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Introduction to 'That's Our Cue'
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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?
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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.
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What do you guys want to talk about today, folks? OK, so first of all, this is That's Our Cue, which is a podcast where we take cues from the Internet and we send them to school and they go to school for 12 years and they graduate and turn in the wonderful little A's that contribute to society.
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And what that means in the short term, for those of you who don't know, is we take questions from the internet and we answer them as if we're some sort of experts, even though we're not. And so I have actually curated some that Danny sent me and some that I have picked fresh off of the vine today for this episode.
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So there are questions from Quora and from Reddit, and we'll be answering them. And those for the audio podcast listeners that are going to be listening to the edited version. We are recording this live on DAX's Twitch stream.
Meet Dax Mirage, the VTuber
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And DAX, if you want to tell them who you are, even though your people are here,
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That's a good point. Yeah. Because we're recording in two ways, baby. You're right. You're right. Hey, we got that. We got that fancy shit. So I am Dax Mirage. Hello. Hello there. I am a VTuber. I know how cringe. No, we stream on Twitch as well as some other some other spicy websites. You should go check out my link tree. If you're
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If you're in, it'll be in the show notes, folks. Yeah, yeah, here. It's right there. Also, we have got the Mirage Realm discord, a really awesome community of positive, supportive people. I usually stream Tuesdays and Fridays. I also coach Overwatch.
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We play with viewers a lot so that lots of opportunities to join in. We stream a wide variety of games from Overwatch to Siege, Among Us, Rock Band, Overcooked, Subnautica, Cuphead, GoldenEye, Bloodborne.
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adventure games, Sonic, Mega Man, we even did a cooking stream once. So there's always fun things to enjoy here in the Mirage realm. So if you guys ever want to check it out, that's twitch.tv slash Dax Mirage. Again, then twitch.tv slash Dax Mirage. I'm also on like Twitter and YouTube and all those good things. So feel free to follow me everywhere.
00:02:56
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Of course. And all those things, anything that Dak sends me, I'll slap him in the show notes if you want to hear his voice some more and see the kind of fun stuff he's got coming down the pipe. It is a pretty nice voice. Yeah, I agree. You got a voice for radio, man. Thank you. Face for radio too. What? What do you mean? You got like that perfect anime look. Oh, it's true. Thank you. Do you gentlemen want to answer our first
Parking Predicaments and Legal Concerns
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question?
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How about a question answering hat on? Oh, I am so many hats. Like if you got you guys to play Team Fortress 2 with the the majestic stack of top hats. That's on hats. Hell yeah. So and again, if you're in the audience, like like Dax said, maybe audience participation might be a little bit limited, but we will definitely open up the floor. And and hey, this is also going to be an edited version of the podcast on audio. So if you want to go back and listen to it later,
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Uh, we'll have links for where you guys can hear the show afterwards as well. Absolutely. If you have a question you wanted to force text answer, now's your chance. Yeah, yeah, drop them in the chat, maybe. Okay, so this first question is a core question and it is from someone named Amy Dietzel and she, it just says, lives in the United States. So we know that she's American.
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Got to do that, Amy. So Amy's asks the question. She says, my neighbor's guests won't stop parking in my driveway. I've told them countless times to stop. Would it be legal to just chain their cars to my truck and drag them out of my driveway into the street? Oh, boy. Legal? Legal? No. Justified? Maybe. Maybe. Depends. Absolutely.
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I mean, that's a tough one. I mean, I don't know about legal if you're doing it, but I think you could definitely call a company to come and do that for you.
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Yeah, I do know so I actually have a story related to this. It's a very lame story, but it is a story. Thank you. Excellent. Perfect. So y'all know I love LA Comic Con decks. I'm in LA. That's that's a known quantity LA Comic Con, my favorite convention. And I've gone every year for many, many years.
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Now you can park at the convention center, uh, which is like usually like 30 bucks. Uh, or there are some neighborhoods nearby. Um, now I used to, especially when I, when I was brand new to California and had not a, not a dollar to my name, uh, I would park in the neighborhoods because I.
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you know, wanted to spare that money. Also the con is three days. So $30 times three days. That's another 90 bucks. That's like a lot, right? So I was like, okay, I'm just going to, you know, try to, try to, uh, park in some of these neighborhoods and then walk over to the convention. So, um, that worked fine for a few years. And then after like three years, uh, on the third day of like parking in this neighborhood, uh,
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I think they didn't want me there. And so I, you know, parked, went to the convention, came out of the convention to find my car was gone. Holy shit, right? That sucks. Yeah. And I've got like a bunch of bags from the convention. I'm like, holy shit, what do I do? Luckily, there was like a garage right there. So I talked to the guys and they're like, oh, yeah, if your car was here and now it's gone, it's probably stolen. And I'm like, oh, fuck, what? Oh, good. Oh, my God.
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So after doing all this investigation, I got in touch with the police and I found out, hey, it didn't get stolen, sort of.
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It got towed because somebody claimed that it was blocking their driveway. Now, I can tell you, it was not. It was not blocking anyone's driveway. Clearly, all it takes sometimes is for you to say that it is
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And they'll tow it. So they want that money, man. They want that fucking money. And I'll and I'll tell you, it ended up costing me like four hundred and fifty bucks to get the car out of. Yeah, because they like impound it. Oh, my God, it was it was a. That's that fucking. Yeah, that's what I was going to say about like this particular question is like, you know, if you do it yourself, you're probably going to get yourself liable for some shit, even if it's justified. But you call a tow truck company and say, hey, these fools are dropping block on my driveway. Absolutely. They'll come take that money. They want that money.
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Exactly. Here's what you do. If I may, I think I found the perfect solution. What you do is you park behind them. And then suddenly, Oh God, you know, I just got this new work from home job or I'm sick. I got COVID. Oh boy. I don't think I'm gonna be able to move till next week. Oh, brutal, brutal.
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That is yep. I mean, oh, sorry. Go ahead. Go ahead. No, I was gonna say that what somebody in your chat says to light their car on fire. Yeah, that's what it says. Yeah, sin thrown in light the car on fire. That that is one possibility. But I think that opens you up to much more criminal legal.
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Yeah, as well as as well as now you have a flaming car in your way. So that's like even right now you have a flaming car in your driveway. That's pretty metal though. It is pretty hot metal. Yeah, that too. That's you. I have another extremely brief story related to a car being on fire. Was it yours?
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No, thankfully. In the middle of LA once, I was just pulling through a regular ass intersection. And I looked to my right and sitting there like, like it's the first car in line to, you know, at the side was like a sports car just totally on fire. Like, Oh, God.
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Yeah, I have no idea what happened. I have no idea the story. I literally just pulled like, you know, I was just driving through the intersection, but I was like, oh, that is a car that's on fire. I hope somebody's going to get to that.
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Yeah. Yeah. It's just like Tuesday. Yeah. Yeah. There's an L.A. dog red red sports car in flames. Go ahead. Sorry. Why do they call it sports cars? They don't play sports. You ever seen a car dribble of basketball or. Yes, I feel like it league. I mean, I guess that's true, but those are remote control cars. I hear that the the the baseball teams in the cars universe are pretty terrifying. So are they? Oh, that's good to know to run up against a car that's
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chasing me down yeah that's true that's true dude they'll they'll just and and i mean when those the they just look like wheels but when they start swinging a bat i'll tell you they're scary oh that's good to know you know what it's good to it's good to keep track of those things so our our consensus so far is it might be legal i mean let's get back to it should they just
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They're saying, I just want to chain this thing to my car and drive and pull it myself. Like, even if we, they're asking about the legalities of it. Like, is it illegal to drag somebody's car off your property? I don't know if it's illegal, but you could definitely probably get sued or something if you damage your car. Yeah. I think technically speaking, like, okay. And this is like, like, okay, if we're, if we're going to be like super a hundred percent real about it,
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There, there would be, I think, I mean, none of us are, none of us are pros. Uh, but there, there could be like a thin, a very thin margin wherein if you are able to sincerely move the car very carefully without any damage happening into a ditch.
