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We need to get this out of the way so I can run.

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Yeah. Walk before you can run. Got to do a little

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10K, nothing crazy. Just get this bit out of

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the way where we talk about games and all the

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other stuff that we're going to do. Bank holiday

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weekend. It's a three -day weekend. Comic -Con,

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D &D, gaming. That's my three splits. We've got

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Comic -Con tomorrow. That's going to be fantastic.

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I was at New Cross today and we drove past a

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bus stop and there was a geezer from Halo sat

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at the bus stop. And I was like, that's really

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out of place because no one else is dressed up.

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And I was like, why the fuck are they there?

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And then I realised Comic -Con starts today.

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So that's obviously why they were there. And

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yeah, I'm very excited. Very, very, very, very

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excited. Going to get there for nine o 'clock,

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early doors, bosh, straight in, walk around,

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see the shit, buy some shit, go home. It's great.

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I'm excited for you, man. It's going to be a

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cracking time. And then we've got... On the Sunday.

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Oh, my God. I know. I've got to run a half marathon

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before that. Oh, God. So, I'll be fine, fuelled

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up, ready for kebabs or whatever the fuck we

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order from... From wherever. I'll be sitting

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down as much as possible. Yeah. Decent. Yeah.

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And that's that. That's that. We've been playing

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the same shit. We have. We can't talk about it

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yet. Why? Because we'll wait until near the end.

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Because then people say, if you haven't played

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it, we can just turn off now. If we talk about

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it now, people are going to jump in and people

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are going to stop talking about it. That was

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kind of my whole thing. Yeah, I know. I haven't

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really got much else to say. We're going to have

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to. Nah. I can talk about FIFA. Go on. I finished

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my second season. First season in the Premier

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League. Yeah. Finished fourth. Who was you playing

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as? Portsmouth. Portsmouth. Finished fourth.

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First season in the Premier, you finished fourth.

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Uh -huh. It's not bad. It was fucking amazing,

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to be honest with you. It was very good. Amazing.

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So, does that mean that you then qualified for...

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Go on. You can do it. Europe. Champions League.

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Correct. There we go. Bang. Correct. I'm learning.

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I was like sixth for a lot of it and then a couple

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of results went my way and I looked at the table

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and I was fourth and I was like, oh shit, I might

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sneak in the Champions League here. And I did.

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Portsmouth in the Champions League. Portsmouth

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in the champ. Yeah, that's quite something. Yeah,

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well, bear in mind I had like eight million when

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I come up with something to spend. Not a lot.

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Now we've qualified for Champions League. It

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is 90 million. Go and spend it how you please.

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Is that what they give you if you qualify for

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that? They got a lot more than that. But what

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they distribute as a transfer budget is obviously

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not going to give you all of them. That's like

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a prize money for just getting fourth. Yeah,

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I've got a couple of young lads coming through.

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Reggie Welch. Oh, he's like 16. He is a bags

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man. Yeah. He is bagging. Yeah. He is bagging.

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Reggie Welch. Reggie Welch, yeah. He's going

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to be... That's a horrible last name. Welch.

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Yeah, it's like that hooker girl, isn't it? It

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sounds like... Have you ever seen someone throw

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up a ball of spinach? No. It sounds like what

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that looks like. Welch. Okay. Oh, he's just throwing

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up some fucking Welch. I don't care what he does

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in his spare time. He bags goals. He bags goals.

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Goals go in because of him. Well, I've had a

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South Korean up front for... the first two seasons.

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He's been all right, but when he's been injured,

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this little young lad's come in and he's bagging.

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He reminds me of a young Michael Owen, if you

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remember him. Yeah, I've just sent some scouts,

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man. I've got a six foot four, 16 -year -old

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Brazilian breaking through. Fucking hell. He's

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massive. He's fucking massive. I can't remember

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what his name was, something really cool. Well,

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he's now playing for Portsmouth. It's Pompey,

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yeah. They don't start, so they just come on

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when they need to. 6 '4", Brazilian, 16 -year

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-old. Fucking hell. He's not even finished growing.

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He's a unit, mate. So that's my season done.

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I'm excited to step into the transfer market

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and see what sort of players I can acquire. but

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I turn it off before I'll ever think about it.

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Because, you know, you can convert this to real

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life stuff. Who do I like in real life? Yeah,

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I need to work on this. Can't just make hasty

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decisions. There's a lot riding on this. Oh,

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yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm quite happy with the

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squad as it is, but we're going to be competing

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against the best of the best now. You know what

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I mean? I managed to sneak a 1 -0 against City.

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Yeah. But early on in the season, I got battered

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by Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool. They were all

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just schooling me. All over you. Yeah. But now

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you've got that big boy budget. Well, that's

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not really a big boy budget though, is it? 90

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million. Not in this day and age. Which is mental,

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isn't it? When you think about it. That's not

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huge. I remember when the record signings were

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like two, three mil. And it was like, oh, world

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record signings. I think it was Rio Ferdinand

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went to Leeds. I think it was like 30 million

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or something he went for. That was mental money,

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bro. I wonder if I can ask the AI. What is the

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world record football signing? Neymar, 200 mil.

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The world record for a football, soccer, signing

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is Neymar's transfer from Barcelona to Paris

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Saint -Germain, PSG, in 2017. The transfer fee

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for Neymar was 222 million euros, 200 million

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pounds. That's mental, isn't it? 200 million

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pounds. But that was nearly 10 years ago. That's

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eight years ago that happened. And that still

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hasn't been broken? It hasn't been broken. That's

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a hefty fucking... Was he that good? Well, Neymar,

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yeah, he's an unbelievable player. The thing

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is, right, you've got players like Declan Rice

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now at Arsenal. They didn't win nothing. I believe

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that he could still step into any team in the

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world. I think he could go Real Madrid. I think

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he could go Barcelona. And you've got Trent Alexander

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-Arnold. You know who he is. Liverpool. Liverpool.

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Born and bred. Played there for his whole career.

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20 years he's been there. He's only 26 or whatever.

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27. He's leaving, isn't he? Yeah. But he's going

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to Real Madrid on a free. But... And it just

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got me thinking. Like... Barcelona have got a

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young lad coming through now. Laminia Mal. You

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heard of him? Mm -hmm. Came on in the Euros.

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I remember. And it was like, I thought, oh, it's

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all just, you know, he scored a good goal, but

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it's just, you know, here's what it is, 16. Yeah.

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Probably just fade into... I didn't even realise

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you could play at 16, if I'm honest. I didn't

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know that was a thing you could do. I'm pretty

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sure you can play when you're 15. I think you

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can play whenever, as long as you're good enough.

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Because when they won, I thought, he's going

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to go and do some illegal shit. That's what's

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going to happen there. But he come through and,

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yeah, he's kept it going. And I watched him play

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the other day and I was like, oh, no, he is actually

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the real deal. He is something ridiculous. He's

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still 16 or whatever he is now. And it got me

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thinking, Barcelona and Real Madrid fans are

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the only fans in world football that can have

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a young talent come through and be like, sick,

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we've got him for 20 years. Because there's not

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another team in the world that Real Madrid and

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Barcelona can't attract players from. Do you

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reckon, yeah? 100%. We've got Trent Alexander

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-Arnold. He's a born and bred Liverpool fan.

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He's won all the trophies with Liverpool. He

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could go down as a Steven Gerrard club legend

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at Liverpool, but he's chose to go Real Madrid

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because he's Real Madrid. It doesn't matter.

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Yeah, if they call you up, you go home. It's

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always Real Madrid or Barcelona. They're the

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only two clubs that people are just like, oh,

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but it's them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they're the

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only fans that get that luxury. Like when Declan

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Rice came through, like, oh, he's amazing, but

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he's going to go. you just know he's going to

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go. Whether it be Arsenal, Real Madrid, Barcelona,

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whatever it might be. When he was at West Ham.

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How long was he at West Ham for? He was there

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for a while though, wasn't he? Yeah, he was there

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for years when he was young. He joined our academy

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when he was probably, I don't know, 10, 11, I

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don't know, something like that. Because that's

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one of the key things, isn't it? Because I've

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been watching the new season of Welcome to Wrexham.

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Obviously they're now, it's very cool because

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I've followed them quite a lot through. through

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the season hoping that they would get promotion,

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which obviously they have now in the championship.

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So it's cool to watch this season on the documentary

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because it's just loads of people saying, oh,

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will we get back to back to back, blah, blah,

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blah. And you're like, you fucking do. So it's

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nice to see it. But one of the big things they

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talk about on the last episode is building their

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academy. is one of the main focal points of their

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spending for heading into the championship is

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they need to bump up their academy because that's

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where a lot of their talent comes through. And

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I didn't realise that was a thing, if I'm honest.

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I thought it was just, here's a load of money,

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go and buy some decent players. I've never actually

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thought, where the fuck do the players come from?

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Where are they made? Just pick them up off the

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street. Academies are massive. Yeah, like West

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Ham, that's one of our nicknames, the Academy

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of Football. Because we produce players, Frank

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Lampard, Jermaine Defoe, Michael Carrick, Joe

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Cole, Glenn Johnson. John Terry even played for

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us when he was young. We've produced all these

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world -class, Rio Ferdinand, all these world

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-class players that have gone on to do amazing

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things. And they all come from your youth team.

