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106. Gurl get it! (Bibliomania) · The Book-Watchers

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  Speaker 3: Anyway, what's good? What are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: H big so a blowout. I don't know what.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what are we doing today? Who am I?
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  Speaker 1: Who Am I? Is my show? I mean yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: kind of.
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  Speaker 3: Partially around you, like what what book were doing?
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? Oh, oh, we're doing the Bible? The Bible the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: No we're doing No, we're.
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  Speaker 3: Doing something unholy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's not on holy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I guess how you look at it. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it could be.
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  Speaker 4: On hold psychology. We're doing another psychological horror today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for the for the Halloween season. And today I
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  Speaker 2: am gonna be talking about the of course, in the
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  Speaker 2: fashion of me, it's not gonna be necessarily a book
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  Speaker 2: this time around.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I am gonna be talking about a book
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  Speaker 1: later on this month.
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  Speaker 2: But today I'm gonna be talking about a manga that
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  Speaker 2: I found when I was doing my digging on some
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  Speaker 2: good short horror manga and I'm like, what's a good
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  Speaker 2: ship out here? It's very short, like one volume, and
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  Speaker 2: I found one called Bibliomania, and I'm like, oh, this
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  Speaker 2: is interesting. Let me take any hair. So Bibliomania is
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  Speaker 2: written by Orvelle and the art was by a Chiro.
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  Speaker 3: Machiro story by uh or.
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  Speaker 4: So I think like, yeah, so, I think like in
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  Speaker 4: Japanese it's like pronounced but in English like Orville Oral.
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  Speaker 3: And then of course the artist is Machiro.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So Bibliomania is of course a one shop manga that's
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  Speaker 2: around three hundred and thirty pages, or on the digital
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  Speaker 2: version that I have, it's like two hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 2: eight pages. It is a if. It mixes dark fantasy,
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  Speaker 2: sci fi fiction and paranormal. Not by paranormal, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: it psychological horror. And it's a very it's a book
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  Speaker 2: that's very surreal and dream like because it doesn't take
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  Speaker 2: place in the mortal majority of the time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it has elements of like nightmare elements surrealism, and
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  Speaker 4: also strong body horror.
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  Speaker 3: So of course we know your body horror.
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  Speaker 1: I knew, I knew.
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  Speaker 2: So the book starts off with a quote. The quote says,
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  Speaker 2: I have other sheep too that are not in this sheepful.
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  Speaker 2: I must bring them. Also they will listen to my voice,
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  Speaker 2: and there will be one flock with one shepherd John
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  Speaker 2: ten sixteen reading the Bible verses, it folks up my
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  Speaker 2: dyslexiac So i'body this doesn't sound right. Is this just?
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  Speaker 4: Is this me?
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  Speaker 2: Or this just doesn't sound right?
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  Speaker 1: It's it's because the way the Bible verses are written.
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  Speaker 2: So the book starts with a Bible verse, and then
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  Speaker 2: of course it starts off with a city that has
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  Speaker 2: this large egg like object in a center and then
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  Speaker 2: lightning strikes it and it opens, its blasted open, and
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  Speaker 2: something comes out of it. And the people are surrounding
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  Speaker 2: this egg like structure and something comes out of it,
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  Speaker 2: and you see this thing shadowing people, towering over people,
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  Speaker 2: and you see a child look at it and say.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, a snake. And then we jump to people running
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  Speaker 1: for their lives.
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  Speaker 3: A knife, No, no.
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  Speaker 1: Go away, Johnny, I'm working.
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  Speaker 2: I love you, I love you. I'm working. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: we jumped to after oh a snake, we jumped to
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  Speaker 2: three men running for their lives talking about how this
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  Speaker 2: thing ate everybody. The structure was surrounded by a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of people and all got eaten. And these three men
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  Speaker 2: come across this weird obviously, this very large creature looking
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  Speaker 2: at them, and they all start dying. And then we
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  Speaker 2: then to of course eating the people, destroying the city.
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  Speaker 2: It's chaos, discord. The end of the world. Oh my God,
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  Speaker 2: and then title screen Bibliomania, and the way that bibli
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  Speaker 2: Omania is shown in the book, as far as the
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  Speaker 2: child screen goes, it makes it look like very aztechy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, it's weird because I'm like, is this
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  Speaker 2: gonna be as tech or am I just trip it?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, I don't know. If that's I'll send
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  Speaker 2: the pitch. I'll send a screenshot to it you to
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  Speaker 2: to you later think about it, am I. It's give me
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  Speaker 2: aztec vibes for some reason. That might just be me,
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  Speaker 2: but it jumps to a young girl in a white room.
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  Speaker 2: She wakes up in this white room and she's like
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  Speaker 2: what And the white room has on her sorry, on
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  Speaker 2: her back of her hand, she has number four three one,
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  Speaker 2: and she sees in this white room, it's just her
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  Speaker 2: and this door says four thirty on it, and this
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  Speaker 2: door is very innate, and it's cart lock harvings in it,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of weird horror scary. It's a creepy looking door.
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  Speaker 2: And on the door handle there's a close up of
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  Speaker 2: the door handle with a snake on it with a crown.
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  Speaker 2: And she goes to open the door and this serpent
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  Speaker 2: pops up behind her and introduces himself as I mean,
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  Speaker 2: his name is Serpent. He's like, oh my god, you're
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  Speaker 2: my four hundred and thirty first guest. Yay, you're in
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  Speaker 2: my manner. You're in room for thirty one. Baby, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna party. As long as you stay in this room,
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  Speaker 2: you can wish for anything. You can wish for anything.
