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season 2 episode 4 walking the path of an exiled
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the boys get together just before the event drops to catch up on hunt stories talk path of exile 2 and start coverage of their new baldur's gate campaign
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Transcript
Introduction with Playful Banter
00:00:00
john hewitt
Well, I didn't think you had it in you. I'm your huckleberry. also we started a game we never got to finish play for blood remember
00:00:29
john hewitt
cry out that your dirty off bit
00:00:36
john hewitt
Yee-haw cowpokes and cowgirls we're back It's been a few weeks, but if you playing weeks This is totally outrageous a gem in the holograms podcast It's got to switch to something else because Christ knows nobody's been playing hunt lately I'm John cat here in the cat house We're not wasting any time. Let's bring the man out here.
00:01:04
john hewitt
Yeah. Hold on. Can I get a large Americano? No whip. All right. The one man Kung Fu SWAT team. The ayatollah of eating Swiss rollas.
00:01:26
john hewitt
we got free roof colada over herere the winner of the wet teacher contest The master of all eight nights of Hanukkah. Harrison, how are you doing this afternoon?
00:01:38
Clutch Commander
I'm doing good, how are you?
00:01:40
john hewitt
I'm not half bad.
00:01:42
Clutch Commander
That's good.
00:01:44
john hewitt
That could worse. We're not gonna fuck around. We're gonna launch right into this bad boy. Hot diggin' dog. This place is magnificent. We're talking about what do you do this week sponsored by cats, dogs. Uh, Harrison, have you been up to anything fun this week?
Harrison's Week and Path of Exile Experience
00:02:08
Clutch Commander
Uh, have been, uh, I started playing the path of exile, uh, early access, uh,
00:02:18
john hewitt
Nice. How's that treating you?
00:02:21
Clutch Commander
good on some levels and not great on others.
00:02:27
john hewitt
a where where do Where do you think it's falling apart? It's it's it's a roguelike, right? It's it's kind of ah it's like a Diablo 4-ish kind of roguelike. It's what Diablo 4 wishes it could be.
00:02:28
Clutch Commander
it yeah.
00:02:38
Clutch Commander
yes yes so it it it falls apart as it is a not bash your head into a wall hard game but it is a difficult game and if you are not paying attention things that have cued you hey don't stand here will kill you
00:03:06
Clutch Commander
And if you're playing a very squishy character, like I was playing a sorceress, you can only survive so many of those before you die because you stood in the thing that it told you not to.
00:03:22
john hewitt
But the the gameplay loop, like it seemed, I mean, this is beta. Does it feel like when the actual game gets released, this will be something that you'll be like, no, I played the shit out of the beta. I'll totally buy the real thing.
00:03:35
Clutch Commander
Well since the real things gonna be free yes, I will yes if So far It's a free free game fortnight Yes, it'll be free on PlayStation and free on PC It is $30 to get into the early access
00:03:38
john hewitt
Really?
00:03:44
john hewitt
Free for you or free? Is this just going to just going to Fortnite this bitch? Really? I did not know that. Man.
00:04:04
Clutch Commander
But they give you $30 on their store for stuff to buy. So kind of free, kind of.
00:04:20
john hewitt
he That's fucking great news Harrison.
Challenges in Hunt: Bugs and Gameplay
00:04:24
Clutch Commander
Yeah, so I'm I'm enjoying it so far. Every change they've made, I have been happy with.
00:04:32
john hewitt
Huh.
00:04:33
Clutch Commander
we'll see what happens in you know three to six months but as of right now i am enjoying it tremendously what about you what have you been up to
00:04:43
john hewitt
Nice.
00:04:46
john hewitt
Uh, we'll get into that after the gameplay segments. I feel like that's, it's, it's got both of us written all over it. And I think we can both kind of just fucking just get into it for a minute. So, uh, we'll put this on hold and we'll pick up the topic proper after we run into this next segment of, come on, bitch.
00:05:16
john hewitt
How are you not dead? How are you not dead? I have no idea! Alright, uh... Harrison, it's safe to say that may not be in Conspiracy Corner, but Hunt hasn't exactly been operating at perfect efficiency over the past few months. Like, since the last event. It's been kinda dicey.
00:05:38
Clutch Commander
Yes.
