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Five Nights at Freddy’s: The Twisted Ones - Part 3
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That's a wrap on FNAF: Twisted One's! Tune in next week for our review of the Five Night's at Freddy's Movie!
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He's like, I'm walking down this alleyway and I'm going to look over here dramatically.
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That's good.
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That's pretty good.
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Like, oh, Ben Riley.
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I love it.
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That's pretty good.
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Oh, gosh.
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You know what else I love?
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What's that?
Introduction and Book Announcement
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Hey there, everybody.
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Welcome back to Pixlet.
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My name is Kevin.
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With me, as always, is Phil.
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And on today's show, we're finishing FNAF The Twisted Ones.
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That's right.
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We're finishing it, baby.
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Remember when there was an era where we would just, like, kind of just fucking go?
Reflection on Episode Structure
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And be like, I guess we're going to stop here for tonight.
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Yeah.
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Books would take however long they took.
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They took however long they took.
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Our first ever, I think about the fact that we had five episodes for the first Resident Evil book, which is super easy to wrap up in three.
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Yeah.
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But we had a lot to say.
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So...
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I think that had something to do with it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think we were we're kind of just, you know, we're just feeling it out.
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And then we we made a we made a ruling, you know, three episodes or less honey buns.
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It's going to have to, you know, I remember when you suggested that and you said you said, I think.
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Tell me what you think.
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I think we could get these wrapped up in three episodes for the most part.
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And I remember being like, you're nuts.
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You're fucking nuts, Kevin.
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We can't do this.
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You're crazy.
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No, and it turns out most of these are 300 pages long, so it works out fine.
Book Length and Episode Planning
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Yeah, it seems like on average, they're about 300 pages long.
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But even the long ones, we've been able to just...
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We just make the episode longer and who, fuck it, who cares?
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Yeah, who cares?
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It doesn't matter.
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Cyber, for example, Cyberpunk 2077 and Warhammer 40K Fire Warrior.
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Gabriel Knight.
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They were all dense, dense AF books, but we still got through them in three episodes.
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Oh, yeah.
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Because we respect your time, ladies and gentlemen.
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We respect your time.
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Damn right.
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Even though we would like you to continue listening to us week after week.
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Please.
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And I guess we don't respect their time that much because... We respect their time enough.
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We respect your time enough.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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We mostly respect your
Halloween Candy and Health Goals
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time.
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I feel like my face is puffy from Halloween candy.
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I think I got to... Oh, yeah?
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It's just... Yeah.
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I'm just going to lay off the... You need one of those cold masks.
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Freezer masks.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Just kind of relieve the swelling.
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Yeah.
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And start doing monologues from American Psycho.
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Too much sugar in the past week.
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Sorry to say.
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Must be nice.
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Some of us diabetics have got to look at the fucking sugar-free candy that makes you shit your brains out.
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Pants.
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Oh, my God.
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You can't trust a fart with that sugar-free shit.
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You can't even wish upon a star.
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It's all over for you.
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You give that, oh, it's bad.
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There was one I tried recently because what they've done is they found some sort of like –
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It's a naturally sweet but mostly sugar-free substance, which is like wax.
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It's like a wax almost.
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And so they've used that for like gummy candies and stuff like that.
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And they like to do it by the bag.
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They're like 100 calories, 2 grams of sugar.
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Go crazy, fat boy.
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Like, they know who they're advertising to.
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And they had ones that were green apple, and I lost my mind because I love green apple candy, and I was so excited.
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I hadn't seen anything like that in the sugar-free section.
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And I'm halfway through the bag, and it's a modest bag.
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It's fine.
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It's definitely a one-sitting bag.
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But I'm halfway through the bag, and I'm checking out the background, and it was, I believe, 93% of your daily fiber.
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Ha, ha, ha.
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I'm not exaggerating.
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I mean, it was actually in the 90 something percentile.
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That is going to be a shotgun shit.
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It was.
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I painted the toilet black.
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It was a nightmare.
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And I've got another bag of them and I've got another.
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I bought two bags and I got another bag.
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They've just been sitting there and I'm just waiting for a day when I've just had too much cheese and I'm all like plugged up.
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Yeah.
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You need a balance.
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It's like, yeah, it's like light side, dark side fighting in your intestines.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's like I chased a bottle of gin with half a pot of coffee.
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It just, it...
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It is not pleasant.
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So gin backs you up?
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Gin makes you poop.
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Juniper is a diuretic.
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Oh, gotcha.
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Yeah, so it's just fully... So coffee and gin together.
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Anyway, cheers, everybody.
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Glad you guys are listening.
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Glad you're here to listen to that.
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Nightmare.
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Join our Patreon where I will start posting pictures after I have consumed bags of these sugar-free wax candies.
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Honestly, yeah, I probably just got to make a change in terms of how much sugar I eat anyway.
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I just got to lay off, got to lay off the candy.
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You know, it's it really gets you.
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It's a tough one.
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It gets you.
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It's a tough one.
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And you never feel good after.
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No, like you're you feel good while it's in your mouth and not even like once you start chewing it, you're like, this is a mistake and you swallow it and you're like, this is a mistake.
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This is an even bigger mistake.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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But your fingers are already uncrinkling the next one.
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Yeah.
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You're just like the little... I can have a little sugar here and there.
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Just got to be smart about it and everything.
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And I tell you, though, there is no ecstasy greater than eating a full sugar cherry Jolly Rancher.
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And just because that's the candy you get that afternoon.
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I called that candy horrible names, just terrible, terrible things that would alienate and excite many of our listeners.
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And it's because I can't have it otherwise.
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So it really does make the, you know.
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you know, absence makes the heart grow fonder kind of aspect of it.
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Yeah, no, I get it.
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I get it.
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I get it.
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But sugar's a monster.
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It'll get its goddamn hooks into you.
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It will get its hooks into you.
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So it's, you know...
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So 2024, that's my year.
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This is my year of actually, I'm announcing it on the podcast.
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Oh, so we can hold you accountable.
00:07:10
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This is the year that Kevin gets in shape enough to go upstairs without getting winded.
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Oh boy, yeah, one day.
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I'm right there with you one day.
00:07:22
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This is the year where I stopped being in pain because I slept slightly awkwardly.
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You know, I'm going to maybe do some yoga, maybe stretch it out, get these limbs a little bit looser.
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Yeah, just stretch it out a little.
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Yeah, I respect that.
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I think that's great.
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Yeah, that's a great idea.
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Yeah.
00:07:43
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You know what else is a great idea?
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What's that?
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We already did the intro.
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We did that already.
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We did that already.
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But finishing this book is a great idea.
Plot Dive: FNAF - The Twisted Ones
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It is a great idea, actually, for a lot of reasons.
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So we're going to put the body in the marsh.
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Let's do it.
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When I tell you to dump a body in the marsh, you dump them in the marsh.
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We start with chapter 11 and Clay and John rush off to find Charlie and drive to a nearby field predicting where the animatronics went.
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And Jessica shows up and points out that if the animatronics already have Charlie, they wouldn't be going in that direction anymore.
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And you know what, Jessica, you're spot on.
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She earned her keep.
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She earned her keep with that.
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Did not see that coming.
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Did not see that coming.
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She's like, guys, you're an idiot.
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Yeah.
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They're like, oh, yeah.
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So they're like, Clay is like, oh, we'll do a perimeter.
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And at this point, I'm like writing in the margin of the book.
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We'll be like, God, Clay, what if you just had a local police force that could do something like that?
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Wouldn't that be crazy, Clay?
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Wouldn't that be nuts?
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I kept expecting there to be at some point in this book where he had to like, you know, come clean and be like, I'm not a cop anymore.
