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🇺🇸 Happy Birthday 🇺🇸: Supergirl, Steam Machine & Xbox Price Increase · Multiple Nerdgasm

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Multiple nerdgasm.
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>> Hello. >> Hi. How's it going? >> Pretty good. Just like to say to get
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this out the way for our American listeners, happy 4th of July. >> Oh, yeah. It will be
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>> will be tomorrow. >> True. Yeah. Cool. All right. >> I thought I could do that now.
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>> Happy 4th. Probably you'll probably think more about it next week if we if
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you're able to record. >> Yeah, actually it's a good point. I
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probably won't be cuz I'll be away. But we'll see.
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>> We'll see. That's what we'll celebrate it now. Yay, America. >> Yay. >> Is it great?
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>> Everything Everything's great. [laughter] >> Everything's fine.
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>> Everything is fine. >> Yes,
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gas prizes are great. eat. Although they're probably worse in Australia.
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>> Yeah, cuz even to begin with it was worse because it's like further for the
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gas to come. >> Yeah. I forget now I'm I climatized to
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the prices here. I forget how [ __ ] expensive it was in Australia.
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>> Mhm. Everything is expensive here. >> Yeah. Yeah. True, true, true, true.
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>> Y [clears throat] Iceland is worse. If it if it makes you feel any better.
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Probably not. Is Iceland where you have to have an app to see if you're related
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to someone before you sleep with them? [laughter] >> I don't know. It didn't come up. Uh,
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let's have a look. Let's find out. >> I think that's a thing. >> Iceland app relatives
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[snorts] sex. >> Yep. >> Yes.
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>> Yep. Yep. Because there book of Icelanders allows people to
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check if they are closely related. Mhm. >> The catchphrase is bump the app before
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you bump in bed. >> Yep. So, if you're about to hook up that
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one night stand, you might [snorts] want to check and see if they're your cousin.
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>> There you go. [snorts] That's interesting. I guess it's a small community. >> Mhm.
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>> I don't know why I know that. >> Yeah, I don't know either. Are you Icelandic?
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>> Did this come up? >> I don't think so. I look very different
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to people who are from Iceland. Yeah, I suppose
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>> there are beautiful, beautiful people over there. [laughter]
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>> You just been scrolling through the uh the app looking for Yeah,
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>> I don't think it shows pictures. >> No, >> no, [laughter] >> that would be
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>> I don't think it's like a dating app. I think it's just >> like a menu. [laughter]
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>> I don't have that one. So, >> what's been going on?
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>> I I did manage to go out and I did go and see Supergirl. >> Okay, cool.
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>> Cuz I remember I wasn't excited for Superman. That was was I was a bit
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nervous about it. >> I enjoyed that. >> I went saw Supergirl thinking,
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>> "Yep, this should be good as well." >> More of the same goodness.
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>> No, it's sort of different, but it's >> I don't know. It sort of missed the mark
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for me. It's not a great second outing.
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>> Yeah. I mean, I've it got bad not good reviews, let's say. Uh, and then I guess
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the audience scores a mix. The audience scores are hard, man, because people
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seem to enjoy anything. >> Well, they either love it or hate it. There's no in between.
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>> No, I've seen a bunch of people say it's mid. >> Okay, then. So, I guess that's kind of
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like saying it's, you know, >> see, it sort of reminded me a bit more
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of like Guardians of the Galaxy to tell the truth cuz it's not set on Earth at all.
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>> Yeah. No, I knew that. >> Yeah. It's not um I mean, it's not James
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Gunn, but it is >> head of the studio. So, >> yeah. Um and we definitely know that
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Aquaman's not coming back, >> right? Because he's somebody else now.
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>> He's someone else. Yes. >> Yeah. No, I knew that, too. Yeah. But
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>> yeah, the whole movie was just about Supergirl just sort of coming to terms
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with herself and deciding, "Yep, I'm going to go back and live on Earth." >> Okay,
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>> that's it. Movie over. >> I mean I mean I mean that's that's a perfectly fine,
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you know, outline for a movie. It's >> Yeah. >> But is it interesting? >> Not really.
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>> Yeah. Okay. See, that's the that's the bit they've missed. Um
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>> All right. Yeah. Yeah, looking at the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, a lot of
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three stars, which I guess is like >> Yeah.
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>> Like this is I would honestly wait for it to go to streaming. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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>> I'll go anyway to see it in the movies. >> No, I don't I won't I I could tell from
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the trailer like I I was I was excited about it cautiously until I saw the
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trailer and then I was like I don't think I want to. They did say this was
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going to be a different tone to Superman as well. I don't remember.
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>> Yeah. Is it funny? >> I laughed once.
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>> A no. Yeah, that's a no that you had to think about it. Yeah,
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>> I think they tried to be funny. >> Okay. Yeah. See, that's worse.
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>> So, look. Yeah. I Shane, uh, the trailer for Spider-Man I
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actually found more interesting. [laughter] >> Okay.
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But even that is that trailer's now put me off. >> Yeah, I don't know about the new
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Spider-Man >> cuz there's a new trailer now. >> Okay. Oh, okay. Have I seen the new new
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one? I don't know. >> This one's got the Hulk in it. >> Yeah. Okay. I have seen that.
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>> Okay. Yeah. So, the trailer sort of leading up seemed I was quite enjoying.
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And then this last one, it's just >> gotten worse somehow. I remember when
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people were complaining that, you know, Spider-Man 3, the Sam Remy Spider-Man 3
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had too many villains in it. And then I look at this trailer and there's like
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like [ __ ] so many villains in it. You've got Scorpion,
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uh, those ninjas, apparently the Hulk.
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Uh, and then there's an article here, uh, the actual main villain hasn't even
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been revealed. Like, so you can see in the trailer somebody's taking over and controlling.
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>> Taking over. Yeah. And I don't know who that would be. >> Yeah. I don't know.
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>> There'll be some nerd out there who probably knows what villain is. >> I'm sure.
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>> Yeah. >> Sorry for calling you a nerd. [laughter] [snorts]
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>> Yeah. I um Yeah, I'm not super
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I don't know. >> I'm going to go see. This is definitely one I'm going to go see. >> Yeah.
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Is Is the action in Supergirl good? Sorry, just to go back to that trying to find some uh
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>> there was silver lining. >> Not really either. The fight seemed very
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subdued, especially coming off Superman where he's flying around. There's lots
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of stuff happening in the background. This just seemed
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>> Does she have superpowers when she's not on Earth? She doesn't, right?
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>> She doesn't know. Yeah, she needs a yellow sun. So, it did focus a lot on
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explaining to people green sun, yellow sun, red sun, and
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>> Oh, all right. and the different powers, what happens to her under the different
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things. >> So, there was one fight where she was under the red sun, so she sort of got
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beat up but still managed to win, >> right? Yeah. >> And then she went to then there was
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another fight that sort of happened in the background where you didn't really
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see it was sort of >> okay >> you sort of see it from a point of view
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of a girl hiding and then Super running around beating up everyone in the background and
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>> right >> but yeah the action wasn't as big as >> you'd expect from a super
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>> movie. Okay. A super movie. >> Mhm.
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H I mean Spider-Man certainly seems to
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have a lot of action in it. I just I just don't know. Maybe superhero movies.
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Maybe I just don't like them anymore. I did I like Superman though. So
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>> Superman was good. >> I think a lot of high hope for >> Yeah.
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>> what James was going to do. But yeah, the second outing just >> Yeah.
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>> scares me. What's next? >> Yeah. Because he didn't do it, but he's still in charge.
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Well, Man of Tomorrow is they're they're filming it, which is the next Superman
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movie. Is that what's next? Next DC
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movie. Yeah, Supergirl's already out, mate. What's next?
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>> Oh, Clayface. >> Clayface, which comes out in September. And then
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Man of Tomorrow is uh next year in July. Clayface is
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interesting. It's um looks more like a horror movie. >> Yeah.
