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100th Episode Special 🎮🎙️ · Replay Reviews

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Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews.
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My name is Leah. And my name is Kathy. We are
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two friends who are here to replay, review, and
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analyze your favorite video games. And since
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Kathy has never seen the games before, it helps
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me view them through her fresh eyes, almost like
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I'm discovering them again for the first time.
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We hope it will be a similar experience for you.
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Who would have thought we would get 100 episodes?
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It's crazy. I just remember, I mean, this started
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because I had nobody to talk to about Yakuza
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0. And I was like, Kathy, watch this with me,
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please. We do so much of a deep dive and you're
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like, we need to document this somehow and record
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it. Even if it was just for us. Right? But no,
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here we are. We're here five years later. Yes.
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I'm so excited to celebrate this. A summary of
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five years of our favorite moments, top things.
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We have so many good juicy bits and segments.
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Well, we usually do an out of con... Did my voice
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crack? Oh no, the voice cracking! As I was trying
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to say. We usually do an out of context summary,
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but there's not much to summarize because I don't
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know what we're going to end up saying. Instead,
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please enjoy this compilation of our favorite
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out of context quotes from our podcast. Do we
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need to pretend to jerk it at her? I think someone
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needs to just chop his dick off. There's just
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boobs in my face. I am immediately molested upon
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entry. Opportunity is not knocking to eat human
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flesh. You're pretty much calling your dog a
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whore. We need a male perspective. We do. Does
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it hurt extra if you get kneed in the junk when
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you're erect, or is it the same? Like a stupid
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little acrobat. That one was... A hair from a
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peepee. It doesn't stop there. He targets the
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peen again, Kathy. So, prostitute? Is she one?
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Get the colonel situated. Because he's going
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to have some company. And if not, Leah's going
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to go Tonya Harding on you, so prepare for your
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kneecaps. Did you know she ate in our Denny's?
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I don't know why I was squeezing my cheeks like
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that. I think the writer was going through something
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when he wrote this game. A divorce? I need Cosimo
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to tell me his plan. Just four grown men piggybacking?
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Let me finish this piece of green. Visually ass.
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Metaphorically ass. Verbally ass. I don't know
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how many more ways I can say it. Peaches. She
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was a loan shark debt collector. And she got
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away with a lot because she was British. Our
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first topic is favorite moments. All time favorite.
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One that made me feel like we finally transcended
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our amateur podcasting was in Outlast Part 4
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when we could not stop laughing because I said
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something about massive in size. The context
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of it, it is so funny. I remember listening to
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this on the airplane and just laughing and I'm
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like, we're funny. But also I remember recording
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that moment and we could not keep it together.
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Okay, first of all, one of my favorite moments
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as well, but it's the, because it's so, I think
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you mentioned before Chris Walker, you mentioned
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the SDWDOs, which it's in the name, Scary Dudes
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with Dongs Out. Yeah. They've got schlongage.
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They've got plenty to share. The point is, you
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made my mind go there, and then you went, they're
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massive in size, and you expected me to not erupt
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in laughter at that? Why would you do that to
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me? I don't remember. recording and trying to
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get through it and i'm just staring at you and
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your face you could not keep it together and
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i think that's just the memory of that but the
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context of what was happening so good one of
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my favorite moments so i guess i'll go to one
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of my top of the list ones is way back season
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one it's now archived but you can still find
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on youtube episode three it's the og i can't
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find the word Where I couldn't find the word.
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I think it was like responsibility or some stupid
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word. I don't remember what it was. But you were
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trying so hard to help me. And we couldn't find
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it. And I had the classic line. I need to find
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this word or I'm going to have diarrhea. Which
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has spawned. That's just a classic for us now
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that we reference all the time. It's now an inside
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joke that we say it off the mic. One of my favorites,
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Wolf Among Us Episode 4. When we realized, stop
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laughing at me, we heard Toe Jr. say that when
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he witnessed the body dumping, he heard someone
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say, stop laughing at me. And then in episode
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four, we listened through the door and we heard
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Georgie saying, stop laughing at me. That blew
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my mind because I hadn't heard that before. And
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then just the whole, our final theory on that
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game. I think that's the closest, I mean, that
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I've come to understanding that game. That's
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a bit of my favorite is... Being able to work
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together to come with a conclusion. Because this
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is one of the games where it is the most derisible
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games. And so I really liked it. My next moment
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is, it's a two -parter. So Yakuza Kiwami 1. And
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I know it's in Chapter 7. I couldn't find which
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one within our game. But it is Gideon slapping
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Haruka. And I just remember gasping when watching
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the game. And then later, Nishiki slapping Reina.
