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

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covering Dungeon Crawler Carl Book eight, chapters forty two through

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forty eight of a Parade of Horribles. In these chapters,

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I really I can't be mad at Carl, even though

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I like should be a little bruh. I really hate

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this for you. I really hate this for you. Welcome

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to spoil Me. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 2: Everyone.

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Speaker 1: I am Natasha. Thank you very much to Michael for

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commissioning this episode. Michael is here in the chat with me.

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So we're going to get into the whole thing with

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all of our mercenaries being murdered at once, obviously, but

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really quick, I want to address something I don't know

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what the term is, because when we're talking about site

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we will say eagle eyed, and when we're talking about hearing,

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I'm really not sure what the equivalent is. So I'm

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going to say eagle eared, just because I feel like

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you guys know what I mean by that eagle eared.

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Listeners may have noticed that I quoted Kimata the Fire

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Fairy as saying show yourself to me embros last episode,

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but she doesn't actually say it until the next chapter.

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So I over listened last time. But it's really weird

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because I obviously remembered that quote, but when I went

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and reread this chapter for this recording, being chapter forty two,

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none of the rest of the chapter felt familiar to

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me at all. So I don't know what happened. All

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I can think is I over listened, but I was

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like only half paying attention because some part of me

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registered that I was like beyond where I was meant

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to be or something. I don't know. So I just

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wanted to address that because I feel like if I

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were listening to the show and I clocked that the

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host quoted something that hasn't happened yet, I would start

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to be very suspicious on whether that was like reading

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ahead all the time, and like, you know what I'm saying,

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I just every time that something like this occurs, I

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just want y'all to know it's not me being tricksy,

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it's me being stupid. I have very I used to

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have some competence, and as I start to go through perimenopause,

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it's just eroding, like at a rate that is equivalent

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to the dunes of Nantucket. It's fucking bad. So all

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of that to say, technically I read ahead, but it

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had no bearing whatsoever on any interpretation of the last

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section except for the fact that Kemata is wanting Embrass

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to prove he exists to her, which doesn't happen, so

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it kind of winds up not really being relevant anyway.

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It's just another example of her being in this existential crisis,

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and it turns out she has a fucking panic disorder

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like a It's wild because, like considering the fact that

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I remember her begging Embrace to prove himself to her,

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the fact that I didn't recall that not only does

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she have this disorder, but she also killed one of

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their previous clients. And reminder, guys, this crew demanded to

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be paid triple the normal rate because of the dangers. Yes,

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which I will admit that is born out. They are

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proved right in that they are needing to be more

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like the way that they are targeted and the risks

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that they are taking on are going to be more

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pronounced Carl and Donut are. But I would also argue

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that if Kamada hadn't been like as useless as she

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winds up being to the overall intent of hiring them

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that they may not have wound up in the position

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that they find themselves in later, because we would have

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had like a driver who was competent for the entire drive,

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and you know, all of this may not have gone

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the way that it went. So it's a lot of

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ifs and what if sen blame game and whatever, and

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I I'm not I'm not victim blaming them for their

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own murder, but I am saying that the risk that

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they assert is purely coming from Carl and Donuts, like notoriety,

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isn't totally fair because some of that is coming from

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y'all because you weren't honest about what your deal is.

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On this same note, last episode, I was criticizing what's

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his face who has the memory crystal things for the

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friendship with sister Inez who was really dangerous and the

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whole like why didn't you guys warn them? And I

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had forgotten that there's the thing with her weird toxicity

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power that causes like memory shit to be all wonky.

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So I rescind that criticism. I feel that's only fair, Okay,

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So I feel like we're good now, now we can begin.

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I think that I just wanted to make sure that

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the footing we were on Oswaldo, that's his name, that

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we were, you know, all on the same page here,

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then everybody understood the situation. So sorry, Michael says, rabbit

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eared in the in the chap And you know, I

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will be very real with you, Michael. While I know

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rabbits have giant ears and that we tend to associate

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that with exceptional hearing, I am actually not certain if

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rabbit's hearing is like better than other animals in reality,

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or if it is simply that they have just exaggerated

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ears that results in like decent hearing. You know, do

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the oversized ears materially benefit I actually don't know. I

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feel like if I say rabbit eared listeners, though I

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don't think people are gonna get what I mean. It

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doesn't really have the you know what I'm saying. I

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don't know. Gotta workshop this a little bit. So forty

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two begins with Olga at the steering wheel, and and Oliga,

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I have got to say, there's a point where earlier

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in the section, the one before, Donut says something about

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how nobody likes a complainer, and I think she's talking

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to Deroda the seat when she says this, I am

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kind of feeling like Olga was a really big complainer

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was upset or whining about having not been informed about

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a thing, it often was her, and in such a

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way that, look, I love complaining. I just want to

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be honest that I am not trying to be hypocritical

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in criticizing somebody else for complaining, because you know, but

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there is a type of complaining that is useful or helpful,

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and there is a type that isn't, and Olga was

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really indulging in the type that isn't. Anyway, the thorny

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bush thing fired a gun I think, at the deformed humanoids,

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but their vehicle was too fast. Their gun blasted right

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into the side of the hairy animal team and the

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animal fell over. But it's getting back up. The bush

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is now coming up fast, and Oswaldo is messaging Carl

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saying I'm going to fucking kill that unicorn, which I

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am rapidly beginning to suspect it is going to be

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down to the unicorn and the rat and the bush

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by the end of this section, because it just you

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can't have characters being this much of a heel and

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then not have that be the final showdown. You know,

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reality television rules. If somebody is like this, hated by

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everybody and has been fucking around with everybody to this degree,

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you gotta kind of keep them around and generate interest

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in this way. And uh, what is the krawl but

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reality TV essentially so yeah, this is when we find

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out about kmatas panic disorder and killing the previous uh

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one of the previous clients. And I really enjoy Donut

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messaging Caral and being like, this isn't Dalton Abby, we

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shouldn't have to deal with drama from the help. That

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really got me when she said this isn't Dalton Abby.

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I was like what And then we shouldn't have to

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deal with drama from the Help. That's a good line,

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very good. And then we get another message from Imani.

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You just passed us. We were behind the Bleak Congregation

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and we pulled onto the road just as you passed.

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Ellie is driving and she drives like an old lady,

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but we're behind you. We already lost a team crawler, Henrietta,

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the one from Angola. They hit a trap. It swallowed

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their mount hole and she and her partner are gone.

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It swallowed their mount hole. I look, Carl has got

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some abilities regarding traps and being able to see them early, allegedly,

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you know, like I really do not know how that

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applies to something like this where we are moving at

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a pace. I don't really know how much warning he's

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going to get. I know that he has this ability

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to like set off the traps all at once, but

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if we're too close to one. There's not necessarily no

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hope with this, obviously, but just knowing, Like, when I'm

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thinking about what a trap is going to be, I'm

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expecting it to be something like it gives you a

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flat tire, it causes the like an axle to break.

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I'm not thinking it just eats you and you're gone.

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it was going to be like we're making it more

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difficult for you to finish, not simply we are removing

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you from the fucking crawl. You're dead. Like that's insane,

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Michael says, would a predator waiting in ambush even count

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as a trap? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is the thing.

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Speaker 1: It's like I would say if the predator is like

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in a cage and it's a trap that gets tripped

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by like rolling over it or something, then yes. But

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if there is simply a predator that is in a

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place because that predator is roaming around, then no, I

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think it. Like to me, intent would matter on what

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counts as a trap. Now, granted, the AI is going

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to have its own rules on this, so you know,

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holds any water whatsoever. I'm just saying that that's what

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I would expect. But yeah, I just was really taken

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aback by the fact that that was something that could

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even happen. And Chapter forty three starts with the track

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suddenly got bumpier, we slowed down, and Olga says that

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she's making the wheels bigger to compensate, which is a

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really nice thing that we can do. Let me find

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out about. Like the whole thing with the cannibals, Dona

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is like are they if they're not human? Because like

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so many different types of monsters act only eat each other.

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and we have the shield, so they get killed, but

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it's wearing the shield down it can't withstand this forever.

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A chorus of high pitched screeches filled the jungle. What

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are they? They keep blowing up before I can see them.

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They're human, I think, but they're acting like bugs. It's

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like the bright light is driven the mad. A natural

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bridge crossed the path up ahead. The tall arch appeared

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to be made of a tree that had been deliberately

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bent over and tied. Hanging from it were dozens of skeletons.

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Decapitated dried heads dotted the structure. Hundreds more random body

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parts and bones littered the arch like grisly Christmas tree decorations.

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about a hundred of the cannibals. They were pale, slightly

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pudgy human creatures. So right away, I'm reassured because the

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fact that this was going to be a bunch of

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racist stereotypes. If we were doing this in our universe,

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there is absolutely zero doubt whatsoever that this would be

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people of color, whether they would be black or you know,

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the sort of do thracky anybody who's not white is

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death Rocky on Game of Thrones kind of vibe it.

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This is absolutely how it would be set up, and

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it's just reassuring. Now, granted, we've got a lot of Gingers,

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as it turns out, is the theme here, but it's fine.

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This is I just can't have a problem with this,

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and I think that most Gingers would find this amusing. Actually,

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but we will get there. So Donut uses her astral

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paw here for the first time since she did it

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as a war crime, so it's just a regular one.