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>> So, I mean, yeah, again, I I don't know. I just don't know.
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>> And I know it's not all James Gun, but he is the head. That's why I keep
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referring back to him cuz >> Yeah. Yeah. He's the buck stops with
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him. Um, and then Batman the Batman part two >> next October, which is nothing to do
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with these films technically, but >> um, >> I'm kind of looking forward to that. I I
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did quite like the fact that that was was bit one and done.
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>> Yeah, >> like the Joker was as well.
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>> Yes. Did you watch the second one? >> No. >> No. Me either. I should do that at some
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point, I suppose. But I just heard it wasn't very good. So,
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>> yeah. And a good I I think it being a one and done and it just that whole
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story, it made sense and it ended. You don't need a sequel.
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>> Terrible reviews looking at it now. >> That's just a case of people saying,
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"Oh, this one did well. We'll make more money if we do it again."
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>> Yeah, but The second one had was a musical, right?
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>> Yes. >> Had a What's the face? Lady Gaga or something.
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>> Yeah. I mean, I guess, you know, give it a try, I suppose. >> Yeah.
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>> Didn't work, though. Um, did I watch anything this week?
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>> Um, oh, I watched season five of Clarkson's Farm.
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>> Oh, yes. I also I looked up some stuff too because I was trying to understand
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um we'd have to go into this too much so this people don't give a [ __ ] but
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Clarkson's farm if anyone doesn't know Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear he has a
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farm now and in England and he it's the show is about him trying to be a farmer
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and he's bad at it. Uh, and it's it's funny, but it's also kind of um
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uh I guess it tells you about
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>> British farmers and stuff and the the decisions the British government's
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making that's really badly affecting the farmers and all this kind of thing. And
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the way it's portrayed in the show, it's kind of like basically I was like, it
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seems so obviously bad. M >> I don't understand
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why they would make these decisions because the the show it wants you to
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dislike the policies or whatever. >> It doesn't show you both sides of the
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story or anything. I was like >> very one-sided but
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>> yeah cuz I was like it can't just be that the British government is like [ __ ]
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you farmers we [ __ ] hate you like doesn't make any sense. So what is
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>> the argument for it? So I looked it up. Uh there is some nuance there. It does
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seem like they're pretty under, you know, halfbaked policies. Like the the
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short version is the whole point of this stuff is in Britain at the moment or or
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previously up for a long for a while it's been that you don't pay any
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inheritance tax on farms. >> Mhm. >> I guess to encourage farmers to keep
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farming or whatever. Y >> except all the rich people who aren't
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farmers bought all bought a bunch of farmland to use as a tax haven because
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you don't pay tax on it inherit tax on it. >> So they were like, well, we need to stop
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that. And so this this thing was supposed to say, okay, if you if you if your farm,
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>> the blunt instrument was that, okay, if you have a farm that's worth over a
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million dollars, a million pounds, you do have to pay tax. But then the point
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they make in the show is that well that's a lot of farms that are
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legitimate farms and it will [ __ ] like farms. >> Yeah.
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>> Yeah. You're hurting the wrong people >> because they're already struggling
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>> because because of weather as you'll see in the show if you watch it. It's
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farming's hard, man. Yes. I don't [laughter] >> I don't know.
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>> I would not want to be a farmer. >> No, that's tough. And so there it's just
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making it even harder for them. And and then so I found out that since that, not
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because of necessarily because of the show, but since the show, it's been put
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up to two and a half million pounds, which is not as bad, I guess. I don't know.
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>> I could see why you want that. Like you want the farms not to pay that
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inheritance tax, especially because person most likely to become a farmer
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and remain a farmer is someone who's in the family.
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>> Like already doing it. And the problem they're having too is that the reason
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that that they want to they need to fix it is that all these like wealthy people
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are buying up the farms and young people can't buy any and farmers can't buy
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anymore because as soon as there's farmland up all these [ __ ] rich
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people are buying it and just >> doing nothing with it because it's oh
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I've got a farm now I don't have to pay tax on that like >> y
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>> so there should be a way like it should be like like if you buy a house you and
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you're going to sell it you to have lived in it for a certain number of
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years not to pay as a a tax thing. So >> yeah, >> it can't be a rental property. You know,
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I've lived here for a year. Should be something like that. No, I've worked on
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the land for the last five years here. >> Well, that's one of the things too is
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that in in the show, you see the You've watched it, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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>> I haven't watched season five, but I've watched most of
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>> it. You've watched, you know, you see him struggle with the council and with
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all the Yeah. everything. you know, they won't let him do any do things, that
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kind of thing. And the other side of that is though, a lot of people think
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he's one of these rich people who bought farmland.
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>> And there's a there's a perception, I don't know if this I have no idea if
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this is true or not. It seems from the show like it's not, but obviously
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they're trying to portray this that that that you know that he's only doing the farm
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show to get around the fact that people think he's just a wealthy guy who bought
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a farm as a tax haven >> like and and initially when he did it
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that's what people thought he was doing. So I'm not I don't know. I have no idea
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whether that's true or not. I want to think it's not true. I want to think
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he's genuine. But um but the reason that that people are being dicks to him a lot
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of the time is apparently because they think he's one of these rich [ __ ]
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who's ruining things. >> I I don't think he brought it as a
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taxation haven as such. I think he brought it as a small farm where this is
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where I'm going to retire. >> I wonder if he I I bet an accountant said to him, you
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know, if you buy a farm, you don't have to pay as much tax. And then and then
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maybe he went a farm? I could be a farmer. Like I think from from what I've
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seen of the show like I mean he gets involved in everything and he's clearly
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really invested in it. It's more than just he's just >> trying to you know save money or
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whatever. >> Yeah. >> But I wonder if that's how he got the idea.
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>> Yeah. But yeah, he got the idea. I wonder though I think the big thing that
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would show if if he's still working the farm when the cameras aren't there would
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be the big thing. Or is he there for that exact three months that they're
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filming? It's like with Top Gear when they're doing the challenges in Top Gear
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and they're out in the middle of [ __ ] nowhere.
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>> Do they go back to a hotel every night? [laughter]
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>> It's very likely that they do. I'm not I I can't say. But
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>> can't say. But yeah, that for me, if he was there all year round and that's
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where he lives now and that's what he's doing, >> then I would fully believe that he is
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committed to this. If it's just cameras are here, we back to the farm, build my
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stuff and then go back and live it up. >> I mean, it's hard to know. So, I mean,
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I've been I've been there and it's a seems like a real farm as far as I can tell. Um,
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>> well, it's it's well well
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cuz he has people working the farm as well. >> No, and I wasn't out in the fields where
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things happen. I was at the >> And he's not going to be at the store or at
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>> every day. But all I meant was that like >> he wasn't there.
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>> It is a real farm. It's a functioning farm. You can go there and see it. So,
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>> but then of Yeah, one of the things they brought up like season 4 that I thought
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was hard like their local abbittoire shut down cuz all the abattoars are
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going to super mega abattoars. >> So, they had all these pigs that they
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can't afford to take to slaughter because >> they're all small
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>> farmers. So, they had to orchip into hire a lorry to take their >> Yeah.
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>> pigs away. And >> well, >> so hard watching >> more bad things happen. [clears throat]
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>> Oh, okay. >> I lift it up to the point where that
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happened and he's just he's just buying the pub and finding out how much it's
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going to cost him. >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. >> But yeah, I couldn't do it. I could not
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>> I did see a very smart a very a very interesting thing about how the the show
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has done something that um that nobody's been able to do for a very long time in
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in Britain which is make people care about it because
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>> when people were hearing about this stuff oh the farmers are having a hard
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time and everyone goes oh yeah okay whatever >> but then when they watch Clarkson's farm
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and they see in the first season where you know he grows the potatoes right
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>> but and he grows too many potatoes to sell on his own but not enough potatoes
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to sell to a big company and he's just stuck with all these potatoes that he's
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got nothing to do with and he's just going to lose money on it.