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And then I'm like, I could not believe slapping
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happening in that game. How dare he hit a woman?
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I just remember you saying that. She's a child.
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Yeah. Oh, I was on pins and needles waiting for
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you to witness that. I have a really random little
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quick one that I'm just going to play the audio
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for you. I'm going to try to take a sip of this
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tea, but I might burn my whole mouth. I burned
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my tongue this morning today. I sounded like
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Toad. I remember that. We were pretty goofy and
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I really appreciated how authentic we are. But
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also our logo really aligned with our vibes in
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the earlier season. Just the playfulness and
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the bright color. I mean, I like our serious.
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and the depth that we bring to the analysis,
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but I want some of that goofiness back too. It's
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fun. I'll just go straight to my fourth favorite
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moment. Yes. You going, knock them down. But
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there's something about your pitch and your tone
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and just the irritation. It comes through so
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well. Knock them down? Yeah. It's just the little
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kid. You think you know what you're doing and
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you're being a good person, but you really just
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don't know what the f*** you're talking about
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and it pisses me off. See, all that emotion is
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bubbled into three words. Okay, I have another
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one. I have to share my screen again. Okay. It's
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in Heavy Rain Part 3, 19 minutes, 41 seconds.
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Sorry, I was going to say something gross. Oh,
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no, say it. Should I say it anyway? Okay. Yeah,
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say it. I probably took it to sniff the sea.
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oh god Leah I told you it was gross you can't
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tell me he wouldn't do that though it's so in
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line with his character though and he makes some
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slow comment about it which is not going to start
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brainstorming any ideas but yes I'm not surprised
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if he did that I can't think of the voice she
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had this what what She had a sweet... Madison
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Page. She had a sweet fanny all over the seat.
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Oh my gosh. And that... Just her character. Everything
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about her, it is... A highlight in the way that
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we were, at least I was, so hateful towards her.
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That is another moment. Didn't make it into top
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five, but just raging against her. She is a legend
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in this podcast. I have two more that didn't
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make it into my top five. When we go completely
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off tangent about Tonya Harding. How has Tonya
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Harding and Denny's. Come up twice. Yes. On the
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podcast. Absurd. Yes. Unreasonable. Mine are
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not in a particular order. Going back to Heavy
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Rain real quick. I think this is my last Heavy
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Rain one. Is when you picked. Oh my God. Gordie
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Kramer. I didn't know. And I shriek. You didn't
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pick Norma Jaden? In utter disbelief. Quite embarrassed
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about that one. But a tangent moment. to that
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was then I called him pale and you said it's
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not pale, it's pasty and you took offense to
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it. No, no, no. Not pasty. See, you have learned
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nothing. Porcelain. Porcelain, that's what it
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is. I didn't learn. I'm sorry. I'm going to jump
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back to my fifth top five moment and it's probably
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one you have but it's in Detroit Become Human
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and I didn't realize that there's origami on
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the bookshelf, but then I also didn't realize
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what you did in the editing until I saw the video
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of it. And then I'm like, oh, I was distracted
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or something. And then you zoom in on Marcus's
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butt. That might be my favorite edit of all time.
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And it caught me so off guard too. Oh my gosh.
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I know. I didn't warn you. I'm just like, you're
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going to love this episode. Okay. One more favorite
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moment. That's also. a little bit more storyline
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adjacent related, is when we realized how shit
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Kazuma is. What a bitch that guy is. I didn't
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think he would annoy me and piss me off as much
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as it did when I first saw his character because
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we start from Y -Zero. We watched it. We're like,
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yeah, he kind of sucks. We watch Kiwami 1 and
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we're like, I really don't like him. And we think
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he's dead. And then Kiwami 2 happens and we're
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like, what is he still doing why is he still
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here why is he pisses me off okay and this led
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us to have the question is there anyone worse
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so because of that we decided to do a villain's
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bracket where we put all of our most hated the
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most villainous characters into a bracket randomized
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it and then we each selected our our favorite
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should we reveal to each other what we've picked
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yes So we only have one difference in the final
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four, right? Mm -hmm. Jingu versus Murkoff. Yes.
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All right, let's see who's in our final two.
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Was it Kazuma, Cathy? Yeah, Kazuma. Same. Okay.
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And then I put Murkoff, so this is where we're
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different. Yeah. Who did you put? I did Father
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Loudermilch, so both Outlast. And then ultimately...
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Ultimate. Three, two, one. Merk off. Kazuma.
