: Guests first, who's gonna win?
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_00: Darth Maul or Pikachu.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_00: Luke, what do you think?
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_01: So obviously, I'm thinking, you know, latest form of each of each.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_01: So Darth Maul at like his latest has like robotic legs, so which are super strong.
• 37:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um, not to mention he does have the force that he's able to use.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_01: Um and the dark side of the force is pretty effective.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_01: Um, force is pretty effective.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_01: With that being said, I think it comes down to can't it is Pikachu's lightning bolt strong enough to disable Darthmall?
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_00: I think the so we've seen Ash get shocked many times by Pikachu, and it's always comedic.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_00: So my question is, is it because Ash is so fucking powerful, or is it because Pikachu's so fucking weak?
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no, no.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_01: The characters in Pokemon are unkillable.
• 38:17
  SPEAKER_01: So Sher and I uh watched we've been watching Pokemon from the original again, from the original series, like from the beginning.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: She had never seen it.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_01: They like fly off cliffs and get hit by like boulders, like they're unkillable.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_01: Shikachu is incredibly strong.
• 38:35
  SPEAKER_01: It electrocutes people and things, and they like pass out immediately because nothing can die in the Pokemon world, but we're not in the Pokemon world.
• 38:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we've we've brought them into the fight club world.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um go go on, Louis.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_01: And also, so I'm also gonna think about detective Pikachu.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you guys saw the live action one where they were kind of in a kind of in a fight club scenario, and it was kind of they were like, all they're this this is like all hands-on table kind of thing.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_01: Like you could die, it's what it seemed like.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_01: You know, your lives.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um it seemed like their lives were actually on the line.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_01: So, with that being said, in that scenario, I think Pikachu's very vulnerable.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_01: And I think Darth Maul is just he he came out of the he was born in the darkness.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_01: Pikachu was simply trained by it.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_01: He was molded by it.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so I think Darth Maul in this setting is is probably gonna be able to beat up the one one foot four-inch mouse in the ring.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_01: So that's my first thoughts, but uh, I'll be interested to see hear what you guys have to say.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_01: Uh James, what do you think?
• 39:42
  SPEAKER_01: So if we're if we're taking Darth Maul with his robot lower half, first off, electrics, like electricity is is classically very bad for like uh cybernetic body parts.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_01: If they get shot, if if electricity goes into an electrically powered thing, like a car gets hit by lightning.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, even R2 units in our uh Star Wars disable things with their electric um electric zapper things.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_01: So if we're going with Darth Maul with robot legs, uh his legs stop working.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna assume for I mean that's my opinion.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna I'm gonna think of it as Darth Maul with his full uh full uh body, flesh body, his meat sack, and we're going to uh I'm gonna put them against each other.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_01: So the force is super powerful, right?
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_01: He can do a lot of things with the force.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_01: He can grab Pikachu, but he can't stop Pikachu from discharging lightning, yeah.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_01: Which I think is is a main issue.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_01: So he can do a force grab, he can do a force push, uh force choke.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of things you can do.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but essentially what those are are Pokemon moves.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_01: Like they're things that Pokemon can do also.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and and actually, I think Pikachu's whole theme is that it gets in a ring with one other thing, and then they fight.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_01: And Darth Maul is a is a Sith with like who had to like learn conspiracy and fucking sword fighting, which he can't use right now with his laser swords.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_01: I think Pikachu has moves like agility, which allows Pikachu to teleport to evade.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Pikachu's got moves like Thunder Shock and and uh uh Thundershock's the biggest one.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_01: He's got Thunder Ball too in like the later ones.
• 41:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh he's got a lot of sweet uh sweet shit he can use.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um and there's nowhere for Darthmall to hide.
• 41:36
  SPEAKER_01: That's just my opinion.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_01: My opinion is that Pikachu would take this one, especially being small, adds to evasion, and Pikachu is not like a Pikachu doesn't have to touch you to fuck you up.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um well then for me, um, what I see happening.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_00: So look, you had Senator Palpatine, who took this little Zabrak boy, and then started shocking him for the sexual thrill.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I mean, Darth Maul's been shocked his whole life.
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_01: So what is that true that that Senator Palpatine shocked him for fun?