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>> People got angry in a way that they just didn't give a [ __ ] before and so it's
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kind of done this it's gotten the British public like and then they like
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overall it's a good for the farmers. >> Yeah. Because I think a lot of people
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used to see farmers as not really think about them but they just hear oh the
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government's giving them millions of dollars in payouts and they're driving
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around in millions. They're getting millions of dollars of machinery and
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>> all this stuff. >> And then you see the reality of it or
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the you know alleged reality. I >> Yeah. >> I hope it's I hope it's legit.
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>> Well, I'm pretty sure it is the farmer's reality. >> May not be his, but
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>> he's he he literally says at one point in this season, uh they're just out in
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the fields doing something and he's like, "Oh, this is great." You know, um
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why didn't I do this earlier? And then he says, "Oh, yeah, because I wouldn't
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have I wouldn't have been able to afford to do this." Yeah.
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>> If I didn't make all my money doing Top Gear. >> Yeah. Yeah. He wouldn't be able to
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afford Especially the way he's just he's just mcking around a lot as well. Like it's
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>> Yeah. He can afford to make mistakes. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a It's not
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the end of the world if the farm doesn't make a profit. Whereas for other farmers, it is.
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>> It literally is. Yeah. Yeah. >> It's if Yeah. If we don't make make it
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this year, well, we're selling the farm. >> Yeah.
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>> But anyway, let's stop doom and gloom. >> Yeah. Anyway, it's a good season. Uh,
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yeah, recommend it. Good show. >> And Oh, how did him coming out having
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cancer? How was that? >> He Well, >> I know because Yeah, you hadn't seen
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that episode yet. He's He's in the >> No, in the show. Uh, yeah, but we don't
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you don't find that out to be honest in the show. >> He just announces it.
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>> He just announced it on Instagram. Yeah, but because the show I guess they
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wrapped the show and then um >> he got the results, you know, later. But
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anyway, yeah, he did have he had uh prostate cancer. He got a large chunk of
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his prostate removed. So that that's in the show. Oh, not you don't see it,
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[laughter] but it happens during the show. And then the show ends at a
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certain point with it and they're talking about how he'll find out. And
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then he on Instagram he announc Yeah. He's apparently he's clear. So that's good.
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>> This is why guys go get a finger up the bum. >> Yeah. Or a blood test can tell you too
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these days. >> Or an ultrasound. >> There's a bunch of ways. Just just do
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it. Just check. You just do do one of them. >> Yeah. Just check.
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>> Each to their own how they want it done. I'm going the ultrasound.
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>> Yeah. Get the finger. >> Not until they buy me dinner first.
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>> I've not had I've not had the finger. >> I've never had the finger.
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>> No, I don't. Do they even still do that? >> I I don't know. I Because they only
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really see it in like sitcoms and things. It's a >> I've been told it's ruled out based on
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blood tests. That's I've been I've had blood tests and they've said, "Oh, yeah.
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There's no real reason to think." So, yeah, there's no need to get in there,
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>> any other test. >> Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, "Okay, fine.
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>> I'll believe you. You're my doctor, but also it's an American doctor."
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>> Yeah. Would you mind just doing it anyway? [laughter] >> Can you Can you try?
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>> I'll pay I'll pay extra. [gasps]
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>> Um, what else? We'll finish off on movies. We got movies news here.
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I when I first saw this I thought this was a joke
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>> article that World War Z is having a sequel made.
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>> Yeah, I've I've never watched this. Um did you see this movie? I watched it and
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my whole joke was cuz the zombies would run past certain people and they
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worked out that some people with a certain disease, >> right,
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>> were immune from the zombies attacking them. So the whole thing focused around
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Brad Pit going off to some secret location to get the disease >> get the disease,
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>> right? >> But then all the diseases get mixed up
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and he just jabbed himself with one. And my whole thing was he just gave himself AIDS.
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>> Right. Right. You don't know what he gave himself.
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>> Don't want Don't know what he gave himself, but I reckon A's was the
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answer. And then the movie ended. And I thought, well, they've got the cure.
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It's done. So, I don't know really where you go for for a sequel. Like, they've
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got the cure. >> Well, we'll find out, I guess. >> You have to give yourself another
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disease to avoid this disease. >> Yes. >> Yeah. They found out that Yeah. the
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zombies would just ignore someone with a particular disease. I don't I honestly
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don't remember what it was. It was a very long time ago I saw this movie.
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>> This summary on here says it was a vaccine based on that the information
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they gained. So I'm I'm not saying you're wrong. Maybe this person who
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wrote this summary is wrong, but the summary says that they made a vaccine
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based on what they found out and that's what he injected himself with.
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>> I don't it's been a long time. I still just say cuz I remember all the needles
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got mixed up or something. I remember that.
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>> Is it a vac? Wait, I mean the vaccine against zombies attacking you. I guess
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it is. Would you call that a vaccine? Anyway, >> yeah. The film end on a bright note
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after the creation of a vaccine that masks humans from the undead.
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>> But there's still room to explore. >> Depending on what direction the sequel
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takes. Oh yeah, I guess that's true. Well, I mean, they haven't given
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everybody the vaccine yet, have they? >> Maybe that's what it's about. But it'd
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be pretty easy to cuz you like for me the stakes aren't going to be that high
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for the people going out trying to give the vaccine because
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>> Oh, the zombies aren't going to go after them. >> Yeah. So, it's just going to be just
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trying to find people to give it to. And also, it's going to be very easy to kill
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the zombies cuz they're not going to be worried about attacking you.
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>> Do they attack you if you attack them? No, they just from what from what I
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remember they just completely ignored >> and the zombies weren't smart enough to
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go on being attacked. They were just focused on attacking
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>> Yeah, that's weird. >> It's like even a dog that isn't going to
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attack you if you keep punching it in the face probably will bite you.
24:22
>> Yeah. But no, from what I remember is the zombies were just so focused on. And
24:25
if you see it in the movie, they were like climbing up a wall and it's just
24:28
cuz they were climbing on top of each other just and it wasn't working
24:31
together. It was just a wall of people trying to get up to cross a wall. They
24:36
were able to get through. And in the book, cuz I know somebody read the book,
24:41
there was a part of the book where he was trapped under
24:44
>> I didn't read it. He was trapped under a bridge or something and then used to
24:47
hear the splat splat splat of the zombies just walking off the bridge to
24:52
try and get to him cuz they just >> mindless own goal is just to get to him
24:57
to bite him but that was it. >> Okay. >> But one thing I've always wondered when
25:03
does zombies know when to stop eating people? >> Do they know?
25:09
>> I don't know because you you'll see I'm just talking zombie movies in general.
25:13
Sometimes [clears throat] they'll like eat an entire arm.
25:16
>> Sometimes sometimes they just bite you and Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Sometimes
25:20
they rip people in half. >> Yeah. I just don't know when do they >> whatever serves the
25:26
>> Yeah. Whatever's the most dramatic. I think often
25:31
>> they just want brains according to >> Return of the Living Dead. >> Yeah.
25:37
>> Which doesn't explain why they buy anywhere else but
25:39
>> No. No. Uh in return Yeah. Yeah. It doesn't explain that cuz it what? Return
25:43
of the dead. They wanted the brains cuz that stops the pain. >> Yes. >> Yep.
25:46
>> It hurts. That's a great movie. >> Yes. I haven't seen it in ages. I should watch that.
25:53
>> Yeah. >> Is it a great movie? No, it is. It is. >> I think it is. It has been a little
25:59
while, but I think it is. That's the one where the the paramedics pull up. Oh,
26:04
no. The cops the police pull up and the zombies kill the police and then they
26:07
get on the radio. They go, "Are you there? Is this [laughter] this is base?
