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Danuke Trinity: The Sandman, Interview with the Vampire & Tom Cruise · Multiple Nerdgasm

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so I slept in this morning and was a little late for the started the podcast
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you got some extra gaming time in there I've got some extra gaming time and then
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cuz Matt is at his fromont holiday home yeah I usually try not to mention the
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fact that Matt has a holiday home especially since I I don't have a
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[ __ ] anywhere at this point I'm still living in a hotel mate welcome to
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multiple nerdgasm with your hosts Matt Luke and
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Dan multiple nerdgasm your guide to All
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Things nerdy you might be able to move into the
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house that you're currently already paying for one day mhm one day one day
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um thanks to all of the uh couple of the listeners have reached out to me and uh
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said that they hope the process is speedy and I I do appreciate that and I
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I hope you're right I hope it is Speedy someone's at the front door someone just
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rang my doorbell you got a package I do I hope there's someone on the ground
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level who can open the door because there is yeah good I don't want to see
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you have to hurry off H down down the stairs
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yeah so what has been happening this week well what were you playing this
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morning before we started recording I've been struggling to work out things to
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play lately and I don't know why you know when you sit down and go I'm going
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to watch Netflix and then you spend 3 hours deciding what to watch
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yeah then you throw on the same show you've seen seen before yeah I usually
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just put on Raiders the Lost AR when I can't decide yeah but yeah you spend a
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lot time so there's a function on the Xbox that I I'm starting to use called
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the surprise me button okay so it's just you I'll hit the button and it'll pick a
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game go you're going to play this and I go okay does it take your taste and your
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previous games played into account or does it really surprise you it's just
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really surprised cuz it's I think when you use it from your the my
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games and app portion that just does games that you've got installed but I
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think the buttons also available on Xbox game pass so it's just anything that
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there so I've started playing the Solitaire conspiracy cuz I've had it
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I've own it I've had it for a very long time so I've seen this this looks kind
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of like solitire except maybe if solitire was a mini game inside of
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cyberpunk or something like that can you tell me what this is it's not the normal
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Solitaire so you I there is a story behind it but I skipped the story and
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don't quite understand that but when you
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sort of put cards down um so it is general rule is Sal here so you've got
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different suits of cards and you want to get ay King and get them off the table
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but there's missions in behind and there's special powers you unlock when
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you place a card down and it can turn the king queen and Jack into special
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abilities I have no idea what the speci abilities were or any good strategy for
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it but I finished the game okay so it's more like Solitaire cross with magic
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they're Gathering yeah but very very lightly like the the missions are not
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hard it's basically just clear a deck and the special abilities are pretty
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[ __ ] I assume you're getting achievements for this yes there's only two more
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achievements to get in the game so I finished the single player
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campaign is it really a campaign there is a campaign I finished the Skirmish
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achievements there's only two more achievements I need which is basically
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it's a timed version oh okay right so it starts off with one deck and
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then you have to clear that and then goes two then three and they going to do
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that 15 times and I'm just 15 I got the achievement for clearing five ways I'm
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not even going to do 10 and five 15 I'm just going to install it after uninstall
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it after this yeah I think that sounds like a little bit of a Time burgler I just get
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frustrated I'm not good at soliter it's beinging of frustrated have I told you
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that I've I've gotten to the final boss on Black Thorn
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and oh you've been playing bloodb yeah I've been playing it all the way through
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I want my my goal with having the retroid pocket 2 plus is to play games
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that I had a cursory play around on when we were young but never never played all
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the way through and I want to play all the way through these games and I I am
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up to the final boss and and he is irritatingly difficult to the point
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where you don't use the same tactics of combat that you've
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used through the game right so it's not just like one step further One Step more
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difficult it's just suddenly there's someone who's practically impossible to
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beat I'm finding it very tedious and I might just walk away from
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it at this stage what although it'll be a shame since I played it so thoroughly
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all the way through yeah see it's real shame like you you have fun memories of
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games from back then but then you go back and play you go these are really
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hard yeah or they become very repetitive very quickly or both I'm actually um
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I've got such huge Nostalgia for Wonder Boy I think I mentioned this a couple of
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weeks ago and um the other day I was I was irritated with Black Thorn so I was
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like [ __ ] I'm just going to play I'm going to dick around in Wonder Boy and