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I got, I got a cop anymore.
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Yeah.
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Shot a teenager.
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And they said for a long time, it's basically the, the plot from, uh, I shot a kid.
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Yeah.
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You had a, you had a gun.
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It was dark.
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I couldn't see.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That would be, but that would run the risk of being more interesting.
00:09:24
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We gotta, we gotta watch that.
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You can't, gotta quash that.
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Can't, can't imagine Clay as Al Powell.
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No.
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Truly cannot.
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No.
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Truly.
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Reginald Val Johnson.
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He is not.
00:09:41
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Anyway, Reginald Val Johnson is losing his mind, uh, dealing with these animatronics and, uh,
00:09:50
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they, they're all going to, they're like, all right, no, we're not going to do the perimeter thing.
00:09:54
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We're going to go to, go back to my, my, my house.
00:09:57
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So he, Clay, this, this middle-aged man is taking teenagers back to his house.
00:10:04
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Stranger danger.
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Yeah.
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And, and,
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John has the plan to ask the animatronics, the old animatronics.
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And Clay was like, great, because I have them in my basement.
00:10:20
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And everybody's like, excuse me?
00:10:21
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And he's like, beg your pardon?
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They get at Clay's house and Clay is like, all right, here's the thing.
00:10:29
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Betty left me because I had the animatronics in the basement.
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And I spent every night sleeping in front of the basement door in case they came out of the basement.
00:10:40
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Which is.
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And so she left.
00:10:41
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And I'm like, well, I understand why she left then.
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Because.
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On her side, as it turns out.
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You have like an evidence locker.
00:10:50
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Yeah.
00:10:51
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You are a cop.
00:10:51
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I can't believe we have to keep repeating this.
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We have to remind you of this.
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Yeah.
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You know.
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So she left, never came back.
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They go downstairs to see the animatronics and eventually John is able to get them to respond, but they begin to make wild movements and gesticulations and the group scuttles back upstairs.
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And they hide from the animatronics as they come up and burst through the basement door and then they follow their tracks outside and into the woods.
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Yes.
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Oh, boy.
00:11:23
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Here we go.
00:11:25
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Here we go.
00:11:26
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Chapter 12.
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Charlie wakes up inside of the Freddy that ate her as it is walking.
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She doesn't know where it's going, but she's trying not to be careful to make the spring locks go off.
00:11:38
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Yeah.
00:11:39
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Suddenly, the eyes of the Freddy rotate into its own skull and looks down its body at Charlie, which is a terrifying.
00:11:52
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That's some metal shit there.
00:11:55
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That's pretty fucking cool.
00:11:58
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That causes Charlie to scream and move and she triggers one of the spring traps and it goes into her and like breaks her rib.
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Yeah.
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Um,
00:12:08
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The we cut to the gang is running through the woods, but they have lost the trail until it looks like a Freddy beckons them to follow.
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We cut back to Charlie inside the suit.
00:12:20
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It seems to be burying itself again, and the dirt is starting to fill the inside of it as it falls through the gaps in the suit.
00:12:29
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Charlie carefully extracts her arms from being caught in the spring traps, and after some very slow, intense moments, she gets out of the body and out of the hole and examines her injuries, only to realize that she is at a Fazbear's pizzeria.
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Mm-hmm.
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She hears the voice somewhere in the place and realizes that this isn't the same Freddy Fazbear's.
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It's never been used.
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And she follows the voice.
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She notices that the colors of the tablecloths are off.
00:13:02
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The colors of the tablecloth are off and there's no burn in on the arcade machines.
00:13:07
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Brand new.
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Brand new.
00:13:09
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They're brand new.
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They've just been sitting there.
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Yeah.
00:13:13
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So she follows the voice and sees Balloon Boy.
00:13:19
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And she also seems to be exhibiting some concussion-like symptoms.
00:13:24
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She's not doing great.
00:13:25
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She's not doing great.
00:13:26
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And then there's all these voices sounding like children as she runs back to the carousel and after moments runs into another room and it's filled with lifeless animatronics.
00:13:38
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And then she's attacked by the Freddy, the same Freddy as before that just ate her.
00:13:42
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It tries eating her again.
00:13:45
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And she tries to pull herself onto a pinball machine, but it gives way.
00:13:48
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And then John, Jessica, and Clay arrive.
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They see the children swarming.
00:13:54
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Jessica and Charlie realizes it's the lights.
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The lights are making the disorienting sounds, the hallucinogenic sound.
00:14:02
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And Clay shoots out the lights and the illusions go away.
00:14:06
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They need to get out.
00:14:08
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One thing I forgot to note, but it comes up later.
00:14:10
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While Charlie is walking around, she inadvertently knocks over a gas canister into a waterfall lake area.
00:14:21
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So there's gasoline in the water.
00:14:24
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That's going to come up again.
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Yeah.
00:14:30
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Chapter 13, Charlie and the gang catch up when the Freddy with the unhinged jaw bursts through the closet door and comes after them.
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Clay says to run, but then Jessica points out that these aren't possessed robots.
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There's no children inside of them.
00:14:44
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Just shoot them.
00:14:47
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Just fucking kill them.
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Clay puts four bullets into it before it goes down.
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The chip was destroyed and made the illusion fall apart.
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Basically, each of the twisted ones has a chip inside of it that makes it look the part of an actual animatronic.
00:15:03
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But without the illusion, it's just like this weird...
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like thing.
00:15:09
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It's the way it's described.
00:15:10
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It made me, it made me think of like the robots and I robot.
00:15:14
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Yeah.
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A little bit.
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Yeah.
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It's they're kind of plain looking.
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It's like a real uncanny Valley kind of aspect to them.
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Yeah.
00:15:25
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Clay shoots it at a Bonnie that is approaching and a wolf and a tronic that is in the perimeter, but he runs out of bullets and
00:15:35
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Charlie screams, why did you bring me here to them?
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And then Dave slash William Afton reveals himself as the one in charge.
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And he says, now call me Springtrap.
00:15:46
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And I have to say, so the ending of this book is not bad, but it has one fatal flaw, which is Jessica is,
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And Charlie found his body and called zero authorities.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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It's like...
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You couldn't even get a goddamn coroner out there.
00:16:15
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This is your fault.
00:16:17
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This is kind of your fault.
00:16:21
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Yeah.
00:16:21
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He like monologues about how he was trapped in that storage room.
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And then when they found him, they got him out.
00:16:28
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And now he can move around freely instead of just moving around and like looking through the eyes of the things that he is somehow psychically attached to.
00:16:39
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Yeah.
00:16:40
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There's a lot of...
00:16:42
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Like it's like sci-fi and metaphysical mumbo jumbo bullshit.
00:16:49
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Yeah.
00:16:49
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That is mostly like, don't worry about it.
00:16:52
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You know?
00:16:52
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Yeah.
00:16:53
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Just don't, don't, don't like, don't worry.
00:16:56
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You're pretty little head over it too hard.
00:16:58
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This is don't, don't think too hard, please.
00:17:00
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Just, just come with us on this one.
00:17:02
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I,
00:17:03
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The description of him is pretty brutal, too.
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He is rotting.
00:17:09
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There is careful attention paid to the gel of his eyes going bad, basically, like just the jelly.
00:17:19
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It's...
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Fucking gross.
00:17:22
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I was like, that's a little hard for a YA book.
00:17:26
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Yeah, that is hard.
00:17:28
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What are we classifying him as?
00:17:30
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Is he a revenant or a... Yeah, some sort of revenant, zombo, with a consciousness, I suppose.
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Lich?
00:17:40
Speaker
Is he a lich?
