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Speaker 1: This is an Unspoiled Network podcast. This is spoil Me

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl chapters twenty seven through thirty one.

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In these chapters, our friends finally get to go on

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the show and get interviewed. It was so much fun,

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you guys. I am very much a donut in temperaments.

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 1: I really get it, girl, I.

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Speaker 2: Do so much.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to spoil Me. Welcome to the show everyone. I

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am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning

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this episode. Michael's here in the chat, and Michael has

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already finished booking the second book in the series, guys,

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so everybody rejoice because it is ready to go. I

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don't know how much of a gap there is between

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finishing that one and starting the next one, but it's

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soon because the book second book will wrap in July,

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so everybody keep your ears to the ground for that.

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So thank you very much, Michael. I really am excited

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to get to dive into the second one pretty soon.

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This section is very funny to me because I didn't

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think it was going to happen so soon, if I'm

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being honest. The whole thing with like the I had

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put out there like, potentially, what is it that we've

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got like going on with these interviews, what would the

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vibe be? YadA, YadA. I didn't think we would get

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here so quickly. I kind of expected that there might

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be some clips of them shown first, and then maybe

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in the next one we would start to get and

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by next one, I mean next floor, even though they

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do make it into the next floor in this section,

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that's not really what they're being interviewed about, right, So

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I just I didn't expect all of this to happen

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so close to the start of the crawl for them,

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which I have to admit, and this is part of

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me confessing to being a Donut. I didn't think through

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the implications of how so all I could All I

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could think was if you get onto the show, that

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it's just a good thing for you as long as

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you handle the camera well. But what winds up happening

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is that it seems Donut get so wrapped up in

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her performance that as far as Karl is concerned, she

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starts to sort of lose sight of what's really important

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or at least what her fans so they're called, want

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to see from her. And I just thought that that

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was a really good point that he says something later

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about how the reason that they like you is because

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you behave like this, and if you start to change that,

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then they aren't going to feel the same way about you,

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which that I definitely do see and that I could

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put together for myself. But the thing that hadn't kind

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of crossed my mind was how much more of a

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target that would potentially make them, how much information people

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might have about them now, And just like some of

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the downsides of this, it seemed to me a full

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on unmitigated victory to be interviewed, and it made me

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feel a little foolish once he starts pointing out all

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of the downsides to this, that I hadn't really considered

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any of that because I forget about how there are

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other people who are going to get to watch these

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Like what I kept thinking about was sort of in

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reality shows where you are doing that talking head to

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the camera thing. It's a whole different vibe, right because

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what you say to the camera, your other players don't

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get to see. Later on when it airs, then they

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get to see it, but it's way past the time

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that anything can be done about it. So I had

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forgotten about the fact that all of this is going

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to be aired so that everybody can see all of

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it as it's happening, and that puts you in the

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position of wanting to please the audience but also not

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wanting to do too much or say too much that

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could potentially like like, let others know what you've got

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up your sleeve in terms of weapons and stuff. They're

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going to be taking film review fighting, so you kind

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of can't avoid that to a degree depending on what

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clips they show. And there's just a lot of implications

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to doing it this way with everybody being part of

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the viewing process that I hadn't considered, And I won't

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say exactly that it takes some of the fun out

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of it, because it doesn't precisely. What I mean more

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is that it adds another layer of complexity that could

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be really dangerous. And I'm glad at least that he

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has the presence of mind to see it and point

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it out to Donut, and that she seems to listen

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to him. It seems like she really does kind of

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get it, and he has to break through her excited

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did see his point. So I'm getting ahead of myself here,

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but let's start off with twenty seven. We have just

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finished killing all of these tusklings, and Agatha is really

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pissed because Carl had popped her shopping cart into his inventory,

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but he takes it out and gives it back to her.

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He winds up getting like an asshole ward or asshole

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box and achievement because he took something from another crawler,

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but he did give it back. I love that she

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goes through it and it's just sort of like, did

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you take anything? Is it still the same? And Agatha,

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it turns out she doesn't actually have an inventory yet

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because she hasn't even gone through the onboarding process, so

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there's no way for her to put stuff away. But

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nevertheless she is at level two and then he sees

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her level go up again because her just being here

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when the fight happened, despite the fact that she didn't

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really participate at all, didn't if that wound up getting

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her experience points just by proximity. Something that comes up

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later that I find pretty fascinating is that your girl

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isn't on the show, and we don't really know why not.

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She gets edited out and I am sort of wondering

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if they don't like for people to realize that you

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can just sort of passively be around and still be

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leveling up. I really like, could it be that she

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is a plant somehow?

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Speaker 3: Is is she?

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Speaker 1: Like? The whole assumption that everybody has been sort of

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making so far is that Agatha is mentally unwell. She

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is unhoused, and a lot of times people who are

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unhoused have got mental illness that they don't have the

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resource is to cope with. So I'm sort of wondering

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if Agatha isn't somebody like that's different than just the

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regular Old Earth humans, And maybe that's part of this.

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I don't know. There's something weird though, about the fact

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that they don't want her scene by the audience that

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I can't understand. So let's see.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: What did surprise me was that Agatha was level two,

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not one. She'd hit level four thanks to the boss

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Yolanda had jumped from five to level six. I didn't

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even want to think about how all that experience was distributed.

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It seemed there were a dozen different calculators running all

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at once. To figure it out, we need to find

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whatever the boss dropped I said, the Dominatrix lady had it.

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It's I already got mine, and the AI is telling

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them they're the entire but explore there's one. There's no

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reason to be frightened, not when the trusty field guide

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has added monster tizes to this area of the map.

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Now when you gaze upon the unknown, that fear is

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somewhat lessened. Instead of delving into the strange, mysterious dark

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being devoured by an unseen horror, you will now know

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exactly what it is as it chews upon your tasty innerds.

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And now when he zooms out the map, he can

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see a whole lot more mob level two through five

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Axe Beak. At this point, an old man comes in

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named Randall, and it's just like, hey guys, it looks

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real bad in here. Is everything okay? And the proposal

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later on that I think Brandon comes up with is

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to send them down the next staircase as soon as possible,

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and so they will be in stasis because it won't

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matter for them if they are in stasis, because they're

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not able to fight anyway. So the lack of advantage there,

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all of that is no like they're not going to

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be leveling up. They're not going to be fighting. The

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people who are watching the show aren't going to very

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likely be wanting to sponsor them, and so a whole

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aspect of how the game works isn't going to like

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matter for them. Just keeping them alive will matter. And

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I am really really curious how long the game is

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going to let them get away with this, because the

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point is supposed to be quote survival of the fittest,

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even though we all know that's not even true either,

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if she hasn't gone through the introductory process of do

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you know what I'm saying? I don't know. I just

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I keep feeling like the fact that they are trying

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to keep these old people alive, I think they're doing

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the right thing, but I am starting to wonder if

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it's going to reach a point where the game just

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decides I'm not letting you do this anymore because it's

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not part of the entertainment factor for people, and so

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it will put them in a position where they all

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have to die and or take the decision away from them.

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I feel like it would have to be put them

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in the position where they have to die, though, because

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it's not as interesting to just kill them. You have

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to make them do something that results in them needing

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to make this decision, right, something very dramatic and upsetting.

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could possibly work it long term. And again, just because

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it won't work up until the very end does not

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mean that it isn't worth doing. I still think it's

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worth doing because, as Carl says later, what's the point

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of living if I can't live with myself one hundred percent?

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So I support this, but I am just trying to

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see how it could work out later and the ways

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in which maybe their agency will get further stripped away

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because these people don't make good television, or alternatively, it

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might be that they make great television that trying to

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keep the old people alive turns out to be part

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of what makes this crew so compelling to people. You know,

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tastes of the viewers, and we're sort of going along

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with the viewers on average, seeming to be sort of

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the same as like regular American Earth viewers in terms

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of what they want to see in a reality show. Right,

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protectors of this group of elderly might work for them

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and might actually make it so that the game wants

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to keep the old people alive for the community aspect

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of this party, I hope. So it's just like, there

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are so many moving parts and there are so many

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determinations that could be made. Ah, I'm so curious. Okay,

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there is a strap on dildo that IMMANI is just

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like ew and drops it and Donut immediately grabs it

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and looks at Carl and is like, you said, everything right,

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and let's see. He goes over and asks Donut, what

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do you want to do? And she says what do

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you mean? And he's like, well, should we stay with

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them or do our own thing? And she says, oh, sweetie,

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come on now, let's not lie. You know what you

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want to do already, and he's just like, yeah, okay,

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I suggest we do what we've been doing. It doesn't

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have to be one or the other. We set up

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a place for them to remain safe. Then you and

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I go and do our own thing. We can keep

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our party and set up a group chat with the others.

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I know how to do it now. When we find

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the next set of stairs, we go get them and

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bring them with us. I grinned down at the cat.

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I knew there was a good kiddy in there somewhere,

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she bristled. If it were up to me, I'd leave

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them all. But I know you're a softy. Besides, if

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we get them down to the third level, we'll need

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someone with thumbs. If you're going to turn into a cat.

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I'm not turning myself into a cat. I couldn't even

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if I want to anyway. Mordecai said so, and he

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asks who Ferdinand is here? And she just like, no idea,

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what you mean? Where's Agatha and immediately changes the subject,

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and eventually there's He notices that there is a ramp

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Speaker 2: Down the stairs, so to speak.

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Speaker 1: So he goes over to Brandon and he tells him, like,

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we're gonna go make sure things are clear, then you

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can bring them through. We'll go down and try to

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find the closest safe room. Our guy said, they're just

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as easy to find on the second floor as the first.

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Once we do, what a safe path to it? Thank you,

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I mean that I shook it. Then then he went

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to his knee and scratched donut, you two, princess, donut

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of course, sweetheart. At the bottom of the stairs turned

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ramp was a door almost identical to the one we'd

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use to enter the dungeon. I stared at the giant

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carving of the fish man. Go fuck yourself, I thought,

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as I put my hand against the door. I pushed,

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but instead of the gate opening like last time, there

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was a flash of light and a moment of disorienting nausea,

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followed by a quick feeling of falling. And then suddenly

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Donat and I were standing in a plush room, staring

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at a strange round door. All of my status bars

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had disappeared. I turned in a circle, bewildered. There was

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a couch that appeared to be made of blue crushed velvet.

