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Show #158 BFSTW Because Fuck Stevie That's Why · Because Fuck You That's Why Podcast

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Because Fuck you, That's Why is a founding member of the Odd Pods Media
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Network. Hello, and welcome to episode one fifty seven eight. I've lost
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track. I didn't check. That is my fault for not checking. Welcome
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to a late episode in the one fifties of Because Fuck Stevie, That's Why.
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Finally, finally, we have escaped the tyranny of our tiny weed smoking
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overlord, and we immediately forgot the number of the episode. We immediately started
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sucking up. Everything's going downhill. It's a it's a train wreck. Stevie,
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comeback. Please, we can't do this without you. Oh my god,
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my god. No. I have so been looking forward to this,
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and I can't. I can't legitimately say why. I love Stevie, and
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admittedly I am a little miffed at him, just a little. He had
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an opportunity to go with me to a guest multiple episode guest on the show,
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David Adovino's voice acting seminar, held at a college literally just minutes down
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the street, like it wasn't far, you know, so. But his
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excuse was that he wanted to spend time with family before he left on his
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vacation, which I kind of get because you know, he he doesn't have
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a job, so he sees them pretty much twenty four seven. So uh,
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you know, obviously he wants even more as opposed to Dave, who
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he sees maybe once every few years if that. So I understand why he
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would pick one over the other, especially as he'd expressed an interest in voice
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acting as a career. Might as well throw that by the wayside. You
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know that's not important. Um, yeah, as you do as you do.
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Yeah. Oh, I'm giving Steve such a hard time as soon as
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he comes back. Oh, I can't wait. I hope, I hope
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he listens to this. I genuinely hope he listens to this and goes,
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God, damn it. That's the goal, sir. I am just trying
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to reb you so hard that you just either cringe or just can't help it
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and laugh out loud while while editing this. That is the goal. Um,
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this isn't going to be a straight hour of picking on TV, although
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I kind of it would be. Could and we definitely could. There's so
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much ammo there is. You're kind of drowning at it. Too much Ammo,
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not enough guns, I think is the problem. Um, so obviously
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with just the two of us. This isn't going to be a regular episode.
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It's going to be somewhere between a regular episode and a chill episode.
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We're not exactly going to be playing games, um, but aside from just
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a general catch off how you doing which amen up to, which we usually
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do in the chill So, I also want to spend some time working on
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something that we've discussed on the show multiple times and have never actually like taken
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any major steps towards making happen. We've been talking about doing like a live
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play D and D show called High Fantasy, because you know, the two
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players are very prominent stoners and their DM me is not, so it would
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be interesting in the very least try and make such a thing happen. Um,
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but I don't. I feel like I don't know enough about marijuana and
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weed culture to really make that happen convincingly. So my idea was that,
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you know how some Dungeons and Dragons campaigns have a Session zero, yeah,
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where all the players in the DM get together and they figure everything out,
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um, you know, their characters and all that. This is going to
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be kind of a Session one, a Session one. Yeah. We're actually
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taking a step back before the session zero, where what I would like to
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do is talk it over with you and develop like the general sense of the
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world, maybe some of the countries and their politics and maybe I don't think
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we're gonna get into politics too much, and and possibly some weed based game
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mechanics. Okay, like you know, just something to think about. Um,
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that's what we're going to be doing later in the show. But obviously,
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again with chill shows, we pretty much always start with how you doing?
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Watchmen up to Augie, what's going on? Did you want to play
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your theme song? I could play my theme so why not? Yeah,
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let's hear it. He's a gay so good, so good. Um,
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so, hey man, how you doing? What's going on? What's you
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been up to this week? I know CEV was getting ready to leave and
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all that. Uh, and I assume by spending time with the family he
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included you in that sentiment, I would hope, so I certainly hope.
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So I'm pretty sure he did. But um, yeah, I've been working
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on stuff for the podcast, uh, stuff for our YouTube channel, stuff
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like that. But I've also been playing a lot of video games naturally,
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naturally, naturally, as you do as I do. Uh, It's it's
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really hard because like I have so many of them, and they're all a
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lot of them are so good, so it's hard to keep my interest in
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one long enough to be like before I look at another and go, oh,
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I want to play that today. Yeah, I know the feeling being
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a retro game fan like I have. I've built so many machines that have
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like thousands of games on them, and like just knowing that when I go
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back to them, instead of playing and trying something new, I'll almost always
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play something I've already played, right, and just replay it. I wonder
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why that. You must be like a comfort thing, right, It's it's
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familiarity for sure. I mean there's a nostalgia thing to it too, I
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think, um, but yeah, no, I absolutely, I absolutely adore
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playing revisiting some of those worlds again, you know, so I totally get
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it, Yeah for sure. But can you name any of these games even
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playing recently? Like I know we played No Man's the hell out of that
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for a while. Yeah. Yeah, Steve and I have been playing Generation
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zero, which is like another game on the You've mentioned that's an FPS against
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like robots and the apocalyptic setting, which is really interesting, very very interesting.
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I like it's very graphically beautiful, and I really like how they did
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the AI in that game. They're very much kind of like they range between
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stupid robots to like they'll literally ambush you, like set up an ambush and
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lure you into it and then suddenly you're getting shot from like all different It's
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crazy. Yeah, And it's a mostly open world game too, which it
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makes it even crazier. I mean it makes sense that like a computerized life
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form that like destroyed all of humanity would be pretty good at at doing that,
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like you know, tactics and strategy. I would think, um,
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but in an event, yeah, Kynet wasn't very good at killing people.
