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Special Presentation: That's Our Q (Featuring Nexu)
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Damn holiday ruined our recording schedule, but never fear! We've got another show that Atom works on (alongside some familiar voices) where we answer questions from the internet (as if anyone asked us in the first place). We hope you enjoy this special recording along with our friend Nexu (TentaclesarePpl)
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Introduction and New Show Announcement
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello, listeners. It's your best buddy, Adam. Good news and bad news. Bad news is our recording day fell on a holiday and we couldn't record our backup episode. And so editing kind of got fallen behind in all that other good shit. And, you know, we don't have a fresh episode. So just go listen to old ones. But I didn't want to leave you just with a message to say, go listen to old episodes. I actually want to leave you with a show that I've been working on on the side with my friend Danny. It's called That's Our Queue.
00:00:28
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where we answer questions from the internet, like from forum sites like Reddit and Quora and other goofy ones that I probably won't use anymore. So I'm kind of recording this late at night because Justin said, hey, I can't get the episode out on time. So I'm just blurbing this all out to you. So I want you guys to check out this episode of That's Our Q. Let me know if you like it.
00:00:49
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Because I really would like to see it get just as much of a following as role players has.
Celebrating Milestones and Humor in Podcasting
00:00:54
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So if you like my voice and you want to hear other familiar friends on a different show where we answer questions from the internet, we would love to see you over there. So I'm going to post an episode here. So to set the stage, this episode that I decided to pick is one of my favorites that we did. Danny and I had a guest on. Their name is Nexu. We'd love to have them on role players someday. And Nexu is such a talented streamer, and you'll hear all about them in the episode.
00:01:18
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But there's a lot of really great questions in there, one of which my favorite moment that I've had with Nexu and Danny so far was when a question asker said, every time that I beat my dad in an argument, he says, well, I fucked your mom. And then the question askers like, what do I say to that? So stay tuned to find out exactly what our friend Nexu had to say, which was just an explosive answer. And I loved it. But in the meantime,
00:01:43
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I love you guys. Thank you so much for listening to role players. We've gotten we're getting close to twenty five thousand downloads over the past couple of years. I'm so happy about that. And I would love to see that's our cue. Get that same kind of traction. So please enjoy this episode. Let me know what you think in our Web site and just have a damn good fucking day. OK. Enjoy that's our cue.
00:02:07
Speaker
Hello everyone. Do you ever find that there are a lot of Qs and As on the internet, but it's mostly a lot of unanswered Qs and not enough sufficient As? Well that's where we come in. Do you like hearing about how you can manage better relationships and life, love, and work?
00:02:22
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Do you like would you rather questions? Do you like hypothetical situations? Do you like laughing? Maybe crying? And do you like hearing lots of swear words? Then this show is definitely for you. Can we make you smile at least once during this show? You know what? That's our cue.
00:02:44
Speaker
And we are live. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening to everybody out there in the universe. This is TOQ or that's our cue for short. Fuck, I said it backwards again. Anyway, this is a show where we take your cues and we plant them in the ground and then we give them a bunch of pesticides and a lot of growth hormones until they get really big and juicy and probably unhealthy for you. And then we sell it on the market.
00:03:08
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for far more than you should have to pay for it. And they turn into A's, which the public consumes. And in short, what that means is we take questions from the Internet and we answer them as if people asked us, even though nobody gives a fuck about our opinions. Anyway, my name is Adam and I'm joined here by Danny guarantee. Hello, Danny. Hello, Adam. Good morning, afternoon and evening. How are you today? And to you, my friend, I'm spectacular. How's your day?
00:03:33
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It was pretty good.
Guest Introduction and Podcast Premise
00:03:34
Speaker
You know, I'm actually getting kind of hungry for a nice, big, juicy, fresh A right about now. Oh, man. I love big A's. Speaking of big A's, we've got our friend Nexu as our guest here. Hello, Nexu. Hi, hi. I'm Nexu. Hello. This is Nexu. Nexu, who are you? I'm Nexu. I am a tentacle alien VTuber and I'm a little bit of a goober and I am here to invade your planet and potentially
00:04:01
Speaker
Aww, stick tentacles in your butt, but consensually, of course. Consensual, tentacle butt touching. I consent. Exactly. Danny, I can hear Danny assume the position as you stand. I volunteer as tribute. Excellent. The plan is working. My people will be pleased.
00:04:20
Speaker
Incentable tentacle butt touching. I got to re-up my song that I made. I mean, this is how I got Nexu on the show. I was like, all right, if that's what I need to do. Well, damn, I was wondering how y'all got that, because Nexu, you know, is a real elusive creature. They're hard to catch. I like to tend to look in the shadows, you know, but as soon as I hear something about butts and tentacles, I'm all over it. Butts and tentacles.
00:04:44
Speaker
Um, okay. Uh, so as you all heard the premises, we answer questions as if anybody cares about our opinions. And so next to you, you fill up for the challenge to answer some questions from the internet with me, Danny today. I'm ready. I like to hear what the humans
Advising a 16-Year-Old's Unique Request
00:04:58
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think. So I'm here. I'm here for it. All right. Use us as the control for that, but okay.
00:05:05
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All right. So this first question, um, is from someone named Jenny Ren. It is a Quora question. Quora. I never know if I say that right. Um, so the legend of Quora avatar.
00:05:25
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Quarantine. Quarantine. So they say, my 16-year-old son wants to be treated like a toddler again for fun. Should I play along? If so, what should I do with him? Nexu, what do you got for that? Should this person treat their 16-year-old son like a toddler? Like a toddler. I mean,
00:05:49
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probably not I don't know as somebody who is quite many years old and still gets treated like a 15 year old I don't think you want to regress to the state of a toddler at the age of 16 because by the time you hit your 20s you're gonna want to pretend you're fucking 16 again so
00:06:09
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Maybe you should just enjoy your current age. And then, you know, when life starts hitting a little bit different and a little bit harder, then you can revisit that potential state of being. I mean, yeah, it sounds like it could be a kink later down the road, you know, that you could explore with the people who are also into that, you know. Yeah. Yeah. That's where I was thinking immediately was your mom.
00:06:36
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Probably not the person to do that with. Does this person have mommy issues? Yeah, find yourself, you know, a girl or guy, you know, whatever you're into. Mommy. Somebody that wants to do that with you consensually. Because, yeah, no no kink shaming, but. Being treated like a toddler and being treated like Oedipus are too
00:07:07
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very different things. And yeah, I just don't think it's appropriate for your mom to be the one doing it. So I think it was actually the mom that asked the question. No, you should not. Maybe. I don't know, help them find a girl that's into other things that he's into and
00:07:30
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Yeah, so that's a tough question. So first I would like to say at least to the mom Jenny, like, I think it's great that you're even considerate, like, and I mean this very sincerely, I think it's great that you're at least considering it because you must really love your kid to think I'm going to go ask the internet if this is something I should do, because like,
00:07:52
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Most parents were like, fuck no, go do your goddamn chores and get to bed on time for school, you dick. But this mom's like, you know what? I'm going to at least see, is this the thing I should be worried about? Is this something I should do? What should I do? So Jenny, you must really love your kid to fucking ask the internet this question, first of all. It's a very brave thing to ask and I can't imagine the responses you got because I saved this question a year ago. Yeah, I want to give a shout out to the kid too because
00:08:21
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You two must have like a really good relationship or connection if he's willing to come to you about that. Like, oh, yeah, I feel like most teenagers, it's something they would be embarrassed by or ashamed of. And, you know, with like backlash about it, right, like become overly sensitive to somebody treating them a little bit younger than they are. So for
00:08:48
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for your kids to actually come to you and be like, hey, this is how I want to be treated. That shows a very high level of trust and respect. So kudos. That's awesome. Now, Nexu, you mentioned that I think your words were, as somebody who is many years old, you get treated like you're 15. Is this by the public or?
00:09:09
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If you don't mind me pinning it back to you for a second. Definitely by the public. I mean, you know, I can be a little bit childish sometimes. I accept this about myself personally. I'm just a goofy little guy and sometimes, you know, being a goofy little guy, you come off as a little bit childish despite paying your human taxes.
00:09:36
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But sometimes, you know,
Comedic Family Scenarios and Hypotheticals
00:09:38
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that comes with this own consequences. And sometimes, some people will be like, oh, you're just a little guy next to you. You're just a little baby. Look at you. Look at you squeaking. What are your computer? You're so cute. What? Where is your parents? You can't pick up these medicines by yourself. Who needs your parents? Oh, shit. And I'm like, oh, I am old.