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I stood upon a thick, soft carpet, also blue. There

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was a strange sense of motion to the room, and

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I immediately knew we were on a boat. I could

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tell right away from experience that this vessel was large,

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but not huge, maybe one hundred feet. At the far

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end of the room was a bar with an honest

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to goodness fruit basket sitting on it. Sitting next to

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the basket was a stemmed bowl filled with what seemed

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to be catfood. Instinctively, I made a fist and my

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gauntlet appeared, only partially relieved, I summoned, I unsummoned my weapon.

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What the fuck is this? I asked, But the second

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the words came out of my mouth, I knew exactly

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what this was. So they are going to be interviewed

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Dungeon Crawler after hours with Odette, and we get some

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really fun info about how exactly this works. You're standing

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in a production trailer located on the surface of your planet.

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You're still technically in the game, even though you can't

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use your menus like safe rooms. Production trailers have their

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own rules too many to discuss. I really am here

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with you, however, my engineer and I are the only

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other people here. When you walk through that door, you're

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going to walk onto a studio set. From what I understand,

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the setup should be very familiar to your culture. This studio,

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including Odette and the entire audience, is not really there.

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The couch is there, but everything else is virtual. They're

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filming from a location very far away. I'm supposed to

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tell you it is similar to the hollow deck from

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your television series Star Trek. However, you won't be able

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to touch anything. Any other guests, even fellow crawlers, will

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also be hollow. At least for this interview. You are

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the only crawlers in this particular production trailer. I will

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tell you when it's time. You will walk onto set.

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You will wave, and you will proceed directly to the

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couch next to the desk desk, your majesty sitting closest

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to Odette. Do not approach the audience, or you will

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run into a wall that you can't see. The room

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is not as big as it appears. Questions, make up,

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donut ask not. For this interview, the audience will have

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just watched highlights reel of your time in the dungeon,

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followed by the entirety of that last boss fight. It

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will appear as if you walked straight from the fight.

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Speaker 2: To the stage. Got it?

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Speaker 1: So we address her as Odette correct live or taped taped,

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though it will be tunneled in just a few short hours.

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What's the tone of the show. Is it more editorial

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or more fluff? What works better with your audience? Do

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you want us to be serious and more technical? Or

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should I just let Carl be Karl. Donut was asking

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these questions as if she'd been doing this her whole life.

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A smile tugged at the corner of Lexi's mouth. This

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is a private production about the Crawl. It won't be censored.

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The more entertaining you are, the better it will play.

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Got it, Donut said, Hold up a second, what do

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you mean by private production? The main program, Dungeon Crawler

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World Earth is owned by the Syndicate government, and this

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season it is produced by the Borrent Corporation. This is

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not the first time that somebody has done this, and

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then this happens again later. I think Syndicate rules allow

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for private production companies to produce their own programs as

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long as they pay for the production themselves and pay

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an advertising stipend. This show will tunnel immediately after the

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main program. It is produced by the Titan Conglomerate, with

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production assistants by over a dozen participating independent systems. It

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is the largest most tunneled private program in existence. The

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host Odette is the most beloved interviewer and program host

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in the history of the galaxy, So try to make

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a good impression. This is so interesting. I am so like.

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First of all, the fact that they keep on the

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thing with the borrent corporation is really weird. We find

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out later that there's a whole thing with them maybe

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being bought out, going into bankruptcy. So I don't know

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if she was about to call them by the name

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of a different company. But the fact that it's like

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that she catches herself the way she does, I don't

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know if that's for their benefit. I don't know if

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it's for the benefit of like maybe people watching them

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in that room. I don't know what that's about. And

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I love the fact that Doughnut has all of these

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extremely good questions before going out there. I wouldn't think

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to ask any of these. I would be absolutely ready

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to assess as I'm interviewed what the tone is and

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the vibe, and I would adjust fully in that moment.

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But asking a head I wouldn't even consider. And it's

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such a smart move, especially like the do you want

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us to be more technical? Because like, but the way

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the game is played, I could see that being appealing

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to some people, but I would assume it would have

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the tone that it winds up having. That's pretty much

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how I would go. And the whole like the fact

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that it winds up being hosted by somebody who had

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previously themselves been a crawler also never entered my mind.

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So I found that to be a really weird and

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fun idea that I can't There are still some questions

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for me around that, because was this part of a deal,

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like that is going to run out at some point

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or what? But anyway, he tells donut be careful, and

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she's like, of what and he says, they're not our friends.

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You have to remember that she won't eat the cat

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food because it's going to get all over her face,

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but she will have a treat, which we later find

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out it's essentially the same as throwing bag of shot.

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Like she it's something to just make her a little

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bit more lively on camera. And she says to Carl,

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out there with all the punching and the grunting and

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the disgusting exploding goblins, that is your world. This is mine.

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I know this might be difficult for you to understand,

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but I've been doing this my entire life. Every cat

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show I've ever done is an interview. I was bred

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for this. Let me do my thing. You didn't talk before,

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I said, and having to judge stick her finger up

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your ass is not the same thing as being interviewed

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for a television show. And she's like, first of all,

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nobody's ever done that, and second of all, you see

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how you're acting right now. That's why I'm saying that

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I'm going to do the talking, because you clearly aren't

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ready for this shit. I as much as she like,

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he's right that she didn't have to talk. Her charisma

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is twenty five. It was actually now she's been buffed,

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so it's like thirty. Let her do the talking. Bro,

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just shut up Twitter, What is the problem. So we

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go out there, the audience is going absolutely nuts, and

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he has a little trouble here with dealing with all

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of the weird creatures that he is seeing, and of

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course when he meets Odette it is extremely confusing. We

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end up finding out that all of these things are

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like parts of her armor that she had gathered when

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she was a crawler, and so she just wears them

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for the show because they're part of her brand now,

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but initially he is just like, what the fuck is she?

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Let's see, I'm trying to find. The lower body of

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the woman was entirely crab, black and red, with a

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lumpy shell and multiple kiteness legs. The shape and makeup

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of the shell was that of a king crab, but

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the size of a brown bear. Her body seemed to

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completely separate from the rest of her form. The legs

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crowded one another, unable to tuck themselves under the desk.

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The legs seemed to twitch of their own accord, malevolent,

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ready to strike. Her triangular bug heead was black with

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mirrored compound eyes the size of footballs. Twin antenna sprouted

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from her head with a span over at least six

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feet as wide as the crab body. But the oddest

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part of this woman was her torso. Her naked, ebony

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body from her stomach to her neck was that of

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a plus sized human model who had bribed a third

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world plastic surgeon into enhancing her breasts well beyond anything

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that could ever be considered natural or sexy or anything

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other than what the fuck. The colossal breasts sat atop

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the table like a pair of pigs. Suckling against their mother,

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her nipples faced downward, her areolas absurdly oversized. Even on

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the massive breasts, each the size of a Direct TV

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satellite dish, there was no conceivable way, even as big

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as she was, that her body could sustain those ginormous

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breasts without her back breaking like a twig. Jesus, no wonder,

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this show is so damn popular. I really loved that.

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Speaker 2: That was his takeaway.

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Speaker 1: As somebody who is plus size and has really big tits,

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I often wish that I could just pick them up

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and just PLoP them on my desk. Sometimes I have,

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but it's not super comfortable. So this is the correct

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way to deal with them. But like I said, as

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we find out, they are not hers anyway, so it's fine.

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So Odette welcomes them. Donah, the pleasures all ours. I

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just wanted to meet you. What a great looking audience.

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I'd much rather be here than there is. Everybody doing great?

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Are you enjoying the show? I love it? Donah is

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playing this crowd. This is the attitude to have. I

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we find out that the girl with the Rottweilers does

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not know how to play a crowd at all, and

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sometimes weirdly that can work for you, even though you

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wouldn't think so. But I could definitely see how some

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people would be like, she's not here to fucking like

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play around on camera. She's here to fucking win this thing.

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I am putting my bets on her. I can see that,

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But I also understand this. So Odette explains that we've

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been watching you, uh from the beginning. You might not

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be getting any love on the official program, but you

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two are quite the sensation. So the fact that they've

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been being watched from the start despite not being on

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the actual thing. I didn't know that was a thing

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that was happening, and I don't feel like that's been mentioned,

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And I think that's sort of important that people should

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have been able to know that. It bothers me that

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they're not informed on this, you know. So she asks

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if Donut is Earth Royalty, and she says, why, Yes,

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I am Earth has a ruling class the humans. It's

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all about the thumbs. But amongst cats, which is what

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I am. We have what's called an elective monarchy, but

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it's really just a beauty contest. My full name is

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gcbwr and W Princess Donut the Queen Anne Chunk, I

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wouldn't think of boring you guys with all my titles.

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GC stands for Grand Champion, and you've won the beauty contest.

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Donut flipped her tail, and I swear to God the

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cat fucking winked. She looked right into the middle of

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the crowd and asked, her voice seductive, what do you think?

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The crowd roared. I am living for it. I am

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living for it. This is exactly it. Thank you, Donut.

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I mean, what would you do without her, Carl, What

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would you do without her? I don't even want to know.

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Don't hurt the cat author That's all I'm saying. So, Carl,

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before you came on, I promised my audience I get

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you to say it.

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Speaker 2: Say what you know.

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Speaker 1: Your catchphrase. I have no idea what you're talking about.

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He doesn't know what I'm talking about. I'll tell you what.

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I'll give you a hint now what I thought it

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was going to be, and I will tell you the truth.

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Damn it, Donut. And I was so close. I was

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so close. It's god, damn it Donut. I was so close.

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I like the alliteration of damn it Donut a little

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bit more, a little bit more, just a note for you, Carl,

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maybe going forward to alliterate and maybe that might help.