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Just kept getting viruses. It was. It was just lucky, you know,
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it just kept stumbling into lucky lucky wins. Uh. I love the
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idea of a completely incompetent sky Net. It was just, oh, I
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guess those humans are dead now, thank you volcano. You know, like
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like just wait, when did we send our terminator back to wait? We
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send him back without any clothes or weapons? Oh man, not again.
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There he is in like Pennsylvania getting beaten with bats. I mean, he's
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a terminator. It's like bother him. But I'm not gonna stop you for
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either. I'm not gonna stop me either. Um that's funny. Uh.
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Yeah. No, I've been meaning to check out Generation zero because I know
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you guys are into it. I just haven't gotten around to it. Yeah.
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And there's another game that we talked about recently, which I was pointed
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to by a work associate called Deep Rock Galactic. Yeah, it's on sale
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for ten bucks. Now. I'm like, I have to pick it up
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right and try it. I still haven't done that. I still haven't.
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It's been it's been on sale for like a week. I should probably get
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on it before it goes off styles. Yeah, I'm like if I'm gonna
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do this, but I'm like, I have enough games, Like, you
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know, you get to this point where you're like, I have a collection.
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There's thousands upon thousands of games deep Like my Steam catalog is a couple
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of thousand, My God catalog is a couple of thousand, and then there's
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all the retro games, which numbers in the multi thousands. So it's like,
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I really don't need anything new, you know, unless it really catches
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my eye. I'm probably not going to go out and grab something, although
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I am tempted with Deep Rock Collactic because we've been doing a lot of co
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op shooters lately in that, right, that could be another fun one.
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Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah, I think so. All right, So
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that's that's all you've been doing, just playing video games? Yeah, waiting
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for Stevie to leave so you can stretch your legs and yeah, metaphorically,
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finally I can make fun of the guy. Yeah. No, we can
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actually separate a whole section of the show just to make fun of him.
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We can do that, all right, Yeah, all right, that'll be
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the final section of the show. I think. Okay, let's do that.
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They can't listen to everything else, and yeah at the end, kid,
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Yeah, yeah, yep, just just dog pile them right at the
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end. It'll be fun. Enjoy that. Stevie. Uh sure you can't
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work? Um okay, so um yeah, let's talk about me then,
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I guess, um, I guess we could play my theme song if we
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were so inclined. Hey man, uh, Mexican, I love you.
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I'm just saying, uh, genuine from the heart. Really really enjoy the
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fact that you made the for us. They fill my heart with joy every
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single time. Uh, and mine especially because I mean it's mine and it
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makes me glow like me. Uh. Anyway, Oh, we're getting some
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weather, are we? Yeah the way you might you might hear the wind
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just half way because you know, New York being New York. Yeah.
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Uh. In any events, So as for me this week, like on
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the video game front, nothing really new. I did finish the the Super
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Metroid Zelda three crossover one more time, this time with Batman and Alley Card.
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Um. What I'm looking for I'm looking for an easy seed um because
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Stevie says he's looking forward to playing it. I don't know how familiar he
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is with both of these games, so I'm like, which games Super Metroid
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and Zelda three a link to the past? Zelda three he'd be pretty familiar
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with. Okay, I've never heard or seen him play Metri. Yeah,
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I don't know if. I don't know if he's big on Metroid, So
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I don't so I'm I'm I'm gonna give him like a range of difficulty modes
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where like Deadpool and Mega Man X are like the hardest difficulty, It's still
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very completable. I finished it in about twelve hours. I mean, for
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for a super anintend No game, that's damn good. That is why that
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is really good. Um and uh like Batman and Ally Card is probably going
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to be somewhere in the middle because it was slightly easier, but it did
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still take me like twelve hours. Um. But the morph ball at least
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is you can find it right away, and the sword's pretty easy to find
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as well. Um, but I'm setting one up now. It's gonna be
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Luigi and the guy from Contra as the Pemiere playing as But I'm I'm deliberately
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setting the first sword and the morph Ball in their original locations so you'll easily
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be able to get started. Like but but I want to make sure that
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the seat itself isn't too complicated, like the hard part of the Batman Versus
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Alley Card is. Like for the longest time, I needed several items to
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go look for another item, to go find another item, like it was
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insane. I couldn't finish the very first dungeon until the very end of the
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game because because the bow, the item you usually find in the first dungeon,
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was dropped by the boss of the last dungeon totally shit. Like,
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so I literally went through the entire game without the bow until the very end,
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and I think the first dungeon is the it might be one of two
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dungeons that you can't complete without the bow. So so there were these two
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dungeons that I literally couldn't couldn't finish, and I'm like, I have to
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go to the very end of the game to find the item that nine and
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to find out that that's where the bow, like, because I was looking
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everywhere to I eventually had to give up and look through the spoiler log.
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Because every time you do a randomizer create one, it generates a spoiler log.
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So if you get lost and you don't know where the items you're looking
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for are, you can go through it and it will tell you where to
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find it. So it's like a it's it. I like the term spoiler
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log because that is what it is. It will spoil where the items in
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the game are. But it's a great tool to have if you just want
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to have it and as like, Okay, I'm stuck, you know,
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and then it can be like I'll just turn to this and I'll I'll find
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out. So I'm that's another feature of these randomizers that I love so so
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much. But I'm looking for a seed that I can successfully go through without
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having to turn to that log. If I can do that, then I'm
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like, that's gonna be the easy seed. That's gonna be the ones you
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guys or Stevie or whoever plays it can complete without worrying about it like it's
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it won't It won't be too hard, it won't be too difficult. You
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know, it'll just be you know, somewhat randomized, but not to the
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point of like hair pulling. Where is that Thingum? So hopefully that's that's
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something I will find in this seed that I will tell stout surely. Um.