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um I ran up against the exact same issue that I used to have while playing this
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as a kid did you ever have the seaga Master System Too yes okay so with Alex
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the kid yeah with that built in Alex kid right so the controller had the d-pad on the
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left hand side and two buttons A and B on the right hand side right and there
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was always the conundrum do you play it holding it so your thumb hovered over
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both buttons and you pressed one at a time or your hand upside down with two
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fingers resting on each buttons how did you play it I never had that conundrum
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but I've always just been thumbed so do I always thumbed right but there was
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always that one kid on the Block who always used to used to have the
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inverted grip and used to have a little bit of a tactical Advantage because he
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could be quicker on the see it but to me it just it's uncomfortable oh it was
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horribly for a long time yeah right so I never used to play like that either
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except that in Wonder Boy to double jump it's not double tap of the jump button
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it's jump and action simultaneously I don't even remember
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there being a double jump so I I didn't either and I think that's why I was so
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bad at it back in the day but I only worked it out now because I'm trying to
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jump over a Chasm that's too far for a jump and I'm like there must be a double
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jump there is but you have to hold it inverted and because the the controls
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basically emulate whatever controller you were originally on um it's the same
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I just use two of the buttons but I've got to invert my hand in order to play
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it and it's [ __ ] irritating because it's so in ergonomic yes
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um is there a way that you can make it yeah I think I could probably go on and
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map it to the to like the Z buttons on the triggers or something yeah cuz
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that's the good thing about s of those retro things and you can just almost
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positive I can do all that but it's it really is more effort than I'm willing
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to put in for Wonder Boy you know I think the reason why those games also
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back then got a bit repetitive is because no one finished games back then
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yeah they would count on you not them like most game well even today remember
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when I when I looked at achievements for some games and it's like less than 50%
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or around 50% of people actually finishing games really see that like
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Assassin's Creed and yeah right well I'll be honest I don't know if I've ever
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finished an Assassin's Creed but yeah um look even if I'll look
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up cyber Punk and I'll get the I tell you I definitely didn't finish that I
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barely started it and I barely started it twice even though it's got its new
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update um yeah so I think is this the last
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one uh I think yeah so one of the achievements that's the end become a legend of the
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afterlife okay is unlocked by yeah 14%
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of Gamers 14% And that's a story achievement right that's not just
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something like that's the end game strange yeah okay
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interesting yeah y it's still weirdy yeah like they put people put in a lot
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of effort and then there are people like me who fly through it and then there a
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lot of people who don't do it at all when you played through how long did
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you spend on it did you do a lot of side quests or did you just try to play the I
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compl every single side quest okay right and how long did that take how many
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hours in the game did you spend um probably 40 I'd say yeah okay
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all right that's actually a decent amount of time for getting that much
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done those types of games you I'm looking about 40 to 50 hours yeah like
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cuz yeah it's I whicher no I did not complete every single side quest that
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you get a bit overwhelmed with that and towards the end you just I just want to
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finish the game yeah you're talking about Witch of three I yeah yeah cuz
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there's so much to do and then it's not related to achievement so why bother do
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you know what you spent in Skyrim U over 100 hours in that but
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that's across all my play through yeah I I would be interested to see what I
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played all combined but I assume there's no record of what I played back on the
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360 no um did I ever finish it on oh
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just looking I have I've barely played it on Windows ooh I might go and play that later on
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Windows yeah and then get the achievements Old School playing a game
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on a [ __ ] computer yeah that looks EX the same as my Xbox
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series X but the stackable achiev well worth
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it and I own it so cuz as they keep saying as long as you keep buying it
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we'll keep selling it there'll be another version of Skyrim
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coming out before L scroll 6 I reckon oh yeah oh yeah definitely I'm
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not holding my breath for LR 6 that's ersr 6 I think we're still like 5 years
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away from online they'll probably be they'll
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probably hire some of those kids that made those great environmental mods for
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Skyrim and and get them to work on the new
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upgrade I do like how yeah people go out and make mods and then that just hey
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you've cuz it's weird like with those games the modding Community actually
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keeps the game really going and then people just sit they just sit back and
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sort of reap the benefits of all this sort of free advertising and then they
