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Shinkai Train Delays, Roller-Skating Mechs & Zero Dogs · Emotional Damage: The Anime Podcast

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Let's do it. Let's do what? Emotional damage
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episode 2? Oh, snap, son. That's a great intro.
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Welcome back, everyone. And by everyone, I mean
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Zach, because no one else is listening. I checked
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the Mousecape Facebook. No one gives a shit.
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Dude, that's so crazy. No one gives a shit. We
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did have a couple downloads from Leeds, which
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means it's one of those Brits, probably. Leeds?
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leads in the uk really there's a couple british
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people who listen to metalscape anyway this is
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this is an anime podcast that's what we need
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to focus on uh so what time we get we both did
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some homework you completed your homework right
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yes i did i completed mine and uh oh yeah then
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we watched the new show who do we want to start
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with you want me to go ahead about uh five centimeters
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per second Yes, that's what I recommended to
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Ron. I quite enjoyed this film, and I know it's
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not really what Ron watches or listens to on
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the regular, so I'm curious. Yeah, just to get
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everyone up to speed, we have this, I don't know,
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we don't have a name for this section yet, but
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in each episode, Zach and I recommend an anime
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to each other, a must -watch. So we have to watch
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it and then I may be recommending you some shit
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that is not a must watch. I just want to know
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what the fuck you think about it. Well, that's
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what I'm saying. A must watch. You must watch
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it. Oh, okay. So it doesn't matter what it is.
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I mean, the only thing that matters is that the
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other guy likes it and recommends it to you and
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you watch it and you. And yeah, and so I did.
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Five centimeters per second. I thank you for
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giving me access to Zach Flicks. For some reason,
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that damn movie wouldn't load. Oh, really? Oh,
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anyway, sorry. I don't know. For some reason,
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it wouldn't load. So I had to go to my, to the,
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you know, some parts of the internet where you
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can download things. And I downloaded it. The
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animation was really beautiful. I got to say.
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It is, right? It's very pretty. I love it. Yeah.
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I love whenever there are scenes when there are
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people, they're like walking or riding a bike
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along the coast and you can see the horizon and
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the sun is setting and you see the sunlight rippling
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through the water or on the water and the horizon
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is just beautiful. It's a beautiful looking anime.
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But I didn't actually, you know, I understand
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the part where like it's about loss. It's about
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things that could have been, but never were.
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I see that, and that's where I got from it. You
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know, like these kids met when they were very
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young, and then they got separated because, you
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know, one of them went to a different school,
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the other one too. And then they met briefly
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again. It was such a fucking hard, you know,
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Jesus Christ, the train got delayed, then it
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snowed, then it got, I don't know. But she, I
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mean, that was the guy going to the girl. Anime
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shit happened. Yeah, and then all the fucking
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shit happened. You know, Japan were like, One
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in a million fucking train gets a delay every
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one sec, every, you know, for a second. And then
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the entire fucking company goes and apologize
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to you in your house. But apparently in this
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fucking movie, the one time this guy had the
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opportunity to go meet the girl of his dreams
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from childhood, the fucking train just fucking
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gets laid hours, hours in Japan. Is that not
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science fiction, my friends? So he finally arrives
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there. He fears, he fears that, uh, His friend's
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not going to be there, but she is. And they spend
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a beautiful couple hours together. And they kiss.
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And that's the last time they ever see each other
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again. It is, yes. And then pretty much the rest
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of the movie is just you looking at this guy
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wondering, hmm, I wonder what she's doing right
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now. Yeah, the next phase of the movie, it's
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him as a teenager who's got the girl who obviously
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is into him, and he's just totally blind to it
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because he's still thinking about his other girl.
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Yeah, which is another side of the coin. It's
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the same thing. It's like, what could have been?
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It's like the loss of what never was. Yeah. And
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so the other girl loves him completely, but it
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will never be. It can never be because the dude's
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still hung up on the... One childhood girl. Yeah,
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I wonder. So you when they met with the train
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incident and stuff, she had a letter to give
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him that she ended up not giving him because
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he was kind of too into it. I think I think that
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letter was going to break it off more officially.
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So then you wonder, like, well, she had just
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given that to him. I wonder what he would have
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done differently if he would have accepted that.
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I don't remember that part about a letter. It's
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kind of subtle. It like, um, cause he gives her,
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go ahead. Cause he gives her a letter, right?
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Yeah. Yeah. And then she has one for him, but
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it's, it shows it like in her purse or something.
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And she kind of, it's very much, she makes a
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conscious decision. You're like, you know what?
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I'm not going to give this to him. And it was
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right after they like kissed and stuff. And I,
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I think I didn't, I should almost rewatch it.
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I should have rewatched it. It was, um, that
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would have been her like, this is nice and everything,
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but you know, this isn't going to work out. Um,
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and she didn't want to let him down like that.
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I completely missed that, but that makes a lot
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of sense because then he just, the movie just
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basically centers on him, you know? And I'm like,
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dude, can you just not pick up a phone and call
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her or look her up in fucking Facebook or Instagram
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or whatever? I mean, They have cell phones, right?
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They do, and they actually, I think after the
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train thing, they do keep in contact, but they
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kind of like eventually just stop talking to
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each other. Yeah, it's like me and you. Yeah,
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but I mean, I got the, I got the, I felt the
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need for connection a couple months ago, and
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I picked up my fucking phone, and I said, hey,
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Zach, what's up? Get your ass on the microphone.
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Get fucking podcasting, bitch. So why? The movie
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centers on him. We never got to see what happened
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to her. You know, whenever we see her, it's just
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whatever he's thinking of what she's doing. But
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I guess it kind of tracks what you're saying.
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Maybe she wanted to break it off. But I still
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don't get why the dude never actually tried it.
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I mean, if he was so fucking in love with this
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girl, go get her, man. What the hell are you
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waiting for? He's just like, oh, no, this is
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so sad. I wonder what she's doing right now.
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No, it's so sad. Go get her. Dumbass. I felt
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so bad. I mean, that is true for him. And then
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I felt so bad for his high school friend, though.
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Just go with the surfer girl. She's fun. She's
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cute. No, you're right, I guess. That's another
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good point. Sometimes you have the answer to
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all your life's problems right in front of you,
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but you keep suffering or obsessing about something
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in the past that you're probably romanticizing.
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Oh, yeah. It wasn't even that good. It wasn't
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even that good as you think it is. Yeah. I mean.
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The grass is always greener on the other side.
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To not realize like, oh, yeah, we were 12. The
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things are probably different. Yeah. But then
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the third act where it's just, like, him and
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his bitch wife he ended up marrying or whatever.
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He married? I think, don't they show a clip of
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that girl, him and his wife, like, fighting or
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something? Did we see the same fucking movie?
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He got married? It doesn't show the marriage,
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but it shows him, like, him and some lady fighting.
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They're obviously in a relationship. Isn't it
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the third act a bunch of clips of, like, what's
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going on in their lives? I think it shows her
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dating someone. It does. It does. It shows her,
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like, going on with her life. Yeah, and it shows
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him going nine to five and hating it and then
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arguing with some lady who I think is a wife
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or girlfriend, I guess, maybe. No, I didn't get
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that. Until the last scene where he almost sees
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her. Does he? I don't know. Is that real? Because
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I thought he kept just picturing that in his
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head. I think they both live in Tokyo. You know
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what I mean? Yeah. Like, when they're adults,
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they go back to Tokyo. Yeah, and he keeps thinking,
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like, oh, I'll run into her any fucking minute
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now. Why don't you fucking pick up a phone and
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look her up, Jesus? You can just Google someone's
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name, you know, and it'll fucking guide you.