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I'd be okay with Kazuma because he's in my top
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two, but I put Merk off. I am totally okay with
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Merk off. I think the difference for me would
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be that Merk off is less personal, which is why
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I hate Kazuma. He does this to people that he's
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supposed to care about, but I think Merk off
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is a fantastic villain in terms of enjoyability.
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I agree. And part of my rationalization that
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I went through is the overall damage of how long
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it would last. Murkoff is going to have lasting
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kind of damage environmentally to people there,
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to their kids. And if the wall rider and all
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that stuff starts going out of this area, it
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could be a global issue. And so I chose Murkoff
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because of the scale of potential damage that
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could happen. It makes me want another Outlast
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game. Which, speaking of, I have theory changes
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and release notes. I have an Outlast note. Okay.
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So should we jump to topic four? Mm -hmm. We
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had a question. It was one of our burning questions
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in the Outlast summary is, what happened to Wernicke?
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And I'm like, still, what did happen to him,
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honestly? From the Outlast wiki, it says, despite
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the preceding events, it is never made clear
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if Wernicke was targeted or killed by the Wallrider.
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Although, given the creature's nature, It can
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be assumed that Rudolph met his end at the hands
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of the ghostly entity. I think that's what the
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game wants you to think, if I'm being honest.
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I don't think he's dead. We know Billy Hope was
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keeping him alive. I feel like the possibility
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is there that Billy and the wallrider sort of
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became one when he died. Like, they were so ingrained
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that, like, Billy just, when he died, his body
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quit, but his consciousness was still in the
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wallrider. And then he also possessed Miles.
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theoretically if that's a possibility then the
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wall writer slash billy could still be keeping
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him alive there's still a little bit of sentimentality
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there there is one conversation about this in
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reddit and i didn't write the person's name so
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sorry but someone said that the comics which
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we read confirms that the wall writer hosts billy
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and miles so he could have kept him alive Maybe
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there's more to it that all the black speckles,
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maybe that is some kind of substance and it's
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not just what you see, but maybe it's a bunch
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of atoms or something that holds a spirit and
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maybe Wernicke's out there and they just need
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to compile all these broken pieces of his spirit.
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What you're kind of describing is what's making
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me wonder, like, the wallrider is Billy Hope.
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And there's only one wallrider, but it can affect
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other people or infect other people like Miles,
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like Blake. So maybe the wallrider is like a
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swarm. And that's the swarm that they're talking
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about in Outlast 1. I really think the swarm
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is just people infected by the wallrider. And
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they're all controlled by Billy Hope. So Yakuza.
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Just a little detail at the depth of Yakuza 0,
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which is by far the... deepest game in the series
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in my opinion you remember at the end of the
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game when majima is sent to like deal with shimano
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because he was dealing with the omi he's supposed
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to kill him or whatever he says i'm a family
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man and gives him a chance and then shimano ends
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up shooting the omi guy it shows how smart majima
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is because he's not just talking about himself
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when he says i'm a family man he's also asking
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shimano what he's loyal to Like, Shimano, are
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you a family man or are you selling out to the
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Omi? Because if you're not choosing the family
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over the Omi, I am, which means I kill you. Okay,
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I like that. I never caught that. Totally is
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in line with how devious this character is. That
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scene has always confused me a little bit because
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I feel like there's just so many layers to what
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Majima's saying. Man, I knew... Why Sierra was
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good, for a reason. But this just takes it to
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a whole new level. The writing, I feel like they
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took such care with it that you can still, if
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I watch it again, I'm going to pick up new things.
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Next is Detroit Become Human. We talked about
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this briefly because we listened to this, re
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-listened to this episode together. But the RA9
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question. We both have independently noticed
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how similar Ari from Heavy Rain and RA9 are in
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sound. Could Norman Jaden be RA9? We see in Heavy
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Rain reality in Ari blurring for Jaden, right?
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Who knows how far that could go? If he spends
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too much time, maybe his consciousness would
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be ported into Ari. So he's like stuck in Ari.
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Like maybe he's dead in real life, but his kind
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of like the wall rider, right? But he's in Ari.
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And then in Detroit. the interrogation android
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the one we're interrogating he says he gives
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a gender to re9 he says he i want to build on
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it which detroit become human we see that there
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are certain people like amanda where she is no
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longer alive but she becomes like a cpu type
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of thing so depending on timing and this seems
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to be more forward in the future compared to
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heavy rain what if Jaden has already died, but
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he was such an incredible detective that they
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decided to keep him and his tools and then morph
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it into RE9. Like that the tools of him and Ari
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combined become RE9. I don't think that the FBI
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would just abandon that technology. I think they
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would continue to progress it. Maybe Kamsky obtained
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that software or used that software in his androids.