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But yeah, now I've been having fun with that. More importantly for
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me, m my novel. There have been some really significant strides this week.
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Good So a friend of mine pointed me to a to a publishing company
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in our area. It's woman owned and they heavily support LGBTQ causes, and
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they are also they're also just starting out, and they are also looking for
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debut authors. And I was like, is this kids met Like this just
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dropped out of the sky on me, and I took a look at them
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and I was like, okay, obviously I don't recognize any of these names.
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But what they do is they will actually publish the printed form of your
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book for you, and they will go to local bookstores and try to get
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your book put in those stores day. Um. So they also will sell
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you know, an ebook online. Um, and the cuts that I would
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get for those are pretty standard. Um. You know, so for a
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physical a physical copy, I would get thirty percent, which sounds awful,
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you know, um, but the publisher is getting sixty percent, and most
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of that is going to go into creating the physical copies, like yeah,
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because because making these things cost money. Um. And the remaining ten percent
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this is what I love. Ten percent of every sale of the book goes
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to an LGBTQ charity of the author's Choicely shit, that's awesome, which I
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am absolutely a huge fan of. So we had. I reached out to
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them. I was like, hey, I am a debut author looking to
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get my book published and you were recommended to me, and I was like,
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can we do like a meeting of some kind and she was like sure,
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like I'm available this afternoon. I'm like, oh, perfect, okay,
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so am I so I held a meeting. It was about half an
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hour. I asked her a bunch of questions. The author gets to you
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know, retain the majority of their rights, and all rights revert to the
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author after the publishing deal is over or you know ended, or you know
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what have you. So, like, I can't lose the rights to my
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book, which is a big thing from the publishing company gets to sell some
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merch based on my book. Um, but anything that they don't provide I
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can sell myself. I retain the rights to sell anything that they don't and
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I still get a cut of anything that they sell. Um. So,
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you know, so if I wanted to do, say, coffee mugs,
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this was the This was the example she gave that coffee mugs. You know,
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if I was to sell coffee mugs with thine emblazoned on them, I
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could do that, and you know it would be entirely my my operation.
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You know, I get to keep all of it, night have the full
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rights to do it, which you know might be something I do. Because
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she also said, like among other things, we will like work to schedule
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you appearances. So I would go to be like the local author at said
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local bookstore, for a day doing signings or um you know, which I'm
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terrified of because I know nobody's going to show up. Um so I'm basically
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gonna be begging my friends please come by and just keep me company for like
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an hour or something, just to make sure I'm not sitting there cursing sky
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all by myself all day long. Um so yeah, but I said,
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you know, could conventions be a thing and she was like, oh,
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absolutely, terrently don't have any relationships with any cons and I was like,
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well I do, so I might be able to actually swing some of those
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for me. And she says, oh, that's great, that's perfect,
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and I was and she was like, we're also gonna want you to be
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you know, on your social media and I said, oh, oh honey,
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it's like when my book launches. And I'm warning everybody now everybody listening
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to this, I've already said it to my friends online and off. I'm
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like, when my book launches, I am going to be obnoxious. I
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Am literally going to be that guy who is constantly saying, you know,
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hey, the sky is lovely to morning, just like my book thing,
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which you can find it bookstores near you, you know, it's gonna I'm
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not going to stop. I'm going to just keep doing it because because I
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know that one of the things I've never been good at is selling myself.
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So for me, like this is an exercise in learning to do that.
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Like this book and I am so proud of it, and I want people
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to read it. So I am going to be like I'm going to be
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a a social media forgive the term whore for a good solid like I'm going
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to be all over it. I'm going to be like asking people if I
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can be on their podcast. I'll be like, you know, wherever I
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can get if I can get published in a newsletter somewhere, like, I
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will not I will not stop until, like I have exhausted the range of
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possible ways that I could get my book out there. So good. Yeah,
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I'm I'm gonna be I'm gonna be obnoxious. I've said it as it
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is. It is what it is. I'm going to be that level of
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you know, crazy about it. But it's it's a really good story.
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I really really like it. I look forward to it, and I think
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I think everyone who reads it is going to agree with me. There probably
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are going to be people who don't, but but fuck them, you know.
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So yeah really um no, So the meaning went like really, well,
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I really liked a lot of the things she had to say. She
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was like, we were also thinking, would it be possible for you to
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create a video? And I was like, you know what's funny. Our
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good friend Mexican had said that he had envisioned a piece of music based on
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a piece of concept art. Driven he's not even read the book, he's
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just seen the concept art for the cover. Uh. And he's got he's
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got music. And so I was like, we're gonna I'm gonna ask Mexican
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if I can use that music to make like a book trailer, and then
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I'm gonna post it. So she was like that is fantastic, um,
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And I was like, yeah, I think so. I'm excited. I'm
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ready to go. Um. So I sent them my manuscript, my blurb,
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and my synopsis. Now they could still say no, they could still
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say no, it's not for us. I doubt it. If anything like
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it sounds like it sounds like I my book would fill a niche that isn't
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currently isn't currently served by what they have on offer. As far as I
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can tell from their website, Okay, like I don't see a lot of
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thrillers in their in their output, so to speak. Yeah, so I
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think I think I might be good here if they if they like the writing
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enough, which they might fingers crossed knock on wood. Um, And then
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what they'll do is they'll send me a contract for reading. Like even if
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I signed it and send it back, it wouldn't it wouldn't count. Like
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this is this is meant to be read over, to be checked. So
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I'm probably gonna have to hire a lawyer just to make sure I'm not misunderstanding
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anything. Um, but I think, yeah, this this might be happening.