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But the youth team is huge, especially for smaller

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clubs. For example... say I don't know just pick

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a team out of nothing Stevenage for argument's

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sake they produce in there through their youth

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team their catchment area they're going out scouting

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like Sunday League football and youth football

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and stuff like that they'll sign a young lad

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he plays he's really good and then I don't know

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say someone like fucking Tottenham come in and

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they're looking at him alright well Give us a

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couple of mil. Imagine Stevenage getting a few

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million pounds for a player. That's from their

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academy. You know what I mean? And that's what...

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The youth football is what makes a lot of clubs

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keep running because their players get... Like

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a money -making thing. You either get a decent

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player in your club or you get an expensive player

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that you can sell off. Exactly. So it's like

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a balancing act. So you'd be like, all right,

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I don't want to sell this kid, but if we sell

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him, we can fucking go out and buy another player

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and we can play these... pay these players wages

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for the next five years because they're only

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on fucking 800 quid a week or whatever. You know

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what I mean? We can improve the youth facilities.

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Like youth teams in football is huge. And yeah,

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we used to have one of the best ones. Unfortunately,

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not so much nowadays. But yeah. Do you deal with

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much of that in Football Manager? Yeah, yeah.

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All of it. Yeah, yeah, 100%. Youth academies

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and... And on FIFA, you send scouts out looking

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for youth players and then you can sign them.

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I've got like 14 -year -olds in my academy. I

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can't sign them to the first team until they're

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16. But they're playing like youth football,

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so you get to keep an eye on their ratings and

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their stats going up and if their pace is going

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up or they're shooting, passing, yadda yadda.

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And they get taller and stuff. I hope that fucking

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Brazilian don't get any taller. Huge cunt. Fuck

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you now. Jesus Christ. 7 foot 17. Yeah, if he

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keeps growing, the league is in trouble. But

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yeah, it's part of the fun, man, because at the

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end of every season on Football Manager, there's

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a certain date where you get a message from your

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assistant manager and he says, here's the most

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recent influx of youth prospects to the team.

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And then you can go through your youth players

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and be like, he looks good. He looks like he

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could. Because obviously you're looking at the

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stats from, the stats are shocking, but if they're,

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say he's finishing, he's like 12 out of 20 on

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Football Manager when he's... 14 well that number's

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just going to go up so you think by the time

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he's fucking 20 in six years that finishing from

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12 could be 20 so you look at them stats and

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think well them ones are going to go up so you

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focus on his training to be a striker do you

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know what I mean it's great that's the part of

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the fun you nurture these players into professional

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athletes and then they go on and they're amazing

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and they're great and then you sell them because

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you need the money and they score against you

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in the Champions League final Does that happen?

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Of course it does. Of course it does. And that's

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the fun of it. You're like, oh. Or you do that

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and you nurture a player and you sell him on

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because you need the money and then you win something.

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Your club comes into money. You get to buy him

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back and bring him home like a homecoming. Welcome

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back, son. Does that happen often? Buying a player

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back after selling him? In real football? Yeah.

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Yeah, it has happened a lot. Yeah, it has happened.

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We've had loads of players back. We had Joe Cole

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back. That must be so fucking annoying though.

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It's almost like pawning. Yeah, they have their

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good years with the other club and then you're

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like, oh, come on then. Come back. Have your

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last payday. Yeah, yeah. Just from the start.

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I think Declan Wise will come back one day. You

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reckon, yeah? Yeah, when he's like 35, I think

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he might finish his career at West Ham. When

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he's done his time, yeah. When he finishes his

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career at West Ham, maybe. Because he's actually

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a Chelsea fan, Declan Wise, because he was at

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Chelsea's academy, got released because they

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said he wasn't good enough. Yeah, yeah. Joined

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West Ham's academy. Imagine that. And now look

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at him. Yeah, yeah. One of the world's best.

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He could easily fit in Real Madrid's centre midfielder.

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He's a geezer. The GOAT, for me. He's the only

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West Ham captain I've ever seen lift a trophy.

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Probably ever will be as well. Never mind, Dave.

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Never mind. This is a gaming podcast, by the

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way, not football. It was about FIFA. Kind of,

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yeah. It was, I guess. I know. There'll be plenty

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of people that will like that conversation. What

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else have I been up to? Fuck all. No, I've been

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playing PlayStation, man. What else have I been

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playing is what I'm after. I've played that that

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shan't be named. It must have been entirely Expedition

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33. Entirely. Did you see their messages on Patreon

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the other day? Yeah, and I saw you shutting them

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down because you didn't want to hear anything.

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I said, I'm not going to bother reading these

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then. If I went in there and you two had already

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been chatting, I'd have been like, ah! Yeah,

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no, yeah, I can't. I can't help it. What's that?

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Yeah, we're going to have to talk about it. Yeah,

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we're going to talk about it. Obviously. Yeah.

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I'm not looking forward to it. What did I see?

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I sent you something on Instagram. Did you see

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it? No. Oh, no, I didn't. No, I see it and I

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swiped it away. What? I was busy. I was busy.

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I was busy. What did you see? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

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You know who actually told me about that before

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you sent me that? It was Mark, of all people.

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video game Elden Ring to life as a live -action

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I think... That will be fantastic. I don't know

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what they're going to follow. Are you going to

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follow the perceived story? Where are you going

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to go with that? We're definitely going to see

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Radan. We're definitely going to see Melania.

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You can't have neither of those being involved.

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Are you going to see bosses from Shadow of the

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Erdtree? Probably not. But... what the fuck are

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you supposed to turn that into a live action

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I've no idea because I don't understand what

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was going on anyway there's a whole story that's

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what I'm saying yeah there's a tree there's a

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beast just if it's in front of you I'll kill

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it yeah I wanna what I would like to see is a

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is that fucking weird mechanical creature that

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like opened up and then sucks you in and it's

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like that the sarcophagus thingy with the spikes

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and takes you to the volcanic manor yeah yeah

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yeah i would like to see something like that

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because i don't even understand how that works

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how the fuck does that work i've no idea um yeah

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that's very interesting be very cool that's that's

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one of the one of them going to be one of the

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more decent live actions i reckon if it's done

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right which i would imagine it is do you think

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maybe bill's gonna have anything to do with it

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who was that george rr martin Maybe. Maybe it's

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kind of up his street. He did write the law,

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didn't he? Yeah. So you'd like to think that

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it would be the case? Henry Cavill. Fucking get

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involved in it. I love him, but he can't be in

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everything. He can. Give the geezer a rest. I'd

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like to see who they would make a protagonist

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and what kind of protagonist they would be in

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that. Very interesting. You'll just have to keep

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an eye on it. You won't fucking hear anything

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else for the next year. It's going to be Bella

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Ramsey, I heard. You reckon Bella Ramsey as the

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fucking Tarnished? The Tarnished. The Chosen

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One. It'll be cool. It'll be very cool. It's

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interesting. Yeah, I don't know. I'm just picturing

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it. I can't see what... I couldn't even imagine

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where you would begin. Fuck knows, because whilst

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there is a story, there's also different endings

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to that story. I'd imagine they won't tell that

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story. I imagine it would be like before the

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shattering or something or whatever it's called.

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Yeah. It'd be like, we're done before he was,

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you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't even think

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of that. Yeah, there's nothing tying them to

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the campaign, so to speak. Speaking of campaign,

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it's out next Friday. I know. Night rain. I know.

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That's going to be fun. Is that coming out? Do

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you know how expensive that is? That's not full

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price, is it? No. I think it's like 40 quid or

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45 quid. Whatever it is, it's Eldon Ring. Do

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you know what I mean? You just throw money at

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it. It's going to get purchased. It's going to

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get fucking done. I need to... It's not going

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to happen because I'm stuck in Scotland for three

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days, but I need to get Expedition done so that

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I'm free to play other shit because it's just

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taking up everything. Stop trying to force me

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onto Expedition. You're going to have to. How

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long have we been recording? Long enough for

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us to be talking about it because I haven't got

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anything else to talk about. It's my main subject

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matter and you started by saying we can't talk

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about it. Unfortunately, if you haven't played

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it and plan on playing it, I highly recommend

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you do not listen further because it's like an

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impossible game. I just wouldn't bother playing

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if I listened to this part. But you are making

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me nervous. Why? Because I know how shit you

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are with saying things you shouldn't say. And

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I'll be subconsciously picking away subliminal

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messages from you about stuff. I can't even look

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at you when I'm going to talk about the game

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because you might do a little grin or something.

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Has it happened yet? Exactly. See, straight away.

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Exactly that sort of stuff. So, yeah. So, I feel...

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How many hours in are you? Ten, maybe? Okay,

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yeah, sweet. So we can talk about everything

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that you've done. Right, yeah, so that's what

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I'm going to say. We will only talk about the

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stuff I've done. Agreed? So far, yeah. Agreed?