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No, but like, like, okay. Like if you're moving it like a few feet, but if you're, if you're moving it more than like, uh, like if you're moving it enough that it would be hard for the person to find it, then.
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I think that opens you up to a different thing. Like that would be closer to like stealing property. Whereas if you're moving it, like if you can move it 10 feet extraordinarily carefully.
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With zero damage, you might be able to get away with it. But that is a dangerous play, my friend. That is a dangerous play. My father actually did something like that to me. My senior year of high school, they had parking spots for the students, and I had one. So one day, my parents were driving by my high school while I was in school, and my dad got my mom to stop so that he could get in my car.
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and drive it just further down the street. And he parked it there, and then they left. And at the end of the day, I called my parents, and I'm like, guys, the car is gone. I don't know where it went. Oh, no. Oh, my god. My dad's like, look around. I mean, it has to be somewhere. He starts going, you're so dumb. Why do you keep forgetting where he parked?
Who Pays? Social Etiquette Debates
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Oh, my god. I didn't. I swear I parked in here. Damn, damn.
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I was such a troublemaker for him. Hey, I believe it. I believe it. So it sounds like we're saying, you know, it's probably not the best idea to do the thing that you're asking to do there, Amy, but
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I mean, you know what? Yolo, I guess I would just call somebody to do it for you. And if you ask real nice, maybe they'll even let you do the chaining up part. Oh, now that would be cool. Yeah. Maybe sweet talk the the tow truck driver. Maybe they'll let you hook it up.
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And then make sure you record it. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Okay. So I think that question is but definitively answered. Hey, to the best of our ability with the with the caveat that none of us are lawyers and we are just trying our best. But we are not legal advice. Do not take legal advice from us. This is not legal advice. But yes, I understand. Excuse me. I understand your your quandary, Amy. And thank you for the first sharing your question. Yeah.
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All right, next question. So this one is from someone named Dogon Diggity from Reddit. Amazing. Yeah, I love it. And they say, so this one's a little bit more of a straightforward question. But you know, I still think it's one that like is worth a discussion. And those of you in the chat, maybe you have some opinions as well. But this first, the title is called who should pay the bill. And they go on to say,
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My aunt was asked out for brunch by two of her friends to celebrate her birthday. That's horrible. They had brunch and when it comes time to pay, her friends told the waitress to pay separate bills. I think if someone asks you out to celebrate your birthday, it implies you're going to cover your meal. What do you think? So what's our thing here? They're essentially saying they think it's fucked up that their friends asked her out on a birthday date but then made her pay for her own meal. How do we feel about that?
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Okay. So to this, I would say, and I know, I know there's like a lot of, uh, there can be a lot of like, uh, politics wrapped up in people paying for meals. Uh, and like, there's like gender politics and all this other stuff in there. All that being said, uh, from my perspective, if you specifically like invite a friend.
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saying like, Hey, let's go out for your birthday. That to me says, Hey, let me buy you lunch for your birthday or something like that. I could be wrong. And, you know, whatever, like, maybe if people discuss it ahead of time, they're like, Hey, you know, uh,
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Do you want to get lunch together for your birthday? Something like that. That says a little bit more to me that like, oh, we're going to both be getting lunch, but it's not necessarily going to be that I'm paying for you. But if you say, hey, let us take you for lunch, that to me is like, if then you don't want to pay for it, that's kind of lame in my book. That's lame in my book.
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No, I agree 100%. I think you got it exactly. It's all about the wording. If somebody told me, I want to take you out for your birthday, taking me out to lunch means you're paying for it. But if you asked me, hey, do you want to get lunch? Sure, that implies that we're just going together to get our own lunches. Exactly. I think your aunt's friends are kind of jerks, to be honest. That's kind of a dick move, bro.
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Yeah, yeah, that's that's a little bit and yeah, it looks like ghost mage agrees to says yeah, that's just fucked up to do that to a friend and on their birthday. That's another thing. That's screwed up man. Yeah. Yeah, I think like in general even like now I know this is a little bit of a different opinion like but if
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like my roommate and I like I moved in here for like almost a year ago probably eight eight nine months ago and like sometimes like hey man do you want to go get do you want to go get like racing canes down the street or something like that and they're like oh yeah and then like i'll go to pay and they're like oh we're not splitting it and i always say i asked you out right that's like very very gentlemanly of you
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Right so like my brain always thinks like if I asked you to come like not if it's like a group thing like do you all want to go to fucking I don't know Olive Garden then sure you can split the check or wherever you want but like especially on about a birthday I think that's like there's some gray area like between me and my roommate that if I he's like oh do you want to go to blah blah blah but if it's my birthday and you say oh let me take you out for your birthday that straight up tells me you want to pay for my meal you want to pay for my drinks
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Otherwise, you should set that standard from the very beginning. You want to go together versus do you want me to take you out for your birthday? Absolutely. You guys have implications. I've been out of the dating game for a while, and back when I was dating, I know. You're not single. Bummer. Notice me. I'm so sorry. This is off the table.
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I know, I know. Sorry to disappoint the legendary Adam Danny Dax threesome. We'll have to wait. I never said that. Oh, hey, hey. We get all passes, right? Get a whole pass. Exactly. Back when I was dating, you know, it was always kind of the understood thing that the man will pay for the first date.
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I was watching something a couple days ago, and they were talking about dating etiquette. And they were like, Oh, yeah, so nowadays, whoever asks for the date is the one who pays. And I was like, Oh, you know what, that actually that's really good. I like that. Whoever wants to go on the date is the one that pays for it. Yeah, I think that's I think that's sweet. I think that was a pretty, pretty good way to handle that.
00:18:35
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Yeah, you just you have to set that precedent from the very beginning.
Philosophical Musings and VTuber Journey
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Are we splitting it? Are we going? What are they going? Stag? You know, what is it? Stag? When you know what Stag mean? Don't go. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, I don't know if there's a better way to say it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if there's a better way to say it. But yeah, going is a is a thing. But I think that's a I think that's a that's like that's like solo at a party, I think, or a dance. Yeah, I believe so.
00:19:02
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Yeah, something like that. Oh, hey, Jinx, thank you for the gift stuff to fund us to all his network. Appreciate it, guys. Oh, nice. The listeners out there, you know, one of the one of the people's did the subscribe thing on the website. Come check it out. That's true. That's true. Yeah. Dax Mirage. Oh, my gosh. Also, thank you for this handy guarantee. Well, he's three away from getting his goal. So I mean, we got to keep it in there. Oh, thank you. Thank you. So.
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So all right, so we've so we've all decided, you know, I think the the general gist is if somebody asks you out for your birthday, especially the implication is, oh, you're treating them to lunch or treating them to whatever dinner that you asked them to. Yeah, yeah, I feel like that's a generally like generally accepted parlance. I feel like that's that's kind of
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you know, the not necessarily the expectation because, you know, hey, a little bit of philosophy from Dax, the less expectation you can have in your life, the better. Also, fun as dollars. Thank you guys also for the for the for the gift up to sin. That's awesome. I wanted to, you know, I just wanted to have
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Pay it forward. Thank you. That's very sweet of you. And congratulations, Sin. But yeah, a little bit of philosophy from Dax. If the least amount of expectation that you can have in your life, the happier you'll be. Thank you for the 100-bit stinks. That's a philosophy that I try to live with.
00:20:36
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Because if you're expecting a good thing, then you can only be disappointed. But if you are able to appreciate good things without expectation, then every single time it happens, you'll be pleasantly surprised. And it'll have an even bigger effect on you. Oh, my gosh. Oh, yeah. Danny, thank you all. No problem. No problem. That's very sweet of you guys. Thank you. Also, we just hit our sub goal. Thank you. Yeah.
00:21:05
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Uh, but yeah, so, oh, and there's also a hype train starting thanks to all the stuff. So thank you guys so much. Um, but, but yeah, so, so basically what I was trying to say is with the, the, uh, lunch thing, it's like while not expecting it necessarily, cause we don't want to have expectations that, that lowers the quality of our happiness. But I think that like the kind of generally understood, uh, communication of.