00:10:01
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My mom stopped signing for my medicines a long time ago. I like where your head's at. I always tell people my life's mantra is to grow old, but I'm never going to grow up. It's more fun when you don't stifle your silliness.
00:10:24
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Yeah, don't be silly. The world could use more silly. That's right. So I so to answer the question, at least in my opinion, y'all can weigh in for like our final opinions on that. But I think should I play along if he's being sincere? Like my first question is, why is he asking that? Like, what is it that is
00:10:49
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What is he trying to escape? What happened? Did something happen recently? Has something happened over the long term that made him think, I just want to revert back to this? Or is it when you say, Tyler, is it just like, mom, I just want to like an episode of South Park where they're all playing like World of Warcraft to like beat this guy. They're killing war hogs all day. And like, they're just mom, mom, bathroom. And mom comes and brings him a porta potty to shit in.
00:11:10
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because they don't want to get off their seat. If it's something like that where just a kid just wants to live in his own sty and doesn't want to have to clean up after himself, then that's just somebody who doesn't want to face responsibility. But if life has gotten so hard for him as a 16-year-old in school and love and whatever activities he's into, that he's like, I just want to escape this and be a baby again.
00:11:33
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you know, maybe you should start like attack that, ask that quick, ask more questions, you know, to kind of figure out like what is really going on here? Because if I start treating my son like a toddler, even if he's embarrassed by it at first, he'll probably get used to it. And then then he's going to be that guy. That was a good answer. I didn't even think of that. But yeah, he might be trying to escape something, you know, trying to revert back to a simpler time.
00:11:58
Speaker
When you work in behavioral therapy, uh, you think about this stuff all the time. Oh yeah, absolutely. So, you know, so we don't have a black and white answer of like, what should you do with him? Because we don't want you to encourage him being a toddler, but just ask more questions. I think you should ask more questions. What's going on? Explore, maybe talk to his friends. If he has, you know, any close friends that are willing to talk to you.
00:12:26
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Like, what's going on? What's going on with with with Billy? I'm having a school. He got a girlfriend. You know, did the teachers make fun of him or something like what happened? Why is he acting like this? The moment your friends find out that you want to be a baby, they're going to razz you so hard. So if this is something you don't think you can do or questions you don't think you can ask him. I mean, look, I know a lot of people think therapy is a bad word, but it's not. I swear by it. I've done it. I loved it.
00:12:54
Speaker
And it's exactly for this it's to getting to the root of, you know, something that isn't even necessarily harmful, but just something that is different, right? Because usually if you're acting different, for some reason, there is a reason behind it. Every behavior has a function that is the first things that I learned, every behavior has a function.
00:13:18
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Um, so yeah, um, there we go. Sorry, Jenny. I think just ask more questions like you're doing right now. You're doing the right thing. Ask questions. Um, all right. This next one, uh, is by someone called Honda driver 2016. Oh, sorry. 2015. Yeah, they couldn't afford the 16. So I was very excited to know that next year was going to be on the show. Cause I thought that next year you would have a good answer for this question or at least have a good reaction on this question. Okay. Okay. I'm ready.
00:13:47
Speaker
So every time I win an argument with my dad, he says, well, I fucked your mom. And it says I am left speechless and without a comeback. What do I say to that? So I thought maybe you might enjoy that question. So again, Honda driver 2015 says every time I win an argument with my dad, he says, well, I fucked your mom.
00:14:14
Speaker
What does Honda Driver 2015 say to their father to have a comeback here? Well, with an answer such as that, I would like to keep somebody speechless, in fact. So I think you should hit them with a classic, well, I fucked your mom. Yeah. That's what I was thinking.
00:14:39
Speaker
and just leave him with that answer. Let him really think about it. And depending on the state of his mom, also known as your grandma, that's going to mean a lot of different things. That's going to leave a lot of different emotions in his body. That's good. I could see that getting the good 10 second blank stare as he processes.
00:15:03
Speaker
Or one step further you could take it. He says, well, I fucked your mom. He'd be like, yeah, me too. Me too. How is everyone else? Yeah, or that too. So is everyone else. Oh, no, there you go. If you know your dad's best friend's name, when he says, yeah, well, I fucked your mom, you say, yes, so is best friend.
00:15:26
Speaker
Yeah, so is Carl. We've seen Carl lately. Carl's been smiling a lot. Mom, are you sure you're my dad? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I would probably. My my first instinct was to just be like, well, I always knew you were a motherfucker. Yeah. Oh, there's another one to you. You're just admitting it. You just like you literal motherfucker.
00:15:52
Speaker
Oh, that's good, though. That was that's a really good comeback. I that was a good train to start off with. That's good. Yeah. I kind of wonder what would happen if they hit him with the well, I fuck you. Yeah. How would he feel about that? I feel like I feel like that would actually leave him very baffled. I think I would be baffled if somebody hit me with that. I would be like, oh, I slept through it. Yeah.
00:16:23
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Yeah, I mean, so there you go. I mean, there's a great handful of answers right there, guy. I mean, I don't know what better thing you could remotely say, like turn that power back on your dad. Although kudos to your dad for like being comfortable enough to say that kind of shit, because I don't know any parents that would say like, yeah, I fucked your dad or I fucked your mom to your kids or or you could even hit them with the you know.
00:16:46
Speaker
This you even hit him with the you know, and that's why you're losing this argument right now because you know if they fuck that means you you got given birth to and you know Because you're here now. That's why you're losing this argument. I brought you into this world. I would take you out. Yeah Yeah, he'd be like you just like you know what you might have fucked mom to bring me into this world But I'll take you out and you sleep This reminds me one of the worst things my parents ever did to me um
00:17:15
Speaker
I was just lying in my bed one day, like reading or online or something. And my mom came to my door and she just pokes her head in and she goes, did you know that me and your father had that mattress before we gave it to you? And then she left. Oh, shit. Oh, I refused to sleep on it until they got me a new mattress. No, that's a very odd bomb to drop. Thanks.
00:17:45
Speaker
Thanks, but no, don't need that. I love knowing that I'm lying in the bodies of my own. Yes. Thanks. Or you could or you could just get really, really attached to it until your parents like wanted you to throw it away. Like, oh, all my brothers and sisters are here. Oh, hi. You start like really like hugging your matches and like putting a controller like, oh, I'm playing Super Nintendo with like with my sisters. I really do like.
00:18:16
Speaker
I tell myself it can't be true, right? Like she did that just to fuck with me. Uh-huh. But I mostly am just telling myself that to stay sane. Yeah. I recognize that. They're like, oh, yeah. And my parents are like that. Like they don't do that kind of shit. So I don't know where it came from.
00:18:40
Speaker
Maybe it was just a random factoid that she had locked and loaded and was like, Hey, just thought I'd let you know, in case you were curious. Yeah, thanks. Great. I don't Google image it. Although that wasn't that technology didn't exist at the time. Sometimes you just have a random faculty. I'm just going to say this, but you never really think about the implications of what you said until afterwards. And you're like, Huh? I mean, it could have made sense in her head because my mom had that awful habit of.
00:19:09
Speaker
Jumping you know to different topics in her own head and assuming everybody else was keeping up So she'll just randomly change the subject And yeah, so it could have come from somewhere to her but to me it came out of nowhere I
00:19:26
Speaker
Today at work, funny enough, like I had one of those moments where I didn't realize that it was like a weird subject for people, but like I was in the, in what we call our, our, our, our OT room with some other colleagues and the kiddos that we're working with. And somehow it came out. I don't remember how the conversation came up to be quite frank, but I ended up just telling them confining into that. Like I didn't like to poop.
00:19:49
Speaker
You know, and I said that like, like, pissing and shitting is such a waste of time. I hate doing it. And if there's one thing on earth that I could just make myself not have to do anymore is have to go to the bathroom. And like, there was like this awkward there, everybody just clicked me like, wow. And then this one guy I worked with, she was like,
00:20:06
Speaker
I don't really know what to say to that. You should like point them to the show and be like, oh, well, actually, here's an hour long episode of us talking about what we like and hate about shitting. Right. Like, you know, I was like, I'm sorry. You know, I like I didn't realize that this was not a comfortable subject for you guys. But like.