• 42:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, he used to like in like in like train, like there's like episodes where like Darth, like when he was his uh master and uh Palpatine would Darth Maul would mess up and be like, fuck you, Maul, and just fucking shock the shit out of him.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_01: So so Darth Maul is used to getting shocked as a punishment that he's subservient to.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_00: No, that so the whole point of it, the whole point of the Sith training is to make him pissed off.
• 42:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um and to eventually start because your your Sith Lords, they know one day they're going to be killed.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's the point.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and they want to be killed by someone that they trained and made capable of doing this thing.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um someone more powerful than that.
• 42:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, as far as the laws of Darth Bain.
• 42:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um but and well, what did I see happening?
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_00: So Darth Maul's gonna get in there.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Pikachu is gonna shock the shit out of his electric sex pants, and he's gonna drop to the ground, but then because Pikachu doesn't have a health bar in the fight club world, Darth Maul is just gonna crush his heart and the mouse dies.
• 43:12
  SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, hopefully Brad Pitt has a screwdriver and some D cells to give him his legs back.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_01: So so here's my thought on that is the lightning in Pokemon is so much different than the lightning that Senator Palpatine shoots out of his fingertips.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like this, the they're little thin, they're little thin spindly bits of electricity, but Pikachu really fucking lays it out.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_01: Like the the electricity that comes off Pikachu is like a lightning bolt.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_01: And I mean like in all honesty, the thunder shock move is literally like a bolt that comes out of the sky.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's not even like comes out of Pikachu, like he kind of generates it and then a thunder shock comes down from the sky.
• 43:53
  SPEAKER_01: So that I think you know, James is right.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_01: It is it I I agree.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_01: I think it is like a much I think it's an intense lightning bolt.
• 44:01
  SPEAKER_01: Like it, you know, Maul is uh really gonna get hit by it.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_00: Well then we'll let's move it back to you then, Luke.
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I need your final thoughts and a vote.
• 44:10
  SPEAKER_01: Um so final thoughts.
• 44:13
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I I do Pikachu is gonna end up doing I mean, why wouldn't he do Thundershock?
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's his it's his go-to move in any in any fight anyways.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and he's gonna it's gonna kind of lay out Maul.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and if he does it again, you know, Maul's gonna be indisposed.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, how many times can he get electrocuted?
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm gonna say Pikachu takes first round.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_01: James?
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I have to agree.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_01: I've seen Pikachu in the show take out like tanks, like Pikachu electric shocks tanks, and they explode.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_01: And Team Rocket doesn't die, but that's just the universe.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_01: They go flying into the air like miles through the air, and then they come back next week.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_01: By the way, I don't know if y'all know this, but like Team Rocket, bunch of pedophiles following these this kid around.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, for sure.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody who like like Jesse has like these fantasies of like 11-year-old boys waving palm leaves at her, like fanning her with palm leaves.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_01: It's so creepy.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that is weird.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't even realize I did not understand this when I was a child and watching it, but watching as an adult, I'm like, oh my god, these pedophiles are like chasing, they're using Pikachu as an excuse to chase after Ash.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_01: And and every time someone, every time Ash comes into town, he finds people willing to help him.
• 45:30
  SPEAKER_01: But here's what I think I think no one likes Ash.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_01: I think they just have heard stories about this kid who travels around and these fucking insane, destructive pedophiles follow him, and they're like, we gotta get this kid out of town as fast as possible.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_01: Let's help him get him out of here so these pedophiles don't destroy our fucking village with their tanks and balloons and bombs.
• 45:51
  SPEAKER_00: Something about him just makes him undeniably desirable.
• 45:56
  SPEAKER_00: To Jesse and James.
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_00: To pedophiles.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_01: Alright.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and there's actually been a few more pedophiles in the show.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's pretty creepy.
• 46:01
  SPEAKER_01: Anyway, uh, but I've seen Pikachu like destroy like massive structures with its lightning.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I've never seen Palpatine do that.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_01: Like he shocks individual people.
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_01: The things we've seen is he shocks them, and then he even shocked his shocks, didn't even kill people when he did it.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_01: It was like did-di-d-d it, and then they'd then they'd be like, Oh, it hurts so much.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_01: And then he's like, did- it- again, you know?