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go hey you're good at that come work for us yeah and I mean we're not talking
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about like make every drag and Thomas the Tank Engine although that does exist
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yes um or or the the the nude one I think the nude one is like the first mod
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to ever come out it's probably the first to come out you're right and it's also
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if you if you're sorting by popularity it's the one that comes up on the most
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relevant when you try to search for things yeah yeah cuz that that's that's
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always been the case though cuz that was like even the s when that first came
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out everyone just wanted to see him naked I've never seen naked Sims but
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then again I haven't played The Sims since the Amiga days or maybe the Dos
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days and they there wasn't a lot to them back then but I know they're fully fully
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rendered human beings now right yeah they're they're a lot different now I
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don't know much about it I should play it I can get achievements yeah I mean
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your wife plays quite a lot of the Sims right she's quite an
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ficado but I don't get achievements for it I don't think play on the Xbox I
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don't think she's uh oh really what does she play on PC or she plays it on uh
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handheld no PC yeah PC y she doesn't strike me as the kind of adolescent nerd
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who would download the nude patch though no no but she does have every single
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expansion M mhm yeah I believe at one stage and perhaps still she does have a
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house that you me and Matt live in and I think we might I think we might be
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vampires yeah she made she made us vampires so we don't die oh that's nice
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except I like to go to the beach so it really is fantasy roleplay
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then because you you definitely I can't even imagine you at a beach I'm not a
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beach person I can't imagine myself a beach but there's sand yeah there's
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waterm it's outdoors there's people the sun the sun you got to travel to get
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there yeah then you have to if you decide to go for a swim you got to worry
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about your stuff being stolen stolen stuff's the least of my
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worries it's just it's literally every environmental element that I dislike
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combined into one the one thing I still don't I I really don't understand why
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they don't have like lockers like lots and lots of lockers there where you can
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basically go up pay for it punch in a code that your code that's a great idea
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you lock your stuff away yeah like it makes total sense so
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you're not just oh I'm going to leave my towel here and bury my wallet in keys
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under the towel and sit on aprof plan yeah yep no one's thought of this what
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you've just described almost reminds me of like Victorian era beaches where
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they've got rows of those little carriages where you can get changed into
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your one piece swimmers yep I assumed you had to rent those and get a key and
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lock it up I oh I think it was that type of
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stuff was also for people who had money as well so you probably weren't renting
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it was this is ours yeah if you were even allowed on the beach you probably
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had one of those yeah yeah true but yeah let's go to the beach one day no let's
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go to Hawaii we should still meet I'll go to Hawaii for sure and um uh if I go
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to Hawaii I want to do the Lost tour where they show us all the different
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areas lost was filmed I think that could be quite fun um I'll go but I'm not
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interested in I want to go on to volcano okay yeah yep do you know what the
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volcano Hawaii is called no no neither get some volcano get some volcano action
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on um wouldn't mind uh driving around in a red Ferrari Testa Rossa just so that I
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can be like Magnum PI see that's where I'm a little different I wouldn't go
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that I'd go I for some reason when I think Hawaii I think Jeep oh sure yep
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like with with the no doors and top on and I drove one of them in uh Cambodia
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and it was hella fun hella fun yeah so that's what think about well you can fit
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more people in a jeep than in a Ferrari anyway so it's probably and it's
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probably a little bit cheaper to hire yes probably probably Al I haven't driven an
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expensive car no neither have I well I like expensive cars like but I'm talking
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like when they like cost more than a house type of thing my i' be too afraid
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to my current car is always the most expensive car I've ever driven and I've
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never spent a whole lot of money on a car no I'd just be too afraid to like
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have something that cost like half a million dollars or more I wouldn't want
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to park it but the thing is if I and then I'm Al to the other side like if
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I've got that I want to take it everywhere because it's cost of
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fortunate I don't want it just sitting there doing nothing totally but you
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can't day drive a Ferrari unless you're willing to ensure it for seven days a
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week yeah cuz there are those people out there who go hey I'm only I'm I'm going
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to a carate so I'll Ure it for yeah well it's cuz they can literally early afford
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to it on the days they're going to take it out friend of mine has a mg which he
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ures just for the weekends so it's insured on the weekends he doesn't drive
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it he's got a regular old sedan he drives to work every day but on the
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weekend he puts on his cap and his scarf and his little gloves and he drives his
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little lmg around that doesn't sound fun it's
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pretty nice like it's nice but really that's your weekend plan actually it's