00:20:29
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Like, actually, I don't know. I just remember everybody just kind of like doing that like friendly smile thing like, yeah. Would you say that there was a, I don't know, like a record scratch? Yes, yes, I would. But anyway, that's neither here nor there or underwear.
Nostalgia and Impact of Retro Gaming
00:20:50
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But yeah, hey.
00:20:52
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We have a bunch of nice things for you to say. Follow next who's lead, say I fucked your mom and then just kind of go from there and change it up to everything else we said. You know, eventually your dad will get tired of saying that shit. Or we'll just give you again and it just escalates. Yeah, or just give him his flowers because he might if he's that determined to say that shit to you, if you do win an argument, either stop arguing with your dad or just give him his flowers like, oh, you got me there, pops. Just like.
00:21:26
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Most people don't for some reason don't like to be complimented So just give him his flowers until he gets awkward about it and leaves. Yeah. Oh, there you go Yeah, you did I bet you were fucking great in bed. Oh my god. Yeah, I'm gonna go ask mom about it right now Can you show me what you did? Yeah
00:21:49
Speaker
Like undoing your pants like hey, can we do like a size comparison? I want to see if I take after you or mom. Yeah, get your mom in on it. Have her like come in the room next time or just like have it locked and loaded where like you call her up or she sends you a text like, Oh, you know, your dad was average. You know, you know, but he got the job done. We got you, you know, but we don't do it much anymore. The only time we had sex.
00:22:13
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Yeah, recruit your mom to really, to really fucking move her in the best kind of way. Oh, that's so awful. Mom, my big dad's junk.
00:22:27
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I'm assuming you're old enough to not get grounded, because if you're a teenager, definitely, you know, maybe consider what might happen if you pursue that. Sometimes you gotta break a few eggs. Yeah. I don't know. I think you might have broken instead. I think if your dad thinks you're old enough to win an argument with that, you deserve to be able to fight back.
00:22:44
Speaker
Just imagine that conversation where you're like, how'd you get a black eye? You're like, yeah, well, my dad said he fucked my mom, and then I asked mom how dad was, and then he did not take it well. He did not like that. He fucking, he suplexed my ass out the kitchen window. So there you go. I think, I think we had, we all had a very good bundle of answers for that. So Honda Driver 2015, you're fucking welcome.
00:23:14
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Would you guys like to learn about Nexu? What's the Nexu time spotlight of the of the episode? Yes, I would love to learn about Nexu. Yeah. So next we discuss briefly at the beginning what you may or may not talk about, but it doesn't have to be what you said. If you got something to say, whether it's educational or just a little Nexu ramble, now's the time. The floor is yours. Nexu ramble. Oh, God. I mean, I guess I did mention wanting to talk about like, you know, retro games and stuff, which is
00:23:44
Speaker
a bit of an interest of mine, but I don't know if I could just talk about anything I could. I could talk about a lot of things. There's a lot of things I like and a lot of things I can ramble. You were saying before that you wanted to talk about like retro games. So what what games have you been playing lately? So the thing is, I don't really I don't get the chance to play a lot of retro games usually, like just because I have so much like limited time, it's kind of hard for me to play them.
00:24:10
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But I do collect a lot of like retro consoles and stuff like I have almost all the playstations I have a Super Nintendo and Atari that I've been looking into getting cleaned up potentially So even though I can't play retro games currently right now, I don't have much of the energy to I like to watch a lot of video essays about them and learn about them and
00:24:34
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because I just think they're very fascinating especially the PS2 era video games because they're very indie. They're like indie before we knew what indie games were and I think that's very very interesting personally because there's so many
00:24:53
Speaker
There's so first off, the PS2 has like probably a bigger library than I think a lot of people realize. Oh, fuck. Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of insane. That's why personally, for me, I think it's one of the best consoles of all time. Just because it really was like the Golden Age. It really was. It really was like there's just so many like, especially it was a time to when, you know, it's not like nowadays because, you know, there's like the triple industry and there's like a standard that people look for.
00:25:23
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when before it was all about trying out new things and seeing what works and what sticks. Developers were putting a lot of creativity to things and making all kinds of crazy concepts. Even if they didn't work, somebody was thinking of something, anything to put out there. And I think there's just so many
00:25:43
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wacky and interesting games that you can find that you would just never expect. One of my best gaming, like one of the first games I ever really got into was Devil May Cry for PS2. It just spoke to me on a personal level. It's still one of my favorite games that I think I own
00:26:07
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I own it on Switch and I think I own it on the PS4 slash five now. I'm like, I will just keep throwing money at Capcom for this game if you keep re-banking it or re-releasing it. I buy it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I agree with you next to like I've always struggled to pick my favorite consoles of all time because Super Nintendo was the first one that like I played Atari, I played Nintendo, but the Super Nintendo was the first one that really like
00:26:32
Speaker
Like just made me feel like like I could probably trace back my gamer gaming kind of career to that. Like that was where I really was like, oh shit. You know, like that's where I discovered RPGs like Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger, which is my favorite game ever. But the PlayStation 2 was such like I worked at GameStop for many years, like outside of high school, and I was always just
00:26:58
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blown away by how many more games I had to stalk and reorganize on the PlayStation 2 wall than any other fucking wall that we've ever had. Yeah.
00:27:08
Speaker
You know those bargain bins where they're just like a big pile of shit like in a big fucking net and you just dig through it for like I used to just like grab one of everything from those. I have so many regrets because I remember I remember when we when there was a period when they were transitioning out of like selling Super Nintendo games and you could get Super Nintendo games for very cheap. I vividly remember seeing the bargain bin in my store and being like, wow, look at all these Super Nintendo games are getting rid of.
00:27:36
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And I, you know, as a kid, you don't know, you don't know what's about to happen. But I just think of all those games I could have bought at that time, and I just feel the pain. You know, here's a little something I just thought of that, you know, the younger generations, you guys will never know this surprise that it was beautiful, right? Because back then, there was no internet, there was no
00:27:59
Speaker
you know, Nintendo directs or state of play. There was no even E3 or anything. So you had no idea unless you subscribe to like Nintendo Power and got a magazine delivered to you. You had no idea what was happening in the games industry, right? So you would just go to a store and then just see a sequel to your favorite game and be like.
00:28:19
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Holy crap. Yeah, I need this. Like now with hype and everything, you know, you know about it way in advance, even years. But back then, you wouldn't know like until you saw it or you would just miss it completely. It could happen. And that feeling you got when you found like, oh, my God, this, you know, there's a sequel to this. Oh, it was a beautiful feeling.
00:28:44
Speaker
It really was. There's something just very like I was a GameStop kid. I literally lived in GameStop. I always told myself, too, that I was going to work at GameStop when I got older. Oh, it didn't actually end up happening. It did not end up happening. It's not as glorious as it looks, guys.
00:29:03
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yeah no i've heard the stories and i feel like i really dodged a bullet there because i was gonna work there in high school i think right around you can start working legally and then that's when they started getting into the mobile phone market but you can't work with phones because you have to be 18 so i ended up being too young and then i went off to school and everything so i didn't end up working them you had you had game stops on your planet yeah we got game stops there
00:29:31
Speaker
Well, actually, no, this is around when I started coming to Earth, you know. Oh, okay. Gotcha. funding into the game for the humans stayed for the GameStop. Yeah, I found GameStop and that's what made me stay. I played the little GameCube demos in the corner and I was like, wow, this planet has everything. I think GameCube has to take my favorite console. It is a good one. It really is a good one.
00:29:55
Speaker
the game cube. Oh yeah, I love my game cube. Pokemon Coliseum, Pokemon XD, Guild of Darkness. Probably my favorite spinoff games. When I was younger, I used to write, you know, because back then you had memory cards. So I used to write on the cover with a Sharpie what memory card had what game on it. And I seriously regret it because, you know, later on down the line, I had the original
00:30:25
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GameCube version of Twilight Princess.
00:30:28
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And I'm like, oh, that thing sells for like $200 right now. Yeah. Giant a written on the front. Yeah. I saw, I saw a copy of it recently when I went to the retro game store the other day and I was like, damn, but also it's like one of my, it's my favorite sell the game. So I'm not going to sell it, but still. Absolutely. I don't think I could sell any of my, any of my game.