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 46:21
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, all right, and then Darth Vader still was able to eat him off a building while he was getting.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_00: I would like to see the schematics on Darth Maul's electric pants to see if they're grounded.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um but um with that being the case, um, so uh my vote goes with you two, and Pikachu is gonna take round one as he shocks the fuck out of Darth Maul.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_00: Which brings us into round two.
• 46:46
  SPEAKER_00: So now we zoom out into the city view.
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_00: Both these characters know they have to kill the other one.
• 46:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um I don't know if Pikachu could read, but he understands that he has to go kill Darth Maul.
• 46:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um but now we have the full gamut of these characters' abilities and powers and items and things like that.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_00: So guests first, who do you think's gonna take it, Darth Maul or Pikachu?
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_01: So at this point, Darth Maul is able to use elaborate strategy, which he has shown that he can do in the ser you know, um Clone War series and in the movies.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um he he is a methodical person, uh, or Sith Lord, I should say, but um he so I think with him being able to have a little more planning, have his, you know, lightsaber, um, the mechanical legs, I still assume is what he's gonna use.
• 47:36
  SPEAKER_01: Um maybe after the first fight he learned to put rubber boots on them.
• 47:39
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um so but with that being said, I think Darth Maul takes the advantage in round two.
• 47:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um I don't see Pikachu having that in-depth of thought about this.
• 47:53
  SPEAKER_01: It's kind of, you know, at the end of the day, it's normally his trainer who's like kind of giving him the strategy of the fight.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um so with him just going at Maul, I think Maul will have a plan for just the mouse who thundershocked him originally.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_01: He'll be like, okay, like I need to not just lose to that again uh and have a uh better fight.
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_01: And I think Darth Maul would probably take it exactly.
• 48:17
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_01: All right.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um James, thoughts?
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_01: I like I like what Luke said.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_01: I think that I think that Pikachu in this situation would be a an animal, you know.
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_01: Pikachu's an animal, a semi-sentient animal who would just go about doing animal things and then and they'd Pikachu would get a note and look at it and go, I can't read.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_01: And then it's just like with Bigfoot.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 48:47
  SPEAKER_01: Sounds okay.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, okay, I guess I'm gonna keep being a uh lightning mouse.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_01: And then Darthmall's like, how the best, how best do I kill this semi-sentient animal?
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_01: So I think that that's a big I think that that's a big advantage Darthmall has.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_01: And also, Darthmall gets his fucking lightsabers now.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_01: And isn't isn't the uh isn't the idea of a lightsaber is it is it ionized plasma?
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_01: Is it is that the is that the idea?
• 49:18
  SPEAKER_00: I I remember crystals and shit.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_00: Crystals became a part of it to change the color and things like that because we needed to customize, but but it's ionized power.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_01: Well they they say it's like is the power of it.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_01: The crystal is the power of the colour.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_00: They get forced crystals, yeah.
• 49:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that that kind of tune into the force as well.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, that allow you to contain the ionized exactly.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, in one instance they want a magical crystal, and the next minute they want metaclorions.
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um they can't fucking make up their minds.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_00: So that's fair.
• 49:47
  SPEAKER_01: Um so ionized plasma, great at conducting electricity.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_01: Like he could easily use the ionized plasma on his lightsabers to have the electricity hit the ionized plasma instead of the movie, yeah, where they draw electricity with the lightsaber.
• 50:05
  SPEAKER_01: I've seen that.
• 50:06
  SPEAKER_01: I've seen I've seen someone hold out a uh uh uh a lightsaber and the tip get hit by lightning, right?
• 50:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, instead of their body or something.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so that is a huge advantage, also.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think that puts Darthmall just way out in front now.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_00: No, and for me, I think if the three of us got an envelope that said we had to go kill Pikachu, I think we could pull it off.
• 50:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think so.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um well, because I mean you have the even in the fucking world where Pikachu are running wild, they haven't taken over the world.
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_01: That's true.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think if any of us got a letter that we had to go kill an electric mouse, be like, well, first, that's terrifying that he's got electricity.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_00: I'll buy a rifle.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_01: Or the electric mouse comes.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_01: Like they're they're like the electric mouse got a note too.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_01: And we're like, we take a second and we're like, that electric mouse can't read and isn't gonna find us.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_01: Why are we doing this?