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But I was surprised that she used it, honestly, because

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I just you know, but it's super effective. Swiped through

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the woods ahead of us, sweeping all the cannibals on

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the bridge away like she was sweeping pieces off a chessboard.

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Most flew off into the jungle, screaming. The spell wasn't

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nearly as large as when she cast her war crime spell,

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but it was still huge. The tree flipped up like

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a catapult, flinging the remaining cannibals in the opposite directions.

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Skeleton bones rained down, they crunched under the truck as

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we passed. I appreciated that because there was a part

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of me that wondered whether or not the tree itself

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was a part of a trap, like you know, the

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sort of thing where you roll over it and loop

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just tightens around you and lifts the car into the

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air or something. This is when Ellie says, donnut, have

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I told you recently how terrifying you are. Let's see,

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I'm trying to find this bit here. She waved a

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few more times, trees around snapped and broke. It's a

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lot stronger than it was before, but it doesn't last long,

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and the cool down is much longer now. It's supposed

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to get shorter as the level goes up, not the

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other way. And Carl is like, yeah, because you're so

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friggin strong now it's trying to keep you from being

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able to just get through everything no problem whatsoever. She

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isn't going to be able to cast that spell again

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for another eight hours. And here we go, a particularly

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large cannibal stood in the road ahead of us, blocking

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the path. This one was enormously fat, and it didn't

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hold a spear but a staff that glowed with enchantment,

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and it's got this kind of mind control thing going

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on that both Carl and Dona are immune too, but

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as it turns out, Olga is not, and it is

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a pretty intense. It's so so. It's not just that

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like you're enchanted to be charmed or anything. Olga's basically

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as good as dead unless we are able to do

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something pretty dramatic to get her soul back to her,

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which needless to say, is not going to be happening

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as we get there. But uh yeah, so great, Rusty

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cannibal ginger chieftain level ninety nine, neighborhood Boss. These human

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like moms are from Earth. We didn't change anything about

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them except we made them cannibals to fit in with

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the whole jungle theme. This is a ginger they hide

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amongst regular humans. They're the result of alien interference in

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the development of your human world, much like how octopuses

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are also the result of outside meddling after the initial seating.

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Nobody really knows when the corruption was introduced, but it's

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expected the nullians were involved. The men are said to

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be sexually deviant to a fault. The women are known

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to be let's just say, extra spicy. Both sides have

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whacked out pain tolerance, making them more susceptible to heat

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and cold, but immune to electrical and acid attacks, which

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is actually a real thing. There is association between being

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redheaded and pain tolerance, and they have a lower pain

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tolerance on some things but higher with others. And it's just,

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you know, there's much of this amongst different types of

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human beings. And I think I've mentioned before that my father,

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having so much Native American blood, passed on the susceptibility

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to alcohol that makes you get drunk faster and also

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turn quite red, which is something that happens to a

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lot of Asian people as well. So it's unsurprising because

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Native blood is very linked with Asians.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's uh, it's just I.

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Speaker 1: Turn really red. Guys, they can suck your soul away.

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Never stare too long into the face of a ginger.

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If you get lost in their eyes, it's already too late.

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I am shocked, I repeat shocked. As I read this

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text from the Kindle version, this is not highlighted. I

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thought for sure that people were going to just jump

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into this like headfirst as what a delightful weird joke,

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because is it racist technically technically in the most technical

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way of saying the word. But also racism against white

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people is a really like layered weird thing. So it's

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difficult for me and granted, there are some non white

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people who are Gingers as well, but like we know,

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we know what we're talking about here is going to

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be mostly white people, and they are described as pale

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this book for this purpose. So so yeah, it's just uh,

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you know, yeah, we have a whole thing. Donu says,

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this is ginger phobia laid bare, disgusting. Ferdinand would be appalled, though,

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if we're being honest, the pervert part is probably true.

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I don't even I don't think I've ever met an

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orange cat who shouldn't be on some sort of registry.

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And Carl is saying, I love how this whole thing

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is both socially conscious and outrageously racist at the same time,

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because after that first description the North and South settlements

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destroying one will create a power vacuum that will have

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a cascading, devastating effect. It's not like that's a metaphor

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or anything about how outsiders crash through cultures, have their fun,

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and then leave after they've vilified the natives and exploited

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them to the point where they can never possibly recover,

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and then generations later blame them because they still struggle

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to step up. So yeah, it's a really, it's a

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somehow Matt Dinneman has threaded this needle. I was really like,

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I felt pretty confident actually that he was going to

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pull it off. But I was like, I just don't

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know how you do when you've let us know ahead

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of time that you're it's going to be racist stereotypes,

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like how you know and so doing this is just

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a really nice side step. Well done, Matt. I gotta

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give you some props for this one. Michael says, leave

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orange cats alone. They have it tough. They have it tough.

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It isn't easy to have to all share the same

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single brain cell. I'll be honest, guys. The whole like

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orange cats are so stupid is like something that I

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only learned in the past five years or so. I

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didn't know that this was like an accepted thing, and

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I can't help but understand it. That is to say, though,

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one of my cats who passed away recently, Ripley, was

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the stupidest cat I've ever met in my entire life,

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and she was very sweet, but my god, what a

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dumb dumb so Carl when she's like, I'm assuming the

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same is true for humans, he says, it's not It's

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just a stupid thing people do to make fun of others.

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None of it is true. The AI is being a

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prejudiced dick, not even the part about the women being spicier. Well,

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I paused and then shook my head. No, it's like

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everything else, Ah, Carl, And he says something about the

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AI thinks if the AI thinks redheads are the spiciest,

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he's clearly never met a Latina, which is Carl being

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racist now. But Donut points out that Carl is saying

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he in regard to the AI a lot more often recently,

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and he doesn't actually address this because we have our

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emergency with Olga happening next. But this is one of

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those things that the TV show The League actually had

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a really great like scene dedicated to the coded language

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that sports announcers use when they're talking about players of

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certain ethnicities, and the term firecracker always is applied to

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Latino players, and the you know there is culturally going

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to be a certain except like this is what a

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lot of this stuff, these stereotypes come from a place

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of well, this culture doesn't have the same weird hang

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ups that white people do about certain things. So now

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we act like that's their whole thing. And the spiciness

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of latinas as well as Italian women. Those two cultures

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don't demonize women's being angry in the way that certain

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Anglo culture does. And it's just a really I have

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grown to notice, because if you're going to talk about racism,

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there are levels to it, right, There's all different weird types.

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And a reference for me was my grandmother, who was

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that really specific type of racist. Where Italians don't count

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as white, Spanish people don't count as white. You have

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to be like German, Norwegian, English, Finnish, you have to

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be above a certain spot and nowhere near any of

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the like more tropical areas of Europe in order to

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really count. If you're swarthy in any way, no, you're

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not really white. And if you go by this weird logic,

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which that will be expanded, the definition of whiteness expands

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depending on how outnumbered.

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Speaker 2: White people feel.

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Speaker 1: So if they are feeling like, okay, well the Irish

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or throwing in a little bit too much with black

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people to try and like oust us from control, now

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we have to tell the Irish that they are white.

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Actually we take it back, never mind, and then they

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will feel superior and stop associating with and allying with

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black people, which is just literally what happened, and it

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was very It was a very conceit considered and documented

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choice to do that. But all of this to say,

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the types of white that my grandmother considered truly white

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value control above almost everything else, and control can mean

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a lot of different things, but over one's own emotions

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is a major one. And the type of passion that

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results in being publicly upset or angry or really really

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considered tasteless, low class and you should be ashamed of yourself.

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All of that is for behind closed doors. So this

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is why certain races are described as spicier because it's

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in their culture, not a stigmatized to show certain types

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of emotion. In general. Yeah, it's just things are very odd, man.

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We just have these bizarre goalposts that we like set

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and act like are absolute, and then we will move

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them at the drop of a hat if things aren't

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going the way we want them to go. So they

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are nowhere close to absolute, But when we need them

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to be true for our own ends, they are immovable

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until they're not. It's just really dumb. Anyway. This is

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when Olga gets hit with the uh the soul drain thing,

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and Mordecai says, did you see the did you kill

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the mob that did it? It'll return her soul, but

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she needs specialized healing from a cleric. She'll be in

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a fugue until that happens. Good thing you have a

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backup driver famous last words. We really thought, we really

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thought that three was going to be enough. But Donut says,

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I did the voting thing for Great Rusty. I said,

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let the audience choose, and they're voting now. So I'm

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really curious about this because when Mordecai says did you

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kill the mob that did it? I am not sure

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if the voting affects whether or not he counts as killed,

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Like you know what I'm saying, does that because technically

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August still like kind of alive later, But I think

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that ship is sailed pretty much. I don't know, though.

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There are things in this game that can be done

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that are just I would never consider, so I don't know.