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I must be. We'll only talk about the things that

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I have done. Yes, go on. And we don't talk about

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any mechanics that I don't talk about. We don't

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talk about anything, any party members. You only

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mention characters that I know. You guide it,

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and I'll fill in the blanks, the spoilers. So

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where do you want to start? Well, I don't know,

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do I? It's all right. The game's all right. The

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game's all right. It's good. It's good. It's

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good, isn't it? It's good. I see like, you know,

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it's very good. But it's also taken a lot from

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other games. So it's not like a... So whilst

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it might be very fresh for a lot of players,

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I'm like, I have seen this stuff before. But

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it's very niche, isn't it? Like the levelling

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up your companion, like talking to them and spending

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time with them. I still don't know what that

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does. Yeah, that's in, like, Persona. I can't

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think of a top med, but most of it is basically

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taken from them sort of games. But, yeah, obviously

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the big reveal, the big shocker, we'll just get

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straight to it, was old Gustav getting shanked

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up by the old fella. Weren't expecting that at

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all. Nah. Gustav. Gustav, yeah. Poor old Gussie.

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R .I .P. Yeah, that was... Or is it R .I .P.?

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See, this is what I mean. I have no idea. This

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is why I don't want to talk to you. I have no

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idea. But yeah, I'll tell you what, when that

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other fella turned up, old Verso, I was like,

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yeah, I'd much prefer playing as you anyway,

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bruv. I prefer playing as Verso than Gustav.

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He's fucking sick. You know who he's voiced by,

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don't you? Who? It's Clive out of Final Fantasy.

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Oh, is it? It's Ben Star, man. Who's ringing

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you? It's my fucking mother. Fuck off! Talking

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about Expedition 33. I'm only joking. But we

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are. His abilities are a lot more fun. Yeah,

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the abilities are cool. He's also a lot more

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fucking powerful. Yeah, he seems pretty hard.

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I like the big marshmallow geezer that you can

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ride on. He's amusing to me. He makes me lol.

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He's very fun, I like him. He's the most powerful

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being in the entire universe of that game. Do

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you need to answer it? No. I'll be honest. Up

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until, like Sam said about it gets good after

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you've been within paintbrushes, whatever they're

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called. Oh, the gestrals. Gestrals, yeah. Up

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until that point, I was just running. I was just

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like, just get me out of this shit. I was doing

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my head in. What, in the gestural village? All

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of that shit. I was like, this is boring. It's

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not amusing. It's just irritating. There's loads

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of stuff to do in the gestural village. I just

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got out there. It's pissing me off. Oh, you missed

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out on loads of shit. Nah, bruv. I done an arena

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and then I was like, gone. The arena's fun. It's

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just, I don't want to talk to paintbrushes. Just

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fucking move on. Yeah, the only bit that I did,

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because I liked that area, but the only bit I

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didn't like is that the ADHD kicks in in that

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if you give me the ability to talk to someone,

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I need to go and talk to them in case I'm missing

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something. And then when you've got an area filled

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with about 100 people and I can talk to every

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single one of them, it's like, oh, my God. So

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now I have to go through and speak to everyone

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to work out what's going on. And sure enough,

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I did. So, yeah, I think by the time I'd left

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that place, I was done with it. But I had rinsed

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it for everything they had, basically. Yeah,

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no, as soon as I could leave, I was like, get

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me out of here. I actually need to go back and

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fight Gorgra. I did try fighting her. She fucked

00:22:41.869 --> 00:22:44.170
me up. She one -banged me. Yeah, so I need to

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go back because I'm pretty sure I can go back

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and fuck her up now. Yeah, so as soon as I could

00:22:50.329 --> 00:22:52.910
get out of there, I got out of there. And yeah,

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Sam said, yeah, once you get out of there, it

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gets better. And I was like, fuck. Because at

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that time, I was liking it. I was enjoying it.

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But it was a bit slow. And I was like, come on.

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Like, what am I missing? Yeah, what's happening?

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Because everyone's loving this. And I'm not seeing

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it. At the moment, it's very like. and now it's

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getting a lot more it's getting a lot darker

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it's a lot more like it definitely has a like

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a a point where it and it's not it's not too

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basically sort of like when Gustav gets shanked

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up that's when it teeters into yeah I can see

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what people are on about because I probably share

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the same feelings as you is I thought it was

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really good when I first started playing it but

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there were aspects where I was like it's good

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but everyone's saying this is absolutely amazing.

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And I was like, where is that? Because it's good,

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but I wouldn't be sitting here going like, fucking

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hell, this is like the best game in the world.

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But it is very fucking, once you get over that

00:23:50.710 --> 00:23:53.369
tiny little hump, and it's not like it's a make

00:23:53.369 --> 00:23:58.349
you stop playing type hump. It's just somewhat

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mundane. Impatience. Yeah. Once you get enough.

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once you get enough pictos and level your characters

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up enough and shit like that and enough abilities

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that's when it really starts to get fun because

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you can fuck around with so much different stuff

00:24:14.259 --> 00:24:17.059
or you don't have to but when you've got the

00:24:17.059 --> 00:24:23.579
basics it's just a bit slow yeah yeah as soon

00:24:23.579 --> 00:24:24.960
as I could get out of there I got out of there

00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:28.519
I liked I was in it for too long. I started to

00:24:28.519 --> 00:24:30.420
get annoyed with it. But when I first went into

00:24:30.420 --> 00:24:32.039
that underwater bit, I was like, this is fucking

00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:34.960
sick. Because I know you probably don't. I wear

00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:36.880
headphones. The music in that game is mental.

00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:39.900
So good. So fucking good. Good playlist. Getting

00:24:39.900 --> 00:24:42.809
me all gassed and shit. But, yeah. But then,

00:24:42.890 --> 00:24:44.869
like I say, the enemies, like you said, oh, you

00:24:44.869 --> 00:24:46.670
always find the same enemies. And I was just

00:24:46.670 --> 00:24:48.589
getting bored of seeing the same fucking enemies

00:24:48.589 --> 00:24:50.690
with, like, wooden faces and shit. Yeah, yeah.

00:24:50.829 --> 00:24:52.869
But now, where I'm at, I'm seeing, like, the

00:24:52.869 --> 00:24:54.829
cool shit. I'm seeing people with massive swords.

00:24:54.910 --> 00:24:57.009
And I'm like, this is more the stuff I want to

00:24:57.009 --> 00:24:59.589
see. I don't want to fight paintbrushes. I want

00:24:59.589 --> 00:25:02.230
to fight demons and winged monstrosities. Do

00:25:02.230 --> 00:25:04.039
you know what I mean? oh there's some mental

00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:07.500
shit yeah so i'm i'm i'm enjoying when it's like

00:25:07.500 --> 00:25:09.579
that i enjoy it much more and i'm hoping it like

00:25:09.579 --> 00:25:13.079
continues down that trend uh of like being more

00:25:13.079 --> 00:25:15.900
adult to see what you see what i mean where when

00:25:15.900 --> 00:25:17.759
we when we last spoke about it where you're saying

00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:19.680
you weren't you weren't a massive fan of the

00:25:19.680 --> 00:25:21.940
whole i don't know what you called it where you

00:25:21.940 --> 00:25:25.779
have that that that realism um factor of like

00:25:25.779 --> 00:25:27.759
this is a real world that's been changed into

00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:30.119
a fantasy world so i mean where i said it's not

00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:33.259
It's not so much as what you think of that once

00:25:33.259 --> 00:25:35.599
you get out of the fucking tutorial. I'm still

00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:39.220
trying to work out what the fuck I'm sitting.

00:25:39.500 --> 00:25:43.720
Because it's like Paris, but then you're not

00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:45.640
in Paris. But then there's loads of parts of

00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:47.640
Paris knocking about. Everyone's fucking talking

00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:50.279
French. The last thing, and obviously don't say

00:25:50.279 --> 00:25:52.720
anything, but the last thing that I heard before

00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:54.819
I turned it off, they were like, oh, we've got

00:25:54.819 --> 00:25:58.920
to go to Monaco's fucking train yard or something.

00:25:59.180 --> 00:26:02.240
And I was like, Surely you mean Monaco, right?

00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:05.900
No, Monaco. It's not Monaco, no? No, it's Monaco.

00:26:06.059 --> 00:26:08.140
Have you gone there yet? No, I'm in the camp.

