The Rundown #4

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Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back to the fourth
episode of The Rundown. We arecurrently live streaming this on the brand new
YouTube vertical format. Blah blah blahblah blah. Jesus Christ. We'll see
how that ends up turning out,but we are here today today. This

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week has been It was Valentine's Day, Brian, wasn't it? Yes,
it is yes, and in thisweek has been a bit of a shit
show for me for a myriad ofdifferent reasons. So I unfortunately do not
have a video to introduce this today'sepisode with because I suck and I've kind
of been I've kind of been outof the loop unfortunately for the time being.

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So outside of some of the handfulof political stuff which we aren't going
to be talking about, I'm kindof out of the loop on pop culture
things. Oh but also this alsojust just this is mildly the international news.
Alex mulvaney died in a Siberian prison. I know who that is.

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He is the opposition party leader inRussia. I'm not surprised there, you
know what. You know what,Evan, how about you? How about
you show everybody the Instagram video Isaid you last night. I feel like
that's a good yep. I feellike that's a good video to open up
with, especially if you personally didn'tsee it yet. Fair enough, I'm

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just gonna say, this is whatVR is supposed to be. It's the
one by positive pressure eos. That'spositive pressure os. Yeah, let me
play it so folks can hear againwhat the heck do I mean by that?
One year ago I made a videoon this super awesome project called MUVR,

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which is like a game within agame. You see. The idea
of MUVR is to simulate the nostalogiaof the nineties slash that old school gaming
era while serving as a really coolhub for emulation across tons of different consoles,
all while being in virtual reality.But I never really showed off the
extent to which you could customize everything. So I spent more hours than I'd
like to admit taking the default roomfrom this to this. I customized literally
every single thing I possibly could have. I'm talking old school posters from movies

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and games I grew up with andactually still have, custom figures, disc
labels, magazines, video game consoleboxes, my freaking bed, sheets are
literally Dan shows. I used towatch them. Also, you're able to
throw games into the consoles to playthem. It's pretty sweet. MUVR is
free and this isn't an ad forit either. I just really love the
project. And if you don't havea VR headset, you can still force
the game to start up in desktopmode on your computer and play it that

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way. If you play it,let me know and be sure to follow
from more. Let's go back intime again. Interesting. Here's the thing,
Like, you know, like thethe concept of a metaverse is so
goofy to me at this point.Not because I don't think it's not something
that will be tenable at some pointin the future, but it already has
existed in multiple iterations. They justwant to have it. They just want

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to have like like they want toturn the metaverse into like a monopoly like
YouTube. Well, I like thata different little metaverses that they currently exist.
I see. The reason I likesomething like this and not like what
meta is trying to do is because, like for this, a lot of
the times when you pop in anold console and you pop in an old

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game, the nostalgia will not letyou enjoy what it actually is, because
you'll remember the graphics how they lookto you at that point. But I
think for something like VR, wheregraphics, as long as you're not getting
motion sick, that's kind of allthat really fucking matters, And like as
long as you feel immersed, that'sall that really matters. For something like

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this, I feel like that's justthe perfect use of your time in I
feel like that's what VR should besetting up. Not everybody escaped to VR,
because this world is fucked, youknow, right. It's not like
sort of online or or or orOverlord exactly exactly like for those like for

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people who think when I say Overlord, people think, oh, funny little
power scaling anime. The this isit's actually a sci fi horror thing.
When you think about like how likethe like how people work, Like the
only education most people get is elementaryschool and then they immediately have to start
working after that. Oh my god, the actual like world building behind the

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actual world building behind uh uh,the the Overlord anime is actually pretty in
saying all things considered. By theway, did you play the video for
from Instagram? I did, okay, because I didn't see it in discord.
Oh I'm so sorry. Let meactually let me make sure you have

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it. I'm also simultaneously sharing withyou because I'm I'm the fun I'm the
fucking Jamie here. I gotta manageeverything because because I'm just here. If
I was the Jamie, everybody wouldbe like, this has to no longer
be a video. Yes, unfortunately, Uh you can see the screen now,
right this one? Yes, sir? All right, cool, yep,

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just making sure. But but yeah, uh so tell me I've been
out of the loop. You knowwhat what has been going on this week
in in uh in a, ingeneral soul culture. Drake's penis was leaked?
Yeah that was that was this week. I remember that. Uh,
don't forget. He was also doingthe Alean fant trunk you know, helicopter.