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This is when we get a new quest. Great Rusty

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is fallen. Maurice, the chieftain of the Northern Tribe, will

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learn of his enemy's death and move in and when

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that much power grows unchecked, everybody loses. Find and kill Maurice,

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chieftain of the Northern Tribe. Whoever completes this quest will

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receive the contents of Maurice's cook pot, which could mean

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a lot of different things, and I just don't really

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want to speculate on any of them. To be perfectly honest,

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this is a mandatory quest. You will not be able

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to finish the race unless Maurice is the Maurice on

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your track is dead, which it like. The way that

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this whole thing is working is very much giving somebody

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who is trying to create the game as we go along,

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which we know is actually true of the AI because

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they weren't supposed to be this many crawlers. This is

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also when Carl says, goddamn it, doctor Metcalf, you said

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there weren't any quests on this path. Oh fuck off, Carl,

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this is just typical upgrade me. Stop being selfish and

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maybe you'll get better intel. I can't read minds. The

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quest happened when the cat blew up the fat guy,

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so that's fair, I think. Actually doctor Metcalf like yelling

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at him about getting upgraded. No, but she could not

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have foreseen this, so you know, things happen. Chapter forty four,

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the Piranhas did indeed fly, And when I read that

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name in the last section, I sure hope these Piranhas

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haven't learned to fly river. I didn't even like really

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stop to address it because there's so much bonker shit.

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You know, I can't do it every time. But I

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was sort of like, Okay, well that's gonna suck. And yeah,

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by the time we reached the river, our shield had recharged.

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We had to inflate our tires fully across the river

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and then waited on the opposite bank for Immani and

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Ellie's APV to Ford, which it did easily. The thing

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was meant to be amphibious even without upgrades. The Piranhas

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were especially strong for a mob that attacked in packs.

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Each one was level fifty. They didn't explode like the

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Cannibals did against the shield, but instead sort of sizzled

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and stuck there for a few moments before dropping away dead,

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which sounds like they're being pan fried. Really. Doughnut used

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her fresh into Salt spell on the river, and this

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is from her Champion of Neckabit title that pretty much

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finished off the rest, she still didn't go up a level.

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She is getting so pissed. But this is what happens,

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you know, it's not anybody knows when you look at

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certain levels within certain games and whatnot, that it becomes exponential.

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So I am not surprised. Let's see, Finley kept chewing

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on his own claws. We bumped through the dark forest.

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This is no good, no good, no pay is worth this.

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I shouldn't have used such a strong sedative on k

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She'll be mad when she wakes up. She'll be mad.

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I didn't protect Olga, and Dona is trying to cheer

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him up, and it's just like maybe we'll run into

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a cleric that can wake up Olga and we finally

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pull into the pit stop. Safe room rules do not

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apply during pit stops. I have to say when I

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saw that, I had my stomach drop a little bit.

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I didn't really put it into words, but I think

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I was assuming the pit stops were going to have

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the safe room rules and finding out that they don't.

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I mean, what winds up happening is no surprise in

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light of that. Yeah, anyway, where I was expecting more

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jungle with something completely incongruous to the east was what

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appeared to be a tall group of black tubes. Opposite.

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I was expecting more jungle, but it appeared like just

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went on and on. All the other houses from all

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three heats had been arranged in a long line, like

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in a long suburban street. The hot dog truck was

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there poking out the back of a garage. Rapture and

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Genesis were walking from their garage toward a doorway at

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the end of the street that led to what looked

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like a group of falling down buildings and huts. And

473
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:29,440
there's Ellie and Imani's garage where and there's another one

474
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,599
next to it where Heat he has appeared. A two

475
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,000
hour timer starts the moment you park. Garage doors may

476
00:34:36,039 --> 00:34:40,599
not be closed during pit stops. Safe from access is

477
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:44,039
unavailable during pit stops. The fact that you can't close

478
00:34:44,079 --> 00:34:50,000
the door, I mean, come on, dude, fucking come on.

479
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,840
If the open garage doors indicate the ones who've already

480
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,840
arrived were doing better than I feared, I said, Counting

481
00:35:01,199 --> 00:35:03,840
there were twenty four houses total and only eleven doors

482
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,760
were open. I started trying to see if I recognized

483
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,719
any of the others. Team Sparkles was the first I

484
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:14,119
saw Osvaldo's slaughter New was also parked after the Lady Dominators.

485
00:35:14,159 --> 00:35:16,440
That meant we were in fourth place, ahead of the

486
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:23,320
bug Bears and one fine Pig who had yet to arrive. Yeah.

487
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:28,559
So we pull into garage and Heady comments on the

488
00:35:28,559 --> 00:35:31,280
fact that the car overall is in better shape than

489
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:38,159
last time, and they are followed after this by Josha

490
00:35:38,199 --> 00:35:42,760
and Radislav the bug Bears, and that their vehicle has

491
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:50,800
been fucking trashed. Uh let's see. Oh yeah, Heaty is

492
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,920
surprised at the Node closing the garage door as well.

493
00:35:55,039 --> 00:35:57,079
It looks like it's going to be the standing rule.

494
00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,719
I ain't safe like this. Okay, nobody stayed in the

495
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:04,239
garage with you after we left. No, ain't no door anymore.

496
00:36:05,159 --> 00:36:10,039
Jamal does protest. Came Jamal's weak, cracking voice from the ceiling.

497
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:15,440
This is such an interesting scene, you guys, because the

498
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,760
whole way that this goes down is that Jamal feels

499
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,440
like he's being the over dramatic pain in the ass

500
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,760
that he always is, but it turns out that he

501
00:36:26,039 --> 00:36:30,039
is having an existential crisis also, and so suddenly he

502
00:36:30,079 --> 00:36:32,719
goes from me being like dude, oh my god enough,

503
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,559
which is exactly how everybody is reacting to me suddenly

504
00:36:37,599 --> 00:36:44,480
being like, oh sweetie, oh I'm so sorry. Let's see.

505
00:36:45,199 --> 00:36:48,880
So he was testing out these fringing other legs and

506
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:54,559
he gets stuck up at the ceiling. He is afraid

507
00:36:54,599 --> 00:36:57,000
of heights, so when he jumped up there, he just

508
00:36:57,079 --> 00:37:01,840
has basically kind of frozen up in fear and donut like.

509
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,920
He says, when Jamal jumps, he doesn't have time to

510
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:08,760
see how high he is because he always falls down again. Okay,

511
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,679
Jarjar listen, Doughnut started to say, we don't have time

512
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:16,000
to When she said jar Jar, had a moment of

513
00:37:16,039 --> 00:37:21,000
like is that fair? Because Jorjar is really a very irritating,

514
00:37:21,039 --> 00:37:24,400
fucking I'm not sure I would put Jamal in the

515
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:29,119
same you know, like I don't I but I understand

516
00:37:29,159 --> 00:37:33,280
her feeling this way. But Jamal interrupted her, talking fast,

517
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:38,000
his voice taking on a sad, strange tone. Jamal is

518
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,039
happy to have his legs, but he wishes he could

519
00:37:40,039 --> 00:37:42,840
just go back to the ocean. We aren't at warlike before,

520
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,480
but everything is so much scarier. All of a sudden,

521
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:48,280
Messiti says, if you die, we die, We.

522
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 2: Won't even know. Everything will just stop.

523
00:37:50,599 --> 00:37:52,559
Speaker 1: She says, that's what happened to the Gremlin and all

524
00:37:52,559 --> 00:37:55,119
the people in the houses of the other racers. So

525
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,360
Jamal came up here so he could see everything all

526
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:01,360
at once. It's what Jamal used to do before, when

527
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,800
he was real. He was so brave, but he was

528
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:09,159
not me. I know that, but I want to be brave.

529
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:11,320
I want to be Jamal. But now I'm up here

530
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:12,920
and I can see it all, and I am so

531
00:38:13,079 --> 00:38:15,119
scared of what I might lose. I'm scared to come

532
00:38:15,159 --> 00:38:17,920
down because if I do, maybe I won't ever see

533
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:23,719
it again. And I was just like, oh, sweetie, and

534
00:38:24,199 --> 00:38:26,679
Donut goes up there. When Carl asked her later what

535
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,920
she said, she tells him I said, he shouldn't be

536
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,079
scared about that sort of thing. Yes, it could happen

537
00:38:33,119 --> 00:38:35,679
at any moment, but if we worry about things we

538
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:38,480
can't control, we start to ruin the things we can control.

539
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:40,920
And that even though he can be annoying, he's part

540
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:42,679
of the family, and that he shouldn't be scared to

541
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:45,360
tell us when he's in trouble, even when we're frustrated,

542
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:48,000
will help the best we can because that's what family does.

543
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:55,159
And it's just really really sweet, you guys. And I

544
00:38:55,199 --> 00:39:01,320
mean it's tough because, like it's the last section that

545
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,039
we just saw her being like, maybe it's better if

546
00:39:04,039 --> 00:39:06,360
we're not friends with Oswaldo so that it won't hurt

547
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:11,280
so much. And obviously Jamal is part of our crew

548
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,079
in a way that Oswaldo was not. So I am

549
00:39:14,119 --> 00:39:16,320
not trying to say that she's done a reversal at all.

550
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,599
It's just that these two extremes have to be in

551
00:39:20,679 --> 00:39:24,679
such conflict inside of her that it must be really painful.

552
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:32,079
And this is when Finley comes out and he is

553
00:39:32,199 --> 00:39:36,760
carrying the toad and Kemata is draped over his shoulder.

554
00:39:38,199 --> 00:39:40,559
I'm going into town, Finley said, I will see if

555
00:39:40,559 --> 00:39:42,440
there's a temple. I'm taking Ky with me because I

556
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:45,159
don't want her to wake up and be alone. I

557
00:39:45,199 --> 00:39:47,039
heard what you said to the shark, how you feel

558
00:39:47,079 --> 00:39:50,280
about him. I feel about these guys. They're my family.

