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Here, I got to do like a good job because this could be someone's first time listening.

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Actually introduce us.

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Yeah, right.

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Welcome to show Joe the intro to show Joe anime.

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I am your host Sarah joined by my good friend Joe who I am showing show Joe to.

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And so we are show Joe and hello.

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We say, oh yeah, say hi.

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Hi.

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Yeah, that guy.

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This is what my voice sounds like.

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I know we can be hard to differentiate sometimes, but you know.

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Yeah, it happens all the time when podcast hosts just sound the same.

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You can't tell us apart.

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That's true.

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It can happen.

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We don't really have that problem as much.

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No, at least no one's told us because they haven't written into us.

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That's true.

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It could be it could be that people just don't know and they just think we're one person.

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We're just so in sync.

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Until we get that feedback.

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Yeah, who knows what could be happening.

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You could have an impact on this podcast with your email.

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You could force us to pitch up or down our voices.

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I just got I just started messing.

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I bought some vinyl records last night.

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I have a because I had pre-ordered the persona three portable vinyl that they had announced and then was waiting.

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I kept getting delayed, so I just canceled it by had already gotten a vinyl player.

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So I got so I used that for the first time last night and has like a little pitch thing and I did not realize what that was going to do to it.

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Yeah, I'm a little DJ now.

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I can mix it up.

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You mean like when you speed it up?

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Well, there's the speed and then there's pitch.

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Are two things I can mess with on it.

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So I got the Eagles and guns and roses to two different records.

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And that's interesting.

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Because like, I guess that yeah, I guess when we had like a turntable or whatever and had those settings that like you can speed it up and stuff like that and like realizing that like, oh, this is just how Alvin and the chipmunks was made.

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I totally understand how they made Alvin and the chipmunks now.

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It's just it's just this you just pitch it up.

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You can just make any song and Alvin and the chipmunks song all of a sudden.

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Yeah, you know what?

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It's weird.

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What two nights ago I watched a little shop of horrors.

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The Frank Oz directed the one in the 80s, I think.

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I heard of it.

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1986.

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And I was reading about it because it's like the first time because watching with group people and I'd seen it before but only ever seen the like theatrical ending where everybody like the plant.

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It's like a different ending.

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It's like the happier ending than the one of like the the the play and also kind of the original when they shot which is like way goofier.

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But I was reading about how they did the plant movement because people were like, oh, is this CG and it's like, no, this is a big puppet because it's Frank Oz and he's, you know, a puppeteer right worked with the Henson company.

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He's, you know, famous guy.

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You know who else is with the Henson company.

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You.

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My company.

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But what they did is like to make the plant look really realistic is they filmed it in like regular speed or whatever and they sped it up to make it look more fluid, which means that any scenes that had like a actor and the plan in the same scene the

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actor had to like slow mo move and like mouth words and everything so that when they sped it up it didn't look weird, which is why there's not that many scenes where there's people and the plant at the same time.

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But it's just like very funny to like think about having Rick Moranis like slow motion dance around with this plant so they could speed it up.

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It's something other than mecha anime.

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I don't even talk about mecha anime that much.

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Oh, whatever.

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You so do.

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Oh, no.

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You do.

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But yeah, we're here covering a new show today, Skip Beat and for anyone new here before we cover the episodes, they'll just catch up a little bit of what you like, Dan.

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They've already been talking this long and what we still got more before we get to the good stuff.

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Don't you worry.

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I can assure you we're so entertaining.

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Don't worry.

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I'm gonna have a lot to these episodes.

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I wrote 3200 words summarized in this episode.

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So there will be a lot about skip beat.

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This is this is my favorite manga ever and I'm using this as opportunity to reread it because I have like, I think I have like 49 volumes and it's like hard to retain the newer stuff like I've read the old the first half of it a lot more so I can recall it pretty well.

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So I like didn't have to take as many notes.

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But so I'll kind of chime in with some manga comparisons.

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Okay, go through this sense the the anime is only one season tragically.

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But yeah, I guess before we get to it, anything of note going on with in the world of Joe.

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So I watched a mecha anime.

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Yeah, I watched I watched the code Geo sequel Rose of the recapture.

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So okay, if you don't if you don't yeah so the name is ridiculous.

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So if you don't know code Geo is a I guess it's a franchise that came out at this point there was original show called Lelouch of the rebellion which is where you can understand what the like naming pattern is.

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It's name of something that came out in like 2007 or something.

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Yeah, but they did the anime thing where like they make a TV show and then they make like compilation movies of the TV show, which is like a pretty common thing that they do.

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But because you are shoving an entire TV show worth of content into a movie you like change stuff. And I guess those were popular because then they made another movie.

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That's like a sequel movie of like the TV show, which is weird because the TV show kind of ends in like a definitive place where it's like well and now we're you know some characters are dead some characters are over here we're done.

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And then they made a movie where they're like just kidding we're gonna try to like shuffle everything back up and make it not done.

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Or they just tacked on like a whole extra set of episodes.

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Oh yeah, like what I was across and they just added like eight more episodes that were like ridiculous and they walked back entire story.

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Yeah, yeah, they did a similar thing in this in this movie and then they're like part of this movie was like an announcement that they're going to bring this into a franchise and they're going to come out with a new show and this is the show that they came out with.

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So the thing about Code Geass right is like it is a it's pretty well liked it's a you know it's it's not dissimilar from Gundam where it's like, you know they're the mechs but also it's kind of about like geopolitics and it's about like

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And like you know the politics of it are like a little bit different it kind of comes down into a different place, but it is like for the most but you're supposed to like take this seriously as like a drama thing.

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Rosé the recapture is insane it does not do any of that stuff it like pretends to do that stuff and it does a terrible job it has all of the energy of the Star Wars sequel series the sequel movies did you watch those.

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The Disney ones.

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Yeah seven eight nine, you know how like it started off being just like rehashing the like the the seventh Star Wars movie the Force Awakens is just a new hope again but like more ridiculous.

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This is basically just that it's just it's just rehashing the original show but like making way less sense and way more rushed and also like just kind of absurd.

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It's crazy it was like insane to watch I was watching with a bunch of friends and we were just like hooping and hollering when all this stuff was happening it is like not a serious show at all it's insane to me that they brought back this series and then made this which is nothing like the original series in terms of like

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tone or like quality it's just so weird I mean the animation looks nice but like what's going on is like why is any of this stuff happening this is insane.

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Cool so thumbs up or thumbs down.

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Oh it's bad I think it's bad I think it's an interesting thing to watch because it's just so wild, but I think ultimately it sucks.

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Good names though there's a character named it's 12 episodes it's like this is why it's like you can just blow through it it is like ridiculous and like doesn't make a lot of sense but it is goofy and like it's a spectacle like it's fun to watch.

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They got some good character names a guy named Ash Phoenix which is incredible.

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There's some pretty good names so yeah it's you know it's goofy if you like code Geos I guess just like you can watch it sure why not it's like ridiculous.

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Go for it why not.

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Like a that sounding.

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I don't like the Mexican it the Mexican it are bad I think like I don't love the Mexican code Geos normally like I like it at the beginning when the roller skating around and I don't like it near the end where they're all flying around and all the Mexican this one are like really skinny and weird and they move in weird

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ways and they don't feel heavy they're too floaty I don't like it.

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Bad Max I get these Max a like two out of five.

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This yeah dude you want to have good Max as part of your Max show I feel like this is an easy thing is an easy thing to think about right.

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Anything else or you just.

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Oh yeah I mean like.

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Clubs and all that stuff.

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Oh yeah I'm still I'm still jogging on all my book clubs I started the next book of her see.

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We played Baldur's Gate.

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Yeah that's something fun that happened since last episode.

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So that the segment we add like our Baldur's Gate update.

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Maybe we should shoot maybe we do that instead of recommendations.

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We just it's like a long.

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We just hate recommending stuff now.

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No I know you're like oh what how am I going to recommend something every time but I don't know.

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That's true.

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How's everyone feel on the recommendation.

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I'm playing which spring are.

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Yeah yeah it's been recommended super well received on.

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Consoles now it's on those and I'm happy.

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That's good.

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Maybe they'll mean they'll make another one.

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It's just so cute and.

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Hi Barry.

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She's so cute it just makes me happy playing that game.

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You know I'm because I'm not so picky about the game play.

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I also did not play on the hardest difficulty.

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Yes I tried to and then I stopped because it sucks.

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There's just unwinnable fight like you have to grind to play on the hardest difficulty.

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There's just unwinnable sequences I feel like.

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Yeah it's a very grindy game even though you told me it's not a very grindy game.

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Did I say that.

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That's true.

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Which is what I did.

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That's what I'm doing.

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Cute characters and little pets you get.

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I've missed so many pets.

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And there's a Joe in it.

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There's black Joe is in there.

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I've missed so many pets that I can't get anymore because I one shot them.

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So I can't get them.

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Dang no I've got all the little all the little critters.

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It's tragic.

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Devastate.

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I mean you kind of mind control them it's little lean now.

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It's a little sus.

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Yeah she is a witch I don't know witchy.

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We'll do the borders get after we talk we'll catch you up.

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Oh what have I been doing.

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Long pause.

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It's been a week.

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I went on a date.

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It was good and I had two drinks and did not feel gross today so I don't know what the

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Oh like maybe it's bad.

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Like it's worse.

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Yeah like maybe that's why it's gross.

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I had ice cream.

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It was good.

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I think I went to dog parks just I don't know I just playing friggin dragon age still and

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now I'm rereading skip beat so I'm excited for that.

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It's my favorite series ever.

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Yeah I don't know I feel like I don't have anything.

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Oh we need to figure out what we're going to do for recording because I'll be out of town

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next weekend for TwitchCon.

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Okay yeah we'll figure that.

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Yeah yeah nothing too exciting on my end.

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I tried watching the twisters movie.

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Oh the sequel movie.

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This guy the guy who's like the hot guy not doing it for me.

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Like turn off.

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He's from Arkansas in the movie though.

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Wow doesn't say where in Arkansas he's from.

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They just call themselves the tornado wranglers or something is like what his little posse

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of storm chasers is called.

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If anybody's wondering I went to college at the University of Arkansas that's why.

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Joe's one true love.

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Arkansas.

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No that's not true.

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Is it just like Texas with less people?

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I don't love Texas either.

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Yeah me neither.

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Get me out of here.

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Oh I mean are you going to get out of there?

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I feel like we're going to stay there forever.

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I will one day.

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Yeah I don't know.

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One day I will leave this hell.

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But until then.

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But not today.

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No not today.

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So we're going to do the ballers update now or do you want to do it at the end?

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I say do it at the end.

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Okay.

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We've got the people waiting long enough.

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It's time to talk.

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Skippy.

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Talk about Skippy.

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Yes.

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Should we give an intro to Skippy for people that don't know?

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Like what do you mean?

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Like when's it like what year to come out?

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Oh um it came out probably like what like 2011 is that one?

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Alright.

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I'm on it.

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The manga started its run in 2002.

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Yeah the manga is older.

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And it's ongoing?

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Yeah it's like the longest shoujo I have in my collection and it's still coming out.

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I mean it's probably finishing Japanese Navy but like they're so slow to release the manga.

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And annoyingly like as we get like the last two years I've been collecting the new ones.

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They're like getting skinnier and skinnier.

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Pissing me off.

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I'm gonna pay like the same price for smaller volume.

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She's been doing this for 22 years.

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Jesus Christ.

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It's fine.

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Written by Yoshiki Nakamura.

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50 volumes that's crazy.

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Oh man I am almost done then.

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And it says completed?

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That's how many of us are ongoing.

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No it says present.

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According to Wikipedia I'm just reading Wikipedia.

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End ever.

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The anime came out in 2008 and ran for 25 episodes.

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What is that I thought?

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It's directed by Kiyoko Sayama.

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Oh perfect.

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Let me see some other stuff.

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Name.

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A director.

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Did some storyboarding for Hunter Hunter?

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Director, director.

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Directed some parts of Princess Tutu.

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Oh yeah maybe we'll cover that one day.

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I'm trying to see anything.

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This seems like one of their first full time director things.

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They were like directed episodes.

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Kiyoko.