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  Speaker 2: All yeah to Doude, just stay in this room. And
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  Speaker 2: then once we hit six one hundred and sixty six,
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  Speaker 2: once all the rooms are complete, six hundred and sixty six,
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  Speaker 2: we'll have a bag quit a party.
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  Speaker 5: Whoo whoo.
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  Speaker 2: And the girl introduces herself as Alice, and she's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's cool.
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  Speaker 1: That's cool, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, in the meantime, she's in the room
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  Speaker 2: and she's like, oh, she could wish for anything and
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  Speaker 2: it all come true, and she's like, I'm hungry. And
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  Speaker 2: then a bunch of desserts appear in the room, and
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  Speaker 2: the Serpent's like, yeah, so whatever you wish for in
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  Speaker 2: this room will come true, and you just live your
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  Speaker 2: best life here in this room. And then we jump
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  Speaker 2: back five days before Alice enters the man Now, in
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  Speaker 2: this book, we are in this manga, we are go
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  Speaker 2: kind of back and forth between Alice before she enters
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  Speaker 2: the Manor and then Alice while she's in the man
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  Speaker 2: So five days before Alice enters the Manor, she's walking
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  Speaker 2: around to the destroyed city and looking for the looking
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  Speaker 2: for something. She's sniffing around trying to smell for something,
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  Speaker 2: and she is walking around this city heading to go
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  Speaker 2: look for something. You're like, what is she looking for?
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  Speaker 2: So then we jump back to room for thirty one,
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  Speaker 2: and then she's like, I'm gonna leave, and it s her.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, no, no, no, you don't want to leave,
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  Speaker 2: because if you try to leave, you're gonna go through
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  Speaker 2: four hundred and thirty rooms to get to room zero
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  Speaker 2: zero zero, and that you'll leave, you'll leave the mannor
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  Speaker 2: go back to reality. But on your journey there, you'll
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  Speaker 2: be rotting. Your body will rot as you continue on
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  Speaker 2: through the other rooms, because each room has a door
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  Speaker 2: to the to the number before it, and the goal
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  Speaker 2: is to She wants to get out, so the goal
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  Speaker 2: is to get to room zero zero zero and he's like,
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  Speaker 2: if you do that, you're gonna die. You're gonna rot
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  Speaker 2: and die, and she's like, no big deal. So she
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  Speaker 2: goes into room for thirty, or she takes her first
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  Speaker 2: step into room four thirty and she notices her hand
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  Speaker 2: starts melting into like this weird eldridge monster like tendril,
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  Speaker 2: and she's like oh, and she comes back into the
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  Speaker 2: room and it heals back. It's like, oh, that's weird.
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  Speaker 2: And then she starts, yeah, basically, fuck up her body.
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  Speaker 1: You get the rooms.
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  Speaker 2: He so she then says, fuck it, let's go. So
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  Speaker 2: Alice goes. Now, Alice is a little girl, probably imagine
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  Speaker 2: if you will, a girl probably about ten maybe eleven,
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  Speaker 2: big old bow bowl cut, wearing a nice little cute
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  Speaker 2: black dress. She's a little girl and she's like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going on a journey, and she starts going through the
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  Speaker 2: different rooms and she starts seeing the other people that
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  Speaker 2: occupy these rooms and what they wish for. First guy
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  Speaker 2: in room four thirty was a man who is punishing
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  Speaker 2: himself over and over again for his sins. Literally, it's
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  Speaker 2: a room full of him being judged and it's head
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  Speaker 2: decapitated or his sins that he commits. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: he wished for his own self, punishment for all his
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  Speaker 2: sins that he committed in the real world, and you're
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  Speaker 2: just like, okay, you kind of thought it's something kinky,
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  Speaker 2: and that's not because it gets beheaded out each time
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  Speaker 2: and then it replay and then basically he relives it
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  Speaker 2: again and again and again self torment, and I'm just like,
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  Speaker 2: that's okay. Then we jumped to room four thirteen, and
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  Speaker 2: a woman wished to become a bird to be free.
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  Speaker 2: So now when she entered when Alice entered this room,
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  Speaker 2: she lands on this bird that has the face of
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  Speaker 2: a human woman and just flying around two sets of wings,
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  Speaker 2: flying around these different planes, and she wished for this
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  Speaker 2: to be free. And as she's entering these rooms, the
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  Speaker 2: serpent pops up plains to her what the person wished
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  Speaker 2: for what? And you kind of get an idea of
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  Speaker 2: Scapism is a big theme plot point in this book,
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  Speaker 2: because the Serpent's like, why would you want to leave?
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  Speaker 2: You can just live the rest of your life in
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  Speaker 2: this in this in your room and wish anything you
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  Speaker 2: want and just do whatever you want. And she's like,
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  Speaker 2: but the outside world though, but that's not life though,
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  Speaker 2: So she wants to get out and live life. So
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  Speaker 2: then we jump to three eighty five then we come
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  Speaker 2: to a otaku or in cell type of guy who
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  Speaker 2: wished to become a superhero, so he became like a
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  Speaker 2: basically like a whole like Japanese Power Ranger Marvel character,
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  Speaker 2: and he went and basically because he wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: the hero and you want to be the cool guy
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  Speaker 2: and get all the lady.
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  Speaker 3: So is that what? Uh? Is that? What an otaku
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  Speaker 3: is is like a.
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  Speaker 1: Tako, I would say a jab.
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  Speaker 2: I would say an takoo is a Japanese equivalent equivalent
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  Speaker 2: of an in cel.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't either are related.