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I might. I might not be self publishing. I might I might
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actually be using a publishing company. But that that that ten percent of every
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sale going to THAT'SLBTQ charities, was it is? It is really hard to
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turn down. And I'm just I'm just really hoping that the um that the
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that the company is true to their word and the contract is good in which
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case, in which case, I think it's going to be a no brainer.
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Oh for sure, i think I'm gonna be own with them. Um.
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So fingerscrossed knock on Wood, But we'll find out more about that in
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the weeks to come. For now, I think that's been a good chunk
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of time. I think we're good for our first break. All right,
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So we'll be back in just a minute right after this. Hi, I'm
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Hey man, welcome back. Uh yeah, so part two, assuming
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that we don't have any voicemails or emails, no, no, not that
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I can see you, guys, what are you doing? Listeners, particularly
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those in other countries like we would love to hear from you. I mean,
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I would completely understand if maybe your English isn't that great, or maybe
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Into it. But we have a voicemail widget on our website specifically for this
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We love, we love la la our voicemails, and we love our fans,
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so absolutely do it. But moving on from that, I think we
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should spend part two talking about high Fantasy and starting to get this idea off
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the ground. In Augie, during the break, you said you have an
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idea, so I had I wanted to clarify some stuff first, So okay,
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you would be the one DM incorrect as far as I know. Yeah,
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okay, so hey, have you decided? What how do I say
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that I want to say platform but I don't think platforms, right do you?
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What addition are you going with? Are you just going to classic D
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and you're gonna stick with five V because it's what I know? Okay,
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Well, I wanted to just give you some um like not suggestions, but
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just like so keep an open mind so you know what's available to you.
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I brought thound some of my books here just to kind of like show you,
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like as a knack stuff over so as you can see the first one
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star Finder book. So if you've ever familiar with Pathfinder, Um, Starfinder
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is that but in space pretty fun stuff. Uh, you can plays like
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a rat person and many many other types of aliens. Think of like trying
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to think of what's a good anyone. If anyone's watched Archer, they had
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like a whole season of when he was like in space, and it's kind
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of what Starfinder is, where you just goof around with your buddies doing random
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stupidmissions for corporations. Oh um, oh how did this get in here?
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You can always do high fantasy in the realm of Call of CTHUL. Oh
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yeah, you know, nothing more, nothing more cosmic than elder gods.
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Yeah, yeah, that's that's that's that's just got weed enthusiasts screamed all over
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it, right, I guess, And then uh, of course I don't
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know if it's a great probably probably not a great fit. But then I'm
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not I'm not against the idea of weed in space space. I'm like,
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I just think about it just like getting because those those genres haven't been crossed
28:03
over. To my mind, there's no space wede comedy out there, right,
28:10
how like how fucked up would that be? I guess we could find
28:14
out, is the thing. My idea is, like we just go through
28:17
like the different genres of sci fi, like all we just go through like
28:21
all kind of like um parodies of all the popular movies like Alien something else
28:26
that I know, just every episode is a parody of some kind of other
28:30
space thing. Yeah, just like it's just a parody, but it's just
28:33
us going through it high, but like none of the bad shit happens because
28:37
it's everyone's just high blundering around. Think about it, like an alien,
28:42
it's just like instead of it would be your character, except you just be
28:45
chest as Signy Reaver in like the suit, just fighting a giant alien that
28:52
looks vaguely like, oh my god, they all look like like everyone though
29:00
it looks like a Penis moster, you do never have to restat a monster.
29:02
They just all be Penis Monster. The same thing with Calathulu, just
29:07
all be Penis. I feel like you'd have to be stoned to get through
29:12
a campaign. You'd have to be super stone to get through all the pain.
29:17
But like, instead of dying from insanity, you just like go get
29:21
sober and then you have to go carry out of your normal life. I'm
29:22
gonna go get some munchies and call it a day. Yeah, I've had
29:27
enough of abominations beyond Mortal Ken. Yeah, I think Barbie, and then
29:34
the last one I had in Barty. Sorry sorry, I couldn't help it.
29:38
And the last one I had was Vampire. Not this edition. Obviously,
29:41
they're like the older one, the one right right, But for the
29:45
people listening, he actually brought these books in the core rule books of each
29:49
Funny enough, I didn't have access to my fifth edition core rule book for
29:53
T and D. They're both being borrowed naturally, naturally, that's just how
29:59
I I've got those at home, so yeah, that's not a big deal.
30:02
But this one I'm like, I don't know how we would make it
30:04
work. I feel like it come off too much dead and loving it.
30:08
Yeah, yeah, it's it would vampire vampire screwball comedy, which I mean
30:15
is fun, but it's it's been done. Whereas I feel like the space
30:18
downers like that that's not that's not a thing that's been done. So why
30:22
not let's let's take to the stars. That's very really cool. So I
30:29
have been thinking of like what the world should be like, and I feel
30:33
like there should be like two competing major powers, Like there should be like
30:40
the Sativan Empire okay and the Indican Republic, Like like you know what I
30:48
mean, Like just now, now, since we're doing this in space,
30:52
these can actually be like you know, groups of planets, galaxies or whatever.