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And the main character's name is Kiyoko.

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So they're like you've got the job.

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Directed Brave 10.

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I've never heard of this.

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It sounds maybe familiar.

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I haven't seen it.

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I haven't noticed a lot of vampire night.

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Oh dear god.

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Directed that.

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We'll probably have to cover that.

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It's like when I remember what that is.

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I was like oh god.

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It was like off the popularity of Twilight at the time.

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Very dramatic.

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Oh my god.

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I don't know.

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Maybe it's actually good if I gave it a chance.

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We'll see.

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It's animated by Studio Hal Filmmaker.

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They went defunct in 2009.

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So right after Skippy came out.

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Damn it sunk the ship.

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It was in July.

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So they went defunct in July and Skippy ended on March 29th.

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Yikes.

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A couple months later.

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It spodes well.

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But it was merged into some subsidiaries.

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So I think the people are still around there.

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They made, what did they make that we might have heard of?

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Boys B, they made Princess Tutu.

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They made Aria the animation.

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Trying to see if anything else I recognized.

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Saber, Marion and Jay.

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Cool.

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Well.

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So that's interesting.

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I don't know.

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None of that stuff really.

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I'm not recognizing.

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I mean, I guess like, what?

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Keeping it to the okays.

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Maybe production IG.

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I recognize them.

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I don't really recognize these guys that much.

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See, I don't pay attention to this stuff at all.

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Dude, this, this, I feel like when you start paying attention to this stuff, it like.

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Makes sense.

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You can kind of tell how a show is going to be a little bit if you can like see who the

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production company is.

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You know what I mean?

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Like now everything is ran by like.

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Nope.

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You go ahead.

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What are you going to say?

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Nope.

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I mean, I feel like these different, the different like production companies have their own like,

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I don't know.

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Stick.

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Yeah.

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Or like they have their own little arc to how things go.

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Like a lot of the show and stuff right now is being made by Mappa who like.

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Oh yeah.

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They're, I feel like their thing is season one gets big animation and everything is like

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very spectacle and then all subsequent seasons look like crap as they just outsource stuff

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to everybody else.

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That seems to be their stick.

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I see.

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And like you just never know if you're going to get quality from them or it's going to

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be like just whatever phoned in because they take on like a thousand projects every year.

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Kind of a production bill kind of place.

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And then there's some other ones that are some other things.

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So yeah, I like to focus on that stuff.

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Hopefully if I remember, I'll start giving these introductions to these things beforehand.

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I'm sure this was so fascinating for everybody.

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But as we watch more stuff, maybe we'll recognize some people here.

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People do get pretty genre because like if you look at this for other stuff, like you'll

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notice like, oh, this person also wrote for this thing or like something else.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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This.

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We'll keep an eye on it.

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Yep.

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I'll say that.

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I mean, I had read the manga and I was in high school and this anime came out and I remember

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liking it, although I feel like it's one of the ones where that like it doesn't feel

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like everything within the show gets the same level of polish.

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Like there's so many like background characters that look like shit compared to like the main

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characters, but I guess that was just happy bothered.

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But also they're kind of like kind of like when I first read the book, I was like, what

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is up with these dudes?

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Their faces are like so skinny and it's like kind of a weird art style at first, but you

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get used to it and you know, they kind of, I feel like when you release a lot of shojoes,

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I think this happened when I was reading Yasha too, but like the arts and fruits basket,

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this happened with fruits basket, but like you start reading it and if it's like a longer

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going series, you, you notice like a lot of updates and more detail and slight changes

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being done to the art.

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And this is definitely one of the series where they kind of eventually get like to the best

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version of it.

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But this is based off the earlier part of the show.

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I don't know.

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So I'm like, I wouldn't say the dudes are like super hot, but like the protagonist is what

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we're here for in this series, or at least for me.

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Freaking love to go.

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But we'll, we'll get into it.

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Yep.

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Let's get into it then.

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So we watched the first three episodes.

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Episode one is titled and the box was opened.

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We open on a fairy tale-esque story of a god long ago who created a box that has many keys

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such that you could never open it on your own and everybody is given a box by God when

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they are born and it'd be transitioned of an image of a girl sleeping on the floor in

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a sleeping bag.

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And the voice says that this praiseworthy girl has a box, has a locked box within herself.

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Then the OP plays.

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I recognize this OP from when we watched all those at the beginning.

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Yep.

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I don't have a lot of thoughts about it.

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I mean, I like the song.

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It's pretty good.

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Kind of corny, but you know, it's this catchy.

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It's pretty good.

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It's a lot of like chasing after, this is the one where she chases after birds and I can

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only think of the opening of serial experiments lane when it comes to birds.

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I've not heard of that.

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Oh, we got another bonus episode on the word.

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Oh dear.

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Just like our ring episode, our ring bonus episode went so well.

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Hey, serial experiments lane has a female protagonist and you're gonna like that.

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Is this a game?

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Or an anime?

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An anime.

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I've never heard of it.

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Yeah, it's cool.

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Anyway, OP finishes and we open on a fast food restaurant where our protagonist works.

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Her name is Kyouko Mogami and as soon as her coworker comes into reliever, she runs off to her second job.

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While she is changing out of her uniform, she hears some of her coworkers talk about pop stars.

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One of her coworkers is really into an actor turned musician named Shou Fuwa and has two gigantic posters of him that she got when she bought his album.

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Kyouko freaks out because she also bought his album but didn't get a poster and collapses on the floor in despair.

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Her coworkers like, oh, maybe if you bring the receipt to the store, you can get, they'll give you like any of the posters they have left over and Kyouko takes that idea and rushes off.

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She rides her bike like a maniac, barreling into the store with her bike.

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It's very cartoony and she's just like, she like jumps onto the counter with her bike and like pins this dude to like the back of the table.

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Yeah. She demands a poster. The now terrified store clerk hands her the only poster they have left.

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She is satisfied but catches the time and realizes that she's going to be late for her second job at Daru Maya.

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She shows up to Daru Maya and it's like an old timey Japanese restaurant.

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Her boss tells her that even if she's like a little late, she shouldn't show up like a freaked out nervous wreck like she just like ran here.

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And maybe she should just like take the day off. She seems kind of frazzled.

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But Kyouko says she can't take time off because she has to pay rent.

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We learned that Kyouko has moved out of Tokyo by herself after middle school and that's why she needs multiple jobs.

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We get a flashback to Kyouko as a little girl.

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She always wanted to be a beautiful princess like in one of her stories, but later realized when she grew up that it takes a lot of money to be beautiful.

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But she's broke so she's got to like cut her own hair and use hand-me-down stuff that she got from her boss and also she wears like old clothes.

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She can't buy new ones. It's very sad.

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She racks her bike and sees the light on in her apartment. She thinks that he might be back.

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She rushes up to go see him and it turns out that it's show in her apartment. The guy from the poster, the celebrity guy, those people were talking about.

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Kyouko thinks of him as her prince, but he does not seem to give a shit that she's there.

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She complains that her call is always good at his voicemail and he says that he's just super busy and he's not going to talk to her on the phone.

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She makes tea and thinks to herself that he used to be a lot kinder, but every time she sees him he gets more and more grumpy.

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She thinks that's okay though. She couldn't care less what happens to her as long as he gets to live his dream.

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She turns to see him leaving and she chases after him and tells him that he has the kind of pudding that he likes.

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He says that he was there to pick up some extra clothes, but he stays to eat the pudding.

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We learned that Kyouko and Show used to be friends as kids and that his family looked after her when I guess she was orphaned.

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No, she's not an orphaned.

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It seems like she's an orphan.

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I mean, she might as well be. Basically, it's just her mom dumped her on her neighbors to take care of her because she was busy with work, I think.

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Okay. That makes sense.

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Let's see. She tells him about her co-worker that likes him and he is very satisfied that he has fans.

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Kyouko is glad that he's in a good mood again, but then he turns on the TV and sees that his rival idol is on some talk show and is instantly in a bad mood again.

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She tries to make him feel better, but he does not react at all.

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On TV, the host tells us that they conducted a poll of women in their 20s of who was the hottest guys are, and Show is ranked number 7 below this guy and also 6 other guys.

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Or 5 other guys.

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She tries to tell him that he's only 16 and this is a poll of 20 year old, so it's like kind of outside his demographic, but he does not listen and he gets angry and leaves.

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Kyouko yells at the TV and curses his rival, Ren Saruga.

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Saruga.

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Saruga.

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It's the next day.

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Kyouko tries to call Show and leaves him a message telling him how much she cares about him.

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He goes to work, but her second job is closed today, so she decides to go see him at the studio where he works.

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She'll just tell him in person.

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She goes there after work and sees a bunch of girls waiting around outside the agency he works at.

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Scary fans.

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Like, today I'm gonna touch Show.

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Yeah, like real...

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Yee, I know idol culture is like a big thing there, I guess.

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We're gonna have to talk about idol culture, this is gonna be interesting.

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Uh, let's see...

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She goes there under the guise of Show ordering fast food so she gets like lead in so she can go talk to him.

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We learned that Show is the only son of a guy who owns the largest Japanese inn in Kyoto,

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but he didn't want to stick around and be forced to marry some nice girl and take over the inn business,

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and instead he wanted to go into Show Biz, so he asked Kyouko to go with him to Tokyo instead and that's why she's here.

472
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:06,000
She gets into his room.

473
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:13,000
I was gonna say in the manga, there's a note that, or he says,

474
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:21,000
Yeah, at the inn it's the like, proprietess, or it's like the woman who runs the show there rather than the man.

475
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:27,000
He's like, I gotta be the star, I don't wanna be just the dude with some chick running the show.

476
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,000
Oh, okay.

477
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,000
Yeah, so a freaking ego thing.

478
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,000
So it's like, yeah, cool.

479
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:39,000
She gets to his room, but then hears him complaining to somebody about how annoying Kyouko is like around the corner.

480
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:46,000
She listens in and he says that he basically only asked Kyouko to come with him because he needed a maid,

481
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:51,000
and Kyouko never says no to him, and basically she was already his maid growing up, so like it's fine.

482
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000
Anyway, she came over, owed a court, so it's not really his problem.

483
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:58,000
We learned that he's talking to his manager, whose name is Shoko,

484
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:03,000
and he is also kind of coming onto her during this entire interaction.

485
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,000
Yeah, he like straight up sits in her lap in the manga.

486
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,000
He's just kind of leaning over her in this one.

487
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,000
Sits in her lap.

488
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:16,000
Which is wild, because she seems like a full ass adult and he's a 16 year old guy.

489
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:22,000
Shou says that if he goes back, his parents will make him marry Kyouko, and that would suck because she doesn't even wear makeup.

490
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,000
She's like not hot.

491
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:27,000
You can't be hot without makeup.

492
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,000
We all know that.

493
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:36,000
Kyouko loses it at this comment and then baseball pitches the food right out his face, but he dodges it.

494
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:44,000
Throughout this interaction, we've been getting visuals of locks on the box that was in the fairy tale at the very beginning coming off.

495
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,000
Like he's picking them as a little devil man.

496
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:53,000
It is at this point that the box open, and it turns out the box is full of angry demons that pour out.

497
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:58,000
Kyouko seems to lose it and starts doing an ojo sama laugh.

498
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,000
Like where you...

499
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,000
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

500
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:07,000
Yes, you do that one and your hand is behind your mouth.

501
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:14,000
She tells him off for playing with her life and that she hates him.

502
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,000
She hates this guy.

503
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,000
She's basically just like fuck you for playing with my life.

504
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,000
She says that she'll get her revenge on him.

505
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,000
She's like I'm gonna get back at you and she was like oh yeah, how are you gonna do that?

506
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,000
With security throwing you out as security comes to throw her out.

507
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:37,000
He taunts her saying that the only way she can get revenge on him is by going into Shobiz herself and out doing him, which she'll never do.

508
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,000
Because security's throwing her out now, then security throws her out.

509
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:48,000
We cut to the next day and we learned that Kyouko has spent 30,000 yen, which is about $230 in 2002 money,

510
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:53,000
or about $400 in 2022 money on a new hair cut.

511
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,000
That is so accurate.

512
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,000
$400 for a new hair cut.