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  Speaker 4: I would because I've seen otako used to refer to
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  Speaker 4: people who are very like into like who are fanatics
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  Speaker 4: kind of like yes, who are very into like certain
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  Speaker 4: things like I mean like I'm into Godzilla, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: not an insult like.
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  Speaker 2: No, okay, So well, taku outside the outside the country
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  Speaker 2: of Japan, we use that as like, oh, someone who
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  Speaker 2: loves anime. It's not it's not a derogatory term. But
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  Speaker 2: in Japan, and they see that as a negative because
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  Speaker 2: the people that they call takus are usually the shut ins.
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  Speaker 2: People do not leave the house, usually men, and they
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  Speaker 2: do nothing but watch anime. Read manga, and they idolize
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  Speaker 2: the anime female anime characters and ship. They're kind of
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  Speaker 2: the equivalent to an in cel and.
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  Speaker 4: So okay, because, like you were saying, like that reallyves
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  Speaker 4: the house is very into anime and manga in comics,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm just like it's because, like I I work
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  Speaker 4: from home now, so I don't I rarely ever leave
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  Speaker 4: the house.
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  Speaker 3: But like at the same time, I'm not a shut in,
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  Speaker 3: Like I'm always.
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  Speaker 4: Like yeaheah from you, interacts with my boyfriend and like
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  Speaker 4: going out to see him.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not I mean, if I was going to
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  Speaker 2: insult people, I'll be doing the same thing myself because
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  Speaker 2: I literally have a whole shelves full of manga and
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  Speaker 2: Marvel comics.
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  Speaker 4: Every Yeah see, you guys are only seeing you guys
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  Speaker 4: are only seeing my bookshelf right here. This is just
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  Speaker 4: like one little corner in my room, like behind my
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  Speaker 4: camera's like, oh my Godzilla pop figures.
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  Speaker 2: It's everywhere, It's everywhere. They see everything this poor guys,
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  Speaker 2: it's poor figures. You see so much mm hmm uh yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So insel Otaku type shut in once become a superhero,
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  Speaker 2: had the perfect physique once all the ladies wants.
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  Speaker 1: To be cool and liked by people.
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  Speaker 2: And by this point, her arm all the way up
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  Speaker 2: to her shoulder is been getting rotted and it looks
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  Speaker 2: like it's very plant like ten drils are popping up
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  Speaker 2: and her body's working into a mons what looks and
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  Speaker 2: then we cut back to more of the city scenes
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  Speaker 2: of Alice walking around the landscape of this broken world
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  Speaker 2: and she finds his book covered in chains and she's
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  Speaker 2: like oh, and then she sniffs it and she's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it smells like my little brother. And you're just like what, Like, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Like wait what?
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  Speaker 2: First of all, like yeah, man, it's like this book
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  Speaker 2: smells like my little brother.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it home.
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  Speaker 2: And then she turns around and walks right back home
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  Speaker 2: through that same landscape, and then we jump to more rooms.
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  Speaker 1: Three Room three.
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  Speaker 2: Six six, it's a room with somebody that loves to smoke,
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  Speaker 2: because smoke is surrounding everywhere, and this person has like
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  Speaker 2: three or four different types of cigarettes and bead and whatnot,
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  Speaker 2: and there's are smoking it. And then you jump to
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  Speaker 2: room three thirty nine. It has a room that a
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  Speaker 2: person became a tree. He lives in the woods with animals,
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  Speaker 2: so she's talking to a tree person like straight out
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  Speaker 2: Lord of the Rings. And then Room three point fifty
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  Speaker 2: nine is a room full of music and instrument that's it.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course you jump over to room three thirty.
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  Speaker 2: It's full of nude bodies, naked women based apparently somebody
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  Speaker 2: wished for a lot of sex, and you're just like what,
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  Speaker 2: and she's just and Alice is looking at these bodies.
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  Speaker 2: She's like, eugh, lude and I'm like, work queen, work
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  Speaker 2: at queen. So that's three point thirty three twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: She meets an ASTROI in space that tells her don't
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  Speaker 2: you want to smell the universe? And he takes off
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  Speaker 2: his helmet in space and you're like what, that's weird,
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  Speaker 2: kind of creepy. And then three twelve is a room
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  Speaker 2: full of TVs with different shows and different media playing
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  Speaker 2: big old universal TVs and television. Then we go to
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  Speaker 2: three oh six and it's a casino. June ninety eight
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  Speaker 2: is a room that has a big baby that plays
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  Speaker 2: that's playing with toys, a literal huge child joining worm's
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  Speaker 2: child playing with toys, robots and whatnot. Then we go
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  Speaker 2: back to the outside, back to day, one day before
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  Speaker 2: entry of the of the Manner, she goes back to
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  Speaker 2: her city and she, oh, that's what. Yeah, that's when
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  Speaker 2: she finds the book. She's like, smells like a little
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  Speaker 2: brother and goes, that's heading home. Then we go back
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  Speaker 2: to room two eighty five. By this point, her body
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  Speaker 2: is seriously rotting. It's becoming these ten dri old things.
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  Speaker 2: She has like a wolfhead coming out of the back
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  Speaker 2: of her head behind her hair. She's morphing into like
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  Speaker 2: some abomination like the Thing or something honestly, something James
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  Speaker 2: or I would create in worse, like a body horror scenario.