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probably more exciting than my weekend plan which is staying at home and
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yeah playing games so okay he's got me yeah fair enough fair
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enough so there's an article here which I'm somehow confused by and makes no
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sense to me okay Tom Cruz is officially the highest paid actor at the moment
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yeah now out of all of us you're the only one who's actually seen Top Gun
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still at this point oh that's great yeah I recommend it yeah yeah go see yeah BR
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movies so look it's making a packet of money and I I assume that part
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because Cinemas are really only just opening up to levels that they were at
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pre pandemic so it's it's definitely got an advantage there of the timing that
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this has come out um It's Made $1.2 billion worldwide which is a lot of
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money and because Tom Cruz is not just a star but I'm assuming he's a producer on
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this as well he gets a good cut of this so his fee for this movie was a $100
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million he's walked away with $100 million from this one movie
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see I I think this is a bit wrong when they say highest paid actor he the
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money yes CU he I think he's getting more from the other side of it than the
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acting part I would say so and this article doesn't break down what his actual acting
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fee is but there may not even be one
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because it may now just be synonymous with all the
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other sort of I think it's annoying these days that any any movie or
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television show now where they sort of got a star in it it's they're a star but
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they're also EP yeah yeah like it's it's getting a bit ridiculous I think usually
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what that means is that they've set up their own little company with people to
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read scripts and they've either they or their people have found the script
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initially and have got it off the ground and therefore there's your EP credit you
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don't have to do a lot for a producer credit especially an executive producer
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Credit in Hollywood yeah I just I just I think it's I think it's yeah I don't
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like it anymore used to be guar it used to be something now it's just a cuz I
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was watching Always murders in the building all three of those guys EP yeah
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if you want us to come back we want a little bit of the back end as well yeah
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yeah TV shows especially isn't it it's like you can almost guarantee if you
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watch something I mentioned Ozark last week but you know Jason baitman
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executive producer Laura Linny executive producer and I think they probably got
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it written in the contract as well like if we get to so many episodes then I get
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that credit and you start giving me more money there and make me EP I'd be a
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great EP yeah I've never been EP on what do I do just take your credit and get your
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money I guess I'm okay yeah I'd be per that's my type of job I'm perfect for
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that yeah yeah I mean sometimes you might have to argue other Executives who
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go this is never going to make money and you you be are you crazy this is going
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to be the next big thing see the with a with producers they either to me they
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either it's just a token credit where they get money for it and they don't
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really do anything or it's the other side where their two hands on and ruin
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things but maybe just because we only hear about that
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stuff yeah I would agree with that I would agree with all parts of that now
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either either your wife has ESP or she can hear you from the next room or this
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is just an astonishing coincidence but she's just sent us a photograph um with
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the caption for some reason Sim Matt insists on watching Sim Luke work out
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while wearing only a towel and this is quite funny I'll post that to the Instagram I
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do love that Sim Luke not only works out but also seems to have a personal
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trainer that he's working out with yeah that's that Sim Luke has taken
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on a life of his own that is not matching me anymore man Sim Matt is in
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incredible shape isn't he yeah [ __ ] he's got 0% fat look at
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that he's got it's not just like the ABS he's got he's got he's got those arrows
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pointing to his dick yeah I never realized what those
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were for cuz I've never had them I've never had them but that's what they are
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they're arrows pointing to your dick that's what that's the only thing I can
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think that they're for yeah I had when I was about 17 but not because I was
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muscular it was just because I was far too skinny
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what I've never had is PEC I'd love PEC I got I don't have mamboo but
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they're not I don't I know what you mean it's kind of slopes down like like this
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yeah yeah I can no longer wear a tight t-shirt without having to stand up
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incredibly straight I'm a bit nervous cuz um my Pax merch is going to ship
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soon and I do have a crop top so on
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purpose I'm a sucker for online only
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special things and I like packs and so yes so we'll see what happens there now
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I don't I don't see any world where you're like this is ridiculous I'm not going to
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wear it if something you liked yeah so you know if it fits and and by fits I
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mean if it if you can get it on I'll wear it yeah yeah I'll wear it
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two packs please do oh I actually I forgot I meant to
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um oh I was going to get a costume made and I haven't sent in my details yet so
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I may not and that may not be ready for packs now that's annoying well it's
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about to fortune on it oh really yeah I spent hundreds of dollars cuz it's going