00:26:08.420 --> 00:26:10.579
Okay, yeah. So yeah, that was the last thing

00:26:10.579 --> 00:26:14.200
because the last thing I actually did was we

00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:16.940
were crossing some bridge or something. I think

00:26:16.940 --> 00:26:19.579
we just buried Gustave's arm and then that big

00:26:19.579 --> 00:26:21.880
fucking thing with a sword came and then we plummeted

00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:25.039
down and then we fucked him up in there. Two

00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:28.400
phases. I must say, some of the bosses... They've

00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:30.519
fucking whooped my ass, man. Yeah, oh yeah. I've

00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:32.440
been fucked up a lot. Took me a fair... That

00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:35.339
fucking cunt with the lanterns, bruv. Yeah. I

00:26:35.339 --> 00:26:36.880
was getting annoyed. The delay on the attacks

00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:38.960
is fucking something else, man. I thought Elden

00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:42.920
Ring was bad. Some of this shit is proper. Yeah,

00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:45.940
like, yeah. Yeah, some of them is testing my

00:26:45.940 --> 00:26:47.619
patience a little bit. I can imagine that only

00:26:47.619 --> 00:26:51.519
gets worse. Yeah. But, yeah, no, I am enjoying

00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:53.940
it. I do really like it. I can see why people

00:26:53.940 --> 00:26:56.240
are... Very high up on it. But obviously I know

00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:58.099
I'm still well early on. I know there's loads

00:26:58.099 --> 00:27:01.980
of mad shit to come. Combat's fun. I've only

00:27:01.980 --> 00:27:04.500
just started actually paying attention to what

00:27:04.500 --> 00:27:06.880
I'm doing. Because before I was just like, what

00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:09.039
does the most damage? Press that one. And now

00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:11.140
I'm like, I'll use that to fucking expose and

00:27:11.140 --> 00:27:13.059
then that to put a mark on it and then that to

00:27:13.059 --> 00:27:15.099
fucking set them alight. And then I'll use weakness

00:27:15.099 --> 00:27:17.799
to fire and then set them alight. Obviously,

00:27:17.980 --> 00:27:19.220
you're probably going to have different party

00:27:19.220 --> 00:27:23.500
members to me. I've got Shadowheart. Or whatever

00:27:23.500 --> 00:27:26.579
her name is, Elle. Is that Lunae? No, that's

00:27:26.579 --> 00:27:29.740
the, you know, the one that's very sad about

00:27:29.740 --> 00:27:35.559
Gustave dying. Oh, uh... Melanie? Mel? L -A?

00:27:35.700 --> 00:27:38.119
I don't even know her name. Melanie. And then

00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:40.740
the other, the Chinese girl with the symbols

00:27:40.740 --> 00:27:43.000
on her. That's Lunae. Yeah, so I've got her.

00:27:43.480 --> 00:27:47.900
And then you've got Sire. So, the, that, that,

00:27:47.900 --> 00:27:51.039
that, uh, Shadowheart, and then... And then,

00:27:51.059 --> 00:27:54.119
yeah, the woman with the cards. Yeah. But I haven't

00:27:54.119 --> 00:27:56.640
once used her. I haven't even bothered putting

00:27:56.640 --> 00:27:58.819
her in the party. I literally got her, done the

00:27:58.819 --> 00:28:00.619
tutorial with her, and then she's never come

00:28:00.619 --> 00:28:05.180
out. I did that when I first got her. I played

00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:06.279
her for a little bit, and then I was like, yeah,

00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:09.960
you're not really my cup of tea. And then recently

00:28:09.960 --> 00:28:13.420
started using her again, and she is fucking good.

00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:16.039
But then I've swapped her back with Luna, because

00:28:16.039 --> 00:28:21.339
Luna just has so much more AOE, fire and shit

00:28:21.339 --> 00:28:24.500
what i've done is it's not going to spoil anything

00:28:24.500 --> 00:28:26.220
because it's nothing to do with the with the

00:28:26.220 --> 00:28:30.819
story at all is i've turned um luna into a glass

00:28:30.819 --> 00:28:33.240
cannon there's a pick toe that you get which

00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:35.279
is called glass cannon i can't remember where

00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:38.200
i got it from um but it basically just makes

00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:40.960
her do a shit ton more damage but also take a

00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:43.539
shit ton more damage so now she's just fucking

00:28:43.539 --> 00:28:46.619
she's exactly what a sorcerer is just does fucking

00:28:46.619 --> 00:28:51.589
silly silly numbers but one little hit and we're

00:28:51.589 --> 00:28:55.369
in trouble. And it's just fun. I've got her as

00:28:55.369 --> 00:28:59.309
kind of like that, but she's half healer. Mael.

00:29:00.109 --> 00:29:02.970
Mael is her name. Half healer, half fucking flame

00:29:02.970 --> 00:29:05.849
witch because I've got her doing that. There's

00:29:05.849 --> 00:29:09.230
an ability where she constantly inflicts burns

00:29:09.230 --> 00:29:12.269
upon all enemies unless she gets hit and then

00:29:12.269 --> 00:29:13.809
she gets stunned, which is a pain in the dick.

00:29:14.679 --> 00:29:17.019
Yeah, that's an ability that I was really excited

00:29:17.019 --> 00:29:18.859
to use and I haven't seen it in its full potential

00:29:18.859 --> 00:29:20.759
because I always use it and then just immediately

00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:22.940
get fucking... Get whacked, yeah. Just get tunnelled

00:29:22.940 --> 00:29:25.240
and then get hit. So it just ruins it. That happens.

00:29:25.539 --> 00:29:28.160
No, yeah, it's good. I have used it and once

00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:30.680
you let it tick up a little bit, then you start

00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:33.720
putting weakness to fire on, it gets a bit gnarly.

00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:38.240
She pairs up really well with Mael because with

00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:42.200
her abilities, she has a shitload of fire as

00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:47.890
well and then makes shit. weaker to fire so pairing

00:29:47.890 --> 00:29:49.589
the two of them up but then when you come across

00:29:49.589 --> 00:29:52.529
something that is resistant to fire then it's

00:29:52.529 --> 00:29:54.309
obviously it's a fucking problem you have to

00:29:54.309 --> 00:29:57.009
keep putting weakness to it I haven't used a

00:29:57.009 --> 00:29:59.849
recoat thing to change any of my abilities I

00:29:59.849 --> 00:30:04.029
haven't really fucked around with any of that

00:30:04.029 --> 00:30:07.529
just because I can't be bothered it sounds weird

00:30:07.529 --> 00:30:11.690
I've got all my companions none of them use healing

00:30:11.690 --> 00:30:14.309
abilities None of them. Really? Yeah, I don't

00:30:14.309 --> 00:30:17.309
use any of them. I was, because I was having

00:30:17.309 --> 00:30:20.130
to, but I'm at a point where, for some reason,

00:30:20.150 --> 00:30:24.170
I just haven't needed to, if I'm honest. No,

00:30:24.170 --> 00:30:27.109
I fucking have. I've been to Trugsville. Yeah,

00:30:27.529 --> 00:30:29.630
I don't know. Trying to get them, because I'm

00:30:29.630 --> 00:30:32.349
addicted to parries. Parries are fun, man. I

00:30:32.349 --> 00:30:35.470
parry more than I dodge. And then Verso's got

00:30:35.470 --> 00:30:39.289
that other thing where you smash R2. Very cool.

00:30:39.890 --> 00:30:42.490
Where you smash R2? Yeah, where someone does

00:30:42.490 --> 00:30:44.609
a big black shadowy thing and you have to press

00:30:44.609 --> 00:30:50.069
R2. Oh, yeah, yeah. A gradient counter is what

00:30:50.069 --> 00:30:51.670
it's called. He's the one that introduced it

00:30:51.670 --> 00:30:54.109
to me and it's only ever happened from him. I

00:30:54.109 --> 00:30:55.730
didn't know others could do it. Yeah, everyone

00:30:55.730 --> 00:30:57.089
does it. I've never seen it happen to anyone

00:30:57.089 --> 00:30:58.730
else. Yeah, it's the same shit. It's just really

00:30:58.730 --> 00:31:02.549
cool. When you have a flurry of attacks and you

00:31:02.549 --> 00:31:06.190
parry all of them and you get a counter attack

00:31:06.190 --> 00:31:07.470
off the back of it. Then you do the jump and

00:31:07.470 --> 00:31:10.109
then R2. It's very, very fun. It's very satisfying.

00:31:10.349 --> 00:31:11.829
Are you supposed to press R2 on that counter?

00:31:12.589 --> 00:31:15.170
Yeah. When you jump, you have to press R2 to

00:31:15.170 --> 00:31:18.079
attack back. Oh, fuck, I don't. Oh, yeah, no,

00:31:18.140 --> 00:31:19.579
you've got to press R2, bro, otherwise you don't

00:31:19.579 --> 00:31:22.079
do no damage. No, you do. Do you? Yeah. Oh, no,

00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:23.339
you definitely have to press R2. It comes up

00:31:23.339 --> 00:31:26.140
saying R2. It literally says R2 when you jump.

00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:30.339
What, when you're counterattacking after a parry?

00:31:30.500 --> 00:31:32.700
No, after you jump. Oh, after you jump. Sorry,

00:31:32.819 --> 00:31:34.319
I thought you meant after you parry. Oh, no,

00:31:34.400 --> 00:31:36.319
no, no, no. Yeah, a flurry of parries, and then

00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:39.079
on the last one, if you parried all of their

00:31:39.079 --> 00:31:40.400
abilities... Yeah, that's all I'm at. You hit

00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:41.619
them back. Oh, yeah, no, yeah, I know what you

00:31:41.619 --> 00:31:47.519
mean with the R2 thing. Yeah, it's one of those

00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:49.539
where I just didn't feel... If you put it on

00:31:49.539 --> 00:31:52.880
paper for someone like myself, you lay out the

00:31:52.880 --> 00:31:56.960
aspects of that game and then say it's turn -based

00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.099
combat, I'd immediately be turned away. It's

00:32:00.099 --> 00:32:01.980
almost like if you throw a survival in my face

00:32:01.980 --> 00:32:03.920
and then say, here's the building mechanics,

00:32:04.180 --> 00:32:05.920
I'd go, no, thank you, see you later, I'm done.