00:21:35
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I want to take you out for your birthday is I'm probably going to pay for it. Or I'm going to kill you on your birthday. I'm going to take you out. That too. Or you're going to just absolutely wipe you out. I'm sending you to the farm up the street. We're going to take you out behind the shed for your birthday and give you a really sweet kiss.
00:21:56
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Yeah, for sure. Okay, so yeah, I think we're all on the same page there. So typically at this point in the show, we would
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ask you, Dax, like, you know, on the regular show is when we have a guest, we ask. It's kind of funny because we're a guest and you're a guest. We're kind of multi-guessing here. It's true. It's true. We're all guests. That's fantastic. For those of you who are on the stream, we're also recording this for an audio podcast to be edited after. And for those of you on the audio podcast, we're recording live. So we're guessing on each other's guesty things.
00:22:33
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It's true, dude. It's a party. So many guests. So anyway, so typically at this juncture, we would ask our guests to either educate us on something that they're passionate about or educate us on something that they know was a little fun tidbit. Just a little something that you think would be a fun thing that you're knowledgeable about or excited to share with our audience and maybe your audience if you haven't told them such before.
00:22:59
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Oh, do you got anything for us? Or do you need a minute to think about it? Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Okay. Um, so man, I have like so many things and also nothing. No, um, let me think, let me think. What kinds of topics do you guys usually Oh, we've gone from everything like we've had somebody who wanted to talk about like German war.
00:23:22
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ships. We had somebody tell us about like how falconry began and like different things that falconry. I was a guest I talked about blood types and talked about blood type. Yep. And why they're labeled certain ways and what plus and or minus and positive mean, or negative and positive means whatever you want, whatever comes to your mind that you think it'd be fun to talk about.
00:23:43
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interesting. Yeah, just whatever it's like, Oh, that's a cool thing. I have see that's the thing I have I have so many so we have a redeem on our stream. That is facts with x where somebody can ask like a ask for a fact about anything because I have a huge amount of like random knowledge. I like here you know what? This is this is lame. But can I just tell you about me a little bit?
00:24:10
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Of course, that's why we're here. So here, so this is this is a little bit of like the story of the story of of me. And and a lot of the people on stream already know, yeah, it goes made with facts with the X about a random topic. Yeah, we're doing that right now. So my and yeah, folks on stream probably know most of this stuff. But like, you know, I'll share with with everybody in the and the podcast listeners at home.
00:24:38
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Uh, so, uh, I, uh, was not always a VTuber, obviously. Uh, I did not just come out the womb, uh, with, with motion tracking and anime face. Uh, so, uh, a long, long time ago, exactly. Allegedly. So a long, long time ago, uh, I worked in, uh, high level science. Uh, that's what I was originally doing. Uh, cool.
00:25:06
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Yeah, fun fact, I actually, once upon a time, I worked in a theoretical physics lab. I know, right? But I realized that wasn't necessarily what I wanted to do for my whole life. I did what I was aiming at back then. And what I still think would be an amazing job is doing chemical research on the International Space Station. I still think that'd be fucking awesome. Wow.
00:25:33
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Yeah, that and that's kind of what I was aiming for. But doing that meant that first I would have to do like 30 years of standing next to a machine writing down numbers, which is like, not what I wanted to do forever. So I loaded up my car and drove across the country and hit LA and started working in working in showbiz a little bit and, and it
00:25:58
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worked. It was pretty successful. Again, folks on stream know I've had a little hand in a lot of different things. I have very few degrees of separation between me and, honestly, most celebrities. It's very funny. I've met a lot of people. We've talked about that before.
00:26:22
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Uh, I know Tommy was so, um, but, um, but yeah, and, and it's been, it's been quite an adventure. Um, and, uh,
00:26:35
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You guys also know I've had some medical things that have gotten in the way. That's part of what led me to shift my ... Jesus, the room, exactly. That's what led me to shift my focus. It was just over a year ago, I found out that VTubers existed. I had never heard of them before.
00:27:03
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Yeah, I don't remember exactly what the very first thing, I know one of the first things I saw was Anthony Padilla's interview with a bunch of VTubers who, fun fact, would end up going on to start Vishojo, Iron Mouse, Zentraia,
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Nianners was on that. If you guys have not seen that, or if you're curious about Vtubers, especially the podcast listeners, if you're like, what the hell is a Vtuber? Go watch that video. It's a really good introduction. It'll help you understand kind of what we're about.
00:27:36
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And then after that, I was like, I did a little bit more research and I stumbled across Project Melody, who again, you guys, in fact, if there are any mods in chat, if we can get a shout out for Project Melody, that'd be amazing. But she is...
00:27:55
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a VTuber, she does adult content as well, but she had an amazing interview in Crunchyroll, which you should also go read, that was talking about the way that we are able to affect people's lives, like any public figure is able to, and especially a public figure who is
00:28:16
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live interacting and that you have access to, we have the opportunity to benefit people and to bring joy and, and, you know, lighten the load that a lot of people are facing. And that interview was really, really inspirational to me. And so it was literally only like a couple of months between when I found out VTubers existed in the first place to when I decided like, this is what I'm going to do.
00:28:44
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And I had the opportunity to talk to Melody really quick and I told her about the idea.
00:28:52
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And, uh, she was like super, super supportive. Uh, like it was, it was awesome. And, and I, I even, you know, was talking about maybe the possibility of like working together at some point in the future. And she was like, that would be wonderful. I mean, I was like, I was like, Florida, like this person who was already so big, uh, and had had all these thoughts about, you know, improving the lives of others. Um,
00:29:20
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still had time to support other creators. And I just thought that was so awesome. So I was like, yes, we're going to do this. So I created decks. And here we go. We've been running for almost a year and a half at this point. Very, very exciting. We are almost at 700 followers, which is really, really cool. And there's nowhere to go but up.
00:29:42
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And I've been really, really happy that we've been able to create this community where people can feel accepted and feel free to be themselves and to express their whole self. And that's something that I mentioned.
00:30:05
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So at TwitchCon, I know I'm jumping around a little bit, but I promise I'll get back to it. At TwitchCon this year, in October, I went there and Vishojo had a thing and I was able to chat with Melody and Matara, if you guys are familiar with MataraCon, both from Vishojo, as well as people from Mythic and stuff, very, very cool people. But I was able to talk with Melody and Matara
00:30:32
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about kind of the updates that like, Hey, do you remember me? I was, we talked about this thing and now we've actually done it and it's been more than a year. And she like, she literally started crying because she was so excited. And that video is on YouTube. I hope you guys can check that out as well. It's short, but that was like really touching to me too, that again, not just that this person who has affected so many people,
00:31:00
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has the time for other creators, because a lot of creators like to pretend that they're the only creators on the face of the earth. But like, that ain't us and that ain't her and that ain't this community. And that's something that I'm so, so proud of.
00:31:12
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Yeah, it certainly sounds like that. A lot of the people that listen to our shows and participate in stuff are also creators. Usually, creators are fans of other creators. I was actually having a discussion like that recently with another friend of ours, Adrian, who
00:31:31
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We're just saying like it's sometimes you kind of sometimes people get stuck in that run of like, like you said, some people think they're the only ones there. And they want to imagine that they're bigger than they are that like they're hot shit. That's like, you know, like, I feel like in communities like these, the best way to grow is like together, not just like it's not a race, you know what I mean? Totally agree. Absolutely. There's enough. I mean, people are able to watch more than one creator, right? So yeah,
00:31:57
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There's enough room for everyone. Sometimes I got three YouTube channels running at once, man. Like, I got a phone, I got a computer, I got two screens. Like, they're like, chill out y'all. There's six, eight billion people on the planet. Fucking relax. Exactly.
00:32:13
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Exactly. And speaking of that specifically, one of the best pieces of advice that I got a while ago was, and stay with me here because I'll explain it, but it was, the people who are going to view your stream are currently viewing other people's streams.