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to be custom made and it's going to come from the UK oh okay well if it's
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overseas yeah you could be right it could be delayed and also um the person who does
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it cuz it's just an Etsy store right and she's like I work on one costume at a
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time it'll take me two 3 weeks to do and
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it's so yeah and she just makeing up like you may be waiting up to 6 months
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you'll just get it when it's when it's ready yeah oh wow I'm intrigued I assume
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you're not going to tell me what it is no no it's going to be awesome though no
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one else is going to have this costume see now I want to guess but I no
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you won't get okay interesting interesting but yeah so I'll go measure myself after
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this the problem is is I don't know how to measure myself it is it is difficult to measure
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yourself like when you got to measure like inseam
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outseam yeah I don't know where am I measuring from how accurate do I need to
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be do I make it a little bit more no no no you just measure your exact body and
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then you you let them add on where but be here's my
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advice be honest with them because suck in the G yeah yeah it's it's not going
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to fit if you just give them your body wish list rather than your actual
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measurements yeah so my thing is I'm always worried that I'm going to go too
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small it's not actually I'm not worried about being too big being a little bit
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big is fine but I always worried about if I give him the wrong size is too
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small well cuz you can't make things bigger you can always make things
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smaller yeah yeah there's yeah yeah yeah if you go oh maybe I would have lost an
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inch around my belly by the time this gets here then just look forward to not
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being able to put that on yeah just yeah if you if you do lose if
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I do lose the in great just tighten up the bo a little bit more mhm I can um I
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can I can measure exactly how much weight I've put on since Co started by
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the fact that right before the lockdown I got a suit tailor
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made beautiful three-piece suit tailor made and now that you're a dad oh yeah
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forget it forget about it that's yeah yeah that suits basically just s like
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it's never going to happen can't do up the vest can't uh get the pants on it's
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it's it's a ride off beautiful suit very expensive gone forever yeah gone yeah worn
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once was at least you got to wear it once yeah I mean yeah yeah it was my marriage
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so yeah it's important good thing to wear it for and sort of a bit makes it a
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bit Fair because normally when most time when guys get married they get a suit
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they get to wear a lot more true and the um the woman normally gets a dress that
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she wears once and then true that's it so yeah and listeners if you're
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wondering why I awkwardly said marriage and not wedding it's because I didn't
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have a wedding cuz a it was in lockdown and um we weren allowed to want to
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invite me and B we didn't want to invite anyone yeah still not hurt by that it
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was great it was great oh you and my sister can take that
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up I would have had to have traveled well that's why we we kind of
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got married between two countries too so that we could just tell everyone that we
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got married in the other country like oh sorry that you you would have had to
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come to Singapore and our Singapore infs you would have had to come to Australia
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the only thing is you miss out on the presence that is true but to be fair at
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this point I don't want a whole bunch of presents in my house like let's be
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honest I'm not going to get it's not just going to be like oh here is heaps
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of [ __ ] Xbox [ __ ] gift cards that's that's probably the best
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present to get for me cuz everything else I just have yeah no exactly right
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you get to a certain point like if I want something I'll buy it myself
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there's a new Lego set coming out that I think you are going to want oh God don't
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show me cuz I will want
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it it is the Atari 2600 oh I do want it
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God damn yeah I love
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these I just post a link in here just the segments yeah
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it's oh be amazing that is excellent
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that is excellent and it'll match it'll go right next to my Nintendo
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Entertainment one oh my God even got
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cartridges I do have one problem with this go on cuz it comes with cartridges
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and games but for me the one game that stands out for the Atari is Pitfall yes
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agree agree and that game's not on there they've got asteroids which yes
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centipede yes and then Adventure okay I would Adventure should be P for I would
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have said Frogger as well for Atari 2600 to me Frogger is the the quintessential
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game for that system but yeah I I'm I I need this and
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that's going to be my Christmas present to myself in September or August or next
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week oh there's even a little stack of box where you can put the cartridges and
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it's also that sort of same Brown from the 70s like
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it's can you actually oh man have you seen this too
27:41
you can there's a removable panel and inside is you as a kid in the 80s
27:47
playing the Atari oh there is twoo and you're playing as you're
27:52
playing asteroids see I would have that there and then when I get around to when
27:57
I that would go away I just totally but it's cool that it's there yeah it's it's
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cool to know it's there yeah there's a VHS tape just sitting on the table
28:08
there what I love about this though is it's so accurate it's got the television
