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Tech Talk with JD For February 18th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, look who's back. I found it, Jonathan. What were
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  Speaker 1: you looking for you guys? Yeah, well it's been a
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  Speaker 1: couple of months. We've been here the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: I thought you quit or something.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I'm I was just busy in cookie land
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  Speaker 3: for a couple of months.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm back now. The cookies are baked and fresh,
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  Speaker 4: and okay, talk about video games.
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  Speaker 1: So your cookies are fresh, let's talk about Yeah, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about video games.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, easy segue right there.
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  Speaker 3: What do we got so the last two months I
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  Speaker 3: haven't been here, You guys haven't missed much. If you
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  Speaker 3: were like, it's a good time for you to be
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  Speaker 3: going exactly, you're like, I don't know what games to
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  Speaker 3: buy because Jad wasn't here.
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  Speaker 4: Don't worry.
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  Speaker 3: There was nothing by Okay, good, but this month now
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  Speaker 3: there's a few things, so we'll go over those. First
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  Speaker 3: one that's actually been getting some acclaim is called Kingdom
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  Speaker 3: Come Deliverance to This is a historical like action game.
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  Speaker 3: It's set in fifteenth century. I think it's a Holy
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  Speaker 3: Roman empire, and it's this big open world and it's
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  Speaker 3: obviously because it's historical, it's very realistic. There's not gonna
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  Speaker 3: be any drags are magic. Sure, it's breathakingly beautiful, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: very pretty. Yeah, It's just it just looks like if
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  Speaker 3: you do were just dropped into the Middle Ages with
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  Speaker 3: a sword and you're a sassy night in the last game,
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  Speaker 3: I believe you were like a blacksmith and those guys
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  Speaker 3: just throw.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of yeah, that's what I was
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  Speaker 4: gonna say. It's kind of got a maddy python field.
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  Speaker 3: That trailer I shared with you guys is only thirty
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  Speaker 3: seconds because all the other ones had a few uh
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  Speaker 3: F words in it. But yeah, but that was those
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  Speaker 3: other trailers were really they kind of showed off the
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  Speaker 3: humor of the game, which is fun. So it's it's
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  Speaker 3: the it's not just like a super serious historic kingdom,
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  Speaker 3: come deliverance to It's on. It's out now on Xbox,
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  Speaker 3: PC and PlayStation. The next one is Civilization seven. We're
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  Speaker 3: doing historical So if you guys have heard of the
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  Speaker 3: the SIVs series of games is Sid Myers and Sid Meyer,
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  Speaker 3: the guy behind uh like sim City and.
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  Speaker 4: The sims and all that stuff. Uh uh so he's done.
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  Speaker 3: So this is Civilization seventh and the latest installment uh
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  Speaker 3: in the series. This is called four X, which is
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  Speaker 3: if you think about you kind of got like a
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  Speaker 3: top down view of a of a big map, and
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  Speaker 3: you're expanding out into the map. You're exploring, and you
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  Speaker 3: are finding resources and exploiting them, and then you're the
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  Speaker 3: third fourth X is exterminating all of your enemies. You
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  Speaker 3: basically take a civilization from like settlers walking around.
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  Speaker 4: In rags to like more sophisticated.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so it takes you, know, you through you
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  Speaker 3: go through like your the basical the basic historical ages
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  Speaker 3: as you're you're leveling up your civilization and fighting other people.
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  Speaker 3: It's turn based, so it's kind of a slow thing.
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  Speaker 3: So you decide what place you're going to do. Yes, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you can put in a lot of hours for this
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  Speaker 3: just for one game. You know, you come back to
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  Speaker 3: the same game like eight times over the course of
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  Speaker 3: months sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And you it's narrated by brand of Tarts, which is
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  Speaker 3: kind of cool from Game of Thrones. Yeah, Gwendolyn Christie. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so it it's I mean, this is fantastic. This game
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  Speaker 3: is the last one came out like five years ago.