00:17:41
Speaker
Not a lich.
00:17:44
Speaker
Well, maybe, maybe.
00:17:45
Speaker
Hold on.
00:17:46
Speaker
Hold on.
00:17:47
Speaker
Kind of a punk-ass lich.
00:17:49
Speaker
Yeah, like a lich, what a lich would be in the modern world.
00:17:56
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Yeah, not that scary, but terrible at the same time.
00:17:59
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Because he also, like, had mental control over the kids.
00:18:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:05
Speaker
Spirits inside the robots.
00:18:08
Speaker
And these robots don't have anybody in them.
00:18:11
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They're just, he's just controlling them with his mind.
00:18:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:15
Speaker
I don't know.
00:18:18
Speaker
That makes sense.
00:18:19
Speaker
I could see that argument, kind of a modern lich sort of thing.
00:18:22
Speaker
I get that.
00:18:22
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:24
Speaker
A not cyberpunk lich, but.
00:18:29
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:29
Speaker
But I know where your head's at, though.
00:18:30
Speaker
You know what I mean?
00:18:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:32
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:33
Speaker
Cyber YA lich.
00:18:35
Speaker
Yes.
00:18:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:39
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:39
Speaker
I like that.
00:18:40
Speaker
Okay.
00:18:40
Speaker
16 bit lich.
00:18:41
Speaker
I like it.
00:18:42
Speaker
16 bit lich.
00:18:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:18:47
Speaker
So after the monologue, Clay reveals that he had one more bullet.
00:18:54
Speaker
And I'm like, what kind of gun is Clay using?
00:18:59
Speaker
I don't.
00:19:00
Speaker
Is it ever described?
00:19:02
Speaker
I had it in my head as some sort of revolver.
00:19:05
Speaker
Right.
00:19:06
Speaker
So he shoots four times and then three.
00:19:12
Speaker
And then one more.
00:19:14
Speaker
So that's eight.
00:19:15
Speaker
Yes, it must be.
00:19:16
Speaker
Yeah, it must be something with a magazine or something like that.
00:19:20
Speaker
Yeah, it's got to have a magazine.
00:19:23
Speaker
But then when I guess a magazine of seven with one in the chamber.
00:19:29
Speaker
I don't know, man.
00:19:33
Speaker
But why doesn't he have another magazine?
00:19:35
Speaker
I'm going to refer to what you just said about the Zambo aspect of it.
00:19:38
Speaker
Just like, just go with it, baby.
00:19:39
Speaker
Just go with it.
00:19:42
Speaker
It's okay.
00:19:42
Speaker
Don't worry about it.
00:19:44
Speaker
Yeah.
00:19:47
Speaker
Because like, I don't know.
00:19:50
Speaker
So the thing is, ever since watching, do you ever watch Archer?
00:19:56
Speaker
Yeah, sure.
00:19:57
Speaker
Okay.
00:19:58
Speaker
One of the things about Archer as a character is that he always points out how many rounds other people have fired.
00:20:06
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Like, Oh yeah, it's true.
00:20:07
Speaker
He does.
00:20:07
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:08
Speaker
He's like that gun's this gun and it only care like the magazine only carries X number of bullets and you fired this many.
00:20:14
Speaker
And because of that, I like think about things like, I get that.
00:20:20
Speaker
Yeah, sure.
00:20:21
Speaker
Sure.
00:20:24
Speaker
He's always aware of how many shots have been fired.
00:20:27
Speaker
Right, right.
00:20:30
Speaker
That is such an action movie thing, too.
00:20:32
Speaker
Like, they even did that in The Dark Knight, I think.
00:20:36
Speaker
The very beginning with the Joker and the bank heist and stuff like that.
00:20:39
Speaker
That is such a...
00:20:42
Speaker
Counting.
00:20:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:44
Speaker
Counting the bullets.
00:20:44
Speaker
Sorry, I just completely lost train of thought there.
00:20:46
Speaker
Counting the.
00:20:48
Speaker
Counting the.
00:20:52
Speaker
And then the fake sugar that you've been eating.
00:20:56
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:56
Speaker
Starts.
00:20:58
Speaker
Starts coming out.
00:20:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:20:59
Speaker
Just lifts me off of the ground with its force.
00:21:03
Speaker
See, the moment we start talking about me shitting myself, I gain all traction again.
00:21:08
Speaker
I just, I'm right back in the game.
00:21:11
Speaker
He's back, baby.
00:21:12
Speaker
I'm back, baby.
00:21:16
Speaker
What is my life?
00:21:17
Speaker
Okay.
00:21:18
Speaker
So what what happened?
00:21:22
Speaker
Where what where the fuck are my notes?
00:21:23
Speaker
All right.
00:21:24
Speaker
So Clay is like, I got one more bullet and he shoots spring trap and that knocks him down and tells the kids to run.
00:21:31
Speaker
They get to the other side of a waterfall thinking of the animatronics wouldn't be able to cross the water, but they can because Afton Afton, I guess, was a better inventor.
00:21:41
Speaker
It's certainly implied.
00:21:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:45
Speaker
Clay, so once the animatronics are in the water, Clay lights the water on fire because of earlier when Charlie accidentally knocked gasoline into the water.
00:21:54
Speaker
Yeah.
00:21:54
Speaker
And the animatronics catch on fire and begin to burn and melt and all that shit.
00:21:59
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:01
Speaker
Springtrap is like basically Skeletor's on out of there.
00:22:04
Speaker
Sure.
00:22:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:06
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:06
Speaker
He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:22:09
Speaker
Yeah, you can hear the sound.
00:22:10
Speaker
It's it's.
00:22:11
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:14
Speaker
Yeah.
00:22:15
Speaker
Charlie gives chase.
00:22:16
Speaker
They're in a cave now, like a fake cave that's in there, I guess.
00:22:21
Speaker
And there's all sorts of weird shapes and monsters.
00:22:24
Speaker
And Charlie realized it's another transmitter giving her hallucinations.
00:22:29
Speaker
Outside the cave, the gang is looking for another way into the cavern when the twisted Freddy comes back and the melted Bonnie and Wolf stand up.
00:22:38
Speaker
Their electronics are exposed but intact and Clay has no more bullets.
00:22:43
Speaker
This time for real.
00:22:44
Speaker
It is time for real.
00:22:46
Speaker
Meanwhile, Charlie is in the cave and is distracted by some glowing mushrooms that happen to be real.
00:22:54
Speaker
And then Springtrap grabs her by the neck and begins crushing her windpipe.
00:22:58
Speaker
But she manages to, like, kick and wriggle free.
00:23:00
Speaker
And she's like, I've been doing sit-ups, bitch.
00:23:03
Speaker
Yeah, she literally says that.
00:23:05
Speaker
Not bitch, but, yeah, the rest of it.
00:23:08
Speaker
We've all got secrets.
00:23:09
Speaker
Mine is that I've been working out.
00:23:11
Speaker
Like, it's okay.
00:23:12
Speaker
I didn't realize that.
00:23:13
Speaker
I knew that in the world it was the mid-90s.
00:23:16
Speaker
I didn't know that the book was also written in the mid-90s.
00:23:21
Speaker
Good to know.
00:23:21
Speaker
The three outsiders surrounded and it looks like curtains for them.
00:23:25
Speaker
And then...
00:23:27
Speaker
The real Foxy Chica and Bonnie come in and save the day and destroy the shit out of the Afton robots and then slink away into the shadows.
00:23:40
Speaker
Okay.
00:23:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:23:42
Speaker
What the fuck?
00:23:43
Speaker
Okay.
00:23:43
Speaker
Sure.
00:23:44
Speaker
Sure.
