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032 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Kai and I am a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a rambler. Welcome to ramble on fifteen, where I
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  Speaker 1: talk about what went on this week. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: start out with someone getting trapped in the elevator on
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  Speaker 1: the fourth floor here where I am, and nobody knew
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  Speaker 1: who to call her anything. So when I was leaving
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  Speaker 1: my building, a guy stopped me and explained that his
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  Speaker 1: friend was trapped in the elevator on the fourth floor
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  Speaker 1: and they already called the police and everybody they could call,
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  Speaker 1: but no one's here, and she's pounding on the doors
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  Speaker 1: and screaming as how he explained it to me. And
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  Speaker 1: I could hear her pounding on the doors and screaming
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  Speaker 1: faintly because it's a few floors up, but that was happening.
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  Speaker 1: So I called my airbnb hosts. They said that they
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  Speaker 1: had already sent a technician. The technician was on their way.
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  Speaker 1: They had already talked to that same guy. He seemed
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  Speaker 1: pretty friends, so he might not have realized, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to take a few minutes to get someone out. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: It was also pretty late in the evening, so it
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  Speaker 1: was probably going to take a while to get the
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  Speaker 1: technician to get out there, and his friend is obviously
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  Speaker 1: freaking out on the other side of the elevator she's
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  Speaker 1: trapped in, so he probably felt more anxious because of that.
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  Speaker 1: But after the guy had asked me for help, he
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  Speaker 1: had gone back upstairs, and I didn't know after the
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  Speaker 1: Airbnb hosts told me that there was a technician on
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  Speaker 1: the way if they already knew that the guy and
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  Speaker 1: his friend stuck in the elevator. And I kind of
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to go up there because it was a loud,
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  Speaker 1: fearful situation and it just don't want to be around that.
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  Speaker 1: But I got the answer from the host. I figured
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  Speaker 1: it would be nice for them to have reassurance that
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  Speaker 1: someone was on the way, So I walked up a
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  Speaker 1: few floors to where the guy was standing outside the
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  Speaker 1: elevator that his friend was trapped inside, and told them
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  Speaker 1: that a technician was on the way, or I told
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  Speaker 1: him that a technician was on the way, But after
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  Speaker 1: I told him, hey, the host said the technician is
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  Speaker 1: on his way. Apparently they didn't tell him that, which
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  Speaker 1: is very common. These hosts address all of my concerns
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  Speaker 1: extremely quickly. It's great. The place I'm staying is very nice.
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  Speaker 1: But they don't answer. They just do whatever you talk
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  Speaker 1: to them about. But they don't say like, oh, the
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  Speaker 1: elevator's fixed or the hot water's back on anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: There's no status updates from these hosts, so I guess
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  Speaker 1: they didn't tell him. So I told him that a
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  Speaker 1: technician was coming, and he looked relieved and said thank you,
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  Speaker 1: and I said bye, good luck and went on my walk.
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  Speaker 1: And as I walked downstairs to the front door, I
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  Speaker 1: could hear him shouting that there was a technician on
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  Speaker 1: the way to his friend and the elevator. And then
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  Speaker 1: I went out on my evening walk, and by the
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  Speaker 1: time I got back a couple hours or something, the
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  Speaker 1: elevator was working again normally, So I guess she got out.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm glad that that whole thing worked out. That's
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  Speaker 1: the only thing I've seen broken in this hotel. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, it's a really nice place, and the hosts
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  Speaker 1: are very quick to respond by action, but they don't
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  Speaker 1: respond by text or voice in any kind of timely manner.