00:32:07.180 --> 00:32:09.799
But pleasantly, pleasantly surprised. It's just

00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:14.759
so much fun. And the story is good as well. Yeah,

00:32:14.759 --> 00:32:18.140
it's very fun. It's very fun. I like looking

00:32:18.140 --> 00:32:22.319
at stuff. And it is varied, having been to quite

00:32:22.319 --> 00:32:24.599
a lot of the, because obviously you get into

00:32:24.599 --> 00:32:27.559
that outer map. The map's very cool. Yeah, where

00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:30.500
you venture around and shit like that. Having

00:32:30.500 --> 00:32:35.660
been through a fair amount of it, it is all pretty

00:32:35.660 --> 00:32:38.039
unique. I can't really say that I've gone into

00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:41.619
one world and then another one and then be similar.

00:32:42.250 --> 00:32:45.130
If I'm honest, they have all been very their

00:32:45.130 --> 00:32:49.450
own world. But I would urge, if you haven't,

00:32:49.450 --> 00:32:52.490
to go into all the places that you're able to

00:32:52.490 --> 00:32:54.170
go into. Just have a little bit of an adventure.

00:32:54.490 --> 00:32:56.589
Because I was sort of beelining a little bit.

00:32:57.990 --> 00:33:02.190
And then decided yesterday to venture around

00:33:02.190 --> 00:33:05.450
more. Spent like two or three hours just going

00:33:05.450 --> 00:33:07.230
in all the different shit. Because obviously

00:33:07.230 --> 00:33:08.829
when you open up the map, if it hasn't got the

00:33:08.829 --> 00:33:10.490
name on it, then you haven't been there yet.

00:33:11.120 --> 00:33:13.079
which is an easier way to fucking know because

00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:14.539
obviously if you hover, I would like it if you

00:33:14.539 --> 00:33:15.900
hovered over if it had come up with a fucking

00:33:15.900 --> 00:33:17.680
legend of what it is that you're hovering over.

00:33:19.420 --> 00:33:21.180
But yeah, go and have a look at some of them

00:33:21.180 --> 00:33:26.440
because there's just like, like weird alternative

00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:31.819
stuff that isn't a requirement, just side mission

00:33:31.819 --> 00:33:34.599
shit that's a lot of fun. Yeah, I went back to

00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:37.880
a place yesterday because I didn't realise. Because

00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:39.920
the first time I come out of that map, because

00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:43.880
you do all the first shit, and then you do that

00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:45.920
shit with Esky, or whatever his fucking name

00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:48.680
is. Yeah, CKSK, I don't know. And then you go

00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:50.299
through the tunnels, and then you fight that

00:33:50.299 --> 00:33:53.200
boss, and then Gustav dies, and then you end

00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:54.559
up here. And I was like, oh, I didn't realise

00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:57.119
this map was connected to this water. So I went

00:33:57.119 --> 00:33:59.099
back to the original map, where I went to a cave

00:33:59.099 --> 00:34:01.839
that said danger. Yeah. So I went back in there

00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:04.079
and then it was just one of them weird fucking

00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:07.660
sucky penis, like Daryl's penis monsters. Penis

00:34:07.660 --> 00:34:09.360
monsters, yeah, yeah. And he was like, give me

00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:11.659
some skin. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did

00:34:11.659 --> 00:34:13.159
you give him some skin? Yeah, give him some skin.

00:34:13.219 --> 00:34:14.599
I gave him some skin and then he was like, come

00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:16.920
back after I've rested. But I don't know how

00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:19.039
long he needs to rest. I just left and then went

00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:21.099
back in and he was ready. Oh, was he ready? Yeah,

00:34:21.139 --> 00:34:22.639
he just leave the area and go straight back in.

00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:25.159
Do you need to give him more skin? No. Oh, I

00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:27.090
need to go back in there then. Well, I won't

00:34:27.090 --> 00:34:28.789
carry on what I was saying. No, go on. What happens?

00:34:28.969 --> 00:34:30.210
Because I'm going to go back in there anyway.

00:34:30.309 --> 00:34:32.369
Nothing, really. You go in and he's just massive.

00:34:32.630 --> 00:34:34.710
Yeah. And then he's like, here's a gift. And

00:34:34.710 --> 00:34:36.909
he gives you a gift. And then I was like, I think

00:34:36.909 --> 00:34:39.409
the gift was shit. To be honest with you. Like

00:34:39.409 --> 00:34:40.710
a picto or something like that. It was something

00:34:40.710 --> 00:34:42.829
crappy. It wasn't even good, whatever it was,

00:34:42.869 --> 00:34:45.269
if I remember. It could have been. It could have

00:34:45.269 --> 00:34:46.590
been one of them tint things which are useful,

00:34:46.710 --> 00:34:50.190
but I don't think so. I think I've almost maxed

00:34:50.190 --> 00:34:52.309
out my tints. And then he was waffling about

00:34:52.309 --> 00:34:54.309
some boring shit that meant nothing. And then...

00:34:54.489 --> 00:34:56.150
He was like, yeah, I'll either say the same thing,

00:34:56.210 --> 00:34:59.449
attack or leave. And I was like, I really want

00:34:59.449 --> 00:35:01.849
to attack him. But he was massive and I thought,

00:35:01.849 --> 00:35:03.829
I better not. You didn't attack him? No, I walked

00:35:03.829 --> 00:35:05.869
out. I'll attack him. Yeah, you attack him. You

00:35:05.869 --> 00:35:06.889
let me know if it's worth it. I'll go back and

00:35:06.889 --> 00:35:08.050
kill his ass. I'll attack him and see what's

00:35:08.050 --> 00:35:10.389
going on. Yeah, they're annoying as fuck, them

00:35:10.389 --> 00:35:12.610
things, man. They just eat one of your characters.

00:35:12.809 --> 00:35:16.429
Yeah, and it pisses me off because when it goes

00:35:16.429 --> 00:35:19.039
to eat you... And then when it does, obviously

00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:21.039
it's slow motions. And I always think, well,

00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:23.320
I must be able to counter this then if it's going

00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:26.079
slow because that's what happens just before

00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:27.460
you're about to parry or something like that.

00:35:27.539 --> 00:35:30.679
But you can't. Fucking does my head in. I'm guessing

00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:32.039
you can't because I've never avoided it. Yeah,

00:35:32.059 --> 00:35:34.019
I've never avoided it either. Every time I just

00:35:34.019 --> 00:35:35.500
get eaten, I'm like, great, I guess I've just

00:35:35.500 --> 00:35:38.139
got this weak -ass fucking character now. They

00:35:38.139 --> 00:35:42.280
do a pretty good job from what I've seen so far

00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:45.730
of putting you in a map. with various enemies

00:35:45.730 --> 00:35:48.010
and obviously if you if you don't know the enemies

00:35:48.010 --> 00:35:50.789
and you don't know the abilities so trying to

00:35:50.789 --> 00:35:54.530
dodge and parry them is quite difficult on on

00:35:54.530 --> 00:35:57.989
the first initial combat but they so chances

00:35:57.989 --> 00:36:01.170
are you're going to get hit a fair amount until

00:36:01.170 --> 00:36:03.750
your next checkpoint but they do a pretty good

00:36:03.750 --> 00:36:07.170
job of giving you enough checkpoints or at least

00:36:07.170 --> 00:36:09.070
giving you the ability to just heal yourself

00:36:09.070 --> 00:36:11.869
because i've never come across a time when i've

00:36:11.869 --> 00:36:13.989
died and i've not basically been where i died

00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:16.159
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I've had to run for all

00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:18.159
the shit again. It's never happened yet. So that's

00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:21.159
fucking bad, to be honest. It is decent. Because,

00:36:21.159 --> 00:36:22.760
yeah, there's a lot of enemies. I'm just like,

00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:24.500
how the fuck am I supposed to beat them? And

00:36:24.500 --> 00:36:25.760
then I go and fight them again. I'm like, oh,

00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:27.360
they're well easy to dodge. Because I know now.

00:36:27.539 --> 00:36:29.679
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it don't take long

00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:31.400
to start building up the muscle memory. And then

00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:33.300
you've come across an enemy you fought ages ago

00:36:33.300 --> 00:36:36.519
and you're like, oh, fuck, I forgot. Mimes? Yeah,

00:36:36.579 --> 00:36:38.579
they're weird as fuck. You have come across mimes?