00:32:31
Speaker
And the point of that is not, oh my gosh, you gotta still steal viewers. Cause that's not the thing at all. It's the people are out there. And so you might as well get involved with other creators. Like we are all sharing this community together. And so yeah, like you were saying, you're not, you know, it's not a zero sum game. The more we can build up the whole community, the more it leads to success for everyone. A rising tide lifts all ships.
00:33:00
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And that's advice for everybody. That's not just in the creative community. That's life, motherfuckers. We're all creators on the platform that is Earth. I get so annoyed of these
00:33:16
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this us versus them mentality of like, like, I have to find what makes me better than this person or anybody at this and this like social media posts are always just like, I see a lot of those we are not the same things like, Oh, I respond to text message immediately and you respond whenever you feel like it. We are not the same. I'm like, Oh my god, like stop trying to make everything and us versus them like,
00:33:40
Speaker
Yes, you know, if the earth catches on fire, we're all screwed. Okay, so let's just try to make the best of what we got. Okay, you know, exactly. It's like, you know, if the moon decides to fall out of orbit and crash into us, we're fucked. So like, let's just like make this a happy place while we're here. Okay, let's just be cool. Be nice. You know, one of the primary rules in our network is don't be a dick. And it's like the most important rule that we have is don't be a dick.
00:34:05
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Like, it's not that hard. Just be a nice person. Wholeheartedly agree. Wholeheartedly agree. Just be a good person. But yeah, I mean, honestly, thanks for sharing that. You know, because Danny and I are still getting to know you and our audience doesn't know you. Yeah, no problem. No problem. And it's nice to kind of get those glimpses behind the curtain to kind of see like where people's origin stories are and stuff. Yeah, Danny and I share stories of our past all the time. And like, I'm so like, fuck, I didn't know any of that about you.
00:34:34
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Yeah, that's one of the things I love most about this show is just like it opens up opportunities to just tell stories talk about yourself a little bit because You know, I've tried streaming I've tried YouTube and all that stuff and
00:34:49
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very early on, I figured out like I need somebody to talk to, somebody to bounce off of, because I'm not good at just talking about myself out of the blue. I need something to kind of work with. And I mean, this has worked out pretty perfectly. And it's what I love about it is it just opens up so many doors to just talk about ourselves and our experiences and, you know, get to know each other. Yeah, absolutely. Do you guys want to answer a couple more questions? I got a few more.
00:35:18
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Sure thing. Okay. Like this whole thing has been has been like a lot of fun. I we should do this more often. We can do it. We can do it as often as you want. Welcome to guest more than once. I got hundreds of questions already stockpile that I'm getting more every day. So amazing. Amazing. I'm looking forward to it.
00:35:37
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All right. So this next one, um, oh, hmm. I got a couple of goodies here. You know what? Let's go jump to this one. Cause I think it's good audience participation. Danny, you actually sent me this one.
Brownies, Paperclips, and Unexpected Tales
00:35:48
Speaker
Um, this one is from someone called blackberry Lulu. Um, what a name, which, what a name that flows off the tongue. So nice. Very Lulu. Oh, that's so nice. I vote for them for a president to elect 2024. All right. So.
00:36:06
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The question is very straightforward. It says center of brownie, edge of brownie or side of brownie, which one you eating the hardest side side of brownie side of brownie. So you're talking like, yeah, now when you say side of brownie, because this was confusing to me, we're talking about like, if we're looking at a square sheet, yeah, so like the middle pieces on the edge. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So so basically, like a puzzle, you got your corners, you got your side pieces, and you got your center. And
00:36:37
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For me, for me. And granted, my opinions can be a little whack. I light my marshmallows on fire. Nice, nice. Hell yeah. But corner, a little bit too intense.
00:36:52
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they can dry out. I have seen some people will bake brownies in a circular dish, which I think is the best of both worlds. You get maximum surface area because fun fact, circles have like the most efficient surface area or boundary area for their size without having the corners. So you get maximum side pieces.
00:37:18
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But, uh, but yeah, corners, a little bit too intense, maybe dried out a little bit, but the, uh, the side pieces, you get that, that a little bit, a little, little bit, not necessarily crunchy, but like a little bit more, uh, uh, texture to it, a little bit more substance while still having that, that soft squish underneath. Like that's, that's, that's, that's goals, man. That's goals. So everything you just said,
00:37:44
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I agree with and you're a side man to 100%. Adam, I'm so interested in why you're weird. Because wait, wait, Adam, what was your preference? Edge, of course, like, okay, the corners, the corner pieces. Oh, the corner. It's too much. It's too much side. Gotcha. No, no, no. It makes me feel like I'm holding a little brown slice of pizza. And I love it.
00:38:13
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Well, and like Jinx in chat is voting for center for the ooey gooeyness, you know, understandable. But I like that getting both getting a little bit of both. See, I would put center before I would do the edge. I would I would go for the side and then center if there's no more sides. I would agree personally. Yeah.
00:38:34
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Well, and you know, it's really funny. I've seen, have you guys seen this? I might even be able to pull it up on stream if I'm really industrious, but, well, I won't worry about it right now, but there are even, I've seen this brownie pans that are like, they almost look like Tetris pieces. They're like, they're like a zigzag of like squares in order to get the maximum edge pieces. Have you seen this? This is real. No, but that sounds rad. Hold on. It's all the size.
00:39:01
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Yeah, I mean, I would love find it. I got to be honest with you. If if if I could eat a brownie shaped like like the tea, the Tetris piece, the little tea one that you get or just like a brown. I guess I could make a brownie piece. It looks like the large stick. You know, they all have names. But if I could eat Tetris piece brownies, I would that would be my favorite for sure. Fair. Oh, my God. I guess one of those round ones that was talking about needed actually like a pizza.
00:39:29
Speaker
Holy nuts. That was the awesome like a pizza and have a pizza shaped brownie. Oh, yeah. See, but that's what I'm saying though is like, that's why the corners are so good. Like I like them all a brownies a brownie. I'll fuck up any brownie you give me but like like these things like look at this. Do you see this? This thing? Yeah, so
00:39:49
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Yeah, audience are kind of there. They're kind of got like little snakey looking like my, my, my stupid face highways in there. Let me, let me, let me move it around one sec. So yeah, that just looks like a little S shaped highway, like a W shaped highway curved into the pants. You have the most edges as opposed to just like one big open square for the audience listening at home. Yeah. Um, but Jinx has a good point too, though. Like the center, that's where all the gooeyness is like. Mm hmm.
00:40:19
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I don't know. That's too much edge, man. Guys, there's goo. There's goo in the corner pieces too. It's there. Exactly. Or for those corner enjoyers, you got this kind of thing with the individual. Maybe they had to make individual squares.
00:40:39
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Yeah, those are nice. Those are nice. Yeah, I mean, honestly, at the end of the day, it's a brownie. I don't. I'm not going to be pissed like if there's like, oh, there's just a centerpiece left or a side piece. I'm like, oh, fuck, there's a brownie, brownie. Somebody didn't eat that yet. Shit, dibs. So so you guys are both side edge boys that I am a quarter edge boy. Hey, you know, I don't like that.
00:41:07
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We accept all all edge boys. Yes. All brownie lovers are welcome. True. True. Yeah, I think no nuts. Then. Yeah, no, no, I agree. Don't put nuts in my brownies and nuts in my cookies. I have very strong feelings about this. Yeah, I don't eat it in any of my food. That's in my fucking ice cream either. It ruins the whole thing. Note to self. Do not nut in Adam's food. What? Yeah, don't not in my food tax.
00:41:34
Speaker
Yeah, I'll try my best. I'll try my only in my hand when I want when I want not I will ask for not and I want it in my hand not in anything else. Oh, I hope you do Adam. I hope you just not in my hand not in my not in my hand not in my mouth. Oh, that makes sense. Or am I right? Yeah, since it says who's gonna stop me? Hey, we're gonna cry.
00:41:58
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Oh, okay. You're doing so well. You know what? It's okay. It's a nice episode. I know. Now we're cursing. Now suddenly we're nutting all over each other. Yes. Isn't that the best kind of episode, honestly? Yeah. The Nutting Professor. True, dude. All right. So I have... You guys want to answer another question? Since we got so passionate about brownies? Hey, hell yeah. Lay it on us. All right. So this one, I don't...