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Uh that was for all this fans. Let's see, the super Bowl
was this week or last week?Last Sunday? Yeah, it was last
Sunday. Still this week, Uh, Travis Kelcey has won. That means
the Democrats win in November. No, I'm kidding, obviously, But did
you see Joe Biden, No way, did you see Joe Biden tweeting out

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that his fucking plan is coming through. I was like, yes, yes,
Joe, this is what we needfrom you, like Dark, the
Dark, the Dark, Brandon memesand Stuffer is yeah, my fa go
ahead sorry, Like I like,did you see the fucking TikTok he put
out, oh about mam m Kelseybeing able to make fucking cookies and ship?

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Yeah, nigga, I saw that. Did you see John Stewart coming
back to the Daily Show? Thatwas this? That's that's the big one.
Yeah. No, John Stewart comingback is fucking huge, man.
I love that. I'm all forit. Like, because here's the thing
John Stewart is like it was likechicken soup for the soul right, Like
it's just watching that just like itwas it from George Carlin. Like that's

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I feel like that's why a lotof people love him the way that they
do. He has like that qualityof Carlan to talk about real shit but
being comedic about correct. The funnything about George Carlin, did you know
that he put out a special thatthe video no longer exists of it and
you can I think you can buythe audio for him from Louis c k

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site of him. On September thetenth two thousand and two thousand and one,
making a joke saying, I hopesomething terrible happens where a lot of
people die, and like the typicalGeorge Carland funny way. But then nine
to eleven happened. He's like,nobody can ever fuck you see this?

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Uh? What's it? Golled?What else was this week? Oh?
This special report came out regarding Biden. Now, I know you don't necessarily
you might not agree with the sentimentof it. Oh, make no mistake.
Nobody like, Oh, make nomistake. People in this fucking old
shouldn't be in office. But butwe are eight months out from an election

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season. It's too late that there'snobody in the Democratic field that would be
worth it, that would actually beable to win a primary and a general
other than Biden unfortunately at this moment, and and the only other person that
I can do shit, the onlyother person that could do it for the
Democrats is literally someone who isn't evenin politics, Michelle Obama. Literally the

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only possible person who could bring theDemocratic Party together for a primary, get
the fucking get the nominee, gothrough it in fucking November. I want
to bet she could be Trump,no question. If she make a mistake,
she could. She not gonna fuckingdo it. She isn't even a
politics She's not not only that sheshe told, she told, She like

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Barack Obama has been open in interviewsaying that if it was possible for me
to go for a third term,Michelle would leave me. Yeah, outright.
You know she was fed the fuckup. I mean she had to
be fed the fuck up after hertrying to make school food fucking healthy.

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Could you imagine that? Shit?Want I want to see I want to
see an impractical jokers thing where likeshe's just like, you know, going
on the street and like just suckerpunching Ann Coulter for calling her a fucking
man or some shit. No,literally, because now literally like thirty five
percent of the country is convinced sheis a man. Don't get me wrong.

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Don't get me wrong. The controversialfucked up little kid boy brain in
my head is like ha ha,funny jokes. Yeah, But when people
were genuinely like that's big mic I'mlike, yo, what's wrong with you?
Right? And also it's like alsothe a range, like it's also

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like a giant white supremacist thing too, the notion of, you know,
depicting black women as like mannish,brutish, dangerous. Yeah, you know,
the whole thing, you know,you know, but regardless, you
know, moving on. I dida poll earlier in the last stream where
we were talking about I mentioned theword white supremacy in a negative light,

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and everybody fucking scrolled off. Ohman, But regardless, Uh, I
mean, did they come to thispodcast thing and that we were both gonna
be like, yay white people.I feel like you're honestly, I feel

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like you're more yay white people thanme sometimes, bro. Yeah, but
not on some Samuel Jackson Jackson inthe fucking Dudjango movie, I'm like,
I've never seen that movie. Heis. He is the definition of an
Uncle Tom Uncle Tom all the way. Yeah mm hmm, I'm saying in