00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:40.139
Yeah, they're weird as fuck. Have you beaten

00:36:40.139 --> 00:36:42.000
them? I think I beat one. They just gave me some

00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:44.420
clothes or something. Yeah, you get the old baguette

00:36:44.420 --> 00:36:46.960
clothes. Yeah, some weird shit. A little beret

00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:49.000
and a fucking baguette on your back. Yeah. They

00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:50.639
look cool. I haven't got any of them. I beat

00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:52.840
one. And the little balls as well that you have

00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:55.159
to put in the slots. Oh, they're annoying. They're

00:36:55.159 --> 00:36:57.219
fucking annoying. Yeah. They've all got little

00:36:57.219 --> 00:36:59.039
quirks to them. They're alright. You just burn

00:36:59.039 --> 00:37:00.639
them and they die quickly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:37:00.820 --> 00:37:02.900
I've had one get away. I don't know if they ever

00:37:02.900 --> 00:37:04.559
come back. They don't come back. Once they get

00:37:04.559 --> 00:37:05.760
away, they get away. Because they just give you

00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:07.940
resources. The mimes, the trick to them is that

00:37:07.940 --> 00:37:10.269
you've got to break them. you've got to get them

00:37:10.269 --> 00:37:11.769
broken and then that gets rid of their shield

00:37:11.769 --> 00:37:13.389
and then they just they just fucking they just

00:37:13.389 --> 00:37:15.909
drop like flies but before then they're an absolute

00:37:15.909 --> 00:37:19.030
they're an absolute fucker I won't tell you what

00:37:19.030 --> 00:37:21.409
it is I won't tell you what it does or how you

00:37:21.409 --> 00:37:24.250
how you get about defeating it but there's there's

00:37:24.250 --> 00:37:29.449
one one boss that I did like a mini boss thing

00:37:29.449 --> 00:37:37.480
and it was a cunt a proper just kept wiping dying

00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:41.219
dying dying uh because i weren't basically i

00:37:41.219 --> 00:37:43.599
weren't using my brain to really work out what

00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:45.340
was going on and then once i did work out what

00:37:45.340 --> 00:37:49.199
was going on it was still fucking hard man um

00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:52.400
and i i managed to kill it but i was like this

00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:54.280
this is going to be a fucking nightmare for some

00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:56.579
people it was like the lantern boss man you kill

00:37:56.579 --> 00:37:58.559
it the first phase is a doddle and then you go

00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:01.550
into second phase and then It took me ages to

00:38:01.550 --> 00:38:02.889
realise I was supposed to be shooting the fucking

00:38:02.889 --> 00:38:05.949
lanterns. Because I had a feeling I was supposed

00:38:05.949 --> 00:38:07.889
to shoot the lanterns in the right order. It

00:38:07.889 --> 00:38:10.489
was fairly obvious. But then I was waiting until

00:38:10.489 --> 00:38:12.969
I had enough attacks to actually do it in one

00:38:12.969 --> 00:38:15.269
hit. I didn't realise that when you hit the right

00:38:15.269 --> 00:38:17.170
lantern, it didn't take one of your actions away.

00:38:17.590 --> 00:38:19.769
So I was just like, oh, if you've got one action,

00:38:19.829 --> 00:38:21.829
you can do fucking five lanterns or whatever.

00:38:22.349 --> 00:38:24.929
So yeah, when I realised that, it was easy. Yeah,

00:38:24.929 --> 00:38:28.829
because it uses your AP. Yeah. Yeah, he had some

00:38:28.829 --> 00:38:30.650
fucking irritating moves. It's all like the big,

00:38:30.769 --> 00:38:32.869
I'm all right if I can see the weapon coming

00:38:32.869 --> 00:38:35.070
at me. It's fine. But it's when it's like charging

00:38:35.070 --> 00:38:37.050
up an orb of power or something. It's a fucker,

00:38:37.050 --> 00:38:38.670
isn't it? I don't know, when's the orb coming?

00:38:38.789 --> 00:38:40.469
When's it coming? When's it coming? It's fucking

00:38:40.469 --> 00:38:43.690
pain in the ass. And I really struggle to see

00:38:43.690 --> 00:38:46.090
who's being attacked. If it happens quickly,

00:38:46.429 --> 00:38:47.710
I'm like, I don't know who I'm supposed to be

00:38:47.710 --> 00:38:49.170
looking at for that. Yeah, I'm exactly the same.

00:38:49.190 --> 00:38:51.429
When there's an enemy where, yeah, those lanterns

00:38:51.429 --> 00:38:53.110
come up and they shoot a beam of light at you,

00:38:53.130 --> 00:38:57.599
but they shoot it so quick. And it's in a flurry.

00:38:57.900 --> 00:39:00.980
And then you get caught up. So there's an enemy

00:39:00.980 --> 00:39:03.679
where it's like main combo. It will hit you like

00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:07.900
nine times. So that's a lot. So then you'll be

00:39:07.900 --> 00:39:10.639
like, you'll parry one, parry another, and then

00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:12.320
get hit. But then it's thrown off your groove.

00:39:12.539 --> 00:39:15.440
So you're now trying to parry, but you're off

00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:17.440
time. So you're just getting fucking hit and

00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:19.539
hit and hit and hit. And then eventually you

00:39:19.539 --> 00:39:20.860
give up. You go, all right, well, let's go again.

00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:24.679
And that happens to me so many times. It's like,

00:39:25.210 --> 00:39:27.449
It's like I dodge or I parry properly and then

00:39:27.449 --> 00:39:30.170
once I get hit, it's like my character in the

00:39:30.170 --> 00:39:32.050
actual game has been thrown off balance when

00:39:32.050 --> 00:39:35.070
they haven't. It's just me that's gone, oh, fuck,

00:39:35.269 --> 00:39:37.570
and then just messed up my timing. But when you

00:39:37.570 --> 00:39:40.409
parry, it just feels nice. A lot of it, I have

00:39:40.409 --> 00:39:42.789
to use audio cues, man. I'm listening in the

00:39:42.789 --> 00:39:46.349
headphones. It's really so much easier for any

00:39:46.349 --> 00:39:49.070
attack because it always goes like... And you

00:39:49.070 --> 00:39:50.889
just wait for that and then you press the button.

00:39:52.110 --> 00:39:56.940
I've only come across one, one ability one attack

00:39:56.940 --> 00:40:01.219
so far that it was fucking winding me up and

00:40:01.219 --> 00:40:04.360
it was basically just a one shot regardless and

00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:08.219
I don't no you can't you could parry it because

00:40:08.219 --> 00:40:10.400
I parried it once and then thought no it's just

00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:12.179
too much of an aggro I'll just keep trying to

00:40:12.179 --> 00:40:15.360
dodge it but it was it basically like this thing

00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:19.519
would wind up and then hold itself And I don't

00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:21.920
think there is an audio cue for it. And it would

00:40:21.920 --> 00:40:24.159
just fucking swing out as fast as you like. And

00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:26.260
then if it hits you, you're just dead regardless.

00:40:27.579 --> 00:40:30.300
And yeah, that's quite a fucker. But that's also

00:40:30.300 --> 00:40:35.400
from a normal enemy in the area. So it's not

00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:38.400
even coming from a boss. I've just got to deal

00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:40.920
with this throughout most of this area. Have

00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:45.480
you done any of the paintbrush? volleyball and

00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:49.820
stuff that's pretty fucking weird I did the I've

00:40:49.820 --> 00:40:52.940
done one where I had to shoot things off of a

00:40:52.940 --> 00:40:56.860
raft back at him yeah where volleyball they call

00:40:56.860 --> 00:40:59.119
it and then you've got the different levels I

00:40:59.119 --> 00:41:02.039
did that the highest level one of that was quite

00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:03.920
fucking tough I couldn't do that one I'd give

00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:06.820
up it was a fucker it just took too long to get

00:41:06.820 --> 00:41:08.719
back into it if I failed I just got annoyed because

00:41:08.719 --> 00:41:11.059
that's the one where he shoots the barrel over

00:41:11.059 --> 00:41:12.699
and then you've got to run and then hit it back

00:41:13.179 --> 00:41:15.280
It's not a barrel, it's a fucking paintbrush

00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:17.900
geyser. It's a little baby geyser. Oh, yeah,

00:41:17.900 --> 00:41:19.840
yeah, yeah. And you've got to hit it back. Yeah,

00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:23.300
I've done that. There was one that I did that

00:41:23.300 --> 00:41:30.260
was really fun where no fall guy, not fall guys,

00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:33.900
that game that a lot of streamers were playing

00:41:33.900 --> 00:41:35.719
where it's just the geyser that's trying to climb

00:41:35.719 --> 00:41:39.000
up as high as they can. There's that is in there.

00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:44.780
And that was fun. But I found that, got basically

00:41:44.780 --> 00:41:46.880
near the top and then fell off and then come

00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:48.059
all the way down the bottom. I was like, right,

00:41:48.119 --> 00:41:50.619
that's me done for the night. Switched that off

00:41:50.619 --> 00:41:52.659
and then come back to it the next day and then

00:41:52.659 --> 00:41:57.420
did it and it was quite cool. I fought a boss

00:41:57.420 --> 00:42:00.880
yesterday in the sea. He fucked me up. It doesn't

00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:02.880
really tell you. It's just like you'll know if

00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:05.039
you're not ready. Is that the big like siren?

00:42:05.530 --> 00:42:08.369
I don't know what it is. Big fucking stone giant

00:42:08.369 --> 00:42:10.849
thing. And when you fight him, you're just on

00:42:10.849 --> 00:42:12.590
a platform and he's like leaning out of the sea.