00:42:26
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I don't know how to pronounce any of this fucking name, but I'm going to I'm going to try my best. It's posted by a Stuag Ferala. That's what I'm going to say. That says I trust your, your, your, yeah. A, S, P, U, G, H, S, Y, R, A, L, A. Yeah, I think that's a dance like the Harlem Shake, a Stuag Ferala. Sounds like it. No, it's a dragon shout from Skyrim. Yes. Watch me, Stuag. Now watch me, Stuag.
00:42:56
Speaker
Watch me StuG. That's great. That might be the episode title. Let me see if I can get my tracking actually. Watch me StuG. Watch me StuG. Anyway. Watch me Baralla. Hell yeah. Baralla asks.
00:43:11
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What do I do with paper clips? And they go on to elaborate. So I was gifted these pretty paper clips with flowers on them, but I don't really know what to do with them. What do people do with paper clips? I need ideas so they don't just feel like a waste because they honestly don't really need them. I know it sounds dumb, but I'm genuinely asking.
00:43:30
Speaker
So this person, you know, and just kind of a little bit about that's our cue. As silly as some questions might be, sometimes people ask these questions in genuine, you know, sincerity. So what do we help these people do with their paperclips that they got flowers on them? What do they do with them? Oh, sorry, go ahead. No, you chain them all up, touch them all to each other, make a chain, hang it from like your ceiling, let it drape down a little bit with all the flowers on them.
00:43:59
Speaker
I think it looks snazzy. I love that. Yeah, I was gonna say there's lots of like artistic things you could do. Like, even I could see like, this would be like a very Pinterest kind of thing to do. But like, oh, yeah, I could see if somebody has like a like a board already, like a like a like a pinback board that they put pictures or like some people put concert tickets, shit like that up there. You could just like throw on those little those little paperclips just as like a
00:44:28
Speaker
an aesthetic adornment. Hey, that would work too. Yeah, you know, you know what, I would like to jinx says to make a chain mail jacket. Now that could be cool if you have enough. That could be super fucking cool. Well, you know what, if they have like a flower on them, you could just, you know, pin it to your shirt, like just put it on the top of your shirt. You have a nice little flower there now. Also, assuming
00:44:54
Speaker
This is somebody more feminine who wants to dress in a more feminine way. Nice little flower to accentuate the outfit. Absolutely. I would like to I have been known to rock a flower on my on my on my ear every once in a while too. We could do something with that. Who knows?
00:45:11
Speaker
Oh, apparently you can fix broken wind chimes with paperclips. That's cool. Interesting. You know that I get that though, because it's kind of like a light chain because you want them to be able to blow in the wind. That makes sense. So I would like to piggyback off of Danny's first answer, which was to make them into a chain. And then you take that chain and you connect it to your truck. And then you pull people's cars out of your driveway.
00:45:34
Speaker
Yeah, because they're parked in your fucking driveway and you keep telling them not to exactly use extra thick paper clubs. Oh, I love those. They're my favorite. I don't even those little piss ant ones don't do shit. You need the thick ones or the big ones is the only ones worth buying in this world. It's true. Anything else is bullshit. You don't you know, you don't need them.
00:45:53
Speaker
If you ain't thick, you know, I kind of don't want none unless you got thick paper clips. Hell yeah. True, dude. True. There was a Oh my God. You guys mentioned Jackbox the other day. I was playing Jackbox with some friends once like a long time ago. And, uh, uh,
00:46:19
Speaker
do you know the jack box game where you have to like patent something and give like a really stupid yeah yeah okay so a friend of ours he's a he was actually our DM for D&D he is a male person male presenting person always has been but brother has
00:46:43
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hips brother has brother has an ass Beyonce would kill for okay that's what I'm saying and like we know this and it's it's very funny because he's this like he's this like unassuming white guy he's even got gray hair not that he's old he just it happened like really early for him but he's just got this this voluptuous ass okay and so
00:47:08
Speaker
Somebody at the party, they were talking, their patently stupid invention was a way to make his ass even thicker. And it was literally just a sharpie that you could add, you could use to add C's onto the end of the word thick.
00:47:29
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That was the only way you could make it thicker I love that that's that's incredible. I love that game. It's so fun Yeah, it's good it is Adrian and I bonded heavily over that over that game
00:47:45
Speaker
Is Adrian a friend of yours, partner? Yeah, so Adrian is not to get too into it, but Adrian goes by Smosis on the internet. And he and I met during the pandemic, like the rate that started like mid like early 2020. And like, he's I pretty much adopted him as my German brother from another mother. So she's just, yeah, he's just been with me through thick and thin. He does actually live in Germany.
00:48:11
Speaker
He does live in Germany. Yeah, he's a German boy. And his birthday is the day after mine. And he's 10 years and one day younger than me. That's really. And so yeah, I think it was my little brother. Nice, nice. Oh, by the way, I looked up some some paperclip.
00:48:28
Speaker
projects and some people are using them to fix their zippers. So that's nice. Yeah, some people make tiny hangers with them, which I think is pretty cool. I don't if you want to hang your Barbie dolls clothes, I guess. Oh, I could see that especially if you're making like, dude, have you guys seen like for real? Have you guys seen those like,
00:48:49
Speaker
They're almost more like, like miniature. Like, how do you say okay, so like, you know how in in Hollywood, special effects dudes, they'll, like, you'll make miniatures of a thing in order to shoot a shot that
00:49:05
Speaker
Like frequently, not as much anymore, but like a lot of times if you see like a crazy shot of like things exploding. Yeah, yeah. Independence Day did that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And so like, but then like, what's funny is those dudes like, for instance, like a good friend of mine's dad who used to be in special effects. Like those guys when they go home, they
00:49:32
Speaker
like as a hobby, they'll also sometimes like make really crazy detailed miniatures and stuff. And so like people will make like super detailed like houses with with all this different stuff. My neighbor does that too. And she was she's never even been in special effects.
00:49:49
Speaker
And so like, I can see for those people, especially with those like, you know, flowery pattern ones, that like, that could be a really, really good way to make like, artistic, decorative, not just, you know, raw metal hangers for your like, super detailed, like dioramas and stuff that
00:50:07
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Oh, yeah, that's real. There's tons of things you can do with those bad boys. Fuck. Use them as a bookmark, dude. You know, you get a little flower and bookmark to shove them on your page. In all honesty, I have a parakeet. I'd probably just hang a bunch in his cage and let him go to town on them. Yeah, I mean, paper clips, paper clips are like.
00:50:27
Speaker
Paper clips, rubber bands, duct tape, those are all things that you typically want to have around because for some reason, you never know when you're going to need to MacGyver some shit together. And those are the essentials for if you need to rig something until a professional can fix something. You want to have those. Exactly. And it's inexpensive. Absolutely, absolutely. And also, not to get too salacious here or anything, but life advice and facts with Dax,
00:50:58
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If you have a paperclip with you, it can get you out of a lot of sticky situations, like if you get locked in a room accidentally, or maybe if you get locked in some other way that you don't want to be locked.
00:51:14
Speaker
I've been locked in the room, not accidentally. That's true. Having a paperclip can actually really help. So that's very true. Yeah, if you've got some extra space in a pocket, you might want to just just and you can use it as decoration. Just, you know, have a have a little have a little pretty paperclip on your pocket.
00:51:33
Speaker
Might even be better because if you wear it as a decoration, people won't think of it as a place like they won't check your pockets if they want to remove that shit. It's true. So yeah, you never you never know. I used to use like paperclips when I was a kid, like if we didn't have needles, like I don't know why, but I was so prone to getting like slivers and splinters and stuff in my hands. And like what they used to do is like they would like heat like a needle over the oven and then like shove it in your finger and like fry it out.