00:23:45
Speaker
Charlie is running down the passage as Springtrap gives chase.
00:23:49
Speaker
She finds a metal spike in the ground and then stabs him in the chest, asking him why he took Sammy.
00:23:56
Speaker
Um, and he's like, uh, so the, the gang then runs towards the mouth of the cave and a horde of balloon boys come out to defend it.
00:24:06
Speaker
And then the real Freddie comes arrives and starts crushing them and attacking them and grabbing them and smashing them together.
00:24:15
Speaker
It's like that moment.
00:24:17
Speaker
It's like that moment at the end of Jurassic park.
00:24:19
Speaker
Yes.
00:24:20
Speaker
Yes.
00:24:22
Speaker
You got raptors jumping all over the T-Rex.
00:24:24
Speaker
They're running away from the raptors and then the T-Rex shows up.
00:24:28
Speaker
There's the roaring and the banners coming down because the building's starting to fall apart.
00:24:41
Speaker
When animatronics ruled the world.
00:24:46
Speaker
They run past all that nonsense and enter the cave.
00:24:49
Speaker
Charlie is pressing Springtrap for answers, and he says he didn't take Sammy.
00:24:54
Speaker
He took Charlie.
00:24:55
Speaker
What?
00:24:56
Speaker
That doesn't make sense.
00:24:57
Speaker
Which is a very vague thing to say, yeah.
00:24:58
Speaker
Vague thing to say.
00:24:59
Speaker
Are we going to find out what that means?
00:25:01
Speaker
Nope.
00:25:01
Speaker
Fuck no.
00:25:02
Speaker
Meanwhile...
00:25:04
Speaker
Read the next book, fucko.
00:25:05
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
00:25:07
Speaker
Hope you got $12, kid.
00:25:08
Speaker
All right.
00:25:11
Speaker
Meanwhile, Clay and the team arrive and say that the battle between the animatronics is going to bring the whole place down.
00:25:17
Speaker
As they make their escape, they got to keep coaxing Charlie the entire time to come with them.
00:25:23
Speaker
And Charlie is realizing that she starts to realize that this is the basement of the house she grew up in.
00:25:30
Speaker
Mm-hmm.
00:25:31
Speaker
And she finds a door that she has to try to open, but she can't open it.
00:25:38
Speaker
And John's like, Charlie, we got to go.
00:25:41
Speaker
And she's like, but I got to stay and do stuff.
00:25:46
Speaker
And John's like, no, Charlie, I love you.
00:25:49
Speaker
Brings out the fucking nuclear weapons just like that.
00:25:53
Speaker
Yeah.
00:25:53
Speaker
Damn, John.
00:25:54
Speaker
Charlie's like, Charlie's like, oh, OK, I guess I'll come with you.
00:25:59
Speaker
I guess I'll live.
00:26:03
Speaker
And she's like, OK.
00:26:04
Speaker
And then too late, motherfucker, because the evil Freddy grabs and tries to kill her.
00:26:08
Speaker
It pulls her inside of her again and closes around her.
00:26:13
Speaker
Everything is collapsing around them.
00:26:14
Speaker
The whole building's coming down.
00:26:16
Speaker
They try to get her out and Jessica and John are holding hands.
00:26:20
Speaker
Um, her hands are like out of the animatronic somewhere.
00:26:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:26:24
Speaker
And clay, um, and like they're holding the hands and there's like blood running down her, her arms and her hands.
00:26:32
Speaker
And clay has like the cops then show up.
00:26:36
Speaker
And clay has the cops, uh, drag the other kids away.
00:26:41
Speaker
Um, um,
00:26:42
Speaker
And Clay is standing over the body, the animatronic.
00:26:49
Speaker
And John, as he's being pulled away, sees a dark-haired woman standing over the animatronic with Clay.
00:26:56
Speaker
And he notices that Charlie's hands are like...
00:27:02
Speaker
limp dead kind of looking.
00:27:05
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:06
Speaker
Chapter 14 kind of is a wrap up chapter.
00:27:11
Speaker
Basically, the dark haired woman was Aunt Jen.
00:27:15
Speaker
but they don't really know why she was like, how she got there.
00:27:19
Speaker
Why was she there at that exact time?
00:27:22
Speaker
It doesn't really make sense.
00:27:23
Speaker
Yeah.
00:27:24
Speaker
They're like trying to unpack what just happened.
00:27:27
Speaker
And are we going to get any answers?
00:27:29
Speaker
No.
00:27:30
Speaker
No, not a single one.
00:27:32
Speaker
Not a single one.
00:27:34
Speaker
So Artie shows up.
00:27:35
Speaker
He's like, we're going to start dating.
00:27:37
Speaker
And then maybe not dating, but you know, she liked me.
00:27:42
Speaker
And John's like, yeah, sure, buddy.
00:27:44
Speaker
I totally believe you.
00:27:46
Speaker
It's very, to bring up the film again, the end of The Dark Knight with Bruce Wayne being like, we were going to be together.
00:27:56
Speaker
Of course you are, Master Y. Of course you are.
00:27:59
Speaker
Sure you are.
00:28:00
Speaker
Sure.
00:28:03
Speaker
I'm just going to take this little envelope and throw it in the fire.
00:28:09
Speaker
The letter that says, Bruce, I can't be with you or whatever.
00:28:12
Speaker
Yeah, exactly.
00:28:14
Speaker
We're going to be together.
00:28:17
Speaker
Men just wanted to watch the world burn.
00:28:19
Speaker
The only way they could have made that scene better is if Bruce Wayne was like halfway through a bottle of scotch.
00:28:24
Speaker
That would have been fucking sublime.
00:28:26
Speaker
If we could see Christian Bale hammered out of his mind playing Bruce Wayne, I would have paid money.
00:28:31
Speaker
I would have loved it.
00:28:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:28:34
Speaker
then he and then Michael Caine would have been like very good Mr. Wayne and then Christian Bale would be like oh good for you and how was it and how was it you're a nice guy you're a nice guy we are digging up this corpse we will not let you people forget what Christian Bale did to that man
00:29:04
Speaker
Fuck Christian Bale and everyone who looks like Christian Bale.
00:29:09
Speaker
Which is admittedly a pretty small demographic.
00:29:12
Speaker
Very small demographic.
00:29:14
Speaker
Like Michael Fassbender.
00:29:16
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:16
Speaker
Fuck him, too.
00:29:19
Speaker
He was arrested on.
00:29:20
Speaker
He was charged with battery once.
00:29:23
Speaker
He'd beat his girlfriend.
00:29:25
Speaker
Oh, I didn't know that shit.
00:29:26
Speaker
Yeah, no, he's a piece of shit.
00:29:28
Speaker
Kevin's here to spill the tea.
00:29:30
Speaker
Hot damn.
00:29:30
Speaker
Spilling tea, baby.
00:29:32
Speaker
Scalding.
00:29:33
Speaker
Scalding hot tea.
00:29:34
Speaker
Yeah, I'll look that up and make sure that's an actual thing.
00:29:38
Speaker
Yeah, let's not get...
00:29:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:41
Speaker
Suit for slander here.
00:29:43
Speaker
Yeah.
00:29:45
Speaker
In print, it's libel.
00:29:47
Speaker
Yes.
00:29:51
Speaker
That's your little tip for the day, guys.
00:29:53
Speaker
That's your tip for the day.
00:29:54
Speaker
In print, it's libel.
00:29:55
Speaker
Spoken, it's slander, print, it's libel.
00:29:58
Speaker
I remember the definition forever because of J.K.
00:30:02
Speaker
Simon's
00:30:04
Speaker
in Spider-Man 2, I want to say.