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But anyway, yeah. There's no honor in that. Remember,
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we're in Japan. Sure. Yeah, sure. That'll, yeah.
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That's going to be useful on those cold, lonely
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nights when you have, you know, no one by your
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side. Yeah, at least you got honor. Sure. It's
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me and my honor. Just me and my honor. Hey, honor,
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you want a cup of wine? Yeah. Can we snuggle,
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honor? I'll turn on the lights and put on some
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jads. Honor. Where are you going, honor? Are
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you going to slip into something more comfortable,
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Honor? You want to try that thing I saw on the
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internet? Honor? You're coming back, right, Honor?
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I thought you were off work tomorrow, Honor.
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What do you mean you got to go? Your mom's at
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the hospital? That's terrible. Okay, stop it.
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All right. Yes, I watched it. Did I like it?
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I mean, I like the animation. Movie itself, kind
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of like Miss for me. It's not, I just don't like
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it when something's, the story gets stuck on
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something so obvious. You know, it's like, oh,
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no. Oh, I wonder what she's doing. Go fucking
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find her. I'm sorry. I just, that part just didn't
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click for me. Yeah. I definitely a running theme
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in anime they like is that not just the theme
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of like loss, but of growing apart and going
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into the next phase of life. And like, like,
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oh, yeah, their best friends are not always going
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to be there. Things got to change and blah, blah,
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blah. And I really like the movie. And I think
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because I mean, not note for note, but I've had
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similar experiences. I mean, there's friends
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now who like I lost touch with. And I could I.
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Facebook them or Google them or I probably got
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some of their numbers and stuff. But am I really
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going to fucking do that now after all this time?
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No. Why not? I don't know. I don't know what
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the fuck they're doing. I have a thing in my
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head where I was like, oh, yeah, that was cool
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when we'd spend like this. But, you know, it's
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years later now. Well, you'll never know what
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they're doing if you don't fucking go and find
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out. Maybe I don't want to know what they're
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doing. So I'll just fucking. Why not? I don't
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know. You're just romanticizing the loss. You
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just don't want to do anything about it. I mean,
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life is either a problem that you can solve,
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go ahead and solve it, or a reality you must
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accept. You know, so if there's something you
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can do about something, do it. Don't just fucking
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sit there like fucking five centimeters into
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my vagina and just be like, oh no. Fucking do
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something about it, man. I guess that's where
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the difference is because it's like not note
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for note. This is not like someone where I'm
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like, oh, man, I really wonder what they're doing.
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I'm just like, oh, yeah, I haven't seen him in
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a while. It would be fucking odd to reach out
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to them now. And then, honestly, what if they
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end up wanting to chat all the time? And I'm
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like, I wasn't trying to fucking do all that.
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I just wanted to see if I was better than you
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or not. Wow, you're an asshole. Here I'm just,
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you know, opening my heart out to you and you
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just want to fucking make sure you're eating
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shit. Basically. But no, I did it. If you gave
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it a number, we didn't talk about a rating system
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if we're going to be doing that or not. We could.
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We could rate it. I mean, that would give something
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objective. We could probably, you know, create
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some content out of that. Yeah, definitely. We'll
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be keeping a spreadsheet of our ratings. Yeah,
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in the future, you know, anime production houses
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would give us private screenings of their anime
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and get a rating before they, you know... See
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in the banner ads on Crunchyroll, like, as recommended
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by Zack and Ron. Yeah, and then... Oh, shit,
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my Pedidos Ya is here. Be right back. Hold on.
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Pedidos Ya! I'm back, my friend. Hello. Did they
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bring in your beer? Yes, they did. Six pack of
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Victoria Classica. Victoria Classica. Nice. Yeah.
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So you're having a Victoria Classica. That's
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a Nicaraguan original? Yes. I'm not having it
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right now. I put it in the freezer so it can
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get a bit cold. Okay. I'm having a glass of Barbera
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from Atchison Winery here in Sacramento. So it's
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definitely not Italian. No, the Barbera grape
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is, but no, it's grown fairly locally. I'm really
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close to Lodi as a grape growing area and Napa
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and stuff, wine country. Oh man, that's got to
14:16
be good. Locally grown food. Yeah, this place
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is really cool. I've met the actual winemaker
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one time. He doesn't work in the shop too much.
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But they don't have a vineyard. He just kind
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of sources grapes from different places and mixes
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it together. So they have a constantly rotating
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menu. And they don't bottle anything. It's all
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in kegs. And then, like, I'm a member there,
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and you get refillable bottles, and you bring
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them in whenever, and they'll swap them out for
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new bottles and stuff. So he doesn't grow in
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his own grapes? No. No. Which means, like, there's
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always different if he sees something. You can
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find they have fun shit sometimes where it's
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like, oh, yeah, I just found a batch of this
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that they were selling. So I made a wine with
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that or like their house red, you know, every
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few months that the blend totally changes. That's
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cool. But it's a cool little spot. Very low key.
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Not not super hoity toity wine bar. Well, the
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the brewery, we don't grow our own. What is it?
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Barley or. Barley hops. Yeah, we don't, the malt,
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the malted barley. Yeah, that's not barley. It
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doesn't grow in these climates. They got to import
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it all from France or Sweden or Germany. Oh,
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wow. I didn't know. Okay. Yep. Damn, is beer
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expensive there then? No, it's, you can buy a
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bottle of beer for less than a dollar. Oh, nice.
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Mm -hmm. So if you ever want to get drunk on
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the cheap, fly down. Come on down to Managua.
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Come on down, Zach Moore. It's your time to be
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on. Hey, Ron, I'm here. I'm in La Discoteca.
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La Discoteca. That's funny. So, what were we
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talking about? Five centimeters per second. Yes,
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you're going to give it a number grade, and then
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I'll give mine. Yes, that's what I was saying,
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that anime studios will have to consult with
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us first before releasing the anime. And if you
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give it a low enough rating, you know, say below
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four or something, you're going to have to rethink
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the whole thing. Yep. Spend millions of dollars
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in production. Sorry, back to the drawing, buddy.
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Because we're going to be like the... Sorry,
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Miyazaki, get your ass back in the fucking editing
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room. We're going to be the fucking Miranda Priestley's
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of anime. Our opinion is the only one that matters.
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Explain. Who's Miranda Priestly? Are you fucking
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serious, dude? You've never seen The Devil Wears
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Prada? No. Okay, so I watched it mainly because...
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Oh, it's Glenn Close's character? No. It's...
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No. That's Cruella de Vil, isn't it? Well, who
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is that? Huh? From the 101 Dalmatians? Miranda
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Priestly? Okay. The Devil Wears Prada. You've
17:04
never seen this movie? No. It's apparently based
17:08
off of a novel that some intern at a fashion
17:10
magazine wrote. Vogue. Like, I've heard about
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the movie. It's enough in the zeitgeist that,
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like, I kind of know about it, but I never actually
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watched it. Miranda Priestly is a character based
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off of the editor of Vogue or something who's,
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like, apparently a super professional bitch.
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Oh, Meryl Streep. That's her name. Yes, Meryl
17:28
Streep. That's a fun movie. No, dude. You're
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thinking... Just stop it, Gramps. Is Glenn Close
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even alive anymore? I don't know. I think so.
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She has a fascinating face, don't you think?
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She looks like a fucking bald eagle or something.
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Upside down. All right. Anyway, I only watched
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the movie. Mainly, I was attracted to the movie
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because I think Anne Hathaway is fucking hot.