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But I love this this, especially again with the narrator

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and the way his voice is like a little different

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from the narration, so it definitely sounds like you're taking

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a clip from something else. It's just so well done.

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The scenes kept changing over and over, each time, ending

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with me saying the same thing. I'd said it at

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least fifteen times, I sighed inwardly, doing my best not

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to let my dismay show.

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Speaker 2: God, damn it, donut, I said.

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Speaker 1: Boisterous cheers followed. Why was he dismayed? Is it just

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being that predictable? Maybe? Is that all it is? I

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will tell you the truth, Carl, this is a dream

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just speaking. You know, as somebody who knows building a

476
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brand is hard. You did it by accident and it's

477
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:02,279
a distinctive one. And the fact that he fights it later,

478
00:32:03,839 --> 00:32:07,799
I get it, and I do think probably it will

479
00:32:07,799 --> 00:32:11,359
help your brand that you're fighting it. But I also

480
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:16,519
don't don't stop though, you know, like you're so you're

481
00:32:16,559 --> 00:32:20,599
the curmudgeon, right, She's the sunshiny one and you're the curmudgeon.

482
00:32:22,599 --> 00:32:26,599
Fight it, but go with it. Also, do you get

483
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,519
what I'm saying. You've got to find that balance here,

484
00:32:28,559 --> 00:32:35,640
That's all I'm saying. And I the whole like just again,

485
00:32:35,799 --> 00:32:38,640
the fact that they were filming all of that. We

486
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:41,440
were told like, none of this is being seen by anybody,

487
00:32:42,279 --> 00:32:48,319
and I really just took that at face value and

488
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:51,759
was like, Okay, we're just getting things set up. Then

489
00:32:51,799 --> 00:32:54,480
we find out that they've got like all of these moments,

490
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,160
and honestly, as much as like I should be angry

491
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,359
that we're being forced into a game for our lives,

492
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,519
I know, I was just more like, well, fucking tell

493
00:33:05,599 --> 00:33:08,559
us this though, guys, because that's important to know. I

494
00:33:08,599 --> 00:33:11,319
would definitely be playing it differently on the first level

495
00:33:11,359 --> 00:33:14,960
if I didn't know, then if I did, and I

496
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,119
don't know that would change the outcome of like the

497
00:33:17,119 --> 00:33:22,160
fights and stuff, but potentially, who knows. I just think

498
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,160
that I would be irritated to find out that this

499
00:33:25,359 --> 00:33:28,720
was all being filmed and seen after being explicitly told

500
00:33:28,759 --> 00:33:37,119
it wasn't. So we have all of the uh the

501
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:42,599
like little moments with the fights and Odette asking Donut,

502
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:44,680
like why didn't you fight him? You're a lot stronger

503
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:49,759
than him. They look at her stats. If he was

504
00:33:49,799 --> 00:33:51,799
in real trouble, I would have certainly helped, like I

505
00:33:51,799 --> 00:33:53,079
did with that Juicy boss.

506
00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:54,079
Speaker 2: We faced what was his name?

507
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 3: Juicy juiced the juice.

508
00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,839
Speaker 1: Now that was a fight, wasn't it. And later on,

509
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,880
like nice touch with pretending that you forgot his name,

510
00:34:05,839 --> 00:34:08,000
they showed Donna asking if there was a reward for

511
00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:10,639
worst dressed, and it showed me standing there looking pitiful

512
00:34:10,679 --> 00:34:14,440
in my kneepads. The words worst dressed appeared floating over me.

513
00:34:14,599 --> 00:34:20,119
I pretended to laugh. Ah, this is so tough, because

514
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:28,159
you guys, I am here with all of you on

515
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:32,320
a stage, so to speak, giving you my reactions. I

516
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:36,920
am clearly a performer. That's what I do. It's how

517
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:40,559
I am all the time. It's so much a part

518
00:34:40,559 --> 00:34:44,719
of me that I have had a therapist ask me,

519
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:48,159
who are you when nobody is looking? And I literally

520
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,320
glitched out and just sat and stared into space for

521
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,880
a moment because I didn't know how to answer that,

522
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,679
because it feels like there's always somebody looking, even if

523
00:34:57,719 --> 00:34:59,760
they're not. It just feels like that to me all

524
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,239
the time. I feel observed. It's a very like Truman

525
00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,679
Show kind of feeling sometimes and I just live like

526
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:12,760
that all the time and it doesn't bother me really.

527
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,960
It's like just the way I am. But you know,

528
00:35:16,199 --> 00:35:20,840
like there was a time where I was I can't

529
00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:25,280
remember who who it wound up being, but they came

530
00:35:25,360 --> 00:35:27,360
up on me and I was with Pippen and I

531
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,480
was playing with him and talking to him, and they

532
00:35:29,559 --> 00:35:32,960
like assumed that I had known they were there because

533
00:35:33,079 --> 00:35:37,559
I was talking and joking with Pippen, like I knew

534
00:35:37,639 --> 00:35:39,639
they were watching, and I was trying to be funny

535
00:35:39,639 --> 00:35:42,880
for them. I didn't know they were there. I just

536
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,960
do that what I do on camera. This is how

537
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,480
I am all the time, just just an FYI like,

538
00:35:50,559 --> 00:35:53,639
it's not I'm not like I turn it more on

539
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,480
for the camera, of course, but it's this isn't an

540
00:35:57,639 --> 00:36:02,880
act really, So it's really difficult for me to understand

541
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:08,800
sometimes when people aren't like this and don't enjoy that

542
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,719
kind of like people know you and know what you

543
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:14,920
like and who you are and things you've been through.

544
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,679
Like I am an oversharer because I want you guys

545
00:36:17,679 --> 00:36:20,039
to have the context of other things that have happened

546
00:36:20,039 --> 00:36:23,119
in my life to inform why I react the way

547
00:36:23,159 --> 00:36:26,039
I do to certain things. So I just tell you,

548
00:36:26,079 --> 00:36:28,559
guys whatever, Like there's very little that I hide. I

549
00:36:28,559 --> 00:36:35,840
don't feel like I had anything. And the way that

550
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:40,960
he is here, like having to force a laugh, feeling

551
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:45,199
dismayed about all of this. This reaction that he is

552
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:50,400
having is a lot more logical, honestly, than my reaction

553
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:54,639
would be than donuts reaction is he is responding to

554
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:56,719
having been put in a life or to a situation

555
00:36:57,119 --> 00:37:00,960
by fucking aliens who killed ninety percent of the planet's population.

556
00:37:02,079 --> 00:37:08,559
And he he hates this. He hates this, and that

557
00:37:08,599 --> 00:37:15,400
makes fucking sense. That just does. And yet I'm over

558
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:19,440
here like, ugh, Carl, what's your problem? Turn it on, buddy?

559
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:20,199
What are you doing?

560
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:20,559
Speaker 3: Like?

561
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 1: I am one thousand percent over here, like Donut, Like,

562
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:25,880
can you stop being so surly?

563
00:37:26,599 --> 00:37:26,760
Speaker 3: Oh?

564
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: What is your fucking damage?

565
00:37:29,079 --> 00:37:29,360
Speaker 3: Dude?

566
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:33,679
Speaker 1: His damage might be that there's only like two million

567
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:37,159
human beings left and that he has been forced to

568
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:40,559
kill probably other humans who were like genetically altered, or

569
00:37:40,559 --> 00:37:43,159
something might be related to that.

570
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:43,679
Speaker 2: Natasha.

571
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:48,119
Speaker 1: Perhaps I don't know, just a guess, but like, I

572
00:37:48,159 --> 00:37:52,320
am literally irritated with him in this scene because I

573
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:54,519
am so much like donut, and I am like, she

574
00:37:54,719 --> 00:37:57,000
is fucking killing it and you are doing nothing. You

575
00:37:57,039 --> 00:38:00,559
are bringing nothing, you are giving nothing, you know, And

576
00:38:00,599 --> 00:38:02,320
I have to sort of turn it and be like,

577
00:38:03,159 --> 00:38:05,960
that's his role. That's what it's gonna be. It's gonna

578
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,960
be the duo where one of them is giving hard

579
00:38:09,039 --> 00:38:10,960
and the other one is resisting it every step of

580
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:15,039
the way. But I just hate knowing how miserable he

581
00:38:15,159 --> 00:38:18,199
is because if it's a duo that's doing that on purpose,

582
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,199
where we're having a sort of like pen and teller thing,

583
00:38:21,519 --> 00:38:24,159
that's one thing, but that's not on purpose. That's just

584
00:38:24,199 --> 00:38:27,760
who he is because he is miserable, and he has

585
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,599
every right to be miserable. He really like, you know.

586
00:38:31,599 --> 00:38:36,400
But it makes me sad because he is right about

587
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:41,519
the dangers of this a thousand percent. It's just it

588
00:38:41,559 --> 00:38:45,639
could be it could be something. He is getting such

589
00:38:45,639 --> 00:38:49,400
an opportunity here, and I want him to figure out

590
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:55,760
how to play it, you know. So anyway, Oh my god,

591
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:57,840
there are so many comments. I'm sorry, guys, I didn't

592
00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,920
even see this. Let me scroll up a little bit.

593
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,800
Oh my god, Michael says, really, television executives don't know either.

594
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,559
That's why they throw so much shit at the wall

595
00:39:06,559 --> 00:39:09,320
hoping something sticks. I think in response to me talking

596
00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,000
about the old people and what they're gonna do. I

597
00:39:12,079 --> 00:39:14,960
love how media savvy Dona is that Kat watched way

598
00:39:15,039 --> 00:39:17,920
too much TV. That's a good point. I was just

599
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:21,880
thinking about her beauty pageant circuit. But her being like

600
00:39:22,119 --> 00:39:24,199
in front of the TV all the time is another thing.

601
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,360
That's a really good point. You called the budget issues

602
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:31,719
so early on. I was impressed. I feel like, doesn't

603
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,519
somebody hint that though? Does that mean I don't feel

604
00:39:34,519 --> 00:39:38,320
like I just pulled that out? Did I? I don't know. Oh,

605
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:41,119
Rob says same, So if you both were impressed, then

606
00:39:41,119 --> 00:39:43,199
maybe maybe I just pulled it out.