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that movie, not Sammy Jackson.Overall. It is funny when he tries
to get white people in interviews tosay the N word though. That shit
is funny. Yeah, no,because it's like it's the only time he
gets he asks people to say thatship is are the white people that have
an issue with the fact that theycan't yep, or like it's it's the
white people that I feel like it'sthe white people. He knows behind closed

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doors say it, but he's infront of the fucking camera and he's like,
go ahead, say I, dareyou trying to think? What else
was this week? I got Igot one? Blue Sky went open to
the public? Blue Sky? What'sthat again? Jack Dorissey's second attempt at

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making Twitter not be ship Ah okay, okay, good And it's been very
good. A lot of people upset. Yeah, this was the one that
was invited only, and now it'sopen to the public, right, Yes,
yes, I got you. Idig it. I love it.
I've been on it since it wassince it because I got it, because
because yeah boy, I got it. Invite but I've been digging it and

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it's been great because the cool thingabout it is that there's no algorithm.
The algorithm is based off of engagementonly. That's the only as the other
thing that you can do is thatit's techy for people like me, You
can build your own feats. That'sawesome too. You know, you can
base it based around topics and intelligencedesign stuffing. It's really really cool and

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also for like you porn's also legalon it, so go for it,
uh, I mean, I gottabe honest, if you're going on Twitter
for porn or blue Sky, likethere's so many more. Here's my thing
about porn. I don't think I'llever pay for it in my life.

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I I I'm not. I'm Ino longer watch it myself for you know,
personal reasons. But I will saythat, like, probably the most
ethical way to like consume pornography isprobably just paying for holyfans. I mean
even then, here's my thing aboutit. If we're talking about it from
an ethical standpoint, that's the wayto do it, because like then you

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know you're getting it. It's youknow, if it's directly to one single
person or a couple, then youknow you're getting like it's it's not exploitative
as exploited. I mean, thefact that people have feel like they have
to do it for financial compensation atall is exploitative itself. But well,
I was I was gonna say,the way the industry is run, most
of these actresses get fucked over asit is by the time they're twenty four,

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twenty five, Like they're fucking LeonardoDiCaprio's girlfriend. So at the end
of the day, is it reallythe most ethical because yourself I mean,
I mean, I mean like there'sI mean, there's a couple outside of
only fans, like outside of selfadvantage pages like that, Like it's kind

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of fucked. The only the onlytwo, the only two types of run
Sorry, I'm just running down numberfour. Uh, the only the only
other thing I will say is thelast thing I'll say on that in this

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particular topic is the only two,the only two, the only if you're
going to consume pornography whatsoever for anyreason, the only way to consume it.
Hey, hay grim psycho at allin a way that like is you
know, at least minor ethical iswith is through Uh, what's the fuck?

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Is it called either OnlyFans or shipthat people post on social media like
of their own volition like promo,Yeah, yeah, that's it. Like
like some people are some people arenmphomaniacs and they want to see people doing
that ship. That's fine. Otherpeople make it they're like otherwise do like,

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you know, the notion of freepornis kind of exploitative on its own,
you know what I mean? Yeah, Oh, oh you know,
Oh, you know, we cantalk about that. I have a video
coming out on Monday, real quick. Before we talk about that, I
just want to get your point ofview on something. So did you hear
did you hear about the Aliyah thingthat happened? Uh? Alicia Keys,

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not Aliyah Alicia Keys how she wasperforming fucked up a note live, but
every recording of it posted has thatfuck up fixed. Yeah, I mean
I hadn't hear about it. Ididn't hear about that, But I'm like,
no, no, from my perspective, this is I just don't like

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the fact that now in this dayand age, of really being able to
not differentiate between the truth and youknow, uh, fixing of the truth.
It I don't like the implications ofwhere it's gonna go if this shit
keeps going. Obviously it starts withsomething small, some bullshit she fucked up,

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But no, okay, what ifwe're getting to the point where,
like a Trump speech is censored anddubbed over and fixed. I mean,
I mean, well, here's thething. The big worry is around artificial
intelligence and that getting better enough tobe able to do that. That that
at at present is the primary worryuh for you know that is like that