559
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,280
I've already lost so much and I don't want to

560
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,360
lose more. So I'm going to help them the best

561
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,000
I can. I know I'm supposed to do what you say,

562
00:39:58,159 --> 00:40:00,480
and I promise to come back, but I want you

563
00:40:00,519 --> 00:40:02,159
to know this is my family and I'll do what

564
00:40:02,159 --> 00:40:05,719
it takes to protect them. Finley walked right out of

565
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:08,639
the open garage door, stepped onto the street, and was

566
00:40:08,679 --> 00:40:12,719
promptly mowed down and killed by the speeding APV from

567
00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:17,639
Team One Fine Pig. The APV hit the brake, smearing

568
00:40:17,639 --> 00:40:21,360
the bodies of all three across the street, backed up

569
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,639
a few feet, then went forward again, smashing them all

570
00:40:24,679 --> 00:40:27,880
further into the pavement before disappearing down the street and

571
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:32,039
turning into their garage. You guys, the fact that they

572
00:40:32,079 --> 00:40:35,119
back up and roll back over them again is really

573
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:40,159
insult to injury and I am so sorry, but I

574
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:46,599
can't like what Carl does to them later is one

575
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:52,880
percent deserved. Sorry about it, but yeah, that's I'm not

576
00:40:53,320 --> 00:41:01,719
you know. So this understandablys Carl into a bit of

577
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:08,320
a rage. He is in a place where he is

578
00:41:08,559 --> 00:41:14,599
beginning to lose control of himself and he sees somebody

579
00:41:14,639 --> 00:41:18,159
else die in a way that could easily have been

580
00:41:18,239 --> 00:41:21,599
him because he isn't paying attention. There are people yelling

581
00:41:21,599 --> 00:41:23,960
around him trying to get his attention, and he is

582
00:41:24,119 --> 00:41:29,000
not hearing what they're saying, and clearly it was then

583
00:41:29,039 --> 00:41:32,639
trying to warn him and restrain him, and he is

584
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:39,920
just not interested. So yeah, he runs up to the

585
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:45,480
APV before the tigrants have actually gotten out, and ethereal

586
00:41:45,639 --> 00:41:48,920
gun suddenly materialized, coming out of the side of the vehicle,

587
00:41:49,079 --> 00:41:53,079
right in the butt of the pig airbrush on the side,

588
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:57,599
and it fires and he just barely gets out of

589
00:41:57,679 --> 00:42:01,000
the way. The entire wall of the gar blew out.

590
00:42:01,079 --> 00:42:04,519
A wall of the next house over caved in, revealing

591
00:42:04,519 --> 00:42:07,639
the double decker bus. The powerful blast hit the side

592
00:42:07,639 --> 00:42:11,760
of the vehicle and it flipped, catching on fire. So

593
00:42:12,159 --> 00:42:18,920
these guys screwed them as well. And the driver of

594
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:24,360
that one is a camel. Let's see Daria, the tigrin appeared,

595
00:42:24,679 --> 00:42:28,039
get out of our garage. He popped back down. The

596
00:42:28,119 --> 00:42:31,639
three Dromedarians entered the garage and started beating the shit

597
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,559
out of the front of the APV with their baseball bats.

598
00:42:35,159 --> 00:42:37,840
Next door, the fire in the garage spread to the walls.

599
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,320
Their gremlin was running around with the fire extinguisher, but

600
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,960
a moment later, the entire double decker bus was encased

601
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:46,159
in ice and the fire stopped. That was an alley spell.

602
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:54,159
And this is when he is punching with his gauntlet

603
00:42:54,199 --> 00:43:00,599
the side of the vehicle and creating enough damage that

604
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:04,519
later on he can hear the two tigrin talking to

605
00:43:04,599 --> 00:43:08,559
each other about how probably they shouldn't have pissed him off,

606
00:43:08,760 --> 00:43:12,599
and that they made a mistake on this one. This

607
00:43:12,639 --> 00:43:15,599
is when the square shaped shield turned back on, pushing

608
00:43:15,639 --> 00:43:19,039
me back with a heavy electric shove. The camel on

609
00:43:19,079 --> 00:43:21,079
the hood of the truck flew upward and back, his

610
00:43:21,199 --> 00:43:25,480
head crunching sickeningly against the top lip of the garage door.

611
00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:30,000
His neck was broken dead before he even hit the road,

612
00:43:31,559 --> 00:43:38,480
and from inside the garage came a new scream lipstick.

613
00:43:38,519 --> 00:43:41,440
The gremlin was pressed against the back wall, pinned between

614
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:45,760
the shield and the barricade. The gremlin suddenly exploded, the

615
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,800
gore held aloft by the shield and spread in a

616
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:52,039
red flowerlike pattern against the wall, like a drop of

617
00:43:52,159 --> 00:43:57,320
blood pressed under a piece of glass. I started to

618
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:01,639
get back up, wondering if my wraith phase would work,

619
00:44:03,119 --> 00:44:06,599
wondering if my wraith phase would work. Like all of

620
00:44:06,639 --> 00:44:12,000
this has happened, and this is by no means causing

621
00:44:12,039 --> 00:44:15,840
Karl to stop and realize that he shouldn't be doing

622
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:19,760
what he's doing. He is simply recalibrating his attack plan.

623
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:25,079
It is not until Immani steps in and Donut finally

624
00:44:25,159 --> 00:44:32,639
gets through that he realizes they'd walked me out of

625
00:44:32,679 --> 00:44:34,719
sight of their garage. And I sat at the curb

626
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:37,320
in front of the remains of our mercenaries. I just

627
00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:43,760
sat there, breathing heavily. It had happened so fast. I

628
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:47,559
was taken with how unfair it was, and I just

629
00:44:47,639 --> 00:44:59,440
really want Carl's rage here, while understandable, is so different

630
00:45:00,280 --> 00:45:04,559
than what you think, because like my immediate thought personally

631
00:45:05,679 --> 00:45:09,920
after Finley's speech was like, oh my god, that's so unfair,

632
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:14,760
closely followed by oh my god, that's all of our mercenaries.

633
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:20,840
Who the fuck is gonna drive? And I thought Karl

634
00:45:21,039 --> 00:45:24,320
was more reacting to that, and obviously that's a factor

635
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,559
as well. But once you are in his head here

636
00:45:27,599 --> 00:45:32,519
and he is just starting to cool down, the anger

637
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:38,039
is a lot more about the unfairness, and I find

638
00:45:38,119 --> 00:45:43,480
that really really admirable. This rage isn't even about him

639
00:45:43,599 --> 00:45:52,079
and Dona and their race. For weeks months we'd been

640
00:45:52,079 --> 00:45:54,679
on the precipice of death crawlers I knew were dying

641
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,599
left and right, and NPCs like these were falling by

642
00:45:57,639 --> 00:46:00,280
the thousands. But there was something about that simple act

643
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,880
of defiance that Finley and NPC I didn't even know

644
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,480
had shown protecting his two friends. He had been on

645
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:09,960
his way to help them, and then all three of

646
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:15,760
them had just been snuffed out. Fuck, I cried out.

647
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:20,760
I was so angry, so overwhelmed after all that, for

648
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:24,960
them to be hit and killed right there on the street.

649
00:46:25,639 --> 00:46:33,519
Fuck Jacobus buzzed near my ear, he whispered, And I'm

650
00:46:33,559 --> 00:46:37,119
going to find this. I hate tigers too. They only

651
00:46:37,159 --> 00:46:40,679
have thirty teeth. If you pay me, or if you

652
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:46,280
let me fuck the pig, I'll make their skulls explode.

653
00:46:47,159 --> 00:46:57,320
Helpful Jacobus, Thank you, Oh God. The two remaining camels

654
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,639
were now sitting on the floor of their garage. One

655
00:46:59,679 --> 00:47:02,400
put his head into the lap of the other. Imani

656
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:05,159
and Ellie were in there talking to them, giving us space.

657
00:47:05,679 --> 00:47:09,119
We were fucked. We couldn't drive, We couldn't hire new

658
00:47:09,119 --> 00:47:13,000
mercenaries between heats and MONI couldn't drive. We couldn't even

659
00:47:13,079 --> 00:47:16,480
use goddamn Jamal because he counted as a hired mercenary.

660
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:24,400
And gremlins couldn't drive, and y'all I just again want

661
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:27,960
to point out how long it takes for him to

662
00:47:28,039 --> 00:47:33,320
address that in comparison with just being really sorry what

663
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,400
happened to Finley and Olga and came out of for

664
00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:41,119
the sake of it, Like, the way that it affects

665
00:47:41,199 --> 00:47:45,920
them is so distant behind his rage at how unfair

666
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:49,960
this was to do to them, And I think that

667
00:47:50,159 --> 00:47:58,920
is so important. That it's like Carl really really sees

668
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:04,639
the NPC as people in a way that I will

669
00:48:04,679 --> 00:48:10,719
confess I don't even as a reader. And honestly, I like,

670
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:12,679
I'm not even mad at myself for that, because as

671
00:48:12,679 --> 00:48:16,079
a reader, even the characters that are real people that

672
00:48:16,079 --> 00:48:19,119
aren't in PCs, in anything that you don't that are

673
00:48:19,159 --> 00:48:22,360
not your means, you're going to care about less than

674
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:22,960
your means.