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  Speaker 1: They'll fix it, though, they just don't say, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the lock's been replaced or anything like that, Like the
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  Speaker 1: hot water went out here, and I had to figure
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  Speaker 1: out it's a weird hot water thing, like if it's
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a water tank and the water just
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  Speaker 1: gets used up. But if I turn it off and
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  Speaker 1: then back on, the water comes back on. And then
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  Speaker 1: for a while there was just no hot water, which
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned in the last episode, but I told them,
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  Speaker 1: they said thank you for reporting it. I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: any updates, but then the hot water started working again
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  Speaker 1: the following morning. And there's been a few things like that,
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  Speaker 1: and whenever I ask them, there's no visible response. But
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  Speaker 1: the problem is fixed, which I'm okay with. I would
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  Speaker 1: much rather have the problem fixed than have the host
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  Speaker 1: tell me that everything will be fine and then nothing happens,
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  Speaker 1: like happened in Sheella in Guatemala. That house kept telling
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  Speaker 1: me she'll get a lock for the door or all
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  Speaker 1: of this stuff, and then she just didn't do it
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  Speaker 1: every day. I also like that the whole hotel is
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  Speaker 1: run by women, like it's an all lady office. Seems
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  Speaker 1: like a tight ship, and I feel like maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: why they clean this place. That's another that's like a
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  Speaker 1: huge reason why I like this place so much. They
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  Speaker 1: have a maid, they have a janitor. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: a lady who comes in and cleans the whole place
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  Speaker 1: every day, which I really like and makes this place
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  Speaker 1: so much nicer than it otherwise would be. I generally
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  Speaker 1: keep my rooms very clean, and this has PLM, like
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  Speaker 1: the polylaminate wood flooring, so it looks nice and is
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  Speaker 1: easy to clean. So my room's nice. But usually when
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  Speaker 1: I stay at a place, the outside just gets dirtier
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  Speaker 1: every day because people are staying there, like the hallway
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  Speaker 1: or the bathrooms or whatever, and these ones are always clean.
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  Speaker 1: I think the lady takes Sundays off, but every other
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  Speaker 1: day she comes in and cleans the entire Airbnb floor,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm guessing all the other floors, but she takes
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  Speaker 1: out the trash in both the kitchen and both bathrooms.
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  Speaker 1: She cleans the toilets, and she cleans the kitchen stuff
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  Speaker 1: when she's in the kitchen. It's great every day, so
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  Speaker 1: it's a clean spot, which I really like. Definitely influenced
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  Speaker 1: me to buy a second month. I'm on my second
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  Speaker 1: month now in Panama, and I was like, well, just
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  Speaker 1: stay in this place. My room is tiny and it
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  Speaker 1: is a shared bathroom, but if things are clean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't really have a problem with the tiny room because
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  Speaker 1: it's easy to clean, the bed's comfortable. There's no window,
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  Speaker 1: so I can fall asleep so easy, which I know
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  Speaker 1: I've mentioned one hundred times, but I really like that.
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  Speaker 1: I feel much more well rested here than I have
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  Speaker 1: in a long time with an airbnb. Oh, moving on.
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  Speaker 1: I've started using carbolic soap, which is a soap with
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  Speaker 1: phenol acid inside. And it was like a popular soap.
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  Speaker 1: It's that disinfectant smell. A lot of people associate with hospitals.
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  Speaker 1: They used to use carbolic soap and old people smell probably,
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  Speaker 1: so I just saw it and it was super cheap
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  Speaker 1: and I'd never used it before, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: carbolic soap, that's interesting, but boy, it talks about a
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  Speaker 1: tar like smell. And it was these three orange, bright
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  Speaker 1: orange pink bars of soap in shrink wrap, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I can't smell anything through the shrink wrap.