30:57
Yeah, it could just be like one galaxy is really chill and just
31:03
they just call it the Bowl, just basically just chilling out, eating,
31:07
relaxing, not taking too much seriously, Whereas the sativa Ins are industrious,
31:15
yes, getting shit done, but they're super creative. Um you know,
31:19
so like neither is typically evil, but you know, given how much passion
31:26
people tend to have for one versus the other, I feel like there could
31:30
be some tension there at tension. I don't know. I don't think there's
31:34
ever any tension when it comes to weed. Yeah, probably not. I'm
31:37
like, I don't see people throwing down over which is better into car sativa,
31:42
but I could see the contrast. It's kind of like the difference between
31:45
light and dark, whereas one is just more energetic, more like expansionism almost
31:52
like thing, and the other ones more kind of like inclusive, like just
31:56
kind of you know, this is our shit, that's it. But neither
32:00
is aggressive. No, neither is aggressive, So like where does the conflict
32:06
come from in that? Like, that's that's the issue that I'm having.
32:08
Okay, let's putting this together. If Stevens aren't aggressive with their expansionism,
32:15
which expansionism usually is aggressive, but it would also be a new ish story.
32:22
But we also have to keep it interesting, right, maybe there's a
32:27
third party. There's the balance, and there's a third party throwing it off.
32:31
It's the hybrids. Oh god, not the hybrids. The hybrids.
32:44
That's a good one. Yeah, No, I like, guy, what
32:46
what would they be doing throwing off the balance? So like they're making Stevens
32:52
like they're they're giving them the like you know, making a like indicant,
32:58
like whether they're getting slower or more lazier and something that the indikants like they're
33:01
more like busier and but it's like disrupting. It's like disruptive to society.
33:07
So like, but they're blaming each other, not realizing that there's a third
33:09
party behind the works hybrids the hybrids. Interesting now would hybrids are just known
33:17
as hybrids in Yeah, they're just because they're like a combination. Yeah.
33:22
Yeah, So there's not like an overarching name. No, I mean they
33:27
all have their own individual name, like you can be like those are like
33:29
the faction names like gorilla glue or we absolutely are naming some baddies after strains.
33:39
There is there is no getting around that, like baddies and and possibly
33:44
weapons and armors, you know. Um so yeah, so I like the
33:50
idea of their being like this this hybrid group um on both sides, um,
33:57
but are causing chaos between too because it's just something their way of life.
34:01
Yeah yeah, exactly exactly. That's there's something to that and we can
34:06
play with that. Um. I'll have to put some thought into the like
34:12
I don't want to discuss too much with it. Like I don't mind discussing
34:15
the world and even even coming up with weed mechanics, but I mean,
34:19
obviously, because you're gonna be playing, I want the story and even things
34:22
like the villain to be surprises. Um, So I don't want to go
34:27
too much into any of that. But I like the idea of developing a
34:30
world. Yeah, would either the Indican Republic or the Stephen Empire have a
34:35
capital? I would imagine this Stephen Empire would absolutely have a capital. It
34:38
would have to be whatever, hold on, let me see, But like
34:43
I would think, like I would feel like the Indicans, the Indican Republic
34:47
wouldn't have a capital, Like they'd have a government, but it doesn't really
34:52
do much right right, I mean you couldn't name it and they and they
34:55
just kind of meet or convene their government where ever, like they don't have
35:00
they don't have a specific capital because they've just never bothered. It's like they've
35:07
just never We've just never gotten around to having a capital. Man. Yeah,
35:14
I like that. I'm gonna say the Indian Republic has no capital city,
35:16
whereas the Satvans have like multiple capitals, like too many cities. Yeah,
35:22
maybe too many. Maybe maybe they're overpopular to spread out. Like there's
35:25
there are countries in the real world that have multiple capital cities, but but
35:30
they're usually like different. These capitals handle different things, like there's the military
35:35
capital, there's the bureaucratic capital, and then there's the economic capital kind of
35:38
thing. Um, so maybe the Sativans do the same thing. Maybe they're
35:43
maybe the Sativans are actually kind of organized, right, yeah, yeah,
35:46
they're more organized more Um, I'm gonna say they have multiple capitals. See,
35:52
that's that's what works out though, because it kind of that's what does
35:55
the distrust, because the for the Sativans or for the Indicans, they could
36:00
be like, well, they're more productive, so they would have came up
36:05
with a plan to make us more productive like them, and vice versa,
36:07
like oh, they're they're always going too much, you know, so the
36:12
Indians are trying to slow us down and try to get it keep us from
36:15
doing what we're doing. Right, Yeah, no, that makes maybe that's
36:20
part of it too, because so it can be like a kind of combination
36:22
tension thing. So it's not enough that it just split down the middle.
36:25
Maybe it isn't just split down the middle. But it's getting there, and
36:29
that's where the tensions are coming in. And that's why the hybrids are going.
36:32
Yeah they're not, they're not at war. They're getting there. Yeah,
36:37
if they can, if the Sativans continue to expand and the Indicans continue
36:43
to not do anything. I mean, just say it like that makes it
36:49
sound like right, I mean, it's it's funny though, and it's got
36:55
I mean, you know, I'm not I'm not objecting. I'm not objecting
36:58
it find another like purpose behind it. But yeah, Indicans are like,
37:04
well, it took another part of our land. I guess we can't party
37:07
there. Well maybe they're not. Maybe they're not keeping up with like certain
37:09
packs and trade agreement. Oh yeah maybe yeah that makes sense, so like
37:14
maybe they're not. Yeah, yeah, there's partner they're they're they're not they're
37:16
not keeping their end of the trade up because they were too lazy. They
37:22
were too they got high. I forgot. Oh man, oh this is
37:28
gonna be fun. We have a capital we do. Yeah, I got
37:30
high and forgot for sure. We got around too that. Yeah, I
37:36
wish we'd were gotten around to that. Man. They make it almost funnier
37:38
because then they would to lose the capital. The capital would always be different
37:42
because they'd always get high and forget what the original capital is. So they
37:45
just choose a new place as a capital. Oh man, I dig it,
37:51
I dig it um. Okay, So let's also talk like leaders.