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  Speaker 2: Her body is not is unrecognizable at this point, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's gross. And she comes over to a room that
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  Speaker 2: has a man in twoenty five. That's a man who's
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  Speaker 2: having dinner with his family. And basically his backstory was
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  Speaker 2: he taught how he taught people how to logic in
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  Speaker 2: school and shit, and he would talked about how the
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  Speaker 2: perfect family, and he would come home to not a
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  Speaker 2: perfect family, but he wished for the perfect and because
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  Speaker 2: he was a piece of shit, so his wife and
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  Speaker 2: kid left him and gets really this room was really
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  Speaker 2: it hits really hard because it's emotionally driven, and he
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  Speaker 2: basically Serpent talks about how he basically was a piece
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  Speaker 2: of shit and how he lost his wife and kid,
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  Speaker 2: and he obviously in this room he wished he had
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  Speaker 2: that had them back, had the perfect family, had what
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  Speaker 2: he always wanted. So he was just reliving this dinner
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  Speaker 2: with his wife and child over over. We're living the
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  Speaker 2: same day, him going to going to school, teaching kids
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  Speaker 2: about life, and then going home to this perfect dinner
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  Speaker 2: over and over over, and you're just like, oh god,
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  Speaker 2: oh my, oh dear. And then, of course, the story
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  Speaker 2: between Alice and the Serpent is the conversation of staying
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  Speaker 2: in Staying in this room gives you everything you ever want.
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  Speaker 2: But Alice is like, you call this life, you call
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  Speaker 2: this living being in here, being a shut in, cutting
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  Speaker 2: yourself off from the real life, basically escapism, And you're like,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: are you escapism is not better than real life, being outside,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: being in the world, world, talking with people, talking with people,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: have connections with them.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: So you got the polar opposites between the.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Then ten seconds ten seconds later, Oh so then we
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: jump to Alice. Ten seconds before entry into the manor,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: she breaks the chains off of the book and You're
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: just like, how the fuck do you do that? Because
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: those chains are like heavy steal and she starts. She
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: opens a book and the page is unravel and she
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: enters the manor. So basically the manner that she's in
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: is a book. Each page is a guest, six hundred
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: and sixty six pages, and she is four thirty one
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: and she's basically traveling through this book to get out.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Two seventy six Room to seventy.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Six is a woman that asks is basically a woman
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: that looks beautiful, gorgeous, looks like like, okay, what do
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: I call it? The birth of aphroditi or birth of venus? Painting?
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Looks like she looks like.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: That, And she asks Alice why she wants to leave
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: and not things out there but pain and death in
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the real world, and Alice reply, Alice replies with what
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: about your family? Who would be sad if you were gone?
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Now trigger future devon and put this in the beginning
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: trigger warning.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: There's a there's talk about.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: Self harm, uh suicide in this book, and this it
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: gets a little heavy in some of these rooms because
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: people obviously have issues and these rooms reflect that. So
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: put that in the beginning or record or record later
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: later trigger warning and shit, do all that before you
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: post it anyway. So this woman's like, so basically air
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: alex hells it. So what about your family? Wouldn't your
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: family miss you if you were gone? And you get
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: a look into this woman's story and how she was
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: a how she thought she was a burden for her
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: family because of medical bills, and she was a very
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: sick person while live and while in the real world,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: and she always thought herself as a burden problem for.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Her friendly and if they're better off without her.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: So when she tries to uh do the deed and
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: taken care of not taking care of it, Oh my god,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: how gon not word it?
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Try to hang herself.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you would word that in on
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: triggering way, but try to hang herself. And then she
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: found the book at her feet, so she went to
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: the book. And now she lives her life in the
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: book being as beautiful as she's always wanted to be.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: And she's not being a burden to anybody because she's
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: rather begne than having to be with a burden medically
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: and just constantly hadn't be taken care of. And I'm like, Damn,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: y'all don't have to go that hard shit that was depressing.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: So that it's two eighty two seventy six, and then
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: we go to to sixty eight and has a room
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: full of paper. Now this room was a guy who
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: tried to escape, but basically when he got to he
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: try to get to zero zero zero, he basically unraveled
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: in two like scrolls paper. So his room's full of
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: this scroll like paper, and it's the guests. He just
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: unraveled at the seams basically when he tried to get
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: out of the manner or the book. Two fifty five, oh,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: and be course, by this point she's rotted Alice is
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: rotted gooded, and she's becoming like this weird monster like
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: grimlin looking thing as she's crawling through and then two
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: fifty five comes as she comes across a man who
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: heals her. So in this room in two fifty five,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: there's a scientist and he does experiments, I guess because
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: he knows about the poison or the rodding, so he
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: basically rigs it where she's not writing anymore as long
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: as she's in that in this little glass ball that
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: she's in. But she's like, oh, thanks, but I'm gonna
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: keep going. But she keeps going, and when she she
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: also learns about the book too, or about the manner.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: So basically, the scientist explains to her that once the
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: book eats six hundred and sixty six people, it will
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: combine the flesh and souls of them to form a
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: being with immense power. That's the party that cirparent is
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: talking and she's like, oh okay, and she just keeps going.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: And by this point you start noticing that something's off
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: with Alice. She's not really taking this seriously. She's like
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: nonchalant about it. She's like, oh, okay, no big deal.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: And he's like, what's up with this girl? This girl's weird.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: I'm like, that's got a book. It's just that's weird,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: weird one hundred percent, because I'm just like, you found
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: a book in the ocean, You're like, oh, this sounds
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: like a little brother, and then you open it. You
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: willingly go into the book knowing like, do you like girl?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: You know something that we don't Bobby. So from there
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: we jump through rooms that are basically terrifying two fifty four,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: two forty nine to thirty seven, But Alice keeps going,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: and she's going and she's rotting again, and the and
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: the serpent is like, I mean, you can go back
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: to your room and just be normal again and the
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: rotting will reverse. But like a gang go off girl,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: and she keeps going and going, and then she dies
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: in room zero nine. She falls to the ground and
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: a rotting corpse of tendrils and like plant life, it's weird.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: She goes like a moshpodge of different monsters and tendrils
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: and shit, and she dies and the serpent makes a
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: scene of her death and he's like, you see that
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: fulls you who seek to escape will only find death.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: And then, of course Alice, he starts he noticing the
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: body twitching, and he's like, what the fuck?