00:30:06
Speaker
I think it was too.
00:30:07
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:30:08
Speaker
It was like, this is slander.
00:30:11
Speaker
It's not slander.
00:30:11
Speaker
It's preposterous.
00:30:13
Speaker
In Prince, it's libel.
00:30:14
Speaker
That's right.
00:30:17
Speaker
That's a good line.
00:30:18
Speaker
That's a good line.
00:30:21
Speaker
He's so perfect on that part.
00:30:23
Speaker
Goddamn.
00:30:25
Speaker
Oh, God.
00:30:28
Speaker
So Marla shows up.
00:30:30
Speaker
Sure.
00:30:31
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:32
Speaker
Okay.
00:30:33
Speaker
She's like, I heard about things and they're like, there's, this is like an indeterminate amount of time after they got pulled out.
00:30:41
Speaker
So I don't know.
00:30:42
Speaker
Yeah.
00:30:42
Speaker
No, they don't really specify.
00:30:44
Speaker
I don't know what's going on.
00:30:47
Speaker
And then there's a cliffhanger as a woman approaches the door of the diner that looks like Charlie, but isn't her.
00:30:57
Speaker
The end.
00:31:01
Speaker
John does his like, that's not her.
00:31:03
Speaker
That's not Charlie.
00:31:04
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:06
Speaker
I've known Charlie biblically.
00:31:09
Speaker
She lives in the trees.
00:31:11
Speaker
She lives in the trees.
00:31:13
Speaker
In the bush.
00:31:14
Speaker
She's the fucking Lorax.
00:31:16
Speaker
No, I was thinking Vietnam, but still.
00:31:20
Speaker
Charlie in the trees.
00:31:24
Speaker
She speaks for the trees.
00:31:25
Speaker
She speaks for the trees.
00:31:26
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:31:31
Speaker
And William Afton is figuring on biggering and biggering his load.
00:31:34
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:31:35
Speaker
That guy has got one gross load.
00:31:38
Speaker
That's all there is to it.
00:31:40
Speaker
Jesus Christ.
00:31:41
Speaker
This is the grossest episode we've ever done.
00:31:45
Speaker
Seriously.
00:31:47
Speaker
This is the most inappropriate we've ever been without a guest.
00:31:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:51
Speaker
Without a guest.
00:31:52
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:52
Speaker
Because otherwise we usually reserve it for when Jesse Grash is on the show.
00:31:57
Speaker
Yeah.
00:31:57
Speaker
If Jesse Grash is on the show, we lose our goddamn cool.
00:32:01
Speaker
I don't know why he brings out the worst in us.
00:32:05
Speaker
Jesse, you're here in spirit, baby.
00:32:07
Speaker
We miss you.
00:32:09
Speaker
Jesse's alive, by the way.
00:32:10
Speaker
I now realize that the way I said that sounded like it was like a rest of these.
00:32:13
Speaker
No, he's very much alive.
00:32:15
Speaker
Yeah.
00:32:16
Speaker
No, Jesse is fine.
00:32:16
Speaker
Still with us.
00:32:17
Speaker
He's just not here.
00:32:18
Speaker
Here.
00:32:19
Speaker
Physically, at the moment.
00:32:20
Speaker
Clarify.
00:32:21
Speaker
He's in Canada still, I assume.
00:32:28
Speaker
So that's the end of the book.
00:32:29
Speaker
What did you think, Phil?
00:32:32
Speaker
I liked it.
00:32:34
Speaker
I really think that –
00:32:36
Speaker
as far as this series of books is concerned, after that first book, they kind of pulled out of an impossible nosedive.
00:32:43
Speaker
You
Book Comparison and Analysis
00:32:44
Speaker
know, is this on par with some of our, with some of the better books we've read in this series, our halos, you know, and things like that?
00:32:53
Speaker
No, but as far as a YA horror story,
00:32:59
Speaker
tribute to this really popular franchise, which is kind of difficult to make into a series of novels anyway when you think about it.
00:33:07
Speaker
Right.
00:33:09
Speaker
Not bad.
00:33:10
Speaker
Like a real improvement over the first one.
00:33:13
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:33:14
Speaker
And I do think I stand by that in terms of not just comparing it to the first one.
00:33:20
Speaker
Right.
00:33:20
Speaker
I think if the first one was more like this, then we wouldn't have had nearly as much shit to talk.
00:33:25
Speaker
Yeah.
00:33:26
Speaker
I think there is like...
00:33:29
Speaker
I think there's like a little weird, my issue with it, it is an improvement over the first one, and it's fine as a book.
00:33:40
Speaker
I think my issue with it is,
00:33:43
Speaker
And it was worse in the first one is like plot coherence and like characters being doing things that don't make sense just for the sake of setting up something later.
00:33:56
Speaker
Like Jessica and Charlie digging up a dead body and then not calling anybody about it.
00:34:02
Speaker
Yes, absolutely.
00:34:03
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:04
Speaker
Which just seemed weird and not providing any sort of an excuse for not calling anybody about it.
00:34:09
Speaker
They just leave it.
00:34:11
Speaker
Yeah, no, that's true.
00:34:12
Speaker
Leave a dead body out that the cops have been looking for.
00:34:16
Speaker
This is someone else's problem.
00:34:17
Speaker
Admittedly, I'd probably do that.
00:34:19
Speaker
I mean, I would do that.
00:34:21
Speaker
I totally get it.
00:34:21
Speaker
I would probably just be like, well, you know, stand by me.
00:34:26
Speaker
It's based on the concept of.
00:34:30
Speaker
Better go to my robotics class.
00:34:32
Speaker
I am not dealing with this.
00:34:34
Speaker
Hey, do you want to go see a dead body?
00:34:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:34:39
Speaker
And then, you know, it's you and your three best friends go and see a dead body.
00:34:48
Speaker
And you grow and you learn something.
00:34:51
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You grow and you learn something.
00:34:52
Speaker
And like one of your friends goes off to Vietnam after and dies.
00:34:56
Speaker
Sure.
00:34:57
Speaker
You don't know that at the time.
00:34:59
Speaker
You don't know that at the time.
00:35:01
Speaker
But your voiceover from the future does know that.
00:35:05
Speaker
For the record, I do plan on if I get a chance, if a doctor tells me like you've got so long to live, I do plan on that last month spending it in Vietnam so I could die there so you can tell people Phil died in Nam.
00:35:21
Speaker
I would really – I think that would be a lot of fun.
00:35:24
Speaker
I think people would get a chuckle.
00:35:26
Speaker
Yeah, I'd appreciate it.
00:35:26
Speaker
And that's how I want to be remembered.
00:35:28
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I feel like I would appreciate, you know, like my podcast partner.
00:35:34
Speaker
He died numb.
00:35:35
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:35:35
Speaker
Yeah, he died numb.
00:35:38
Speaker
That's such stolen valor that it almost comes full circle and becomes regular-ass valor again.
00:35:43
Speaker
It's like the horseshoe theory of stolen valor, you know?
00:35:46
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:35:50
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:35:51
Speaker
Can we have your dad on as guests and pitch this to him?
00:35:56
Speaker
Absolutely not.
00:35:57
Speaker
Under no circumstances.
00:35:58
Speaker
Under no circumstances.
00:36:02
Speaker
Can we ask the colonel about Stolen Fowler?
00:36:09
Speaker
No, yeah, we'd probably be like, I don't give a fuck.
00:36:11
Speaker
Yeah, sure, whatever.
00:36:14
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:36:16
Speaker
You went to Desert Storm, whatever.
00:36:18
Speaker
I don't care.
00:36:21
Speaker
A lot of fruit salad on your chest for somebody who's never seen combat.