513
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,000
I wonder if I have to tip there.

514
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:06,000
Yeah, because like cut and color, it's colors that's gonna cost a lot.

515
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,000
I'm guessing that cut was probably $60 and the rest of it was the color.

516
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:15,000
But here you're like expected to tip on top of that.

517
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:19,000
I mean she like leaves more than it costs.

518
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,000
That's true.

519
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,000
It's only like $35 or something, or $25, but she leaves $30.

520
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,000
Her hair is now like orangy blonde.

521
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,000
And also before she was like a brunette, I think.

522
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,000
She had like black hair, dark hair.

523
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,000
Yeah, she had like dark.

524
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:36,000
Natural.

525
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:42,000
At least in this anime they acknowledge that Japanese people are born with purple hair and stuff.

526
00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:45,000
Like so many.

527
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:50,000
She's also got a trendy new outfit as she declares that she's gonna get show as we cut the credits.

528
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,000
She's got them cowboy boots on.

529
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,000
She got those boots.

530
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:56,000
With the fur.

531
00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,000
She's looking hot and ready to get some revenge.

532
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,000
Thoughts.

533
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:07,000
Let me say what are your thoughts and then tell you mine immediately.

534
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000
Yeah, go ahead.

535
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:12,000
I just, I think it's okay.

536
00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:19,000
This is before like the whole villainous genre is a thing and like revenge plots are very popular right now.

537
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:24,000
But this like was not a thing at the time that this came out, but I really like it.

538
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,000
I think because I'm like very much a grudge holder.

539
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:36,000
So I like so relate to Kyoko and I think she's really funny, but I want to know what your thoughts are off the bat.

540
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,000
I like this.

541
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,000
I like that.

542
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:46,000
You know, we watched Kimi Nitori again before this which is a show about love and I feel like a lot of these shows are going to be about love and this one's also going to be about love, but I also like that it's also going to be about hate.

543
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:47,000
Yeah.

544
00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:48,000
Fuck these guys.

545
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:49,000
This guy sucks.

546
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,000
Yeah.

547
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,000
It's great.

548
00:33:52,000 --> 00:34:06,000
So how are you perceiving the little you call them little demon things like as it shows one of them like strangling him and she like throws all her little good good to shoot angel on her shoulder.

549
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,000
Characters like at his face.

550
00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:14,000
Like there's a lot of manifestation of her feeling.

551
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:24,000
Yeah, it's it's like a lot more cartoony in that like cartoon visuals will show up, but then it'll also actually like literally interact with the characters like it's kind of diagetic.

552
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,000
That's interesting because like in community today, okay, right?

553
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:35,000
It would be like a sides or like a little like somebody would be thinking a thing and it would be cartoony, but this is like, I think a thing and then that thing comes out and punches a dude or something.

554
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:40,000
Yeah, but like, I think the setup is that no one can see these things.

555
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:45,000
They just feel like it's still like a like, I mean, it's not literally happening, right?

556
00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:53,000
Yeah, it's just interesting that that is the I mean, that's like the type of humor we're going to get is like the much more cartoony and I like I think I like that.

557
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,000
Yeah, I think that's really fun.

558
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,000
It does make it hard to summarize.

559
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:09,000
That's like, true, because like this visual gag is happening and sometimes it actually affects the plot that this visual gag happened.

560
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:18,000
Yeah, I realize that so I read I think I'm learning a lot of the stuff that I know from Japanese culture.

561
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:33,000
I don't remember if this is in all because you know how they're shown and jump. There's something called shojo beat, which is like the publisher of a lot of shows, including get beat, and they have like, and notes at the back of the book kind of

562
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:39,000
explaining things that wouldn't really translate well to English.

563
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:49,000
So like, we see a lot of cartoony moments where a hand is coming from her mouth, like, give me that poster I need it.

564
00:35:49,000 --> 00:36:03,000
But I guess in Japan there's an expression to want something or to want so much that hand comes out of the throat and that's like, there's a lot of like calls to Japanese culture in this.

565
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:17,000
The manga is interesting because it is like one of the ones there's a lot of author notes kind of scribbled in with the to kind of add additional context to moments, which I'll show a few of those examples later.

566
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:29,000
But I think this show is hilarious. We haven't really gotten into the best bits, but the manga is so freaking funny.

567
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:37,000
Yeah, no, there's a lot of visual gaps, which is nice because like, and I think it's just don't or it doesn't land very well.

568
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:42,000
Yeah, no, I think it's good. This is like a lot more different.

569
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:50,000
Yeah, I guess I should be explaining like how we need to do. Okay. Should we explain how like like manga publishing works a little bit?

570
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:57,000
Sure, in terms of like, okay, tell me I'm ready for a story.

571
00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:11,000
Like the way they normally work is like a magazine will pick up a or like they have these compilation magazines, right that will contain like one chapter of, you know, 10 or something.

572
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:28,000
Stories, and then they'll they'll like pick these up and like they'll do a run right so you'll have, you know, this many chapters in like a contract for a mangaka or like you know the people like the illustrator and writer.

573
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:39,000
And if they do well then they'll get renewed on like longer stuff like that and then when you have enough, and it's like your series is popular enough in this magazine, they'll print it as a volume.

574
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:54,000
And that is just like here's the first, you know, six or eight chapters or whatever, all together. And that'll also include like that usually includes some more information that's where you get like bonus stuff and things like that and you get like more explicit author commentary and stuff like that too.

575
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000
Yeah, I had.

576
00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:18,000
I think I got like discontinued in English but yeah, because but it's also like, oh, I feel like this is a spoiler for certain ones where because it's like ongoing so it's not like all of them are the first chapter so you have to like read the previous ones to and then there's like the

577
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:29,000
version but but yeah, I know if if you want to know more watch. What's that what's that anime called about make being a manga artist.

578
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,000
There's a lot of them. Which one are you talking about?

579
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,000
It's like the first.

580
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,000
What is it called? It starts with the D.

581
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,000
D.

582
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,000
It's something. Bakumon, no not Bakuman, I think it's called.

583
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,000
Bakuman?

584
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,000
Bakuman.

585
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,000
No.

586
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:46,000
Okay.

587
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000
I don't know what you're talking about.

588
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,000
You do or don't.

589
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,000
I don't I don't know what you're talking about. What is this?

590
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,000
I think it's called that.

591
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,000
Okay.

592
00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:01,000
Yeah, there are stories about manga making manga.

593
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:07,000
That's actually not that uncommon. Kind of like how a lot of people make movies like a lot of directors make movies about making movies.

594
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Yeah, just to like high schoolers who like combine forces because some manga are both written and pen or like illustrated by an individual and then others is like a partnership of one person doing the art and another doing the story.

595
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,000
Yeah.

596
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:25,000
But yeah.

597
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:36,000
And there are like contests and stuff so like you can like get notoriety by winning contests and then that can land you a subscription or like a slot in one of these magazines anyway.

598
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:44,000
Anyway, I was just saying because you were talking about like which which magazine it was originally published and stuff like that.

599
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:48,000
You know genre literature also kind of used to work like this is my understanding.

600
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:53,000
Like you publish short stories and then you could combine short stories and like fix up novels.

601
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,000
All right, so episode two.

602
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,000
Oh, do we have more things to say about episode one?

603
00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:06,000
I was gonna say like how freaking 30 shades of gray was like a fanfiction for Twilight and then it turned it up at this.

604
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,000
Did you say 30 shades of gray?

605
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,000
20 shades. What's it called?

606
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,000
50 shades.

607
00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:13,000
Fewer.

608
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,000
Fewer shades of gray.

609
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,000
There's only six.

610
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000
Six shades of gray.

611
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,000
50 shades of gray.

612
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,000
Yes, it is 50 shades of gray.

613
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Yeah, that was a fanfic.

614
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:26,000
Oh, God.

615
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,000
It's a little different.

616
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000
Okay, episode two.

617
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,000
Episode two is called The Feast of Horror.

618
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,000
We opened on Kyoko Summarizing last episode.

619
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:40,000
Yeah, these titles, like we don't really ever revisit the box thing in any of these other episodes.

620
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,000
Like guess that is like, is that like a reference to some like myth or something?

621
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,000
Maybe.

622
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:47,000
I feel like it is.

623
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:51,000
Basically, I think it's just because it does not come up again.

624
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,000
It's a set up of how she was so lovely and then turned into the grudge person.

625
00:40:55,000 --> 00:41:01,000
It's so funny to me that the reveal is that like, oh yeah, you open this box bestowed on you by God and it's like,

626
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,000
how to be angry?

627
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,000
It's like rage inside the box.

628
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:16,000
No, it's not like the manga like kind of occasionally touches on that concept more, but I don't remember if the anime does.

629
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:22,000
Okay, it was just funny being like, God gave you the rage box that makes you pissed off when it gets opened.

630
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:26,000
You can't open it yourself, you can only be opened by other people who suck.

631
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:28,000
Episode 2 is called the Feast of Horror.

632
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,000
We opened on Kyoko Summarizing last episode.

633
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:37,000
She says it's been five days since her confrontation with Shou and since then she's moved to live at Daru Maya,

634
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,000
the place where she works.

635
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:41,000
She lives upstairs.

636
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:45,000
She sets out in the morning to get a full-time job because she only works in the evenings.

637
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:52,000
We learned that she says she's looking for a job to her boss and her landlords now,

638
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:59,000
but really she's just trying to get scouted by a talent agency, so she kind of just hangs out where she thinks scouts might be.

639
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:05,000
She goes into a long monologue out loud about how she's going to get her revenge on Shou and everybody's like,

640
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,000
who's this weird girl saying stuff?

641
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:11,000
And she's like, I'm going to become more popular and famous than him.

642
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,000
Yeah, she kind of has a lot.

643
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,000
She's a little delulu sometimes as they say these days.

644
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:21,000
Oh yeah, she seems real unhinged in this episode.

645
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,000
We cut to Shou, who's not worried that's going to happen at all.

646
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,000
His agent's like, are you worried that's going to happen?

647
00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,000
He's like, no, that's stupid.

648
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,000
We go back to Kyoko.

649
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:35,000
She goes to the LME agency's front office and asks to talk with someone,

650
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:39,000
because this is an agency that is highly acclaimed.

651
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:44,000
The receptionist asks if she has an appointment because it's not like you could just show up and talk to anyone

652
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,000
and she's like, no, but like you should just let me talk to somebody.

653
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:56,000
She fights with the receptionist and then a man named Mr. Sawara comes to see what's going on and he decides that he'll meet with Kyoko.

654
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,000
They go and sit down and get coffee.

655
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,000
He asks what section she's interested in joining.

656
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:07,000
She doesn't know what that is and he explains that the sections at their agency are singer, actor, and TV personality.

657
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,000
So the kind of like two or the three career routes you can go.

658
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:18,000
Kyoko says that she doesn't really think that she'd be good at any of those and Sawara gets annoyed and accuses her of just wanting to join so she can meet Ren Saruga.

659
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:22,000
He tries to throw her out, but she insists that she didn't even know Ren worked here.

660
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,000
Just then, who should pass by?

661
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,000
But Ren himself, he's like, what's going on?

662
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:32,000
And Kyoko is dismayed that she'd have to work with him if she got accepted here because she doesn't like him.

663
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:36,000
But then she thinks to herself that the only reason that she didn't like him is that he was Shou's rival,

664
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:40,000
but now that she hates Shou, there really isn't a reason to dislike this guy.

665
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,000
So maybe he's cool.

666
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:49,000
While she's doing this, Mr. Sawara fills Ren in on the situation and Ren goes and tells Kyoko that it's very interesting that she wants to join their agency,

667
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:52,000
even though she doesn't really want to do any of the jobs.

668
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,000
Then he throws her out and tells her not to come back.

669
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:58,000
And then she's like, I really do hate you.

670
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,000
Yeah, she decides that she actually does hate Ren.

671
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:01,000
Great.

672
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:02,000
Give her a reason to have sex.

673
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:07,000
I mean, he has like a very normal reaction where he's just like, oh, you want to join our business even though you don't want to do anything?

674
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:09,000
That's stupid, leave.

675
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,000
Everyone goes about their business.