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So my theory is that Jaden became Ari. And as
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we discussed, as the software developed, it was
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eventually used by Kamsky and his androids. And
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Jaden, now Ari, is hellbent on finding a way
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out, which would translate to deviancy. He still
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knows what it is to be human. He just doesn't
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have a body. And so when androids come into existence,
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he can give the androids through Ari. He's Ari9.
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He can give them emotions. He can be human again.
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He can make his escape. He can break free from
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Ari and live in the real world again. And I think
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Kamsky would just be watching this happen and
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believe he's truly created a new form of life.
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I can see that. I mean, I still like our other
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theories about what Ari 9 is, but this is my
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favorite. I really want to see Norm and Jaden.
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Okay, one more red dead note, and then I'm done
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with topic four. Okay. It's about this strange
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man. Which actually is one of my favorite moments,
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if we can jump back to that real quick. Just
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our summary discussion about John's redemption
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arc and the strange man. I loved that. That was
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a great conversation. Also, when I dunked DeSanta
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to the trash. Oh, my gosh. And then you sang
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one of my favorite ones when Alende was going
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to the trash. You couldn't get the words out.
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He forced himself in the women. And then I was
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like, you know what? I'll just call it what it
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is. He raped them. I loved it. Oh, my gosh. So
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funny. An absurd thing to be laughing about,
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but it was funny. You also, another one of my
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favorite moments was recently. What game was
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it? About the kids, and you shouldn't be laughing,
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but you kept laughing. In the wheelchair. Oh,
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my God. In the forest, and the little kid, and
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the arms you break out, and the little kid helpless
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in the wheelchair just looking up. And then you
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see it get knocked over in the aftermath. Oh,
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so hilarious to me. And he just kept laughing
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at it. It shouldn't be funny, but it's really
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hilarious. Oh, my gosh. Anyway, back to what
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I was saying about the strange man. So one of
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the, I think one of the co -founders of Rockstar's
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name is Dan Houser. He was quoted very recently
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in an interview about the strange man telling
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us what it is. And I don't know if you can tell
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by my expression that I'm disappointed. But he
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said. The strange man was meant to be a manifestation
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of your shadow, your karma, the devil. This isn't
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Hollywood. We don't need that kind of devil on
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our shoulder. I like our theory more. He left
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it very vague. It doesn't make sense because
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your shadow and your manifestation wouldn't force
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you to choose, be like, go save that nun. Well,
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right, because how would he know that things
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are happening where they're happening? It obviously
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has its own consciousness. I think what would
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confirm our theory is if we see the strange man,
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say that the next game is going to be Jack or
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whoever character, if we see him again, and it
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follows various people and not just John, then
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I could say that that's not a manifestation because
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he would probably show up in a different form.
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I'll give you a hint. Okay. He's referenced in
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another game. Oh. Okay. Okay, so there's a couple
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things we tracked. One of them was when my voice
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cracks because, as you know, that happens frequently.
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Yes. And there's some good ones. And we each
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picked our top five. What is your first one?
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Season four, episode 12, Mafia, the summary.
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And my timestamp is 2338. But anyway, thank you
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for... There was a voice crack. Yeah, that is
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one of mine. Alright, what's your next one? My
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next one is Season 1, Episode 17, Outlast Part
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1. So we don't really know what that means. There's
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also mention of some sort of hormone treatment.
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No, but it was between that one and one other
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one. Okay. So let me show you the one I picked.
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If we can go back again to the exit interview
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video with Warnicke and his quote about having
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to witness enough horror. That was another one.
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I had that one. Whore. Yeah. That was. It sounds
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like I say whore. Wernicke was a whore. Okay.
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So we had two the same. What's your next one?
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Heavy rain. Oh, this is one of my favorites.
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So this one is season two, episode two. And then
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by the end of the interview slash interrogation,
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did you hear that voice crack? I didn't. It was
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on my list, but it didn't make it top five. Okay.
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How many do you have left? I have two more. Okay.
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We'll see if there's any more. I still have three
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that you haven't. Okay. This one is Detroit Become
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Human. So season three, episode 11. In this episode,
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we almost murder somebody over a mitten. I have
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to restart that because my voice cracked so hard.