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aside, it's it's, it's it'sgonna it's it's it's let's just say,
it's gonna be goofy. It's it'sgonna be some goofy goober ship. It's
the But like the idea of likethem doing of them doing that, like
editing a live thing and a speechand doing that is very much going to

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be the case. Thank you Grimfor that. I appreciate you. Yeah,
it's it's we. The thing isis that you have to walk through
your experiences on the Internet through thelens of heavy skepticism, right, oh,

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without a doubt. Like I'm justwe're kind of at the point now
where like with AI on the rise, people, the editing and digital landscape
being what it is, we're kindof long since past the point where you
know that aspect of things is youknow you can where you can just like

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look at something at face value andtrust it. Implicitly it doesn't This doesn't
exist anymore and it probably never existed. And this is exactly why I said
the shit last week that I saidabout like, uh, just the opportunity
of being able to pay for yourown independence online, and I think,

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especially as this shit continues to gotowards a trend that gets more and more
dangerous, that gets more and moremuddled, that gets more and more secretive
and hard to tell the truth fromthe secret. I just don't like where
the implications for a lot of ourtechnological advances are taking us to because I
felt like in the two thousands now, obviously I had a more naive look

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at the world and shit like that. From zero to ten, I felt
like everything that was coming out,for the most part, actually helped us
somewhat. Like the argument for socialmedia is you can talk to anybody in
the world. Doesn't mean you wantto hear everybody from everybody in the world,
but like doesn't mean you want everybodyin the world to be able to

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talk to you. True, ButI'm just saying, like, now we
are dealing with the marketing being onestep away from something you would see in
nineteen eighty four, one step awayfrom something you would see in a future
realistic post apocalyptic world where the governmenttakes over everything or big business takes over.

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I think I think the groundwork.I think here's the thing. I
think. I think that there's acertain generation of people who find comfort in
authoritarian power structures that make them feellike that don't affect them and the and
it's I think that the the dangersof these type tools is already there.

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I think we have a general wehave two generations, the Millennials and the
Gen z ers who grew up withinternet. So you know, we we
we we've we have seen the evolutionof this, so we are I think
better equipped in certain regards to notdealing not having those be potential issues uh

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later in life. The only thingthat I will say that I think might
be a issue is is that GenAlpha Gen Alpha. You know, there's
been I've heard stories of people oflike Gen Alpha. They are used to
touch screens, that is how theyinteract with the Internet. And you know,
they don't even use controllers really forlike game cauzles and stuff. So

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try to give them a PC game. Well, but but the thing is
is that like that's what they're that'swhat they that's what they are used to,
you know, that's what they have, that's what they you know,
you know, engage with, andyou know, you know that generation probably
is gonna have a little more difficultywith tech literacy, especially since they we've

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stopped having tech literacy in schools andcomputer classes and stuff like that in a
lot of schools. But that's neitherhere nor there. That's just a consequence
that can be rectified once, youknow, the dinosaurs are pushed out of
office. But I think the risksof those events are they suck but weird,

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weird dealing. I hope you're right. I hope I'm right too.
Because you heard about the Taylor Swiftship, right, the fake sex tapes
that have been going on Twitter.I didn't even want to engage with that.
What I found a little bit morecompelling was the fact that she is

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trying to sue of a sixteen yearold kid for you know, publishing her
flight or like public like for likehaving bots that an Instagram bought that tracks
her, you know, flight dataand stuff which is publicly available. Thing.
No, it's not stalking, harassment, it's it's being it's holding billionaires

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accountable for the fact that she routinelytakes twenty minute flights to go that she
could have taken in like an hourlong drive. I'm sorry I've been but
personally, I feel like I'm sayingfrom my own perspective, this is like
what she did to that girl bullshit. But the story is bullshit because it
happens once a year. Last yearwas fucking Elon Musk, Like, the

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same shit happened. It was itwas the same person, the person Elon
like, it is the same Itwas the same, same person. And
the thing is is that like thisperson shouldn't like, shouldn't be nailed for
doing it. It's public access toinformation. If it wasn't publicly accessed and
the Nikkel was doing investigated journalism slashstocker activity, that I'd be like,

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Okay, that's two different things.Though, yeah, no, I don't
know, it's it's it's a thing. Yeah, this world man sadness,
it's sad. But to bring itback to the super Bowl, it's actually
kind of wild to me that,like how many conservatives were losing their fucking