676
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:20,000
After a while, Sawara and Ren notice that Kyoko has just been sitting out there on the sidewalk in front of the agency for like the entire day.

677
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:25,000
Kyoko wonders if she should try a different agency, but then decides that the only way to beat Shou would be to go to one of the top tier agencies,

678
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,000
so she should just stick it out here.

679
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,000
The workday ends and Mr. Sawara leaves the office.

680
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:35,000
He notices that Kyoko's gone and thinks that he's in the clear, but then she ambushes him outside.

681
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:38,000
We learned that he's the chief of the TV talent section.

682
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,000
He's 41 years old.

683
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:46,000
His full name is Takenori Sawara, and his blood type is AB because I guess Kyoko has been like...

684
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,000
Researched.

685
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:48,000
...sci-off.

686
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,000
Yeah, researching this guy.

687
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:55,000
She begged him to let her work in the TV department, but he says no and then gets in a cab.

688
00:44:55,000 --> 00:45:01,000
She follows the cab on her bike and then follows him home and he goes home to his family and she keeps harassing him all day.

689
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:06,000
She does this for four days until he finally gives in and schedules her for an audition.

690
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:12,000
He explains to her that she'll need to pass the audition in order to like work at the agency because obviously.

691
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:15,000
Kyoko's fine with that, and Sawara thinks that she isn't taking this seriously.

692
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,000
She like doesn't understand that this is gonna be difficult.

693
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:23,000
Kyoko is jazzed for her audition, even though she doesn't like have anything to prepare.

694
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,000
She's like, why I don't even know what I'm gonna do.

695
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:28,000
She runs into Ren in the hallway and he's like, oh, it's you again.

696
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,000
Are you actually gonna audition?

697
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:36,000
And he tells her that it's a waste of time for her to audition because it's hard for people who actually like Shobiz to like break into the industry.

698
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:39,000
And she doesn't even like it all that much, so she's definitely not gonna make it.

699
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:44,000
She tells him that she needs to get into Shobiz so that she can get revenge on Shofua.

700
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:45,000
Ren doesn't know who that is.

701
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,000
He has to look him up on his phone and he's like, oh, it's that guy?

702
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:52,000
Yeah, actually, like it wouldn't be that hard for you to beat that guy because that guy sucks.

703
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:58,000
But anyway, it's not gonna happen here because you're not gonna pass the audition, which like it's pretty hard.

704
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,000
Like you're not just gonna pass it.

705
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,000
Having, you know, determination is only gonna get you so far.

706
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,000
Back at home, Kyoko tries to prepare for her audition.

707
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:10,000
She remembers Ren taunting her and thinks to herself that she'll add him to the list of guys she needs to defeat.

708
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,000
It's the next day.

709
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,000
I was gonna say, is this the part where she has the posters on the wall?

710
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,000
Yes.

711
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:36,000
And then she in the manga, there's a note saying that the size, because it's like a big giant poster show and then a little one of Ren and the author note is like the size of the poster represents like the size of the crotch she has against them.

712
00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:37,000
Oh, yeah.

713
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:38,000
Like how much you hate this guy.

714
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,000
Yeah.

715
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:45,000
It's very funny that she's just like, you know what, I'm just gonna be fueled by rage.

716
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:47,000
I'm gonna add more people to the pile.

717
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,000
It's the next day and she shows up to the audition.

718
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:57,000
She thinks that there's a lot of pretty girls here and instantly gets dismayed because her hair and her clothes were like, what she had banked on.

719
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:05,000
And she decides that this must be a curse cast on her by show who wants her to fail and starts to fashion a cursed doll to get back at him.

720
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:11,000
In the waiting room, some woman gets angry that there's a little girl here who's also auditioning because being around kids breaks her concentration.

721
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:17,000
Then she notices Kyoko poking a needle at a doll and she yells at her for doing needlework while waiting for such an important audition.

722
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:18,000
And then she just like storms off.

723
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:19,000
She's like, I hate you guys.

724
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:20,000
I'm leaving.

725
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:25,000
A little girl starts crying as comforted by the other women, but Kyoko is like, seriously kid, I can see through your crocodile tears.

726
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:26,000
I've cried as a little kid before.

727
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,000
I know you're faking it.

728
00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:29,000
Unprompted.

729
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:31,000
She hates this kid.

730
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:43,000
Well, she says what you think just because a woman or child can cry that that will help them and it seems to have a big impact on this child.

731
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,000
And this kid's like, dang, she got it.

732
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,000
She got it in one.

733
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,000
I got read in the audition room.

734
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:57,000
Mr. Sawara looks at Kyoko's application and thinks to himself that she would immediately get rejected if he didn't invite her himself.

735
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:01,000
Because her attached picture is her scowling instead of smiling.

736
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:02,000
Yeah.

737
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:12,000
And in the manga, the author says that she basically was using a disposable camera and they kept being blurry and so she was getting frustrated as she was taking him.

738
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:16,000
And so that was like, that turned out okay.

739
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,000
Hell yeah.

740
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:28,000
The audition starts and all of the women are introduced to the judges, which are just like the various heads of the different sections.

741
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:29,000
So like the acting and singing and TV.

742
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:32,000
The president is missing though and Kyoko wonders where he is.

743
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:44,000
Just then, sparklers shoot up from the stage and like Samba dancers show up with their animated kind of weird and they start dancing as the president dances out dressed in a like sombrero and a cloak.

744
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:50,000
He introduces himself as Laurie Takarada and everybody thinks his performance was lame.

745
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:54,000
Yeah, he's quite the character.

746
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:55,000
It's very weird.

747
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:59,000
Elsewhere, Ren is thinking about the audition and whether or not Kyoko will bomb.

748
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:07,000
All of the women show off their talents, which include things like tap dancing and playing guitar and baton twirling, etc.

749
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:14,000
We learned that the women who got mad at everybody in the waiting room's talent is to memorize scripts really quickly and perfectly.

750
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:18,000
So like she's like read through it and they're like, what's on page 210?

751
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:19,000
She's like this.

752
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:20,000
They're like, wow.

753
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,000
Which like it doesn't really seem.

754
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:25,000
I guess that's useful.

755
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:36,000
But like, I mean, she's basically just showing off another talent of acting, which seems like very funny that it's like we have three departments, which is like singing TV.

756
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:37,000
And acting.

757
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:44,000
But then like the talents people have are like tap dancing and doing like a ribbon gymnastics thing.

758
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,000
Like this is like a weird.

759
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:50,000
Yeah, it's like everybody like America's got talent going on.

760
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:55,000
I mean, I guess this is before they had, I mean, it was a popular right because it came out 2002.

761
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:56,000
Yeah.

762
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:57,000
Right.

763
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:02,000
There's a very variety show strong culture in Japan.

764
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:03,000
Right.

765
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,000
And they just kind of do goofy stuff or random ass stuff.

766
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:11,000
So maybe it's just like, what can you offer?

767
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:19,000
Yeah, I mean, it's just interesting that it's like, it's not like you try out for all departments at once, which is kind of weird.

768
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,000
Yeah, is peculiar.

769
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,000
Yeah.

770
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:29,000
Then we learned that Kyoko's audition at that like when she's introducing herself, she told everybody that her motivation is to catch up with show.

771
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:32,000
It's like what she said, not get revenge to catch up with.

772
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:39,000
And I think that's going to make her fail for sure because like you can't just say you want to be as popular as somebody else.

773
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:44,000
Kyoko is going last in the talent competition and Sawara feels like an idiot for recommending her.

774
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:56,000
But President Takarata thinks it's interesting that she's trying out for the agency that their agency instead of shows because he's like, well, if she just wants to get close to show, she would have gone to his agency, right?

775
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,000
But she's going to this one, which means she doesn't actually want to like interact with this guy.

776
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,000
She just wants to be as good as him.

777
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,000
That's weird.

778
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:15,000
Kyoko comes out for her talent section, carrying a daikon radish and a knife because she's decided to do something unique as we cut the credits.

779
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,000
So yeah, this is a weird audition.

780
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:26,000
Like the premise of being like we only going to have these like we're selecting out of the same pool, even though these are all different departments.

781
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:32,000
It's kind of odd, like are they only trying out for one of the departments, but it's just like everybody's here to like rate them?

782
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:39,000
Yeah, I guess maybe it's like better to apply for all with a better chance of getting into at least one.

783
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:44,000
Because they kind of the judges are like, oh yeah, we really like this girl.

784
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,000
I think she'll be good for our department.

785
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:56,000
Yeah, it's just like weird because it seems like it seems like you'd want to have like, oh, well this person like you got accepted into the like the singing one, right?

786
00:51:56,000 --> 00:52:00,000
You got accepted into the but they kind of make it sound like everybody's in competition with everyone else.

787
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:08,000
Like next episode, the like angry woman is like taunting Kyoko even though she's clearly in the acting one and it feels like Kyoko is going to be in the TV one.

788
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:09,000
Yeah.

789
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,000
So it doesn't even seem like it matches.

790
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,000
Yeah, it's just a little weird.

791
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,000
I mean, there's a lot of research on how this works in Japan.

792
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:23,000
I mean, and also the time, but I feel like now it's just influence is what.

793
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:31,000
Well, now it's like, right, this is like totally supplanted by like what influencer culture has gone with like social media and stuff like that.

794
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:40,000
Like this is where like nowadays, you just show up and be like, here's the number of followers I have on this thing and then they'd either like, let you in or not, like, I don't even know if they would have a try out

795
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,000
thing anymore.

796
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:46,000
And then you bring your own audience because that's just like how things have shifted so much.

797
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:56,000
And like for actual idols, like I know that like Kpop, right, they have different like schools you go to and like train to be and stuff and they like form teams out of people.

798
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:57,000
Based on.

799
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:59,000
Yeah, it seems really bad.

800
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,000
It's like it seems like a totally exploitative.

801
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,000
Yeah, I think there's a documentary about it or something.

802
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:07,000
But yeah, it's wild.

803
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:09,000
I don't know if it's.

804
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:12,000
Ringo turned out OK, but we don't know about the rest of these.

805
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,000
Yeah, but that was in the pack.

806
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:21,000
I feel like the things have really changed because I feel like it used to be more like this, right where it's like it's almost like an American Idol type.

807
00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:23,000
Oh, yeah, yeah, it's just like not on TV.

808
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:25,000
It's just like, hey, can you show up and come to this audition and like do well?

809
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,000
Yeah, OK, you're in cool.

810
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:37,000
Yeah, and now it's gotten like way another series called full moon, which is like kind of a I think we watched the opening, but where she's trying to be a singer.

811
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:45,000
And yeah, she just showed up for like open call addition and and just like a room like a random room with a panel of people.

812
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:49,000
So like a job interview almost is weird.

813
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:55,000
Like if they're super intense like that too, where it's like a bunch of people versus the one applicant.

814
00:53:55,000 --> 00:54:02,000
Yeah, I mean, it feels like you could still like that still does happen maybe, but it feels also much more like well all the top agencies or whatever.

815
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:10,000
People from like social media because they already have following so it's like not a risk. Yeah, crazy.

816
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:21,000
We're gonna have I feel like this covering the series is going to be a lot about what do we feel about a celebrity culture and influence there is and like all that stuff about like how this industry is run, not knowing that much stuff about it.

817
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,000
Maybe we'll have to learn about it.

818
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:42,000
We're familiar with our like Western but I mean, I'm not as familiar with like Japanese perception of because I feel like it might be like oh, don't waste your time on such a frivolous thing, you know, like following an idol and blah blah blah.

819
00:54:42,000 --> 00:55:00,000
And I feel like that's what the weirdo dude does. He just like goes to idol meetups to shake their hand. And so it's kind of a strange subsection of the population that's into it but I guess the younger one and they're about to have a population crash so this is all about to be the forefront.

820
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,000
Once the people who aren't into it are gone.

821
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:07,000
Yeah, it's also just kind of weird that it's like very it's much more like corporate controlled I feel like.

822
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:26,000
I mean, from what I understand about music industry stuff it's like you know you can hop around different like recording labels and like people start their own recording labels and they're like different kinds of it's more like people operate as like free agents and feels like where this is like you're like may or break with your company and if your company decides that you're done you're kind of just done.