37:59
So how would these be led? Would Indian Republic have like one central leader
38:04
or would it just be like a group like a congress sort of? I
38:07
feel like both have to have counsels, like I think having like you can
38:13
have like a single like you know, like a prime minister kind of person,
38:16
but I think that they all should be like counsel ran so that way,
38:21
it's it's a multi shifted thing as opposed to one person's the responsible for
38:25
like all this bullshit. Um. I almost feel like the Sativan Empire might
38:36
have one leader, like like an emperor. He might be a figurehead.
38:40
Maybe maybe the Indica people have a different leader. Every time they have a
38:44
have to do stuff. It's just like you not my turn, dang,
38:52
it was my turn last month. They basically all stand in a circle and
38:54
then you not me, and the person who does it last. They just
38:58
they could they all walk in. They all sit around like get around the
39:00
chairs, like okay, we're about to convene, and just everyone just stands
39:04
up and puts a finger on their nose and the last person that does it
39:07
goes, god damn it, and then that has to walk up to the
39:09
front. I am the High counsel for today, yes, yes, yes,
39:22
just like okay, so we'll see the Indian High counselor High Counsel.
39:30
I really like that Indian High counselor chosen chosen by game of not me.
39:47
That's fantastic, Oh my god. And you can have different personalities for each
39:52
one too, like just some just don't want to fucking do it, and
39:55
the others are like trying to be helpful. But there are I'll do it,
40:00
man, just point me to this thing. I'll do it. Yeah.
40:05
Um, okay, the Sativan Emperor should be a bit more empt High
40:15
emperce be high h gotta always be prefaced with High Sativa and high Emperor.
40:21
And I assume that this person would be chosen by different means. Now we
40:25
don't have to go um, we don't have to go um uh like uh
40:35
like hereditary, like you know, he got it from his father and so
40:38
on and so forth. Um. But if so then how is the emperor
40:45
chosen? If I can spell it correctly, there we go, God,
40:49
the Sativan High Emperor. His tolerance, his tolerance. So they have they
40:55
have a they have what like a contest every two years. Yeah, every
41:00
two years they test your tolerance and then you can compete. So like you
41:06
can overboard and it's not safe, but you can't overboard on weed, but
41:10
it won't kill you, right, But the higher tolerance you have, the
41:13
more you can smoke. Right, every two years, the person with the
41:19
highest tolorrance because he's the one that won't get so stone that he can't do
41:25
anything right right exactly exactly, He'll always be able to function in some Yep,
41:31
he'll be a function They have to be a functional stone. Oh that's
41:37
perfect. That is perfect and that I love that. I absolutely love that.
41:44
That is fantastic. Oh my god, Wow, it actually works out,
41:47
like once you light start laying it out, it really does work.
41:51
Yeah, it really does. I'm genuinely like looking forward to this. It's
41:54
gonna be fun. Um Okay, so I feel like that's that's no world
42:00
for me to get started, like, and I can I can, you
42:02
know, detail out the rest of it. On my own. But let's
42:06
also talk about mechanics, because obviously smoking weed is going to be a very
42:08
important mechanic to this, and based on the strain, it will have different
42:12
effects. Yeah, So how do you think, just as as a DM
42:19
yourself and one who is admittedly much more experienced than me, what do you
42:23
think would be like a good a good base mechanic to work from when when
42:31
when consuming we've like, how does that affect your character in a way that
42:37
is fair but still fun? Okay, So what you would do is that
42:43
when you smoke weed, you have disadvantage on intelligence checks, but advantage on
42:50
wisdom checks. Okay, Um, depending on the strain. If it's a
42:57
sativa, you would have of um possibly hmm. I say you should probably
43:05
get checks on like advantages with like acker bat like stuff that allow things that
43:12
you would be physically doing kind of thing, whereas if you were to do
43:15
indica it would be more spiritual. So like you get like pluses on like
43:20
religion and like uh and like insight and stuff like that. Okay, So
43:28
it doesn't have any effects however on your base stats. Um, just just
43:34
advantages and disadvantages. It won't plus or minus anything. Now you could with
43:38
various strains eventually branch out to that sort of thing. Yes, okay,
43:43
because so in the because it's high fantasy. Yes, um, I don't
43:46
know why I emphasize high and not fantasy very high fantasy, very high fantasy.
43:53
But mainly because it's fantasy, you can also make it's that way to
43:57
do magical effects. Like you can be like, oh, you smoke this
44:00
like dragons breath weed or something like that, and then so you get a
44:01
breath weapon for charge. Or you can do something like a healing one where
44:07
it heals like a like a small potion would. Or you can have another
44:09
one with a CBD heavy strain. Yes actually actually heals a mental physical damage
44:19
or sorry, psychic damage. Um. Yeah, no, that's that's very
44:22
good idea. I like that. Yeah, I like that. There could
44:24
be ones that like help with like uh so like expedition's retreat, like ones
44:30
that just allow you to kind of ignore exhaustion for a bit and you to
44:32
move faster, or like some I'm trying to not to like give you like
44:38
pluses or minuses to stats themselves, right, because that's what kind of can
44:43
break a game. And it's also not very interesting. No, it's better
44:46
to have an effect, and not every effect needs to be like, oh,
44:50
you can cast a spell this way or something like that. Maybe it
44:52
can be like for this amount of time you see things in a different shade
44:58
of color or something like that. Or you can taste, uh, like,
45:02
you can pick out the taste, like the different tastes in a meal
45:06
or something like that. And on the surface that might not seem like much.