00:51:57
Speaker
But if we didn't have those and I just need to do it my damn self because like my family was weird where like if I got hurt, they were pissed that I got hurt. Oh, hey. Yeah. Like, are you okay? It's like, ah, fuck you're hurt again. You know, so like, so like, I just like get my own little paperclip and just like put it over the fucking over the stove and just like pry that shit out my damn side. Oh, God.
00:52:21
Speaker
Exactly. I will say I purchased last year I purchased this thing that looks a little medieval but you can get them for cheap. It is technically called an acne needle. I don't have like bad acne or anything but like it's useful for a lot of different things but it's like
00:52:41
Speaker
a thick, strong needle that narrows down to an extremely fine point. And that is useful for a lot of different things. So I totally feel you on that. I totally feel you. Oh, yeah. So I was in Boy Scouts all through, you know, my childhood. So I got a loving appreciation for pocket knives. And now I mean, I have one in almost every room all the time, because
00:53:08
Speaker
You just never know when you're going to need like a little piece of, you know, a thread hanging from my shirt. There's a knife with an arms reach. I could just cut it splinter. You could get it out like they're just.
00:53:20
Speaker
A sharp object is so helpful to have around, just be careful with it. Yeah, yeah. I used to almost never leave my house without, I've got like a utility knife, not like a box cutter, but like a utility knife, like a flip out utility knife, as well as a multi-tool. I used to just always, those would always go in my back pockets whenever I left the house, just because you just never know. Yeah, yeah.
00:53:46
Speaker
I used to do the same thing but then like one time I went to a hockey game and I had to throw away my knife because I wasn't allowed in with it. I forgot I had it and they were like motherfucker you can't bring that in here. I was like shit I'm just so used to having it I forgot. I had the same thing. I had my car keys I used to hang from a carabiner on like a belt loop. I had this one really nice carabiner with an actual like pocket knife in it.
00:54:11
Speaker
And same thing, I went to go see something and they were like, yeah, no, either leave or throw that out.
00:54:18
Speaker
Okay, so I have two pro tips for that situation. Because- Put in knife. Yes, exactly. No, because the best cap secret, and I don't say this to spook anybody, but I say this so that everyone is aware and so that you can handle yourself appropriately. Security is quite frequently an illusion. So watch out for yourself. But also like,
00:54:46
Speaker
if you're in that situation where you don't want to like lose this thing that you own.
00:54:53
Speaker
there's frequently ways to, uh, preserve it either, uh, in a way that's undetectable or much, uh, you know, easily or much, much more easily. Um, if you were, so for instance, with the hockey game you were talking about, uh, if you were to, and I get in that situation, there might've been like big lines and things, but if you, for instance, like, uh, walked back out, found like a planter, uh, and then,
00:55:21
Speaker
like went to the corner of the planter and just tucked it in right there. And then went to your hockey game and then left the hockey game 99% chance it's still going to be there. That's fair. So then you can pick it back up and go. Yeah, I tried that one time. Ordinarily, I didn't think of a planter. I just threw it in a bush, but I think someone saw me throw it in the bush.
00:55:45
Speaker
I was like, it's green, that bush is green. I'll just throw it in there and I'll find it later. Because the security guy was like watching me. He was like, you little pissant. Oh, boy. Yeah, it's a good idea, though. Yeah, I mean, just prerequisites. Like, I think I would think to do that before I get in line. I'm like, oh, fuck, I got it. And if I had remembered, I would have just taken that off. Yeah. And I went to go visit my brother in jail. I kept forgetting that I had fucking a knife in my pocket. Each time they're like, bro, why do you keep bringing that in here? Like,
00:56:12
Speaker
I'm like, I'm putting it through the metal detector and they're like, we have to keep it until you come back. I was like, I don't care as long as I know. Yeah. As long as you're going to have it back, it's like, yeah, it's fine. I'm not trying to fucking break this, this situation here.
00:56:26
Speaker
If I wanted to do that, I'd bake it into a cake. I don't really feel like joining him. Exactly. Oh, Danny, I just thought of something. Hi. We didn't do your word of the day. It's not over yet. I know. Let's do your word of the day. I have one more question. Let's let's fit in your. So we have a segment where we have Danny teach us a new word from like whatever the word of the day is on the Internet. I love that.
00:56:48
Speaker
So yeah, we've learned passion for language. So I strongly appreciate this. Oh, good. So far we've learned what? Chromulant, Mount weasel. I know I got the list here. We've learned. And yeah.
00:56:59
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Mount Weasel, Cromulant, Nye, and Susseris. Okay. Susseris, yes. Sussers. Here, here, here's the little test. I'm going to fail most of it, but just, okay. So Nye... Are you going to tell us what you think it means? Yeah. Nye means almost or like very nearly. Yes. Uh, uh, Cromulant, I have heard of. Cromulant, if I remember, it's like, it's either like begrudging or, or, uh, like, um,
00:57:28
Speaker
Uh, what do you call it? Uh, like disgruntled, but is that, am I, Hey, what was Cromulant? Cromulant means it's acceptable. So yeah, like telling your stories was a very Cromulant thing to do. More adequate is how I remember it. Oh, that's very adequate. That's a very, it's, it's good enough. It's adequate. It's acceptable.
00:57:49
Speaker
Okay, okay, okay. So I yeah, I think where I where I was, it was like, yeah, that it's like, it's not it's not good. But it's good enough. It's kind of like that. So yeah, yeah, that makes sense. And then what are the other two? Weasel. Weasel. Sussar us and now there's
00:58:06
Speaker
okay mount weasel no fucking clue what's mount weasel so this one threw us through a loop and adam i think to this day doesn't believe it's a real word i still think it's a troll i think it's a troll is a fake word in the dictionary so that if somebody like another company were to copy their dictionary they'd know that's smart that's smart
00:58:29
Speaker
because I'm pretty sure Mount Weasel is also something that gets you arrested in six states. I'm five. One of the laws just passed. I'm safe. No. Exactly. You can't even Mount Weasel. And then Sussaruss. Sounds a lot like Sisyphus, but I don't think it's the same. What is Sussaruss? That one I'm actually going to have to open. I'll give you a hint. I'll give you a hint.
00:58:59
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Like if you say the word in like a sexy, say it, say it like a sexy snake and it'll give you like an idea of like maybe kind of what here's my, here's my, my sexy snake impression. Ready? Ready? Okay. Here we go. Here we go. It's not going to be good, but it's going to be something. Okay. Ready? Ready here. Let me get close to my mic.
00:59:23
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okay now now channel that what do you think the definition means based off of that let's see uh uh all my all all my Slytherins in there uh turned on yeah yeah um let's see based on that i have to say it is uh
00:59:40
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It is a a sex shop for Among Us characters. So it does. So so it is like it is like a whispering or like a rustling. So you would say like. The the river was making like a Susseris or the wind created a Susseris through the trees. I could see that. Yeah, it's like it's a soft murmur whispering sound or rustling sound.
01:00:08
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Yeah, it's a it's a noun in its base form. Yeah, that's like a mystic the other day was talking about words that like are their own thing or they play on their own thing. So like the word for phobia of long words is a really long word. Yeah, it's like hippopotam disco disco, phobia or some craziness. So I get it. I get it.
01:00:33
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All right. Danny hit us with the newest one. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. What is it? Hang on. I have to hit the little icon first. My ears are prepared. Lay it on. Somnolent. Oh, somnolent. Sorry, somnolent. Somnolent. Okay. Can you spell it? Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah, sure. S-O-M-N-O-L-E-N-T. Okay. Is it something that puts you to sleep?
01:01:03
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That is very close. Oh, I'm so close. Okay. Oh, that's Yeah, that's good. It is an adjective. Is it something that means a sad thing that makes you sleepy? Close, but you know, crying yourself asleep. It's just an adjective for sleepy or drowsy. Okay, okay. I would see. Okay. I'm telling you precision of language. I Hey, good for you. Yeah. I love being able to break words down like that. Yeah. Somnolent.
01:01:32
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Yep. Somnolent. So it's another word that means sleepy. It's true. I'm pretty good at spelling too. I would have put the U instead of the second O, but I'm pretty good at spelling and math.