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: She sheds her skin.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Alice busts out of the dead corpse and she's back
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: to normal again, and her skin just sheds. She sheds
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: her skin, and you're like what the fuck. Of course,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Serpent's like, hello, who the fuck are you? How can
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: you shed your what? And then she goes zero to
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: one hundred, basically because the Serpent's like the fuck. And
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: then she starts running through super speed, running through all
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: the rooms from zero nine to nine to she reaches zero,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: and she reaches zero, and now she's running, she's rotting,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: and she's shedding her skin, sheds her skin over and
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: over and over again to get to zero zero zero.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: So when she reaches that, she sheds one last time
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: and a serpent starts freaking out on who the fuck
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: are you? How are you doing this? And then she
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: walks out, well, actually she starts telling him the story
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: and then she walks out. You're like what, And he's like,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: how the fuck did she leave? Go through four hundred
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: and thirty rooms and you're like what. So he has
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: a big old board that has all the rooms that
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: are lit up there occupied, and then four thirty one
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: dims and then four thirty one lights up, and then
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: all the other rooms get filled up to six sixty
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: six and he's like, how is this happening? So, and
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: of course the serpent is a static, Oh my god,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: we can have the party. So he starts having his banquet.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: He starts going to pay room to room, devouring every
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: eating everyone in each of the room, devouring their souls,
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: devouring their bodies. It becomes amalgamation of flesh and war,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: and he's just going through all six hundred and sixty
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: six rooms and just eating and he becomes a book
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: opens it becomes like this snake like Deity hiju like Deity,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: and he's like, ah, I'm in the real world and
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: he's like wait, and of course his goal is like
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I want to make it where no one has to
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: feel sadness and pain again. And then he looks out
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: in the world and he's like, where's everybody the fuck?
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: He's like, the fuck is everybody?
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: It's like anishable to me, just like yeah, literally, and
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: then he sees Alice on top of a building and
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: he goes older and she's like so Alison tells him
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: a story, a story of a princess who was very
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: sick and wanted to go outside but couldn't. So she
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: delved into dived into books. She read and read and
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: read and craved, and she craved knowledge like this bitch
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: was invested in knowledge. She wouldn't know every little thing.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, possible.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: And then she made plans to write a book to
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: end all books and she called her book the Book
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: of Truth. Now it changed now with this book as
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: she created, it changed her. It changed her into this
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: weird like Eldridge butterfly humanoid being that basically magic. Magic
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: got involved and she became an Eldredge deity of some
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: kind that looked like a butterfly, and then she started
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: devouring emotions and memories of people. She wanted to get
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: all the knowledge in the world, so she started devouring
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: people to do it. Emotions, memories, and you're just going
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: everything from everybody, and her book is constantly growing, and
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: they started a war. Of course, humanity took advantage of
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: this book obviously, of course, like you do, use it
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: as a weapon. And then there was a war called
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: the biblio a plastic War and war yeah, like like
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: biblio plastic. Yeah, yeah, that's the word that sounds. What's
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: what it looks like. It looks like, but it caused
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: the war, and the humans decided to seal her away
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: into this large structure that looks like an egg mm hmm.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: And then yea.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: After that, years and years and years went by and
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: people wanted to recreate that book. We're obviously a weapon,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: so they made a bunch of copies. They are less
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: they have lesser pages, and they're a little and they're
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: like lesser than the Book of Truth. But she basically,
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: but they basically made a bunch of clones or a
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: bunch of different types of these books trying to get
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: the same formula that the Book.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Of Truth had.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: And then due to another nation that bombed this island
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: nation that everything was on, all the books burned, but
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: a few, so a few of these copies survived. And
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: then one thousand, seven hundred and eighty six months later, sorry,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: one thousand, seven hundred and eighty six months, twenty four
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: days after the event of the Great War, the Book
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: of Truth was reopened. Basically, what happened was a storm
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: formed and lightning struck the egg and crashed it open,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: and what came out was Alice. Alice is a snake.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: When she comes out, she looks like a humanoids with
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: butterfly wings and butterfly aesthetics. It looks cool. She looks
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: lit and then she's yeah, and then she starts devouring people,
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: devouring humanity. She goes from one country to another, all
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: around the world, devouring people, taking their memories, emotions. Her
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: book has endless pages, and then she gets bored and
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: she's like, Oh, I'm gonna go find my other book.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: My siblings. If you will and Serpent's like no, what,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: And of course she towers over Serpent powers like this
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: bitch is huge, and Serpent's like it's a little bitty. Yeah. Yeah.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Alice is like, you're nothing, You're worthless.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: You are trash. You are a trash copy of the original. Baby,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: You're trash. So I'm gonna take all your pages. I'm
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: gonna eat you. You're the only way you're You're gonna
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: be lucky that I'm leaving record of you in my book.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna take every all your souls in flesh.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna eat it all. So he eats, so she
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: eats them.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: That bowers him, all devours all the souls that he had,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: all the pages, devours his flesh, and he becomes part
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: of her.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: And at the.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: End, after she devours him, she goes back to that
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: little girl the form of the little girl again, and
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: she's on top of a destroyed building looking out at
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: this hellscape and she's like, hmm, I have to And
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: she basically tells her brother as he's dying, I have
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: to consume the souls of man, adding more words for
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: that is happiness. Although there's probably nobody left to read
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: it as she looks out at the hellscape of the
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: end of the world and she in the book ends
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: with her just looking out at the destroyed world and
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: she's like, huh, there's no one left. That's it.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: That's the end of the book.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Like girl, girl, I was behoo. I knew something was freaky,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: but I expect her to be the monster. And I'm like, okay, girl,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: eat mama, she ate, she ate left left no crumbs.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Literally, I'm looking.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: At her right now, like, yeah.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I love it. It's great.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: And the different themes of courses in this book, of
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: course explores escapism versus reality, decay versus transformation, identity versus guilt,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: and visual art and like arts three rituals. But how
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: this woman is Princess dives in the book so hard
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: that she wants to know every little thing to the
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: point where she destroys.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: The world because of it.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Right, damn plot clap girl, this this ship, this ship busting,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: this ship busting.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Get a queen, Get a girl.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: I will say it definitely has like a very like
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: Alice in Wonderland vibe.