823
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,000
Yeah, which is weird.

824
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,000
I don't know.

825
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,000
Well, we'll figure it out as we go along.

826
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:33,000
Yep.

827
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:36,000
Episode three is called the emotion she lacks.

828
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,000
We jump back into the audition.

829
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:40,000
Kyoko is nervous because she hasn't done this in a while.

830
00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:51,000
We learned that this knife that she has is the chef's knife that her boss, her boss, Taishou uses at Daru Maya and that he loaned it to her for this audition.

831
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:54,000
And she thinks to herself that with this knife there's no way she can fail.

832
00:55:54,000 --> 00:56:04,000
She introduces herself and says that she is going to make a rose out of a daikon and everybody is surprised and confused because this is like not the type of thing you do at this audition.

833
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:07,000
Kyoko very intensely starts carving up the daikon.

834
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:14,000
We get a flashback where Kyoko tells us that she learned to cook at a young age so that she could be useful to Shou's family while she was staying with them.

835
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,000
The training montage.

836
00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:18,000
The training montage.

837
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:27,000
She thinly peels the radish and then like organizes the layers of the peel to like look like a rose like if you kind of like layered them on top of each other.

838
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:35,000
But she messed it up and it kind of ends up looking like more like a cabbage than a rose and she's all bummed out about that but the judges all seem impressed and applaud her.

839
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,000
So Laura gives her a thumbs up.

840
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:52,000
Apparently this is like all only master chefs are able to do this skill so it's like I guess well known enough that everyone's like whoa this girl's talented.

841
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:53,000
Yeah.

842
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:59,000
And also it seems like the the president is like a weird eccentric guy so he kind of likes weird eccentric stuff.

843
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:00,000
Yeah.

844
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,000
So that kind of plays to him also.

845
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:03,000
Yeah that's true.

846
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:12,000
This is where I'm like this is the most like X factor or whatever kind of thing about this right where it's like you show up and do some weird talent.

847
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:13,000
Yeah.

848
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:22,000
Kyoko thinks about all the support she's gotten from the adults in her life like Shou's parents who motivated her to learn how to cook or her boss at Daruyama who lent her the knife.

849
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:23,000
That's it though.

850
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:26,000
Those are the only four people.

851
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:28,000
She's riding high on her presumed victory.

852
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:31,000
All the contestants filter back in for another round.

853
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:39,000
The angry woman congratulates Kyoko on her outlandish audition but tells her that she's just a spectacle and doesn't actually fit into the talent and the talent agency.

854
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,000
But she does serve as a nice contrast for her.

855
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,000
So like I don't know keeping up I guess.

856
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:48,000
Yeah she has a good line in the manga where she says you stand out.

857
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:51,000
But that's because you don't belong here.

858
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:52,000
Yeah.

859
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:55,000
Kyoko hates this woman.

860
00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,000
Everyone.

861
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:58,000
It's so good.

862
00:57:58,000 --> 00:57:59,000
I love the change.

863
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:00,000
It's a ball of rage.

864
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:02,000
It's so good.

865
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:10,000
The next round is a reaction test where each contestant is handed a phone and they have to react to the voice on the other end of it.

866
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:15,000
Kyoko is sitting next to the angry woman and is pissed about having to sit next to her because she does not like her.

867
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:25,000
The angry woman tells her that this is the part of the audition that's the most difficult because every year the president comes up with like a new thing so you kind of can't really prepare for it.

868
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,000
And that's why it's the most difficult round.

869
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:37,000
It's the angry woman's turn and instead of responding to like every you know because most people are going and they like get the phone and they kind of respond after the voice says something.

870
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:48,000
But the angry woman does not respond after the voice says something she just changes her facial expressions to reflect what she's feeling and then at the very end of the phone call she starts crying.

871
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:51,000
The judges are all impressed that she can cry on command.

872
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:52,000
Good stuff.

873
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:54,000
Then it's Kyoko's turn.

874
00:58:54,000 --> 00:59:00,000
She puts the phone up to her ear and hears that it is a voice of a man who says that he was a fool for leaving her.

875
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:06,000
The voice says that he tried to date other women and they all rejected him saying that he was too willful, selfish and overconfident.

876
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:13,000
Kyoko imagines that this is basically what show what show is and like this would be like if he was talking to her.

877
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:22,000
The voice continues saying that it's that he's realized how how much she truly cared for him and how she was the only one for him from the start.

878
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:30,000
And if they could could they start over as Kyoko has been listening to this she is radiating with anger like shaking physically.

879
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:41,000
Everybody is like kind of nervous after seeing this but she gets her composure together and says very sweetly that she's so happy and that she knew that he'd say that and come back one day.

880
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:43,000
So are in the president seem impressed.

881
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:56,000
But then she keeps talking and then she says psych and she says if an apology could solve everything there'd be no need for hell and then she smashes the phone on the ground which is which rules it's so good.

882
00:59:56,000 --> 01:00:02,000
There would be no need for hell. Awesome. She's got real good one-liners.

883
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:10,000
She snaps out of it and apologizes for breaking the phone but she sees the president looking sad and thinks that she totally beefed it.

884
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:14,000
The results for the first round are posted. Yeah she messed it up. She screwed it up.

885
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:18,000
The results for the first round are posted and Kyoko does not seem her name on it.

886
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:27,000
They're angry woman taunts her and Kyoko says that she must figure out why she failed so she goes to see Soara. He was expecting that she would come and see him so they get coffee.

887
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:36,000
He says that the president and the head of the acting department gave her high marks but she got rejected because she clearly does not like love her audience.

888
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:43,000
She's not good with love and he's like what does love mean to you and she says that it's a prelude to despair and destruction.

889
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:52,000
Soara is like yeah there it is. He says that the president's philosophy is that a celebrity must love their audience and want to be loved by them to succeed.

890
01:00:52,000 --> 01:01:00,000
We get a flashback of Shou's mother telling her as a little girl that she has to always smile for the customers at the inn so that they feel welcomed and that they will come to love their inn.

891
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:06,000
Kyoko tells Soara that she understands and she asks them how it's possible to love a group of people that you don't even know.

892
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:18,000
He deflects and says that you have to want to be loved by them or like being a celebrity just kind of doesn't work. She says that she used to feel that but now her desire to love somebody has completely left her and then she leaves.

893
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:29,000
Soara thinks to himself that that was weird. Then he gets poked in the face by the little girl from last episode. She asks him what's happening to Kyoko and Soara wonders if it's okay that he just like sent her off like that.

894
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:37,000
Kyoko goes back home depressed. Taishou, her boss, slash landlord and his wife are a little worried for her.

895
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:48,000
Taishou is like the, it's not his name, it's like the master of the kitchen or something.

896
01:01:48,000 --> 01:02:00,000
And then she goes back home depressed and says that she's not going to be loved by her boss.

897
01:02:00,000 --> 01:02:05,000
Kyoko says that she never really served her customers with love before.

898
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:17,000
And she's been reserving all of her love for show but then he went and ruined it. She thinks that there's nothing more useless in this world than loving somebody and then starts to cry. Later that night President Laurie is looking over Kyoko's application.

899
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:22,000
He says that she really is different than the other applicants and he's curious what she'd be like on TV.

900
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:29,000
But then he looks at her application and her favorite word is vengeance and she also kind of just radiates hatred so she might just flop immediately.

901
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:36,000
But she does seem to have potential, you know? It's morning and Kyoko thinks that last night was the first time she cried in a while.

902
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:41,000
She used to cry all the time as a kid because she thought someone would help her if she did.

903
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:48,000
And then she remembers about a magical stone she has that she got when she was a kid that always made her feel better when she looked at it.

904
01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:54,000
She gets it out and looks at it. She resolves to figure stuff out so that she can one day laugh again.

905
01:02:54,000 --> 01:03:08,000
She tells Boss and Boss's wife, which I guess is also her boss, she tells her bosses that she's giving up on being a celebrity and Chef Boss is displeased saying that he's disappointed that she'd give up so easily.

906
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:14,000
Elsewhere President Laurie tells Sawara to call Kyoko back. He's like, get her back here.

907
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:25,000
He thinks that she has potential to become great if she can come back with enthusiasm because maybe they can like train her up and just like, you know, fix that flaw. And if they do, maybe she'll be great.

908
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:30,000
Also, that little girl is there in the room with them so I guess she's already important.

909
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:37,000
So Sawara thinks to himself that she'll definitely come back because she'd never give up after one setback as we cut to credits.

910
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:57,000
I forgot to point out in episode two when she's in the room with like being all angry at Ren and show that her bosses are like on the floor below her and they just hear her like maniacally laughing in her room by herself and they're like, what the hell's going on up there with him?

911
01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,000
Yeah. Very funny.

912
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:01,000
Yeah.

913
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:04,000
What do we think so far?

914
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:08,000
I like it. I think it's good. I like that she's such a little weirdo.

915
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:10,000
Yeah, she is.

916
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:15,000
And like most of her motivation is just like, I just fucking hate these guys.

917
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:21,000
These are a list of people I hate. I think they suck. And I'm just gonna do some weird stuff. What am I good at?

918
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:31,000
Cutting up this radish, doing some like pro chef things. That's pretty good. Getting angry and spiking the phone. That's good. I think that's great.

919
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:33,000
Yeah.

920
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:35,000
What did you think?

921
01:04:35,000 --> 01:04:57,000
Yeah, I love Kyoko. She's so entertaining. Well, because we kind of see in episode one when she's trying to console show when he sees Ren on the TV that she already has it in her to like kind of make up these wild stories to justify things.

922
01:04:57,000 --> 01:05:16,000
Like to like soothe his ego, but now she's just doing it to kind of like build up on the rage that she has, like, you know, feeling the soak in the fire and imagining all these scenarios like, oh, it's all shows fault because I only learned how to do this because I was trying to impress his parents.

923
01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:21,000
I just like that she just like fixates and like it's all his fault.

924
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:28,000
Yeah, right. It always becomes about her revenge blood.

925
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:41,000
Okay. What do you think about the whole like, oh, you're going to be a bad celebrity because you need to be you need to want to be you need to love your audience and want to be loved by them. You have to you have to make the customer feel you have to always smile and customer service.

926
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:44,000
I mean, you know, the customer is always right.

927
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:55,000
I think it's a cultural thing, right? Like Japan is very much not about the individual but about society.

928
01:05:55,000 --> 01:06:05,000
So it's like not it's most important that what you're doing is for like the greater population and not just for your own selfish desires.

929
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:21,000
Kind of. So I feel like being a celebrity there's just, I don't know, like there's national pride or something like it's not because that individual or like openly, they're not openly being like I just want to be famous because I want to be rich and blah, blah, blah.

930
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:30,000
Yeah, like they got played off like, oh, I'm just, you know, I just love singing and happy to bring it to all my fans stuff like that.

931
01:06:30,000 --> 01:06:42,000
Yeah, it's just interesting to watch like to see this because I feel like, well, I guess here right we kind of had like a cultural backlash a little bit from that being like, you know, the customers always right thing where it's like now just like a bunch of fucking

932
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:50,000
Karen's like the customers are dumb ass. You know what I mean? Like that's kind of the like that's still like kind of the expectation for service jobs. You have to do that.

933
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:53,000
But everybody understands that it's stupid and a lot of the time customers are stupid.

934
01:06:53,000 --> 01:07:02,000
Yes, and dumb. So it's it also makes me think that like, you know, Kyoko is trying to become a celebrity, but really what she should do is join like a punk band.

935
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:05,000
You know what I mean? She would fit in so good.

936
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:06,000
Uh huh.

937
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:10,000
That's like, depending on others when she's trying to extract her.

938
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:18,000
That's true. Yeah, you can't you can't do a social like a solo act on that. But like, oh yeah, being like a like a lead singer that like hates you.

939
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:22,000
That's like totally like a punk band thing. You know what I mean? She could easily make it big on that.

940
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:27,000
Yeah. Uh, it's punk, widely popular in Japan.

941
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:29,000
Yeah, I think so.

942
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:45,000
Yeah. Also, she's like, I'm assuming or we'll probably find out but right her whole life has been catering to show so it's not like she's probably had time to establish friendships with people.