Retail Experiences and Ethical Discussions
00:30:52
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No, my, my life has asked me multiple times if we could sell some of the older games I have. And I'm like, no, I know we'll never play them again,
00:31:10
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It's true Well, I didn't I didn't know any of that stuff about you I didn't know that you had the retro consoles and stuff like that. That's super cool I lost a lot of mine in a fucking
00:31:20
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Uh, just like after I moved, my parents let like the storage that we had all of our stuff and just like turned to literal shit like rats got in and shit all through our stuff. And then like, and then like the people like when they left the house, they left a bunch of junk behind. Like how sometimes people just leave stuff in houses. Like my parents left a lot of my stuff behind because they had to pack up quick. And then before I could get back there and get any of it, like the auctioneer people took that shit out or they just made a giant bonfire and burned like everything.
00:31:47
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Yeah, I was actually worried that almost happened to me with my Super Nintendo and the Atari because there was a time where one of our previous homes when I was younger, we had to move out of very suddenly and we had everything packed away in the basement. I know a lot of things got left in that basement and I was like almost crying because I thought the Super Nintendo was gone. But thankfully we had ended up bringing it with us and I was like so relieved. I was like, there's no way priority. Whatever you do.
00:32:16
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Whatever you do, grab the women, children, the pets and my super Nintendo, but not necessarily in that order. But the super Nintendo first. Well, next year, thank you for your ramble and your sharing. That was a fun little mini conversation we got to have there. Thank you for letting us into the mind of Nexus for a bit. Yeah, it was great. I love retro games. I love gaming. We need to talk more about that. I love retro games, so if you ever want somebody to talk about old games and especially bad old games with, I'm always down. Be careful.
00:32:44
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Be careful. Hey, you heard it here, audience. Be careful. I think you up on that. If you have some opinions on some video games, especially old bad ones.
00:32:53
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Send us a message on funandsellersnetwork.com and I'll direct them to Nexu. Or you can just, you know, Nexu, do you want to tell them where to find you real quick before we continue the episode so they can just message you directly? Oh, yes, sure. Of course. If you want to find me, I stream Monday through Friday at twitch.tv slash tentacles or people. You can also find me on Twitter or X, whatever the hell you want to call it, at tentacles or people. I am found pretty much everywhere as tentacles or people. P-E-N-T-A-C-L-E-S.
00:33:24
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A-R-E, P-P-L, P-P. That's where you can find me. When you see the tentacles, you're in the right place. Exactly. You'll know when you see it. You're there. Yeah. That's the best kind of... I've always found that octopi are the best for making you laugh because they can give you 10 tickles.
00:33:51
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I can't even laugh at the amount of time I've heard 10 tickles. I'm just like yes That's right. That's what it's like working a retail job You're the same like oh you can't scan it. I guess it's free Yeah, I got a lot of stuff like that in GameStop where they just people wanted more out of you than what?
00:34:15
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you were allowed to give. I made like $5 an hour and they're like, tell me about what games I should buy. I have a three year old who doesn't like Barbies and she likes this and blah and blah. And they'll give me the whole life story when I'm just like, I'll take them to the wall and I can spend like nine games with them. And then I'll end up just buying a Barbie game anyway. I'm like, you know what? I got people that I need to sell shit to. So like, I ain't selling cars. God damn it. You get like five minutes.
00:34:38
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Like I'm not getting the commission off for some of these goddamn games to you. Yeah. I used to work at Toys R Us and some of the things people would ask us to do, I'm like, you know, I'm making minimum wage, right? And I'm like the most replaceable demographic in the world, right? Like, no, they will fire me for even looking at you wrong. I'm not about to break the rules to, you know, give you that for free or return it.
00:35:04
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Yeah. Although I guess if I, since we're in a confessing mood or at least a showing mood, I need to confess one small crime here on the podcast. You heard it here first. Um, I used to sell things from that awful corporation, a company known as Goodwill. Um, and you know, you can like buying from there, but just they as a company are not good people. Um, yeah, they're awful. Um,
00:35:30
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Oh yeah, you just there's a lot of horror stories behind like how they run things and they are far too rich for a company that's supposed to be there to like, like they're profiting off of like
00:35:40
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cheap shit, like, or the stuff that people are donating and making way too much money and giving it to their overlords. Anyway, the trickle down is not there. And just, there's like three people in the whole organization that are making millions and millions of dollars. Nobody else is getting treated like shit. But anyway, read about it. You'll see they're bad. Um, but anyway, I don't feel bad about it now. So I'm just going to confess a small crime that I used to do. I don't want to call it a crime, but when I worked in Goodwill for about two months, maybe less when you're at the register,
00:36:08
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And like you're ringing stuff up there, there aren't barcodes. Like there are just like categories that you put into the computer to let them know like what someone's buying. So if it's like.
00:36:20
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home goods and someone has like a cup, you just look at the name tag or like the price tag on it and then you just poke whatever numbers in front of you on the screen, one, five, 10, 20, 25, whatever, about how much it is. And then that's how you check in shit. So one day I was feeling really salty. And then so a lot of people were like standing in line and I got abandoned by my coworker and I didn't know that. So I just spent like three hours alone, like in the dark, like my third day on the job.
00:36:47
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And like, so I was pissed. So I said, everybody who approaches this counter, if you call me the money wizard, I will give you everything that you have for 50 cents each. And then like, so like this old man, this old grumpy ass motherfucking man, he goes, well, hello there, Mr. Wizard. I would like my stuff cheap.
00:37:08
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I just kept pressing that 50 cent button for every fucking thing he had. Everything was accounted for. I didn't give him anything for free, but he got everything for fucking cheap because those people who are making money off of that were just gonna take all of that, but like a dime for themselves. And I was like, you know what? You ain't fucking getting anything today. Once it gets taxed, you're fucked. And so, yeah, I sold like...
00:37:31
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like trench coats for like 50 cents and shit like that. I was so bad when I was a cashier at Toys R Us because you know I was around for that huge push right when the huge push started for credit cards right make sure they get the Toys R Us brand credit card and all this stuff and I was old enough to know that like that's a scam
00:37:56
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So, you know, people would be like, oh, hey, I could save money with the credit card. I'd be like, no, no, no, you don't want to do that. Come on now. Think for a second. Do you really want to trust, you know, toys or us with your credit? Like that sound like something they do. You're not saving money. You're paying interest on a thing you're buying. So ultimately it's more expensive. Like once you get the bill.
00:38:20
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Yeah. I really even trust like credit cards now. I can't like, like what, what does that even mean? It means you get a giraffe on the front. It's like you just get, if you use the credit card, you get it cheaper, but then yeah, they get the money.
00:38:40
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They have just so that way you just have a charge of interest. They're trying to be a bank, basically. What are you doing? That's why you sell toys. Just sell me my funny little. Right. Yeah. Just let me buy a mint condition Power Rangers Morpher and let me be on my way. OK. How much money do you need? You're not a fake. This is a $30 purchase.
Balancing Education and Career Choices
00:39:04
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So there's a $30 purchase. You'll save $3 with the credit card. You don't need it.
00:39:08
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Like, oh my God, I can fill my tank a pube of the way up with that three dollars. Anyway, Danny, do you want to give us the word of the day, sir? I'd love to. We got a very special word of the day today because although it is an English word, we're going to be learning some German, it sounds like. Oh, shit. Yeah. I hold on. I need to listen to this one a few times.
00:39:36
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Okay. Is it, uh, is it shlog? It's Velt schmertz. How do you spell it? Velt schmertz. It's W E L T S Z H M E R Z. Velt schmertz. Velt schmertz. What does it mean? It's a noun.
00:39:59
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And it is the sorrow that one feels and accepts as one's necessary portion in life. Sentimental pessimism. Wait a minute. Would you call it necessary? What do you call it? It's sentimental pessimism.
00:40:20
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Sentimental pessimism. Sorrow that one feels and accepts as one's necessary portion in life. Is this me in high school? Let me let me give you some. So it's a noun. So you you are. So you are this thing or it's something that you have. Like I have Velt Schmerz.
00:40:43
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It's something you feel. So like you're feeling sad. Here's a sentence for you. The poetry of the romantic era often captures the essence of Welschmerz, evoking a poignant longing for an unattainable ideal. It's like sadness as a noun. It's like Welschmerz as a noun. Yeah, it's like a feeling, right?
00:41:07
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You feel Veltmerz, right? The protagonist in the novel was consumed by Veltmerz, finding solace only in the depths of tragic literature. German has so many great words.