00:05:41
john hewitt
We've been making fun of our third for weeks because every time we Finish a match either you or him get disconnected Apparently, that's a very common bug that's been happening lately rubber banding has been happening a lot lately DC's have been happening a lot lately. So we've been We've been playing as much as we can but even then I think we have had some very good matches and
00:06:07
Clutch Commander
We have, we've we've had some good ones, we've had some crazy ones, and we've had some ones where we get, you know, hunt, take it.
00:06:15
john hewitt
i mean Yeah, absolutely we've We've totally had our shit rocked repeatedly lately. But uh, I mean Christ we played the one the other night when we wound up in the In the church's basement Fighting the butcher kill the butcher and then teams just kept filing in and uh...
00:06:36
john hewitt
me and machete both go down and you're just in their shooting dudes coming in the door but it was awkward as shit because they just kept that like we'd kill one team ludum and then before we know it there's another team coming in and then before we know it there's two people standing at the rolling door yeah yeah the old the old kung fu movie we're we're each gonna take our turn fighting the guy
00:06:52
Clutch Commander
Yes, they fell for the the old Power Ranger trick of coming one at a time instead of all at once. But they they.
00:07:04
Clutch Commander
Yeah, thankfully, they gave me time to change my gun like three times because I kept running out of ammo because they kept not having ammo.
00:07:12
john hewitt
I mean, this is pre-update, yeah. This is pre-update, so this is pre-sparse ammo, but yes, you were you were running some shit dry that night.
00:07:22
Clutch Commander
I was also aiming for shit even though I was hitting a lot and I missed about just as many as I hit but
00:07:30
john hewitt
Oh, I mean, that's par for the course lately. I feel like i feel like there has been a kind of lag. As far as aiming, like I feel like it's, it's a real 60, 40 split. Like we suck, but also it does seem like sometimes I'm aiming dead on and I just, I miss whole cloth.
00:07:50
Clutch Commander
This one was was a 50-50 on that I was aiming pretty bad and wasn't Taking my time like I should have but I was also dealing with a lot of people coming in all at once That was a fun one my other
00:08:02
john hewitt
Yeah, no, i think I think you did. You played it perfect. you you You let them come to you. You caught them slip. And I think it it worked out perfectly.
00:08:12
john hewitt
Yeah. yeah
00:08:15
Clutch Commander
The other one that we ended up losing that I really liked was the one where we were on the new map in the mountain range and we got swarmed and you both went down and I was alive and I like circled the mountain while they chased me down.
00:08:31
john hewitt
Oh, yeah. Yes, yes, yes, yeah yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, that was, we really thought you had on there. You, they were giving you chase. Like it was a real thing where we were all sitting there like, Oh God, Oh God, I think he's going to pull it off. I think he's going to pull it off.
00:08:48
Clutch Commander
I thought I had a chance. wasn't a big chance, but there was, after the first few shots and I got away, I i thought I was like, all right, this is my comeback. And it was not.
Review of Hunt's Post Malone Event
00:08:59
john hewitt
You know, the the hunt taketh, but the hunt was so sweeteth when it was, it was giving, cause like, I think you got like a solid four or five before they caught you. And I think they only caught you because you were, you were pretty much sandwiched.
00:09:14
Clutch Commander
Yeah, they they eventually circled me instead of coming at me in a straight line. And that was where ah where they got me.
00:09:23
john hewitt
I will say I'll do my initial reaction because I don't know if you've played. I did play some of the event. The Post Malone's murder circus.
00:09:32
Clutch Commander
Not how was.
00:09:34
john hewitt
I'm not mad at it.
00:09:36
Clutch Commander
OK.
00:09:36
john hewitt
I'll say the clowns are scary as fuck because they just funnel them in with regular zombies. So as you're walking, you'll see the regular infected shambling and then you just hear like hurt And then they'll just start laughing as they stumble towards you with the big dumb grin.
00:09:56
john hewitt
Scary enough. And then when you find the physical circus, the bear thing is just walking around like a meathead. But the minute it sees you, it's just it's it's on you.
00:10:10
john hewitt
It's following you. It's smacking you around. It's fucking you up. And it's squishy. I had to throw it down my bundle.
00:10:16
Clutch Commander
Oh, so it's game on as soon as it sees you.