00:36:24
Speaker
Real cool.
00:36:29
Speaker
Fuck it.
00:36:31
Speaker
Fuck it, man.
00:36:32
Speaker
Going to Vietnam.
00:36:35
Speaker
Fuck it, man.
00:36:36
Speaker
Let's go to Vietnam.
00:36:37
Speaker
Oh, God, I love this show.
00:36:47
Speaker
That will go on a T-shirt.
00:36:50
Speaker
Yeah.
00:36:52
Speaker
So, yeah, I don't quite get the inclusion of Marla at the end.
00:36:56
Speaker
I feel like it would have... That was real out of nowhere.
00:37:00
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:37:01
Speaker
Just felt a little out of nowhere.
00:37:03
Speaker
And also one of my consistent criticisms of the writing style is that I feel like the mind's eye...
00:37:14
Speaker
of these, the locations that they're in is not thoroughly described in a way that totally makes sense.
00:37:24
Speaker
There's a, like, first of all, there's a fucking Freddy Fazbear's underneath their house.
00:37:30
Speaker
Yeah.
00:37:30
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely.
00:37:32
Speaker
Wait, what?
00:37:32
Speaker
Like you step back from the, wait, what?
00:37:35
Speaker
Why?
00:37:36
Speaker
Can we cover that again?
00:37:37
Speaker
Can we talk?
00:37:38
Speaker
Can we go back?
00:37:39
Speaker
Can we go back to that?
00:37:40
Speaker
All right.
00:37:41
Speaker
Is that part of the next book, which is called The Fourth Closet?
00:37:47
Speaker
I think that's part of the genius of them speeding up the pacing the way they have because it goes by so quickly you don't have time to go, wait, that doesn't fucking make sense.
00:37:57
Speaker
Sure.
00:37:58
Speaker
I think they did that on purpose.
00:37:59
Speaker
You cut out 100 pages.
00:38:00
Speaker
You can get away with a little bit more in terms of the leaps.
00:38:03
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:38:04
Speaker
You can kind of just breeze right by some things.
00:38:06
Speaker
And hey, listen, I'm all fine.
00:38:08
Speaker
I'm all for just not explaining shit most of the time.
00:38:13
Speaker
But in some of these instances, it was just it just threw me for a little bit of a loop.
00:38:18
Speaker
But overall, I get that.
00:38:20
Speaker
Yeah, it's whereas the first book is like in the bottom tier of the things that we've read.
00:38:26
Speaker
This is not this is definitively not.
00:38:28
Speaker
I don't know which tier it is, but it's not in the bottom.
00:38:32
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:38:32
Speaker
This is not bottom.
00:38:33
Speaker
This is far from that level, which is great.
00:38:39
Speaker
You love to see it.
00:38:40
Speaker
You love to see an improvement, folks.
00:38:42
Speaker
We all love an improvement, folks.
00:38:43
Speaker
Good effort.
00:38:45
Speaker
Good effort.
00:38:46
Speaker
Yeah, see me after class.
00:38:48
Speaker
See me after class.
00:38:50
Speaker
The first book was a See Me After Class.
00:38:52
Speaker
Yeah, that's true.
00:38:54
Speaker
Yeah, that was the true See Me After Class.
00:38:56
Speaker
This one is Nice Improvement.
00:38:58
Speaker
Yes.
00:39:00
Speaker
C. B minus.
00:39:01
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:39:01
Speaker
B minus.
00:39:06
Speaker
Look at you smelling that wine.
00:39:07
Speaker
It's so good.
00:39:09
Speaker
I'm drinking this bottle from Virginia, this winery called Veritas, and it's so fucking good.
00:39:17
Speaker
I've been holding on to it for a couple of years and-
00:39:20
Speaker
Virginia.
00:39:21
Speaker
That's lovely shit.
00:39:24
Speaker
Lovely shit.
00:39:26
Speaker
Speaking of lovely, Phil, I only have one more question for you.
00:39:31
Speaker
Okay, shoot.
00:39:35
Speaker
What are you playing?
00:39:38
Speaker
Oh, oh, I'm so glad you asked.
00:39:40
Speaker
I actually wrote it down.
00:39:42
Speaker
I, well, first and foremost, I thought about the fact that my wife and I are having a son named Graham.
00:39:49
Speaker
And so I went ahead and played through and finished King's Quest V.
00:39:53
Speaker
Beautiful.
00:39:53
Speaker
Because I'm a sentimental old softy.
00:39:56
Speaker
It is everything you remember about it.
00:39:58
Speaker
It's just as goofy and dorky and fun and cute and also frustrating and insane that anyone should be expected to beat this game without some form of walkthrough.
00:40:11
Speaker
Um...
00:40:12
Speaker
It is absolutely fucking coconut bananas that anyone beat this game in a time before the discussion board on Steam.
00:40:21
Speaker
It just makes – it's insanity.
00:40:24
Speaker
So that was very pleasant.
00:40:26
Speaker
Did Sierra have a hint line?
00:40:28
Speaker
Did Sierra have a hint line?
00:40:30
Speaker
They did.
00:40:30
Speaker
They did.
00:40:31
Speaker
And I'm sure that was a big part of it.
00:40:34
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:34
Speaker
But, you know, no, it's so nice.
00:40:38
Speaker
It's just a nice, pleasant way to spend a few hours.
00:40:42
Speaker
I love the voice acting.
00:40:43
Speaker
I love, you know, the animation style, the graphics.
00:40:47
Speaker
I even love the fact that everyone's got, like, red skin for some reason.
00:40:51
Speaker
Yeah.
00:40:53
Speaker
It's just a lovely little trip down memory lane.
00:40:56
Speaker
In terms of new stuff that I played, though, I finished a game called The Many Pieces of Mr. Coup.
00:41:03
Speaker
Have you heard of this?
00:41:04
Speaker
I have not.
00:41:05
Speaker
The Many Pieces of Mr. Coup.
00:41:08
Speaker
This is a game.
00:41:09
Speaker
This is another short game.
00:41:11
Speaker
This is an indie studio.
00:41:12
Speaker
I'm not sure where they're from.
00:41:14
Speaker
They're not from around here.
00:41:16
Speaker
It is fully animated.
00:41:19
Speaker
So it's not Cuphead style, but it's that kind of thing where every frame is animated.
00:41:25
Speaker
It actually reminds me of like Plimpton cartoons, which were big when I was growing up as a kid.
00:41:34
Speaker
There's a very, very specific style to them.
00:41:37
Speaker
Oh, wow.
00:41:38
Speaker
It's very silly, very Looney Tunes-esque, and it's a point-and-click puzzle adventure game that has a very... It also has like a 60s trip fest kind of quality, like Yellow Submarine to it.
00:41:52
Speaker
And the story as it is, is You Are Mr. Koo, I guess?
00:41:58
Speaker
I'm assuming I'm Mr. Koo.
00:41:59
Speaker
The little yellow dude.
00:42:00
Speaker
They never really pointed out.
00:42:02
Speaker
Yeah.
00:42:04
Speaker
And you're traveling through these weird situations and about halfway through the game, you get cut into three equal parts.
00:42:13
Speaker
And the second act of the game is basically you trying to free you as the severed head of Mr. Koo, trying to free your upper and lower torso through a series of puzzles and, and that kind of thing.
00:42:28
Speaker
And, uh,
00:42:29
Speaker
And the ending is bizarre and bonkers.
00:42:31
Speaker
The whole game is bizarre and bonkers.
00:42:34
Speaker
I really enjoyed it.
00:42:37
Speaker
It's nuts.
00:42:38
Speaker
And I found it to...