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_01: Why are we if it was if it was us, I'd say like, I am not going to do that.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_01: Um I'm not gonna do that.
• 51:10
  SPEAKER_01: Goodbye.
• 51:10
  SPEAKER_01: But I letter goes in the trash as chain mail spam.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_00: Pikachu's trying to kill you.
• 51:16
  SPEAKER_00: Seriously, don't blow this away.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_01: No, no.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I I think that in round two, the three of us would win against Pikachu.
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then if you take Maul, who also has a fucking starfighter, that's true, a lightsaber, um the more hatred in his heart than any two people combined, I think that he can kill the mouse.
• 51:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, nothing about nothing about Pokemon's theme would be able to draw someone like Darth Maul into it.
• 51:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Pokemon just doesn't have a strong enough theme right there, uh, with just Pikachu alone, at least.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_00: Well, um, I think then we were pretty unanimous on that.
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_00: I think we can just go ahead and call round two for Darth Maul.
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_00: That's fair.
• 52:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um, which brings us into round three, and now these characters get to bring a friend.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_01: So Oh yeah, here we go.
• 52:06
  SPEAKER_00: So guests first, Luke.
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_00: Who do they bring?
• 52:09
  SPEAKER_00: What happens?
• 52:10
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think?
• 52:11
  SPEAKER_01: So, in my opinion, I think Darth Maul would bring Savage, his brother.
• 52:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um that's what Ryan said also.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think it's a pretty obvious, like obvious contender.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's it's he's super strong and obedient to Darth Maul.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so he will go along with whatever Darth Maul's plan is.
• 52:33
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and that's usually the case in the show.
• 52:35
  SPEAKER_01: He's just the muscle that comes along and then uh he he fights whatever Darth Maul's w uh battles, whatever Darth Maul would like to.
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um Does he succeed?
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_01: Most of the time, yeah.
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean When does he fail?
• 52:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like what are the simple things?
• 52:50
  SPEAKER_01: I think at the at the toward the end of the Clone Wars is when he um, like not obviously at the very end when Order 66 happened, but um before that, like pretty close before that they got defeated.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um it was kind of like a side thing that the the Jedi were dealing with that doesn't really go in depth at all in um you know the prequels um at all.
• 53:16
  SPEAKER_01: So yeah.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_00: Well I know the two of them they went up about pal they went up against Palpatine and they came close.
• 53:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 53:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um but they ended up failing to Palpatine, then he should bring Palpatine.
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_00: I think they should or you can bring Palpatine.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_01: But to be fair, Palpatine he did try to kill Palpatine with Savage, so Palpatine's probably not all that keen to go with him.
• 53:36
  SPEAKER_01: So um we can get them at the best of their relationship.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's fair.
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_01: But then I mean we can always Darthmall would also have legs.
• 53:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but then he would have legs, yeah.
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_01: So well, um Yeah, but I think Savage and then oh wait, I didn't get my Pikachu thoughts.
• 53:50
  SPEAKER_01: Give me one.
• 53:50
  SPEAKER_01: I think and then Pikachu, I think he'd bring it to the show.
• 53:53
  SPEAKER_01: There's two people in this movie.
• 53:55
  SPEAKER_01: I think uh Pikachu would bring Ash, actually.
• 53:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um and I think for that reason is Ash is his best friend ever.
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's pretty obvious, and also that's his strategist.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_01: That's what's gonna give him the edge to be able to like kind of use his abilities to the best uh to best fight Savage and Maul.
• 54:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um so I think that that's who he's probably gonna bring.
• 54:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um and with that, you know, we've we saw how destructive his power was once he was able to hone in and you know just actually know what he was doing.
• 54:30
  SPEAKER_01: So uh that's that's what I think uh for the first round, first thoughts at least.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_01: Or third round, first thoughts.
• 54:39
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, um, and James?
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_01: So so here are my thoughts.
• 54:44
  SPEAKER_01: So I think that whether whether Darth Maul brings his brother or Palpatine, I think they're gonna face problems either way.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_01: I think that because his brother is obedient, and Maul in his uh his he what he wants is like power and tyranny.
• 55:03
  SPEAKER_01: He doesn't actually want to kill this mouse, like this mouse is standing between him and and and power.
• 55:09
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I think when when he does that, he loses sight of things, right?