00:10:19
john hewitt
Yes, yeah, there's there's no like you might be able to get a shot or two off to like distract it But like you got to get in there with a dynamite bundle and you just got to start lighting this thing up I'm not sure yet. We'll have a deep dive in a couple weeks. Once we've gotten our full are for our full fill of the new event.
00:10:42
john hewitt
I'm not exactly sure about the new pledges because I picked Poltergeist. I only played two matches this morning. I played them both with the same Hunter, because yeah hunter Hunter lives, you take him back in.
00:10:55
john hewitt
I played them both with the same guy. I took the Poltergeist feat, the Poltergeist pledge. The only thing you could do is manipulate doors and stuff in the world through Dark Sight.
00:11:05
Clutch Commander
Nice. Okay.
00:11:08
john hewitt
So basically you look in dark site and it's kind of like witness where you see like the little lights. All of those little lights are shutters and doors and you just click a button and you can be opening doors that are like upstairs across the kids.
00:11:17
Clutch Commander
God.
00:11:21
john hewitt
I'm like, I don't know where this will fit in. I guess if somebody's shutting shutters to try and revive a partner, you can have somebody else dark site open it or I don't know.
00:11:34
john hewitt
I don't know yet. That's what I'm saying. We're going to give it a couple of weeks.
00:11:36
Clutch Commander
I guess it could be used for that or to just mess with people just like opening and closing doors.
00:11:41
john hewitt
Probably ah making it sound like there's other people in the building I Did manage to with that guy I finished the second match and I put the the new trade on that gives you bullets in the hand with a Like I think it's meant for like sparks or Springfield Where you you have them in between your fingers haven't used it yet, but I like the way it looks and sounds And I will say this
00:11:45
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:12:01
Clutch Commander
Okay.
00:12:10
john hewitt
Before we launch into segment three, 12 minutes in, I will say this. They have two custom animations available at the moment. Katana with the blood swipe and the brass knuckles where he he flips them around his fingers. I'm not mad at it because yes, it is a pay to pay for cosmetic. You pay for it with blood bonds.
00:12:37
john hewitt
It is not something I have to go buy a cash bundle for. I had blood bonds to get the fuck a battle pass, so I had the blood bonds to spend. But ultimately, if you make it a blood bond purchase, there's a good shot. People aren't going to be fucking spending any of their own money. Blood bonds is an in-game currency. You can acquire it in-game. You can buy it, but you can acquire it just strictly by playing.
00:13:07
Clutch Commander
Yeah, I think we have a ah ah ton from just playing.
00:13:10
john hewitt
Yeah, I mean the hunt dollars are fine, but like It's it's an in-game currency. I I don't have a problem with it because I will buy dumb shit that this game sells me But my problem would have been I would have been very upset if this came out. It was these two animations and while they're awesome I look at them and they're like by the way $5.99 USD
00:13:37
john hewitt
I'd be pissed.
00:13:38
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:13:38
john hewitt
Instead, i I bought the blood bonds for the battle pass, bought the battle pass, and I went and I bought the both the animations. It was fine.
00:13:46
Clutch Commander
Okay. That's good.
00:13:48
john hewitt
I'm mad at it.
00:13:50
Clutch Commander
No. Those are good.
00:13:51
john hewitt
Before we launch, I keep cutting you off.
00:13:52
Clutch Commander
Goodbyes.
00:13:54
john hewitt
Go for it.
00:13:55
Clutch Commander
I said no, those are goodbyes. I'm glad it's blood bonds instead of real money.
00:14:00
john hewitt
I mean, essentially, it's kind of real money. But at the end of the day, like I said, you could never buy you could never buy a pack of blood bonds like via the online store steam, whatever. You could never buy them and still have some kind of fucking stash.
00:14:20
Clutch Commander
Yeah, that's great.
00:14:22
john hewitt
and So it's like, Yes, the stuff is for sale, but I appreciate the way that they're you they're using their in-game marketplace and currency. They're not just throwing it up there like a DLC style, being like, oh yeah, by the way, it's $13 for a DLC animation pack.
00:14:44
john hewitt
like get that They're just agitate the fuck out of me.
00:14:47
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:14:48
john hewitt
I think we're ready for second three.