00:42:41
Speaker
It took a couple hours to beat.
00:42:42
Speaker
I found it a little expensive for a couple of hours to beat, like 15 bucks, which whatever.
00:42:47
Speaker
That's all relative.
00:42:48
Speaker
I hate even bringing it up, but I always do it because that's important on some level, I suppose.
00:42:55
Speaker
But you've never played a game like this before.
00:42:59
Speaker
Yeah, it looks interesting.
00:43:01
Speaker
Yeah.
00:43:01
Speaker
Yes, it is a puzzle game.
00:43:02
Speaker
Yes, it is a point and click game.
00:43:04
Speaker
But I guarantee you, you've never played a game like this before.
00:43:08
Speaker
I'm looking at some of the screenshots where it's like mixed media of like photographs and it looks like you were...
00:43:18
Speaker
There is, and it's like a very faint memory.
00:43:23
Speaker
And was it during like, was it just on during on PBS or was it on during Mr. Rogers of like a little cartoon dude and he would be like walking around a cupboard and he would like go on to like a drinking glass or whatever.
00:43:40
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:43:40
Speaker
I remember that.
00:43:41
Speaker
What the fuck is that?
00:43:42
Speaker
I tried Googling it a few different ways and I can't find it, but it's just...
00:43:47
Speaker
Was that on the electric company or?
00:43:49
Speaker
Was it electric company that did those or?
00:43:51
Speaker
I don't know.
00:43:52
Speaker
I don't know.
00:43:54
Speaker
But I know I have a faint memory of it in my head.
00:43:58
Speaker
That is so
Nostalgic TV Show Reminiscence
00:43:59
Speaker
funny.
00:43:59
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, well, it's got a vibe like that, but it's way more like an Eastern European cartoon where it's like, what the fuck is going on half the time?
00:44:09
Speaker
I do not speak your language, but I mean, if you're looking for something that is genuinely different, that is, if you're looking for something for the craft, for the animation, for the art of it all, I can't recommend it enough.
00:44:25
Speaker
It's, it's,
00:44:27
Speaker
Truly strange.
00:44:28
Speaker
It's a very, very strange experience.
00:44:31
Speaker
The Many Pieces of Mr. Coup, I recommend it.
00:44:34
Speaker
Wild, wild stuff.
00:44:37
Speaker
Yeah, if anyone who is listening also remembers that fucking cartoon, dude.
00:44:44
Speaker
I'm pretty... Guaranteamte, it was a public television thing.
00:44:51
Speaker
It was either Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Electric Company, or something like that.
00:44:58
Speaker
Television, cartoon.
00:45:00
Speaker
There's nothing... Yeah, I can't... Public...
00:45:06
Speaker
Television, cartoon, mixed media.
00:45:11
Speaker
Oh yeah, I got nothing here.
00:45:12
Speaker
I'm getting nothing.
00:45:16
Speaker
That's a tough one to search for.
00:45:17
Speaker
Yeah, it is tough to search for.
00:45:20
Speaker
Anything that you put in there is gonna bring up irrelevant results.
00:45:28
Speaker
Oh my God, this is gonna kill me for a while.
00:45:33
Speaker
Hold on.
00:45:35
Speaker
Yeah, this is weird.
00:45:36
Speaker
Yeah, this is going to require some research.
00:45:41
Speaker
So if any of our listeners can reach out to us, pixletpod at gmail.com.
00:45:51
Speaker
That's our email address, right?
00:45:53
Speaker
pixletpod at gmail.com.
00:45:55
Speaker
Yeah, please.
00:45:58
Speaker
Please send it there.
00:45:59
Speaker
This is the first time in the goddamn show that I'm actually giving you folks the actual email address to reach out to us.
00:46:07
Speaker
I've given so many face email addresses.
00:46:10
Speaker
It's for this because I can't remember what it was called.
00:46:14
Speaker
I only see how they like I can see it.
00:46:17
Speaker
in my head.
00:46:19
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:20
Speaker
And I don't know what it is or what it's called.
00:46:23
Speaker
Just me in front of a television in 1988.
00:46:27
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:27
Speaker
That is so funny.
00:46:32
Speaker
I have the vaguest memory of what you're talking about.
00:46:35
Speaker
Yeah.
00:46:35
Speaker
You're not crazy.
00:46:35
Speaker
I remember this.
00:46:38
Speaker
That's wild.
00:46:38
Speaker
Someone please tell us.
00:46:39
Speaker
We need to know.
00:46:40
Speaker
Please tell us we need to know.
00:46:41
Speaker
Okay.
00:46:43
Speaker
And that was aside from Mr. Q. Is that it?
00:46:47
Speaker
That was it.
00:46:47
Speaker
What have you played, Kevin?
00:46:51
Speaker
I am currently playing.
00:46:54
Speaker
I'm finishing up Alan Wake 2.
00:46:57
Speaker
And it might sound like we recorded episodes 2 and 3 of this on Back to Back Days.
00:47:02
Speaker
So I was finishing up Alan Wake 2 yesterday.
00:47:06
Speaker
It's not a week of me finishing up Alan Wake 2.
00:47:10
Speaker
But in the meantime, I've started playing...
00:47:14
Speaker
RoboCop Rogue City.
00:47:16
Speaker
Take me away.
00:47:17
Speaker
Tell me everything I need to know.
00:47:18
Speaker
Peter Weller's back, baby.
00:47:20
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:47:21
Speaker
I was hoping you'd say that.
00:47:23
Speaker
Peter Weller and his gorgeous lips are back.
00:47:27
Speaker
My man has these lips that are just like...
00:47:33
Speaker
You don't... That's the thing about RoboCop is the only part of his face you see is his lower jaw and his lips.
00:47:41
Speaker
But you know it's Peter Weller from the goddamn lips.
00:47:45
Speaker
Yeah, yeah.
00:47:46
Speaker
They're expressive, goddammit.
00:47:47
Speaker
You need them there.
00:47:49
Speaker
Um...
00:47:51
Speaker
So it's a lot of fun so far.
00:47:54
Speaker
Like you can tell right off the bat, you can tell it's like, oh yeah, this is, you know, double A as shit.
00:47:59
Speaker
This is the double A game through and through.
00:48:02
Speaker
That's what Taeyeon or whatever the gaming company, that's what they make, you know, and I'm fine with it.
00:48:09
Speaker
It has some like leveling up RPG elements.
00:48:13
Speaker
The way they do it is kind of neat because you go out, you do a mission and you get graded on like the things like, did you recover all the incriminating evidence at the crime scene?
00:48:27
Speaker
Did all the hostages survive, for example, you get a bonus.
00:48:32
Speaker
You recover all the evidence, you get a bonus, et cetera.
00:48:37
Speaker
And then you can use that and put it into points where it's like, all right, you put some into attack and you get like a smash attack where you can have like Robocop, like punch or stomp the ground and it causes like a shockwave and knocks everybody down.
00:48:53
Speaker
Or you can put it into- Yeah, it has a little, you know what it is?
00:48:57
Speaker
It does have, it's like if it's Deus Ex without the Imsum elements.
00:49:05
Speaker
It's like a stripped down version of Deus Ex.
00:49:10
Speaker
You could still like you're in at the Detroit Police Department.
00:49:14
Speaker
You can go around and talk to other cops and they can be like, hey, you know, hey, Murphy, can you help me with this thing or whatever?
00:49:22
Speaker
Or hey, Robo, can you help me open my locker?
00:49:25
Speaker
It's stuck.
00:49:26
Speaker
You know, shit like that.
00:49:29
Speaker
Or it's like the line at the front door to report shit is at, it's like out the front door.