45:08
But what if you're like searching for maybe your guard bodyguarding somebody who might
45:13
get poisoned, and you can actually root out the taste, like the off
45:15
taste of a meal or something like that. Or if like if say you're
45:21
in like a low light not a low light, us, say, if
45:23
you're like you're in a situation where like the lights, like maybe you're in
45:28
a crystal cave and the lights are being get off differently, having we that
45:30
kind of adjust the colors that way you can maybe see better or something like
45:36
that, so you're not being disadvantaged from the different lights and shit like that.
45:39
Yeah. Yeah, no, I like that. I like that a
45:43
lot um. So would there be I'm trying to think, like, would
45:51
there be like a I mean, aside from aside from like certain things like
45:54
you know, the breath weapons and so forth. Like I'm trying to think
46:00
of how you can weaponize, well, how like marijuana paraphernalia could be used
46:10
in other ways in like a d Like I'm just trying to think, like,
46:15
is could we make I don't know. I'm not saying weapons per se,
46:21
but like, I don't know, maybe tools would be a better word.
46:23
I don't know. I'm trying to figure out a way to make like
46:28
marijuana paraphernalia actually have a purpose other than just smoking marijuana. Now, this
46:34
doesn't have to be we could just leave it alone, you could, I
46:36
mean you could have like you could just theme them off of things like you
46:39
can have a bearded axe and the ship the axes the shape of a weed
46:43
leaf, or you can do like I don't know, Um, I don't
46:52
know, Like how would you do I'm trying to think of what you would
46:54
do with like a bomb. I'm trying to think, Yeah, you can't
47:00
really use a bond as a weapon, not really, I mean an arcane
47:05
focus sure, Oh yeah, I never thought about that. You could use
47:07
a thousand percent sure, um, but Burt Lighter is an arcane focus,
47:13
but like, yeah, it would be difficult to to make you know,
47:16
a weapon or some other kind of gear that is pot themed. Off the
47:22
top of my head, that's something you Yeah, I definitely have to look
47:24
into because you have to then also think about edibles like yeah, and shit
47:29
like that. So yeah, edible Oh boy, edibles. I'm not gonna
47:34
get into that at the moment. But I feel like we've come up with
47:37
quite a bit to work with here, Like I feel like I feel like
47:40
this is a satisfying base to work for, very satisfying, especially considering the
47:45
two countries. I love this so much. Um, it's it's we can
47:51
go on. It's fantastic. I know we really could. Um, And
47:53
it'll be really easy for me to fall into this and like start creating individual
47:59
like lands and so forth. Yeah, but I'm really looking forward to it
48:02
now real quick. With the Sativan's being like almost expansionists, which means they're
48:07
like probably spreading with the Indicans, people are like nomadic, so they'll have
48:12
like flotillas instead of colonizing planets. Yeah maybe. Um. I also think
48:16
some of them are be like wherever they literally literally too late, like wherever
48:22
they land, they're just like, all right, there we are, you
48:24
know here, you know, there's no river here be brought while they're with
48:28
us, humble kind of rain, you know. Yeah, like they're like
48:32
they're like master survivalists kind of by accident, yeah, because they have too
48:38
late, just because yeah, because they're like, oh man, no,
48:44
that's funny that I can absolutely run with this. But I think we've we've
48:46
we've covered enough of high Fantasy, and if this continues to develop and become
48:52
an eventual show in addition to our bfydw or um or perhaps something we do
48:59
do special episodes of, I'm really really looking forward to right delving into this
49:06
world. But for now, we're going to take our second break and we
49:12
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Pods media network. A man, welcome back. It's time for part three,
50:13
and we've decided Part three is going to be dedicated pretty much entirely to
50:17
making fun of Stevie because he's not here to defend himself. And that is
50:22
completely fair. Yep, absolutely I did. I never listened to the episode
50:28
where I wasn't there. I'm pretty sure you guys mocked the shit out of
50:31
me. Oh yeah, and I listened to the episodes when I wasn't there,
50:36
and you absolutely did. So it's only It's only fair, Stevie.
50:40
Ita. Um, now I should tell you what is definitely very fair.
50:45
What's that man's skin like? He's currently away on vacation down in Florida.
50:52
He's gonna come back a lobster and brother away. He's glows in the dark.
50:59
Yeah yeah, um. Stevie is genuinely one of the most intelligent people
51:07
I've ever known. I mean, at least as far as I can tell.
51:09
The few times that I can actually look into his eyes because the glare
51:14
from the sun off his bald head is usually pretty blinding. I thought you're
51:17
gonna say the glaze over his eyes because I mean when he's stoned. Yeah,
51:23
yeah, it's um, it's it's a fight to get anything concrete out
51:28
of him. When he's focused, he's really very solid mind like a steel
51:31
trap. He's really close, closed and rusted shut steel trap. Uh.