01:01:46
Speaker
Well, you're just the opposite of me. Although D&D helped a lot with my math skills. It makes sense. He can only do math if it's like in D6s. Yes. Absolutely funny. I actually work in finance and D&D has made my life so much easier. It makes sense. We've got a redeem that is Dex the calculator that where I can
01:02:13
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Here, in fact, Adam or Danny, give me give me a two digit number times another two digit number. Give them one, I'll give them another. Yeah, yeah, each of you come with a two digit number.
01:02:28
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94. Okay. 63. Okay, really, really easy. Ready? No hands all mental math 94 times 63, right? Okay, that is 100 times 63 minus six times 63. That is 6300 minus 63 times six, which would be 126 times three.
01:02:51
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which would be 360 plus 18, 378, so 6,000, you said 63, right? 63. Yeah, so 6,300.
01:03:06
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Uh, minus, uh, the number that I just said, which was, uh, 378, right? Um, so that would be, uh, 6,000 minus 78, which is 5,922. Am I right?
01:03:24
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yeah fuck yeah i don't know that math i don't know all that math was making me very somnolent i did it on the calculator before just to be safe i was right right yeah you were no bullshit there was holy shit it's true dude i got i got it all up here i got it all up here
01:03:43
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I'd like to say I've got it all up there, but it falls out as I walk and I catch it in my pockets or on the ground and pick it up later. But hey, that's why we get the opportunity to download all of this wonderful knowledge to you fine folks out there who are listening and watching. So thank you.
01:04:00
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So somnolent. We got that ASMR voice to it. Oh, yeah, you got it. Got it. Good. I've got one more question for us. And then I have a quote of the day that usually typically at the end of the show, like right when we're about to sign off in the normal recording, as I'll read a quote of the day, and then the theme song will hit, but it'll be a little different. We can do some more chatting after the show's over. But I got one more question that we can all answer together before we wrap up. Y'all ready? Sounds like
01:04:30
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All right. This one is from the brilliant Panda number 11 on Reddit. And they ask, or they just say, imagine being invisible for a day, but limited to one specific location. Where would you decide to go? Oh, you drive for me, too. When you said it to me, I thought I was led to use it. So yeah, you can be invisible for a day, but only in one location. Where do you go?
01:05:01
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Okay, so the low-hanging fruit joke answered that somebody is gonna say is the locker room, but that's fucking lame. Where I would actually choose to be is probably like the White House, like the Oval Office, you know what I mean? That would be- I was actually thinking the same thing, yeah. Yeah, or like the G6 Summit, you know, like shit like that or, you know, something
01:05:31
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I don't know. I feel like here, actually I have, I have a question. Is this a, is it a one-time deal or is it a, like you get to do this once a month? We'll say whenever you're there, when you, there's just one day and invisible. Interesting. But not until you're there. So if you want to do it in the white house, you have to get into the white house first. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Interesting.
01:06:01
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Yeah, that's a tough one. Yeah. So like, I'm trying to think like, what would benefit invisibility? Yeah, somebody in your chat said women's bathroom right away. Yeah, so like, what would benefit the invisibility? Like, why would, like, honestly, like, unless there are certain
01:06:25
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I don't know, like I'd say area 51, but somebody's probably gonna. Oh, that's a good one. That's a, you know, yeah. Or maybe I would, uh, like the oval office is a good answer. Um, also ghost mage said the earth, which is a location, which is on the gas. Well, that is funny, but I have another, I have another thought how.
01:06:54
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Cause if you're invisible, are you also able to like, it might be a stretch, but are you also able to like change your size or cognitions? Cause if you were like invisible and your location was the earth, like, dog, you just became omnipotent. Like, you know what I mean? Like you, you,
01:07:20
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I have to say no, you just become invisible. Okay. Here's one thing I don't think you guys are thinking about. Yeah, go for it. Because of the way the human eyes work, if you were to turn invisible, you would be blind. That is true. So maybe if I were invisible, I would be blind. Yes, because he can no longer go into your eyes, it just passes through them.
01:07:46
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Oh, it technically relies on like bouncing around. That's why like, super duper technically unless I mean, you know, people if people are superstitious or have supernatural beliefs, like that's one thing. But as far as like the laws of physics, that's why like, it would be impossible for one person to see something that another person cannot see. Because, like, it requires the displacement of light that then would not be in another location.
01:08:16
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But again, like ghosts giant question mark, but like, as far as the actual like laws of physics, how would that physically work?
01:08:25
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Uh, yeah, if, if, if it's not good to be invisible, that is just all sound. A sensory tank. But then you'd even know. Yeah, you can just go there without being invisible. It was actually a TV show where somebody was able to turn invisible, but only if nobody was looking. I don't remember what show it was.
01:08:47
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I love that idea though. If a person is invisible and nobody looks, are they invisible? Yeah, you know what, I'm gonna say that the light thing is a game changer, the blind thing because now I just can't have fun with this because my brain is like, well, if I'm gonna be blind, then like,
01:09:08
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Like then in my bed and people just won't think to wake me up because I'm sleeping. I guess that's true. I guess that's true. No. Yeah. I mean, like, yeah. Cause it, it would have to be somewhere where the most relevant part is either audio or existence without disturbance. So like, yeah, I think concerts or G.
01:09:34
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or cool. Uh, an orgy concert, an orgy concert and all the instruments are skin flutes. Oh my God. Oh my God. Yes, exactly. Uh, uh, yeah, I think for me, it would probably be like something like either like the G six summit or, oh my gosh. Yeah. United nations or something like that. But I'm just, I'm a, I'm a big,
01:10:01
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No, that would work you can still hear what's happening, right? So yeah, exactly exactly Is everything in my pocket like on my clothes invisible? Is it like I had to be naked kind of thing? You know that that is that is always looked over. Yeah, it's like if you're invisible Your clothes probably aren't unless I'm gonna say you have to be naked because it's funnier that way I mean have you guys ever seen leave extraordinary gentlemen?
01:10:26
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Yes. Oh my god, I have not but I remember seeing ads for it and I was like that looks like an interesting movie. Like the invisible like because a lot of it is like has characters that like have been written about another stories and they're all together. And the Invisible Man from the Invisible Man movies and writings is in there. And he has to take everything off every time he wants like, if he's invisible all the time, he doesn't turn invisible. He just is. So like,
01:10:51
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he has to take everything off so that way he can just go wherever like he's in the Arctic at one point. And like people forget that he's not wearing clothes. And he's like, guys, I just came in from the fucking minus 20 degrees. Can I get some pants? Yeah. Great movie got Tom Sawyer in it. Captain
01:11:10
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Yeah, because it's like heroes of literature. So yeah, like, yeah, I'm Sawyer Dorian gray. I remember his grays in there. Yeah. One of my favorite quotes ever that I say sometimes is in that movie. Nice. Because you know, there's like the quote where like, you know, I got a bullet with your name on it. Okay. Play on that. Because the sharpshooter is making fun of like the American newbie has a machine gun. And he's like, well, you know,
01:11:40
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I got a bullet with your name on it. I'm going to keep shooting until I figure out which one it is. I love that line. Amazing. That's great. High noon and then you just hold the machine.
01:11:59
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There was an April Fool's patch for Overwatch last year. I'm very looking forward to this one. They did a bunch of wacky stuff, but if you guys are familiar at all with Overwatch, there's a character, Cole Cassidy, who is kind of a Western sharpshooter, revolver kind of guy, actually voiced by Matt Mercer of Critical Role fame.
01:12:27
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His, you know, everybody's got their ultimate lines. And his is usually it's high noon as he like charges up and then he precisely shoots everybody. And for the April Fool's patch, they changed a lot of the ultimate voice lines. And so his he would say like a random time. So it'd be like, it's 432. It's 10 in the morning. That's pretty good.