00:41:20
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It's like, it's like schadenfreude where like you take pleasure in other people's misery. And then we have this one, another one about misery where you're just like, this is my misery and I'm sad about it. But I'm also like, Hey, I'm kind of attached to it. That's one of the things I love about like, I don't know any other languages really, but like, I love learning words that mean whole concepts that we don't have in English like this. It's fascinating. I know Japan has a whole bunch of them.
00:41:49
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That's true, that's true. I know, Chinese too, they have like whole phrases to like explain like a concept or something. Like super specific things. Yeah, it's very interesting. This is how you feel when you're feeling kind of down on a Wednesday, but you're not super down.
00:42:07
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Yeah. And then English, I'm just like, I'm big sad today. Mood. Mood, TM. Bet no cap period T, am I right, guys? Yeah. Oh, mood FRFR. TLDR cap busing or whatever.
00:42:33
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Oh, yeah. Welcome to America, America. Would you guys like to answer another question? Yes, go for it. Yeah, maybe this person might also be feeling some Veltschmerz. I don't know. OK, so this one does not have a name on it, but they say they will. They ask. It's a bit of a paragraph, so I'm going to be reading for a moment. But the question starts as, does a college degree really matter?
00:43:04
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And then they go on to say, so far I'm losing my passion for college and education. I want to learn and discover new things, but I feel like my choice of going to college is because everyone else was going and I kind of have to because most jobs require it. However, I feel this isn't fueling my passion or motivating me to live better. I feel caged and stacked up on lock because I don't have a degree. I might not be able to explore things because I don't have that degree or build up my skills for an innovative industry on my own.
00:43:34
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I understand that a degree value is high. However, I still feel like I'm trapped and I'm kind of staying in college making high marks because simply the degree value could be high, but still I feel meh about it. I feel less interested to study for it and the spark has gone. I'm a design major with software engineering as a minor, but I have so many hobbies and career path skills that I practice on the daily. What do I do?
00:43:59
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So it was a bit of a winded one there, but essentially they're like, I have, I'm staying in school specifically because I feel like the degree value would be high, but I don't have, I don't know if I can keep up the motivation to continue doing it. Um, I got who, as soon as I heard, is a degree worth it. I got big, big shooketh because I have big shook. You say big shooketh. Yeah.
00:44:27
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thou hast shooketh me all night long i i i have many many feelings um as a tentacle disguised as a human living a human life and having recently
00:44:40
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graduated from college in the past few years and trying to survive in this world. I have many feelings about colleges and degrees and, you know, is it really worth it and all that? So I don't know. I guess should I go into it? Yes, please. Okay. For me personally, just some background. I went to school for game design.
00:45:09
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I guess as we can guess I'm very into video games it's pretty much my favorite thing and I always felt that the next step for me was to probably end up making games because it was a combination of computers which is another interest of mine and you know art and being creative.
00:45:26
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So I felt, you know, I should go to school and learn how to make them get a degree because, you know, you need degrees, you can get a job and everything. And so you can learn, you know, all the skills that you need. And so you do all those things like me and you work really hard and, you know, you graduate with pretty much a 4.0 GPA GPA from college and then you you graduate. But now, you know, you make your little portfolio and everything that you've done, but
00:45:55
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you graduate and then you're just sitting there like well what the fuck do I do now what the fuck do I do now you know you you pay all this money and you end up in debt to learn all these things and you hope you know you hope that
00:46:11
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all of it will pay off and end up in you getting a job in this thing that you really wanted to do and, you know, paying off all these debts and things. But in reality, I don't really think it usually ends up that way. Now, I'm not saying, you know, don't go to school because I do think that for some people, especially me, since I find it easier to learn in a classroom type setting, I think you should go to school and like get that degree and do the best you can. But like, don't
00:46:39
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stress yourself out about it, you know, as best as you can, of course, as best as you can, like do what you can. But once you have that degree in hand, it will open some opportunities. But also, in that meantime, you want to be like, you know, building up a portfolio, like practicing those skills, you know, outside of the classroom.
00:47:02
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like you know doing still like do the things that you enjoy like outside of school too and keep building up your skills outside of that because sometimes doing that is going to be even better than that degree that you earned because you'll see a lot of people now that have found success in like you know they never went to school they didn't go to college they just worked you know
00:47:25
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whatever minimum wage job they could find but they kept working on their passions and their hobbies and their free time and you know building up their skills and they still end up with the job and especially with something like design and these artistic fields and even like programming like there's a lot more value and having you know and building up your skills and knowledge and having you know showing that you can do it
00:47:47
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rather than having a degree. So, you know, that's just kind of my two cents. I don't even know if I made a final point, but that was really good. That was really, really good. Yeah. I just think, you know, you should just work on developing yourself outside of that and, you know, figuring out, you know, where you might want to go, like figuring out what kind of company might be best for you and like really focusing on a specialized skill. Because in my case, you know,
00:48:16
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because of how my program worked, uh, we kind of ended up learning how to do a little bit of everything like programming and 3d modeling and, you know, art and design and everything. So like, you know, I ended up being a jack of all trades basically, but a master of nothing. And it's kind of hard to find, you know, my own place and figure out how I want to build my portfolio to get, you know, that kind of job. So yeah.
00:48:44
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I could hear your tentacles hitting the wall when I read that question because I was so this is something I could feel them curling up
00:48:58
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It hits very close to home for me personally, as somebody still struggling with these types of things. Because now I work in IT and I didn't get a formal education in IT, but I've always been working with computers. I know computers well. I had those computer skills. So I was able to find a job without, you know, that like, I mean, the degree, I guess, you know, saying I went to school helped, but like, I have the skills to fix your computer. I just didn't learn it in school.
00:49:29
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Right. Yeah. No, I think you, I think that's a very good takeaway is like, yeah, it does. I do think it helps a little bit to get a degree in anything. Like it does look good to say you got a degree, but don't pigeonhole yourself to just that degree. Work on whatever your interests are around that as well. I think that was a very great message. Absolutely. Yeah. And I can say as somebody who went to college twice, I don't have any degrees to show for it. I just have the debt that came with it.
00:49:59
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Uh, because I found that that kind of setting didn't work well for me. Uh, you know, and much like the, the asker, the first time I went to school was because that, like they said, that's the expectation. That's what you're supposed to do. I wish that I at least taken some time to think about what I wanted to do, but I had people chattering in my ear. Well, if you don't go to college now, Adam, you're never going to go.
00:50:20
Speaker
Um, you know, and so I just went to a stupid school. I had no right to go to because the college, one of my money that it was an art school. I had no art background at all. I followed my girlfriend there because she was a very talented artist and they still let me in. And all they said, Adam, if you can make a paper football, you can exceed and or succeed in this class. And I was like, I can barely make a paper football. I asked my friends on how to get the little tabby tucked in. So it doesn't come unrolled when we play. Um,
00:50:44
Speaker
I can't even do that but they let me in and that was a bummer i left nine weeks later and then i went again. Run line courses thinking i just do business classes businesses business business everywhere and that was a fucking disaster so if you're already in there and you're getting good marks clearly you're good at the classes like.
00:51:03
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stick with it because if nothing else like next you made a good point of just like you know they're working in a different area now but like that degree help them get that and they had skill set otherwise you might not have had and at the end of the day that doesn't mean you still can't have your passions you still can't have your hobbies i think micro once said you know
00:51:23
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Follow your passion, but don't, don't make it your career. You know, like that way you don't get burnt out on the things that you love. So I don't know if that's the best advice to give, but it is something that you could consider is like, you know what, keep your passions with you. But you know, like next, you said, have your hobbies, go do fun things, still continue building your portfolio and doing other kick-ass things. So you don't get burnt out. At the end of the day, there's so many college, there are so many opportunities for you to get a job.
00:51:49
Speaker
Uh, that all they'll do is say, Oh, you have a degree. Cool. We're going to put you ahead of the pack. Even if it has nothing to fucking do. Like if you look at indeed right now and look at the requirements, usually they'll say like, you can go for like a scientific data fucking whatever job and just have like a bachelor's in arts. And then I'll say something like a degree in science, a degree in geology, a degree in blah, blah, blah required, or a four year degree equivalent. So you can literally like go to school for anything and it's still get a job and a totally different field.
00:52:19
Speaker
As long as you have a degree that they can say you have, like it doesn't fucking matter. So like if you're already in there and you're kicking ass at school, stick with it. Because trust me, you don't want to be in my position where you have debt and nothing to show for it. So, you know, I think we all agree that you should stick with what you're doing. I do wish, however, that you could. I wish it was easier or more normal to.