28:15
sitting on a chest of drawers and it's got the Atari sitting on the floor in
28:19
front of the television and then you sitting in front of the Atari like that is
28:24
completely accurate period accurate
28:30
I I do love to and I do have a Atari 2600 as well oh do you yeah it's like
28:36
inbox from period Mint Condition yeah right wow I'll never play it because oh
28:43
yeah you can't already playing I'm sure you don't have a TV that you could hook
28:46
it up to I think you can actually buy cables down to convert it for you yeah you can
28:51
but while I have very fun memories the games were pretty [ __ ] oh yeah yeah yeah
28:57
it's very to go back which actually why some of these games like um well like
29:02
Asteroids for example they're so simple that there always will be Nostalgia for
29:08
that it was the ones that tried to be interesting that didn't last this test
29:12
of time well especially when back then like you could have games and you
29:19
remember like you could play the game but you have the manual would actually
29:22
be what told you the story so you had to read man get and the artwork on the
29:26
cover of the Box told you what imagine while you were looking at three pixels
29:30
on the screen yep I do miss that do you know this phenomenon is you would drive
29:36
into the city to buy a game M and you would have the entire car ride home to
29:41
read the manual read cuz yeah you'd get the box and then you get the manual and
29:45
the manual was interesting it wasn't really like how to play the game or
29:49
anything it's this is the game you're about to play that's right psyching you
29:53
up telling you who the characters are what kind of monsters you going to expect to battle
29:58
and I remember when they sort of got went away and went like went we're going
30:02
to the smaller boxes oh that's ridiculous I like the big boxes now on
30:06
this age I'm happy that oh definitely I don't have any boxes oh I'm happy that
30:09
it's all digital at I was like even I agree when they went to the DVD size
30:13
boxes I thought oh that's a bit of a shame and it is in a way cuz the Lost
30:17
Art of video game boxing but um and then even when those went away and everyone
30:22
was going digital I held out for a bit too but God i' never go back to actually
30:25
buying physical discs no I'm I'm too
30:29
lazy yeah like imagine having to get up and change the disc every time you
30:34
wanted to play a different game or just play whatever was in I started doing
30:37
that with my disman well whatever's in here is what I'm listening to today yep
30:42
unless I act unless the reason I'm listening is to I want to listen to a
30:46
particular thing it's this is what said that's it yeah there was a retro console
30:50
that came out recently that and recently I mean in the last 2 years and I forget
30:55
what this one was called it was just one of those gen ones but the selling point
30:59
was that it had cartridges that each it wasn't a database of uh of built-in
31:05
games on a hard disk it was individual cartridge that you had to change which
31:09
is a cool gimmick but at the same time I think you're absolutely right how long
31:12
will that last yeah like it's one of the things you you think you want to go back
31:17
to it but you don't no if there were going to be period accurate too sometimes they just
31:23
wouldn't work you'd have to blow in them slap them well blowing in them didn't
31:30
actually work I don't know why we thought it would that's just something
31:35
that everyone did but I've been watching this guy on YouTube as well that
31:38
actually goes in and repairs them all oh wow and it's just really interesting
31:43
just just UK guy just got I've brought these broken ones I'm going to see if I
31:48
can fix them and then he just opens them up gives them a clean maybe sold us a
31:52
little bit and goes Yep this works or no this is Dead Forever it's just that's
31:55
great I don't know why it's addictive to watch oh yeah I I watch a few guys who
31:59
do up retro machines from the Commodore era and uh I love watching that [ __ ]
32:05
especially since a I had those computers
32:08
as a kid and now regret ever getting rid
32:13
of them but also the ones that you can get from that period now on eBay say are
32:19
prohibitively expensive and also chances are have been modded over the years too
32:25
you know like they' they've got extra little switches solded in for switching
32:31
discs and you know they they've got a HDMI output that's been kind of crammed
32:36
into don't understand the stuff becoming a stupid price yeah it's Lego is a good
32:42
big example of that so like people go out and buy they'll buy two to three
32:46
sets of the same Lego set so they can build one and keep one to sell later for
32:51
triple the price but I know Lego have they're looking at doing something which
32:55
may stop that a little bit ooh you know how a retire set and things so if you
33:00
want to get it the only way is you basically go out and spend an arm
33:03
Fortune they're looking at doing a thing where you can order retired sets like as
33:07
a custom order oh interesting so so you might as well get it from Lego rather
33:12
than trying to find some guy who's hoarding one yeah so it might not I I
33:17
think I know it's I'm not sure if they're doing it or when it's going to
33:19
happen but I have heard it is on the cards but so you may not get like the
33:24
Box yes box out or anything but you'll get here's your set here's the Lego
33:29
pieces and here's instructions and Away you go and it might cost a little bit
33:32
more expensive than what it would have cost originally but you're not paying
33:36
three times the price yeah you're not you're not being extorted by some dude
33:39
who's bought five of them yeah I hate the sell on market and and people who
33:46
justify and say they're doing a good thing yeah that's right like when Xbox
33:51
and Playstation when all the scalpers were going on getting Bots and selling
33:54
that and they go we're just trying to help people get a copy well you're not
33:58
helping because you're buying it you're not and you're not providing a service
34:04
because you're actually charging more and then when Target and everything
34:09
would they're already providing that service you're adding anything yeah yeah
34:12
and in fact you're you're shanghaiing the stock there dude like yeah just let
34:18
me buy one from Kmart yeah but yeah some of them try to
34:23
justify it is it still hard to get your hands on a PS5
34:28
um I I don't think there's an issue in Australia but I do occasionally still
34:34
hear people saying oh if I could get one I'm like really is that still a
34:38
thing yeah I think it's um oh so's got another queue to buy PlayStation 5 and
34:45
open now I reckon I could buy one let me go to EB
34:50
Games like
34:56
station five preferred EB when it was still called Electronics Boutique Electronics
35:03
Boutique yes
35:09
um I so by Price that'll be the easiest
35:14
way
35:18
um no there you go I can't bu PlayStation Now how many how long are we
35:25
into this cycle coming up in two years aren't we yeah it must
35:32
be yeah I I didn't know people still having
35:38
problems I know I'm not going to buy one no I'm bu Xbox series
35:45
X I uh I've got no plans to switch from Xbox back to PlayStation but I will say
35:50
that the PS2 when it was out was still probably one of my favorite consoles to
35:56
have ever been produced look and and they just they had
36:01
the market so right cuz that was the switch when everyone was switching the
36:04
Blu-ray and you could buy a PlayStation 2 yes which came with a Blu-ray player
36:10
for less than buying a Blu-ray player like it was just perfect marketing by
36:14
Sony yeah that's right yeah that is true um I can pre-order an Xbox series X okay so
36:20
evidently they're still I can pre-order it so it looks
36:24
like they're still so they're still sold out but uh but at least they promise you
36:29
one as opposed to telling you you got no chance I'm so happy we just got hours at the
36:35
start yeah I know right I've got you to thank for that
36:39
too no you have Xbox to thank for that I gave me one that's right yeah yeah your
36:45
gain is also my gain yes so you still uh
36:51
you still got your hard set on the steam
36:54
deck I really really it's
36:59
not yes and no there's very little downsides to the steam deck I mean it's
37:04
it's expensive it's also not available in it's not available yeah and there's
37:08
no there's no telling what it will be but uh but it does if if you were trying
37:14
to talk if you in America you could get your hands on one there'd be very few
37:18
reasons that I can come up with why you would decide not to get