943
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:49,000
So she probably does not have many folks to rely on.

944
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:58,000
Oh yeah. Yeah. No, I know. I'm just saying that like I can imagine this this storyline again, but like she doesn't think like if she was a punk band, it would not matter that she does not love her audience.

945
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:00,000
You know what I mean? Like they be into that.

946
01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:08,000
But it's funny to be like your problem is that you just don't love the audience and she's like, well, how am I supposed to love people? I don't even know.

947
01:08:08,000 --> 01:08:11,000
And it's like, hmm, are we going to talk about parasocial relationships here?

948
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:14,000
We have to have some thoughts about some parasocial relationships.

949
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,000
That's good.

950
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:17,000
So having hope.

951
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:18,000
Rubbing my hands together.

952
01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:20,000
We'll see.

953
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:22,000
Who's your favorite character so far?

954
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:24,000
Coco. She's crazy.

955
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:26,000
He's great.

956
01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:28,000
At least favorite show.

957
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:30,000
He sucks.

958
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:34,000
Yeah, he's like not really in it that much. I feel like he is just like the guy who sucks. So like, of course.

959
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:36,000
Yeah.

960
01:08:36,000 --> 01:08:38,000
The little girl's name is Maria. We hear Mr.

961
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:40,000
Sawa.

962
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,000
Sawa.

963
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:44,000
Sawa.

964
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:49,000
Sawa. He's so certain. He calls her Maria.

965
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:51,000
Okay.

966
01:08:51,000 --> 01:08:55,000
I feel like you might like the president because he's also insane.

967
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:58,000
We just haven't seen that much of him yet.

968
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,000
Okay.

969
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,000
Yeah, he's goofy.

970
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:05,000
Yeah, my biggest criticism is that they need to like tell me people's names.

971
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:09,000
I keep having to call that one chick the angry woman because she doesn't have a name yet.

972
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:14,000
I think they, because they like call her up on stage.

973
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:19,000
So they probably said her name. Her name is Kane something.

974
01:09:19,000 --> 01:09:24,000
But yeah, well, she's in the opening. So we know we'll learn more about her.

975
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:27,000
Yeah, she's important. I know like they're important characters.

976
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:29,000
We just haven't learned their names yet.

977
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:33,000
It's just like, oh, it's that guy, which is bad for me making a summary.

978
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:36,000
Yeah, I know. I feel like there is so many.

979
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:40,000
Visual gags in this. I do now feel bad about.

980
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:44,000
Maybe we should have done two episodes instead of three.

981
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:46,000
But it's fine.

982
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:51,000
I'm going to keep up with the manga recap. It's easier because three three episodes makes up one volume.

983
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:56,000
So that way it's easier for me to know what to mention in our recaps here.

984
01:09:56,000 --> 01:09:59,000
Yeah, I think it's great when she spikes the phone.

985
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:00,000
I think it's good.

986
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:06,000
I think she should have her be angry. Like they're always being like, oh, she doesn't love the audience. This is bad.

987
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:11,000
I'm like, I think it's good. Now you have some variety in your like, like celebrity lineup.

988
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:18,000
I don't know. I feel like back then and in Japan, like, oh, a angry woman can't have that.

989
01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:20,000
Oh, yeah. You're right.

990
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:23,000
This does kind of feel a little bit ahead of its time.

991
01:10:23,000 --> 01:10:26,000
We're like, I feel like we're going to be in a good mood.

992
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:31,000
This does feel like you're pretty good.

993
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:35,000
But yeah, you're totally right because audiences are pathetic cowards.

994
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:47,000
Yeah. So I guess I mean, out of our protagonists so far, Masaki's definitely my least favorite.

995
01:10:47,000 --> 01:10:57,000
And Kyoko is my favorite. Yeah.

996
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:59,000
Has your moments too.

997
01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:05,000
But yeah, this really, this is just my favorite manga ever. I just love it so much.

998
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:10,000
How come you're not more like this? Are you just like seething with anger?

999
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:17,000
I think it's because I don't put myself in situations in which I could see someone betraying me to make this happen.

1000
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:22,000
Because I do hold grudges like I don't really forgive.

1001
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:24,000
I definitely forget.

1002
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:26,000
Okay.

1003
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:33,000
Like don't cross me, man, or I'll just cut you loose, which is yeah.

1004
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:35,000
That's good.

1005
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:41,000
No, I mean, clearly, I should probably be able to forgive.

1006
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:46,000
I don't know. I'm just like, yeah, so I relate to her so much.

1007
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:51,000
I just, yeah, don't put myself in social situations in which I would possibly have this happen to me.

1008
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:53,000
And I would suck her.

1009
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:58,000
I mean, she, it's not like she was set up for success socially.

1010
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:05,000
Like obviously her mom like kind of was very distant and cold to her.

1011
01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:10,000
So show and his family are like the only people she's had to rely on.

1012
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:13,000
So I can see it being like, oh, I owe them a lot.

1013
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:20,000
So I'm just going to be blind to his faults because these are the only people in my life.

1014
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:24,000
Yeah, the child levels are off the charts with her.

1015
01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:29,000
Or it's like, because at the beginning I'm like, you're like, you should be in high school, but you just have a bunch of jobs.

1016
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:34,000
Oh, no, your whole life is you just having jobs because people just dumped you off.

1017
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:38,000
Well, apparently, I guess high school is in compulsory in Japan.

1018
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:43,000
Like so you can just work after graduating middle school.

1019
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:46,000
It's just not very common.

1020
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:52,000
But yeah, she's having a hustle to pay for this apartment that he doesn't even go to.

1021
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:59,000
Oh, yeah, it's so funny for her to be like, I guess I never did like, like love my customers.

1022
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:01,000
It's like, dude, you worked at a fucking Wendy's.

1023
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:03,000
Of course you didn't love your customers.

1024
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:08,000
What nobody loves their customers and fast food.

1025
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:09,000
Come on.

1026
01:13:09,000 --> 01:13:10,000
Yes.

1027
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:12,000
Now, for real.

1028
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:16,000
Yeah, we've got more characters to meet.

1029
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:19,000
Yeah, it's I feel like quite a journey.

1030
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:25,000
Like this is a very dynamic character where we get to have as the protagonist here.

1031
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:26,000
That's good.

1032
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:28,000
I don't want her to be to become soft.

1033
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:30,000
That's what I don't want to happen.

1034
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:33,000
I want her to be kind of pissed off all the time.

1035
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:35,000
Yeah.

1036
01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:37,000
I like I want to stand out.

1037
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:38,000
You know what I mean?

1038
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:39,000
I like that.

1039
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:42,000
I like that she's just like, well, fuck you, dude, you suck.

1040
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:43,000
Yes, I know.

1041
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:45,000
I just, I love it.

1042
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:50,000
We do, we did see a glimpse of like, oh, show, why are you hanging out with your adult ass

1043
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:51,000
manager lady?

1044
01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:53,000
Yeah, weird.

1045
01:13:53,000 --> 01:14:00,000
There is like often commentary within the series on like these young teenage or these

1046
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:10,000
teenagers interacting with adults a lot and kind of like that power balance kind of thing.

1047
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:11,000
Yeah.

1048
01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:14,000
So that'll be, I don't remember.

1049
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:19,000
I don't remember what part of the plot that this ends on.

1050
01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:25,000
I actually, maybe I do remember a little bit, but so we get like a decent amount of stuff

1051
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:28,000
because we kind of just jump right into it.

1052
01:14:28,000 --> 01:14:33,000
These next couple episodes are going to be breakneck pace.

1053
01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:35,000
No, but like a different setting.

1054
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:39,000
That is the fun thing about a show about show business is if you work on different projects

1055
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:46,000
and there's like different stylings and so we get to see characters look a bunch of different

1056
01:14:46,000 --> 01:14:51,000
ways because they're performing as different things.

1057
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:57,000
So lots of different outfits and hair and stuff like that.

1058
01:14:57,000 --> 01:14:59,000
Yeah.

1059
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:00,000
Skip beat.

1060
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:01,000
All right, let's see it.

1061
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:06,000
I'm sure we'll have lots of thoughts about industries and celebrity culture and parasocial

1062
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:10,000
relationships and things like that and also like how are women allowed to be celebrities?

1063
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:15,000
What are the expectations for her or for them as opposed to how guys can act?

1064
01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:17,000
Yeah, for sure.

1065
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:18,000
Yeah.

1066
01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:22,000
So that's our coverage of episodes one through three.

1067
01:15:22,000 --> 01:15:30,000
We'll cover the next three next time and today instead of recommendations, we're going to do our

1068
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:33,000
Baldur's Gate three.

1069
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:36,000
We're not also going to do recommendations.

1070
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:37,000
Are we also?

1071
01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:38,000
Okay, fine.

1072
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:39,000
I don't know yet.

1073
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:40,000
Well, we can do the Baldur's Gate.

1074
01:15:40,000 --> 01:15:42,000
So we're playing Baldur's Gate three.

1075
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:43,000
If you don't know what this is.

1076
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:46,000
I don't know if I do.

1077
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:55,000
It's a game by Larry in studios came out in what 2020 early access started in 2020 and

1078
01:15:55,000 --> 01:16:01,000
then October of 2023 is when it released officially.

1079
01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:06,000
Yeah, it's a game that plays like D&D or Pathfinder or one of those, right?

1080
01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:11,000
Where like you do you have to make checks for things and you roll dice and that kind of

1081
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:12,000
stuff.

1082
01:16:12,000 --> 01:16:15,000
And you know, there's a lot of dialogue options and stuff like that.

1083
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:18,000
You can interact with people a lot of different ways, that kind of thing.

1084
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:19,000
We're in a party.

1085
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:21,000
I'm playing a bard.

1086
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:23,000
You're playing a monk.

1087
01:16:23,000 --> 01:16:30,000
Yeah, you're Cliff Clifton is what my character Clifton who is a bard.

1088
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:34,000
I am trying to, I like gambling.

1089
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:36,000
I try to talk my way out of stuff.

1090
01:16:36,000 --> 01:16:39,000
I'm all about buffing.

1091
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:44,000
My party member is whenever that happens, which we haven't had that many fights yet.

1092
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:46,000
No, not yet.

1093
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:48,000
But that will be what I do.

1094
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:55,000
I play as a dwarf monk named Yamir.

1095
01:16:55,000 --> 01:17:04,000
And I normally play a very charismatic persuasive character, but that is not my character.

1096
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:09,000
And we are finding that out rather quickly that I should not do any talking.

1097
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:13,000
Yeah, just go blow it and get thrown in jail.

1098
01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:16,000
Yeah, you're now a fugitive because you're bad at talking.

1099
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:17,000
Yeah.

1100
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:21,000
So this is a different way to play the game than I would by myself, which is like the

1101
01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:27,000
benefit of trying it with a friend where it's like out of my control how everything

1102
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:28,000
goes.

1103
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:31,000
So I'll get to play it in a new way.

1104
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:34,000
She'll make it more replayable.

1105
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:36,000
Yeah, I'm trying to role play.

1106
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:38,000
I'm trying to be a little bit temperamental.

1107
01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:41,000
Some people are mean to me and I'm like, I don't know if I should like, yeah, be cool

1108
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:43,000
with you or not.

1109
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:50,000
We had a bad basically start on this big ship by mind flayers and you get this gross

1110
01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:57,000
thing put in your parasite from them put in your brain that is supposed to turn you

1111
01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:04,000
into one of them and that's how they kind of like reproduces by inhabiting other people

1112
01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:09,000
and turning them into one of them, but we aren't for some reason.

1113
01:18:09,000 --> 01:18:14,000
So that's like a big mystery that we're going to be trying to determine the cause of

1114
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:22,000
because we us and then our party members are all affected with the parasite and we the

1115
01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:24,000
big forces is all to work together.

1116
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:27,000
Yeah, the ship crashes.

1117
01:18:27,000 --> 01:18:35,000
We kind of like the people we meet are scattered around the crash site and yeah, they're all

1118
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:37,000
begrudgingly working with us.

1119
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:43,000
No one like will and is like the least abrasive party members so far.