00:52:43
Speaker
Like you said, take a break or go to college a little later because I went too early, man. I'm in the same kind of boat as Nexu where I went to college originally for microbiology. I was very good at science, but when things started to become chemistry oriented and a lot of math, I got scared and I changed my major to criminal justice.
00:53:12
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I was like, oh, you know, I was a boy scout all through my life and I like helping people. Let me be a police officer and, you know, go out on the street and help people. Yes, I was that naive. And I even interned at a police academy and seeing the kind of people that were in that academy, they were all like very alpha male. I can't wait to go beat up this guy, you know, kind of people. I was like, oh.
00:53:41
Speaker
You know, and then I got out of school with my degree. Um, and the area I live in had like a three year waiting list. And I was like, well, I can't wait for that. Uh, plus, you know, the police were, this was right when like the police were really starting to get seen in a different light. Uh, so I was like, I don't know if I want to do that anymore. Let me, uh, just take whatever I can get. And.
00:54:06
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I work in accounts receivable now for a fashion company like has nothing to do with my degree. But I wish I could have just waited a little later in my life. You know, it wasn't too long after my current job where I realized I had a great fondness for
00:54:25
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uh, voice acting and things like that. I wish I could have waited and taken a more artsy profession. You know, I never really gave myself that, that chance to explore that kind of stuff. I grew up in a very office managerial household kind of place where it was, you got a real job, you know, a quote unquote real job. Uh, so I would say stick with it because it does help, um, like.
00:54:54
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You know, like everybody else was saying, you sound like you're good at it. You're getting good grades. I would say stick with it. Plus college is kind of like, it's a good time. Like you're held to a new expectation, but like it's a trial run for being an adult.
00:55:13
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You don't have to go to class, but you should. It's kind of to teach you the responsibility of, hey, you have to get yourself here. And I do think that college is good for that experience of kind of learning to take care of yourself, watch your own time and make sure you're on time for class. And I think that that is actually as valuable, if not more than a paper degree for whatever subject in all honesty. I definitely agree that it's a very good training ground for like,
00:55:43
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being an adult because you're around so many people, you know, it teaches you how to manage like friendships, like, you know, your friends are always there. So it's easier to like, you know, hang out with people to teach how to manage that.
00:55:55
Speaker
There's opportunities for jobs that teaches you how to work if you didn't work in high school and stuff like that. It's very much a safe place to start a child run. Especially with what the asker was saying. I'm not really feeling so motivated. I hate to break it to you.
00:56:19
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If you think you don't feel motivated now, wait till you have like a really shitty nine to five. Yeah. So you you stay in college and learn how to like push through that. What you're experiencing, question, asker, you're experiencing Welch Merz.
00:56:42
Speaker
It's like, you know, and I mean, you will experience it when you realize that this is just what you got to do in life. This is your slice of the pie right now. But the pie will change and it'll get bigger or sweeter or shittier depending on the decisions that you make. So enjoy the Velt Schmerz while it's there. You're in a good place. You're getting high marks. You might not be passionate, but just keep those hobbies that make you feel good.
00:57:04
Speaker
Yeah, keep the hobbies. And if you do get lucky enough to get a big break and your hobby becomes your livelihood and you can do it without burning yourself out on it, all the more power to you. I wish you all the best in that. Absolutely. Damn, I'm jealous. But, you know, you have to be realistic as well. You know, hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Yeah, that's pretty much been my life. Yeah, I am. My hopes don't come true to all the issues.
00:57:34
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Oh, that schmertz. Oh, that schmertz. I want to write that song. I'm so depressed. Who would have guessed?
00:57:47
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Um, anyway, I got one more question, guys.
Dating Advice and Building Genuine Connections
00:57:50
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You want to, you want to tackle it with me? Yeah. All right. This one is also a paragraph and I apologize. I just, I think at the time when I picked these out, I was so, I think much like next to what, as I was reading that one question, I was like, man, these hit like in my, in my, in my bones. Different today. Yeah. Yeah. Questions.
00:58:09
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Yeah, big shopping and pee question. Yeah, I was going to say we usually have a lot more really silly ones like the infinite cup or what happens if I stand and piss too long, you know, but I did slip in the what happens if my dad says I fucked your mom. So that's fair.
00:58:24
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I feel like you're trying to expose my sentimental side. That's just a very silly goofy little goober. But what if we hit them with these hard-hitting questions today? Let's see. Let's see. We know Nexu has a lot of practice being a human when it comes to being such. Let's see how they handle Steve questions. For what it's worth, Nexu, if I may say, because we don't get a whole lot of
00:58:47
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We're not really face to face, but we don't get a lot of just like chill time like this because you know you have a pretty pretty demanding stream schedule and stuff like that and you work and our work schedules are always off. So like I'm really grateful first of all that like we're doing this because like I'm really looking forward to just getting some next few time.
00:59:03
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But if I may say also, I think you've tackled these really well, and you've had such intricate, thoughtful, thought-provoking, and just generally evocative answers that I think, whether it's to say, well, I fucked your mom, or having really good advice about your experiences with school, and telling us about your retro gaming, I think that you've been
00:59:27
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so easy to keep a conversation going with. You have a really good gift for that. I really hope that you, I don't know if you know that about yourself or think that about yourself, but you have a very good levity with how you present yourself and a fun brevity with how you speak that I think makes it very compelling to listen to you talk. Yeah, your answers were very well spoken. They were all very good. Thank you. I passed COM 100 pretty good, so you know.
00:59:53
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Yeah. So I mean, for what it's worth, you're crushing it through all this. All right. One more question. Here we go. This one says, I am going on a date with a really smart guy and I don't want to look like an idiot. Oh, this question is by someone who goes by Camigo. This was asked in August 21st, 2015. So we're a little late, but I wanted to answer the question anyway, in case other people felt the same. So anyway, they go on to say,
01:00:20
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So there's a guy I'm going to meet in 10 days, and from what I heard, he's super smart. I personally am not that smart. I have little knowledge of things different from my career. I believe in the concept of being myself to have him quotes. When going on that date with him, so I'm not going to pretend to be someone I'm not. However, I'd like to avoid the embarrassing scenario in which I look dumb compared to him. Considering the short time I have left until the date, I'd really appreciate if someone would suggest topics I could read
01:00:50
Speaker
about to widen my knowledge. I'm sure it will help not only in my date, but also it will make me learn things that I may not have considered learning about before. Thanks in advance. So they're going on a date. They don't want to feel stupid. They think this person is really smart. What do they do? What do they think about? What's their approach? Go. I think they're looking at it wrong. I think and a lot of people do this, so if you are also
01:01:17
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going on a date or whatever, meeting somebody who you think is a lot smarter than you, you're looking at it wrong, in my opinion. When I am, you know, I'm very passionate about the things I'm passionate about. I know a lot about the things I'm passionate about. So if I were, say, to go on a date,
01:01:43
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The best thing you could do is ask me about the thing I'm passionate about. Right. So everybody's smarter than any, you know, than somebody else in something. Right. He may know more book stuff, but like you said, you know, things about your career. He probably doesn't. But instead of trying to cram, you know, quote unquote, useless information just to appear smarter.
01:02:09
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ask him about it. You know, let him teach you. If he's so smart, it's because he's passionate about these things. And you showing an openness to learn is bigger than you just being like, Oh, yeah, see, I'm smart, too. Because that's
01:02:29
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It's an act, right? Like if you're just cramming to seem smarter, now you have to do that the entire time you're with him. And like you said, you want to be yourself. So be yourself. Ask him about, you know, I hear you're super smart. Like what do you, why? Like, what is it about learning that, that really captures your, but you know, what is it? What cool facts can you, can you spit?
01:02:56
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And I think that would take you a heck of a lot further than boosting your intelligence for the state, if that makes sense. No, I agree. I agree. Definitely. Like, you know.
01:03:11
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don't go, don't go like, it's not a test. It's not a test. You don't have anything to study for, you know, you should just go there and be authentically you. And if you know something about something, he might not know something about it. And that can be a good conversation starter and like a good talking point. And I think just, you know, trading that information between each other, you know,
01:03:33
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It can help you guys build a connection. I think, you know, like, you know, people knowing like different things between each other. It's like a good way to like build a bond with somebody. And like if he if he doesn't like you because he thinks you're dumb, because you don't know as many things as him or something, if he thinks like that, then he's obviously not a good person. Yeah, you dodged a bullet if that's the case.