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: I mean it's kind of on the nose with like
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: her name. And I guess Serpent is like the White Rabbit,
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: like kind of like the White Rabbit.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: Mixed with the Red Queen and like a bunch of
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: different characters mixed together, because like you know, the Queen
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: of Hearts is supposed to be the bad guy.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Serpent ends up being the bad guy in the end.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: But then it's like, oh, plot twist, it's actually Alice
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: who's the bad guy, and Serpent is the It's just
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: the worm that's about to get eaten.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it kind of goes into also outside of just
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Alice in Wonderland, it also kind of imitates there's references
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: to the Bible and other religious texts as well. I
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: mean six six x A serpent the devil, the devil
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: or Satan, not Lucifer, because Lucifer and Satan are not
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: the same thing. But we're not going to get into
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: that because I will stand on that hill till I die.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: But even when you think you're the biggest threat, there's
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: always a threat much worse than.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: You, right right behind you on your tail.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: And it's just how it also talks about how Prince,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: how a person is so obsessed with knowledge and wanting
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: to learn everything possible that even means killing everybody because
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: she can't go outside, so she'd rather learned about the
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: outside world and eventually get outside. And that's why she's
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: so much against escapism. She's like, but real life is
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: out there because she's fondly able to enjoy the outside
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: world even though she killed everyone to do it. Basically,
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: now she's floating around a planet of nothing, and she's
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: probably just going around finding her other siblings, the lesser
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: the lesser books and just devouring them to add more
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: pages to her book.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: To herself, she is the book of truth.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I like how she like has there's symbol
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of butterfly symbolisms, like, especially with her
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: monstrous forms. In Japanese culture, butterflies symbolize the souls of
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: the living and the dead, and they also represent transformation
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: and joy, and they're seen as messengers guiding spiracy afterlife.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, they purposely chose that look.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: For her, and the Japanese have a very like there's
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: a lot of symbolism behind butter for butterflies in Japanese culture,
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: and it's just like, I wonder what that like butterfly symbolism,
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: so like, what is what a butterflies represents? Because in
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: our culture it's just like feminine, like femininity in spring,
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: but like for them, there's a little bit more.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: I mean it also represents like if you look at
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: the Western world, a lot of European cultures, they they
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: show that as like again transformation, embodiment to your true self,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: shedding the once old you and whatnot. But yeah, there's
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: this book is this book is book is good. I
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: enjoyed this. This is good, like this is some good ship.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: You want a good It's not really called ki spooky.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of body horror, that's for sure. It's
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: not necessarily scary. But if you want to tackle read
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: something that that tackles a lot of tough topics, very
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: dark topics, especially in some of these rooms, it's it's good.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: It's gets you thinking. You're just like, Damn, I was
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: at work when I finished reading this, and I was like,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: the fuck do I do now? Uh? What do we
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: read now?
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Damn?
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Beat that the fun? It was fun.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: I mean we probably can because one of the next
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: books we're going to be reviewing after this is going
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: to be You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew White.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, so I am going to try to read
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: this before the end of October. I still got two
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: other books I gotta read, but this one's pretty short,
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: so I think I could tackle it in like a
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: day or two just for y'all.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: So let me see what how many Okay, so we
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: got last week we did what do we Do? Last
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: week and part it, and then this week we did.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: Bibliomania.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: And then for October, how many Thursdays?
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: We have?
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Two more?
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: No?
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Three more, three more weeks? Three more episode?
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: I have one one.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I have one that I'm going to do, but that
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: is the book doesn't come out till till September thirtieth. Yeah,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: and I'll probably get through that very quickly because that
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: one's very short. As far as the others, I'm sure
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: it can probably another.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my friends, but what other once.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: I could read, because like I haven't read The Ruins yet,
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: because that's what we could do and The Ruins.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Like I just watched The Ruins the movie.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: It's so good.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: It like I didn't realize I forgot how short it was,
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: and I realized, like not a lot actually happened, Like
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: it was pretty short. It was pretty straightforward and short,
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: so you didn't have to like it wasn't like a
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: lot of suspense, Like as soon as they get trapped
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: on the pyramid, it's like, oh, it's like.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Huh killer flowers, am I right? Right? So it's like
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: because like I also have the ruins. It's an old
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: coffee and this one is like what.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Three hundred and nineteen pages on this book, and it's
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: pretty it looks kind of thick, but it's actually looks
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: like it's pretty short and it's larger prints.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: So like like I could get through in like a
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: less than like a few days.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: So I may end up pausing my uh streak through
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Dungeon Crawler because uh, like I'm on book six.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: Right now, Dungeon car Carl. Yeah, I'm on book three. No,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: I just sorry, I just finished book three. I just.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: Book three was good to get to the Feral Guts.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: That was probably one of my favorites.