37:22
one look I do really want one and it's mainly because I can put Xbox game pass
37:27
on it right I can get achievements and I got something portable to take with me
37:32
what I'm probably looking at doing is once I put my tax in cuz there's the AR
37:39
Neo next yes mhm which is going to be available in Australia and I can pre-order that
37:45
now so I'm probably cuz I'm going to be waiting forever oh yeah and the other
37:51
thing about that is with that one being available in Australia is it's also it's
37:56
not running like Steam OS so it's it's running Windows so it's going to be a
38:00
bit easier to just I do things instead of oh yeah cuz you can't get game pass
38:06
on the um steam deck like that's doable but yeah this I think will just make it
38:11
a little bit easier so that's probably what I will do yeah yeah another thing
38:16
that um you might want to just look into is that I've heard that the steam deck
38:21
doesn't do so well in high Heats and by that I mean
38:28
if you just take it outside on a summer's day Y and in that we live in
38:34
Australia um and you essentially live out in the desert it's probably not the
38:39
best climate for one see it's it's basically it's only real a real issue if
38:45
you're Outdoors true like if you're indoors cuz yeah they cuz they've had to
38:50
put the warning out because the heat wve in the UK at the
38:55
moment and I I still laugh like people are like people going oh the UK they
39:02
can't handle it like it's just a bit of heat we've got that heat all the time in
39:05
Australia but there's a slight different our houses and stuff are built to cater
39:10
for that they're they're not I mean I don't want to sound cynical but what
39:13
what kind of temperatures are the UK facing right now that they're calling
39:17
over 40° oh okay no that's still pretty [ __ ] hot yeah okay yeah it's it's hot
39:22
and it's when they're not they're not used to it yeah no you're right the hous
39:26
is UN insulated for the summer heat of that they insulated for cold yeah that's
39:31
right yeah but yeah so they've had to come out and they said the best
39:35
temperature to use the steam deck is between 0 and 35° so it's not too
39:41
bad like yeah that's fine you can be in the Arctic as well see I think it's a
39:45
bit weird that zero see Zero to me is too cold that's what I mean like if I'm
39:50
if I'm 0 de I'm probably huddled somewhere trying to get warm not
39:56
just the steam deck try and Pi that's
39:59
right yeah warm on that LED screen the deck the the decks are
40:05
built with a lot like with a lot of heat and stuff taken in mind like cuz people
40:10
have gone oh I can install a a better SSD drive and steam have come out and
40:15
gone don't do that like yes you can yes there is room to physically do it but
40:21
there's a reason why we have some of this room left in there it's for air
40:26
flow it's for things so oh that's interesting but yeah doesn't look like
40:32
I'll get a steam deck yeah well I mean you you can't even
40:37
get on the list for one anytime soon so but I'm actually just looking at I think
40:42
that a uh they next I think they've got a better thumbstick placement for me
40:47
anyway oh okay cuz
40:50
the the steam deck is both um
40:54
thumbsticks on top oh yeah is the the AR is more of the traditional Xbox Ones
41:00
they low so it'll be easier yep to get used to it yeah I'm going to do my TX
41:05
today so I can do this I should really do my tax too I get money back this year
41:10
so a couple of trailers dropped this week and um I just want to ask if you're
41:15
if any of these interest you all right so I'm just going to talk I'm just going
41:18
to talk through you you might you may have seen these you may not have um the
41:22
first one is finally a full trailer for
41:25
Neil Gaming's the Sandman series you a fan of either Neil giman or the
41:32
Sandman no not really mhm mhm so Neil Gan I
41:38
know I'm meant to like him because he's nerdy and stuff but I just I I don't get
41:43
it mhm mhm um Sandman is one of the few comic book series that I have actually
41:49
read every issue of and uh I love I love them and actually I think even better
41:55
than the comic book series audible did a full cast reading version of the S man A
42:02
couple of years ago that was excellent um which is if you haven't
42:07
read it it's it's probably the best way well as you know I can't read so yeah
42:12
that's right well I mean there's a lot of pictures there's a lot of pictures
42:16
but um quite a bit of writing as well but you know if you've got an
42:21
audable account and you get a credited a month for free then um this is a good
42:25
way to take a look at it but it's very very good James makoy plays Morpheus the
42:30
Sandman um but there's a host of other famous people in there
42:37
okay but of course everyone's angry because um Oh Captain enig oh sure I
42:43
forget who she plays actually I've got act one great give it a try let me know
42:48
what you think oh I probably won't listen to it fair enough fair enough I
42:51
now own it great the the AUD the neans
42:55
are angry because um you know it was a comic book written in England in the
43:01
early ' 80s and so all the people were just drawn as generic white people and
43:07
that's kind of how everyone's always seen them but of course now it's 2022
43:10
and um we're a bit more diverse when it comes to Casting and we know that
43:14
there's other people in the world who aren't just plain white so um you know
43:19
they've just cast actors who do a good job of Performing those characters um
43:23
and the internet have have said no yeah this ising about this on save file this
43:28
week CU with my sister as well because she was going like why did I have to go
43:33
and do this and I went and my explanation of why they have to do this
43:37
is because everyone's making a deal out of it m
43:42
like um when they announce like a diverse character or something's going
43:47
to be gay everyone complains oh you're just doing this
43:50
for political reasons and blah blah blah blah and it's all like but my thing is
43:56
well no they're doing it because you're making a big deal out because of your
44:00
reaction yeah the the second nobody notices they won't feel the need to do
44:04
it anymore yeah yeah then it's not happening then it's just acceptable cuz
44:08
the other thing people always say is I I don't care like it doesn't bother me but
44:12
it does but yeah second does cuz especially when it comes to like gay old
44:17
trans characters as well people will complain about it well they don't they
44:22
don't have to an the reason why they're doing is cuz is like if there's straight
44:26
characters don't announce oh these guys are straight yeah that's right CU yeah
44:31
cuz that would be weird that would be weird well why is it so we should be
44:37
getting to the same point for everything else yes isn't a deal and if you stop
44:41
making a deal about it then it stops being a deal yeah that's right that's
44:46
right yeah so there is a bit of that too I think there's a there's a little bit
44:49
of LGBT element in this as well but also the the character of death who is the
44:55
poster girl of every goth girl from the 80s and 90s the the skinny black jeans
45:01
and the um the black perm and the uh the
45:05
the white skin um is played by a a black
45:08
person so people are going [ __ ] nuts because apparently black people can't be
45:14
Goths so I think they can be the best Goths if
45:19
anything yeah I'm thinking suck it up people yeah
45:24
yeah I I might watch it so this a sh hardress doing one movie out of this
45:30
it's epic it's really epic okay all right yeah um it comes out
45:37
AUST it's pretty cool it's like Dark Fantasy it's it's I'm not a big fantasy
45:42
fan it's not that kind of fantasy it's it's more just like there's dream Realms
45:48
the the the guardian of the dream Realms Morpheus has been kidnapped and so
45:54
nobody's dreamt during the time where he's inating and he finally the book starts he
45:59
escapes and has to start tracking down these various items that help him kind
46:05
of do his job and uh you're not selling me on this it's [ __ ] cool man it's so
46:12
cool but then there's also other things there's episodes with William
46:15
Shakespeare in them and then there's EP there's one episode set completely
46:19
inside this din oh this so good it's going to be great hopefully they do a good job of
46:24
it all right we'll see okay I might might watch or might not okay so there's
46:28
there's there's something else that was a big favorite of mine um back in the
46:32
90s when I was a teenager as well also a new series Interview with the Vampire an
46:39
rice classic tale of gay vampires so is it just a retelling of