00:42:12.690 --> 00:42:14.650
Yeah. And his head spins around. He gets like

00:42:14.650 --> 00:42:17.670
20 attacks in a fucking row. Yeah. There's a

00:42:17.670 --> 00:42:19.489
gimmick to this or I'm just not ready. So I'll

00:42:19.489 --> 00:42:21.469
leave it. I tried to kill him and I just get

00:42:21.469 --> 00:42:24.429
fucked up. I know that if I, cause I've got a

00:42:24.429 --> 00:42:28.789
picto that lets me play first. So, so I'm, I

00:42:28.789 --> 00:42:31.050
don't, I always get the first hit regardless.

00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:35.360
If I hit something and their health doesn't even

00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:38.159
move that's why I know I'm out of my depth I'll

00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:40.860
go right with this isn't this unless I get absolutely

00:42:40.860 --> 00:42:45.360
perfect dodging on on everything then I'm I can't

00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:47.860
be asked I'll go back when I do some actual damage

00:42:47.860 --> 00:42:50.059
to it. There's a cool boss I can see floating

00:42:50.059 --> 00:42:58.369
around on the map miles away Yeah, I can see

00:42:58.369 --> 00:43:01.889
already in the maps or in the certain zones there's

00:43:01.889 --> 00:43:04.090
some things you've got to break. So there's plenty

00:43:04.090 --> 00:43:07.309
of going back to places to look for stuff and

00:43:07.309 --> 00:43:09.769
all that shit when you get new abilities. But

00:43:09.769 --> 00:43:11.630
yeah, I'm enjoying it, man. I'm looking forward

00:43:11.630 --> 00:43:15.210
to seeing where it goes, the twists and turns

00:43:15.210 --> 00:43:18.250
that I'm sure are to come. I've got an idea of

00:43:18.250 --> 00:43:20.710
what the story, of what I think is going to happen.

00:43:21.909 --> 00:43:23.489
What do you think is going to happen? Probably

00:43:23.489 --> 00:43:28.380
way off. Well, I think that fucking... I think

00:43:28.380 --> 00:43:33.239
Gustave or Verso or whatever. I think they are

00:43:33.239 --> 00:43:35.679
that old geezer. I don't think that old geezer

00:43:35.679 --> 00:43:37.840
is like an entity upon himself. Oh, you reckon,

00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:40.460
yeah? I reckon. Because he's like... I'm pretty

00:43:40.460 --> 00:43:42.179
sure he's even got the same fucking scar as that

00:43:42.179 --> 00:43:43.960
Verso coming down his eye. They've got the same

00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:47.900
scar. But yeah, I think there's going to... And

00:43:47.900 --> 00:43:50.079
there's some futuristic shit as well, man. In

00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:52.619
one of the little expedition things you can pick

00:43:52.619 --> 00:43:55.349
up. The voice notes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of

00:43:55.349 --> 00:43:57.190
them was talking about driving a car or something.

00:43:57.309 --> 00:43:59.429
I was like, what? Oh, were they? Yeah, it was

00:43:59.429 --> 00:44:02.150
like, oh, yeah, we drove the car down and I was

00:44:02.150 --> 00:44:03.750
just like... Oh, maybe I didn't pick that one

00:44:03.750 --> 00:44:05.679
up. There's obviously some fucking... you know,

00:44:05.719 --> 00:44:07.519
weird futures. I don't know. I don't know. It's

00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:09.219
weird as fuck. Yeah, because they've avoided

00:44:09.219 --> 00:44:11.260
the gommage, which is what they, which is what

00:44:11.260 --> 00:44:13.099
the paintless does to fucking kill everyone.

00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:15.260
Yeah, I don't even know. It's all very confusing

00:44:15.260 --> 00:44:17.719
to me. I really don't know what's going on. I

00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:19.539
think I'm not supposed to know what's going on.

00:44:19.539 --> 00:44:21.400
I think the same because I'm trying to, I'm trying

00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:23.480
to fully understand everything and that, yeah,

00:44:23.500 --> 00:44:26.340
there are, yeah, I can't, it's like the little,

00:44:26.440 --> 00:44:31.880
the, the, Renoir is his name, is the old geezer.

00:44:32.679 --> 00:44:37.010
Whenever he pops up. I'm like, I can't understand

00:44:37.010 --> 00:44:39.469
what you're doing or why you're here. I haven't,

00:44:39.469 --> 00:44:42.389
because obviously Verso doesn't fucking talk

00:44:42.389 --> 00:44:46.130
about it. Is it all right to ask everyone else

00:44:46.130 --> 00:44:49.269
fucking questions at the camp? Yeah. Delve into

00:44:49.269 --> 00:44:51.010
everyone else's shit. The minute you put it back

00:44:51.010 --> 00:44:52.449
on him, he's like, that's none of your business.

00:44:52.789 --> 00:44:54.170
What do you mean it's none of your business,

00:44:54.309 --> 00:44:57.949
man? The first thing, when you speak to Quinton,

00:44:58.110 --> 00:45:01.809
the big marshmallow man. he says, oh, you haven't

00:45:01.809 --> 00:45:04.050
told them, have you? And he's like, no, I haven't

00:45:04.050 --> 00:45:05.829
told them. And he's like, good, don't tell them.

00:45:05.949 --> 00:45:08.650
It wouldn't surprise me if fucking Verso ends

00:45:08.650 --> 00:45:11.469
up being the bad guy. Yeah, I think I'm on the

00:45:11.469 --> 00:45:14.909
cusp of knowing whatever that is, but I don't

00:45:14.909 --> 00:45:18.550
know what the fuck. I don't know what the story

00:45:18.550 --> 00:45:22.610
is. There's something going on. Yeah, there's

00:45:22.610 --> 00:45:24.510
something happening. And that fucking curator

00:45:24.510 --> 00:45:26.690
as well, man. What's up with that motherfucker,

00:45:26.909 --> 00:45:29.070
bro? He's creepy as hell, bro. He goes down into

00:45:29.070 --> 00:45:30.590
his little cave and he's just standing there

00:45:30.590 --> 00:45:32.889
like... Standing there with no face. And then

00:45:32.889 --> 00:45:34.969
the weird house that you go in. I don't know.

00:45:35.010 --> 00:45:36.989
It's fucking weird as balls, bro. And I just

00:45:36.989 --> 00:45:38.349
come to terms with the fact that I'm not supposed

00:45:38.349 --> 00:45:40.889
to know all will be revealed in time because

00:45:40.889 --> 00:45:43.630
the game starts you with Gustav and doesn't say,

00:45:43.670 --> 00:45:45.690
oh, you've only got one arm because... And you

00:45:45.690 --> 00:45:47.769
just go, oh, he's got one arm. I'm adamant that...

00:45:47.769 --> 00:45:49.530
Channel's electricity, so... I'm adamant that

00:45:49.530 --> 00:45:52.130
Gustav, it's not the last that we're going to

00:45:52.130 --> 00:45:53.769
have seen of him. I'm almost certain of that

00:45:53.769 --> 00:45:56.550
as well. Because he seemed like such a pivotal

00:45:56.550 --> 00:45:58.889
character and then to just kill him off like

00:45:58.889 --> 00:46:01.699
that. But then that also makes it impactful,

00:46:01.820 --> 00:46:03.940
though, if it is. It does. I kind of hope he

00:46:03.940 --> 00:46:07.599
is gone just for that impactful reason, but I'm

00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:09.920
not sure. They have... I don't know if you're

00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:12.059
interested. You could be, you couldn't be. But

00:46:12.059 --> 00:46:17.800
they did... They announced today, Claire Obscure

00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:21.980
Expedition 33, that their clay edition obviously

00:46:21.980 --> 00:46:25.349
sold out mega quick. Um, but they've been working

00:46:25.349 --> 00:46:29.170
to get more of them, but this time they've got

00:46:29.170 --> 00:46:35.190
more of them. Um, and they have managed to create

00:46:35.190 --> 00:46:39.449
more, but obviously without. So here it is. I'll

00:46:39.449 --> 00:46:41.409
just read it because I'm just fucking talking

00:46:41.409 --> 00:46:46.530
shit. I can't, I can't do it. I'm an idiot. Uh,

00:46:46.570 --> 00:46:49.420
duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. basically the monolith

00:46:49.420 --> 00:46:51.460
set is now available for pre -order here blah

00:46:51.460 --> 00:46:53.380
blah blah set includes a monolithic music box

00:46:53.380 --> 00:46:55.139
the expeditions journal art book and the steelbook

00:46:55.139 --> 00:46:57.739
for those who come after handshake but basically

00:46:57.739 --> 00:47:01.840
they've remade it for people that want it but

00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:04.300
without all the you don't get the game you don't

00:47:04.300 --> 00:47:07.559
get the digital shit you just get the stuff and

00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:11.000
it's like 99 quid I think 99 quid isn't bad and

00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:13.760
you get that as one of the things oh that's fucking

00:47:13.760 --> 00:47:16.039
cool the Pinterest oh that's very cool and you

00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:19.199
can pre -order that can you yeah Oh, it's tempting.