1120
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:52,000
Like yeah, it's because he's sherry jolly, but wait, will will will the guy with the weird

1121
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:57,000
eyeball who is trying to you think he's the he's the the most like a guy.

1122
01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:01,000
I feel like Gail is the most like chill guy we got.

1123
01:19:01,000 --> 01:19:02,000
That's true.

1124
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:05,000
I feel like well you actually you didn't.

1125
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:12,000
He's a wizard and if you're not a wizard, he kind of can talk down to you like you're

1126
01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:15,000
an idiot because you don't understand this level.

1127
01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:20,000
But I think that the dialogue to choice you picked or something did not really demonstrate

1128
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:24,000
that so he's pretty well he talks down to you because you're bad at talking.

1129
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:26,000
I'm talking so he doesn't do that.

1130
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:28,000
Okay.

1131
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:29,000
Yeah, okay.

1132
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:36,000
Will and Gail are the two that are more chill but freaking laser a star in a shout out heart

1133
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:38,000
are all pretty grumpy.

1134
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:44,000
You know with reason, I would say now they're grumpy.

1135
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:47,000
I try to tell them to chill all the time and they never want to.

1136
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:50,000
They're like, why are you telling me to chill and I'm like, all right, geez.

1137
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:51,000
I know.

1138
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:58,000
Let's see what's been your favorite character interaction so far like when laser was making

1139
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:02,000
that tiefling bow to her when she said teeth wing.

1140
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:09,000
Oh, laser doesn't know shit about anything and then she's just like she just showed up

1141
01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:15,000
here because it's like her first like international travel visit and I got to explain to her like

1142
01:20:15,000 --> 01:20:19,000
how to pronounce the things and also like how people interact.

1143
01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:20,000
Very funny.

1144
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:22,000
I'm like, oh, you don't know what's going on.

1145
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:23,000
Listen to me.

1146
01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:24,000
I'm a bard.

1147
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:26,000
I'll tell you what's going on.

1148
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:27,000
It's pretty good.

1149
01:20:27,000 --> 01:20:33,000
I'm a bard who can't freaking pass the check to make us some coin with your performance.

1150
01:20:33,000 --> 01:20:35,000
I didn't make us.

1151
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:36,000
I did it twice.

1152
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:37,000
Five coins.

1153
01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:41,000
Yeah, well, it's because we're hanging out with the like refugees.

1154
01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:43,000
We don't have that much money.

1155
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:44,000
Yeah, that's true.

1156
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:45,000
Yeah, the druids who suck.

1157
01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:46,000
I don't like the druids.

1158
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:49,000
We have a problem with children in our campaign.

1159
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:51,000
I know you have a problem with children.

1160
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:53,000
The children love me.

1161
01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:56,000
No, you started this and I'm suffering the consequences.

1162
01:20:56,000 --> 01:21:02,000
There's the game does kind of like as as much as it's like you have all these options.

1163
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:04,000
It still kind of does the mass effect.

1164
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:08,000
Well, you can either be a goody goody two shoes good guy or you could just be an evil

1165
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:10,000
mustash twirling villain.

1166
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:12,000
And I agree that grades me a little bit.

1167
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:19,000
You're basing that off one scenario in particular that then just kind of snowballed into.

1168
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:23,000
Moll hating us and throwing me and getting me kind of.

1169
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:27,000
Yeah, so basically what happens is like there's like you roll up on this guy and he's like

1170
01:21:27,000 --> 01:21:31,000
this kid stole my am I know he's like, hey, kid, you stole my amulet.

1171
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:33,000
The kids like I and steal your amulet and I look at this kid.

1172
01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:35,000
I'm like this kid definitely stole that guy's amulet.

1173
01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:39,000
And it's like I can either intervene or I can.

1174
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:45,000
Because the guy is like if you don't give it back on this like I'm a smack you or something.

1175
01:21:45,000 --> 01:21:49,000
Yeah, I'm a smack you kid.

1176
01:21:49,000 --> 01:21:56,000
And the kids like I don't have it and I'm like and it's like you can intervene and stop him from hitting that kid or you can like.

1177
01:21:56,000 --> 01:21:57,000
Help him hit the kid.

1178
01:21:57,000 --> 01:22:00,000
I don't know what the other option was, but I just kind of sat there.

1179
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:06,000
I'm like, let's just see how this plays out and he he smacks the kids so hard the amulet falls out of him.

1180
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:12,000
Like it's like it's like it's like it's like it's very funny.

1181
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:15,000
And then the kids like.

1182
01:22:15,000 --> 01:22:20,000
It like runs off or whatever and then some guards like what's going on here and I'm like, I don't know man.

1183
01:22:20,000 --> 01:22:29,000
I'm just I'm just hanging out and then later on the kid like there's like a gang of kids who steal stuff and they're like you let Bobby get hit by that guy.

1184
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:31,000
And I'm like I didn't hit that kid.

1185
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:32,000
I just stood there.

1186
01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:38,000
I don't know what's going on and they're like we're going to tell the guards that you're like bullying us and I'm like, yeah, whatever kid.

1187
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:41,000
I just like saved you guys from like a goblin raid.

1188
01:22:41,000 --> 01:22:43,000
There's no way they would believe you.

1189
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:45,000
And then we came back.

1190
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:47,000
Yeah, we saved a kid from a heart.

1191
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:49,000
I saved another kid from the Druids.

1192
01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:51,000
I'm saving kids left and right.

1193
01:22:51,000 --> 01:22:55,000
And yet we still go back to camp and this guy's like, oh, these kids said you were bullying them.

1194
01:22:55,000 --> 01:22:58,000
We're going to take you to jail and they said that to you.

1195
01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:00,000
But you failed it.

1196
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:07,000
You failed a speech check and then you went to jail and I'm like these guys are putting you in jail for bullying kids based on their word alone.

1197
01:23:07,000 --> 01:23:09,000
I saved these kids.

1198
01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:10,000
I saved that kid over there.

1199
01:23:10,000 --> 01:23:11,000
Why are you putting me in jail?

1200
01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:12,000
It's stupid.

1201
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:15,000
So I think these guys are kind of dumb as bricks a little bit.

1202
01:23:15,000 --> 01:23:16,000
Like I think they're kind of stupid.

1203
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:20,000
Maybe if we were a tiefling, they would have been more open minded.

1204
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:21,000
Oh, cool.

1205
01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:22,000
So they're racist.

1206
01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:23,000
That's fun.

1207
01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:25,000
I just say right.

1208
01:23:25,000 --> 01:23:35,000
You'll see race is like it's just like it's so funny to me that like we live like the setting of Baldur's Gate is like a medieval fantasy thing, right?

1209
01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:44,000
Where it's like people are getting sold into slavery or whatever and there's like mind players, but it's like somebody hits a slap the kid for stealing something and it's like, oh, that's too far.

1210
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:46,000
It's like what?

1211
01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:49,000
Yeah, you know what I mean?

1212
01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:50,000
I just think it's funny.

1213
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:51,000
I barely played it.

1214
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:52,000
Yeah.

1215
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:53,000
Yeah.

1216
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:56,000
I mean, like, you know, that's too far in terms of like modern standards.

1217
01:23:56,000 --> 01:24:00,000
But like if something's set in that time period, I feel like nobody would care.

1218
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:06,000
Yeah, well, I guess it's easier to write scenarios based off what we know humanoid.

1219
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:08,000
Oh, no, it's fine.

1220
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:13,000
If they did stuff like this is Game of Thrones and people acting like they like were in that era.

1221
01:24:13,000 --> 01:24:16,000
This game would suck because people in that era suck.

1222
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:18,000
And I wouldn't like any of them.

1223
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:19,000
So it's good.

1224
01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:26,000
I just think it's funny to be like, oh, okay, I let a guy, I let this guy smack a kid and all of a sudden I'm the bad guy.

1225
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:29,000
The kids stole that amulet.

1226
01:24:29,000 --> 01:24:31,000
That kid did it.

1227
01:24:31,000 --> 01:24:35,000
Yeah, I know you got pickpocketed by another one of those kids.

1228
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:39,000
Yeah, it's funny because after that conversation, like, oh, you'll get him next time, kid.

1229
01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:41,000
And he was mad at me and I'm like, all right, man, whatever.

1230
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:44,000
And then we met another bard, Volo.

1231
01:24:44,000 --> 01:24:47,000
Yeah, you guys had like matching hats.

1232
01:24:47,000 --> 01:24:49,000
It was cute.

1233
01:24:49,000 --> 01:24:51,000
We base.

1234
01:24:51,000 --> 01:24:52,000
Yeah.

1235
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:54,000
So we've talked to the Kaga.

1236
01:24:54,000 --> 01:25:03,000
Who's like taking over the druid grove with the absence of the normal.

1237
01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:06,000
Are people in the audience going to have any other idea?

1238
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:07,000
I don't know.

1239
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:12,000
Yeah, basically, what's going on right now is that we got three different factions, right?

1240
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:18,000
We got there's these tieflings who are like refugees because the place they live.

1241
01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:30,000
They're trying to go to Balder's gate, but they can't make it because they're like out of supplies and they're like living in this forest where these druids live and these druids are like, we hate these guys live in here.

1242
01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:32,000
We're also getting attacked by goblins.

1243
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:37,000
We're going to cast, you know, in our leader or glorious leader who makes good decisions has been captured by goblins.

1244
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:47,000
Now we have the stupid leader that everybody hates who's making bad decisions and they're going to cast a spell to like seal off the grove so they can be isolationist forever.

1245
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:53,000
And then we have the goblin faction who have all like adopted some new God and they're just like, we're going to kill everybody.

1246
01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:55,000
We're going to sacrifice them all to this new God.

1247
01:25:55,000 --> 01:25:57,000
And I'm like, that's basically it.

1248
01:25:57,000 --> 01:25:59,000
We haven't talked to the goblins yet.

1249
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:01,000
Maybe we should align with the goblins.

1250
01:26:01,000 --> 01:26:03,000
I'd be down just to see how that goes.

1251
01:26:03,000 --> 01:26:05,000
I'm thinking like maybe we should.

1252
01:26:05,000 --> 01:26:09,000
Maybe, you know, I'm thinking about it because the druids suck that you show up to the druids.

1253
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:12,000
Druids are like, they like me because I'm like half elf or whatever.

1254
01:26:12,000 --> 01:26:18,000
So they're like, oh, I can kind of trust this guy and they're like, hey, go chase all of the tieflings out for me.

1255
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:24,000
And I'm like, yeah, I'm not going to do that, but I'll tell you I'm going to do that because I just tell people what they want to hear and then do whatever I want.

1256
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:27,000
And then I like went to get healed by somebody else.

1257
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:31,000
Yeah, and she's like, oh, I can, yeah, I'll try to heal you.

1258
01:26:31,000 --> 01:26:33,000
And then it said she poisons me.

1259
01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:34,000
She's like, dude, there's no way to heal you.

1260
01:26:34,000 --> 01:26:35,000
I think you should just die.

1261
01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:38,000
And then I have to speech check my way out of that.

1262
01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:43,000
And then she's like, okay, but like, if you ever feel like you're going to become a mind flayer, drink this potion that'll kill you.

1263
01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:46,000
And I'm like, yeah, Nettie, I'm sure going to do that.

1264
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:47,000
And I'm like, am I going to do that?

1265
01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:49,000
Fuck you, Nettie. Idiot.

1266
01:26:49,000 --> 01:26:51,000
So I don't like the druids.

1267
01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:53,000
The tieflings for you in jail for no reason.

1268
01:26:53,000 --> 01:26:55,000
So I'm not super hot on them either.

1269
01:26:55,000 --> 01:26:57,000
We should just, yeah.

1270
01:26:57,000 --> 01:27:01,000
I mean, the dwarves don't really like the dwarves.

1271
01:27:01,000 --> 01:27:07,000
The goblins all kind of seem like they're stupid because they're just like, we just, wait, I worship this new God who says you should kill a bunch of people.

1272
01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:08,000
So I'm going to do that.

1273
01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:10,000
I'm like, well, that sounds dumb.

1274
01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:15,000
Maybe I can engineer some kind of scenario where like everybody fucks off.

1275
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:17,000
I don't know.