26:10
Do you need anything? And then the zombie picks up the radio and goes,
26:13
"Send more cops." [laughter] >> It's a [ __ ] great movie.
26:20
>> Ah, yep. No, I need to watch that again. I think they did a good job with the
26:24
comedy with that. Like, it wasn't [snorts] >> Yeah, comedy, but also very, very
26:30
intense. Like, it's very gory. If anyone's thinking of watching this, it's quite gory. And
26:35
>> uh it's just a classic, though. >> Yeah. It's like an unofficial sequel to
26:40
Night of the Living Dead if anybody hasn't seen it. And it opens in a
26:44
morttery where they um they're talking about the events of Night of the Living
26:49
Dead. Not unofficially because it's an unofficial sequel, but oh yeah, did you
26:52
hear about that thing that happened? >> And then they've got one of the bodies
26:56
from the uh there's a barrel that fell off a military truck that they got with
27:01
the triioxin in it, which they've got in the basement with a body in it. And then
27:05
they've also got a body of of a of somebody. Anyway, they burn the
27:12
>> they burn the one of the zombie bodies. >> Oh yeah, they do it all of the
27:17
>> and the rain falls in the cemetery and all the zombies come up in the cemetery.
27:20
It's a great movie. It's really good. >> But even Night of the Living Dead was a
27:24
great movie. >> True. I mean, very different tone though.
27:27
>> Very different tone. But yeah, no Return of the Living Dead. That was the one I
27:30
would watch now again. >> More fun. >> Yeah. Night Living Dead is great, but
27:34
it's more serious. >> Yes. >> It's a racial commentary. In fact,
27:40
>> yes, it was, wasn't it? >> Yes. >> Mhm. >> Very controversial to be uh to have the
27:47
main character be a black man back in the back in the day. George Romero is
27:50
very progressive. >> You don't I don't get why it's
27:55
controversial, but I do. But >> not back then. >> I don't get why it's controversial now.
28:02
Let's not let's not revisit that. Yeah, we don't. [laughter] Yeah.
28:06
>> Uh, we can talk about something sad. >> Go on. [laughter] >> What?
28:13
>> I'm just I just Let's not talk about sort of black people being discriminated against.
28:19
>> Sad instead, >> right? [laughter] >> The fact that Xbox prices are going up. [sighs]
28:26
>> Yes, they are >> uh significantly. Yes. >> Um
28:32
>> a lot a lot. It's >> 100 bucks uh the minimum and
28:38
>> more in some cases. Um the they're discontinuing the two TBTE model that
28:44
they brought out >> which I I really wanted that. >> Well, get it now.
28:49
>> Well, actually, they're actually releasing uh an anniversary model later
28:54
this year, which is green one. >> Yeah. And I was hoping that was going to
28:58
be two terabyte, but it's not the one terabyte. Well, now I know they're
29:01
discontinuing. I'm probably still going to get the special edition
29:04
>> because uh my Xbox is starting to die. >> Oh, how do you know?
29:09
>> Um it's starting to do weird things with um disconnecting from controllers, just
29:14
popping up randomly and yeah, it's just on its way out. >> Oh, interesting. All right.
29:19
>> Well, I've got a backup in a box over there. Yeah, I was going to say if you I
29:23
was my actual advice to you was going to be if you need another backup because I
29:26
know you have backup Xboxes. Yes. Uh now would be the time before the price goes
29:30
up. But yeah, so the >> two terabyte model's gone. Um
29:36
>> the one terabyte with the disc drive is going up from this is US from 649 to
29:42
799. >> So that's like 150 bucks more.
29:46
>> Yeah. Um, the 1 TB digital's bumping up from 599 to 7.49, which again is what,
29:53
like 150 bucks. And the Xbox Series S is going up
29:59
uh for the 1 TB 449 to 599 and for the
30:04
512 GB 399 to $4.99. There's a massive price jumps
30:08
>> and they're not doing it to make money. They're doing it so they're not losing as much
30:13
>> apparently. So yeah, it's just oh man, this is brutal. Um,
30:20
yeah. So strange like that that this is where we are right now.
30:25
>> [ __ ] AI stuff. I mean, that's what it is, right? It's the AI stuff causing a
30:32
shortage of uh parts. So >> Oh, wow. So I'm even looking at because
30:38
I hadn't looked at the price of an Xbox in a while. M.
30:41
>> So even just the one TBTE one is had already gone up $100 here from when
30:46
first release. So and it's going to go up again. >> Yeah.
30:50
>> And it's not I mean it's not just Xbox. We talked about a little while ago I
30:54
think uh I said I think I said Apple haven't put the price of their stuff up
30:58
because often they buy in bulk and they lock in prices for a long period. Well,
31:02
they are putting up the prices now. >> They're all going up by 100 bucks I
31:06
think as well. So, all the laptops and uh iPads. >> Yep.
31:12
>> It's every It's going to be everywhere. It's going to get worse presumably.
31:15
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's definitely going to get worse. There's no way it can get better.
31:19
>> Yeah. >> Unless everyone goes, "Oh, wait. You know what? We don't need AI." Which is
31:24
not happening. They're just finding more use. It's getting more useful, which I
31:28
guess is nice. Well, that's what I was talking to people at work just recently to go
31:34
I've actually told people to come see me if they need to learn how to use it
31:37
because when I first got it I went I have no use for this >> and then you slowly
31:42
>> oh hold on I'll try this I'll try that and then you find it useful. >> Yeah.
31:46
>> And so even at work I'm going hey like if you do if you do get a license you're
31:51
not sure what to do come see me I'll give you a few ideas to get you started
31:54
because what works for one person won't work for everyone. Yeah.
31:59
Yeah. And I think I I feel like it works best if you're uh if you're working with it.
32:06
>> Yes. >> I think a lot of people expect it to just do things and it's like no, you
32:09
know, kind of need to hold its hand and you need to be like Yeah. I think as a as like a
32:15
>> like a junior assistant, it works quite well. I think not as a replacement.
32:20
That's my opinion anyway. or a replacement for a junior assistant,
32:24
which is the problem everyone's talking about, which is we're not going to have
32:26
any senior people if we just don't hire them because we're using AI for
32:30
everything. But that's >> it's a really it's we're in a tough
32:34
place at this the moment. It's >> and we're not The thing that would solve
32:39
it all is if we had um replicators like we do in Star Trek.
32:45
>> So we would we wouldn't have to do anything. [snorts] Well, that was the
32:49
whole thing that made Star Trek tconomics work was the fact that people
32:52
didn't have to worry about food or accommodation or everything that was all
32:55
done and then people didn't worry about money. So, it just became people working
32:59
for that's tconomics essentially. >> Yeah. >> In a very dumb down form
33:03
>> stuff for the love of it. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> H but the problem is is we're heading to
33:08
a lot of stage where everything's being automated and we're making a lot of jobs
33:12
redundant with what's there. Yeah. >> Where does everyone shift to? >> Yeah.
33:18
>> And especially the thing is is this is happening a lot faster this time.
33:23
>> Yeah. Well, that's the the issue with the programming field is like if all the
33:28
junior developers get replaced with AI, who becomes a senior developer in five,
33:33
10 years, whatever. >> Nobody. >> The the the AI >> the AI does replacement.
33:39
>> Yeah. And then >> it's like when all the but on the other
33:42
side it's like when all the stores started using self checkouts. >> Yes.
33:47
>> Everyone's going like this is people adapted but didn't that took that
33:52
happened that took place over time.