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I was going to say, let's keep it. So hard. somebody
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and then not me saying we need to redo that yeah
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that that was number three on my list okay gotcha
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it's not just the crack it's the way that i couldn't
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make it stop like it ran away from me and it
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couldn't get it to quit final one season three
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episode 20 yakuza kiwami 2 part 3 and they appear
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to be being led by hayashi from kiwami 1 It's
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a subtle one. It is a subtle one. But I remember
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hearing this and being like, what was that? That
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was not on my list. So I have two left. Here's
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my second favorite voice crack. We'll find out
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who the killer is, but we'll find out why. There
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might still be some mysteries. My voice cracked.
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I had this one. I think it was probably top 10,
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but I didn't make it up. Okay, and my all -time
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favorite. I can't believe this is not on your
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list. How is Haruka going to three different
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bars within one day? She's not even like 10 years
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old. That's a good question. What? I had that.
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Top 10. I had that in my top ten. Oh my gosh.
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This is the joy of being able to laugh at yourself.
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Oh my gosh. That was way more entertaining than
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I thought it was going to be. Right? The voice
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cracks themselves belong into one of our favorite
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moments, like a high -level overview. Which,
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speaking of, should we go back? Speaking of favorite
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moments, I have a few quick ones. Let me just
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run through all my Red Dead ones. I had ones
25:03
from part one, part two, part three, and part
25:05
five. Part one at 2540, I love when you say,
25:09
hold on, I've got a piece of bean. Oh my god,
25:11
yes! And I was like, excuse me, what the hell?
25:16
Sorry, what is a piece of bean? And it was an
25:20
espresso -covered coffee bean, which, as we discussed,
25:23
is the absolute only way that piece of bean ever
25:26
makes sense. Also from part two, the butt scratcher.
25:31
Noticing that guy digging in his ass. And the
25:34
chaos that ensued in that conversation. Also,
25:38
the Mexican standoff thing, where you're like,
25:40
is this a Mexican standoff? I'm like, wait! Wait,
25:43
that's the joke! And then, didn't Abraham also
25:47
fall off on his horse in that part? Yes, Reyes
25:51
falling, and the brief almost T -pose, and then
25:54
running behind trying to get to the horse. Gold.
25:58
A more recent one I had is... last week's episode
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where i did my accidental finger guns oh my gosh
26:07
i still can't believe you did finger guns to
26:10
me from a that's what she said joke but that
26:13
was don't know what came over me the four -year
26:17
-old wearing new balance sneakers white suburban
26:20
dad just fully went into my soul okay well to
26:25
finish out my my last moment i can't believe
26:28
you didn't bring up peaches oh my god yes i forgot
26:32
about how that didn't make it up on my list the
26:34
whole ass conversation and the the beauty of
26:37
that moment is that your mic was glitching so
26:39
i couldn't hear you half the time i couldn't
26:42
hear the first few words of your sentence and
26:44
then it would i'd be able to hear you and so
26:46
i didn't when i said how many more ways to start
26:48
to say it referencing butts i didn't hear you
26:51
at all saying peaches until the editing yes oh
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my gosh so that killed me I just remember you
26:59
sending me the Snapchat of it when you finally
27:01
realized it. And oh my gosh, that was too good.
27:07
Maybe one of the best is when we're in the flashback
27:11
with Cosmo talking to Tarada and the other guy.
27:15
He's like facing them and we're curious. So we're
27:18
behind all three of them. So it's Kiryu looking
27:20
at Cosmo from the back and it cuts to a view,
27:24
like almost full body view of... behind Cosma,
27:28
and Tarada's hand is visible between Cosma's
27:33
legs. Why is that there? Why didn't they get
27:37
rid of that? It's for us. It's for the gamers.
27:41
Oh my gosh. The way I gasped when I saw that.
27:45
I was like, Cosma's pee -pee fell out. And then
27:51
all the times, the pee -pees. All the pee -pees.
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There's one of my favorites is in Mafia when
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I hit a guy and he bounces over a barricade.
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Which, that's good. But I think of all the pee
28:03
-pees, the corkscrew lady who does a 360 turn.
28:09
That's my favorite. I also love how I just fully
28:13
say pee -pee. And you, just to be safe, you give
28:16
it a little space, a little cadence, and you
28:18
say pee -pee. So as to know that we're not talking
28:22
about pee -pees. Okay, but speaking of, you've
28:28
given me shit for my driving in these games,
28:30
and I keep trying to tell you, Kathy, you don't
28:31
understand. And so I had to make you understand,
28:35
and we've talked about doing this before, and
28:37
we finally did it. I made you drive in games.