675
00:48:23,159 --> 00:48:23,360
Speaker 2: You know.

676
00:48:23,519 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: That's just like the nature of it. But I just

677
00:48:27,039 --> 00:48:31,880
think it's really it's remarkable the way that this is

678
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:36,559
set up, because having Carl get so angry and go

679
00:48:36,639 --> 00:48:42,039
after them and that last for like two pages, and

680
00:48:42,159 --> 00:48:46,480
me sitting here thinking that I really know what's getting

681
00:48:46,559 --> 00:48:50,480
him so angry, and then finding out that well, yeah,

682
00:48:50,519 --> 00:48:52,639
that's in there, but that's not even the main thing.

683
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:57,360
It was just a nice moment of like, oh, Carl

684
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:01,199
is angry for the right reason in a way that

685
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:04,280
makes me have faith in him and I have this

686
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:08,800
whole time. But that's just so significant to me, you know.

687
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,679
Michael says, I just feel bad for Penelope. Poor pig

688
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,480
had no idea what was going on. Yeah, Penelope is

689
00:49:17,519 --> 00:49:22,239
a really weird element in all of this. And then

690
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:24,679
Michael says, Matt really twisted the knife by having it

691
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:29,280
happen right after Finley's speech. Yeah, And it's interesting because, like,

692
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,000
depending on how this we're done, I could have reacted

693
00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:38,280
really poorly to the choice to have Finley make this

694
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,920
speech and then immediately kill him, Like it could feel

695
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:49,119
really cheap. And I'm kind of compelled by the fact

696
00:49:49,159 --> 00:49:51,639
that I don't find it cheap. And why is that.

697
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:57,599
I think it's because everybody slowly having these like existential

698
00:49:57,639 --> 00:50:02,960
crises has been set up. We have seen the different

699
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:08,559
ways that people are reacting, and Finley responding and giving

700
00:50:08,599 --> 00:50:10,679
this speech does not feel like it's out of nowhere

701
00:50:10,719 --> 00:50:14,119
because we just had Jamal and the moment with him

702
00:50:14,119 --> 00:50:21,039
in Donut, So Finley's like speech is in context. This

703
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:25,519
moment that you could call grandstanding is as Carl put

704
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:30,800
it this act of defiance that is very like in

705
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,880
keeping with how everybody is trying to do their best,

706
00:50:35,039 --> 00:50:38,679
knowing that to a degree, maybe none of this means anything.

707
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:45,280
So it doesn't It doesn't feel the way that it

708
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:48,159
felt on The Walking Dead, where you would just like

709
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:51,360
have a moment with a character and that character would

710
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:53,320
die by the end of the episode and you would

711
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:56,039
be like, of course they died because they hadn't gotten

712
00:50:56,039 --> 00:50:58,920
a chance to say more than a single sentence, and

713
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,199
they were given eight in a row and that was

714
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:08,199
the kisse of death. This feels like Matt Dinneman is

715
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:12,840
showing us some of them are doing what Carl is

716
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:17,119
trying to do, you know, some of them are refusing

717
00:51:17,199 --> 00:51:22,039
to turn off the fact that they care and leaning

718
00:51:22,119 --> 00:51:25,599
into it because that's the only thing that really matters.

719
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:30,639
And then there are guys like the Tigrin who are

720
00:51:31,159 --> 00:51:37,000
only caring about themselves and Penelope and just showing us

721
00:51:37,039 --> 00:51:40,199
the extremes of the ways they are all coping. And

722
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:42,519
you know, like the Tigrin have got to be in

723
00:51:42,559 --> 00:51:46,039
the race because they know that they are in PCs.

724
00:51:46,199 --> 00:51:49,280
That's apparently the way this whole thing is set up.

725
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:56,320
So they could in a way choose to like operate

726
00:51:56,519 --> 00:52:00,559
similarly to Carl in support of their fellow NPCs, and

727
00:52:00,599 --> 00:52:02,400
they are choosing not to do that.

728
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:03,559
Speaker 2: And.

729
00:52:05,079 --> 00:52:09,679
Speaker 1: It's part of the world building. It doesn't feel like

730
00:52:10,199 --> 00:52:13,719
I am being manipulated to have a reaction because the

731
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:19,440
show doesn't want to bringing up show and referencing again

732
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:22,880
The Walking Dead, because the show doesn't want to really

733
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:29,320
do anything new or risky. So it's just going to

734
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:31,679
kill a red Shirt to make us like sad for

735
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:36,400
this one episode in a way that doesn't really matter. This,

736
00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:41,000
while not one of our main characters, is still a

737
00:52:41,039 --> 00:52:43,519
massive loss to our team because of the danger it

738
00:52:43,559 --> 00:52:47,599
puts them in. So while it's not like we're losing

739
00:52:47,639 --> 00:52:51,559
somebody that we have personally grown particularly attached to, it

740
00:52:51,599 --> 00:52:55,599
is still a loss that affects us, even if it's

741
00:52:55,639 --> 00:52:58,519
in a practical way rather than really an emotional way.

742
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:05,159
And the emotional way is now there also, So just

743
00:53:06,199 --> 00:53:10,719
you know, guys, there's something to be said for all

744
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:14,039
of these different, like little nuanced elements that I think

745
00:53:14,079 --> 00:53:17,559
can I think a lot of people might feel that

746
00:53:17,639 --> 00:53:23,000
I was being a little bit too either forgiving or

747
00:53:23,199 --> 00:53:26,719
I was using a lot of like tiny details to

748
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,599
justify reacting differently to this, but I think it matters,

749
00:53:30,559 --> 00:53:34,719
and sometimes it can be really hard to verbalize what

750
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:36,880
you know. I've talked about this with like world building

751
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:41,519
as well, and how some world building feels like it

752
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,360
completely falls into place and you're reading and all of

753
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:48,960
a sudden, the world in which you have been transported

754
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:54,079
feels bigger and realer and more expansive. And then there

755
00:53:54,119 --> 00:53:58,280
are times where the world building feels very much like

756
00:53:58,559 --> 00:54:02,239
an author coming up with names and making a list

757
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:03,719
and it.

758
00:54:03,599 --> 00:54:05,599
Speaker 2: Doesn't hit at all.

759
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:10,039
Speaker 1: If anything, it makes the world feel smaller because there's

760
00:54:10,039 --> 00:54:14,639
something about it all that's just like it's drawing attention

761
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:18,000
to the fact that the world doesn't feel real. And

762
00:54:19,079 --> 00:54:22,440
I've been struggling with a lot of this as somebody

763
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:26,159
covering different things for a living, because I have felt

764
00:54:26,199 --> 00:54:29,280
so many times I should really be able to put

765
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:32,000
my finger on why this works and doesn't work by now,

766
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,360
and I feel like I'm only just starting to be

767
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:42,239
able to really see it. And it's like even now,

768
00:54:42,639 --> 00:54:46,320
I don't you know, it's taking me like five full

769
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,360
minutes of talking to get my point across, and I'm

770
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:52,280
not even sure I really did it, but I don't know.

771
00:54:52,400 --> 00:55:02,679
I'm trying. So let's see, she says. Donah is saying

772
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:05,280
it's okay. We'll find a way. We have plans in

773
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:09,800
case this happens. She was right. I couldn't react like that.

774
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:12,320
Now that I was thinking more clearly, I could see

775
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:15,440
all wasn't lost. We had options, none of them good,

776
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:19,280
but we still had them. Donut, can you please take

777
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:23,320
the corpses Finley and Olga at least take that one too.

778
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:26,360
The Dromedarian had left the body of their friend outside

779
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:30,159
the garage, so she goes and does this, and he

780
00:55:30,199 --> 00:55:34,679
can hear the Tigrins fighting inside, obviously unaware that he

781
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:39,559
can hear them. We needed to take a team out,

782
00:55:39,639 --> 00:55:42,039
especially now, but we needed to be smart about it.

783
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:44,480
The unicorn was the biggest threat, but for right now,

784
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:46,119
I just needed to make sure one of the teams

785
00:55:46,199 --> 00:55:48,679
was gone because I was no longer confident in our

786
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:52,639
chances to not come in last I thought again about

787
00:55:52,639 --> 00:55:56,239
the description of Penelope, the pig of the lightning that

788
00:55:56,280 --> 00:56:00,599
had just flashed across the sky. A tear rolled down

789
00:56:00,639 --> 00:56:05,079
my cheek. God damn it, I thought, God damn it,

790
00:56:06,199 --> 00:56:08,639
And I think what he is talking about here is

791
00:56:08,679 --> 00:56:11,039
the god that would get involved if something were to

792
00:56:11,119 --> 00:56:14,960
happen to her, and that the lightning maybe was like

793
00:56:16,159 --> 00:56:20,119
she had gotten hurt a little somehow, and so that

794
00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:24,360
was like beginning a trigger that didn't fully come to

795
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:32,719
pass because she's she wound up being Okay, we should stay,

796
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:35,159
We should both stay in the truck, Dario said. We

797
00:56:35,159 --> 00:56:38,239
shouldn't have run over those mercenaries. That human was pissed.