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True. I think she's gotten even hotter. Yeah,
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like a fine wine. Yeah, like a fine Balderoco.
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What is that you're drinking again? Barbaro.
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Barbaro. Yeah, like a fine Barbaro. Yeah. You
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know, I like to smooth out those wrinkles, if
18:12
you know, to catch my drift. Well, I really don't.
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Anyway. I've got some anti -aging cream for you.
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What was I saying? Oh, yes. Rating system. If
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I had to rate the movie, sorry, I'd give it a
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4 out of 10. And mostly just because animation,
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because I just could not get into the plot at
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all. It just moved too slowly for me. And, you
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know, I, I, I just hate it when the characters
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are just so fucking dumbstruck. Just do it. Just
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fucking snap out of it and do something. God,
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that thing just fucking pisses me off. Not my
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thing. I suppose it's not, I know it's, it's,
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you know, different, different strokes for different
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folks. Not my stroke. I suppose, you know, Well,
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I stroked all over it and gave it a 10. Just
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kidding. Wow. I give it an 8 out of 10. That's
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cool. Yeah. There were some moments. There were
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some moments. There were some, you know, genuinely
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heartfelt moments that I did feel, you know,
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fucking connected with some of the emotions.
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But there's so little. And then you kind of get
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lost in like a sea of indifference by everyone.
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So it's like. What the hell was it all about?
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What is this grand love you have inside you that
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you fucking cannot, you know, do anything about
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it? No. Do you find pretty often, do you get
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tripped up by like the unrealistic scenarios
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or like convenient, you know, amnesia for any
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genre or whatever, where the answer is just fucking
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make a phone call? Sometimes. Because I think
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I'm really good at suspending my disbelief or
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whatever, or just I could kind of get into it,
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but like, yeah, I don't know why it's not working.
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So it's just, they're just not doing that. That's
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fine. Well, you know, I can kind of ignore it.
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When the writing has words. Yes, yeah. And the
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plot really is driving the story. And it's like
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keeping your focus on, you know, the main things.
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Yeah. What I'm trying to say is when the plot
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is really good and, you know, you're engaged
20:28
in what's the major things, I guess those kind
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of details can be forgiven because you really
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pay attention to them. You're like, yeah, whatever,
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just do it. And so we can or don't do it so we
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can proceed on with the main part of the story.
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But sometimes when the plot is kind of shit.
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Yeah. But sometimes when the plot is shit and
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you're like, Jesus Christ, and then you get bogged
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down or you get hit with, oh, yeah, I can't really.
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call her even though she's the love of my life
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then you're like and that's the whole fucking
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plot of the movie and it looks like oh well that's
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kind of stupid in my opinion yeah especially
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since he doesn't have uh it's not like he knows
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it's not like oh she's happily married or whatever
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so calling her is just gonna be fucking awkward
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and weird well at least you'll fucking find out
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no that's what i mean is that he doesn't know
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so you'd find out If because in some situations
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where you're like, no, I already kind of know
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what her situation is. It's not going to make
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me feel any better to call and hear it from her
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or whatever. I mean, I mean, I can see the point
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of if you're trying to make a movie and anime
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about, you know, loss about just unrequited.
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Is that how you say it? Yeah, I guess it's kind
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of unrequited, I think. It's not unrequited love
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because the last time they saw each other, they
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were pretty much into each other, one another.
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Yeah, yeah, it was requited, but just, you know,
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circumstances. It wasn't to be, and he wasn't
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willing to accept that. Yeah, but it's not like
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he fucking got drafted into the space army. I
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guess he was willing to accept that because he
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didn't, like you said, he didn't go. fucking
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do anything about it so it's like I mean so if
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you're trying to do a movie about meanwhile he's
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doing all kinds of cute shit riding bikes with
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that other girl and getting ice cream and stuff
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yeah fucking going on random dates with random
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dudes probably having crazy sex back in her apartment
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and the other dude's just like nah I'll just
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be miserable for the rest of my life and just
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you know drink yeah so it's like if you're trying
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to make a movie about that about that feeling
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cool great for you so if that was your whole
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intent good but it's uh i guess i'm not the audience
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for that fair enough maybe maybe there's something
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broken with you bro with me something's broken
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with you why fucking do something about it code
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gay ass how did you like code gay ass Actually,
23:02
I'm not even going to say I liked it. I'm going
23:06
to say I'm liking it because I think I'm going
23:07
to keep watching. How many episodes did you watch?
23:10
I watched four episodes. Oh, we're at the, remember,
23:17
I saw this like 20 something years ago. I just
23:20
remember the main parts of the story. Where are
23:24
you at exactly right now? So the Prince Clovis,
23:28
like his brother. He just killed him, and the
23:32
news just got made public. He killed him? I didn't
23:37
remember he had a brother. Yeah. Does he start
23:41
out knowing he's royal family? So this is what
23:44
took me forever to put together, because I was
23:47
very confused. Because apparently he... Him...
23:55
He was part of the royal family, and then him
23:57
and someone else got, like, banished to Japan
23:59
before Britannia actually took over. Okay. And
24:03
then Britannia came in and took over and bombed
24:06
him and everything. And so, like, his brother
24:08
just always assumed that he was dead, but he
24:11
was living as a Japanese guy in the—they called
24:15
Japan 11, Area 11. Mm -hmm. And so that's how
24:21
he— becomes basically, you know, Japanese at
24:25
heart. What I can't tell is fucking, I was like,
24:28
does everyone know he's Britannia? Because they're
24:33
like, he's living with a family who's like hiding
24:36
him and they know what's going on. No, but he's
24:41
going to the fancy school that's like an all
24:42
Britannia, like a very fancy Britannia school.
24:45
Do only Britannia, no, because he's that friend
24:48
of his? The honorary Britannian? Yeah, that guy's,
24:52
Yeah, that guy is fully Japanese. And I think
24:55
that school is only for Britannians and whoever
24:58
the Britannians deem worthy to be in there. So
25:00
if this guy's, his father is the emperor, right?
25:05
I guess. And who's his mother? Is it some Japanese
25:09
girl? I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. I know
25:15
this other character we just met. She's half
25:16
Japanese. I don't know if that's his deal, too.
25:19
No, because he was. They were in Britannia and
25:21
you got, I don't fucking know, man. I think there's
25:25
something, there's some issue there with his
25:27
mom or something. I don't know. Anyway. So what
25:30
else, what else can you tell me? Uh, so, uh,
25:33
episode one had me, I was watching, um, subbed
25:36
just like you like. Oh yeah. That's just how
25:40
I like it, baby. Um, so there was some, some
25:44
of the hook that got me in was like, they do
25:47
this, um, they're trying to purge the, the ghetto
25:49
of Area 11 there, and it's pretty fucking brutal.
25:53
Like, it's not just like, oh, carpet bomb them
25:56
or whatever. It cuts to them just kicking down
25:58
doors and executing people in their living rooms.
26:00
It's kind of wild. Cheaper. Yeah. The plot moves,
26:06
like, super quick. I'm a little slow, and I had
26:10
to keep pausing and rewinding. You're used to
26:13
fucking four episodes of two guys just staring
26:15
at each other. Yeah. Longing. It was cool. They
26:21
were scared of this chemical weapon, big bomb
26:24
thing. And then like some hot chick with green
26:26
hair falls out of it. Oh, so you met the green
26:30
chick. Yeah. We don't know a whole lot about
26:33
her just yet, but we did meet her there. Mysterious
26:37
green hairy girl. Did she eat pizza already?