33:56
>> Yeah. There's a new um uh Rhode Island where I am has a new selfch checkckout
34:01
law. Uh there are going to be limits placed on how many items you can selfch
34:07
checkckout. Oh. >> Uh, I think that is I think that's right. To protecting job protecting
34:12
jobs. Oh, wait. No, sorry. My mistake. My mistake. It's not about that. I've
34:17
got confused by the wording. I think it's
34:22
uh about making sure there's a balance
34:25
of selfch checkout to staff. You got to have staff available
34:32
>> uh as well as just having the checkouts. See, the one thing that does get me about the
34:38
people complaining about there not being it's all there are still people who
34:42
complain about there being it's all selfch checkout and there's no staff
34:44
available even though there are staff available >> right
34:48
>> where where I am there are staff available sitting [laughter] at a
34:50
register waiting but there might be one person with a full trolley in front of them
34:56
>> well before we even had selfch checkckout >> that's what would happen but you'd wait
35:01
for like people with two or three trolley full in front of you.
35:04
>> I hate when the worst part is when somebody with a massively full trolley
35:08
goes through the selfch checkckout because you're like you're going to take
35:10
[ __ ] forever because you're not a professional >> check [laughter] out person.
35:16
>> But it just used to people complain about it. I'm sort of like no if you
35:19
remember what it was like when you had just >> lined up. Yeah. You just waited. Yeah.
35:24
>> Yeah. >> And you want to go back to that? I can't go back to that
35:29
>> cuz I don't do a big shop. I do a >> Yeah. I buy a couple things.
35:35
>> I get my stuff delivered. Ever since co I got a taste for it and now I can't
35:39
stop even though I know it would save me. The only I I've checked this. The only
35:46
difference is I've got to pay a tip to the driver.
35:50
Like Walmart and Whole Foods I don't have to pay to have stuff delivered. And
35:56
as far as I can tell the price is exactly the same. The only thing I've
35:58
got to pay is I got to pay the a tip to the driver which is usually about 10
36:01
bucks. And then and sometimes it's just worth 10 bucks to me to just be able to
36:06
stay home with my kiddo, you know? >> Well, I think it is because your time is
36:09
worth money. >> Yeah. And because if I go to the shops
36:12
with her, we're buying a bunch of [ __ ] I don't need. More than $10 [laughter]
36:16
worth of [ __ ] cookies and [ __ ] So,
36:21
>> I don't know. I I for me, the trade-off has been worth
36:24
>> the trade-off is good for me. And I also, but the good thing is is at where
36:28
I am, they do have people on the registers still. >> Yeah.
36:32
>> Cuz they've made a thing like, "No, people are complaining. We'll have
36:35
people on the register so you can still >> Mhm. >> do that. No one uses them."
36:40
>> All right. >> But they're there. >> Yeah. They're waiting.
36:46
>> I'm trying to find out how I get my green Xbox. >> I'm going to stop.
36:51
>> Shut down these windows. >> You've had all day to do that. It just hit me.
36:57
>> You've been playing games all day, haven't you? >> No, I've been asleep all day again.
37:01
>> Interesting. All right. >> I got home at >> Getting old, mate.
37:05
>> I know. I got home at what, 8:00? No, would have been 9:00 last night, and I
37:10
slept from then until about an hour ago. >> [ __ ] hell.
37:15
>> It's what I do on weekends. If I'm not at work, I sleep. >> All right. Or play games.
37:21
No, >> I've actually been sleeping lately. Huh? All right. >> I play games at lunch.
37:28
[laughter] >> That's why you you you're never going to get your game score
37:35
reasonable. >> I'm still getting at least a thousand gamer score a day.
37:38
>> I don't know, mate. You're going to keep that little wimpy gamer score you've got
37:41
if you don't try harder. [snorts] >> I can't I will never catch fifth in Australia.
37:46
>> Yeah. My daughter's coming for you, mate. She's got two achievements. She's
37:50
coming for you. Like let's have a look. Where am I? Oh,
37:56
this is why I know I think this sort of taken the sale wind out of my sales a little bit.
38:02
>> My links uh my leaderboards
38:06
six in Australia. I got 4,700 and the person in front of
38:13
me has 6 million. >> Oh, that's [ __ ] man. I don't even have
38:19
a million. >> Yeah. So they're they're like >> big gap.
38:24
>> Yeah. [clears throat] 1.22 million in front of me essentially.
38:27
>> But you've overtaken people. >> I've overtaken a lot of people. Yes.
38:30
>> So I mean it's not impossible like if that person >> also just sleeps all the time.
38:36
[laughter] >> This person see everyone above me is very very active. >> Right. Yeah.
38:42
>> The person behind me is 3.8. So no, like I'm probably
38:48
horrible for them thinking I'm never going to get six in Australia, >> right?
38:55
>> And in the world I'm 141. >> That's [ __ ] That's pretty [ __ ] good.
39:00
>> That I can make some [laughter] that that I can make some difference in.
39:03
>> Yeah, right. >> That I could probably get to the top 100.
39:06
>> I wonder what I am in the world. You can check that, can't you?
39:09
>> I could probably check that. Um, leadable standings. I don't know how
39:15
to check it cuz these are my saved ones. I'll let you know next time.
39:19
>> All right. And do I I would have a ranking in Australia. Would I or no?
39:25
>> Or would I not anymore? >> Oh, I don't know. It depends if you
39:28
change your region, which you probably would have. >> I did.
39:32
>> So, yeah, your region would have changed to >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. >> US.
39:36
>> Depends where your console account is based is where it pulls it from. Yeah,
39:41
definitely changed it. All right. Well, look, on the topic of consoles and such
39:45
things, we now know what the Steam Machine is and will cost, and there's
39:52
been some reviews and stuff like that. Let's begin with the cost. I suppose
39:56
it's [ __ ] expensive. >> Um,
40:01
>> uh, we were thinking if it was under $1,000, it would be a it would probably
40:06
sell. It's not under $1,000. No, >> it's $1,049
40:12
minimum. >> In Australia, it's >> to get the
40:18
half like 512 GB, it's 1,600.
40:24
>> So, you would be better off getting >> the two terabyte.
40:28
This This doesn't make any sense to me. M. >> So, the Steam Machine with the like the
40:34
half a terabyte and a controller is 1,728. >> Mhm.
40:39
>> To get the two terbte one with the controller is only an extra $500.
40:46
2,200, >> right? >> So, and memory [snorts]
40:51
is not cheap. So, it's you're only paying 500 more to get one and a half
40:57
more terabytes of >> I don't know, mate. [laughter]
41:02
>> That the math just isn't math.
41:07
>> Yeah. I don't know. I mean, you're not just paying for the um memory, so I'm
41:13
[snorts] sure there's a I mean, I'm sure there's a reason.
41:17
>> Um I'm looking Look, there doesn't seem to be anything different.
41:22
It's just the memory. It seems to be the only change in price. >> Oh, okay. Interesting.
41:28
>> Like normally, I know sometimes with the cheaper ones, it's a different
41:32
>> Yeah. Yeah. Different. >> Maybe not as much RAM or something like
41:35
that, but no, this is one to one. It's just a memory seems to be the only difference.
41:42
>> Well, I'm sure they've got a reason for it. Um,
41:46
>> but yeah, it's it's really expensive and I mean a lot of I'm sure there some
41:51
people who will buy it, but a lot there are a lot of people online who I follow
41:55
who have previously had said this is a this is a day one purchase who have said
42:00
>> I'm out. >> Like I'm not buying it. It's too expensive for what it is. It's like
42:07
>> it's not a bad machine, but it's not that great. Like it's fine. Basically,
42:13
it's it's fine. >> You're essentially buying a a console that's going to cost >> well
42:20
>> twice as much as a console. >> It's not even a console. It's just like
42:22
a little PC. And then there people I guess it's hard. I don't know right how
42:28
much stuff costs now. Like could you build a PC for that price? Probably.
42:33
>> You you could. >> Yeah. Like a equally powerful one. I mean, I know. I'm sure.
42:37
>> Oh, yeah. Definitely def most definitely you could.