00:49:35
Speaker
Can you man the desk for a little bit and like talk to the, and as people come in,
00:49:43
Speaker
You talk to them and they ask you things and like you're given a couple options on how to respond.
00:49:49
Speaker
And it's like you have to serve the public trust.
00:49:52
Speaker
Yeah, I am.
00:49:54
Speaker
I am RoboCop.
00:49:54
Speaker
I am here to serve the public trust.
00:49:57
Speaker
And so like doing that might mean a couple different things.
00:50:01
Speaker
Like there's like.
00:50:02
Speaker
one time where this guy comes in and he's like hey there's a bonus on those wanted posters for like turning in a criminal and he's you're like affirmative and he's like all right well i'm turning him in uh and you're like where is he and it's like oh it's me i'm turning myself in for the bonus for the the money and
00:50:27
Speaker
Like you have an option on like how you can respond to him.
00:50:30
Speaker
You can be like, you know what?
00:50:32
Speaker
You can be like an asshole and be like, you're going to jail scumbag.
00:50:38
Speaker
Or you can, you can be like, you could plead for a reduced sentence.
00:50:44
Speaker
So if you like, if you're nicer as RoboCop and like with still within the narrow perimeter parameters of who RoboCop is supposed to be, if you are like,
00:50:57
Speaker
kind of like nicer about things, it gives you a little bit of a bonus, you know?
00:51:01
Speaker
Okay.
00:51:01
Speaker
Okay.
00:51:02
Speaker
I got a huge RoboCop guy, but this sounds fascinating.
00:51:07
Speaker
It's a lot of fun.
00:51:08
Speaker
And you could go into like scanner mode.
00:51:11
Speaker
So they call it an anti-movement shooter because he's RoboCop.
00:51:15
Speaker
He doesn't move fast.
00:51:16
Speaker
He just, he moves along at a pace, you know?
00:51:21
Speaker
He can walk and he can walk faster.
00:51:23
Speaker
He doesn't run.
00:51:23
Speaker
No.
00:51:24
Speaker
No running for him, no.
00:51:26
Speaker
And you could go into like scanner mode.
00:51:29
Speaker
And as you're doing that, like the outlines of all the enemies, like we'll go.
00:51:36
Speaker
And there's like points you can put into reaction.
00:51:40
Speaker
where it's like, oh, you can go into slow-mo.
00:51:43
Speaker
So you can like, so it slows everything down and you can shoot.
00:51:47
Speaker
And it's like, you get to a certain number of points in reaction.
00:51:50
Speaker
And it's like, for every headshot you get in slow motion, it extends the duration of slow motion.
00:51:58
Speaker
Cool.
00:52:00
Speaker
Fucking cool.
00:52:02
Speaker
Why not?
00:52:03
Speaker
Why not?
00:52:04
Speaker
Fuck.
00:52:05
Speaker
So yeah, it's a lot of fun.
00:52:08
Speaker
I've been playing.
00:52:08
Speaker
I started on hard and that feels like the right balance for it's like under the descriptions.
00:52:17
Speaker
It's like if you're used to first person shooters,
00:52:21
Speaker
Hard is probably going to be the most satisfying one for you.
00:52:24
Speaker
Okay.
00:52:26
Speaker
And I was like, okay, yeah, that felt pretty balanced.
00:52:28
Speaker
You know, I had to use the healing items as I went through the first mission.
00:52:33
Speaker
So, yeah.
00:52:35
Speaker
No, that's, so that's what I've been playing.
00:52:38
Speaker
That sounds great.
00:52:39
Speaker
I got to check that out.
00:52:40
Speaker
Yeah.
00:52:42
Speaker
So that'll do it for tonight's episode.
00:52:44
Speaker
Phil,
00:52:46
Speaker
Do you have a website that people should go to?
00:52:50
Speaker
Oh, you're talking about patreon.com slash pixelitpod.
00:52:54
Speaker
I sure am.
00:52:55
Speaker
Yeah, you should check that out where you can join any number of tiers, including free tier, where you can just be a part of the damn community or you can throw a shekel or two our way and make it so that you get special, exclusive, all-consuming, beautiful, change your life.
00:53:13
Speaker
Bonus content.
00:53:15
Speaker
Bonus content.
00:53:16
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It's beautiful.
00:53:17
Speaker
Boner content.
00:53:18
Speaker
Boner content.
00:53:20
Speaker
We're starting in OnlyFans.
00:53:22
Speaker
And... So, yeah.
00:53:28
Speaker
Check it out.
00:53:30
Speaker
Patreon.com slash PixelitPod.
00:53:34
Speaker
Do it today.
00:53:35
Speaker
Or go to PixelitPod.com and it'll redirect you right over there.
00:53:38
Speaker
Bingo.
00:53:39
Speaker
Bingo.
00:53:39
Speaker
Bongo.
00:53:40
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Bingo.
00:53:40
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Bongo.
00:53:41
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And that brings us to the show where we thank...
00:53:43
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our patron who is at the highest level.
00:53:47
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Friendly friends.
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Thank you for being a friend.
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00:53:51
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We love you, man.
00:53:53
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Thank you for being a friend.
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I didn't sing it last time, but I'm singing it this time.
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Your heart is true.
00:54:01
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You're a friend and a confidant.
00:54:05
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See?
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Come on, people.
00:54:07
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Don't you want to be a part of this?
00:54:09
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Don't you want to be a part of this?
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Have your name said.
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We'll be swaying and singing.
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This is what you want.
00:54:16
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We all know it.
00:54:17
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It's true.
00:54:19
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You could be a part of this, too.
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And the card on top would say, thank you for being a friend.
00:54:25
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Thank you for being a friend.
00:54:28
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Boom.
00:54:28
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Boom.
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It's you, friendly friend.
00:54:33
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And then Blanche comes on and says, where is it?
00:54:39
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Yeah, Blanche Dubois, the horny one.
00:54:42
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She comes on and says something about, you know, having sex with a guy last night.
00:54:48
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Yeah, she gets all horny.
00:54:49
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Yeah.
00:54:55
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And the old lady tells a story about Sicily.
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It's genius.
00:55:00
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Don't fuck with the formula.
00:55:02
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It's perfect.
00:55:02
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Don't fuck with the formula, you know?
00:55:05
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Just fire up some Golden Girls and have yourself an evening.
00:55:08
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You're going to have a blast.
00:55:09
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You're going to have a blast.
00:55:10
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I guarantee it.
00:55:12
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It holds up.
00:55:13
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Actually, my wife and I have been watching it every now and then.
00:55:15
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It holds up.
00:55:16
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It's still fucking funny.
00:55:18
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It is fucking hilarious.
00:55:20
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Yeah.
00:55:20
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It's a good show.
00:55:22
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It's a good show.
00:55:23
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Um...
00:55:25
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relatively progressive for its time, even if they did write off.
00:55:28
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Yeah.
00:55:29
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They wrote off the gay character almost immediately.
00:55:31
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Yeah.
00:55:33
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But they tried.
00:55:33
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I think they tried to kind of make up for that over time.
00:55:36
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Yeah.
00:55:37
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Yeah.
00:55:38
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Because, you know, it's Miami in the 1980s.
00:55:40
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Like, what do you come on?
00:55:42
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Yeah.
00:55:42
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What are we doing?
00:55:43
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You know, come on, come on.
00:55:47
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Anyway, that'll do it for tonight's episode.
00:55:50
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Stay away from the sugar-free candies out there if you don't need to eat them because they'll make you poop your pants.
00:55:59
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It'll hurt you.
00:56:00
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It'll hurt you.
00:56:03
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Good night, everybody.
00:56:04
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Good night.