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ship at oh No, the kidthe Hansas City Jeeves won the Super Bowl.
The Liberals won. I'm like,if it wasn't for fucking Taylor Swift,
you guys would literally have been pissingand shitting that you know, liberal
anarchic hellhole ran by Nancy Pelosi,San Francisco won the Super Bowl. Real

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well. John Stewart fucking said thatpretty much the same joke on his show,
Uh, the same. I justwant to say, you're right,
slightly wrong. The only reason thatconservatives are going so hard against Taylor is
because Trump literally said I'm putting thetarget out on her. There were they,
They've been doing it before. Soit started with like the Daily Wire,

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the Blaze, and a lot ofconservative media, and they started and
they started targeting her. You wantto know why, because she encouraged her
primarily female, young fan base toregister to vote. Bear with me.

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What I'm saying to you is priorto Trump saying the shit like people like
Michael Knowles, Knowles, I don'tknow the other fucking guy. I'm pretty
sure somebody from Daily Wire said itas well. We can't make an enemy
of these people because there are toomany fans of just regular music. A

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lot of her fans are regular Americans. And then Trump came out and was
like, yo, fuck that we'regoing after her. She's trying to get
Biden in office. And then that'swhen the Republicans really started going after that.
Because the whole thing was there waslike a slight debate in the conservative
mind fucking field that you can't alienatethat amount that many people. And then

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Trump was like, fuck that.I'm a celebrity myself. He feels like
he's on the same level as Taylor. So once you get an egotistical motherfucker
to be like, fuck audiences,Nigga, I got audiences, it doesn't
do anything anymore, you know,Yeah, then then you're just shooting yourself
in the foot. Did you seethe Kanye West Uh commercial? I did?

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Man? I did not in acar I did? I did?
I did uh? And And thisis coming out for anybody watching. This
is coming up Monday at ten inthe morning. Easter Sands the time I
reviewed his fucking album, Oh thatgot taken off. I listened to this
dog shit, so you didn't haveto. How do you like it?

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It was bad, wasn't it.I'm miss Westy. You're the one with
this kid right now. I don'tget me wrong. If I had a
kid and I was a rapper,I probably do the same ship. But
I'm not gonna release the ship.I'm not gonna be like, guys,

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check out my kid's new song.I don't I don't know what it raised,
but I know she's not, youknow, I know she's still like
like, I know she's not likefucking thirteen or fourteen, yet like she's
like a child. She's a child. And fuck Kanye forgetting on goddamn Kim's
case talking about, oh, kidsshouldn't be on social media, they shouldn't

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be in front of all these people, and then you release a song with
the bitch. I mean, comeon, come on, what's wrong?
What's wrong with y'all? I feelsorry for his new wife because I feel
like he's just like trying to turnher into his ex wife. Literally,
did you see the video of himwalking down Hollywood Boulevard and Sun said boulevard
and the female female reporter was like, does your does your wife have free

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will? Dog? He grabbed thisreporter's phone and was like, I am
a living hero. I am asuperhero, and y'all are trying to kill
the superheroes. My god, I'mlike, what what kind of let that
bitch wear something more than just ascarf? Yo? Yo, all up,
prove the fucking point. This isthe fucking album cover. This is

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the fucking album cover. Why isshe wearing this? It's not a model
that's not a model, that's hisfucking wife. And I'm like Tim,
Tim Kardashian's like shoot where she likeput a fucking wineglass on her ass and
blue fucking champagne over and all thatextra shit. Like I bet you he

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told her to do this shit andshe couldn't say no. There's the difference.
If you are willing to do theshit and you come up with it
yourself, go off. If youhave somebody telling you to do the shit.
From everybody else's perspective, you're justgetting bossed her out? What else?
Conye West put out a tweet thatsaid, this week in twenty twenty

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four of my wife is going withno pants, and every time I've seen
her in public, she is literallyass out. She was like this man
had her in the fucking rain witha clear poncho and no drolls on.
I mean, the dude is alsospreading the most amount of anti Semitism,

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more than anything could ever fucking doto like a demographic of people that already
didn't exactly love the Jews. SoI mean, so I'm good to show
this man twenty two jump Street alreadywell supposedly, like I'm not sure if
I told you about this. ButBill Maher sat down with Kanye West for

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like two hours trying to convince himthat Jews aren't to be hated, and
Bill Maher was like, yo,I can't release the shit. He is
a very charismatic anti semi. I'mlike, shoo, what I do.
Kind of want him to release it, though, but that's my own you
know, like entertainment brain saying Iwant to see everything. I'm not saying.