26:40
She loves pizza. I don't think so. No, we haven't
26:43
seen much of her since that. What do I have a
26:47
note here? Monologue confusion sorting out on
26:49
the fly whether Lelouch is dramatic interspeech.
26:52
Oh, yeah. At the end of the first episode, I
26:54
thought the whole thing was a flashback at first.
26:56
This is when I had to like do go on Wikipedia
26:58
and like piece together some like, what did I
27:00
fucking miss? What's happening here? Jesus. But
27:06
it took me through to like the last five minutes
27:08
of the first episode before I was like, you know
27:10
what? I think I'll keep watching this. Okay.
27:13
That's fair. Episode two. is when um uh what
27:18
happens here you start seeing some like when
27:22
i started noticing some real tropes i wrote a
27:24
quote down which is him going i'll need determination
27:26
to succeed i also swapped to the dub for episode
27:33
two because it was just too much for me to follow
27:36
to try to read and see what's going on on screen
27:38
i missed the freaking this happens in This episode
27:43
or the next episode? The prince who got assassinated?
27:46
I fucking, I totally missed it. I didn't even
27:48
know what happened until I started the next episode.
27:50
They did the recap, and then I had to go back
27:51
and be like, did that happen? Is that a thing?
27:55
Okay, okay, Gramps, keep going. What the hell's
28:00
going on? But comparing the dub to, I keep the
28:04
translated subtitles on while I watch the dub,
28:06
and it's pretty close. They're not changing much
28:08
of anything. It's pretty much right on. So it's
28:12
fine. Okay. Uh, at this point, yeah, he's, so
28:17
he's really cocky. He, all of a sudden he hijacked
28:22
a fucking mech and now he's like his high tech
28:25
air conditioned fucking cockpit that he's commanding
28:28
these other rebels from that they don't even
28:30
know who he is. Um, so I, my prediction is by
28:34
episode seven, he's going to get his ass handed
28:36
to him. Um, he hasn't gotten the, the, the, the
28:41
gay ass eye yet not at this point oh no no he
28:48
didn't he didn't get to the end of episode one
28:50
and that's part of what kept me going too because
28:52
i wrote it at episode one but doesn't the the
28:55
green -haired girl gives it to him and you say
28:57
they haven't shown much it all happens in like
29:00
the last couple minutes of episode one oh and
29:03
i'm a sucker for watching someone learn about
29:05
newfound powers so that was part of the reason
29:07
like oh okay i'll keep watching this That's a
29:10
good anime. It just keeps getting better. You
29:14
know, it just stakes keep getting higher. Situations
29:17
more complex. You know, smart writing. I think.
29:23
Yes, very smart. But no, it's fun as I'm pieced.
29:27
Like I said, I needed some help to get jumpstart
29:30
my like, okay, I need to know what's happening.
29:32
Because all of a sudden he's playing chess with
29:35
some fucking aristocrat. And he's like a hired
29:37
chess guy or something. Yeah, because he's so
29:40
smart. Because he's just so smart. Yeah. So episode
29:45
three is when I start to realize this is 21 Jump
29:48
Street with fucking mechs. Got it. Lelouch isn't
29:58
Japanese. Yeah, here's this is where I wrote
30:00
down some of the Lelouch isn't Japanese. He's
30:02
Lelouch V. Britannia, the 17th prince of the
30:05
Holy Britannian Empire. brother clovis that he
30:11
killed yes um was shocked to see him alive he
30:14
thought he was dead but he shows up and then
30:17
kills him um and this is this is see this is
30:22
where i get a little like thrown off with the
30:24
realism stuff is because i see guy you know combat
30:28
fighting mechs and doing all this shit and then
30:30
in the next scene someone's yelling at him because
30:33
they forgot he's on classroom cleaning duty today,
30:36
and he's got to go fucking stack the chairs or
30:38
whatever. Well, you know, the Japanese, they
30:42
love tidying up. It doesn't matter. Oh, Callie's
30:52
the girl. Is that the red -haired girl? Yes.
30:57
And so we've met her. She doesn't realize that
31:00
it was him because she's also a rebellion fighter.
31:03
yeah she's currently going to school pretending
31:05
she's like fucking retarded or something i don't
31:08
know that's like that's like her grand cover
31:14
-up is that she's crippled or something like
31:17
that she's crippled like in the brain um how'd
31:22
she get sick oh no sickly she's super she's like
31:25
dying or something she's always coughing and
31:27
like but apparently she's super smart But that's
31:31
her grand cover. Well, good enough to fool the
31:36
Britannians. Yeah, but they had some fun back
31:39
and forth. It'll be fun seeing her figure out
31:42
who this Lelouch guy is. Because she thinks he's
31:45
just some loser at school right now. Although
31:47
she saw him somewhere. That makes her think,
31:51
like, what the hell's going on? Hmm. There might
31:54
be more of this Lelouch character than initially
31:57
seemed. I think there might be. But yeah, by
32:00
that point, I was like, you know what? This is
32:02
fun. I'll have it on in the back. I definitely,
32:05
I think I'll finish the first season. I can see
32:08
myself finishing the first season and then we'll
32:10
see where we go from there. I think there's a
32:12
second season or a movie. I don't think it's
32:17
as good as the first season. And I don't even
32:19
remember if the story even finished. I don't
32:22
know. But yeah, definitely watch it. All right.
32:24
So rating time. How many sad, how many emotional,
32:28
how damaged did you felt? How much did it damage
32:34
you? Oh, not damaged. Not damaged. Confused.
32:39
Okay. I'm giving it, I think I give it a five,
32:44
five and a half. Wow, that's kind of harsh. I
32:48
think I'd go to, I think I'd go to eight. Mostly,
32:51
mostly because I did like it a lot, but the character
32:56
design and I just hate the fact that the mechs
32:59
are like on roller skates. I hate that. They
33:02
just look so damn silly. Stupid skating mechs.
33:06
You want them to be stomping around? Yeah, fucking
33:09
run around and shit, you know, like Eva. But
33:12
you don't see an Evangelion just fucking. sliding
33:15
around in a fucking roller skate kit. This is
33:17
fucking ridiculous. But anyway, and I thought
33:20
the animation could have been a little bit better.
33:22
I mean, it's from 2006, but I think it could
33:26
have done. Maybe they had a tight budget. I don't
33:29
know, but I thought it could have been better.
33:31
That was part of the, I guess not so much the
33:33
animation, but I did like some of the character
33:35
designs and I know he's supposed to be over the
33:38
top and thick. his poses and stuff but it's like
33:41
oh that's fun i get the kind of cheesy vibe um
33:44
yeah i did like that part of it this is a drama
33:47
queen definitely yeah he likes to make an entrance
33:50
make a note we've got to talk about it in an
33:53
episode what the fuck makes good animation because
33:55
i'm still kind of confused sure i mean you're
34:01
a fucking uh graphic designer And you don't know
34:05
what makes good graphics, but... Is it just how
34:08
many frames per second it is? Is it fucking...
34:11
I don't know. I think it's more to do with...
34:14
Because you can make something... Fluid animation
34:18
does not necessarily depend on frames per second,
34:21
although sometimes. But it's just, you know,
34:24
the quality of the backgrounds, the textures,
34:27
special effects, facial expressions, diversity
34:32
in... design because sometimes animes you sometimes
34:36
like the really cheapo animes you can pretty
34:38
much tell that they use the same fucking background
34:40
for in every single episode you know there's
34:43
not much variety stuff like that I think or the
34:47
ones where they don't move at all it's just a
34:48
series of still photos or like camera angles
34:53
you know trying to you know give you different
34:55
perspectives or points of view instead of the
34:59
same thing over and over again Probably because
35:01
it's cheaper. I don't know. That'd be interesting
35:03
to explore. How much does a budget affect the
35:08
production quality? I think it's something universal.