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  Speaker 3: People played it to death. The newest one it just
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  Speaker 3: looks better it's got it's got a few things that
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  Speaker 3: people were complaining about, but I'm sure they will clean
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  Speaker 3: those up over the course of the last next few months.
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  Speaker 3: But Sieve seven is out now. It's on everything. You
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  Speaker 3: want to play this on your switch, you want to
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  Speaker 3: play this on your PC. It's everywhere for my Xbox too. Yeah, okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty fun. Like I said, it's a little slower
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  Speaker 3: paced because it's turn based, so it's it's more strategic
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  Speaker 3: and tactical.
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  Speaker 4: It'll feel more like a tabletop game. You have to have.
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  Speaker 1: Friends to play it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, oh you played alone?
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  Speaker 3: No, this and then another one you can play alone
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  Speaker 3: is avowed. This is gonna feel very familiar to anyone
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  Speaker 3: who's played and seen Skyrim. This is the studio behind
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  Speaker 3: this is called Oblivion and they uh, Obsidian, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: And they made fall Out New Vegas for example, Outer
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  Speaker 3: World World, so they're they're in that kind of similar
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  Speaker 3: first persons realm at Skyrim and this is a new
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  Speaker 3: fantasy world. Well it's not a new one that we're used.
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  Speaker 3: They're using it from a previous game of theirs. But
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  Speaker 3: there's this mysterious plague that's messing everyone up. And they
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  Speaker 3: keep throwing mushrooms on them. Yeah, and lots of lots
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  Speaker 3: of grody mushrooms.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You get you get magical abilities and weapons, and you
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  Speaker 3: can kind of combo those. You can freeze someone and
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  Speaker 3: then hit them with a mace and they explode that
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  Speaker 3: type of thing.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: It's out now. It's out today actually on Xbox and PC.
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  Speaker 3: It's been getting some pretty awesome reviews. You're just looking
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  Speaker 3: for a single player fantasy action game, about is definitely
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  Speaker 3: worth checking out. It's free on game Pass if you
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  Speaker 3: have Xbox Game Pass. If only like fifteen bucks a month.
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  Speaker 2: Oh there you go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you just drop fifteen bucks to play it
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  Speaker 3: for a month. Cancil your membership. It's pretty good, avowed,
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  Speaker 3: all right, So switching modes. I've got two cool things
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  Speaker 3: from the internet for us this week. The first one
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  Speaker 3: is called city Walkie. I've shared something simil to this
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  Speaker 3: with you guys before, where I believe you were kind
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  Speaker 3: of just driving through a city.
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  Speaker 4: I like the things.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so this is this takes it up a notch.
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  Speaker 3: You can walk, drive, or fly through a number of cities.
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  Speaker 3: You're a drone, yeah exactly. So it's kind of a
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  Speaker 3: drone feel like you're just like kind of flying through
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  Speaker 3: the city. I mean it kind of feels like you're
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  Speaker 3: in a helicopter a bit.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just walking through Munich right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, isn't it nice? And you can just you can
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  Speaker 4: just put.
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  Speaker 1: People are waving at me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, is your I mean your friendly chap and you're
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  Speaker 4: just you're just on the walk about.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to Dublin.
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  Speaker 4: You want to just get a kind of a vibe
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  Speaker 4: for a city and you can pick what street you
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  Speaker 4: want to go down. M hmm. Yeah. It's fairly robust.
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  Speaker 3: And the website itself is awesome, like it's it's well designed,
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  Speaker 3: it's really cool. So it's city walky w a l
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  Speaker 3: k I so CityWalk with an i dot com.
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  Speaker 2: This is an extreme time waster. Yeah, I mean I
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  Speaker 2: could get lost in this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And you put it on in the background and you
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  Speaker 3: do something else and you look up.
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  Speaker 2: You look up and you're in a beautiful Europeans.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly, and you can switch to driving or flying or
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  Speaker 3: you know, you walk around a lot and then you
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  Speaker 3: switch and.