28:41
So I have the video edited, pulled up, to show
28:46
you how well you did. Okay. Here we go. Hold
28:51
on. Why does she trip over nothing? She's calling
29:05
the police. Oh my gosh. Look how creepy I'm going,
29:09
Leah. We need to pause here because when I was
29:22
editing, I was like, wait, this... Can you, like,
29:25
see Tommy's face when you crash? No, but I'll
29:29
do you one better. Just... Watch. Oh, my God.
29:48
I can't breathe. Look at poor Tommy's... His
29:52
ass! This is the new FBM, the flying booty moment.
29:57
Oh, my God. I can't breathe. Oh, close, close.
30:02
Oh, no. No, I didn't get arrested. No. I can't
30:06
fight this. Well. I take it all back. Oh, my
30:12
gosh. That was so funny. That seemed more intense
30:16
than playing Rainbow Road. Well, we just have
30:20
three topics left. Should we move on to our next
30:23
bracket? Yes. Our next bracket is KFC. Kathy's
30:28
favorite character. So what we did is we gathered
30:32
all of your favorite characters from episodes
30:35
and all of mine from all of the summary episodes
30:37
and put them into a bracket. And if there were
30:39
differences between games, like say I liked Nishiki
30:42
Y0, you liked Nishiki K1, which is the opposite,
30:45
then they're both in there and we specify because
30:48
characters are different in different games.
30:50
My final four is Tachibana. Bigby, John, and
30:55
Connor. Ooh, those are the four that I would
30:58
have picked for you. Okay, so Tachibana versus
31:01
Bigby. I think you chose Tachibana. I chose Bigby.
31:07
No, what? It was a hard one, though. It was difficult.
31:11
I picked Bigby over Tachibana because Bigby would
31:16
do anything for Snow except what he thinks is
31:20
wrong. Which I appreciate because he's not blind
31:23
to his love. He's trying to do good even when
31:26
she thinks it's not good. And so then your other
31:30
one is then who is it? John versus Connor. Maybe
31:34
even more difficult than that. That one I knew.
31:37
I remember you struggling so hard. I think ultimately
31:40
you chose Connor. I did. And I hate myself for
31:45
it. I picked Connor. All right. You got to tell
31:49
me your. my top four yeah surprisingly it's all
31:53
under the yakuza series so we have tachibana
31:57
y0 tachibana versus yk2 ryuji uh i'm gonna guess
32:04
ryuji tachibana oh man there's i think the very
32:11
last end of knowing ryuji still wanted to die
32:15
Even though his sister was alive versus what
32:17
Tachibana would have given to be alive to see
32:20
his sister and wouldn't just throw away his life
32:22
like that. Yeah, that's true. And then Shinji
32:24
and YK -1 versus Y -0 Nishiki. I mean, it has
32:29
to be Nishiki from Y -0. Both of them did nothing
32:32
wrong. But ultimately, I felt like Nishiki would
32:36
deviate from his orders more so than what Shinji
32:39
did. Which leaves Tachibana versus Nishiki. So
32:44
Tachibana versus Y -Zero Nishiki. I mean, I think
32:47
Y -Zero Nishiki just has a hold on you that you're
32:50
never going to be able to break. So I got to
32:52
pick Y -Zero Nishiki. Yep. You are correct. I
32:56
don't blame you. I think you knew it going into
32:59
this who my ultimate, ultimate KFC would be.
33:03
Well, I thought I would know, but I had to make
33:06
some real damn hard decisions here. And my final
33:10
two ended up being Bigby and Connor. I know you
33:14
like Bigby a lot, but for some reason, my gut,
33:17
I don't know what the rationale it would be,
33:20
but I think my gut is saying you chose Connor.
33:23
I did. Oh, okay. I picked Connor. Another really
33:26
difficult choice. You can't go wrong with either.
33:29
You can't. And he carried that game. And he carried
33:32
that game. So I just had to get him props for
33:35
that. So our other category we always talk about
33:38
is Kentucky Scorcher, which is... purely looks
33:43
originally kentucky scorcher was supposed to
33:45
be who is just hot but we found that you would
33:49
talk too much about personality and i'm like
33:52
we got to experiment against against us and that's
33:54
when blind kentucky scorcher was born so for
33:57
the purpose of this we didn't use your blind
33:59
picks we used your straight up picks from the
34:02
game and and mine as well if i had any and so
34:05
the criteria for this bracket is just whatever
34:07
could be a combination looks personality My final
34:12
four is John, Tommy, Henry, and Bigby. Your final
34:16
four is Majima, Wei, Henry, and Bigby. Half of
34:21
our final four is the same. Yeah. So let's go
34:24
to the bottom. Who won for you between Henry
34:27
and Bigby? I struggled so hard right here. So
34:31
did I. This is where some of the personality
34:34
kind of bled into it. Like the righteousness
34:36
of how Bigby could carry himself beat out Henry's.