42:40
>> Yeah. Okay. So, what are you paying for? I guess the form factor and the
42:42
integrations and whatnot. Um, >> yeah, it's just But no, it's it's made
42:47
for Steam Control, it's great for streaming. It's all this all seems to be
42:51
focused on the gaming side. >> Yeah. >> Which is great. So, is it so that people
42:57
can say there's still PC master race? But >> maybe
43:01
>> I mean, so I've linked I linked the the IGN review. They said like it is
43:06
expensive, right? people have gotten sticker shock already cuz they weren't
43:11
thinking it was going to be this expensive because at the time it was
43:13
announced it wouldn't have been based on the specs >> but they're saying it is actually
43:20
competitive like to build an equivalent >> to build Okay. Y
43:25
>> apparent apparently would be pretty similar and uh
43:31
>> but what operating system though that's the thing like the operating system
43:35
>> put whatever you want on it. Yeah, >> it comes with Steam OS, but you can put
43:39
whatever you want on. >> Yep. >> Um, it doesn't have I don't think it has
43:45
any expansion slots or anything like that, which is a I mean, most people
43:49
wouldn't want that. Uh, >> I do have a high-speed micro SD card
43:55
slot. Yes,
43:58
basic IGN saying at at 1049 and 1349 for the two terabyte model, the Steam
44:04
Machine seems like it would be hard to recommend most people.
44:10
So, there you go. Like, it's it's a bummer, man. Like, I feel like if
44:16
if we didn't have this this part shortage and this was priced better,
44:21
this would be great. I'd be interested in this. >> Wondering how long to the
44:26
to this part shortage writes itself.
44:33
Don't know >> cuz yeah that's what I like is it would you accept this or are they in the
44:39
process of building more factories to build these or >> what's happening
44:44
>> like my I was the way >> no and like my laptop is is great right
44:48
I bought a I bought an M3 MacBook Pro a couple years ago
44:53
>> and at the time I was like do I >> bump up the specs a bit to try and make
45:00
it last a while and then I'm glad that I said Yes, [laughter] I did. Right. It's
45:05
It's got pretty good specs. >> So, I'm going to be riding this out for a while.
45:10
>> Yeah. Well, I think that my computer's probably what, three years old at the moment.
45:16
>> Yeah. >> And I've still got probably another three years out of this easy before I'd
45:20
have to even >> look at just more RAM or anything because I don't really use it too much
45:25
for gaming, but it still runs all the games I want at the high end.
45:31
>> Yeah. So, well, I've got my I got my Xbox uh and a Switch, too. They're the
45:35
ones I use most. I do have a PS5, but I forget that it's in there. Um and then I
45:38
mean, because I'm not going to be buying anything else for a while at at this rate.
45:42
>> Like, it's just not feasible. And uh I'm I'm glad I got the switch to early
45:48
before because there was that initial price hike because of the tariffs. >> Y
45:52
>> and then now that there's the price is going up even more. So, I'm glad I've
45:54
got that. And I guess that's just going to And I'm playing on GeForce Cloud as
46:00
we've talked before. I wonder if the price of that is going to go up.
46:04
>> Well, I would say yes. And I think there might be
46:07
>> cuz that'll that'll push me off to be honest.
46:11
>> There might be a bigger push for people to move to doing something like that as
46:14
well because that is a cheaper version than going out and buying your own system. Yeah.
46:21
>> So, that can put more strain on what you got, which means they're going to have
46:24
to to charge more while they go out and buy more.
46:29
>> Yeah. Oh, they've put the price down. Wait, how did I not know this? You bastards.
46:36
They put the price down the other week as in a sale and no one told me. I could have
46:42
>> Because Yeah, because you were paying for it. You don't get
46:45
>> I could have upgraded to the ultimate one for cheaper, you bastards. Anyway,
46:50
[laughter] I'll look at that later. That's annoying. But yeah, if they put the price up on
46:55
that too much, I'll probably stop doing that, too. And I'll just play on my
46:58
Xbox, which is here in the house, and I don't have to worry about it. >> And it works.
47:03
>> Yeah, it'll I won't be able to play Dune until >> October, I think. >> Yeah.
47:10
But oh well. I have to say goodbye to my Dune character probably. >> Yeah,
47:15
>> I'm playing a bit more Dune this week. >> You have?
47:18
>> I'm still playing it. Yeah, I'm still playing it. It's still fun. It's a fun game.
47:21
>> No, I Fencom is great. >> Yeah. Yeah.
47:27
>> You You gone off You had your go on Conan though. >> Uh
47:32
>> remembered it for a little bit. >> No, look, the new version of Conan is
47:35
great. It's just that I've got so little time to play games that like I pop in
47:38
there, but and I'm kind of like the the >> Dune makes you play it because otherwise
47:45
your base will degrade. >> So that's a lot to do with it. Like if
47:49
it didn't have that, I might have I might have been playing it less. >> Yeah. >> But um
47:54
>> but yeah, you don't have time to play two big games like that.
47:57
>> Yeah. Because I know I have to log in and power up my shields.
48:00
>> I get in there and I'm like, well, I'll do some stuff while I'm here. And then
48:03
that and then I'm like, okay, well that's my gaming time done. Like Yeah.
48:07
>> Yeah. And you probably got people who live right next door to you go, "Why
48:10
this guy keep logging in? I want to take over that area."
48:14
>> Not having it. They're not having it. There is a new base next to me. a big
48:17
[ __ ] cube and it's hideous. I logged in the other day and I was like, "What
48:22
is that monstrosity?" [ __ ] off, mate. Like, make an effort. [laughter] Just a big
48:28
>> See, at least when I move in next to you, life's going to be just a small
48:32
cube that I had to use for the And that's it. >> Yeah.
48:36
>> Well, you'll be you'll be miles away from me then. [laughter] >> Well,
48:43
>> you can just live in my base. Well, I don't think it's got crossplay, which I
48:46
think is going to be the worst thing. >> No, no, that'll be annoying.
48:51
>> Um, we've got some uh some GTA 6 news. Not a lot of it, just a little bit of
48:57
GTA 6 news. Um, this will be this is obviously going to
49:01
annoy people, but uh the physical copy
49:05
of GTA 6 apparently on all platforms uh is just going to be a code in a box.
49:11
Well, that's >> so why why bother? >> Why bother? Um, when I brought the
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special edition of the Starfield, that was just a code [clears throat] in a box,
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>> but it did come with a watch and all this other stuff.
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>> Yeah. Do you wear that watch? Where is that watch? >> I I don't know.
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>> I wore it for a little bit. It was a pretty good watch. >> I just don't wear watches,
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>> right? Defeats purpose. >> Um, >> yeah. So, you're not going to be getting
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a disc of this. There aren't any, apparently. >> And it's weird because the disc is also
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launching a month after as well. [laughter] >> I didn't know that. That's funny.
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>> Not the disc. I mean the physical version. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But that's
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>> that's weird. >> Like cuz the game releases in November
49:58
and then the physical version comes out in December, but it's just a code. So
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>> Yeah. Right. >> Why? You got to pay to >> get a box.
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>> Okay. I guess >> I guess they're from their perspective,
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they just want to get it in stores so that your grandma can buy it for you. I
50:17
guess that's probably what they're thinking. Whereas if you're a collector,
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>> I mean, give up on that, you know. >> Although that does look like there's a
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reason why they're doing it. Redeemable codes will prevent the game from leaking early.
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>> That's true. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. But still, if he was buying a physical,
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I I don't want to buy a case. >> Like, that's the reason that they're
50:41
doing it. That's absurd. But you already said they delayed it. Just delay it like
50:45
that and have an actual disc. If you delay, that's not an issue. >> If it's still on disc,
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>> it always think they're not putting it on discs in the world. They're like, "We
50:56
don't want any copies of this on the disc cuz someone might have it." >> Yes.