01:12:56
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It's five o'clock somewhere. Exactly. Amazing, amazing. You just see Cole Cassidy at Margaritaville. Nice, nice. Oh, yeah. I always find it so funny how like,
01:13:13
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the simple question. It's why I love doing shit like this. These simple questions can diverge into so many different like avenues depending on the people's experience who are hearing the question. Absolutely. And I always think it's so fun. Like I never would have thought like
01:13:30
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like our talk about paperclips would have gone for 20 minutes or that like we would have had such a discussion about brownies or like that we would really think long and hard and I would learn a scientific fact about blindness and invisibility through a conversation about where you're going to spend your invisibility talent for a day. We did was answer a few questions. It's been an hour and a half like
01:13:50
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I know. I love it. It is so delightful to me that we are able to have conversations like that and it's not hard. Because the thing is, I shouldn't say not everybody, but I know that some people struggle to converse for a long period of time and keep finding things to talk about.
01:14:09
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Um, even in a group, I know some folks struggle with it. So it's kind of, it's great that these things can kind of be like the, um, the arbiters to continue conversation. And we all seem so excited to talk about shit that like, it's pretty easy to do. Hell yeah. I mean, we've had times on, on our stream where, uh, we've kind of finished up playing a game, especially during the subathon. Cause I was going for, you know, like 12, 15 hours every day, which was crazy. I remember it was, I was worried for your health at one point there.
01:14:36
Speaker
It was pretty insane. I thought it was it might last a weekend and it ended up lasting for a month. So holy shit But and I appreciate all of the sport obviously, but yeah, it was it was a little intense but But yeah after
01:14:54
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There have been times after stream where we'll just end up like, yeah, talking for like two or three hours, just about random shit or like, and so we've joked about like, Hey, you know, we should have to have like a DAX podcast. And so like, I was so, so glad, uh, to hear you guys, uh, uh, like invite me because I was like, Oh my God.
01:15:15
Speaker
this would be amazing. And it has been amazing. I've had so much fun. And I really do. I look forward to doing this again. I mean, I would love to, you know, to chat with you guys some more and you know, all this stuff like, absolutely.
01:15:33
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Yeah, and it sounds like the folks at home have had a great time. We've had a lot of good input, different thoughts. I mean, even like, yeah, Ghost Mage was talking about right here. Would snow reveal where you were if you were invisible? Like, can you prevent steps? You know, like, there's, and as Adam was talking about, too, like,
01:15:52
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getting the different perspectives from everybody. I think that's such an interesting thing. And calling back to what I was talking about earlier, it's such a valuable opportunity that we have in an interactive medium, being able to connect with people and create that sort of community and
01:16:14
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That's why I'm so proud that we've been able to do that and that it's been so successful in creating this positive supportive community that we have and your listener community who I'm sure gets a huge kick out of all the questions in our conversations. The fact that we have that opportunity is amazing and I'm so glad that we're here doing
Engagement and Future Invitations
01:16:39
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it. Yeah, for sure. We're so glad to have you on as a guest.
01:16:43
Speaker
Amazing. This was a fantastic episode. Streaming was a great idea. When you brought that up, I remember I was like, I guess, I don't watch streams all that often. So I'm like, will people really watch us just sit and talk? Well, I guess if they listen to us. We've had 10 or more viewers for the whole thing. Yeah. I knocked it out of the park.
01:17:10
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Yeah. Before we wrap up for the quote of the day and round things out, again, for the listeners at home, Dax Merage has been with us or Dax from Dax Merage on Twitch. It's D-A-X-M-I-R-A-G-E. I will put all the stuff, the links that he sends me in the show notes if you want to continue to check that out and support his endeavors with his community. Thank you very much.
01:17:36
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And of course, if you want to send some questions into our show that you want us to answer or from your own brain, or if you have questions from the internet that you found that you think that we should have some input on, please go to funinstallersnetwork.com. Go to the contacts page over there and you can send us a note, either a voicemail or a written note and say, hey, I want you guys to answer this question and we will answer it on future episodes of TOQ.
01:18:04
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Um, and of course you can see all of our other network partners on there. We have reviewed video games on there. Uh, we have a store page on there. Everything you could possibly need is on there and we're adding more people every day. So, um, and is that fun installers network.com slash contacts.
01:18:22
Speaker
I believe it is slash contacts, but it's the it's right on the front page And if you just go to fun and sellers network comm and you go to the more section. There's a contact us It's fun and sellers network comm slash contact us. I don't know from a lot of the post links in your chat
01:18:37
Speaker
I put the the website for sure. But yeah, that should that should let you Yeah, but yeah, I mean, yeah, certainly you can send us a message and we will we would love to answer your questions on future episodes. And of course, Dax, you are more than welcome to come back and guest anytime that you like my friend. Oh, yeah, absolutely.
01:18:57
Speaker
For sure. For sure. And we'll be hanging for a little bit on the stream. But for those of you in the audience at home, we are going to round out this episode. So, Dax, is there anything else for our audio listeners that you would like to say before we do our quote of the day? Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Hold on. Hold on. OK, ready? Go do it.
01:19:20
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P is stored in the balls. That's what you get for now. Facts with that, baby. Love it. Love it. No, it's not. It's not. Don't worry. Danny, would you like to add more to that or to your own thoughts before we quote ourselves out of the audio version? I don't think I can top that. However,
01:19:45
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Because D&D came up, I forgot I am contractually obligated. I am also a member of the Role Players Guild, so if you want to watch people play some D&D, you want to listen to me make a bunch of silly voices and do some acting stuff and roleplay and whatnot, you can find us on YouTube.com at roleplayersguild or on Twitter at the rpguild1. That's Role Players Guild, R-O-L-L, Players Guild.
01:20:13
Speaker
Oh yeah. That's how he met each other. Cause our, my original podcast is role players. And I've met them through Twitter, which is role players guild. And I was like, Oh, Hey. And then the kind of lore was that like, they, they built like a fort in my backyard as the role players. Amazing. And we started talking and Adam made a super Mario frustration joke. And I was the only one that got it. And from there, it was a brown man.
01:20:36
Speaker
Yes. And that's how we met. Yeah. So, yeah, we do D and D stuff. We do fucking. Well, they do D and D on role players guild on role players. We do like Savage World's Monster of the Week. A lot of just a variety of games called a Cthulhu. And we're also looking for guests on that. So if you ever want to come and play some T.T. RPGs, I do. Players go there on role players. Come and say hi. I'm sure we can figure something out. Hell yeah.
01:21:02
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But all right, for the audio listeners at home, it's time for you guys to sign off. Thank you all so much for being here as always. Please, before we wrap up with the quote of the day, the world is tough out there. It's so easy to be angry. It's so easy to let out the mean stuff when you want to say it. But if you're looking at your social media, if you're looking at a text, if you're looking at an email, you have a chance to delete it or just write it out and then erase it without ever having to press send. So get all the bad stuff out, but never send it.
01:21:29
Speaker
because the world's shitty enough already, man. And I bet you you won't even be as pissed off about that thing you're mad about if you give yourself a minute to breathe. So, you know, just, you know, just just they say misery loves company, but love loves it way fucking more. It's true. So, you know, just try to keep that going. And with that, I will give us our quote of the day. It is by the one and only Mark Twain. And the quote goes as follows.
01:21:55
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
01:22:05
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Hey everybody, before you click away, I just want to say once again, thank you so much for listening. Danny and I have been having a blast. I'm so glad that we get to get back and do this. And thank you again to Dax for coming on the show. Please go check out his dreams if you want a really kind human being and a great little community to follow if you're into Twitch dreams. I think you'd really enjoy it. And finally,
01:22:29
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I don't ask this enough on TOQ, but please, um, you know, we have a Ko-fi, it's through the Fund of Stellars Network, uh, ko-fi.com slash Fund of Stellars. I've put it in the show notes. If you like this show, if you like role players, if you like anything associated with the network, we'd love to have your support. Any little, uh, I'm out throughout the month would be great. Um, but whether you do or whether you don't, just the fact that you listen through and you ask your questions, it really means a lot to us. So thank you again. You're wonderful. Take care of your mind. Take care of your heart.
01:22:58
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And please, for the love of everything sacred on this planet, take care of each other and we'll see you in the next episode.
01:23:50
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All right.