607
00:39:43,199 --> 00:39:43,559
Speaker 2: I don't know.

608
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,239
Speaker 1: I thought of the drug more like ADHD medication. It

609
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,320
focused Dona. Oh, that is so interesting. If they could

610
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:56,000
do that for me real quick. Once again, when I

611
00:39:56,039 --> 00:39:58,960
first read the series, they say your catchphrase, Carl hit

612
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,719
me so hard because it recontextualizes everything that came before,

613
00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,840
where it's just trying to survive, and suddenly everything you've

614
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:07,920
done is being critiqued and enjoyed, like it's not your

615
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:09,960
life on the line. This is rot By the way, guys, sorry,

616
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:12,239
and everything thereafter has to be done with the whole

617
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,800
I can't do anything without being spectated, and it becomes

618
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:16,840
a meme. And if that isn't just a load to

619
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:18,760
bear on top of oh yeah, the monsters are trying

620
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,159
to kill you. And then the third layer of I

621
00:40:21,199 --> 00:40:23,800
am doing the same thing to Carl and this is

622
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:29,480
tiny little fourth wall break two parasocial relationships are weird. Yeah,

623
00:40:29,559 --> 00:40:34,480
I am. This is I mean, this is exactly the

624
00:40:34,519 --> 00:40:37,960
thing that The Hunger Games is doing as well. And

625
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,559
it's like, obviously, like I've said before, it's set up

626
00:40:41,639 --> 00:40:44,719
very differently. But Catnus is like Carl, where she just

627
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:46,559
doesn't want anything to do with this. She thinks it's

628
00:40:46,599 --> 00:40:49,320
really sick. It almost feels like with Donut that she

629
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:53,880
doesn't even really understand the genuine consequences of things yet,

630
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:57,039
you know, because like she keeps talking about her owner

631
00:40:57,119 --> 00:41:02,760
like she's still alive, Beatrice. And so I think that's

632
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,119
part of why Donna isn't as irritating as she could

633
00:41:06,119 --> 00:41:09,000
be too, is because it feels like she's childlike in

634
00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:14,320
a way where she doesn't totally get it, and the

635
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:18,000
fact that everybody would be spectating like and that's part

636
00:41:18,039 --> 00:41:21,800
of me wanting to know if you were being observed

637
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:28,239
in the first place. Like I feel like in some

638
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:32,320
ways I do function better when I am being observed,

639
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:36,079
So knowing that I feel like with that help. But yeah,

640
00:41:36,119 --> 00:41:43,079
the whole like recontextualizes everything that came before. Maybe that's

641
00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:46,199
part of why the author did it. Maybe he knew

642
00:41:47,079 --> 00:41:49,960
we would feel different if we found out that it

643
00:41:50,079 --> 00:41:52,840
was being filmed after all, and it would change the

644
00:41:53,039 --> 00:41:55,559
you know, like I could see that as a storytelling

645
00:41:55,559 --> 00:42:01,239
device because it does. So what's next for you to do?

646
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:05,320
You intend on staying with Team metal Lark. I don't

647
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,960
remember where metal Lark? Is that the name of the

648
00:42:09,119 --> 00:42:13,960
old Folks Home. That's the plan for now, Donut said,

649
00:42:14,039 --> 00:42:15,719
it depends on what we find on the next floor.

650
00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:17,639
But I want to tell you something, Odette, She stood

651
00:42:17,639 --> 00:42:20,760
on the chair facing the audience. I promise all of you,

652
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:22,960
you guys are going to want to follow me in Carl,

653
00:42:23,159 --> 00:42:25,280
You're going to want to favored us because whatever it

654
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,559
is we face, we're not just going to kill them.

655
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,199
We are going to kill them big. We are going

656
00:42:30,199 --> 00:42:34,440
to kill them with style. Thirty seconds later, the audience

657
00:42:34,599 --> 00:42:39,079
was still screaming. Odette had to shout over her own crowd,

658
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,719
we are out of time, but thank you so much

659
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:47,639
Carl and her Royal majesty Princess Donut. Good luck to

660
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:52,159
you too, I'll see you all next time. And Donut

661
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:58,639
is literally mesmerized by the adoration of the crowd and

662
00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:02,079
has not come back down to earth. So when Carl

663
00:43:02,159 --> 00:43:04,960
tries to talk to her, she's like not hearing him.

664
00:43:05,559 --> 00:43:10,360
I suddenly had a feeling of dread. That look, that hunger.

665
00:43:10,960 --> 00:43:14,679
That was dangerous. She'd had but a single taste, but

666
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,519
I could already tell she was addicted to this. To

667
00:43:17,599 --> 00:43:20,400
the crowd, to the cheers, it was going to be

668
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:26,599
a problem. God damn it, Donut, I muttered, yeah, this

669
00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:34,239
is uh again, as somebody who is also like really

670
00:43:34,639 --> 00:43:38,000
probably like, look, I'm gonna say all of this with

671
00:43:38,039 --> 00:43:46,360
a grain of salt. Obviously, I don't have the same

672
00:43:46,519 --> 00:43:51,440
type of issues with constantly performing that some people do.

673
00:43:52,039 --> 00:43:55,559
In like, and what I'm saying is there are people

674
00:43:55,599 --> 00:43:59,719
out there who film almost every moment of their lives.

675
00:44:00,159 --> 00:44:03,199
They are influencers who they can't like, do their hair

676
00:44:03,199 --> 00:44:05,679
in the morning without taking video of it. They can't

677
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,519
make themselves a coffee. They can't have a thought that

678
00:44:08,559 --> 00:44:12,719
they don't record and put out there. And while I

679
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:15,760
get that impulse, I.

680
00:44:15,679 --> 00:44:16,639
Speaker 2: Am not like that.

681
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: I do feel that way, like I feel like I'm

682
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,199
being watched, but I am not putting myself out there

683
00:44:24,559 --> 00:44:28,559
on TikTok with like everything I'm doing all day, I

684
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:33,519
save it for the show. So in some ways, I

685
00:44:33,519 --> 00:44:36,800
think that's also like a generational thing, where being able

686
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,400
to film yourself doing things is a recent development because

687
00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:44,000
of technology being so much more accessible. But I do

688
00:44:44,079 --> 00:44:47,639
wonder sometimes if with the personality that I have, if

689
00:44:47,679 --> 00:44:52,039
I were born ten or fifteen years later, what would

690
00:44:52,079 --> 00:44:53,960
I be like now? And I have to assume I'd

691
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,599
be like an influencer of some kind, because I would

692
00:44:56,639 --> 00:45:00,880
have leaned so hard into that right away. And I

693
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,320
do think there is a hazard with that. We see

694
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,280
this all the time with influencers who it turns out

695
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:09,000
their life was a fucking lie. You know, you'll have

696
00:45:09,039 --> 00:45:11,639
people who like you can just rent the time to

697
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:13,480
stand in front of a private jet and get your

698
00:45:13,480 --> 00:45:15,719
photo taken, and then they will go on social media

699
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,480
and act like it was their jet. Or you would

700
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:22,280
have people who have this like advice sort of style

701
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,119
where they're telling people like how to raise their family

702
00:45:25,199 --> 00:45:26,519
or how to be a good wife, and then you

703
00:45:26,599 --> 00:45:28,199
find out that the two of them have been living

704
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,960
in separate bedrooms and their kids hate them. You know,

705
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,639
all these sorts of things like it's it's It can

706
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:40,400
be really gross, the way that people like twist themselves

707
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:45,840
to be something that they aren't for the gratification and

708
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:52,639
the the what's the word I want admiration? What is

709
00:45:52,679 --> 00:45:55,639
it called? When you're looking for validation? That's the word

710
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:04,159
of other people? And I really hope that isn't like

711
00:46:04,199 --> 00:46:07,519
some like, it's one thing to like to perform because

712
00:46:07,519 --> 00:46:11,320
you want to be liked and entertaining, and it's another

713
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,760
thing to feel like if you don't get that, you're

714
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:17,719
not whole. And I have struggled with that myself, and

715
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,679
I feel like I'm finally now that I'm forty, I'm

716
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:25,440
getting past it and starting to understand that's just nothing.

717
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:29,320
You know, those that sort of validation from strangers. It

718
00:46:29,559 --> 00:46:32,920
feels like in the moment, it's like junk food where

719
00:46:33,079 --> 00:46:36,199
you taste a cheeto and you're like, that is fucking delicious,

720
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:38,480
Give me more of that. But you finish the whole bag,

721
00:46:38,519 --> 00:46:41,239
and you feel kind of sick, and you're also still hungry.

722
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,440
It's junk food, but you have a bad palate because

723
00:46:44,440 --> 00:46:46,880
you're not old enough to be able to tell. So

724
00:46:47,679 --> 00:46:50,079
in the moment, you can't really tell a difference between

725
00:46:50,119 --> 00:46:52,519
the validation from people that you actually care about versus

726
00:46:52,519 --> 00:46:58,880
the validation of strangers. And I really want to see

727
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,800
how this progresses for Dona and the way that because

728
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:07,599
she's gonna have to grow. Michael says, I don't see

729
00:47:07,599 --> 00:47:12,360
how your life can't be unaffected when you start monetizing it. Yeah,

730
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,760
I mean there's no way. I it's just when your

731
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:21,400
brand is about your life, that's a really dangerous thing.

732
00:47:22,679 --> 00:47:26,000
My brand is about how I feel about media, and

733
00:47:26,039 --> 00:47:28,440
that is something that is outside of my life. And

734
00:47:28,519 --> 00:47:31,400
so I can continue doing this no matter what happens

735
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,320
to me in my life, and that will inform my

736
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:36,639
reaction to things, but it doesn't change what I am

737
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:41,400
giving my audience. Whereas if what you're giving is videos

738
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:44,440
of you and your handsome husband and your beautiful children

739
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,679
in your gorgeous home, and then something happens where that's

740
00:47:48,119 --> 00:47:51,320
you don't have any of that anymore, Well, fucking now,

741
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,920
what you know, like you either have to pretend or

742
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:56,719
you have to try and build a whole new brand

743
00:47:57,599 --> 00:48:02,199
and adjust and keep people interested, which is not easy.