50:59
>> I feel like >> I don't know. I'm just If you look at
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the t the title article and just That's right. I'm not I'm not having a go at
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you, mate. I'm just saying I feel like this is a flawed if this is why they're
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doing it. I feel like there's a flaw there, which is that
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>> the digital one can easily be pirated as well. >> And it will be
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>> in the box appears to be contradicted by Super. >> I predict this game will quickly be
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pirated. [gasps] >> Oh, I don't think they're worried about
51:27
pirating. I think they're worried about it just leaking and people seeing it
51:32
being played, which If you don't print the physical discs
51:36
until a month later, that's not going to happen.
51:39
>> Exactly. But the in saying this, but the code in the box appears to contradict an
51:45
earlier statement from Take 2 CEO asked about online rumors Rockstar might
51:49
delay the release of the physical copies until 2027 in order to avoid leaks. He
51:55
responded, "That's not the plan." >> Well, plans change, I guess. Or maybe
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he's counting on an empty box as a physical version, skipping discs at
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launch. I don't know. We'll have to wait and see. I do know how much the game is
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going to cost in Australia, though. >> How much? >> 130.
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>> How much does the game normally cost now? I don't have any
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>> 110 to All right. So, it's a bit more. >> It's No, but 120. Like, it's it's not
52:22
unreasonable. >> No. Okay. How much is it going to be
52:26
here? I don't know. I don't care because I don't >> You're not gonna buy it?
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>> I don't know, man. I feel like I should try it, but I don't
52:36
want to pay that much money for it at launch. >> Oh, there games I am interested in that
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I don't buy at launch. >> Yeah, I feel like I'm not going to buy this.
52:45
>> Well, I've got you to tell me whether I should play it or not.
52:48
>> Well, the thing is I I there's no point in me telling you because you don't like
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these games. I like these games. >> Yeah. No, like was it there was a game I
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wanted recently and I just haven't I'm not going to buy it because I'll wait.
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Oh, Resident Evil. I really want to play that, but I'm going to wait till it's on sale.
53:08
>> Oh, I did see an article recently that saying that they're not going to be
53:11
doing remakes of Resident Evil five and six. And I went, I know why.
53:17
>> Because they weren't very good. >> They weren't very good, >> but make them good.
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>> One of them is set in Haiti. And I think that could be interesting if you
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uh >> I don't I don't I haven't played the actual game, but I'm imagining it
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probably didn't do a lot with it, but Haiti as the source of zombies
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>> could be a really cool setting. >> Yeah, I don't think they did a lot with
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it. Six was to some co-opy thing that just was horrible, but >> right,
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>> I think they're just stopping because they know that they know their audience.
53:47
I don't know that they stopped being good at four until they did the new ones. >> Yeah.
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>> So they came back with seven and sort of restarted the whole genre.
53:57
>> When I say the source of zombies, like Haiti, the law of like as in zombies as
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we know them in in media and Hollywood, that comes from like Haitian tradition.
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>> So I feel like you could make >> carefully. I guess you'd have to be
54:11
respectful. You'd have to be careful about it. But I feel like it would be an
54:15
interesting setting if somebody was able to do that.
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>> But maybe that game's not the game for that. >> But but but yeah, that that that
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wouldn't be a remake. That would be going back and redoing the game just
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>> No, they do do that. They do do that. Yeah. [laughter] Okay, fine. But make a
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new game and set it there. I just think that would be really interesting as a as
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[clears throat] a setting >> because I I think I talk I talked about
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it already. I read a book about the um the source of uh the is they tell you
54:39
about this the botonist the the uh paleo the botist who went to he got sent
54:46
to Haiti to try and figure out what zombies were cuz they it's like a
54:49
cultural thing over there and like they people say that they literally die and
54:53
then come back and then the short version of it is he discovers that um
54:57
there's a a powder that they make that has a bunch of stuff in it but one of
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the main things is like puffer fish uh dried in it. And he found that in Japan
55:06
in particular, the puffer fish you had to eat fugu, the puffer fish. >> Yeah.
55:09
>> You can eat if you eat it and you eat the toxin, the tetrototoxin,
55:14
>> you can literally appear dead, >> be conscious, be present for your funeral. This this
55:20
has literally happened to people. Everyone thinks they're dead. They're
55:24
not dead. They're still conscious. They've experienced their funeral. And
55:29
in they he says people must have been buried alive because of this. Some
55:34
people have not and that's how we know about it.
55:36
>> But that apparently that's what it is is that they they make this powder and um
55:40
>> it's a combination of you get poisoned with this stuff.
55:44
>> You go into this state, everyone thinks you're dead, they bury you,
55:48
>> the the people uh come and dig you up
55:53
and then revive you. Uh, and then you become a zombie, which is basically an
55:58
indentured servant for the for the like the the shaman kind of thing. And they
56:03
put you to work and stuff like that. And then um there's this case of this one
56:07
guy investigates who the shaman was killed by one of the zombies and then
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they all thought, "Oh, the spell's broken." And so they went home, but they
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were shunned by the family and the and the community because they were zombies.
56:20
And it's like this whole it's this weird mix of >> It's fascinating. Yeah. No, the book is
56:26
really interesting because it's this mix of of like poisoned and then culturally
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they think, well, you're not my son anymore. You're this other thing. And so
56:36
>> I the reason why that probably killed the child is I don't want to be your
56:41
slave anymore. >> Somebody figured out, hang on, I'm not
56:44
actually under this guy's control. But but like yeah, it's just Yeah, it's just
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this fascinating cultural thing where this happens to you and you go, oh [ __ ]
56:51
I'm a zombie. So you just accept it and then like >> wow.
56:55
>> Yeah. Not necess probably [laughter] not. You just got poisoned, mate. >> Yeah.
57:00
>> But but then Yeah. They go back to the their town and everyone's like, "Fuck
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off, mate. You're a zombie. Don't want anything to do with you."
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>> Uh yeah, it's interesting. >> It's sad for them.
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>> Yeah. Anyway, I think that [laughter] background >> that could be awesome.
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>> And and there's more to The book goes into why and like the slave revolt and
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that because it's like it's it's an interesting story and it would make a cool game.
57:25
>> Yes. >> I don't think Resident Evil 6 is that game though or five. Whichever one. I
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think it was six. >> It was five. >> Was it five or someone in Haiti? Okay. >> Yep.
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>> Anyway, >> need to see if I can still get the achievements on that on PC.
57:42
>> Also, >> feel free to fact check me on any of that. I just read a book [laughter]
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and that's that's what I remember from the book. So, if anybody out there is
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listening to this going, "You're full of shit." Let me know because I don't mean
57:52
to be. I just read a book and I thought it was interesting.
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>> Yeah, sometimes we remember stuff wrong. >> Yeah, it wasn't that long ago, so I'm
58:00
pretty sure that's what the book was saying. But again,
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>> pretty sure I remember stuff wrong the most. >> I'm pretty sure you remember stuff
58:10
wrong. Dan reads headlines wrong. >> Yes. [laughter]
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in a funny way sometimes. Sorry, Dan. I know Dan's listening to this going, "Fuck you."
58:18
>> Just just just read that extra line under that one.
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>> Oh, we've got some followup actually courtesy of Dan who >> yes
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>> messaged us the other day asking why we pronounce a certain former former
58:32
celebrity. That's a weird way to say it. [laughter] Uh,
58:37
apparently you and I both say and I'm going to say it because this is just how
58:40
I say his name. Anthony Stewart Head. I don't know why I say it that way.
58:45
Anthony Stewart Head. I don't know why I say it that way, but we think that's
58:49
very funny because his name is obviously Anthony Head.
58:53
>> And they don't credit him as well, they don't credit him as Anthony Stewart Head
58:58
in a lot of things. He's just Anthony Head or Tony. They call him Tony Head.
59:02
Anthony Head. Anthony Head. Actor and singer. I just always believe Anthony
59:09
Stewart >> because in the credits of Buffy he's Anthony Stewart and hang check something
59:13
in the credits is his is the name Stwart slightly larger in the font or something
59:18
[laughter] cuz I don't know why I do that.