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's what ended up he failed because he went up against Palpatine because he didn't really want to kill Palpatine, he just wanted the power, right?
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, or was it or was it just for personal reasons?
• 55:25
  SPEAKER_00: Both.
• 55:26
  SPEAKER_00: Mall is so filled with hatred, and it's just anyone he feels is wronged, and all he knows is to hate.
• 55:32
  SPEAKER_01: It's the classic Sith problem, right?
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_01: Of like overconfidence and like it they're basically fascists that they have to like never reveal weakness, and you always have to believe you're powerful.
• 55:44
  SPEAKER_01: And that's usually their downfall, also.
• 55:46
  SPEAKER_01: You know, they're usually their downfall.
• 55:47
  SPEAKER_01: They'll lose because they'll, you know, one Sith will go up against four Jedi and they'll say, you know, I can beat you, then they die.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_01: It's like no you I mean, come on, like that's not you're powerful, but just know that you can't be that powerful.
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_00: They just know that the figurehead was able to pull it off, so obviously they can pull it off too, and then then they die.
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of overconfidence.
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and so I think that obviously happens to both Maul and his brother.
• 56:16
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but I don't think Pikachu brings Ash.
• 56:19
  SPEAKER_01: Um, if we're trying to get Pikachu at Pikachu's best, uh it's not with Ash.
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_01: Ash is a fucking idiot.
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_01: Ash is like the reason they lose most often.
• 56:32
  SPEAKER_01: Because Ash Ash is like um Ash is the worst Pokemon trainer on the planet.
• 56:38
  SPEAKER_01: Like well, he finally won, didn't he?
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_01: Finally won what?
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, when?
• 56:41
  SPEAKER_00: Like he finally got the championship.
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_00: I think in like a new series?
• 56:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's like 22 years later, he finally brought it home.
• 56:49
  SPEAKER_01: Well, the Ash that I know he doesn't have 22 years to fight Maul.
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_01: Um so I think that Pikachu I I think in this situation, Mewtwo would join Pikachu.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_01: Because Mewtwo and Pikachu have a bond in both the uh the first Pokemon movie and the new Pokemon movie, uh, where where uh Mewtwo put Ryan Reynolds in Pikachu's body uh in order to uh to suss out these evil, basically fascists.
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but that wasn't his that wasn't for his love of Pikachu, that was for his love of Ryan Reynolds.
• 57:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like literally.
• 57:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but we can assume that this Pikachu has Ryan Reynolds in him, so it's essentially become Ryan Reynolds detective and Mewtwo versus Maul and his brother or Palpatine.
• 57:43
  SPEAKER_01: And I think if he brings Palpatine, Palpatine's lightning is less effective against Pikachu and therefore renders him somewhat uh broken.
• 57:51
  SPEAKER_01: And and the same with Maul's brother is that he's just a tool, right?
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_01: He's just a tool with less agency, and Mewtwo is much smarter and also cooperative instead of subservient.
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_00: So that's how I feel.
• 58:07
  SPEAKER_00: Well, then for me, what I think's gonna happen um is I I see Ash and Pikachu.
• 58:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
• 58:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I see so I see us discovering at that point that the show has shown us that Ash is capable of inhuman feats of strength.
• 58:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_01: He's indestructible.
• 58:26
  SPEAKER_00: He's the all those sorts of things.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like he's he's like a basically a walking um just machine.
• 58:33
  SPEAKER_00: But I feel that Savage is gonna come up on him, and you know, Ash is gonna be kind of a slave to his own theme, and he's a little scared of Savage, but then he uses that strength, his theme song starts playing, and then it deadcuts.
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_02: He turns his hat around.
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I think he does all that, but then it just deadcuts and like woo-the record skips as Savage puts a lightsaber in his stomach.
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 58:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um, lets it go, and you know, Ash relieves himself before he dies, um, just as everything's released from his stomach.
• 59:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and then it turns into Darth Maul hunting the rat again.
• 59:09
  SPEAKER_00: But I would the only thing I would change on that though, is that the theme of Star Wars has changed greatly now that it is owned by Disney.
• 59:20
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that Disney would allow Darth Maul to be swallowed by this new family theme, uh-huh.