798
00:56:38,599 --> 00:56:40,719
Look what he did to the door. He did that

799
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,760
with his hand, and now the camels are mad too.

800
00:56:44,559 --> 00:56:48,599
Fuck him and fuck them, Nico said, we'll blow them

801
00:56:48,599 --> 00:56:51,239
all off the road if we see him. Remember the plan.

802
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,679
We win this and we get Penny to the safe place.

803
00:56:54,039 --> 00:56:59,159
She's the important one. Lipstick is dead, Dario replied.

804
00:56:58,800 --> 00:56:59,599
Speaker 2: What are we going to do.

805
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:02,639
Speaker 1: We need to find a new one on the track.

806
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:04,519
There should be two out there, and if not, we

807
00:57:04,559 --> 00:57:06,760
can use a few emergency gremlins to keep it running

808
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:12,400
until we find one. Eyes on the prize, okay, Daria replied,

809
00:57:12,519 --> 00:57:16,559
sounding hesitant. But don't get in a fight with that human.

810
00:57:16,679 --> 00:57:19,599
If you see him, get back into the truck. I

811
00:57:19,639 --> 00:57:23,840
can take that bitch. Nico replied, maybe, but you can't

812
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:26,519
take the cat, and if something happens to him, we'll

813
00:57:26,519 --> 00:57:30,280
have to deal with her. If we fall, Penny will

814
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:44,960
be defenseless against her sultry advances. Gentlemen, I urge you,

815
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:51,280
I implore you to please join the rest of us

816
00:57:51,519 --> 00:57:56,119
on planet Earth. What are you fucking talking like? My god?

817
00:57:57,719 --> 00:57:58,639
Speaker 2: Huh?

818
00:57:58,679 --> 00:58:01,559
Speaker 1: So this is when we get a message from Louie

819
00:58:02,719 --> 00:58:07,480
that they're selling protection against acid rain. Louis and his

820
00:58:07,519 --> 00:58:11,119
group was in first place in their heat. Prepotente is

821
00:58:11,159 --> 00:58:14,119
in first first. I don't know if it's going to last.

822
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:16,800
But before the race, that body guy went into Hungry

823
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:19,199
Eyes all by himself and ate a thousand different things

824
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:21,840
from all the different stalls, and his buffs make Eileen

825
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:25,760
go really fast. I didn't name her. That's the lowrider.

826
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:27,719
She has a painted on the side, but Brittany thinks

827
00:58:27,719 --> 00:58:29,199
that's the name of the person who drove the truck

828
00:58:29,239 --> 00:58:32,079
because the fuzzy dice are pink. Anyway, most of the

829
00:58:32,079 --> 00:58:35,079
tracks are like water slide tubes, and there's this satan

830
00:58:35,119 --> 00:58:37,639
guy who keeps saying, I hope none of these tubes

831
00:58:37,719 --> 00:58:44,079
lead to my butthole. It's really weird, Sweetie. That's Prepotente's

832
00:58:44,119 --> 00:58:47,159
taper thing really likes the water tubes, and we've just

833
00:58:47,159 --> 00:58:50,360
been following them. Prepotente says he knows the best path.

834
00:58:51,320 --> 00:58:56,400
So Satan, as it turns out, is a hedgehog, as

835
00:58:56,440 --> 00:59:00,159
we find out later, And there's a whole story there,

836
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:05,039
but we'll get there shortly. So I love the fact

837
00:59:05,119 --> 00:59:07,360
that all of these buffs from the food are actually

838
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:13,039
like doing something. And Prepotente, you know, like drinking all

839
00:59:13,039 --> 00:59:15,360
of these different sodas. Carl, I'm gonna need you to

840
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:17,400
like get in on that and take it a little

841
00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:23,960
bit more seriously, just you know, just go ahead. So

842
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:29,559
I returned to the Tiger and garage. They'd fled back

843
00:59:29,559 --> 00:59:32,320
into their truck at the sound of Donut's voice. The

844
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:35,239
two Tigrins were sitting in the cab glaring at us,

845
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:41,079
doughnut glitzy pizzazz. Why we don't want to hurt the pig.

846
00:59:41,639 --> 00:59:45,360
I explained what I wanted to do. Donut scoffed, but

847
00:59:45,519 --> 00:59:49,159
she did as I asked. Her headset microphone appeared. She

848
00:59:49,360 --> 00:59:52,280
leaped off my shoulder and posted up in the center

849
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:57,840
of the driveway, facing the truck. So she begins using

850
00:59:58,719 --> 01:00:02,960
a belle called all eyes on Me, but She's managing

851
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:06,159
to do it without having to sing because her charisma

852
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:10,039
is so high that she can actually pull that off.

853
01:00:11,559 --> 01:00:18,840
And what Dona decides to do is give Penelope some

854
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:26,880
relationship advice about being in a toxic thrupple. I'm going

855
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:30,800
to sing Acapulco is what Donut says, by the way,

856
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:37,800
which I just love so much. Don't let's see, Penelope.

857
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:39,599
I'm sorry, but you need to hear this. I'm not

858
01:00:39,639 --> 01:00:42,559
saying there's anything wrong with your little thrupple in theory,

859
01:00:42,719 --> 01:00:45,320
but I strongly feel all three of you could use

860
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:49,199
some relationship advice. Situationships where two of the members are

861
01:00:49,239 --> 01:00:52,320
at each other's throats are destined to end in heartbreak.

862
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:56,679
It's all too common with pigs, as they're famously known

863
01:00:56,719 --> 01:01:01,039
to be attracted to toxic relationships. I mean, look at

864
01:01:01,079 --> 01:01:04,519
Miss Piggy. Honestly, she's the toxic one as she abuses

865
01:01:04,559 --> 01:01:06,800
poor Kermit. People give her a past because she's beautiful

866
01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:12,320
and knows karate. That's fair. I adore Miss Piggy until

867
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:14,679
the end of time, and she was definitely a role

868
01:01:14,719 --> 01:01:18,639
model for me growing up. But she is really horrible

869
01:01:19,039 --> 01:01:24,559
to poor Kermit and needs to go through some some therapy.

870
01:01:24,639 --> 01:01:30,519
It's just like a variety of therapies. There's Piglet, who

871
01:01:30,559 --> 01:01:33,199
is what some people call a twink, and he's in

872
01:01:33,239 --> 01:01:37,599
a relationship with a bear who's unbelievably selfish. Don't even

873
01:01:37,599 --> 01:01:40,280
get me started on your team's namesake. One fine pig

874
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,880
that's Wilbur, who we're supposed to think is a friend

875
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:48,639
to this spider lady. But that's only because and it says,

876
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:53,440
as Donut droned on, I went to work, Matt Dinneman

877
01:01:56,000 --> 01:02:02,800
droned this. He's a thesis. I wanted to hear all

878
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:09,039
of it. How dare you interrupt this finely crafted argument,

879
01:02:09,719 --> 01:02:14,280
fully throught through, full of great examples that are relevant,

880
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:22,760
and just cut it off like that? How could you? Okay,

881
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:30,119
this is a Tumblr post and I want to read

882
01:02:30,159 --> 01:02:34,039
the rest of it. I have no doubt that he

883
01:02:34,119 --> 01:02:36,280
wrote the rest of it actually, and he had to

884
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:37,679
go back and figure out where he was going to

885
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:40,559
cut it off. But I bet, I bet he's got

886
01:02:40,559 --> 01:02:43,920
the whole thing somewhere. If I ever get a chance

887
01:02:44,039 --> 01:02:47,440
to actually talk to him, I'm going to ask him

888
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:57,239
and see anyway, As don't it droned on, I went

889
01:02:57,320 --> 01:03:01,880
to work, and he lays these that are to disintegrate

890
01:03:02,159 --> 01:03:07,960
Tigrin specifically so that Penelope is not going to be

891
01:03:08,119 --> 01:03:12,559
a factor in all of this. And then we get

892
01:03:12,599 --> 01:03:15,360
the end, the tail end, which is why Pepa is

893
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:18,760
absolutely destined for a Denny's ham Lover's Breakfast skillet if

894
01:03:18,800 --> 01:03:22,320
she doesn't immediately do something about her cousin Chloe. I

895
01:03:22,559 --> 01:03:24,639
actually have never seen Pepa pig. I have heard a

896
01:03:24,679 --> 01:03:28,719
lot of conflicting feelings about it, because evidently Pepa has

897
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:31,039
like a bit of an attitude, and some parents feel

898
01:03:31,079 --> 01:03:32,960
like it is not a good example for their children

899
01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:37,599
because she is a little spicy. I don't know about

900
01:03:37,599 --> 01:03:41,800
her cousin Chloe, but Pepa's always been the one that

901
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:45,599
I've heard is the problem. Anyway, it was nice talking

902
01:03:45,639 --> 01:03:47,800
to you. I hope I've given you something to think about.

903
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:52,239
See you later. We quickly moved down the sidewalk, catching

904
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:56,559
up to Ellie and Emani and uh, this is when

905
01:03:56,559 --> 01:04:02,480
we catch up to the Minister of blood letting. What's up? Uh?

906
01:04:02,519 --> 01:04:05,719
The minister is very nice, but that bucket did smell revolting.

907
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:07,599
I didn't get a chance to examine it.

908
01:04:08,119 --> 01:04:08,559
Speaker 2: I did.