35:10
You know, you see it in movies and plays. Yeah.
35:13
And sometimes you do see, like, unicorns are,
35:15
like, you know, zero budget, but they come up
35:18
with something amazing. Yeah, write that down.
35:21
I will, yeah. All right, so you gave it an eight.
35:25
I gave it a five. Eight. Well, the thing is,
35:29
there's a big difference, though. Because I watched
35:34
the movie, and that's the whole thing. That's
35:36
true. That's the complete story. That's true.
35:38
You've just seen four episodes, and you have
35:40
no idea the clusterfuck that awaits you. So maybe
35:44
your rating, I would request that you revise
35:47
your rating once you finish season one. I will.
35:49
I'm going to make a note of it right now in my
35:52
Code K -Ass file here. And I will either update
35:58
my rating or will revisit my rating when I'm
36:02
done with season one or when I decide that, you
36:04
know what, I'm fucking dropping this. It's not
36:06
fun anymore. Oh. Well, I guess we'll just have
36:10
to wait and see. We will. But I don't dislike
36:14
it. And it's definitely not the type of thing
36:17
I would usually watch. That makes me feel really
36:22
glad because I know. That's like totally like
36:25
not your thing. Not totally because you will
36:28
get some high school drama. Yeah, yeah. And you
36:33
definitely get some like unrequited romance and
36:36
stuff like that. You'll see. Okay. All right.
36:41
The big, the one everyone's been waiting for.
36:45
Yeah, really. Smoking with my dog behind the
36:47
fucking liquor store. Yeah, I watched it five
36:54
episodes. I was doing some Googling to try to
36:55
find whatever title Google told you about with
36:58
that pet or whatever, and my AI was like, yeah,
37:01
no, Ron got caught in a hallucination. I don't
37:04
know what the fuck you're talking about. I shared
37:06
my screen. I know. I think that was Google's
37:11
AI hallucinating. Probably. You know what? Come
37:14
back tomorrow. I'll research the title and let
37:17
you know. That's what Google said. Oh, yeah,
37:20
yeah, exactly. I'm going to do some work. I really
37:23
need to dig in on this. Yeah, I got some stuff
37:26
going on, but I'll go back to you in 24 hours.
37:30
So we said we're going to watch five episodes.
37:34
Yes. Now, is it fun to start with, will you be
37:39
watching more now? I don't think I will. I will.
37:43
Or maybe I will. Okay, do you want to start or
37:48
do you want me to start? I can start, I guess.
37:52
Okay, go. I should start putting these into categories.
37:56
Note for next episode. Because right now I have
37:58
them kind of by episode, but I'm going to touch
38:01
on... Speaking of animation visuals, I like the
38:04
character design and the way they present Sasaki,
38:08
the main guy, his burnout and stuff with his
38:11
bags under his eyes and everything. He's just
38:14
old. Yes, and he's old. Old fuck. It was like
38:18
40 -something. Kind of my age. Yeah. I'm old.
38:23
But he's trying to get at that 24 -year -old.
38:27
Right? Hell yeah. That's it. He's not really
38:33
trying to. It's a little. So when I see these
38:37
anime tropes and it's a high schooler going like,
38:39
well, what does she think this and that? It's
38:42
like kind of funny and cute. Like, okay, I get
38:44
it. Can't be forgiven. Yes, but when it's a 40
38:47
-year -old, I'm like, okay, dude. Yeah, that
38:50
is retarded. That shit just drives me crazy.
38:53
How have you managed to reach 40 years old being
38:57
such a fucking idiot? Jesus. Continue. But I
39:07
do... Something about the... I like a double...
39:11
A double... personality i i enjoy her punk persona
39:16
which i think is her real persona um definitely
39:20
um so i so i like the the goofiness of like oh
39:24
hey can't tell it's her because she fucking squints
39:28
when she's working the register or whatever um
39:32
i'm surprised that For me, at least, it's all
39:40
very slow moving. So I'm like, it's five episodes.
39:42
I thought it might get old after. It's like,
39:44
yeah, I know. How about you're going to do with
39:46
smoking cigarettes, talking to some lady? A lot,
39:50
apparently. It's got me wondering now what the
39:56
reveal is going to be like. Do you think he's
39:59
going to find out about the truth before he...
40:05
ask them out at all? I don't know. I guess that's
40:10
just what I'm waiting to find out. Okay, so plot
40:13
synopsis or the premise of this show is this
40:16
40 -year -old dude who works at some finance
40:18
company is kind of miserable because I don't
40:21
think he's that miserable because of his job
40:23
because I think he's pretty good at his job and
40:25
people respect him. And, you know, he's got people
40:27
working under him. Yeah, the boss leaves and
40:29
puts him in charge and everything. Yeah, the
40:31
boss is kind of an asshole but he values him,
40:34
I think. But the main thing comes from, he's
40:39
miserable because he's lonely. And to get any
40:43
sort of connection, he, you know, after work
40:47
every single day, he goes by this convenience
40:50
store and he talks to this, and he lines up,
40:52
he manages to line up in the cash register where
40:56
Yamada, Kanaka, I'm terrible at names, I'm sorry.
41:01
Yamada, yes. Yamada is her. It's her other name.
41:06
Tiamat is what she calls herself when she's in
41:07
the back. This 20 -something -year -old girl
41:10
that works at the convenience store, she's really
41:12
kind to him. And, you know, it's kind of like
41:14
an unspoken ritual of his to swing by the convenience
41:19
store, buy whatever, just to get a look at her
41:23
and, you know, exchange pleasantries. Not even
41:28
pleasantries. The only thing they talk about
41:30
in the beginning is... Here's your stuff. Here's
41:32
your card. Here's your receipt. Thank you. Good
41:34
night. You know, but that fucking lights up his
41:37
day apparently. And then, uh, I don't remember
41:40
how, but, uh, he exits, he exits the convenience
41:44
store and notices and wants to smoke a cigarette.
41:47
Yeah. So there's this girl, he notices this girl
41:50
behind the, uh, yeah. Cause he starts smoking
41:53
and like someone walking by is like, Oh gross.
41:57
And like says something and he's like, fuck,
41:58
I can't smoke anywhere. Um, And then there's
42:01
this bombshell behind the supermarket. The smoke
42:07
show. Leather jacket, like a thousand earrings.
42:12
She talks like she don't give a shit. Like she
42:15
don't give a damn. And it's actually the same
42:20
girl from the cash register. But he doesn't know
42:23
it. He can't tell them. For some fucking reason,
42:27
it's like this girl is Clark Kent. She takes
42:30
out her earrings and puts on that little handkerchief
42:32
on her head and boom. Yeah. She's a completely
42:36
different person. And they kind of start striking
42:39
up some sort of friendship. And then people from
42:42
the store, other people from the store get involved.
42:44
The lady's boss, who immediately catches up on
42:48
what's going on. Immediately, instantaneously.
42:52
Well, because that's part of it, too, is he's
42:54
pretty open. he's pretty open with this new girl
42:57
about, um, cause she, she's like, Oh yeah, you
43:01
always line up for what's her faces register.
43:03
And she gets it out of them pretty easy that
43:06
he's like, yeah, you know, I kind of like her,
43:07
I guess. Um, so the, the dynamic is instantly
43:12
like, she knows a lot more about him than she
43:14
does than he does about her. Definitely. I guess
43:18
that shows you how lonely this guy is. You know,
43:20
he's like desperate to open up with someone.