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  Speaker 1: And usually you can smell some of the smell of
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  Speaker 1: whatever soap it is, even through plastic. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: they do that purposefully, but this one they must have
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  Speaker 1: purposefully not used the breathable plastic at all, because this
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  Speaker 1: stuff is pungent. It smells like tar according to Wikipedia
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: when I looked up what the scent was. But it
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  Speaker 1: definitely smells petroleum based, so I'm kind of wary about
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  Speaker 1: putting it on my skin. But it's a good soap.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it feels like soap, like other soap. I
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  Speaker 1: probably won't get it again just because of the big stank,
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  Speaker 1: but good cheap soap. They used it in hospitals for decades,
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  Speaker 1: and after they found out that phenol acid was acid,
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  Speaker 1: apparently they made it safe for mass production, so that's good.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes they would put too much phenol acid in the soap,
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  Speaker 1: apparently when it first came out, like seventy years ago
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. But next time I'm probably going to get
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  Speaker 1: hypoalergenic soap. Because another lovely thing of being in a
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  Speaker 1: metropolitan area like this is that I found hypoalergenic soap
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  Speaker 1: while I was buying two for one beer at the
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  Speaker 1: House of Meat. I thought it was funny that at
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  Speaker 1: Casa de la Carne that was the place I first
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  Speaker 1: found hypoellergenic soap. But I've been looking around and it's
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  Speaker 1: actually in a bunch of places. So I like hypoallergenic
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  Speaker 1: stuff in general. If I use laundry detergent. It's hypo allergenic,
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  Speaker 1: although I prefer to use baking soda most of the time.
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  Speaker 1: But now I have hypo ergenic soap I can get
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  Speaker 1: at corner stores, like right next to me. It's all around.
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  Speaker 1: Now I have good soaps, and I like the weird
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  Speaker 1: orange soap. It just smells really strong, and I feel
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  Speaker 1: kind of bad because it's a shared bathroom, so there's
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  Speaker 1: this overpowering orange and pink bar and I had three
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  Speaker 1: of them, so I'm using them as fast as I
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  Speaker 1: can so that I don't leave these stinky tar soaps
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  Speaker 1: in there. But I'm on the last one, so they'll
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  Speaker 1: just have to deal with that for another week or so.
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  Speaker 1: I'm also finally trying to get into Star Trek again,
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  Speaker 1: which I have a difficult time watching all the memes
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  Speaker 1: about it online and like, you know, the cultural osmosis
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  Speaker 1: knowledge I have of Star Trek just from living and
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  Speaker 1: it being such a phenomenon. It sounds interesting and I
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  Speaker 1: would be into it kind of like Doctor Who, but
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: it I mean, it was difficult for me to get
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  Speaker 1: into Doctor Who also, and I still I tried the
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  Speaker 1: next generation again, and the opening gambit is just so preachy.
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  Speaker 1: It's difficult for me to get into, but I understand
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  Speaker 1: also that it's a lot of people describe Star Trek
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  Speaker 1: as morality plays, episodic morality plays, and I feel like
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  Speaker 1: I'll like it eventually. But Lower Decks has finished. There's
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  Speaker 1: five seasons of that, and that's the animated Star Trek.
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  Speaker 1: But it's an official Star Trek show, so I figured
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  Speaker 1: I can get into that at least, because animation also
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  Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense for Trek because of the
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  Speaker 1: crazy stuff that's happening all the time and duplications and
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  Speaker 1: interdimensional whatevers. You can do anything, and animation it's such
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful medium for science fiction or fantasy. Even that
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  Speaker 1: was difficult to get into, though, but I liked the
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  Speaker 1: main character right away, Tawnny Newsome and her friend Boimler,
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  Speaker 1: So I liked a couple of characters enough, and then
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  Speaker 1: I immediately Actually I liked all four of the main
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  Speaker 1: characters pretty quickly, but I still only watched like an
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  Speaker 1: episode or two at a time. Because the Lower Decks,
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  Speaker 1: which also obviously is modern rather than as old as
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  Speaker 1: something Next Generation or the original series. I like that
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: it's updated and it's fun to watch. It's not as
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  Speaker 1: preachy as the old stuff, and it's it looks new
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  Speaker 1: like I believe it all because it's animation, so when
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  Speaker 1: they say they're ripping the ship into or something, I
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: don't have to watch them tap a chisel through a
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  Speaker 1: Star Trek model for the practical effects they tried to
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  Speaker 1: do in the original shows, which are fine for the
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  Speaker 1: time they were in. But I'm already having difficulty getting
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  Speaker 1: into the show, so when I see ridiculous prosthetics or
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  Speaker 1: a bad practical effect, it's not easy for me to
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  Speaker 1: keep my interest. But I think it eventually will be
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: because after I did some start and stops with Lower Deck,
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  Speaker 1: I finally did get into it. It's good to watch.