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  Speaker 2: Their kids see socialism. Yeah, oh is it frightening.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like whoever you know, they they I think
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  Speaker 3: they pulled h not to you know, spoil the magic
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  Speaker 3: of it. I think if they pulled a lot of
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  Speaker 3: these from YouTube where people do these kind of walk
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  Speaker 3: about videos, Okay, and so then they've they've geolocated them
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  Speaker 3: to where they are.
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  Speaker 2: So they're different. It's not the same.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly. It's not just like one dude with a camera
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  Speaker 4: back and.
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  Speaker 2: You can put it on random so it picks a city.
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  Speaker 4: Huh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if you've got an extra monitor, this is a
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  Speaker 3: good thing to throw up on an extra monitor and
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  Speaker 3: just let it go as you walk through.
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  Speaker 4: And you have to pay for this, I assume no,
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  Speaker 4: I'm right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, citywalky dot com. You just go hang out. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: And let's do the last one.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So here's the last one. I heard.
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  Speaker 3: Elon Musk is perpetually in the news for an idiot crap,
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  Speaker 3: and one of the things that he's most famous for
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  Speaker 3: is how ridiculously wealthy he is. Well, will you hear
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  Speaker 3: ten billion, undred billion dollars? It's a little hard to
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  Speaker 3: visualize that. Well, this website, it's spend Dash Elon Dashfortune
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  Speaker 3: dot Com lets you just try to spend all his money.
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  Speaker 4: It's harder than you think it really is.
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  Speaker 3: So it starts out with like a Nintendo switch and
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  Speaker 3: you can just keep hitting by and obviously it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: take you two hundred years to get there, but then
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  Speaker 3: you can get all if he's crumbled down, some Starbucks.
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  Speaker 2: I need Starbucks coffees.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Is world hunger on here?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? Well, I mean kind of.
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  Speaker 3: There's things like you could buy every team in the
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  Speaker 3: NFL and the NBA for how much and you still
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  Speaker 3: have left over.
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  Speaker 4: Like that's what I was doing.
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  Speaker 3: I was just kept buying NBA teams and watching that
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't I wasn't even up to like thirty percent
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  Speaker 3: of his wealth. You could give five thousand people ten
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars over and over and over again. It doesn't
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  Speaker 3: even calculate, like it's not even like a single percentage point.
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  Speaker 2: So he could be doing those things. He could be
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  Speaker 2: doing good things.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So at first I was like, oh, you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: just like a car. It's like, oh, you can buy
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  Speaker 3: a thousand Bugattis. But no, as you get down you
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  Speaker 3: see the real, real expensive items.
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  Speaker 1: I just produced thirty movies, each movie with a nine
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  Speaker 1: hundred or a ninety million dollar budget, yeah, I produced
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  Speaker 1: thirty movies. I spent zero point seven six two percent.
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  Speaker 2: See Tony Stark created the Avengers to protect the earth.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, phony start.
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  Speaker 3: However, is is hoarding? Just hoarding it? So spend dash
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  Speaker 3: elon dash Fortune dot com. See if you can do it.
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  Speaker 4: I got tired before I spent all going to play. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna play either.
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  Speaker 2: He just like a wagon. I'm gonna go walk through
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  Speaker 2: a socialist city.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, wait, I'm walking through Jakarta and some grumpy old
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  Speaker 1: man is talking to me.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, how dare you switch cities? Got a hop plane?
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  Speaker 2: Does that city walk work on VR?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I think it does.
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  Speaker 2: I want to say if it does, that would be awesome.
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  Speaker 4: I want to say it all you try it and
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  Speaker 4: let us know. Yeah, give it all right.
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  Speaker 1: Jonathan Diezing the host of the three Big Gamer show.
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  Speaker 1: There You're still doing it? Yes, every Tuesday, yep, new episode.
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  Speaker 1: This week we did play the game called Switcheroo. You
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  Speaker 1: have to tune in and see what that is. All right,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you?
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  Speaker 4: Thanks s