43:23
Yeah. First person that pays any attention to
43:26
him because we don't, I mean, he doesn't really
43:28
have friends at work. He has that dude who speaks
43:32
a lot at work, but he's not really a friend.
43:34
Yeah, he's just kind of an annoying asshole.
43:38
Yeah. But we don't see him interact with any
43:41
family or other friends or nothing. Yeah, no.
43:45
Nobody but these two people at the convenience
43:49
store. Yeah. his little harem of the convenience
43:52
store. Yeah. But yeah, the main thing for me
43:55
was just, I can't, it's just fucking beyond stupid
43:58
how this guy is not going to be able to tell
44:00
that they're the same girl. And the girl's kind
44:02
of, you know, she's kind of fucked up. She's
44:04
just, she's toying with them basically. But she
44:07
really likes him. She does, yeah. She's, she's,
44:11
she's nervous about it in her own different way.
44:15
Yeah. There's got to be something about not,
44:19
I think it's – well, she gets put in a weird
44:21
position where he likes her persona that she
44:26
puts on at the register, but he does not look
44:29
at her other persona, her real persona, like
44:36
that at all. Like, there's that time when she
44:38
tries to show off her shirt she's wearing and
44:42
her cute little midriff or whatever, and he's
44:44
like, oh, aren't you cold? And she gets, like,
44:46
offended by it. She's like, you went all fucking
44:48
– You creamed yourself when What's -Her -Face
44:52
wore short sleeves, and then I show you my fucking
44:55
pussy, and you're like, oh, what the hell? Well,
44:58
I mean, he did get kind of, like, you know, flustered
45:02
by it. But I guess you're right. He doesn't see
45:05
her in the same romantic light as he does Yamada.
45:11
Yeah, I think that's starting to change. But
45:13
he's warming up. He's warming up to her. Yeah,
45:16
at the end of these five episodes, I think that's
45:18
starting to change, which is... But that's the
45:22
thing I want to keep watching. What's this girl's
45:26
endgame? We know Sasuke. Is that the guy's name?
45:30
Yes. We know he's a complete fucking idiot. He
45:33
can't tell fucking that it's the same girl. He's
45:36
just an idiot. He's just, you know, dumbstruck
45:39
by this girl. But the girl, Yamada... she knows
45:45
what she's doing. And I don't know if she started
45:47
doing it as, you know, just to fuck with him
45:50
or because she's somehow, or because when she
45:54
goes out behind the supermarket and smoke, that's
45:57
she, that's the way that's, I guess the anime
46:00
is way of letting you know that this persona
46:02
she puts up in the store is not really her. And
46:05
she wants to like this, the smoke breaks her
46:07
an opportunity for her to free up and be who
46:10
she really is. Yeah. And maybe she's conflicted
46:14
about the fact that he hasn't or there hasn't
46:17
been a chance for them to connect inside the
46:21
store. But they managed to connect outside the
46:24
store. So she's kind of conflicted that who does
46:28
this guy really like? Does she like Yamada girl
46:31
or Tanaka or whatever her name is outside the
46:34
store? Yeah, exactly. I was about to say, like,
46:38
I think she almost doesn't want them to have
46:39
a moment like that inside the store because.
46:42
She would like to actually, you know, have a
46:44
relationship with him, which means her real self.
46:48
You know what I mean? I guess it's more of a,
46:52
I guess, yeah, what's going to happen when, because
46:55
there's definitely going to be a reveal. I mean,
46:57
she's not going to reveal it to him. He, I think,
47:01
he will find out on his own through some fucking
47:04
miracle because the guy's a fucking moron. I
47:07
don't know how he'll do it. She'll probably slip
47:09
up and he'll catch her. That's the thing. Lighter
47:15
or something falls out of her pocket or some
47:16
shit. Is she going to feel, you know, are we
47:22
going to get that moment where the guy feels
47:24
betrayed by her? Probably. And I was thinking
47:30
this is just what I'd like to see, why I want
47:34
to keep watching because I think it'll be entertaining.
47:38
Before the reveal, there's got to be some little
47:40
arc where, like, he starts doing things outside
47:44
of behind the supermarket with both of them maybe
47:47
even at the same time. And then he's like, fuck,
47:49
I'm two -timing this girl. Wow. Not realizing
47:52
it's the same lady. That would be fucking retarded.
47:58
That'd be just the epitome of retardation. No?
48:04
I thought it'd be funny. We'll see. Just, you
48:08
know, just naturally like not dating or anything,
48:11
but they'll hang out because him and because
48:15
he is starting to talk more to the inside personality,
48:17
too. He'll invite her somewhere and she'll be
48:20
like, oh, I guess I have to show up as fucking
48:21
Yamada. And then she'll invite him somewhere
48:27
as her real self, Tayama. And. Yeah, I think
48:34
there'll be some balancing act there. That'll
48:37
be fun. I guess I've never watched an anime with
48:41
a character four years old, except for that.
48:44
There's one in Prime Video that's called The
48:47
Old Town or Small Town Bumpkin Goes to the Big
48:51
City or something about a sword master from some
48:53
small village going to the capital and becoming
48:55
the lead professor in the training. I don't know.
48:59
It's kind of cool. You should watch it. Okay.
49:03
What I've seen from Tanaka Sasaki is that he's
49:07
a pretty mature person in the terms of understanding
49:09
other people. So whenever the truth comes out
49:14
about Yamada or whatever, I don't think it's
49:17
going to be one of those typical teenager reactions
49:20
where he's like, oh, no, you bitch, you lied
49:22
to me. I hate you. Maybe he'll be more understanding
49:24
because he has shown, you know, he does offer
49:27
sometimes advice or a different perspective to.
49:32
What's the smoke girl persona's name? Jesus.
49:36
Tayama. Tayama. He sometimes, you know, gives
49:39
her advice that does sound like something that
49:42
would come from an older person that a younger
49:44
person would appreciate. Yeah. It's kind of a
49:47
thing with this anime as well. So maybe it's
49:51
not going to be that dramatic. Maybe it's going
49:53
to be a very understanding moment, probably.
49:56
I don't know. He'd almost be more introspective
49:59
and be like, that's hardly the way. you know
50:01
weirder than the weirdest thing i've fucking
50:02
done i was showing up stalking you uh you know
50:06
at the store every day in your lane um yeah you
50:10
i think i think you could be right there i mean
50:13
we'll be surprised but not like betrayed yeah
50:18
surprised maybe a little embarrassed because
50:21
he's like oh you mean all those times i said
50:23
how much i how cute i thought yabba was and stuff
50:26
that was i was talking to you yeah But I do think
50:30
they have some room to milk it a little bit.
50:35
So, yeah. I mean, not my usual kind of stuff,
50:39
but I liked it. I mean, I'll keep watching. I
50:42
want to find out how the story ends for sure.
50:45
Yeah. I'll show. What do you give in the first
50:48
five episodes? Six out of ten. Mostly because
50:55
it's a pretty down -to -earth anime. So, it's
50:58
like, you know. You're not going to see any flashy
51:00
thing or crazy character design. It's just basically...
51:04
And it's just the story unfolds in his office
51:07
and the convenience store. That's pretty much
51:09
it. And I just hate, hate characters. They're
51:13
so fucking dumb. They can't fucking tell what's
51:15
going on. I just fucking hate that. And this
51:17
guy is just fucking, you know, at the top of
51:19
fucking retarded anime characters I've ever seen.