46:46
the same story complete retelling of the same story yeah looks like they've
46:49
changed the setting slightly to modernize it slightly but only
46:55
slightly which that sense that actually makes things a bit cheaper to make oh I
47:00
I say slightly modernized I mean instead of being set in the 1700s it looks like
47:04
it's set early 20th century so they'd still have to build a bunch of stuff I I
47:08
thought you meant like the the the it was still sort of like the current day
47:12
was sort of but yeah instead of the ' 80s that's now no I mean I'm assuming
47:16
there's a bit of that too um this has got the same thing they've they've
47:20
recast some White characters with some people of color um but it is set in
47:26
Louisiana back in the day and I I think that there probably would have been some
47:30
people of color going around there even if an rice didn't intend for that to be
47:35
in the story I think that's true to the period to true to the place so y I've
47:40
heard less um criticism on this one though because um he's really hot so I
47:46
think that's that also plays a big role in it
47:50
too um look I again I'm not really going to go out of my way to
47:55
watch this I don't think it's I've seen I've seen it I know the story yeah fair
48:01
fair and if you watch the trailer it looks like they've just followed along
48:05
the book so he looks like Brad Pit yes they really made him look like mind you
48:10
there is a very specific description in the book of what he is meant to look
48:13
like and they looks like they've just gone along with with that it's the other
48:17
character the Louis character that they've they've mixed up yeah yeah yeah
48:22
okay so that's in October so there's a third one and now this one might
48:27
interest you more there's a trailer for season 3 of Mythic
48:31
Quest look I I'm hoping this is one of the things I'm hoping I'm going to like
48:37
it but season 2
48:41
really agree took a turn for me agree mind you a couple of really great
48:48
episodes yeah a couple of the
48:50
best yeah it was I don't know what it is
48:55
uh I think and cuz I know they he's got
48:58
they've already the had season 4's already being done like that signs for
49:05
three and four that that contract's already there but yeah I don't know I'm hoping but I'm
49:11
nervous I think it lost its way a little bit yes I I agree and also and this year
49:18
the writer is not coming back okay so that was going to be my point too I
49:22
didn't see him in the trailer and he's my favorite a while ago
49:27
yeah he's not coming back yes F Mari Abraham's character um yeah now don't
49:33
get me wrong they really explored his character very well in a couple of
49:38
flashback episodes in the second season so it's probably a good thing like we We
49:44
complain about in stranger things for example characters that are just there
49:47
now because they've always been there but we've already told their story so
49:50
now they're just hanging around so maybe it is good that they move him on um I
49:55
would say move the test on if that's the case as well because you you really
49:59
flogged that horse to death in the last season as well and it's also the testers
50:03
I always found strange even in the first season I i' I even spoke about on here
50:09
that I found those testers strange because they weren't the tester testers
50:15
yes that's right cuz they actually do refer to people downstairs as being the
50:19
testers so that whole story was weird
50:23
yeah the only time I enjoyed that was when when one of them I forget whether
50:28
they got fired or whether they quit but then they replaced them with Craig Mason
50:32
and there was that kind of dynamic there for a little bit that had a lot of
50:35
comedy in it but um too much too much focus on them for sure but yeah I'm just
50:42
having look actor F Murray Abraham will not be returning and they've they
50:46
haven't said why I like we don't discuss personal M name character I want to say
50:51
Nigel long bottom but I think that's somebody from Harry Potter CJ CW long
50:56
bottom C long bottom that's it yeah Harry Potter it's Neville long
51:01
bottom Neville long bottom I wonder if they're uh is it Neville long I know
51:05
it's bottom in the name don't know I don't know someone in your house would
51:11
definitely know though I've read it Neville I read one and I've seen Neville
51:16
long bottom Neville long bottom okay maybe that's just a that's just a
51:22
British name like Smith I think Smith is also a British
51:26
name isn't it yep so Mythic Quest 3 probably give a
51:32
look but look I'm definitely going to watch it but cuz I forgot I I keep
51:38
forgetting that I even have Apple TV subscription yeah like cuz one of those ones it's
51:44
just there but you know what I've discovered
51:49
actually has some pretty good movies on it I don't know necessarily TV shows but
51:54
when I'm looking for just a movie to watch the one I'm most likely come back
51:57
to is Stan and I think it's because Stan is it's channel 7even right is that
52:04
what's St I think it's Channel 10 it's Channel 10 they've had years of
52:07
Licensing movies you know to put on on a Friday night and
52:12
so that's they've got quite a good
52:16
Library yeah uh it's I I do like I've got like Google 2D answers and you can
52:22
just search and or search all of the apps that make things a little bit
52:25
easier oh there just so many of these days and I forget I have them like I've
52:28
got binge I've got Apple TV I've got um Paramount plus oh yeah yeah I but I
52:35
forget they're there I'm not going to winge about this more than I need to but
52:39
obviously I thought I was going to be away from my house for about 3 or 4
52:42
weeks and it's been several months now but um I didn't even think to bring the
52:48
dongle for my Google TV I could I could have just had that plugged in here you
52:52
know what I mean I just really didn't think it was going to be this long
52:56
would have still looking octob October oober is what they're saying but they're
53:02
being so vague about it that I actually don't even know what the delay is
53:05
anymore so I can't trust it's one of these things where I think it's one of
53:11
the things where I think it'd be scary because they're probably saying October
53:14
to go hey look this is a date it's not too far away it's not like 6 months or
53:19
that you're going to go out and start complaining more and it buys them time
53:22
to do really whatever they're doing but then they can still just cuz they
53:25
haven't confirmed it it's just October cuz here's the thing the construction is
53:30
done we know that so we know it's not that that's taking the long time I
53:35
suspect there's been a council inspection and the council person has
53:38
gone no absolutely not not signing off on this until you fixed these dozens of
53:43
things that you've cut corners on or whatever yeah and they're not going to
53:48
really tell you about that correct they're certainly and so the the fact
53:52
that they're not saying anything at all if it was something so simple wouldn't
53:55
they just tell us is is the theory I keep coming back
53:59
to yeah the October is just yeah they they don't want you cuz it's not just
54:04
you that would be going also everyone else there but October's yeah so you go
54:09
away yeah it's close enough stop asking for now you shouldn't be complaining it
54:13
it we've given you something but yeah who knows yeah that's why never buy off
54:18
the plan oh man it was I've never heard people have a good story no
54:25
ever I thought I was going to be different like I've never heard anyone
54:31
go I brought off a plan and everything went well yeah I know look it could be
54:36
it could be worse there's a lot of people who brought off the plan and then
54:39
the build is just gone well we're bankrupt yeah yeah and you're not
54:42
covered for that yeah or just delayed indefinitely oh we're just delayed and
54:47
it was Co too cuz so people could have just been like I just not going to start
54:50
building back up again until after the and it and then you just just waiting
54:56
and then very careful in the contracts you sign that says we're not actually
55:00
giving you a date yeah and it's also the things like
55:04
I'm when cuz co co may have had a bit of an impact because the price of things
55:10
cuz they had to stop building and then when they've gone back to building the
55:12
price of everything has gone up and so well yeah we can't afford it whose
55:17
problem is that yeah exactly yeah yeah never buy off to plan
55:22
people don't be like Dan don't don't don't be like me don't don't do anything
55:27
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