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  Speaker 1: It's not too long, you know, twenty five minutes an
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  Speaker 1: episode or something. The stories are not super compelling, but
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  Speaker 1: the characters, the main characters especially and their development is
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  Speaker 1: interesting for me to watch. And I can see why
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: they only have five seasons because the characters are developing
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  Speaker 1: so quickly there must be a satisfying conclusion for all
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  Speaker 1: of them at the end. I asked online if I
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  Speaker 1: could just start with Lower Decks, even though it's one
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  Speaker 1: of the most recent shows and ninety percent of the
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  Speaker 1: people were like, no, you have to start at the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: You have to make sure you see everything. But a
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  Speaker 1: couple people said, yeah, it's fine, you'll miss some references,
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  Speaker 1: but you can follow the stories. Fine, And that's what's happening,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm definitely picking up where the references that I'm
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  Speaker 1: missing are a lot of the time, even though I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure some of them are flying right over my head.
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  Speaker 1: When they say something like nobody dies from a spear
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  Speaker 1: wound on a spaceship, they're clearly referencing something. There was
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: a more obvious one, but I can't remember it. So
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: I know there are references I'm missing, but I'm fine
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  Speaker 1: with that because the story is good. What I noticed
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: was the intro they have one of those enterprise style ships,
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  Speaker 1: the Star Trek ships, in a stream of rocks, and
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  Speaker 1: it gets pulled through the stream toward a black hole
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  Speaker 1: and then flies away from the black hole right at
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  Speaker 1: the end, which I realized after I was into the
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: second season of Lower Decks. It explains the show pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, the stories aren't super compelling, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they're supposed to be there everyday situations in space.
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  Speaker 1: There are magnetic or gravitational asteroid waves that the ship
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  Speaker 1: can get caught up in and go, And that's what
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  Speaker 1: happens in this show. The people, the crews don't encounter
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  Speaker 1: crazy things very often, but there are things that are
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  Speaker 1: going to happen in the universe, and the characters get
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  Speaker 1: caught up in them and always manage to make it
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  Speaker 1: out of their alive, just like this original like ten
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: second seven second piece of animation right at the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of the intro of the show, and I really like
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  Speaker 1: that visual explanation of what the show is about. I'm
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  Speaker 1: assuming that's deliberate, but maybe this is how one becomes
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  Speaker 1: a treky you start putting meaning onto things. But as
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  Speaker 1: far as how crazy everybody part of the show is
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  Speaker 1: invested into the show, that must be deliberate, because that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly how all of their adventures happen. It's just normal
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  Speaker 1: people who happen to live in this society on this ship,
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  Speaker 1: and the ship being in space and encountering things, encounters
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  Speaker 1: normal things, and the crew has to figure out how
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  Speaker 1: to deal with normal things that seem catastrophic or revelatory
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  Speaker 1: or novel. It's an interesting show. I'll watch the entire
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  Speaker 1: animation for sure, and then I think by the end
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  Speaker 1: of that, and this was my plan, I'll be invested
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  Speaker 1: enough into the Star Trek universe to give maybe the
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  Speaker 1: next generation or whatever the other ones are another shot.