01:03:55
Speaker
Exactly. So always go into these dates, you know, being authentically yourself, you know, maybe have a conversation starter or two, but don't go learning a whole new fact about a whole new thing. Just go there and be yourself because, you know, that's the person that you're going to be when you're in a relationship. So you don't want to sell yourself as something different.
01:04:18
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When people say be yourself, it really is as important as people make it out to be because you're going to be potentially spending the rest of your life with this person. Be yourself. Trust me, it will make everything so much easier, so much more authentic. I know everybody wants to put on good airs for meeting someone new, that's fine, but seriously, be yourself. Unless you can be Batman, then be Batman.
01:04:47
Speaker
If you could be Batman, you should be Batman. Yeah, be yourself unless you can be Batman. I literally have a framed picture of that phrase in my room right now that says, Be yourself unless you can be Batman, then always be Batman.
01:05:03
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Uh, yeah, everything they said. Um, but I will say one thing as an extrovert that I have found that seems to work really well in situations where you may feel inferior to other people. You should see him in an accident. I'm dropping the E word. Yeah, Danny's got to see it in real life. Um, so.
01:05:25
Speaker
Uh, and I don't mean to flex, but I do find that this is something that I think people could practice more. Uh, and it's a practice for me too. It's not always easy. Like there are times where like I'm trying to keep a conversation going, but if somebody is not giving you anything, then like they're not giving you anything, but something that I have.
01:05:43
Speaker
heard as feedback and like after I've gotten to know somebody and like then you become friends and then like you talk to them later and they kind of give you the real honest impression of you when they first met you. So, you know, and I'm proud to say that usually it's pretty good. The bad stuff is just being like, I come on real strong. I have too much energy. I've heard that before. But
01:06:02
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The thing that people remember is that you're inquisitive. People like talking about themselves. So like, you know, now you don't want somebody who's just going to ramble on their own and not ask anything about you because like that's somebody who's pretty self full of themselves. But it does, it could be a good way. Like if you do find that maybe as this person begins to talk, let's just say your worst case scenario, oh my God, this guy's a brainiac and just fucking everything he says is like some posh, high British, highfalutin shit that I don't really know.
01:06:31
Speaker
then ask questions like you know what I don't know anything about that but I would love to learn like what so don't go researching shit you're gonna have somebody right in front of you who's probably gonna be delighted to tell you about all of this shit that they know so if this stuff comes up don't get scared of it lean into it and ask him that is your superpower you are the inquisitor the more inquisitive you become the more
01:06:54
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that person will light up talking about something that they like, and they will pair that good feeling of sharing about themselves with you. They will think, wow, that person really made me feel good about myself because they let me share things I like. They let me share things I'm geeked about. I could listen to the next You Talk shop about fucking retro games all day because they sound super excited to talk about it. I'm just like, oh yeah, fucking tell me more about how you feel about this game. Shit.
01:07:23
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If you get on a subject that you don't know, just be like, you know what? I actually don't know a lot about that. Won't you tell me more? And one more thing that I'll add to that that I brought up in a previous episode that I will pitch until the cows come home is there is a sales mechanism that I use that I think works really well in getting to know somebody and it's called going three deep.
01:07:45
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which means ask at least three questions that are somewhat connected to each other with every conversation that you're in. So if he's talking about physics, you say, well, what is it about physics that you like? Question one, say he goes on and says something about astrophysics, you know, maybe that's what he's into. Well, what is the difference between astrophysics and blah, blah, blah? Question number two. And then he goes on to something else. Then you pick a third question like, oh, well, I didn't know that, you know, those things were connected. How did scientists figure that out? Like just pick three,
01:08:13
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questions that you can come armed with that are kind of related that will fit into everywhere in that conversation. And it'll keep the conversation going, it'll feel more organic, and you'll get really good at learning to be inquisitive about other people. And you'd be surprised how much easier conversations get when you're not like, Oh, what do we talk about? If you show a genuine interest in learning, people will typically remember you fondly because of it.
Humorous Explorations of Absurd Scenarios
01:08:36
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And if he treats you like shit, because you don't know those things, then you know not to waste your time, you know, and then just kill them.
01:08:42
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Or whatever. Just strangle him with your tentacles. Yeah, exactly. Strangle him with your tentacles or put it up his butt until it comes out his mouth. You know, like whatever next you does. Take him back to your lair and send him back to the homeworld for study. Yeah, I always ask myself, what would WWND, what would Nexu do? What would Nexu do to that situation?
01:09:08
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Yeah. Next two, before we wrap up the episode, I was thinking about how you didn't get as many of the weird ones. So I went back to an old episode that Danny and I did, and I picked one that I'd love to get your opinion on before we wrap up. Okay, okay, okay. Does it involve shitting or pissing? It does! Yes!
01:09:40
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I think we stoked the wrong passion in next. That's how I knew next year when I were going to be friends when I heard them saying that on stream. I was like, oh, yeah. All right. So this one says and Danny, you and I have answered this one already, but this one says if you had to shit out a container with a thousand dollars a week in it and they win the parentheses, 10, 100 dollar bills every time you shit, would you do it?
01:09:50
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I feel it. Oh my God, I'm ready. Okay. It does next year.
01:10:07
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And then the question goes on if you had a shouting container with a thousand dollars a week and every time you shit would you do it weird question but yeah i would. You know i just realize it's not once a week. It's every time you shit with a thousand dollars was it says.
01:10:23
Speaker
A container with $1,000 a week in it every time you shit. How can it be $1,000 a week every time you shit? Wait, does that container refill with $1,000 every week? I guess. So then you just get exponentially more money as you keep shitting more of these containers? Yeah, so next year, if you had to shit out a container with $1,000 a week in it, would you do it?
01:10:45
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It's every time I shit. I was like, if it's once a week, yes, I will. But like, every time I shit, I don't know. My stomach already hurts enough as is. I don't think I.
01:11:00
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I'm wondering if the container comes out empty, but you only get like one shit a week has $1,000 in it, but maybe the container just keeps coming out until it refills. That kind of sucks. I don't like that. I just shit out an empty container. My ass is just going to hurt. I mean, you're free to just flush it, right? Depends on the size of the container. Yeah, we were discussing that, too, like what like most people imagine a jar, but maybe it's like a little maybe maybe the $100 bills are rolled up like a
01:11:27
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you know like a little tube that like you know people use to sniff coke out of and you just shove it in like a little beaker or something you know like a straw I don't know hopefully whatever it is is I think we said like not glass though like just right that's super hard plastic so next year we answered it under the under the
01:11:45
Speaker
the scenario of it was just one time a week, like randomly. So you didn't know when it was coming. So that was how we answered it. So if at one time, there's no container any other time, if one time at a random point in your week, every week you shit out $1,000 in a container, would you do it?
01:12:03
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Oh yeah, definitely. And I hope it's at work too, because that's my break time. Doss makes a dollar, I make a dime. Or I make a thousand bucks. How many dimes is that? So you would do it. You would shit out a container of $1,000 every week? I absolutely would. What would you do with that extra $1,000 a week? That's $52,000 a year, extra.
01:12:28
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I don't know, save it up, buy a house, buy some laxatives, so the shit comes out a little bit easier. I don't know, there's so many things I could do. By the way, Adam, that's 10,000 dimes. You're welcome. 10,000 dimes, okay. If boss makes a dollar, I make 10,000 dimes. That's why I shit on comfy dimes. I love that one I stole next year. I had a question there, first question was, is it about pissing or shitting?
01:13:00
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Yes, I loved when you said yes, they're like, yes, I'm ready. I'm always ready for pissing. I cannot believe how smoothly that transition happened. It's so fucking funny. Oh, my God. Yeah, is it about pissing and shooting perchance? You know, I do like pissing and shitting. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, dude. Yeah.
01:13:28
Speaker
Yeah. So you heard it here. No, you guys are talking about taking a number three. Yeah. If I'm going to take the extra effort, and I know there's 50% of the human race that has to do this every time, and I'm sorry for that, but if I'm going to take the effort to have to sit down, you're damn right. I'm emptying both tanks.