744
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:06,960
And that's the part that I think I find it

745
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:11,679
to be doing work where you depend on other people

746
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:17,599
for your income. It's really really tricky. Everybody to a

747
00:48:17,599 --> 00:48:19,360
degree depends on other people for their income.

748
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 2: Let's be real, But.

749
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:23,840
Speaker 1: You know, when you're at the whim of an audience,

750
00:48:24,159 --> 00:48:29,559
it's a specific thing. And the circumstances of my life

751
00:48:29,559 --> 00:48:32,800
have never been the kind of stable where I would

752
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:37,239
try doing that sort of branding anyway. You know, I

753
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:45,559
live in a lower middle class home with old fixtures,

754
00:48:45,639 --> 00:48:50,039
a busted, ugly kitchen, and we have, you know, a

755
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,119
many years old car with lots of marks on it,

756
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,840
and a yard that hasn't been landscaped. There is nothing

757
00:48:57,079 --> 00:49:00,239
in this that I could like make a lifestyle I'll

758
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:02,760
brand out of. So I never even attempted because I

759
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:07,360
just don't have that surrounding me. And maybe if I did,

760
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,320
I would, maybe if I'd grown up stable and having

761
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,079
that kind of security always, it would feel way safer

762
00:49:14,119 --> 00:49:16,280
for me to do that, and I wouldn't think about

763
00:49:16,559 --> 00:49:18,360
But what happens if it goes away, because it had

764
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,719
never happened to me before. But I grew up the

765
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:23,719
way I grew up, and I live how I live,

766
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,159
and so for me, I've just known that's not the

767
00:49:27,199 --> 00:49:29,679
way to go, because that shit can be gone any time.

768
00:49:31,599 --> 00:49:38,559
And maybe that's it. I don't know. I don't. Odette

769
00:49:38,559 --> 00:49:40,480
touches on it too. Once your brand is established or

770
00:49:40,519 --> 00:49:42,159
stuck with it, yes, I want to jump to her.

771
00:49:42,159 --> 00:49:44,360
And Rob says, unless you pick Changeling for your race

772
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:46,840
on the third floor, which would be fun. Honestly, I

773
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,480
would be very tempted by that because being able to

774
00:49:49,559 --> 00:49:51,960
change my appearance is something that I would love, like

775
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,199
just being able to one day have like butt length,

776
00:49:55,599 --> 00:49:57,960
long blonde hair and then the next day have like

777
00:49:57,960 --> 00:50:00,199
a purple pixie cut. I just love the idea of

778
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:04,400
just like my whole look is completely at the whim

779
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:08,679
of my mood. I enjoy it. Michael says, you touched

780
00:50:08,679 --> 00:50:11,119
on it earlier when you talked about algorithms too. Once

781
00:50:11,119 --> 00:50:12,519
you get noticed, you have to stick with that or

782
00:50:12,559 --> 00:50:15,679
you might lose your audience exactly. And it's clearly like

783
00:50:16,639 --> 00:50:19,719
it's not as if that's impossible to do, but it

784
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:25,079
is a really difficult thing to do when you aren't

785
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:29,199
successful enough to kind of be outside of that and

786
00:50:29,679 --> 00:50:31,880
earning money in other ways. Once you get to be

787
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:36,079
a certain level of income, that money starts to earn

788
00:50:36,119 --> 00:50:38,840
money if you invest it, so you don't have to

789
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:42,960
worry as much. But then there's people who, like, they

790
00:50:43,039 --> 00:50:47,519
get wealthy, but they still can't satisfy that validation need,

791
00:50:48,039 --> 00:50:51,000
and so they stay in the public eye despite not

792
00:50:51,119 --> 00:50:55,239
having to. And then you get things like John Cleese,

793
00:50:55,280 --> 00:50:58,480
who had been great and now he's out here talking

794
00:50:59,159 --> 00:51:02,719
cash shit and being a turf because he can't just

795
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:05,360
shut the fucking shut the fuck up and go be rich.

796
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,639
He has to still be in the public eye, and

797
00:51:07,679 --> 00:51:09,599
he's like just sort of shit all over his own

798
00:51:09,639 --> 00:51:16,519
legacy in a way. Anyway, So chapter twenty nine, I

799
00:51:16,519 --> 00:51:19,400
am so behind you, guys, Oh my god, Oh my god. Okay,

800
00:51:22,159 --> 00:51:27,880
we have the like kind of convening with Odette afterward,

801
00:51:28,159 --> 00:51:32,599
and she asks plexus ping me if one of those

802
00:51:32,599 --> 00:51:34,440
Ai sticks to nose in here, I want to talk

803
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:40,800
to our guests for a minute without anybody snooping. And

804
00:51:41,159 --> 00:51:44,119
this is when she starts to take everything off. She's

805
00:51:44,159 --> 00:51:47,519
a human woman, approximately sixty years old. Her eyes were

806
00:51:47,559 --> 00:51:50,239
just a little wide for her face, just a little

807
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:52,519
wide for her face to pass as someone from Earth.

808
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,360
A moment later, the woman's crab body skittered back, and

809
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:59,400
the chest with the enormous breast remained attached to the desk.

810
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:04,760
Her whole torso peeled away, revealing a dark shirt. She

811
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:06,880
wore a necklace with a heart on it. If it

812
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:08,920
weren't for the crab body in the eyes, she'd look

813
00:52:09,079 --> 00:52:14,320
like any other human, she said. When he says, wait,

814
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,519
the body, is that fake too, she says, everything you

815
00:52:16,559 --> 00:52:17,159
see is fake.

816
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:18,360
Speaker 2: This is show business.

817
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:24,119
Speaker 1: She pulled herself from the crab body using her two arms,

818
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:28,280
and later on we find out that she lost her

819
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:34,039
legs during a fight, and she pushed so far that

820
00:52:34,119 --> 00:52:38,280
they gave that. The AI gave her legs to keep

821
00:52:38,599 --> 00:52:42,639
her story going, which is remarkable. And her legs, the

822
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:45,599
crab legs, really shouldn't have been in a box that

823
00:52:45,639 --> 00:52:52,320
low level. The entire get up was my armor when

824
00:52:52,360 --> 00:52:54,159
I was like you. It was what I was wearing

825
00:52:54,159 --> 00:52:56,840
when I reached the stairwell for the thirteenth floor. It's

826
00:52:56,880 --> 00:53:02,760
how people know me. How was that boob thing armor?

827
00:53:03,639 --> 00:53:04,199
Young man?

828
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:04,679
Speaker 2: This year?

829
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 1: You have now, It's nothing compared to what's coming. Mordecai said,

830
00:53:10,519 --> 00:53:12,639
only one person ever made it to the thirteenth floor,

831
00:53:12,679 --> 00:53:15,920
and it was a dude who died. That's true. I

832
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:18,239
never went down the stairs. I had struck a deal.

833
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:20,559
That's a long story and not for today. But I'm

834
00:53:20,559 --> 00:53:22,320
glad you brought up Mordecai. That's all I want to

835
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:26,239
talk to you about. This is his last crawl. I'd

836
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:27,800
like for you to tell him to seek me out

837
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:33,880
when this is all over. And she says, I was

838
00:53:34,079 --> 00:53:36,880
his trainer. It's how I found you. I keep an

839
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:38,599
eye on him, and I watched you guys as you

840
00:53:38,639 --> 00:53:42,400
stumbled into his guild room. I'm going to give you

841
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:44,679
some advice. And we find out a little bit later

842
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:51,440
that Mordecai isn't going to be able to like actually

843
00:53:51,519 --> 00:53:53,599
get free of the deal he made unless they at

844
00:53:53,679 --> 00:53:56,760
least reached the fourth floor. But he has never mentioned

845
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:00,760
that to them, which I find really admirable. You could

846
00:54:00,840 --> 00:54:03,920
try and like guilt your people, and he doesn't even

847
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:05,960
attempt to do that because he knows they've got fucking

848
00:54:06,119 --> 00:54:10,159
enough on their plates already, you know. And this is

849
00:54:10,159 --> 00:54:14,639
when she brings up the mud Skippers won't like it,

850
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:17,199
which is what the other girl had started to say

851
00:54:17,639 --> 00:54:22,840
and stopped herself. Mud Skippers, you mean, I pause, looking

852
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:25,679
at the ceiling. They can't hear you in here, But

853
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:28,639
don't say that phrase. In the Dungeon mud Skipper, they

854
00:54:28,679 --> 00:54:30,920
attempted to get it listed as hate speech by the

855
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,519
syndicate a couple cycles back. Hardly anyone called them that

856
00:54:34,639 --> 00:54:37,320
until they made a big deal about it. But yes,

857
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:42,280
that's what I mean. The Cuatin Borent. Nobody likes the Kuatine,

858
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:44,880
at least not their system of government. Borent is a

859
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,719
different story. Some of those folks are okay. All they

860
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:49,599
wanted to put on a good show. I'm sure they

861
00:54:49,599 --> 00:54:52,039
were incensed when they were forced into this early release.

862
00:54:54,039 --> 00:54:56,360
You're going to step onto that second floor and in

863
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,679
a day or so you're gonna find your social numbers

864
00:54:58,719 --> 00:55:04,519
have gone meteoric. Those people are following you, Carl and Donut.

865
00:55:05,039 --> 00:55:08,239
So when you go down to the third floor, you

866
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:11,719
need to stay as a cute, cuddly cat. They'll tempt

867
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:16,599
you with some very powerful creature races. Going viral early

868
00:55:16,679 --> 00:55:18,960
is both a blessing and a curse. People are in

869
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:22,079
love with donut the cat, not donut, the saber tooth,

870
00:55:22,119 --> 00:55:25,440
void leopard. Don't change your race whatever you do. I've

871
00:55:25,440 --> 00:55:28,079
seen it happen dozens of times. They change and their

872
00:55:28,159 --> 00:55:31,400
numbers plummet. It's why nobody sponsors a crawler earlier than

873
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:32,159
the fourth floor.