1276
01:27:17,000 --> 01:27:18,000
We'll see.

1277
01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:19,000
Yeah.

1278
01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:22,000
Maybe it's just that one goblin sucks and all the rest of them are cool.

1279
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:25,000
I mean, we did just kill a bunch of them, but like, I don't know.

1280
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:26,000
We'll see.

1281
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:27,000
We'll see what we do.

1282
01:27:27,000 --> 01:27:28,000
Yeah.

1283
01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:31,000
We're probably like, what like five percent of this game or something.

1284
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:36,000
Well, like five, maybe like five hours or four hours.

1285
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:42,000
And our playthrough is going to take probably a hundred hours at least.

1286
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:45,000
Christ alive on a time like that.

1287
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:49,000
It's like a year's journey.

1288
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:55,000
We'll truly become our characters by the end of it.

1289
01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:57,000
Well, that's the end of that segment.

1290
01:27:57,000 --> 01:27:59,000
It was on sale.

1291
01:27:59,000 --> 01:28:01,000
I guess we're not doing recommendations.

1292
01:28:01,000 --> 01:28:02,000
So whatever.

1293
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:04,000
Yeah, I'm sleepy.

1294
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:05,000
I need a nap.

1295
01:28:05,000 --> 01:28:07,000
Do you all recommend naps?

1296
01:28:07,000 --> 01:28:09,000
That's my recommendation.

1297
01:28:09,000 --> 01:28:10,000
Okay.

1298
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:11,000
Okay.

1299
01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:19,000
Well, remember everyone, it's actually maybe it's not such a bad thing to be fueled by

1300
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:23,000
spite, not in like the long term that kind of doesn't work in the long term.

1301
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:26,000
But in the short term, that could be pretty good.

1302
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:28,000
You know, get yourself a new haircut.

1303
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:33,000
Maybe that'll like you can reinvent yourself and also get yourself a list of guys.

1304
01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:35,000
That's also good.

1305
01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:37,000
Get a haircut.

1306
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:38,000
Get a new haircut.

1307
01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:40,000
So I'll go use this still time.

1308
01:28:40,000 --> 01:28:45,000
Well, if anyone's a new listener coming in just specifically to listen to our coverage

1309
01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:47,000
of skip beat.

1310
01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:49,000
Welcome.

1311
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:51,000
We are happy to have you.

1312
01:28:51,000 --> 01:28:58,000
Feel free to check out our previous coverage of one angelic layer, which spoiler alert,

1313
01:28:58,000 --> 01:28:59,000
not a show Joe.

1314
01:28:59,000 --> 01:29:05,000
And then our second one, which is their first actual show just series came in each and okay.

1315
01:29:05,000 --> 01:29:10,000
And if you made it past the segment where we talked about Baldur's Gate for like 15

1316
01:29:10,000 --> 01:29:16,000
minutes, which I'm sure made no sense to anybody who didn't who hasn't heard of Baldur's

1317
01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:17,000
Gate.

1318
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:19,000
It's like it won all the game.

1319
01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:21,000
Maybe we will see.

1320
01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:23,000
Maybe it just sounds.

1321
01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:25,000
Hey, there's hotties.

1322
01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:26,000
He can romance.

1323
01:29:26,000 --> 01:29:30,000
If you don't like that segment, rate us five stars and then lead a comment saying that

1324
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:34,000
I don't like that segment, but also leave five stars because I'm not going to I'm going

1325
01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:35,000
to ignore it.

1326
01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:38,000
If it's not five stars, if you put four stars or you're like three stars and like that

1327
01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:40,000
segment, I'm not going to read it.

1328
01:29:40,000 --> 01:29:41,000
I don't care.

1329
01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:45,000
If you show up and announce that you are only giving us less than five stars, then I'm

1330
01:29:45,000 --> 01:29:46,000
just assuming you're a hater.

1331
01:29:46,000 --> 01:29:48,000
And why would I ever listen to a hater?

1332
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:54,000
You're going up on my poster wall with all the boys I hate.

1333
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:56,000
Yeah, next to show.

1334
01:29:56,000 --> 01:30:00,000
Leave us five stars and then tell us if you want us to change something.

1335
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:02,000
Yeah, we're open to.

1336
01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:07,000
You can also send us an email at showjopod.gmail.com.

1337
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:11,000
We will also respond to that.

1338
01:30:11,000 --> 01:30:13,000
But leave us five stars.

1339
01:30:13,000 --> 01:30:18,000
Remember to do that because like it's important that we can we can climb the ranks.

1340
01:30:18,000 --> 01:30:19,000
I got to climb the ranks.

1341
01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:22,000
We got to get back up on the Netherland board.

1342
01:30:22,000 --> 01:30:26,000
You might think that we do this podcast for fun because we like to talk about show Joe.

1343
01:30:26,000 --> 01:30:27,000
That's not true.

1344
01:30:27,000 --> 01:30:29,000
It's really a competition.

1345
01:30:29,000 --> 01:30:34,000
Yeah, there are other podcasts that are ranked higher than us.

1346
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:35,000
Yep.

1347
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:36,000
Can't have that.

1348
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:38,000
I want to personally beat up Joe Rogan.

1349
01:30:38,000 --> 01:30:41,000
Okay, I got to be the superior Joe.

1350
01:30:41,000 --> 01:30:42,000
It's going to take going to take some time.

1351
01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:44,000
We got plenty of years, right?

1352
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:46,000
We got our work cut out for us.

1353
01:30:46,000 --> 01:30:47,000
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1354
01:30:47,000 --> 01:30:49,000
I mean, you know, we can do it.

1355
01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:52,000
We can make it to the top.

1356
01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:53,000
We can we can branch out.

1357
01:30:53,000 --> 01:30:54,000
We'll just get everybody into it.

1358
01:30:54,000 --> 01:30:55,000
It'll be easy.

1359
01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:56,000
Easy peasy.

1360
01:30:56,000 --> 01:30:57,000
Yeah.

1361
01:30:57,000 --> 01:30:58,000
Lemon squeezy.

1362
01:30:58,000 --> 01:31:00,000
And cool.

1363
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:10,000
Well, on that note of our future legacy, we we bid you adieu until next week.

1364
01:31:10,000 --> 01:31:15,000
I think my favorite part about this recording was me saying 30 shades of gray.

1365
01:31:15,000 --> 01:31:16,000
Yeah.

1366
01:31:16,000 --> 01:31:21,000
Yeah, really showing off there.

1367
01:31:21,000 --> 01:31:22,000
Yeah.

1368
01:31:22,000 --> 01:31:25,000
How plugged in you are to the culture.

1369
01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:26,000
Yeah.

1370
01:31:26,000 --> 01:31:27,000
I'm hip.

1371
01:31:27,000 --> 01:31:28,000
I'm with it.

1372
01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:32,000
I'll know so much about celebrity stuff to talk about for this.

1373
01:31:32,000 --> 01:31:34,000
No, that's good.

1374
01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:35,000
Yeah.

1375
01:31:35,000 --> 01:31:36,000
That's what we're talking about.

1376
01:31:36,000 --> 01:31:37,000
Yeah.

1377
01:31:37,000 --> 01:31:42,000
Yeah, like about pop culture stuff because I'm not into it.

1378
01:31:42,000 --> 01:31:47,000
Like I couldn't be bothered to like personally learn about it, but I can passively listen

1379
01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:57,000
as I fall asleep to my nap about, you know, uh, freaking the feud between, uh, who was

1380
01:31:57,000 --> 01:32:02,000
it, 50 cent and some boxer guy, you know, like I'm learning things.

1381
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:03,000
Uh huh.

1382
01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:04,000
Uh, yeah.

1383
01:32:04,000 --> 01:32:05,000
Okay.

1384
01:32:05,000 --> 01:32:07,000
All right, everybody.

1385
01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:09,000
Thanks for listening.

1386
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:10,000
We'll see you.

1387
01:32:10,000 --> 01:32:13,000
Are you all here from us next week?

1388
01:32:13,000 --> 01:32:14,000
Bye.

1389
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:15,000
Bye.

1390
01:32:15,000 --> 01:32:16,000
Three more episodes.

1391
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:18,000
Hold always hold a grudge.

1392
01:32:18,000 --> 01:32:21,000
That is a message of the okay.

1393
01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:22,000
Just be pissed off.

1394
01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:23,000
Are you tired of being nice?

1395
01:32:23,000 --> 01:32:26,000
Don't you ever just want to go apshit?

1396
01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:31,000
Yeah, just throw your grudges at people.

1397
01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:33,000
Little manifestations of it.

1398
01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:34,000
Okay.

1399
01:32:34,000 --> 01:32:35,000
We got to end this.

1400
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:36,000
People.

1401
01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:37,000
What?

1402
01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:38,000
That's what she does with their little.

1403
01:32:38,000 --> 01:32:39,000
Oh yeah.

1404
01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:40,000
Okay.

1405
01:32:40,000 --> 01:32:41,000
Right.

1406
01:32:41,000 --> 01:32:42,000
Sure.

1407
01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:43,000
I'm tired.

1408
01:32:43,000 --> 01:32:44,000
My eyes.

1409
01:32:44,000 --> 01:32:49,000
Your grudges in some sort of, uh, like, um, cartoonish attack you can do when you have

1410
01:32:49,000 --> 01:32:53,000
enough mana points to turn your grudge into a physical ability.

1411
01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:54,000
Yeah.

1412
01:32:54,000 --> 01:32:55,000
All right.

1413
01:32:55,000 --> 01:32:57,000
We're ending it.

1414
01:32:57,000 --> 01:33:15,000
Right now.

1415
01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:17,000
It's weird rash on my arm.

1416
01:33:17,000 --> 01:33:18,000
It's very annoying.

1417
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:19,000
I'm done.

1418
01:33:19,000 --> 01:33:21,000
Oh, it's game over for me.

1419
01:33:21,000 --> 01:33:22,000
All right.

1420
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:26,000
What are you going to do with the podcast now that you have a rash on your arm?

1421
01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:27,000
I don't know.

1422
01:33:27,000 --> 01:33:29,000
I guess it's just, I guess it's just going to end.

1423
01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:33,000
You know, I don't really have a backup for if you unexpectedly die.

1424
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:34,000
Oh no.

1425
01:33:34,000 --> 01:33:37,000
Jenny can take my place.

1426
01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:38,000
Oh yeah.

1427
01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:39,000
You think so?

1428
01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:40,000
Yeah.

1429
01:33:40,000 --> 01:33:42,000
I don't think she, I don't think she's into show Joe like you are.

1430
01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:44,000
We're going to end up just like watching shonen.

1431
01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:46,000
We're just going to.

1432
01:33:46,000 --> 01:33:47,000
Yeah.

1433
01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:48,000
You're just going to turn.

1434
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:52,000
You're just going to turn it into a Macca show like you've been wanting secretly.

1435
01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:54,000
Oh, she's not into that either.

1436
01:33:54,000 --> 01:33:57,000
Although we did watch code Geass.

1437
01:33:57,000 --> 01:33:58,000
Yeah.

1438
01:33:58,000 --> 01:34:01,000
Which I guess I'll talk about guy with a weird eyeball.

1439
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:03,000
Oh, like you just watched it.

1440
01:34:03,000 --> 01:34:05,000
We watched the sequel series.

1441
01:34:05,000 --> 01:34:09,000
Oh, they made a sequel series and it is insane.

1442
01:34:09,000 --> 01:34:11,000
I was that called.

1443
01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:13,000
It's called Rose of the recapture.

1444
01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:15,000
I've never heard that in my life.

1445
01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:16,000
Yeah.

1446
01:34:16,000 --> 01:34:19,000
It's it's code Geass Rose of the recapture.

1447
01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:20,000
It is absurd.

1448
01:34:20,000 --> 01:34:22,000
It's an absurd show.

1449
01:34:22,000 --> 01:34:24,000
Okay.

1450
01:34:24,000 --> 01:34:27,000
Oh, I didn't intro us yet.

1451
01:34:27,000 --> 01:34:30,000
We have started the episode yet.

1452
01:34:30,000 --> 01:34:32,000
Oh,

1453
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:56,000
throw this on the end.