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Here's the thing. You have theability to hear that bullshit and filter
it through. This man is talkingbollocks. Put it in the garbage.
Not everybody's capable of doing that.But that's such bullshit because exactly like you
fucking said ten minutes ago, welive in the day and age of fucking

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technology where we could tell what ameme is, We could tell what,
for the most part, what's fakeand what's fucking not. Why did these
people even me imediately, regardless ofthe mouthpiece, immediately just drink the fucking
kool aid when ninety percent of thetime they're critically thinking about everything else.
That's just something I don't understand.I don't I don't think most people I
don't think people critic I don't thinkmost people critically think about anything. I

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think most people just literally will justwill go to work, turn on Fox
like absorb, absorb, absorb,go like, go come home like like
like come home from work, tropfox absorb asorb like go sleep, wake
up, go to church the nextday, listen like listen to the bullshit
their pastor says, never read theBible and come to their own conclusions.

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Uh, and then they walk throughlife thinking they are right and they're all
their opinions are right, and everything'sbeen fed to that because they don't know
any fucking better. I don't know. I think, I mean, I
think, I mean critically thinking whenthe opposition, oppositional side is trying to
make a point, like immediately theywill come up with, let's say,

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five times out of ten, asolid counterpoint. Definitely. The other five
times out of ten, you're gettingsome fucking you know, conspiracy theory,
bullshit nonsense. But that's what I'mThat's what I'm saying, Like, I
just don't understand why people can't applythat same degree of logic and counter thought
to people that initially they liked,but now that person that they initially liked,

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is not who is being presented tothe public. Like, don't get
me wrong, I still love theold Kanye fucking songs, but I'm not
gonna turn around and be like everythingthat Kanye is doing today is okay because
he's not even making good music.Yeah, Like, what was the life
like if this album was, Ifthis album was fire? Fuck all the

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anti Semitismo, all that shit,I'll fucking you know, promote Kanye to
my dying breath. But the shithas been going down in quality for years.
I would say the last album ofhis that was actually good was Yeah
and Yay is my least favorite albumof his. I haven't even touched on
any of the new stuff, soleast favorite album that I've heard of his,

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but Yay Life of Pablo. Thosetwo were pretty good for Kanye fucking
Studio album, but his fucking gospelalbum sucked. His fucking this album sucked.
The other ship that he released Ithink last year or two years ago
sucked. I don't know what thefuck is going on now, but the
nigga is no longer a musical geniuslike he always claims. That's kind of

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why people were letting him get awaywith the ship as much as they were
because they were like, yo,he makes good music, but now the
motherfucker don't even be making that goodof music. Yeah, uh so I
just unpaused it. And you know, we we were just talking of a
pregame about Killer Mike winning and howhe deserved it. You know what,

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you know what the whole Travis Scottgot snowed by Killer Mike. Killer Mike.
Who the fuck is he? Whatdoes he deserve? This shit like
conversation from finds me of all ofthe salty bitches that that boulterers Kate three
to one Game of the Year overSpider Man. No literally literally just say
you have no taste, Just justsay you like Miles Morales. No,

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no, no, no, no, no, no no no. Let's
call it what it was. BoltersKate three deserved Game of the Year because
it increased gaming standards as a whole. That's why fucking D and D now
is coming out and saying they wantto make video games because Bolter's Gate three
was as fucking successful as it was. Paul Miles Morales twenty eighteen, Spider

(33:37):
Man Both Amazing Games twenty eighteen.Miles Morales raised standards, Miles Morales,
made tricks in the air, weighmore fluid, more fluid animations, the
whole nine yards. Everything just feltbetter, right. Spider Man two is
a carbon copy of those two games. Does it have a great story,

(33:58):
Probably, haven't fit yet. Doesit have great fighting mechanics and feel good
in your hands? Definitely? Butit is a carbon copy of the Batman
Arkham Asylum games. Just instead ofyou pressing RB to grapple, you press
right trigger to fucking swing, like, come on, yeah, come on.