00:47:19.500 --> 00:47:22.860
It comes with a monolithic music box. The Expedition

00:47:22.860 --> 00:47:26.219
is a journal, art book, a steel book. It's now

00:47:26.219 --> 00:47:28.519
available for pre -order. I can send you the

00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:32.019
link if you want. It's very exciting. Yeah, send

00:47:32.019 --> 00:47:35.019
me the link, please. And I'll have a little gander.

00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:39.079
But yeah, I'm in two minds because I'm like,

00:47:39.159 --> 00:47:42.590
ah. I want that and it's affordable, but also

00:47:42.590 --> 00:47:44.909
do I like the game enough to buy that yet? I

00:47:44.909 --> 00:47:46.849
need to see if I like it more first. I like the

00:47:46.849 --> 00:47:49.030
game enough to buy that, if I'm honest. I need

00:47:49.030 --> 00:47:51.409
to see. It's a very cool statue. Yeah, I do like

00:47:51.409 --> 00:47:52.889
this statue and that's the most important part.

00:47:52.889 --> 00:47:55.670
Also, I feel like from a development team of,

00:47:55.690 --> 00:47:59.469
what, 30 or is it actually 33 people? Fucking

00:47:59.469 --> 00:48:02.510
take the money. It is mental. They deserve. Just

00:48:02.510 --> 00:48:06.690
from what I've seen, graphically, performance,

00:48:07.130 --> 00:48:11.349
fidelity are... visuals, fucking music, sound,

00:48:11.489 --> 00:48:14.690
voice acting. Everything is like perfect. So

00:48:14.690 --> 00:48:18.150
for a team of that, you know, if Ubisoft could

00:48:18.150 --> 00:48:19.789
pull something like that off, you'd be like,

00:48:19.969 --> 00:48:22.030
well, it should be. Yeah, you should be able

00:48:22.030 --> 00:48:24.190
to do that. This is your standard minimum. For

00:48:24.190 --> 00:48:26.349
them, it's like fucking, that's incredible. Does

00:48:26.349 --> 00:48:28.489
that count? Does it count as an indie? Yeah,

00:48:28.489 --> 00:48:32.130
yeah. The geezers fucking, they got people off

00:48:32.130 --> 00:48:34.619
Reddit to do shit. Yeah, they're very indie,

00:48:34.679 --> 00:48:37.539
mate. Another... They have managed to snag Shadowheart

00:48:37.539 --> 00:48:41.099
and Ben Star, though. I don't know how... How

00:48:41.099 --> 00:48:43.139
indie that... Yeah. Well, I mean, if fucking

00:48:43.139 --> 00:48:45.519
Baldur's Gate 3, if that's classed as indie,

00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:48.420
then we can throw this in as fucking indie and

00:48:48.420 --> 00:48:50.380
all. I imagine this has been in development,

00:48:50.500 --> 00:48:53.219
you know, alongside the end of Baldur's Gate

00:48:53.219 --> 00:48:56.880
development. So when Shadowheart and Clive or

00:48:56.880 --> 00:49:01.159
Ben Star has probably been... these voices. They're

00:49:01.159 --> 00:49:03.480
probably still doing the other games as well.

00:49:03.659 --> 00:49:06.079
Yeah, yeah. So they had no idea the level of,

00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:08.219
you know, they probably got paid like 20 quid.

00:49:08.260 --> 00:49:09.940
Oh, we'll have a go. Yeah, we'll give it a crack.

00:49:10.019 --> 00:49:12.780
Why not? Claire Obscure Expedition 33. It's too

00:49:12.780 --> 00:49:14.659
long of a name to be a good game, but yeah, go

00:49:14.659 --> 00:49:17.840
on then. That's my one. The name's too weird

00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:19.539
for it to be good. Yeah, I don't know what the

00:49:19.539 --> 00:49:22.860
Claire Obscure bit, oh no, I did, sorry, I did

00:49:22.860 --> 00:49:26.300
Google it. Claire Obscure is, oh, it's a French

00:49:26.300 --> 00:49:33.860
translation. for claire claire obscure meaning

00:49:33.860 --> 00:49:39.340
i did here we go claire obscure refers to uh

00:49:39.340 --> 00:49:42.400
the use of strong contrast between light and

00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:45.019
dark in art it's a french term that translates

00:49:45.019 --> 00:49:47.860
to light dark and is the french equivalent of

00:49:47.860 --> 00:49:54.920
the italian word I'm not Italian. This technique

00:49:54.920 --> 00:49:57.139
is often used to create a sense of volume, depth,

00:49:57.300 --> 00:50:00.260
and mood in a painting or drawing. So it's very

00:50:00.260 --> 00:50:04.559
fitting for the game itself, having been all

00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:07.519
about artwork, essentially. Yeah, that's the

00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:10.579
only bit I don't like. Everything's art. Everything

00:50:10.579 --> 00:50:14.519
is a fucking painting. Yeah, well, that's the

00:50:14.519 --> 00:50:16.780
theme. Yeah, I know, but it's annoying. Just

00:50:16.780 --> 00:50:19.159
have some realism in there. I don't want everything

00:50:19.159 --> 00:50:21.800
to be a fucking crayon. Do you know what I mean?

00:50:21.940 --> 00:50:23.860
Everything's a... And gestural's done you in.

00:50:23.940 --> 00:50:25.320
I like the gestural, man. When you hit something,

00:50:25.579 --> 00:50:27.960
you fire ink out your hand. What's that all about,

00:50:28.059 --> 00:50:30.159
Ruff? Is that what that is? Well, I guess so.

00:50:30.219 --> 00:50:32.219
What else could it be? I don't know. Because

00:50:32.219 --> 00:50:34.739
when you aim it, it sounds like keys jangling.

00:50:36.059 --> 00:50:38.739
Yeah. But I always thought it was like you formulating

00:50:38.739 --> 00:50:40.780
some kind of gun and then firing that. No, there

00:50:40.780 --> 00:50:42.840
is no gun there. That's what I'm saying. It's

00:50:42.840 --> 00:50:45.159
just ink. I'm pretty sure it's just ink. That's

00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:47.579
what I... It's a good theory. I'll Google it

00:50:47.579 --> 00:50:48.840
but that's a good theory because I didn't think

00:50:48.840 --> 00:50:53.199
that and I also barely use that. No, I don't

00:50:53.199 --> 00:50:55.280
but I have been in the last fights just to stun

00:50:55.280 --> 00:50:57.000
them before you go in to hit them because they

00:50:57.000 --> 00:51:00.679
don't move when you hit them, do they? Oh, what?

00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:03.699
What? You know when you're running around the

00:51:03.699 --> 00:51:06.619
open world and you shoot them and it stuns them

00:51:06.619 --> 00:51:08.559
and then you can run up and hit them and then

00:51:08.559 --> 00:51:11.219
you get to go first like a surprise round. Oh,

00:51:11.219 --> 00:51:12.719
is that how that works? Is it, oh, I don't need

00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:14.579
to bother because I've got that play first thing.

00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:16.880
Yeah, but does that mean, but that's just a picto

00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:18.639
for one of your characters, isn't it? Yeah, but

00:51:18.639 --> 00:51:21.000
when you unlock it, then everyone can have it.

00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:22.980
Oh, right. Because it's a bit of a wasted slot,

00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:24.460
though, because you can just sneak up on him.

00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:26.519
Yeah, but it's a cheap picto, you know what I

00:51:26.519 --> 00:51:28.840
mean, when you can get the passive of it. Yeah,

00:51:28.900 --> 00:51:30.059
yeah, I know what you're saying. So I'll just

00:51:30.059 --> 00:51:35.500
do that. Anyway, that's that. Apology. If the

00:51:35.500 --> 00:51:37.539
people that switched off listening because they

00:51:37.539 --> 00:51:40.179
didn't want Expedition 33 spoilers, obviously

00:51:40.179 --> 00:51:42.219
you won't be listening to this. So you can go

00:51:42.219 --> 00:51:44.760
fuck yourselves. Everyone else that did listen,

00:51:44.920 --> 00:51:48.139
thank you very much for listening. Thank you.

00:51:48.380 --> 00:51:51.559
I'd like to think that by next... Well, we'll

00:51:51.559 --> 00:51:55.219
have more to talk about next time. Be very exciting

00:51:55.219 --> 00:51:57.179
because I'd like to think that you're sort of

00:51:57.179 --> 00:51:59.800
at the level where I am now. And then I maybe

00:51:59.800 --> 00:52:03.309
have finished it. maybe because I've been very

00:52:03.309 --> 00:52:07.550
good and not googled the play time of it I know

00:52:07.550 --> 00:52:13.530
how long do you don't tell me oh powers in my

00:52:13.530 --> 00:52:16.250
hands for once don't tell me because I'm keeping

00:52:16.250 --> 00:52:19.889
an eye on my time count I'm at like 20 something

00:52:19.889 --> 00:52:22.710
hours so don't look at me like that because I

00:52:22.710 --> 00:52:24.849
don't know what that means see you later everyone

00:52:24.849 --> 00:52:25.590
uru goodbye