00:14:50
Clutch Commander
I think we are.
00:14:53
john hewitt
I got to find my thing. Go for it.
00:14:55
Clutch Commander
Boom.
00:14:56
john hewitt
Stop it. Go for it.
00:14:59
Clutch Commander
but boom
00:15:00
john hewitt
Why are you fucking me right now?
00:15:03
john hewitt
All right. Fuck this.
00:15:06
john hewitt
Great. Now this thing's going to kick in loud as fuck because you know the NFL just goes nuts.
00:15:16
john hewitt
Come on. Sound board may be dead.
00:15:59
Clutch Commander
we
00:16:04
Clutch Commander
We...
D&D Campaign: "Oops All Bards" in Baldur's Gate
00:16:05
Clutch Commander
Yep.
00:16:08
john hewitt
Rogue
00:16:11
john hewitt
right he was he's a rogue guy and
00:16:12
Clutch Commander
Yes. He was a rogue.
00:16:15
john hewitt
We backed ourselves in a corner because we started a bad guy playthrough. We still go back.
00:16:21
Clutch Commander
We didn't start a bad guy playthrough, it was just, it happened.
00:16:21
john hewitt
It's a lot of fun.
00:16:25
john hewitt
I mean, it depends who you talk to. I think the Druids might have other opinions.
00:16:29
Clutch Commander
It happened naturally. They are assholes and you know, good good things don't always happen to assholes.
00:16:39
john hewitt
but But I will say that we we were talking and we decided, you know what, fuck it, we're going hard in the paint. And we started what could only be described as the single funniest Dungeons and Dragons campaign I've ever heard of or played in. and I like to call it Oops All Bards. We are, at the moment,
00:17:05
john hewitt
a band of three bards, I'm a tiefling, you're what, a drow?
00:17:12
Clutch Commander
Yes.
00:17:13
john hewitt
And then our third is a elf, or yeah, what elf?
00:17:19
Clutch Commander
He's some kind of elf. He got pointy ears.
00:17:21
john hewitt
some some pointy ear hoity-toity, but basically we all took Bard, we all took a different subclass, and at the moment we are seeing how far we can actually go successfully into the campaign with a hireling as our frontman for our band.
00:17:24
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:17:40
john hewitt
Our band 3 plus 1.
00:17:40
Clutch Commander
Yes.
00:17:44
john hewitt
And the rules of the loadout are simple. We make our characters. We run them according to our subclass. But at the end of the day, the front man is a hireling all at all times. And when that when the front man dies, he does not get revived.
00:18:02
john hewitt
Harrison, I don't know how you, what's that?
00:18:02
Clutch Commander
New plus one I Said yep, we get a new plus one
00:18:07
john hewitt
Yep, we go find a new frontman. We get a new lead singer. At the moment, we have a dwarf lady, barbarian, who is just fucking jacking shit up.
00:18:10
Clutch Commander
yeah
00:18:16
Clutch Commander
She is butchering people I am I'm uh, I'm enjoying them I personally don't know
00:18:16
john hewitt
But it's obnoxious. She makes us all look bad. But the real question is, are you are you enjoying these meme runs?
00:18:33
john hewitt
Do you think we're going to make it through all three acts?
00:18:39
Clutch Commander
because I don't know what is in the other acts. I've never this and never played them.
00:18:45
john hewitt
Me neither.
00:18:49
john hewitt
Me neither. of the time, I've only played Act 1. And to be quite honest, usually in Act 1, I get my shit rock so hard, I'll just start laughing and I'll go start a new character. But yeah, i I think we could go the distance. I think three bards, I think we have enough juice that we could just magic our way out of anything.
00:19:13
Clutch Commander
I think we can too. I think it's gonna come down to I don't know if we'll be able to get the weapons to do the damage. Because damage appears to be our weakness currently.
00:19:29
john hewitt
Currently, yes, but I think we also don't use our magic effectively enough. Faerie Fire gives us advantage. Bane or Bless could really move the move the needle in either way. Juicing up the Barbarian, because we all have buffs, enhancements, stuff like that. I think it's just we haven't used our our magic appropriately.
00:19:51
Clutch Commander
and you very well could be correct. That being said, I'm still enjoying it. I think we're going to have to come up with a another plan for a run should this one not work out.