909
01:04:08,679 --> 01:04:16,679
Speaker 1: Imani said, it's something even worse it is it is

910
01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:20,440
I am not going to read all of the things

911
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:22,840
that are coming up. Like in the beginning of chapter

912
01:04:22,920 --> 01:04:25,800
forty seven, we get a lot of updates about where

913
01:04:25,840 --> 01:04:31,360
everybody is in their race. Florin is in first place

914
01:04:31,360 --> 01:04:35,960
in THEIRS, Chris's team is doing well. Prepotente wouldn't stop

915
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:41,159
talking about all the benefits of this newly discovered splooge potion.

916
01:04:42,800 --> 01:04:49,440
It is not actual splooge, but they do have to

917
01:04:49,719 --> 01:04:56,280
manually drink it, which is really fucked up. At this point,

918
01:04:56,559 --> 01:05:02,239
Zev comes up over the speakers again. Each track has

919
01:05:02,239 --> 01:05:05,199
four heats, and each pit stop combines four tracks. Each

920
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:08,360
individual heat will roll for what path they continue on,

921
01:05:08,719 --> 01:05:10,440
so the second half of your race may not be

922
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:12,800
on the same track you started on. There will be

923
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:15,599
a random drawing for each individual heat, so the heats

924
01:05:15,639 --> 01:05:18,599
will be jumbled up. The moment the team in first

925
01:05:18,679 --> 01:05:21,440
place in your heat times out, you will receive your

926
01:05:21,440 --> 01:05:24,880
new assignment. Also, some of you have received quests that

927
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:29,239
require you to complete tasks. Please do not worry about that.

928
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:32,679
Even though all four tracks are different, the associated quests

929
01:05:32,719 --> 01:05:36,320
are mirrored on each track and your quest will be transferred.

930
01:05:36,719 --> 01:05:39,119
In other words, you will be able to complete your

931
01:05:39,199 --> 01:05:43,360
quest on the new track. Good luck everybody, And again,

932
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:46,519
like I said, it's just feeling like the AI is

933
01:05:46,519 --> 01:05:48,960
having to compensate and do things kind of at the

934
01:05:49,039 --> 01:05:50,960
last Like it just doesn't feel fully planned out. It

935
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:55,159
feels like things are being changed as we go at

936
01:05:55,159 --> 01:05:58,320
the last second, as the AI is sort of realizing

937
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:03,719
that this idea won't work because of that YadA YadA, YadA.

938
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:11,440
So let's see. Prepotente gets moved to the jungle and

939
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:13,920
he is sad about it because the water park tunnels

940
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:17,400
are all mapped. Sweetie will be most upset. You just

941
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:20,039
want to make certain you don't take a wrong turn

942
01:06:20,159 --> 01:06:23,679
as they come quickly. It's very high speed. This jungle

943
01:06:23,679 --> 01:06:28,000
appears to be more leisurely and they are going to

944
01:06:28,079 --> 01:06:32,880
be moving into Satan's water park. This is when he

945
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:37,199
gets the notification about the trap activating. You have dissolved

946
01:06:37,199 --> 01:06:41,119
a tigrin that Harry fucker is dead, which I just

947
01:06:41,159 --> 01:06:46,079
really want to point out the AI like he is

948
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:53,280
always tending towards what's the word. There's always editorializing in

949
01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:56,440
descriptors and everything, but this sort of thing where you're

950
01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:59,880
getting a notification that something you did went off? Is

951
01:07:01,039 --> 01:07:06,800
usually the editorializing doesn't come until you get the achievement afterward.

952
01:07:07,519 --> 01:07:09,960
So I found that sort of interesting, and it felt

953
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:13,679
like the AI being like, good, I'm glad he's gone. Honestly,

954
01:07:15,960 --> 01:07:21,360
so the team has been eliminated, which he you know,

955
01:07:21,559 --> 01:07:25,119
the whole deal with Penelope the pig. I was like,

956
01:07:25,599 --> 01:07:30,480
exactly what happens here? Because if she vanishes because their

957
01:07:30,559 --> 01:07:34,800
team has been eliminated, does that count as triggering the god?

958
01:07:35,079 --> 01:07:44,199
And it seems not. There's no notification. And let's see.

959
01:07:45,000 --> 01:07:46,760
Floren says, if there's a team in your heat, you

960
01:07:46,800 --> 01:07:48,920
need to slow down, slowed down, just let me know.

961
01:07:49,159 --> 01:07:51,519
And Carl says, let me tell you about a unicorn

962
01:07:51,679 --> 01:07:57,159
named Dwight. Which I'm really curious what all Floren is

963
01:07:57,199 --> 01:07:59,599
going to do because Floren is very intimidating in a

964
01:07:59,599 --> 01:08:04,199
certain direction and I feel like he could really fuck

965
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:11,880
their day up. Okay, so the hedgehog, the hedgehog who

966
01:08:11,920 --> 01:08:18,640
is Satan? Oh my god, there's a lot to deal

967
01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:22,800
with here. Also, we have Olga in the driver's seat.

968
01:08:23,039 --> 01:08:26,319
The resurrected corpse made a slurping noise. Her head was

969
01:08:26,359 --> 01:08:30,199
completely caved in. But the toad's long tongue still lolled

970
01:08:30,239 --> 01:08:32,800
out of the ruined mess, bobbing and oozing like a

971
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:36,720
yo yo that had been dipped in slime. The spell

972
01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:39,119
brought the dead corpse back to life for a maximum

973
01:08:39,119 --> 01:08:42,479
of fifteen minutes, and she'd already been resurrected for five.

974
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:46,479
Florin had left forty minutes previously and was giving me

975
01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:49,079
a blow by blow on the track so far. He'd

976
01:08:49,079 --> 01:08:50,880
offered to go after the boss on our behalf, but

977
01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:53,680
we decided he should instead pursue Dwight and Lucienne and

978
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:56,239
attempt to slow them, as they most likely wouldn't be

979
01:08:56,239 --> 01:09:01,079
taking the same path we'd chosen. Thanks, we had a

980
01:09:01,079 --> 01:09:03,720
way to catch up, assuming we could talk these corpses

981
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:07,119
into driving in a straight line, which does wind up

982
01:09:07,119 --> 01:09:09,720
being a lot more difficult than one would think. I mean,

983
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:17,479
it's not great. Uh. Since this was a summon, it

984
01:09:17,600 --> 01:09:21,399
skirted the rules. We were relying on voice instructions to drive.

985
01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:24,159
I was already second guessing our decision to do it

986
01:09:24,199 --> 01:09:28,079
this way. But the alternative was worse, which was to

987
01:09:28,159 --> 01:09:31,680
have mango drive, which wasn't really an alternative at all,

988
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:37,800
but a last ditch hail Mary yeah. Indeed. Then we

989
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:41,720
have a female troll put up on a tow truck

990
01:09:42,319 --> 01:09:45,520
with a high pink mohawk and a hooked nose. A

991
01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:49,279
cigarette dangled from her lip. Her eyes first lingered on me,

992
01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:52,359
and she started to smile big, but then she finally

993
01:09:52,399 --> 01:09:56,680
noticed Olga. After an especially big spurt of fluid, the

994
01:09:56,720 --> 01:10:01,640
cigarette dropped from the troll's mouth. I'll bet it did.

995
01:10:02,159 --> 01:10:05,399
I love the idea that the troll was maybe like

996
01:10:05,520 --> 01:10:08,600
about to hit on Carl. That was the vibe I

997
01:10:08,640 --> 01:10:16,359
was getting for sure. Satan was a country boss, but

998
01:10:16,439 --> 01:10:19,600
not invulnerable, and he wasn't the boss we were meant

999
01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:22,479
to fight. He was the owner of the water park.

1000
01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:26,239
He lounged near the exit, occasionally offering loud opinions on

1001
01:10:26,319 --> 01:10:32,279
things happening, occasionally poking at the racers. Satan was a hedgehog,

1002
01:10:32,359 --> 01:10:39,479
a Kaiju sized male hedgehog. And then Carl remembers, wait,

1003
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:42,640
is this about that beauty contest thing? How do you

1004
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:45,680
even remember that you were a kitten? And we get

1005
01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:52,399
the story. One of Donuts' early cat shows wasn't at

1006
01:10:52,439 --> 01:10:55,479
a dedicated cat event, but at a sprawling pet festival

1007
01:10:55,520 --> 01:10:59,239
in Tacoma that included dogs and exotic animals, with multiple

1008
01:10:59,279 --> 01:11:02,000
competitive events going on at once. It was one of

1009
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:04,760
the few shows I'd actually attended because it had a

1010
01:11:04,760 --> 01:11:08,520
beer garden. The winners of each category had a cutest

1011
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:13,199
in Show showdown, and kitten. Donut had been up against

1012
01:11:13,239 --> 01:11:16,520
a few animals, including a Great Dane puppy with spots,

1013
01:11:17,000 --> 01:11:21,760
a snake, a ferret, and a baby hedgehog named Jezebel,

1014
01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:25,640
who was one of the most goddamn adorable things I'd

1015
01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:31,239
ever seen. Jezebel had won, which had put B into

1016
01:11:31,279 --> 01:11:34,920
a funk for the rest of the day. Donut, of course,

1017
01:11:35,039 --> 01:11:37,760
had been oblivious and had been happy to lick up

1018
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:40,920
my vanilla milkshake. On the ride back to Seattle, I

1019
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:42,960
remembered she'd gotten it all over her face, and B

1020
01:11:43,079 --> 01:11:45,079
had been pissed because she had another show the very

1021
01:11:45,079 --> 01:11:49,399
next day in the Tri Cities. This has nothing to

1022
01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:51,880
do with that. Even if it was, it was fixed

1023
01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:54,840
from the beginning. Who names a hedgehog Jezebel anyway, doesn't

1024
01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:57,720
it mean slut? So it was a slut hedgehog. She

1025
01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:00,560
was a baby. The owners should have been discre qualified

1026
01:12:00,720 --> 01:12:06,199
just for that. I honestly can't help but agree that

1027
01:12:06,199 --> 01:12:11,119
that name is kind of an odd choice. I love

1028
01:12:11,199 --> 01:12:13,800
the fact though, that she's remembering things in a way

1029
01:12:13,840 --> 01:12:18,680
that are just too like that she kind of maybe shouldn't.