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>> So is it one of these cases where he changed his name
59:28
to be shorter later or something and I just didn't
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>> No, I mean he's included his middle name for some reason. Uh,
59:37
why is Anthony No. Why is he as Giles? No, cuz he was a famous actor. I'm
59:42
assuming that's why. Why does Anthony Head have the have his
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middle name sometimes? [laughter]
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Oh, because there's another actor called Tony Head.
1:00:01
So to avoid confusion, he's Anthony Stewart >> head.
1:00:06
>> Yeah. Anthony Stewart Head. Anthony Stewart
1:00:10
>> head. [laughter] >> Anyway,
1:00:16
he called us out on that. >> Yeah, but I didn't realize I was doing anything weird.
1:00:21
>> Write in. Let us know. How do you say his name? [snorts]
1:00:24
>> Yes. Put it in writing how you say his name. >> Where do you emphasize his name? And is
1:00:29
it Stuart? Because apparently that's where we emphasize it.
1:00:34
Anthony Stewart Head. Not Anthony. Not Stewart Head.
1:00:40
>> Do you know that he Anthony Stewart Head played Dr. Frankenfer?
1:00:45
>> Yes, I did know that in the stage play. >> I didn't know that.
1:00:47
>> Yeah, in a stage play. >> Yeah, [snorts] I would have seen that.
1:00:51
>> Yeah. Yeah. [ __ ] yeah.
1:00:56
[sighs] Ah, I I just saw Repo and then and um [ __ ] what's his name? Damon
1:01:02
was his what's the director? Repo J Cor Damon
1:01:08
Darren Darren Lin Bowsman. Sorry. The director did a little intro video when
1:01:12
we saw it because it's like a rescreening of it all. And he said that the
1:01:16
>> thanks to the fans uh it's not off the table that there'll be a follow-up. >> Oh.
1:01:22
>> Well, he wouldn't be in it anyway because he dies. Spoilers. Yeah.
1:01:25
>> Um but yeah, I was just like, "Oh, that's a shame." Because he could have
1:01:28
been involved somehow. >> Yeah. >> But yeah, he wouldn't it wouldn't be starring him.
1:01:33
>> No, >> he dies at the end. Spoilers.
1:01:39
Yeah. >> Shame.
1:01:43
Anyway, uh, one interesting one that I saw this week is that Richard Garrett,
1:01:50
uh, famed, uh, game maker made Ultima, >> uh, of which
1:01:56
>> I have an original copy of it up there. >> Ultima is still going, isn't it?
1:02:01
>> I don't think so. Currently, >> uh, oh, they might might have kept Ultima online.
1:02:06
>> Yeah. >> Running, but I don't know. >> But yeah, the Eccentric Lord British.
1:02:12
Yes. Lord British. Yeah. Y >> uh he's an eccentric man. He's a
1:02:16
astronaut now. Uh amongst other things. Um >> is he an actual astronaut?
1:02:22
>> Yeah, I think so. >> Was he one of those ones that went up and down [laughter]
1:02:26
>> in an elevator? >> I don't count those ones. >> Richard Garrett astronaut
1:02:33
is a real astronaut.
1:02:39
Yes, he became the sixth private citizen to head into space when he spent 12 days
1:02:45
aboard the ISS. >> Okay, >> that's legit. >> That's legit.
1:02:49
>> Um, so anyway, he's trying to get the rights to Ultima back to make another game.
1:02:54
>> Where did Where did he get his money from? >> From Ultima, I think.
1:02:59
>> He didn't get go to space money from Ultima, did he?
1:03:02
>> Oh, I think he might have. Ultima was huge. >> Wow.
1:03:06
>> Back in the 80s. Yeah, those like they made a lot of money those early and and
1:03:11
I guess he was smarter with it. You hear about you know Sierra and what they got up to
1:03:16
>> and they went bankrupt at one point. Like that was that's cuz they they
1:03:19
weren't smart with it. They were too busy building hot tubs and >> hiring
1:03:24
disreputable uh ladies to be in the hot tubs. [laughter]
1:03:29
>> It was it was research for games.
1:03:32
>> Yes, I'm sure it was. Um but uh yeah, so
1:03:38
Richard Garrett's trying to get the rights to Ultimate Back and apparently
1:03:41
he might or
1:03:45
spotting new trademarks like he he he might be able to do it. There's some
1:03:49
obscure law uh because EA's not been doing anything with it and he wants to
1:03:54
take it back. >> So yeah, that could be
1:04:00
Oh, I can see. So he sold where was it? just saw.
1:04:05
So, Ultimate 2 was published by Sierra, but the third game Garrett opted to form
1:04:11
his own label in ' 83, Origin Systems, >> which he sold which was purchased by EA
1:04:17
>> for $30 million. That's $30 million in 92. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, as long as he wasn't a
1:04:23
dumbass with that money, which it seems like he wasn't, >> uh, you know, he's good.
1:04:28
>> Yep. >> Um, he's a strange man. like he like
1:04:32
he's a weird dude. Uh but I feel like let him have it back.
1:04:37
>> I'd be interested to see what he do with it with today's technology
1:04:40
>> or let him let like at least you know let him do something with it. If EA is
1:04:44
not going to do anything with it, let him do it. >> Yeah. I wonder what sort of
1:04:48
>> It's like a 35 year rule where uh Okay. An obscure copyright law dictates the
1:04:54
original creator is allowed to reclaim work after 35 years. Uh however, the key
1:05:00
word is copyright. EA would still retain retain the trademark to Ultima, meaning
1:05:04
he would be able to make an Ultima game, but have to brand it distinctively from
1:05:08
EA's property. Okay. >> It's sort of weird. >> Yeah. >> Couldn't he possibly already do
1:05:14
something like that now? >> You would think so. Just make a role playing game. >> Yeah.
1:05:19
>> I mean, you're not going to make it the same as the original Ultima. Surely.
1:05:22
Like, don't make that. No one No one wants that. >> No one's playing that. [laughter]
1:05:27
>> Make a new one. Just call it Blimma. But I think I think the big thing is he he'd
1:05:32
want to be Lord British still. And I think that might be
1:05:36
>> Yes, that's a good point. I wonder if they own that. Would they own Maybe
1:05:41
>> I'd say they would. >> Yeah. >> He still calls himself that, doesn't he?
1:05:47
>> For anyone who doesn't know, Lord British is the king of Britannia.
1:05:52
Britannia, the the world of Ultima. >> And uh it's it's Richard Garrett put
1:05:57
himself in there as Lord British. And so he calls himself Lord British in the real world.
1:06:02
>> The guy who goes by the name Lord British is in short a character. >> He is.
1:06:07
>> He hasn't clarified what EA's trademark refer to or what will future Ultima
1:06:13
would be. He suggests fans pop by his upcoming appearance at Dragon Kong in
1:06:19
Atlanta. [laughter] Of course, [gasps] >> by then he'll say he says he'll hope to
1:06:25
have more thoughts to together about what will what that will actually mean.
1:06:30
>> You can read. >> I I struggled that you can read.
1:06:35
>> I struggled [laughter] to get you back into a book somehow.
1:06:41
>> Yeah. Well, cuz that's the thing like I as I do joke to go I can't read and it's
1:06:46
not that's not the case. I can read. I just can't stop and read anymore. >> Interesting.
1:06:51
>> I don't I can't find time to sit down and read.
1:06:54
>> I feel like your achievement hunting has ruined your attention span probably. >> Yes.
1:06:59
>> That that [snorts] I really think is it >> interesting. Well, it's a shame.
1:07:04
>> When I used to catch a train to work, I'd read two, three books a week.
1:07:08
>> Oh, same mate. Like and then >> now where I live I you don't catch
1:07:14
public transport and I'm a five minute walk to work is >> Yeah.
1:07:21
Well, >> you know what? I think that brings the show to a close except
1:07:28
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