00:20:08
john hewitt
i've got a i've got i've got a couple more in the hopper. I i think we run, my my opinion is we run this as far as we can. And if this goes tits up, I think when we feel comfortable, we
00:20:20
Clutch Commander
okay
00:20:27
john hewitt
it's like the one where it's legit one to one D and&D. It's the the the hardest difficulty.
00:20:33
Clutch Commander
Oh, we do that difficulty.
00:20:37
john hewitt
but we make a character like it's it's a 100% like we made our characters the first go around kind of fucking willy-nilly like I think if we do that one we go into it like a second job like you look up you look up a character you look up with gels and we go forward
00:20:57
Clutch Commander
OK, OK, so you're you're suggested as we go hard mode for the next one.
00:21:03
john hewitt
Uh, we can run it by the third, but yeah, I, I, cause I think that one's like, it's one save file. You can't save scum. And it's one of these things where it's like, no, if you die, you're fucking you're out, you're done.
00:21:17
Clutch Commander
OK.
00:21:17
john hewitt
So, uh, I don't, we can, we can, we could talk it over with him, but I think, yes. yeah, I think we we, we take three plus one as far as we can.
00:21:26
Clutch Commander
Okay.
00:21:29
john hewitt
And then next time we just turn up the heat.
00:21:31
Clutch Commander
Okay. Okay.
00:21:33
john hewitt
Uh, do you find that this is, I mean, this is, this is a hunt podcast.
00:21:33
Clutch Commander
I'll be interested to see how it goes.
00:21:41
john hewitt
I made the joke about it being a gem in the holograms podcast, but I mean, ultimately it is a hunt podcast. Hunt does seem to kind of have its, it's good foot forward lately.
00:21:52
john hewitt
Uh, I played two games this morning. Quality was a lot better. I wasn't rubber banding or anything when I was playing granted. I was playing at like five in the morning.
Taking a Break from Games
00:22:03
john hewitt
But do you think like taking a break from Hunt is something that like people should do from time to time? I know there's streamers where this is their job, but i mean did you feel good? like You weren't antsy because we weren't playing Hunt, right?
00:22:20
Clutch Commander
Yeah, I think it's always good to take a break when it's never a bad thing to take a break from something. You should never feel pressured or forced to keep playing something if you're not enjoying it.
00:22:43
john hewitt
Yeah.
00:22:44
Clutch Commander
you know, with our hunt break, the only reason we really took it was just because we were really into Alders gate and there was connectivity issues.
00:22:54
john hewitt
Yeah.
00:22:57
Clutch Commander
And also it was in between events. So not a lot of people were playing anyway. So it just kinda worked out.
00:23:05
john hewitt
Yeah.
00:23:08
john hewitt
Yeah, that that was also the the worst part was that like we were having the connectivity issues But also not a lot of people were playing so like we're kind of beating our head against the wall like we're here But it feels like we're the only ones that are here
00:23:22
Clutch Commander
Yeah, so I think it's good for us to, good for anybody to, when it's certain to feel like a drag, any game is starting to feel like a drag. Take a break from it, take a week off, take two weeks, take what you need, and then come back to it and see if you're still enjoying it.
00:23:43
john hewitt
Yeah, but the problem is gonna be one day we're gonna take a break from this and when we come back we're not gonna miss it Like Like that that's that's the thing to be afraid of that one day where we're like this is this is getting fucking irritating I'm taking a break and then when you come back in two weeks, you're kind of like I Kind of just want to go back to playing fucking ghost of Tsushima.
00:24:04
john hewitt
I kind of don't feel like doing this anymore.
00:24:07
Clutch Commander
Um, then it's, it's given us a good five or so years, ah you know,
00:24:08
john hewitt
I
00:24:14
john hewitt
It's like breaking up with a girl. You're just like, I guess i guess we're done.
00:24:19
Clutch Commander
Yeah, I mean, I don't want it to not be fun. And if it's not fun, I don't want to do it.
00:24:26
john hewitt
20 tells all the ladies. so on it's on his It's on his hinge profile. If it's not fun, I'm not doing it.
00:24:33
Clutch Commander
Yeah.