874
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:34,599
Speaker 2: And you.

875
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: People are used to seeing humans, so it's not as

876
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,280
crucial for you to stay the same as long as

877
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:42,960
it's not too different. If she stays that tiny little thing,

878
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,320
she's going to need to be protected. Mordecai will be

879
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:47,079
the one to lead you through the process of picking

880
00:55:47,079 --> 00:55:49,320
a race in class. There'll be a lot of information.

881
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,599
He won't be allowed to steer you, at least not overtly.

882
00:55:53,159 --> 00:55:55,400
But if I taught him anything, it's how to help

883
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:58,000
you decide for yourself. I don't know what's going to

884
00:55:58,039 --> 00:56:00,320
be on the table. It's different every season. And for

885
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:03,480
his clues, he knows what he's doing. He's going to

886
00:56:03,559 --> 00:56:08,280
do his best to guide you. Also, if you want pants,

887
00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,920
you should stop bitching about not having them. So it's

888
00:56:12,039 --> 00:56:16,239
like I suspected, I said, the loot boxes aren't really random.

889
00:56:17,039 --> 00:56:20,960
Of course, not, said Odette. It's even written into the rules.

890
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:23,559
Look at me, I lost my legs to a fiend

891
00:56:23,599 --> 00:56:26,159
Scythe on the eleventh floor. I was all but dead.

892
00:56:26,679 --> 00:56:29,840
I dragged myself to a safe room, opened my boxes,

893
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:34,159
and received this in a gold box. This is a

894
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:37,320
legendary item. It allows me to attach body parts.

895
00:56:37,119 --> 00:56:38,599
Speaker 2: Of other monsters to myself.

896
00:56:39,079 --> 00:56:41,039
Speaker 1: I had to drag myself back out there and kill

897
00:56:41,079 --> 00:56:43,400
that crab first, but I took its body as my

898
00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:49,079
legs and I continued on my way. That is remarkable.

899
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:52,199
I gotta tell you, guys, there's moments like this where

900
00:56:52,239 --> 00:56:54,039
I'm like, Wow, some people just really want to live

901
00:56:54,079 --> 00:56:55,480
a lot more than I give a shit about it.

902
00:56:56,519 --> 00:57:00,360
I mean, you cut my legs off, I'm pretty much done.

903
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:04,639
I think I just feel like that's a that's a

904
00:57:04,679 --> 00:57:09,599
fucking rap, you know what I'm saying. I don't know,

905
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:16,280
I don't know. I uh, maybe I'm lying. You know.

906
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:18,039
There are times where I think I would do this,

907
00:57:18,159 --> 00:57:20,239
and then the time comes and that doesn't even occur

908
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:23,320
to me to do so. I might being a little

909
00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:33,199
but I mean, you know, God damn, and let's see.

910
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:34,039
Speaker 3: Uh.

911
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 1: Yes, this is a game. There are controls in place

912
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:40,199
to make it fair sort of. But more importantly, this

913
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:44,239
is a for profit venture in the entertainment industry, and

914
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:47,039
if you staying alive means more profits, you'll find your

915
00:57:47,079 --> 00:57:50,239
loot to be a lot more convenient. But if the

916
00:57:50,239 --> 00:57:53,480
AI senses screwing you over will make the show more interesting,

917
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,639
you'd better believe it'll fuck you right in the ass

918
00:57:56,760 --> 00:58:00,519
at the worst possible moment. Don't ever forget that you

919
00:58:00,519 --> 00:58:04,880
can't count on anybody but yourselves. So no more complaining,

920
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:08,039
I said, at least not out loud. Not when it's

921
00:58:08,159 --> 00:58:11,719
funny for you to not have pants, She turned to Dona.

922
00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:15,880
Or when someone hisses every time they get another torch

923
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,840
in one of their boxes. I didn't even think of that,

924
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:22,400
But that is very funny, actually, and that is exactly

925
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,000
what happens, right, certain things that crop up in a

926
00:58:25,039 --> 00:58:28,000
show where you're like reality shows. I could see this

927
00:58:28,079 --> 00:58:29,679
being more of a thing, but I don't watch that

928
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:34,199
many've The Circle is really the reality show that I've

929
00:58:34,199 --> 00:58:36,119
watched the most consistently, and ever since it moved to

930
00:58:36,159 --> 00:58:40,880
the US, it's been kind of trash. One last piece

931
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:43,079
of advice, never trust someone unless you know what they're

932
00:58:43,119 --> 00:58:47,079
getting out of it. And this is when she mentions

933
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:49,039
that Mordecai won't get out unless they make it to

934
00:58:49,119 --> 00:58:51,400
the fourth floor. He'll be stuck until the next Boring

935
00:58:51,519 --> 00:58:54,039
sponsored season, which will be at least another seven or

936
00:58:54,079 --> 00:58:57,000
eight seasons, and with the political environment as it is,

937
00:58:57,039 --> 00:58:59,039
a lot of people aren't certain Boring will be around

938
00:58:59,119 --> 00:59:05,079
that long. All indentureship contracts get frozen during a bankruptcy

939
00:59:05,239 --> 00:59:16,400
seizure action? What who's seizing them? What does that mean?

940
00:59:17,519 --> 00:59:19,880
This is something that I also really like in terms

941
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:23,199
of how I have talked about clearly this author is

942
00:59:23,239 --> 00:59:27,599
like drawing parallels to just what it's like living in

943
00:59:27,599 --> 00:59:31,679
a hyper capitalist society and we're at the fucking whims

944
00:59:32,079 --> 00:59:34,239
of people so far above us that we can't even

945
00:59:34,519 --> 00:59:40,639
see them, touch them, hear them. But the contracts get frozen,

946
00:59:40,679 --> 00:59:43,960
You're just like stuck because these assholes that you don't

947
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:46,119
have anything to do with can't make a fucking deal.

948
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:50,239
Like it's so gross, you guys, This is I mean,

949
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:52,079
I don't feel like there has ever been a time

950
00:59:52,079 --> 00:59:55,119
where it's been as apparent how at the whim we

951
00:59:55,159 --> 01:00:00,360
are of the people in charge. Then are year twenty

952
01:00:00,440 --> 01:00:04,079
twenty five with fucking Elon Musk out here doing god

953
01:00:04,159 --> 01:00:08,400
knows what and tons of government employees being laid off

954
01:00:08,440 --> 01:00:12,079
and fired, and these folks had there was no clue

955
01:00:12,119 --> 01:00:15,079
that this was coming, and they are completely taken off guard.

956
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:19,360
And these are folks that had like moved to get

957
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:23,199
to certain jobs. Or I had a friend who she

958
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:28,760
works three hours away from where her office is, and

959
01:00:29,199 --> 01:00:33,159
she was working remotely, and they made it so that

960
01:00:33,239 --> 01:00:36,880
if she doesn't come in every day, she's not gonna

961
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:42,360
get to keep her job. Well, she's like three hours away,

962
01:00:43,159 --> 01:00:45,719
you know, like, what do you mean, how can you

963
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:47,400
just do that? Because they can do whatever the fuck

964
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:49,760
they feel like. That's the long and short of it.

965
01:00:51,400 --> 01:01:02,119
So anyway, let's see. Oh yeah, yeah, the moment whatever

966
01:01:02,159 --> 01:01:04,440
you guys did to her is wearing off. She didn't

967
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:07,199
even deny it. She was watching the cat pounce around

968
01:01:07,239 --> 01:01:09,679
the end of the room. Oh this is when she says,

969
01:01:09,679 --> 01:01:11,360
in many ways, she's still a child. It's part of

970
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:13,320
the reason why so many are enchanted with her. It

971
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:15,800
works well in the dungeon, but for interviews sometimes they

972
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:20,639
need a little nudge. It was temporary, increased her wisdom

973
01:01:20,719 --> 01:01:23,199
and a few confident stats by a point and a half,

974
01:01:23,639 --> 01:01:26,920
not much. It makes for a better interview, and when

975
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,519
he mentions like wisdom isn't a stat anymore. She's like,

976
01:01:29,679 --> 01:01:31,880
just because they aren't there, it doesn't mean it's not real.

977
01:01:35,239 --> 01:01:38,440
And then he asks her what her motivations are, and

978
01:01:38,480 --> 01:01:40,760
she says, the longer you stay alive, the more money

979
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:42,639
I make. And there is nothing I love in this

980
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:46,519
universe more than money. Now get back in there and

981
01:01:46,639 --> 01:01:51,159
try not to die. I think she's probably telling the truth,

982
01:01:51,199 --> 01:01:53,880
but I don't know why. I kind of don't believe her. Normally,

983
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:55,880
when somebody is just like, it's about the money, baby,

984
01:01:56,000 --> 01:02:00,000
I'm like, yeah, it makes sense. I don't know, though,

985
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:09,159
I don't know Odette, maybe maybe maybe h Anyway, Okay,

986
01:02:09,840 --> 01:02:12,800
I have one more chapter No. Two more to cover.

987
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:15,519
Speaker 2: Oh that's not happening. Well, I'm gonna do my best.

988
01:02:17,679 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 1: So on chapter thirty, Donah is already looking to see

989
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:25,400
if she has followers, but that thing hasn't been aired yet,

990
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:30,840
so of course not. And she says, how are we

991
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:33,320
supposed to set the intergalactic Internet on fire when the

992
01:02:33,320 --> 01:02:35,360
second floor is the same as the first floor, which

993
01:02:35,360 --> 01:02:41,960
we find out very shortly that it is not level two?