51:43
Love that guy, genuinely, Yeah, genuinely, lots of love for Stevie
51:45
Stevies. Stevie has been the guy who's been there when like the bad ship
51:51
goes down, uh, and usually just stands in a corner, points at
51:54
it and laughs, um, namely you yeah. Uh. Stevie's very giggly.
52:04
Uh. He's well known as for his giggle. And I always thought
52:07
that the the mascot we have for our logo, like he I always pictured
52:14
him with Stevie's giggle. Yeah, yeah, absolutely absolutely, And nobody laughs
52:21
harder at Stevie's joke than Stevie does. Nobody laughs at Stevie's joke at Stevie
52:28
that's that's cold blooded. That's cold blooded. That's cold blooded. No,
52:32
he is. He is genuinely very funny. I love that little, uh
52:37
midget rap bastard. I am still kind of put out with him that he
52:44
didn't go to the to Dave's Dave Seminar because it was legitimately a really good
52:47
time. Yeah, I guess he had more important things to not do,
52:52
like like hang out with his family. He's every day to sit down and
52:57
watch TV with his family, like like you, I think every night,
53:00
uh telling him fool you half the time, both him and I are falling
53:05
asleep in front of that television. Yeah, yeah, no, you're all
53:08
very old men. I somehow I'm the only one at forty three, the
53:14
oldest of us forty two excuse me uh to be staying up until two in
53:19
the morning playing Super Metroid and Legend of Zelda Like I'm eight years old,
53:23
dude saying after midnight kills me now, Like it's just it's horrid. I
53:29
don't know how I used to do it. Yeah, yeah, I don't
53:34
know. Uh. See, Sebe deserves a lot of credit, he really
53:39
does. We're ribbing on him, um, but it's only because we love
53:43
him. Um and like this this podcast is mostly him. Um, so
53:50
like it's at least one third, yeah, at least one third, Yeah,
53:53
a good portion. I got a good port. At least a quarters
53:57
him, maybe a fifth. No, no, no, now I'm denegrating
54:02
his contribution to our podcast. That's not fair. Okay. He's the one
54:07
that's editing this, so this may never you may never hear this. It's
54:12
this may never come out in the edit. So he'll cut and paste whatever
54:15
he wants. I'm sure he's gonna find a way to make him say Stevie's
54:20
a great guy and just cut it off. There. That's all he should
54:23
do. That's that's all. It's all you here is us going, here's
54:27
our hostess, TeV I mean, is a great Give them man enough time
54:30
and feed him enough words. He'll just make his own sentences for you.
54:34
I'm sure. Oh Stevie, you are so white and so huge from the
54:42
waist down. Um no, man, uh no, I'm not gonna go
54:50
there. I had, I had, I sh that I was going literally
54:53
was I literally went no, not going there. It evolved coming on someone's
54:59
face because that's our mine was going. No. No, actually, I'm
55:02
surprised. Goods outward. That's usually where Steve coats. Yeah, my mine
55:07
involved the time he tried to get a blow job right in front of me.
55:12
Uh why am I not surprised? Not from me, mind you in
55:17
front of me. So that's that's surprising. Yeah, thanks, thanks a
55:22
lot. I give premium blow jobs, goddamn it. Uh well, premium,
55:30
premium, high quality, artisan blow jobs. No, keep it all
55:40
in keep. You got to keep all of it absolutely, keep pucket.
55:49
This is what happens when dry here. This is what happens when you are
55:52
here. That is delightful. That is I I don't care. This is
55:57
a great episode. I've had a great time. Has been productive, it's
56:00
been productive. We had a lot of fun. We made fun of Stevie
56:04
for five minutes straight. Not here to defend himself, so we don't have
56:08
to listen to his whiny bullshit. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. We'll have
56:15
to listen to his whiney bullshit when he gets to come back eventually. Yeah,
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oh man, he's one fifth the podcast, after all, he's one
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fifth. What a great callback, What a great callback. Props, props,
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Soggie, We're not going to top that. So that's it. Good
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night. I hope you've enjoyed us moving on, Stevie fun it's straight to
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enjoyed this casual episode, completely off the rails but thoroughly enjoyable episode. I've
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had a great time. I hope you have as well. Augie, oh
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absolutely, Uh and Stevie will return for the next episode episode one fifty eight
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or one fifty nine, because I can't. I couldn't even be bothered during
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the break to go look it up. We may or may not depending on
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how we show about the episode. Yeah, we may no longer be a
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part of the show anymore. Might just take control of be like you guys
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suck. It's like I'll show dick God all right. Well. Uh.
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You can follow the show at b fy TW podcast. You can follow me
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at pancels Aaron. You can follow Augie at Aggie's er. UH. You
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can send the show emails at bfy TW podcast at to gmail dot com.
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Uh. You can also go to our website as I mentioned earlier, by
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friends are doing. We also have a Patreon. If for any reason you
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specifically for our patreons, all sorts of fun uh and of course a big
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thank you to our patreons, all of them. H Mexican Rass, Ferry
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Tallyman, Todd Bridget from Long Island. I can't see the list of from
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here to get the list closer to our faces, Yeah, the list closer
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to our faces would be ideal. Here's the full list. Let's try that
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again. It's TV. You can edit this out or you can leave it
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in. I don't give a fuck our patrons. Mexican Raspberry, Flaos,
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Thank you so much. It is appreciated. Uh, and we adore
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the crap out of all of you. Thank you so much, all right,
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and that I believe is going to be it from us. Why Aggie,
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because Stevie, that's why nice. Holy shit, Yeah, Steve's goind
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of you life fuck one fifth one thick