00:24:34
john hewitt
And there's only two things I like, and that's fun and doing it. so
00:24:41
john hewitt
Harrison, do you have anything you want to go over on our way out the door? I feel like we kind of lost the plot here. Ultimately, I think we hit what we wanted to hit. like It is fine to take a break from time to time.
00:24:55
Clutch Commander
It is, it's definitely fine to take a break.
00:24:56
john hewitt
like like I'm all for supporting the product, but every once in a while when you're like, man, this is fucking hot shit, like you do need to just take a step away and be like,
00:25:09
john hewitt
I'll come back. like like it's It's not bad enough that we're going to have that that. I don't miss it anymore. like I thought about Hunt the whole time we weren't playing it.
00:25:21
Clutch Commander
Same.
00:25:21
john hewitt
i mean yeah but Yeah, I'm babbling here. I'm a little high. Harrison, do you have anything you want to you want to hit anybody with? Any recommendations for anything to watch? Streamers or anything?
Media Recommendations: Churchill Documentary & Secret Level
00:25:33
Clutch Commander
Uh, streamers, no, I did start the, uh, Churchill documentary and also secret level. Both have been pretty good so far.
00:25:43
john hewitt
How's the secret level?
00:25:45
Clutch Commander
Uh, they're really good, like 10 minute episodes.
00:25:49
john hewitt
Yeah. I heard there may not be a Kratos one.
00:25:51
Clutch Commander
They're, they're in and out.
00:25:56
Clutch Commander
Uh, there at least currently is not. But I know that there's more coming.
00:26:02
john hewitt
Yeah. There is, but they have two different versions of artwork out and in one there's Kratos raising an axe and I'll know another one. They've literally cut Kratos out of the artwork and plugged in another guy holding something above his head. So I don't know what happened.
00:26:22
Clutch Commander
I'm not sure. I guess I have to wait and see.
00:26:26
john hewitt
I have so many sound bites. I wanted to be like, I'll tell you exactly what happened, Harrison. are
00:26:33
Clutch Commander
Now your soundboard works.
00:26:35
john hewitt
Yeah, piece of shit. Yeah, look here. There comes a point in this nation when, you know, things have to do their job. People gotta come in. They gotta put in 110. Just like you do on this podcast every week and just like I pretend to do.
00:26:57
john hewitt
Sometimes you just gotta get out come in you got to put your balls out and say look I'm here I'm here to do my job, and I'm here to work That was supposed to be quiet and a bed under me, and I feel like I just got hit by the police Academy train our way out the door like I said, I'm high I'm babbling Yeah, we're fine congratulations on Rakta. He got his own player skin and It's like the Dainty Phantom.
00:27:26
john hewitt
Looks fucking great.
00:27:27
Clutch Commander
Nice.
00:27:28
john hewitt
Congratulations. Post Malone, I'm fucking fine with your event, dog. You got shit all over your face, same way that the Night Sister has shit all over her face. It's all runes and whatnot.
00:27:38
john hewitt
You're fitting great. i like the i I don't hate that he's got his name plastered across the f front hunt, but and I'm having a good time so far.
00:27:50
john hewitt
We're a couple days in. We'll save it for the deep dive. We're 30 minutes in.
00:27:56
john hewitt
Harrison say good night on our way out the door. I'm trying I'm trying not to choke on this goddamn microphone.
00:27:59
Clutch Commander
Good night, everybody.
00:28:05
john hewitt
Oh Jesus a mess Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank our legendary hunters, but I can't pull up the goddamn list right now So just know this I love you all. I've been away for a while. So's Harrison. We're trying to get her feet back on the ground. Stay tuned. We've got some, uh, waiting for the players youth group coming.
Closing Remarks and Future Improvements
00:28:24
john hewitt
Uh, we've got a bunch of shit happening, but I want you to know I'm here for you. Harrison's here for you every week. And until next time you're living ah ah a three star life, but God damn it. I hope you have a six star week Harrison for the last time. Say good night until next time.
00:28:45
Clutch Commander
Good night till next time, everybody.
00:28:47
john hewitt
next time will be better than this time i promise you i love you
00:28:56
john hewitt
look nobody stands a chance against me and people fucking love um me i p bottle
00:29:07
john hewitt
all
00:29:08
john hewitt
well
00:29:10
john hewitt
bye