51:22
How can you not tell it's the same fucking girl?
51:24
Jesus. So I give it a 6 out of 10. But I'm intrigued.
51:28
Like I said before, maybe I'll revise my rating
51:33
once I finish it, but we'll see. We still haven't
51:35
seen the pet. Where's the dog? Yeah, exactly.
51:38
Where's the dog? I thought it would make an appearance
51:40
by now. What's up with that? Yeah. We're halfway
51:43
through the season, I think. I like six. I was
51:47
thinking more I'd probably go seven, just purely
51:50
on the fact that it's a little bit more up my
51:52
alley, so I like it a little better. But I think
51:55
that's a pretty good number for it. Okay. Let's
51:58
settle on six and a half. All right. We're doing,
52:00
we're doing half. We're doing halves. Okay. I
52:02
didn't know we had to come to like a, I thought
52:04
we both got to have our own scores. We have to
52:06
come to a, a consensus. I don't know. I just
52:11
thought of that just right now. Okay. Well then
52:13
what's our, then we got better go back and fight
52:15
it out over five centimeters. No, because that's
52:19
a, that's, that's something you recommended to
52:22
me. And vice versa for Code Gay Ass, but this
52:26
is something we're watching together for the
52:27
first time. Okay, okay. And you gotta assume
52:31
that if you recommend something to me, it's because
52:35
you really, really like it and you really think
52:37
I should watch it. I might recommend you something
52:40
that I think is absolutely fucking stupid and
52:43
I just want to hear you talk about it. That's
52:45
valid. I mean, maybe I'll watch it and I'll be
52:49
like, dude, this is fucking amazing what you're
52:50
talking about. Could happen. It could. So what
52:57
are we going to talk about for the rest of the
52:58
episode? A group thing. I think that's about
53:02
wraps it up for this one. We're going to fucking.
53:05
Did you think about homework for next week? No.
53:10
I hadn't really either. We got to keep watching.
53:12
We got to keep watching the ped behind the supermarket.
53:15
Oh, yeah, definitely. We'll keep up with that.
53:16
We'll do the next five episodes, probably. And
53:18
I think you're invested in Code Gay Ass, so I
53:21
don't know if you want to. I will tell you to
53:23
watch Freerun. Thanks to Zach Flakes, I got to
53:25
watch the second season. I think you'd really
53:27
be into the second season. I really liked the
53:30
first season because it was a lot of action.
53:32
You're watching Freerun? Yeah, yeah. I'm only
53:34
on the first season right now, but I am liking
53:35
it. This global phenomenon. Is it really popular?
53:40
I think so. I was talking to someone at work
53:45
who's a pretty passive anime fan, and he really
53:49
likes it. He doesn't watch every new thing, but
53:54
it came into his view, and he's watching it,
53:58
and he's like, oh, yeah, I really like it. I
54:01
kind of always gauge how popular an anime is
54:03
by how much cosplay and porn there is from it.
54:09
Shall we do some research now? I've done plenty
54:14
of research in the past, my friend. But I think
54:17
it is pretty popular. It's a pretty good show.
54:21
It's smart in the way that magic is treated almost
54:25
like a science, where they research it and study
54:29
it and improve it and experiment with it. I really
54:33
like that aspect of it. Yeah, the magic system's
54:36
cool. And the part I'm sure you will love, I
54:41
don't know how far you are into the first season,
54:43
but Freirein is an immortal elf. And she's only
54:48
just begun to, like, appreciate humans and the
54:54
interactions with humans. Maybe because she grew
54:57
up alone. Yeah. And realizing what it means for
55:01
their lives to be so short. Exactly. So that's
55:05
pretty. That's pretty engaging as well. Yeah,
55:09
as like a fantasy D &D nerd dude, I never thought
55:13
about that with elves. Because a lot of times
55:16
they're canonically like either immortal or very
55:18
long living. And I had never even crossed my
55:23
mind about like, oh yeah, what's it like when
55:24
the elf and the best friend humans and he dies
55:27
and then she just goes on for another 700 years.
55:30
Exactly. So, yeah, that's why I am liking it.
55:35
Well, you get a little bit of that from Lord
55:37
of the Rings, though. Remember Arwen? Oh, because
55:40
what's -his -face is the Dunedain or whatever
55:42
the fuck? He's immortal. You've got an elf that
55:46
falls in love with a mortal man, and her dad
55:49
is like, what are you going to do when this dude
55:51
dies? Yeah. Of course, the answer in Lord of
55:54
the Rings is that they have a kid, so she'll
55:58
have his kid. Family. But I guess some of that
56:04
drips onto Frearing. What is an elf to do when
56:07
all her friends around her die? Yeah, because,
56:11
I mean, she didn't even have elf friends or whatever.
56:14
No. With her, it's like, well, he dies, I got
56:17
a whole elf family, and we'll all fucking deal
56:19
with it. But that's all she knew was her buddies,
56:22
and they're all dropping like flies. Yeah, elves
56:25
are very rare. There's more demons than fucking
56:28
elves, I think. Yeah, it's a pretty good show.
56:32
And second season is a lot slower. Not much happens.
56:35
A lot of dialogue, a lot of character development.
56:37
Ooh, even better. Yeah, so I think you'll like
56:40
season two. But it's very short, though. It's
56:42
only like 10 episodes. What's the first season?
56:47
Is it more than that? I think it's like 26, 27.
56:49
Oh, it's like a full, full, like, old school
56:51
season. Okay. Yep. Oh, and on the Code Gayass
56:56
thing, like, yeah, I'm going to keep watching
56:58
it, but if you want to... I can throw something
56:59
else. I'm not actively watching anything else,
57:01
really. Witch Hat Atelier is almost over, I think.
57:04
Okay. Must watch. Another must watch. Gotta watch
57:08
Evangelion. We can't really go forward as if
57:11
we both haven't watched Evangelion. Pretty much.
57:14
Is it the best anime ever made? Let's ask Google.
57:17
Is Evangelion the best anime of all time? There
57:21
you go. Suggest it. Google says yes. No, it doesn't.
57:26
No, it says, whether Neon Genesis Evangelion
57:29
is the best anime of all time is a matter of
57:31
personal opinion, but it is widely ranked among
57:34
the greatest and most important series ever made.
57:39
Gotta watch it. Yeah, I do. Well, I will watch
57:42
Evangelion. White people call it the best. Deep
57:45
themes. Cultural impact. Oh. Confusing endings.
57:51
Yeah. There you go. That's right. I need to work
57:55
that out because there's like the original series,
57:57
but then they retconned the last two episodes
57:59
or something, right? Yeah, just watch the series
58:02
and then you watch the movie. That's pretty much
58:04
all you need. And then you got to read up about
58:06
the whole, I mean, you got to read up about the
58:09
whole story. I mean, there's like a fucking whole
58:11
story that happens, you know, that's going on
58:15
and doesn't really ever get talked about on the
58:17
anime. It'll help you, you know, close all loops.
58:22
Oh, where does that take place? You know, thousands
58:26
of years before in the beginning of time at the
58:29
same time in the future. Or am I just fucking
58:32
reading fanfic? I think it's from a video game
58:36
they made out of it or something. Yeah. All right.
58:41
Well, I will start on that project. The lore.
58:44
Maybe that'll have to be a running thing. We'll
58:47
have to check in on where I'm at in the Evangelion
58:49
journey. Oh yeah. It's a good one. Cause it was
58:54
older. So it's one season probably has 20 some
58:57
odd episodes. I imagine. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. And
59:02
do you have anything for me? Yeah. I'm going
59:04
to tell you to watch, um, Tora Dora. Jesus. Let
59:11
me write it down. I think it's on Zach clicks.