34:41
Like, the looking over your shoulder fear. And
34:43
then I kind of got grossed out when they started
34:45
selling drugs. Well, I picked Henry, so thanks
34:49
for that. Whoops! I totally thought you were
34:53
going to choose Bigby, so I'm like, Leah's going
34:55
to agree with me. I don't know what it is that
34:58
won out. I think it was just, he was just in
35:02
charge. You know what I mean? Like, Bigby was
35:04
a little more struggling to figure out what to
35:07
do. And that lost points for me. Whereas Henry,
35:10
even if he made bad decisions in the end, he
35:13
was taking charge. Your top final two was Majima
35:19
versus Wei. This is hard, but I have a gut feeling
35:23
you picked Wei. I chose Majima. I struggled.
35:26
I struggled for this one. Let's do yours. Top
35:30
four. Wait, we already chose top four. We already
35:34
know Henry, but between John and Tommy, we haven't.
35:37
You haven't guessed that yet. I think you chose
35:39
John. I did. John versus Henry. Hardest decision
35:47
of my life. On a gut feeling, Henry. Yep. I think
35:55
you betrayed John with that. I did. I betrayed
35:57
John again. Two categories in a row. Okay, yours
36:03
is Majima versus Bigby. Yes. Oh, this is a hard
36:10
one. I'm going to say Majima. I did, yeah. The
36:13
confidence and swagger this man has, even despite
36:17
wearing the stupid construction hat. We had trouble.
36:21
We wanted to do this more than once, so we did
36:23
a new bracket. We did KFC and KS three times,
36:28
and we took the top four from each of those,
36:30
and we're going to put those into a bracket.
36:33
If there was a person in both of those categories,
36:37
They earned the right to be in the bracket twice.
36:39
So this is basically like the ultimate character.
36:43
Okay, my final four. Majima, Henry, John, Connor.
36:47
What are yours? It went Big B, Y0 Nishiki, YK2,
36:52
Majima, and Big B again. Who did I pick between
36:55
Y0 Majima and Henry, Kathy? My gut feeling is
36:59
like immediately like Majima, but then... You
37:02
also crave Henry because we didn't see enough
37:04
of him. I do. I crave Henry. Why? What? That's
37:09
the perfect way to put it. You crave more of
37:12
him. But I think Y -Zero Majima had his... The
37:17
roots, like the... Oh, no. Oh, no. Did you say
37:21
Henry? What's your final answer? Majima? Yeah.
37:25
Okay, okay. I picked Y -Zero Majima. Yeah. Majima
37:29
to be exact. Okay. And then bottom of the final
37:34
four was John versus Connor. Another difficult,
37:36
difficult choice. Well, I want to say Connor
37:41
because I think that's how he ended up last time.
37:43
I think John. It's John. I got two for two. My
37:50
final two is Y -Zero, Majima, and John. Yeah.
37:53
So let's find your final two. What's your first
37:55
final four matchup? Big B versus Y -Zero Nishiki.
37:59
Y -Zero Nishiki. All right. He's in the final
38:03
two. And then Bigby versus YK2 Majima. Bigby.
38:10
No. You had him in the final four twice and he
38:13
lost both times. My final two. Y0 Majima versus
38:19
John. I have to say Majima. It was a hard, hard
38:25
choice. But I picked John. No. Out of guilt?
38:31
No, it's not out of guilt. I had a moment of
38:33
clarity. High toes. And maybe part of it is because
38:36
I've been in a Red Dead real slump lately where
38:38
a lot of my algorithm is Red Dead. I'm off of
38:40
Stephen Hawking AI and onto Red Dead. You sent
38:43
it to me and you got me on it now. I know. Stupid
38:46
AI. It was a really funny one that popped up.
38:47
I had to send it to you. But I was just reminded
38:51
of how much more complex this character is than
38:54
we give him credit for a lot. And how human his
38:57
character is. And I'm really impressed by the
38:59
writing and just the way that they developed
39:01
his character into something human. And I just
39:05
have to give his character credit for how real
39:09
he is, but how much you still love him. Okay,
39:13
your final two. Y -Zero Nishiki versus YK2 Majima.