• 59:29
  SPEAKER_00: And we see Pikachu zap him, and he goes like super uh he goes um Mario Brothers style bouncing off into the sky, you know, to strike again, like Team Rocket does.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I I see that's what happening with you know Disney's iteration of Star Wars.
• 59:45
  SPEAKER_01: What do you what would you say if instead of Ash coming in, it was Mewtwo?
• 59:51
  SPEAKER_01: And uh in the first movie, Mewtwo says that Pikachu taught taught him that the circuns the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant, it's what you choose to do that makes you who you are, or something like that, the quote.
• 1:00:03
  SPEAKER_01: But like they have an incredibly strong bond.
• 1:00:05
  SPEAKER_01: What would you say of Mewtwo getting pulled into the deadly dark Darthmall Savage fight with Mewtwo's powers?
• 1:00:15
  SPEAKER_01: What would you think of that scenario?
• 1:00:17
  SPEAKER_00: If they're pulled into um the Star Wars universe, not Star, not not the family-friendly Star Wars universe.
• 1:00:23
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, into the actual Star Wars universe.
• 1:00:25
  SPEAKER_01: But in all honesty, I don't think they would be.
• 1:00:26
  SPEAKER_01: I think Mewtwo would pull Savage and um Darth Maul to him.
• 1:00:32
  SPEAKER_01: He's he's with reality band, yeah.
• 1:00:34
  SPEAKER_01: But that's what he would do.
• 1:00:36
  SPEAKER_00: But if if Mewtwo entered the Star Wars universe where it's super dark, I see Savage is gonna die terribly.
• 1:00:43
  SPEAKER_00: But Darth Maul is the next generation Boba Fett.
• 1:00:47
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter what you do to Boba Fett, but because he had a double-bladed lightsaber, because he had a helmet, no matter how lame he actually fucking was, he'll survive into the next several series for merchandising.
• 1:00:59
  SPEAKER_01: Will he would he be incapacitated?
• 1:01:01
  SPEAKER_01: Would he lose an arm and then have to come back with a robot arm?
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um I think after like he'll he'll be tossed, like I I think he'll manage to pull it off, and Mewtwo will get you know sliced in the back.
• 1:01:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um because I mean Mewtwo, he also thinks himself overly powerful.
• 1:01:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I think once you enter into the theme where the merchandising is on the size of on the side of Darth Maul, you're gonna kill Savage, um, but then a wounded Darth Maul you thought you killed stabs you in the back before he himself plummets into the next trilogy where we know he's gonna show up, but we don't know he's gonna show up.
• 1:01:38
  SPEAKER_01: But Pikachu the whole time was going like, what the fuck?
• 1:01:41
  SPEAKER_01: And that's like backed into a corner.
• 1:01:43
  SPEAKER_01: Pikachu wins.
• 1:01:44
  SPEAKER_00: Pikachu was stomped on by Savage in the beginning.
• 1:01:48
  SPEAKER_00: But that that's my thoughts.
• 1:01:49
  SPEAKER_00: So um then so Luke, I need your final thoughts and a vote.
• 1:01:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh final thoughts is I do think it would be a Mewtwo, Pikachu versus uh Maul Savage.
• 1:01:58
  SPEAKER_01: That that's what I think it would end up being.
• 1:02:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, and even then, I think what would happen is Maul would pair himself against Mewtwo and um Pikachu versus Savage.
• 1:02:11
  SPEAKER_01: And I think like Ryan said, Savage will stomp the mouse um pretty pretty right away, um, use the force.
• 1:02:17
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, he's super duper powerful with the force, like even more so than um Maul.
• 1:02:23
  SPEAKER_01: Um and he displays that multiple times, so I think he would just crush the mouse with the force, even.
• 1:02:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um this is a contentious one.
• 1:02:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:02:30
  SPEAKER_01: Uh yeah, and then I think what would happen um is honestly, like Ryan said, I think Mewtwo would overestimate his abilities against uh Maul, not realizing how powerful of a Sith Lord he is.
• 1:02:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um and he would kind of try to flex or whatever, choke him or whatever he plans to do, and I think Maul would uh just kind of pull him over with the force, pull his lightsaber out, and just pull him right into the blade, and death to Mewtwo.
• 1:02:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so I think Maul and Sabaj take uh first third round.