59:14
It is. I need to make sure it's correct on there.
59:17
It was giving me some trouble before I like actually
59:19
downloaded a bunch of, the french one or some
59:21
in one point must watch it like that odyssey
59:24
movie i was like five minutes into it i was like
59:27
wait a second is that why i haven't watched it
59:30
yet was it i thought it was when you said it
59:31
was not the real odyssey i thought it might be
59:33
the one from the 60s or whatever oh no it's not
59:36
from the 60s it's definitely more modern but
59:38
it's just you know they had a budget like 100
59:40
bucks and i think it's one of those movies where
59:42
like the director is the lead actor and the editor
59:45
and his wife is playing the three characters
59:48
and she's also doing the lighting And then a
59:51
friend of them is like doing the camera work
59:53
and some dude from Fiverr is doing the special
59:55
effects. It's just no bueno, man. I'll have to
59:59
check it out. No, no. Don't recommend it. You
1:00:03
do. So, yeah, I recommend Toradora. It's another.
1:00:07
It's not. It's not. It doesn't try to be heavy
1:00:09
like fucking five centimeters or whatever. I
1:00:13
think it's genuinely funny. If you stick with
1:00:16
it, I really enjoyed the cute little romance,
1:00:19
and it hits pretty hard towards the end once
1:00:22
things start really rolling. With happy tears,
1:00:26
it's cute. Speaking of romance, I've been watching
1:00:32
Vermeule in Gold. I saw that, actually. One time
1:00:35
I logged in, and it's like, because when I'm
1:00:37
on the dashboard of it, it can tell me who else
1:00:39
is on, and it said you were watching some episode
1:00:41
of Vermeule in Gold. Are you liking it? Kind
1:00:45
of. I mean, I went over to Sackflix and I was
1:00:48
like, hmm, what anime should I watch now that
1:00:50
I have this whole fucking slew of content at
1:00:53
my disposal? And I was like, let's look at these
1:00:57
thumbnails and find out what title has the chick
1:01:03
with the biggest tits in it. And it happened
1:01:06
to be Vermilion Gold. And it's, well, there's
1:01:09
a lot of the Batgirl's tits in it. It's not that
1:01:13
bad. No, not really. She's a demon. Demon. Yes.
1:01:19
And she falls in love with a 14 -year -old boy.
1:01:25
Yeah. And part of the dynamic is that they have
1:01:28
to, you know, get freaky in order for her to
1:01:32
suck his mana. Suck his mana. Yeah, that's right.
1:01:36
I forgot about that. I don't know if they're
1:01:39
actually having sex or just kissing or just snuggling,
1:01:42
but something's going on there that this fucking
1:01:45
hundreds -year -old demon is doing with this
1:01:48
14 -year -old boy. Oh, man. I'd kill to be that
1:01:54
boy. But anyway. Yeah, and they're at a school
1:01:56
where everyone can summon a familiar, but he's
1:02:00
the only person who's ever summoned a full -grown
1:02:03
human or some shit. Yeah, it's like Harry Potter
1:02:07
where you have to have a magical pet. You know
1:02:10
how Harry had a... The owl. Oh, my God. I almost
1:02:14
said lettuce. Yeah, yeah. In Spanish, you got
1:02:21
two words for an owl. You can say búho or you
1:02:26
can say lechuza. Depends on when you're from.
1:02:29
Oh, like lechuga. And I got confused with lechuga,
1:02:33
which is lettuce. What was the first one? Boo?
1:02:36
Boo. Boo. I think that just comes from the sound
1:02:40
they make. Boo. Boo. They don't say that. They
1:02:43
say hoot. Hoot. That's because you're American.
1:02:48
Just like cats don't say nyan or whatever the
1:02:50
fuck. They say meow. They say meow. That's universal.
1:02:56
Well, at least in Spanish it's also meow. Oh,
1:02:58
in Japanese it's nyan. N -Y -A -N. They're crazy.
1:03:04
They got two nukes dropped on them. Whole fucking
1:03:07
country's fucking messed up, dude. That's fucked
1:03:13
up, man. How would your society be if you got
1:03:15
two fucking nukes dropped on you? Fucking grew
1:03:19
up with some crazy ideas, I'll tell you. Wow.
1:03:25
There you have it, folks. Maybe cats in Japan
1:03:28
do sound like that. Maybe. Walking all crooked.
1:03:34
I was reading about, I don't know how many years
1:03:41
ago, that basically your capacity for expressing
1:03:44
yourself and expressing your ideas is pretty
1:03:49
much limited by your language. You can't really
1:03:52
say, express, or think, or write something beyond
1:03:58
the words that you know. Very true. I can't write
1:04:02
words that I don't know exist. Exactly. Or feelings
1:04:06
or articulate sentences or ideas that your language
1:04:10
does not permit you to. And so there are some
1:04:13
limitations. There are some advantages to each
1:04:16
language. Like, for example, English is pretty
1:04:21
good at creating very concise, descriptive, and
1:04:27
to -the -point phrases and sentences. That you
1:04:31
can do in Spanish, but it will take you a couple
1:04:33
more words, and they would not hit as direct
1:04:35
to the point as they do in English. That's why
1:04:38
English poetry kind of sucks, but Spanish poetry
1:04:41
is just absolutely beautiful. Let's hear it.
1:04:45
Are you going to do a reading for us? Do you
1:04:48
want me to? Sure. No, I don't know any poetry.
1:04:52
La cucaracha. I'm just talking out of my ass.
1:04:54
La cucaracha. I will have you know. La cucaracha.
1:04:58
Nicaragua was a piece of shit country, but we
1:05:01
did give birth to the father of modernism and
1:05:06
literature. Really? Yeah, pretty cool guy. Who's
1:05:11
that? Ruben Darío. Ruben Darío? Yeah, look him
1:05:17
up. He's a big deal. Big deal. Big deal. Oh,
1:05:22
look at him with his little hat. Oh, look at
1:05:25
that. He was a... Drunk womanizer asshole, but
1:05:29
he wrote some pretty cool poems. Modernismo.
1:05:34
Damn. Very cool. Hello, kitty. Mm -hmm. So, yeah.
1:05:40
So, there's definitely some traction to the idea
1:05:43
of you're limited or you can only express the
1:05:45
things that you see and feel, you know, depending
1:05:49
on the language you speak. So, maybe Japanese,
1:05:52
a cat's sound comes out as nian. Yeah. But in
1:05:57
English and Spanish is meow. Yeah. Because the
1:05:59
sounds we know how to make and, you know, we
1:06:02
can hear anything, but then we're limited by
1:06:04
the sounds we can produce by, because of the
1:06:06
language we are programmed with. Yeah, yeah.
1:06:09
We don't have any problems. That's why it's also,
1:06:11
that's why it's almost, or that's why it's also
1:06:13
cool to learn other languages. It allows you
1:06:15
to expand your, the capacity or the breadth of
1:06:20
your expression. It does. All right, that was...
1:06:26
Okay. Cool. We've got to learn Japanese, dude.
1:06:33
Deep pontifications with Ron. That's how we end
1:06:36
every episode. Stay damaged. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
1:06:41
thanks for watching. Ron's going to watch Toradora.
1:06:44
Thanks for listening. Ron's going to watch Toradora.
1:06:46
I'm going to start my Eva journey. And we're
1:06:50
both going to smoke behind the supermarket some
1:06:53
more. With a pet. With a pet. Yeah. Stay damaged.