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: I know, I definitely like the dungeon Dungeons, uh, the
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: Dungeon Crawlers, the Dungeon Anarchists Cookbook.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then there's the next one is The Gate of.
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: The Faral Gods.
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: That one was fun on The Butcher's Masquerade was lit.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: It was lit because that's.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: On floor six, and floor six is called the Hunting Grounds,
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: and that's a floor where alien hunters get to enter
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: the dungeon and hunt crawlers for sport. And it's also
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: like to help prepare for the faction wars, which happens
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: on floor nine. Because the thing is is that in
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: floor nine you have a bunch of alien factions who
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: compete and fight each other. And the thing is they
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: can't collect they themselves can't collect enchanted items or magical
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: artifacts on their own, So the Hunting Grounds is their
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: opportunity to hunt as many dungeon crawlers as possible, collect
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: as much of their gear as possible, and take it
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: to the ninth floor so they can use it.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: The thing is is that they've never met Carl, and
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: like Carl does the thing Rex have, and like since
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: like a lot of the dungeon crawlers have become more organized,
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: the hunters are gonna be in for a root awakening
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: by the time floor six starts, So you're gonna be
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: That one's gonna be fun for you to read.
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: And the one, uh, the one I'm currently on the
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: eye of the bedlam Bride. If you like cards like
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: Magic the Gathering like card games like Magic the Gathering
• 43:22
  Speaker 5: or Yu gi Oh. You might like this floor a
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: little bit better because they incorporate a card game, uh mechanic,
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: But me who straight up hates card games like that, Like,
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: I don't like Magic the Gathering very much, and I
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: absolutely despise Yu gi Oh. And if you're out, and
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: if you want to ask me why, you just think
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: of all the toxicity that goes on in that community,
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: and you know why. But and yes I am, and
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: I am blasting the Ugo community.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Because yeah, yeah, they are toxic.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: You know when I was when I was a kid,
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: the the game was a lot more simplistic and their
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: rules were not like that hard to understand the problem
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: is is that the Yugoh community became so toxic that
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: they dead asses had to start putting in more detailed
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: descriptions on car monster card effects and spells. So like
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: before you would have like a simple card effect or
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: a simple like magic or trap card effect, but now
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: like you have a whole paragraph written on the card
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: explaining exactly what the spell effect does. I'm like, so,
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: so this community became so toxic that they dead ass
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: had to like put in like literally had to spell
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: out the details of every card effect. And then also
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: the ban lists on uh and Yugyo is so long
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: that most of the cards you can't even use, like
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: tournament wise, tournament wise, and like me, I'm not a
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: tournament kind of guy, Like, I just want to play.
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: I just want to play a game for fun. That's
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: what games are supposed to be for. I don't want compete.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: But you know, everyone, most people want to make tournament
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: legal car like decks or decks that are meant to
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: be used in tournaments. And I'm like, I'm a filthy casual,
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: all right. This shit ain't fun for a filthy casual,
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: all right, And I own that title. I'm a filthy casual.
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: I play games for fun, not for competition, all right.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: But everybody else wants to play for competition and rarely
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: want to play for fun. So I'm all like, okay, welcome,
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: be a filthy casual in my in my corner over here,
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: and you guys can like just kill yourselves over this,
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: like over the stupid card game.
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: So I'm reading like books, I'm reading.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: The I The Bedlin Bride right now, and I'm just like,
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: oh my god, can this floor be Like, couldn't couldn't
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: have Prepotente the goat Prepotente. Couldn't he have like broken
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: this floor instead of floor seven? Floor seven? Should have
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: like they should have just done floor seven and broken
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: floor eight instead, because God, I don't like it. Like
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: as I'm starting to read it and I'm realizing, like, oh,
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: they're gonna be doing card games now, Like I immediately
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: lost interest like the rest of this series, right, Golden
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: Right loved everything. I like eight through these books in
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: like a month, right, and then I get to book six,
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: and now I'm like it's been two weeks since I started,
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: and I'm dragging through it because I absolutely hate the
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: card game system, and I'm like, can we skip this?
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: Can we skip this? Like now that's getting closer to
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: the end. It's the pace is I'm getting closer to
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: the end. The pace is picking up, and I'll be
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: able to like get through it because like now, like
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: even the car, even the players, the crawlers are all realizing,
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: like this game is this card system that they created
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: is stupid because they're making the mobs.
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: They're making the mobs like play to like use cards
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: and totems two.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: And in some cases, the mobs will end up like
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: try eating their own cards, or they won't even use
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: their own cards and try to like attack crawlers directly,
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: and how the car the crawlers can attack the other
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: players too, while like the game is in play, like
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: the card game is in play, so it's just like
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: most crawlers end up nerving their the opponent that they're
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: supposed to be dueling against with the cards, and it's
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: just like okay, game over. So like so like a
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: lot of the crawlers are like, yeah, this is the
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: system's broken. Like there's really no point in using these
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: cards unless like the game.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: Forces you to use them.