994
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:49,159
Brindle grub, I won't read the whole thing, but Brindle

995
01:02:49,199 --> 01:02:52,280
grubs are all the rage. The more monsters you kill,

996
01:02:52,320 --> 01:02:54,239
the more the grubs eat. The more the grubs eat,

997
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:56,519
the bigger they get. Once you start finding them in

998
01:02:56,519 --> 01:02:59,159
the pupa stage, you best move on. Grubs are easy

999
01:02:59,199 --> 01:03:03,159
to kill. They're old siblings are not. And once again

1000
01:03:03,239 --> 01:03:05,320
this reminded me of Starry Valley. There are grubs and

1001
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:07,480
then they go into a people stage and you can't

1002
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:10,440
kill them. You can slam your weapon against them, but

1003
01:03:10,519 --> 01:03:12,920
it just does this like weird clicking banging sound and

1004
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:15,760
nothing happens, and then it hatches and they become a

1005
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:19,000
flying thing which you can kill, but they are much

1006
01:03:19,039 --> 01:03:22,840
higher level and you have to so like basically, if

1007
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:25,519
you hit them twice with your weapon in quick succession,

1008
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:28,599
you'll kill him in the grub stage. But sometimes if

1009
01:03:28,639 --> 01:03:31,000
you try and kill them and there's too much time

1010
01:03:31,039 --> 01:03:33,800
between swings, it will go into its people stage in

1011
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,440
the midst of your attack because you like took too long.

1012
01:03:37,079 --> 01:03:39,239
So I'm kind of wondering if it's like based on

1013
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:44,360
this or if it's just a coincidence or what. So

1014
01:03:46,159 --> 01:03:51,400
he kills this thing, and she, like Dona, is able

1015
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:55,960
to see a lot of them coming before Karl is

1016
01:03:56,559 --> 01:03:59,519
so she has this stability at least to like help

1017
01:03:59,559 --> 01:04:06,840
give him heads up. If the bugs are like the rest,

1018
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,599
then we haven't yet met the mobs of this quadrant.

1019
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:12,119
I took my foot and smashed down on the remains

1020
01:04:12,159 --> 01:04:15,719
of the corpse that Agatha had killed. I smashed and crushed,

1021
01:04:16,079 --> 01:04:19,400
smearing the innerds all over the place that until the

1022
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:24,119
ex disappeared on the map. Carl, are you quite home right?

1023
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:30,280
Did you read the description of the grubs. We can't

1024
01:04:30,360 --> 01:04:33,440
leave corpses lying around, even their own corpses, not in

1025
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:36,000
this part of the dungeon. From now on, we do

1026
01:04:36,079 --> 01:04:39,960
our best to leave as little behind as possible. And

1027
01:04:40,320 --> 01:04:42,920
she says people aren't gonna like watching that, and he says,

1028
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:46,079
people aren't gonna like watching you get eaten by whatever

1029
01:04:46,159 --> 01:04:54,880
these fucking things turn out to be. And let's see

1030
01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:57,840
she oh right. This is when she starts jumping up

1031
01:04:57,840 --> 01:05:00,159
and down eagerly, and her bell starts to ring, which

1032
01:05:00,239 --> 01:05:03,559
means that some creatures that are down further turn around

1033
01:05:03,639 --> 01:05:09,480
and see them and come at them dangered Dingo level five,

1034
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:15,119
and she shoots her eye missiles at them. She used

1035
01:05:15,159 --> 01:05:18,000
twenty four of her twenty six manna points in seconds.

1036
01:05:20,599 --> 01:05:23,000
One of them also dropped something we'd hadn't seen yet,

1037
01:05:23,039 --> 01:05:26,960
a pair of gold coins. Doughnut snatched them away before

1038
01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:31,559
I could examine the money's properties. I was like wondering

1039
01:05:31,599 --> 01:05:35,320
if it was her wanting them, like because she was

1040
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:38,000
being greedy, or if it was just that she loots

1041
01:05:38,039 --> 01:05:39,800
things without looking at them. And I kind of think

1042
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:45,440
it's that second one. I must admit I did get

1043
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:50,719
a little carried away there. She kicked it in the head,

1044
01:05:50,719 --> 01:05:54,960
exploded against the wall. And even though she's like stronger

1045
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:58,440
than him. Also, things get more fragile after they die,

1046
01:05:58,639 --> 01:06:04,079
so it's easier to sort of smash things. Let's back

1047
01:06:04,119 --> 01:06:06,800
out of this area for now. As we approached the

1048
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:09,039
main hallway, I didn't see any further signs of the

1049
01:06:09,119 --> 01:06:11,599
Dingo mobs, but we did find a couple more dead

1050
01:06:11,639 --> 01:06:14,800
grubs and plenty more living ones. The things were everywhere

1051
01:06:15,079 --> 01:06:17,960
and we had to kill them by the dozens. And

1052
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:24,559
they find a safe room. They also come across these

1053
01:06:25,119 --> 01:06:29,559
mind horrors jellyfish that give him a terrible headache but

1054
01:06:29,599 --> 01:06:36,320
apparently don't really affect Donut. The room, unfortunately, wasn't one

1055
01:06:36,320 --> 01:06:39,920
of the restaurants with a Bopka protector, though the chamber

1056
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:43,400
itself was much bigger than any of the other safe rooms.

1057
01:06:45,159 --> 01:06:50,679
There are showers and sinks and bathrooms and a mailbox

1058
01:06:51,559 --> 01:06:54,320
and he goes and tries to open it and just

1059
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:57,079
gets an error message why would anyone send you mail?

1060
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:00,519
But I have to think that this becomes something later.

1061
01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:05,400
I am curious about it, wondering if there's a way

1062
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:09,719
to communicate between floors, or a way to leave things

1063
01:07:09,719 --> 01:07:13,480
for other party members, or I don't even know. Maybe

1064
01:07:13,519 --> 01:07:16,840
it's where you get your goodies once you get sponsors

1065
01:07:17,159 --> 01:07:17,679
or something.

1066
01:07:18,519 --> 01:07:18,960
Speaker 2: I don't know.

1067
01:07:22,199 --> 01:07:27,599
Speaker 1: So this is when he gets his achievements. A bully

1068
01:07:27,639 --> 01:07:32,599
and a thief for stealing stuff from Agatha Battlefield construction.

1069
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:35,199
You built a structure and deployed it in battle. You've

1070
01:07:35,239 --> 01:07:38,920
received a silver mechanics box, and then we get another

1071
01:07:39,119 --> 01:07:40,199
foot fetish one.

1072
01:07:40,760 --> 01:07:43,960
Speaker 2: You are making Daddy very very happy.

1073
01:07:43,719 --> 01:07:47,280
Speaker 1: But he is most certainly sounding like he's jerking off.

1074
01:07:48,840 --> 01:07:55,039
You've received a platinum shoe box. You have found a

1075
01:07:55,079 --> 01:07:57,840
stairwell down to the next floor. They say the cream

1076
01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:00,000
rises to the top, So what does that say about you?

1077
01:08:01,519 --> 01:08:07,679
I moved to the loop boxes. So he uh gets

1078
01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:11,719
a ticket to for a free drink in quotes at

1079
01:08:11,719 --> 01:08:17,560
the Desperado Club. No further explanation with silver Mechanics spots.

1080
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:20,680
The Guinator three thousand, a shaping tool may only be

1081
01:08:20,760 --> 01:08:24,039
used at a workbench. Assists in shaping materials into something

1082
01:08:24,039 --> 01:08:29,840
else and cheat code potion. This will expire shortly after

1083
01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:35,399
generated causes one recently used combat or magic theme skill

1084
01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:39,439
to increase by three. Choice is random and permanent, and

1085
01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:45,239
he gets an up to pugilism, which is great, and

1086
01:08:45,399 --> 01:08:48,359
he's just sort of thinking about how most of the

1087
01:08:48,399 --> 01:08:51,600
skills that he has for fighting are about being unarmed,

1088
01:08:52,119 --> 01:08:55,199
and so that is definitely going to be you know,

1089
01:08:55,319 --> 01:08:58,199
like getting shoes now probably not a great idea. Like

1090
01:08:58,279 --> 01:09:01,960
there's just he's he's stuck. He's stuck with whatever it

1091
01:09:02,079 --> 01:09:08,880
is that he started with, and he's looking at the

1092
01:09:09,319 --> 01:09:13,079
girl Lucia Marr, who is like running on walls and stuff.

1093
01:09:14,439 --> 01:09:17,800
The crossbow woman was crazy strong, twice as powerful as me.

1094
01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:20,760
I watched in awe as she picked up a bare

1095
01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:23,560
size slabbering tentacle monster and threw it into the air,

1096
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:26,720
shooting it twice with her repeating crossbow before it exploded,

1097
01:09:26,720 --> 01:09:34,000
which is amazing. And one last item enchanted pedicure.

1098
01:09:33,479 --> 01:09:36,039
Speaker 2: Of the Sylph.

1099
01:09:36,079 --> 01:09:39,279
Speaker 1: All of these enhancements require you to remain barefoot.

1100
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:41,880
Speaker 2: Why because you know why?

1101
01:09:43,239 --> 01:09:48,039
Speaker 1: I did think that was kind of a funny line,

1102
01:09:48,199 --> 01:09:51,880
and it comes with some nice perks he won't be

1103
01:09:51,920 --> 01:09:56,720
able to like. It'll protect him. Plus fifteen percent to

1104
01:09:56,880 --> 01:10:01,520
barefoot attacks, plus three to smush skill, unbreakable buff feet

1105
01:10:01,560 --> 01:10:04,720
only for thirty hours, Celestial nimble and tidy buff for

1106
01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:08,560
thirty hours. Not only will your tootsies look nice, bright

1107
01:10:08,600 --> 01:10:11,079
and shiny, but any trap set off by footfalls will

1108
01:10:11,079 --> 01:10:13,880
now prompt and alarm and have us five second delay

1109
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:18,840
before being triggered, which is really quite an advantage.

1110
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:21,600
Speaker 2: That last one.

1111
01:10:22,920 --> 01:10:25,680
Speaker 1: And he has to put a lot of stuff away

1112
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:27,920
because he doesn't know like how to use them yet.