01:13:47
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If I could do both while standing up and not have a mess after, I would. Yeah, they should make a second, like a new kind of urinal with like an actual kind of catcher behind you to like a like a pissy shitty. Yeah. Like it's just like, it's just like, what if it's lashes, though? What if you're standing next to another guy at the John and then his dude?
01:14:06
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splash that is a problem I know y'all have the spacing rule in the bathroom like sometimes we can't always face and sometimes bestie had a little bit too much spicy food and it's just spraying everywhere like the problem is I would be the one with the spicy food so I'm fine
01:14:25
Speaker
like maybe it could be like like you know how like in India usually their toilets are just like they have to squat like over a hole or something right like and that's just how they do it no matter how nice their home is so maybe it's something like that where like you you squat over and you do you do like squats it's like a good quad workout where like you squat shit squat piss I hate that no I don't want to work out
01:14:47
Speaker
I'd fall in the hole. I just want to sit out and scroll on my phone. I want to go on my Nintendo Switch and sit there for 45 minutes. Am I the only one that sometimes just doesn't take my phone into the bathroom when I'm taking a shit? No. If I don't take my phone in the bathroom, I have to be alone with my thoughts while shit is coming out of the bath. I don't want to be alone with my thoughts. I hate my thoughts.
01:15:13
Speaker
my best ideas like in the shower so I've been trying to experiment like I hate pooping as I said earlier I hate going to the bathroom so like I'm like you know what I'm gonna go in there much like when I'm in the shower like I don't have my phone in the shower and I get some really fun ideas I'm gonna stop taking my phone into the bathroom and just see if like I can turn it into a positive and come up with some cool concepts while I'm no taking it don't even even when I take a shower I put on a YouTube video
01:15:37
Speaker
for when I'm showering. Oh wow, I can't even do that. Because if I'm alone with my thoughts for any length of time, I get major belch mertz. I just come out and I'm like, honey.
01:15:53
Speaker
Is life actually worth living? I can imagine Danny just walking out with just like a solemn look on his face after. And he's just like, I left my phone on my desk. And then I thought about how like we're just a small blue dot in the grand scheme of the universe and how a giant Pac-Man is probably going to eat us all. I'm the main character of my life, but you're the main character of yours.
01:16:21
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That can be the only one. So to answer the question, you would shit out a thousand dollars a week.
01:16:31
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Randomly, at any time, you'd be okay with it. Yes, and I will have my phone with me to cope with it. And I will have my phone with me. Well, you might need the flashlight. That is delightful. Yes, I would. Oh, I mean, you're still shitting, so like you got to go rooting around for it. You got to go speelunking. You got to find it. Yeah. Okay. But I mean, I'd dig around my shit for a thousand dollars. Absolutely. Yeah, true. Fair enough.
01:16:59
Speaker
You know what? Put that on a t-shirt. I dig in my shit for a thousand bucks. I believe I was asked then after that if Adam had this power and shit and told me about it, would I root through his shit for it? And I don't think I would.
01:17:15
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Yeah, I was like, if it was somebody else's shit, like my shit, would you still root through it to get it? Can I wear gloves? You can wear whatever you want. Yeah, keep a pair of gloves if you want it. I honestly might. That's not a bad idea. A thousand dollars is a thousand dollars. If I had gloves, that's true. That makes things a lot better. A thousand quid for a pound of shit. I think that's a good trade off, eh?
01:17:41
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just fucking harvesting it's in my house and somebody comes over and like, next to you, what's in this, what's in this bin here? I'm like, Oh, don't, don't look there. Don't look at that. Yeah. There's like a bunch of mining for gold. Like you have it over a sieve going and actually just using the colander from their kitchen. They're like, I'll just make sure to wash it with a little soapy water afterwards.
01:18:05
Speaker
Now, if you caught it in your own colander and then washed it, would you make spaghetti in it? I would. Of course I would. I don't know what that was. It's not poopy anymore. It's a thousand dollar colander. It's like asking you if you would still eat with your hand.
01:18:19
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Yeah, of course I would. I wipe my ass every day, mostly, and I still eat with it. That don't stop me from eating cheese fries with my hands. That's true. Sometimes you wipe your ass and then you go back to eating your cheese fries. Yeah, sometimes you wipe your ass and eat sloppy fries after. Well, you have to wipe your ass, but then you have to smell your finger. I do that too, just to make sure there's no blood on there, you know? I don't know what's happening.
01:18:52
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In the last episode In one of the last episodes we recorded Adam literally went on like a 20-minute story about how he shit into his own hands so like
01:19:03
Speaker
This is nothing. OK. I forgot I told that story. I don't remember which episode it was. That's why I was saying like, hey, you still eat with your hand. That's true. That's true. I shit a big old glob of pudding right into
Closing Remarks and Positivity
01:19:16
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it. I shotgunned it right into my hand and, you know, so, you know, and I'm still I'm still fisting fries like you wouldn't believe. Yeah.
01:19:28
Speaker
So anyway, thank you to everybody listening. Thank you Nexu for being a wonderful sport and coming on the show and answering all the stupid shit that we had to ask and giving some very compelling and well thought out answers to boot. And once again, what is that? Tentacles are PPL. Yeah, PPL.
01:19:47
Speaker
Pentacles are PPL all over the Internet, everywhere, all over the place. Go ask some questions about retro games. Go check out their streaming channel. Nexu is such a ball of energy that this isn't even remotely like I would say remotely. This is probably remotely.
01:20:03
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the fold next to that like, you know, next week gets real jacked up, especially like if you start dropping some subs in there next week gets pretty jacked up. So next year was a real pants more than that. It's true. I think I almost made you cry once. You've made people cry before.
01:20:26
Speaker
But yeah, next thing was such a treat and I always love having them around. So if you do want to have a good time and hang out with a really fun little community of Goobers, go to Tentacles Our People. I promise you won't be disappointed.
01:20:37
Speaker
Um, and, uh, and of course, if you want to send us any questions, go to fun and sellers network.com, go to the contact page and write us a letter or leave us a voicemail and make sure to put. Attention TOQ because our friend cast from role players fields, all those and should be like, why the fuck are people asking me about dumps? So just let her know that it's for us and then she'll forward it to me and then I'll put them on the show. Um,
01:21:01
Speaker
I think that is it. So we'll start with Nexu, then we'll work our way around. Nexu, is there anything that you would like to say to the audience or to us or just about anything? The floor is yours. Take it away. I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for having me. Thank you.
01:21:17
Speaker
Thank you for letting me come on here and shoot the shit for a little bit, maybe even shit a little bit. And thank you everybody for listening to my silly little tentacle rambles. And if you're ever looking for a free tentacle up your butt, then I'm your tenta. I'm your tenta. I'm your tenta. Big tenta energy.
01:21:44
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Yeah, you know what? I don't think we could have said it better ourselves. Danny, any parting words for our friends out there listening or for those among us now?
01:21:55
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. First of all, thank you, Nexu, for joining us. Really, it was a blast. We loved having you on. I know we were always we've been looking forward to having you on here for a while now. Oh, yeah, absolutely. We knew the second we streamed seven days to die with you. We were like, oh, yes, they're awesome.
01:22:16
Speaker
Oh, such a good time. It really was. But for all you listeners out there, thank you for listening, for enjoying the sound of our voices and our giggles and just being stupid. You know, it's brightens my entire week to to be able to do this. And remember to be good, be kind to each other. The world needs more friendliness in it. So remember, if you could do one nice thing for one nice person, you have changed their lives for that day, for that moment.
01:22:47
Speaker
And you may never see the appreciation, but they do appreciate it. It's like when you pee your own pants, you feel the warmth it brings and that's what matters. Or you can go in the pool and spread that warmth around. Yeah. Turn that pool water green, baby.
01:23:08
Speaker
Yeah, I echo all of those sentiments exactly whether you want to tentacle up your butt or do a nice thing for a friend or a stranger. Please do that, especially if they want a tentacle up their butt or any other orifice as long as it's consensual.
01:23:23
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And outside of that, I would just like to give you the quote of the day, and I've searched the internet far and wide to see who the originator of this quote is. It comes down to two particularly famous people, so I'm just going to credit them both, but a lot of people have said it, and there's probably a famous author that's not being credited, and I'm sorry. But so far, the internet seems to claim that this quote comes from Kevin Bacon and Michael J. Fox. They've both said some summation of this phrase, and it goes like this.
01:23:52
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The secret to a good relationship is to keep the sex dirty and the arguments clean. Amen.
01:25:29
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All right.