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: Because if you're in a squad, the squad leader has
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: to be the one to play the cards, and in
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: this case, Donuts the squad leader because she has the
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: highest stats, so she's the one who has to use
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: the cards while Carl is over here like having to
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: like take care of business. So it's like, Okay, finally
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: we're getting somewhere. And like when I started, really when
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: they started doing that, that's when I'm starting to Now
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: I'm starting to pick up speed in the book because
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: I'm like, oh, yes, that's that's exactly what you need
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: to do with card players like that.
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: You just got to punch them in the fucking face. Ah,
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: that's what you gotta do.
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: M It's like, screw these screw these little pieces of cardboard.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: Just punch him in the face.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: The cardboards. Fun play bad.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: The gathering occasionally, but yeah, your friends not to go
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: hamming it.
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: I know, like you guys got him into it. I'm
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: a little pissed about that.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, not you too, because of Avatar, I know, but.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm o where you're.
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: Just like, damn nerds, a bunch of nerds.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: That's the man who's also a nerd.
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, who's also a nerd who has a whole shell
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: full of.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: Like within the past two years alone.
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: My my pop collection has like has increased by like
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: two hundred because, like a right, for the longest time,
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: I only had one Godzilla Pop and then I bought
• 49:03
  Speaker 4: that Mecca Godzilla pop figure, and then you got me
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: that Mathra Pop figure, and then I bought the other
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: Godzilla Pop figure in that set, the black Light set,
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: and then and then and then now I have like
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: over a thirty vone I think on one, two, three,
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: four or five, six, then, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen,
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: twenty three, six.
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: Twenty, I have twenty eight.
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: And that's not counting the youtubes that I have, or
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: that the poster set that I have with Mathra and Godzilla,
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: but with those like Mathra Godzilla, that's five extra. So
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: that's thirty three pop figures I have. And that's including
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: the youtubes and the yeah more coming out, like I'm
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: getting like coming out, Like I'm probably not gonna get
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: the new Shin Guns Amazon exclusive because Amazon, like they
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: screwed up my pre order, Yeah, because they tried charging
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: it to a card. I didn't want them to charge
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: it too, and I had to cancel it and repre
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: order it. But I guess when I did that, I
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: lost my spot and it got it was given to
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: somebody else, and now they're completely sold out. So I'm like,
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: I guess I'm not getting that Shin Guns a lot.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, I already have one Shin Guns altt, but
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: you know that other one was the one where he's
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: like in his atomic breath sequence and then destroy is
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: still coming out, and like I think Destroyer is already
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: available on the pop website, the Funko website, but like
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: Amazon hasn't released their as yet, and I pre ordered
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: them on Amazon, and I'm thinking of just canceling that
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: and just ordering them off the Funko site because it's
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: taking forever. But I gotta wait. I think I'm gonna
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: wait because I get free shipping with Amazon. That's that's
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: my thing. I get free shipping with Amazon, and now
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: and now and now and now. There's like five other
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: pop figures coming out, like those three Sleeping Gods. Of
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: those three sleeping pop figures like Space, Godzilla, KINGI, Doora
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: and Godzilla with Minute Godzilla Sleeping, and then there's also
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: two more coming out after that. It's in my ass.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: I find a fund room like I got Space. I
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: mean yeah, I'm sure there's over here that.
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: I still have that I haven't really put anything on it,
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: so I probably will add to putting them there.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: Wait, there's two in there.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: You shut your format, you shut.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Your form out. You're going to defile that man later.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: That poor is that man?
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: This part is not gonna in the podcast, but you're
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: going to defile that poor innocent man.
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: There something poor or innocent about that man. And what
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: do you mean I'm going to defil, defoul him the
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: only one. The defiling is going to be done on
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: his part.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: Mm hmm. He's the corruptor. I'm not not me.
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: What do you mean he's the corruptor.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: Oh you think I'm the Do you think he's the
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: innocent one?
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: Girl?
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: I don't want to see that.
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, don't, don't worry about it. Don't worry about him anyway.
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: Uh but anyway, guys, they it for book watchers.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. Oh no, like fucking rabbits, aren't.
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: You that's any business.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: I love tea. I love the tea.
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: I'm sure you do.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: Anyway, thank you guys again for watching the book watchers
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: cash us.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: Next week we will be reviewing a book.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a book, a book.
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be another horror novel. I'm not sure which
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: one we're gonna we're gonna do yet we haven't.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: It's okay.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: Well, the only one I do you have ready is
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: this one.
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: This is by local artists for the Texas, Texas, San
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: Antonio Austin area.
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: Uh. This is we'll be reviewing Zero Saints.
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: It's by Gavino Iglesias and now not to be confused
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: with Gabrielis the comedian, but this one is a It
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: is a Latin American novel, and I enjoyed it. It
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: was different take. It has somewhat of a supernatural vibe
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: to it, and I will say there's elements of like
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: there is elements of gang violence and just so like
• 54:04
  Speaker 4: kind of kind of like the immigrant experience, so like
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: some of the things that some Mexican or Latin American
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: immigrants do do experience.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: It was a decent book. I read this because I
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: wanted to.
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: Read something Latin American for uh, you know, Hispanic Hispanic
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: heritage a month as well as the upcoming holidays, especially
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: Dat de los Martos. This is not specifically Data des
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: Mertal's theme, but it is Latin American Mexican American themes.
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: So we will be reviewing this next Friday, or ye,
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: we'll be reviewing I should.
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: Say we should be. We'll be reviewing this next.
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: Week next Fridays when we're going to be we're going
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: to actually record it, not actually when we posted, but yeah,
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: you know, cut that out that and being stupid.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: Hey, we're gonna be reviewing this one next week. So
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: until then, Guess next time he