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  Speaker 1: I remember the movies being very boring, including The Wrath
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  Speaker 1: of Khan. I was a Star Wars kid, and I'm
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: still a Star Wars kid more than Star Trek, but
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: at least lower like getting me into the universe, which
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: I want to be because there's so much stuff to
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  Speaker 1: watch and I have so much time that I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: mind watching it. Also, I came across a couple quotes
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  Speaker 1: from the writing from Picard in one of the episodes,
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: and I was like, man, that's such a good quote.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to see the story that ends up with him,
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: you know, saying that at the end wrapping up the episode. Also,
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: a nice guy online gave me a couple episode guides
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: and they say, yeah, the first and second seasons are
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: mostly trash. There's like a lot of fluff in it,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: and there's apparently a really good explanation why the writing
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: and the whole show gets better in the third season,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm interested in. I might follow the episode guide
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  Speaker 1: and not watch most of the first and second seasons
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  Speaker 1: if they seem too fluffy or inconsequential to me. But
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: from that Picard quote, I am interested in seeing what
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  Speaker 1: happens when he starts being the piccard he's famous for,
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  Speaker 1: which apparently begins in season three or really begins consistently,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: so getting into Star Trek. If you want to get
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  Speaker 1: into Star Trek, I can confirm lower decks is a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good way to get into it entertaining. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: short watch time, good characters and the themes are presented
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  Speaker 1: very well. It's fun. I've also been playing video games
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: more Resident Evil three a lot of fun. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to play the original ones because I loved four.
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  Speaker 1: I was obsessed with four. Like four. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if I can still say it's my favorite, but if
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  Speaker 1: it's not, it's tied for favorite with one of the
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  Speaker 1: other it's probably still my favorite. It's so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: I've played through that game ten times twenty times. When
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: I was a kid in high school and I got
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Resident Evil for the first time, I probably played through
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: it like ten or twenty times back then, and I've
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: played it a couple times over the years. I've played
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: the remake they just made. I think I can't even
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: remember might have played the original one right before they
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: made that remake, but now that they're remaking Resident Evil
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: three and two, and I believe one was just announced,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: I played the remake of Resident Evil three and it's
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: super fun. I remember playing two and three and one,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: and the controls in the it was just so awkward
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  Speaker 1: to play. It was terrible. But I had a really
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: good time playing through three, and then I just went
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: on to two and I'm two is very exciting also,
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  Speaker 1: and Leon's back, my favorite character from four, So I
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  Speaker 1: can see why these games were so exciting. But I
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: couldn't enjoy the earlier games when I went back to
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  Speaker 1: play them because it's polygonal. It looks so bad. The
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  Speaker 1: controls are really rough, and you have to solve these puzzles.
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  Speaker 1: And I still have a problem with modern games where
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I have to solve a puzzle, but it won't let
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: me do stuff in the real like I can't reach
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: under the bed with my arm in a video game
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: because that's not how the video game is designed. So
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I kind of get frustrated with certain puzzles where I
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: can't just check everything how I would in the real
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: world and move around, and with Resident Evil, especially those
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: early ones, you have to do precisely this and solve
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: the puzzles according to the strictures of you know, the
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: game industry twenty five years ago or whatever, and that's
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: pretty boring. But with three and two fun, I'm having
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: a really good time playing them. I don't know why
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I'm so obsessed with Resident Evil, but I figured while
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I'm at it, I should check out the TV shows.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: I always liked the Milijovovic movies, and I didn't know
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: they had made any Resident Evil TV shows, but they've
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: made a couple recent ones. So I watched Infinity Darkness
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Resident Evil Infinity Darkness, which is a computer animated show,
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  Speaker 1: and they make Leon into an idiot, like a jerk
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: and pretty dumb, and he just says one liners. I
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: think maybe maybe he's supposed to be the cool character.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Is that the favorite character? I don't even know. I
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: know nothing about the fan base of Resident Evil, only
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: my personal experiences, So if Leon is the fan favorite,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I could see why they keep giving him these one liners.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: In the first episode of Infinite Darkness, and they try
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to make him cool, but I feel like he was
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: so good in four because he just did what needed
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: to be done. And I'm playing two now, which stars Leon,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: and it's the same thing. He's just doing what needs
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: to be done. He's ethical and he's does what needs
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: to be done. He fights monsters or whatever. So he's
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a good character because he's fairly stoic while trying to