• 1:03:01
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like I know I feel like I know where this is going, but I still have to say, I think y'all are underestimating Mewtwo, who can like force his mind into other people's minds.
• 1:03:14
  SPEAKER_01: He can do mind control, uh, he can create force like unbreakable force fields around him and shoot balls of like concentrated shadow that blows up huge swaths of land.
• 1:03:27
  SPEAKER_01: Um I think that the power of Mewtwo is being underestimated.
• 1:03:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but I don't really I just have to give him a vote, and that's how it's gonna go.
• 1:03:37
  SPEAKER_01: But uh I really do believe that you know Mewtwo has like Mewtwo has enough power to go up against like the Pokemon in this universe who shaped reality, right?
• 1:03:47
  SPEAKER_01: We eventually learned that there are Pokemon gods out there, and Mewtwo can effectively rival their power uh of creation and manipulation of reality and destruction.
• 1:03:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um so I think that that Mewtwo and Pikachu, because Mewtwo did learn a lesson.
• 1:04:03
  SPEAKER_01: Mewtwo wasn't just overestimating their power forever.
• 1:04:06
  SPEAKER_01: At the end of that movie, they learned a lesson, succeeded, and changed and grew.
• 1:04:10
  SPEAKER_01: And then we would get that Mewtwo.
• 1:04:12
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that's just my thought, Mewtwo and Pikachu.
• 1:04:15
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:04:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then for me, I I I definitely see where you're coming from, and I think I think it'd be close.
• 1:04:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think Mewtwo has a chance of winning, but I just don't think Pikachu does.
• 1:04:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um and even when you um like alright, so you got Mewtwo has the mind abilities and everything like that, and it cancels out the force and everything like that, eventually Mewtwo is spent and Darthmall has a Star Destroyer.
• 1:04:39
  SPEAKER_00: That's true.
• 1:04:40
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I I think that just uh eventually, when they're all tied up, Darthmall will be the one who has one last fucking trick up his sleeve.
• 1:04:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um but then at the end of the day, it was the fight was actually against the mouse who died like two hours ago.
• 1:05:00
  SPEAKER_01: He's just like, I have to die.
• 1:05:01
  SPEAKER_01: If I die, I die for the mouse.
• 1:05:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:05:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um I feel like I feel like Pikachu in this one is like an R2D2 that can never die, also.
• 1:05:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:05:11
  SPEAKER_01: That can never die.
• 1:05:12
  SPEAKER_01: They're like all because they've they're named characters, they can never die.
• 1:05:16
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's Star Wars.
• 1:05:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I think if the fight had been Mewtwo versus Darth Maul, I would have given it to Mewtwo.
• 1:05:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh um, but because it's Pikachu versus Darth Maul, I just I have to vote with uh Darth Maul.
• 1:05:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um and so luckily all three of us voted that way.
• 1:05:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:05:31
  SPEAKER_00: And uh it was glad to hear.
• 1:05:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, which I was happy to hear as well.
• 1:05:35
  SPEAKER_00: But that was a tough one.
• 1:05:37
  SPEAKER_00: So Darth Maul takes it home, uh, winning two out of the three rounds.
• 1:05:41
  SPEAKER_00: Congratulations, Mr.
• 1:05:42
  SPEAKER_00: Maul.
• 1:05:43
  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for joining us.
• 1:05:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, way to go, Darth.
• 1:05:45
  SPEAKER_01: We really appreciate it.
• 1:05:47
  SPEAKER_01: Uh come again, you know?
• 1:05:49
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, please.
• 1:05:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um be back for the he will be, he will be in the next bracket.
• 1:05:54
  SPEAKER_01: Isn't it the first?
• 1:05:56
  SPEAKER_00: So um we it's the first one in the new bracket.
• 1:05:59
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he'll be the first one of the new bracket.
• 1:06:00
  SPEAKER_00: But so the current tournament that we had of all the episodes up till today um is gonna be voting on.
• 1:06:07
  SPEAKER_00: Is the voting's gonna start within the next day or so?
• 1:06:09
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• 1:06:17
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• 1:06:18
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• 1:06:19
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• 1:06:20
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• 1:06:21
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• 1:06:22
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• 1:06:34
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• 1:06:42
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• 1:06:56
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• 1:06:57
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• 1:07:37
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