39:19
It's gotta be Y -Zero Nishiki, right? Yeah. I
39:26
was like, who are you kidding? Don't look at
39:28
me like that. Really, what made me fall in love
39:32
with this character was this guy has been through
39:36
the trenches with what Kazuma did. His entire
39:39
destiny was pre -written for him, and he has
39:43
gone up against every single challenge, despite
39:45
living in Giryu's shadow. But in the end, despite
39:48
he could have gone bitter and he could have just
39:50
killed them all, he didn't. He redeemed himself.
39:53
Do you know what's really interesting? What?
39:55
Is I'm hearing a lot of similarities to John's
39:59
character in your description because they both
40:02
started out, you know, with a pseudo father who's
40:05
kind of controlling them and leading their direction
40:09
in life. And they both split from that. But Nishiki
40:13
rises up in his world and John tries to leave
40:16
his world. Did you play YCO first or Red Dead
40:19
Redemption first? Red Dead. I think that might
40:23
be something that has a huge impact because you
40:26
met John first before Nishiki and I met Nishiki
40:30
before I met John. It's the first character that
40:33
you fell in love with and Nishiki's mine. My
40:36
first love in video games. And John's your first
40:40
love. But I crave Henry. We have one final topic,
40:47
which is stats. You know, we love stats. We counted
40:50
two things through every episode. There's going
40:53
to be a margin of error. We're only human, but
40:54
we both counted to try to get the most accurate
40:56
count. The first thing we counted was when either
41:00
one of us said, I feel like. I didn't add them
41:04
up. I think you did, and you've got to tell me,
41:06
Kathy. Is it over 100? Single -handedly, one
41:12
season is over 100. So far, first 99 episodes
41:17
of the podcast, I think we said, I feel like
41:20
278 times. I love being on the other side of
41:24
this. I'll give you another guess. 375. 856.
41:30
Holy shit. No, that's not possible. Yeah. And
41:34
it was going to be a lot, but I don't think it'd
41:35
be damn near a thousand. At the end of season
41:37
four, we're probably going to hit a thousand.
41:40
All right. The second thing we counted was the
41:43
times. Kathy said, nope, nope. Whenever I asked
41:47
her a question. You slowed down. There was a
41:50
lot in the earlier seasons, and you slowed down.
41:53
I'm going to guess 47. 45. What? I almost said
42:00
45. Oh, my gosh. I love seeing her reaction.
42:03
Like, what? I have never seen you this excited
42:06
before. That's why we each need to start tracking
42:08
a stat. Yeah. The last thing was not a count,
42:13
but it was the total duration of airtime. This
42:15
was a really fun one. I have it down to the seconds,
42:19
but I'm going to let you guess close to how many
42:22
hours. Oh, my gosh. How many hours do I think?
42:27
I'm going to go with 82 hours. Not quite. 63
42:34
hours, 50 minutes, 11 seconds. That's so much
42:39
time. 64 hours, yeah. Can't believe we've made
42:42
all that. That's crazy. Well, we sort of already
42:48
done our recap of how it got here, but there's
42:52
just one thing I want to say before we thank
42:53
everyone, which is not only did this podcast
42:56
happen, but our friendship re -happened because
42:59
of a birthday text. I was going to text you on
43:02
your birthday. Your birthday is before me. I
43:05
texted you and I didn't realize that my phone
43:07
switched to texting your home phone, which is
43:09
another cell phone. And so I didn't hear from
43:12
you. And I was like, that's weird, because even
43:14
though we stopped being we didn't stop being
43:16
friends, but we kind of went our own ways. Right.
43:18
Like middle of high school. We still annually
43:21
twice a year say happy birthday to each other.
43:24
And then I didn't hear from you. And then your
43:27
mom told you to message me and we started talking.
43:30
Exactly. The point is, if you're thinking about
43:33
a friend you haven't seen in a while, you know,
43:35
life takes us different directions. Send a birthday
43:37
text. So what if they don't respond and you feel
43:40
like an idiot? You're not there and asked for
43:42
not responding back, right? Unless it went to
43:45
their home phone and they didn't notice. Moral
43:48
of the story. Moral of the 100 episodes of this
43:51
podcast. It's the butterfly effect. It's until
43:54
dawn. Send one text. Create 100 episodes of a
43:59
podcast. Life's completely different. Should
44:03
we say thank you very much for listening? Thank
44:06
you, especially those that have followed us since
44:09
the beginning of time. Those that follow us on
44:12
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support us, who give us feedback. Thank you.
44:19
Thank you. And goodbye. We'll see you next week,
44:23
back to regular programming. For our 100th episode,
44:27
Audacity on 98, 99. 100. Huh? Thank you for listening
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44:48
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