1030
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:25,159
And I also want to mention Jezebel is a real hedgehog,

1031
01:12:25,479 --> 01:12:28,840
like that's a because like I went and looked this

1032
01:12:29,039 --> 01:12:34,960
up because I was like, that is ringing you a bill,

1033
01:12:35,000 --> 01:12:40,159
and y'all if you go google Jezebel the Hedgehog. I mean,

1034
01:12:41,399 --> 01:12:46,720
I'm so sorry, Donut, but Jezebel is quite adorable. I mean,

1035
01:12:49,399 --> 01:12:52,439
come on, so anyway, I just wanted to mention that

1036
01:12:52,520 --> 01:12:55,640
Jezebel is real. This is not just for the book.

1037
01:12:56,399 --> 01:13:01,640
And yeah, oh there was a bunch more chat that

1038
01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:04,960
hadn't shown up for me. Sorry, Jeff says, My explanation

1039
01:13:05,079 --> 01:13:08,720
is that Kermit has a humiliation fetish that would actually

1040
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:12,199
kind of track Jeff, I may accept that. As head Cannon,

1041
01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:17,079
Michael says, I need the Patent Oswalt uncut version of

1042
01:13:17,159 --> 01:13:22,199
Donut speech here. Why Patton Oswalt, I don't know the

1043
01:13:22,239 --> 01:13:26,760
relevance here. Donut has earned my trust. Cut Chloe out

1044
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:30,880
of your life, Pepa, Michael says, Now Natasha is starting

1045
01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:33,920
to call the Ai. He Yeah, I'm just following Carl's

1046
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:36,000
lead on this, But I have been falling into calling

1047
01:13:36,039 --> 01:13:39,319
it he earlier and kind of made myself stop, and

1048
01:13:39,359 --> 01:13:41,439
now that he's doing it, I'm going ahead with it.

1049
01:13:41,840 --> 01:13:48,960
I'm just gonna, you know, Jeff says, Cat ease up

1050
01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:52,000
on the slut shaming. I mean, one would argue that

1051
01:13:52,279 --> 01:13:54,960
she's not slutshaming. She's just pointing out the meaning of

1052
01:13:55,039 --> 01:13:59,800
the name that they chose. It's not even it's not

1053
01:13:59,840 --> 01:14:05,039
a tell you judgment about the sex. It's about the choice. Uh.

1054
01:14:05,399 --> 01:14:08,479
He had the Star Wars rant filibuster on Parks and

1055
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:10,840
Rex as Michael, Oh my god, that's right. I always

1056
01:14:10,840 --> 01:14:13,199
forget pat As what has been in so many different

1057
01:14:13,199 --> 01:14:17,640
things as like these little side characters. Michael says. They

1058
01:14:17,680 --> 01:14:20,880
released his uncut version on YouTube and it was like

1059
01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:24,600
fifteen minutes long. I gotta find that. I gotta find

1060
01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:27,720
that there, you guys know, I mean, all I do

1061
01:14:28,359 --> 01:14:31,520
for two whole days a week is monolog by myself

1062
01:14:31,560 --> 01:14:37,600
about properties, so surprising nobody. I've always wondered what the

1063
01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:38,760
hell he was about to say.

1064
01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:41,840
Speaker 2: So.

1065
01:14:43,159 --> 01:14:48,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, While the tubes dominated the first half of the race,

1066
01:14:48,960 --> 01:14:53,359
the ground level challenges were more eclectic. Doctor Metcalf now

1067
01:14:53,399 --> 01:14:56,319
had the map and there were multiple paths, including the

1068
01:14:56,359 --> 01:15:02,279
ominously titled Toddler splash Pad, the wapool, and a massive

1069
01:15:02,359 --> 01:15:05,039
loop to loop, which was the fastest path but clearly

1070
01:15:05,079 --> 01:15:08,880
the most dangerous. The giant loop dominated the bottom part

1071
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:12,239
of the park. Our path was just south of the

1072
01:15:12,239 --> 01:15:18,039
loop and called the River of Sloth. And I literally

1073
01:15:18,159 --> 01:15:21,159
cackled out loud because I instantly knew that this was

1074
01:15:21,199 --> 01:15:24,199
like a lazy river, but calling it the river of

1075
01:15:24,359 --> 01:15:28,159
sloth is so much funnier. And now that is what

1076
01:15:28,279 --> 01:15:30,840
I'm going to be calling all lazy rivers every time

1077
01:15:30,880 --> 01:15:33,680
I encounter them, because that is fucking perfect. And I

1078
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:38,720
just thought it was so funny. I I love it.

1079
01:15:39,239 --> 01:15:45,920
It's so much more accurate of sloth. Yup, correct, Uh,

1080
01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:51,039
I'm going to cast clockwork triplicate before it times out.

1081
01:15:51,239 --> 01:15:53,119
That'll give us twenty more minutes. Don't be such a

1082
01:15:53,119 --> 01:15:57,079
debbie downer. It'll work, right, Carl, right, I said, as

1083
01:15:57,199 --> 01:16:01,279
Olga continued to leak. But why did you picked the

1084
01:16:01,279 --> 01:16:06,119
one without a head? Finley's remains don't have legs. I

1085
01:16:06,199 --> 01:16:08,880
used up most of my good corpses on the last floor.

1086
01:16:09,199 --> 01:16:10,800
But if she doesn't work out, we do have a

1087
01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:12,640
few more. We have a camel and a couple of

1088
01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:15,279
NPCs from Faction Wars, and Ellie lent us a ton

1089
01:16:15,319 --> 01:16:18,439
of dead orcs. I didn't add that most of the

1090
01:16:18,600 --> 01:16:22,039
orcs were also headless. Ellie had gotten really good at

1091
01:16:22,039 --> 01:16:25,199
some spell that froze the liquid surrounding one's brain and

1092
01:16:25,239 --> 01:16:31,920
then caused it to explode, which is bonkers, terrifying. She

1093
01:16:31,960 --> 01:16:34,239
doesn't have a gods damned head. How is she hearing

1094
01:16:34,279 --> 01:16:38,399
your commands? I find it's better not to think too

1095
01:16:38,560 --> 01:16:41,800
hard on some of this stuff. Donut replied, I don't

1096
01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:44,439
know how she hears me, but she does, isn't that right, Olga?

1097
01:16:45,199 --> 01:16:50,279
I this Donut is the voice of Matt Deneman. I mean,

1098
01:16:50,319 --> 01:16:54,319
we all know he lamp shades many things via Donut,

1099
01:16:55,039 --> 01:16:58,079
and this is definitely one of them, of being like, hey, guys,

1100
01:16:58,079 --> 01:17:01,880
stop asking questions, don't worry about it, just don't just

1101
01:17:01,880 --> 01:17:05,119
don't do it. It's fine, and I respect it, and

1102
01:17:05,199 --> 01:17:12,399
I will accept it. I respect and accept The gingers

1103
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:16,640
on this track weren't called cannibals, but seasoned pass holders

1104
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:20,600
Elliott Amani, who were in the Eternal slums still had

1105
01:17:20,600 --> 01:17:22,760
the quest and needed to find and kill another iteration

1106
01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:26,560
of Maurice beside us. The tow truck zoomed off. We

1107
01:17:26,640 --> 01:17:29,920
still had ten seconds. The truck disappeared through the arch

1108
01:17:30,199 --> 01:17:34,960
and I heard deep booming laughter. Jolly good show, said

1109
01:17:34,960 --> 01:17:38,840
sat in the hedgehog, Pip, Pip, And that is the

1110
01:17:38,880 --> 01:17:41,039
end of chapter forty eight. I am twenty minutes over.

1111
01:17:41,079 --> 01:17:43,399
I can't believe you guys didn't warm me. I was

1112
01:17:43,439 --> 01:17:45,960
not looking at the time at all, and I have

1113
01:17:46,159 --> 01:17:48,680
literally nine minutes until my next recording starts, so I

1114
01:17:48,760 --> 01:17:51,800
really need to go. I appreciate you all, but I

1115
01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:53,199
also hate you to the loom.

1116
01:17:53,239 --> 01:18:05,720
Speaker 2: Motherfuckers.

1117
01:18:23,479 --> 01:18:25,359
Speaker 1: That was an unspoiled network.