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: do the right thing and action packed, so I can
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: see why Leon would become a fan favorite pretty easily.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: He's a classic action hero type with a bit more ethics,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: but realistic ethics because there's freaky zombies and he's freaked out.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: But they really made him to stereotypically action heroe in
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the first couple episodes. By the third episode, there must
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: have been a fan response because his character changes to
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a more stoic but effective character. He doesn't talk as much,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: he doesn't say as many stupid things, and the show
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: was good. It was funny enough to watch like I liked.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I like the cutscenes in Resident Evil. But I'm also
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: very glad it was only four episodes, just a little
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: mini series, because it definitely could have gone on for
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: too long, but it didn't. It was a good, tight story.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: It was fine. It was fun to watch. I also
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: started the live action. I've only seen the first episode
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: so far, but I like where it's going. I was
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: really surprised when they introduced the main characters and told
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: us their names, because didn't expect them to be there.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: So they're obviously redoing the story of the origins and
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff. But great actors, fun story.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I'm interested in seeing where it's going. I didn't like
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the Mad Max vibe they did with the first town,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: but they got rid of that right away, which I'm
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: guessing was deliberate story wise. They're like, don't worry, we're
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: not going to do this bullshit too much, which was
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: weird because having a Mad Max style, you know, homeless
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: people in the future apocalypse post apocalyptic town isn't a
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: staple of resident evil as far as I'm aware of.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: They don't have like enclaves in the movies I remember
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: with Miili Joviovic or I don't know, so I'm not
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: sure why they did that stunt and then got rid
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: of it. But I mostly liked the live action first episode,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: and I'll probably continue that today because I got free time.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Oh well, I'm talking about Resident Evil real quick video games.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: They are freaky. Resident Evil, especially two does make my
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: heart pound and race. When Tyront shows up, I was
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: really surprised because I was like whoa, and I was like, oh,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: it got me, I got got So the games are
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: still freaky and creepy and yeah, well well designed game.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I'm really glad I get to play it with more
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: complete visuals and realistic visuals and controls. I'll play the
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: original when they remake that one. Also, Oh, there's apparently
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a bunch of fan HD remakes of the original, so
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: maybe I'll just play one of those. See how that feels.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: It's a little weird playing Resident Evil and seeing all
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the credits be entirely Japanese people. Not that makes sense
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: because it's a Japanese game by a Japanese company. The
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: weird part is that they make it so specifically American,
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: and I want to get into that. I want to
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: get how they design these characters because the story is
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: always about special American agents, special agents who are American
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: from America doing American things in America or in Europe.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: But it's a very American made game. But the cast
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: for every game until today still eight is all Japanese,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: so I'm curious how they are framing and understanding the
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: American parts of the culture they do put in there.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Why they chose to make it set in America, except
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing that was marketing. They're like America has the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: video game industry. I don't know. I'm really curious about
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: looking into that, though, because I've been playing all the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: games recently. I played seven to eight, than five, than three,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: now two, and it's always interesting seeing the credits and
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: remembering that, oh, yeah, this isn't even an American game.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: This is a fully Japanese game that they made the
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: mouth animation so that they're speaking the English words, which
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: they didn't do in the earlier games. I think, see,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I got to look into this. I don't now I'm
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: just throwing stuff out there, but it's really interesting seeing
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: this very heavily Americanized game made entirely by people from
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: another country. Although I would guess at this point like
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the lore of Resident Evil is much stronger than whatever
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: country you choose to set it in. I wonder if
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: they have like a disconnect the team culturally. I think
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: it's just because I love living in culture, so it's
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: really interesting to think about how people live in other
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: cultures or create a world like a Resident Evil game
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: or TV show like Infinite Darkness, and they have to
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: live in this other culture that they're creating the story
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: for that they're not a part of. But then like C. S.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Lewis didn't live in Narnia, So yeah, fiction, fiction is
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: blowing my mind. I think me realizing what fiction is
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: is a good place to stop this rambling. I'll talk
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to you on the next one. Thank you if you
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: listened for whatever reason. It's fun talking and I will
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: speak to you soon.