1113
01:10:27,920 --> 01:10:30,880
He doesn't get one of those benches until I think

1114
01:10:30,920 --> 01:10:39,760
the fourth floor, he says, And let's see. Uh oh right, oh,

1115
01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:42,079
what an awful spell. We need to save these things

1116
01:10:42,079 --> 01:10:45,960
instead of wasting them? Is what does it do? Second

1117
01:10:46,119 --> 01:10:48,640
chance cost ten MANA I can raise a monster from

1118
01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:50,880
the dead, it has to be a lower level than me.

1119
01:10:51,119 --> 01:10:52,960
They'll fight for us for as many minutes as the

1120
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:56,000
spells level. The level is one, so it'll only last

1121
01:10:56,000 --> 01:11:00,560
for a minute. And he's like, that's incredible, and she says, what, no,

1122
01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:03,119
it's gross. They're dead. I don't want them moving around.

1123
01:11:03,159 --> 01:11:07,800
And he's like, you could bring that fucking like those

1124
01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:10,800
creatures that we just killed, the cocker spaniels back to

1125
01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:13,600
life and be like that chick with the two Rotwhilers,

1126
01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:17,760
but they'll be undead rot Wilers, and Dona immediately gets

1127
01:11:17,800 --> 01:11:21,119
on board with this. Also, she mentions how she doesn't

1128
01:11:21,239 --> 01:11:24,319
like groaning, and he remembers her swatting at him while

1129
01:11:24,319 --> 01:11:27,159
he was fucking his girlfriend one time, which is very,

1130
01:11:27,239 --> 01:11:34,800
very funny. And let's see, I'm trying to see the

1131
01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:37,439
Brandon and his crew were still bringing people into the

1132
01:11:37,479 --> 01:11:40,119
safe room. I'm trying to see if we get an

1133
01:11:40,199 --> 01:11:42,560
update on how many people are still alive, because normally

1134
01:11:42,600 --> 01:11:45,520
it starts with like days till level collapse, but we're

1135
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:48,279
in the midst of it, so it doesn't start that

1136
01:11:48,359 --> 01:11:54,800
way here, and we get this weird update about I'm

1137
01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:56,600
trying to find the spot where they say that they're

1138
01:11:56,600 --> 01:12:00,479
going to be speeding things up, but it it doesn't

1139
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:02,960
make a lot of sense. They're trying to claim that

1140
01:12:03,039 --> 01:12:08,239
the number of people who died is like above what

1141
01:12:08,399 --> 01:12:11,479
was expected. So they're speeding things up, which isn't what

1142
01:12:11,520 --> 01:12:16,680
you would do if you were ahead having killed too

1143
01:12:16,720 --> 01:12:20,359
many people. That's you would do the opposite. So they're

1144
01:12:20,399 --> 01:12:24,880
giving this like explanation for this thing that is clearly bullshit.

1145
01:12:25,279 --> 01:12:28,399
And I have to assume budget cuts mean you've got

1146
01:12:28,439 --> 01:12:31,199
to speed things up because you can't have as long

1147
01:12:31,239 --> 01:12:38,880
a season as you would have otherwise. And let's see,

1148
01:12:38,920 --> 01:12:42,079
I'm trying to see. We've got a bunch of stuff

1149
01:12:42,119 --> 01:12:43,800
going on with like the other people and just what

1150
01:12:43,800 --> 01:12:47,079
they're all each up to. I'm not going to get

1151
01:12:47,119 --> 01:12:49,279
into it too much with them because I'm running out

1152
01:12:49,279 --> 01:12:51,439
of time. I have like a whole other chapter to

1153
01:12:51,479 --> 01:12:57,880
cover and I am literally already over. But they talk.

1154
01:12:58,119 --> 01:13:02,319
He talks to Brandon about his boss box, a magic boomerang,

1155
01:13:02,760 --> 01:13:05,960
Chris got some book of the club thing, Immani doesn't

1156
01:13:06,000 --> 01:13:08,439
tell us what she gets, and Yolanda received a new

1157
01:13:08,479 --> 01:13:12,119
type of quiver that Immani doesn't share what she gets.

1158
01:13:12,199 --> 01:13:15,680
Is interesting, Like, I don't hate it, but I do

1159
01:13:15,720 --> 01:13:18,239
feel like your teammates should get to know. I don't

1160
01:13:18,239 --> 01:13:20,720
know why you wouldn't want to share that with your teammates.

1161
01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:24,279
I don't know. Maybe it's just that she is still, like,

1162
01:13:24,399 --> 01:13:27,640
has so much trauma from fighting and having killed all

1163
01:13:27,680 --> 01:13:30,199
those people before that she doesn't want to have to

1164
01:13:30,239 --> 01:13:37,920
be asked to use certain things. I don't know. Let's

1165
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:41,560
see Lucienmarr and her dogs obliterated a nest of shaggy

1166
01:13:41,600 --> 01:13:44,359
monsters before descending the stairs. I mean right afterwards. She'd

1167
01:13:44,399 --> 01:13:47,439
been whisked away to a pieran Odette's show, and we

1168
01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:49,880
get to see like the clip that they are in,

1169
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:55,520
and this is when it's mentioned that in the clips,

1170
01:13:55,560 --> 01:14:00,560
Yolanda or Yolanda points out that Agatha didn't show up

1171
01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:07,960
and how weird that is she was edited out. Let's see,

1172
01:14:09,439 --> 01:14:12,960
Oh right, Donut, you need to stop obsessing over this.

1173
01:14:13,079 --> 01:14:16,199
It's dangerous. It's going to get us killed. I'm not obsessing.

1174
01:14:16,239 --> 01:14:19,239
What makes you think I've been obsessing people like you

1175
01:14:19,319 --> 01:14:22,079
because of what you've been doing. If you start playing

1176
01:14:22,079 --> 01:14:23,880
for the camera, they're going to like you less and

1177
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:26,039
if you die, you won't be remembered at all. So

1178
01:14:26,119 --> 01:14:28,560
try not to think about it. I don't know what

1179
01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:31,760
you're talking about, Carl. So yeah, this is when we

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get the numbers slightly lower than our projection, so we're

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speeding up the second floor time or to the minimum

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legally allowed by the rules. You have six days to

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find a staircase down. Once again, we urge you all

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to wait until the last possible moment to descend. As

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soon as this announcement ends, you'll find that follows and

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favorites will be turned on for our viewers. The numbers

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will populate slowly on your interface, so don't be disappointed

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if you don't see anything just yet. We also have

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improved how patronage works season a major change, so please

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pay attention. All crawlers are now limited to three patrons,

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and all three spots will be up for auction for

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one day immediately upon the induction of the fourth floor,

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the fifth, then the sixth floors, respectively. Your benefactors may

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so choose to transfer their patronage to other parties at

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their own discretion. Starting on the seventh floor, all patronage

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spots will become available at a bid of one credit,

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meaning this season virtually all living crawlers will have patrons,

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but be warned any bids the patron pays above the

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standard patronage fee will be reflected in loop box discounts

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for that patron. Any funds below the fee will be

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reflected in additional costs to that patron for loop boxes.

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In other words, the more your patron pays for you,

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the more and higher quality benefactor boxes you may receive.

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The higher your social numbers, the better your chances at

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receiving the best loot that is so convoluted. Guys, I

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am really confused by this, and I'm trying to link

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this back to the budget issues somehow, which also it

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makes sense that they only get one roll of toilet

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paper per floor now, because that's like, you know, that's

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actually kind of funny, but keeping it in like two

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three patrons max. And unless you pay more, that makes

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sense with the budget because we need you to give

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us more money or else your people aren't getting as

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good stuff. Sure, I'm going to guess that it's basically

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like normally we would supply the loot, but now we

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are literally using your patron's support money for the loot

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in a way that maybe that wasn't quite so close

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together before, if that makes sense. And then we get

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the warning about how if anybody pisses or shits in

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the halls anymore, they are going to be immediately killed.

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That's not exactly what they say, but they will bring

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a rage elemental plucked from the thirteenth floor. It will

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kill them and everyone in their party before it can

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get their pants back up. So, yeah, this is just

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the bathroom thing. I hadn't really thought of as being

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that big a deal. But it turns out that there's

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an old man who does this like peas in the

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hall all the time. And she says, I have a

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few adult pads left. I'll make sure he puts one on.

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I don't know about you, but I don't really feel

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like that's gonna work out. The reasoning for speeding and

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up doesn't make any sense, IMMANI said. I nodded, agreeing.

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If anything, it seems like they're trying to get rid

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of us faster. Carl, I have my first follower of

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another of you. Yeah, I said, you know that viewer

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is watching you right now, so maybe you should stop

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acting crazy. We talked about this. Doughnut stiffened her eyes, going,

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you're right, that was quite the battle today, don't you think, Carl.

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She said this in a weird, stilted I'm trying to

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act casual, but I'm not very good at it voice.

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I sighed, and it took everything not to say my

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catchphrase out loud. She's going to get used to it.

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Speaker 2: It's new.

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Speaker 1: You gotta give her time. After Odet's show finished airing,

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I knew those numbers were going to skyrocket.

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Speaker 2: This was going to be a long night.

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Speaker 1: And that is the end of the chapter. Rob says, Basically,

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there's a standard feed, but the minimum bid is one credit.

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But if you pay that little, your sponsorship gets fucked

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money grab Okay, yeah, that makes sense. Michael says, I

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get the feeling. Normally, most crawlers never get a sponsorship.

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By doing it, they'll get money for dead weight, and

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they'll get extra money from sponsors bidding up the popular crawlers.

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And if someone sponsored a cheap crawler that later pops,

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they can transfer that to another with more money and

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they'll have to spend more money to send them loop boxes.

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Makes sense, I think. I think, all right, guys, I

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have to wrap. I am so so over time we

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see how far yeah, literally twenty minutes over. I cannot

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be doing this every time. Oh my god, you're welcome

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until next time to the loo.

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Speaker 3: Motherfuckers.

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Speaker 1: That was an unspoiled network podcast