(34:20):
Like. Also, you had twoof the same just last point,
you have two of the same gamesin the same universe, come out in
less than five six years of eachother. When was the last Boulters Gate
And what was it? It wasa top down pointing not point and click,
but RPG. It was a CRPGlike the old Fallout games, like

(34:45):
the old Fallout games. Now exactlylike the old Fallout games. Take Fallout
Tactics or fall Out one or fallOut two, and then put in Fallout
three. That's exactly what happened withBaldi's Gate three. But not only that.
Imagine if Fallout three all the wayback then, whenever it released,
increased standards that every game possibly couldhave used and made it better. Well,

(35:07):
here's the thing, Balderskate three isn'tamazing just because it's a D and
D and a C RPG. Balderskatethree is amazing because you had fucking Larry
and Studios behind it. So justto understand the pedigree behind Larry and Studios,
they're the ones that made the DivinityOriginal Sin games. Those are those

(35:29):
are basically same tier level of writing, bit of a lower tier in regard.
They didn't I don't think they hadaccess to motion capture. It's for
the character models. But you know, same deal with the games. Deep
breath of characters, tons of expansions, shit ton of stuff. They were
working. They've been working on Balderskatethree for a little over half a decade

(35:52):
for over having shows and it showsand like they're still releasing patches. They
brought moke app people back into thestudio. Yeah, what was the new
patch that came out recently? Allright, so actually let me pull out
here Balders the actually fuck that?Okay? Three? Yeah? No,

(36:15):
I just wanted to do it onFirefox because here we are. Patch six
is now live. Uh, twodays after Valentin's day, keepuld have shot
his arrows, chocolates have gone onsale, and the flowers have started to
wild. Perfect time to release apatch. Past six for Bulgers, gave
three launches today. It's packed fullof quality of life improvements, fixes,
and a little bit of romance onwith the show. Yes, they added

(36:39):
they added changes to kissing animations.Okay, so you so do you guys
see the dedication? Yeah, becausewe've made improvements to locking lips with your
chows romantic partner. All characters nowhave unique kisses that reflect their personality,
with an emphasis on the plural.Uh. These as a randomizing vary from

(37:00):
incredibly romantic to a little more intense. Kisses have also been improved for shorter
and taller body types, so embracewithout delay because people do be horny.
For the origin characters, Okay.Off of the romantic stuff, they added
new camp animation idols for people,so like, now Houston's actually carving because

(37:22):
he because you know the thing.They also had fixes and improvements. It's
not all about ambience and canooling,though, we fix the daily to play
reported issues, but like, thisis what I'm talking about. Compare that
to the NPCs in Fucking Spider Mantwo, where in them are walking around
on city streets that you're not evenwalking on because you're swinging high above the

(37:45):
sky. Just aesthetics. It's noteven a comparison. It's not even a
comparison, Don't get me wrong.There are some really small sub stories that
are we're hard hitting, and especiallysince they've had two other games to build
them up, there's definitely payoffs.But the amount of freedom that you have

(38:09):
in a game like boulders Kate three, that you could decide to do things
that in most games would break thefucking like whole structure itself. You can
glitch the shit inside of fucking things, and they allow you to. They
like, h what's it? Godpromote it pretty much. They actually they
actually, they actually bit the bullet. People have been trying to get Menthara

(38:30):
on good playthroughs where you don't doa specific bad thing to get her as
a as a as a as aplay as a companion character, and they're
just like, fuck it, motherfuckersare turning this bitch into a sheep and
yeating her halfway across the map justto make sure that she's available later you
know what, you knocked the bitchout at the keep, she'll be She'll

(38:54):
still in as long as she doesn'tdie, she'll be around later. Have
fun. They didn't fix any ofthe other problems with it, but they've
said, you know what, ifyou guys wantre that bad, have her
well. I think I don't know. I think like some games do have
to kind of incentivize other play stylesbecause, don't get me wrong, playing

(39:14):
a neutral, good, playing agood charisma character is definitely fun. But
playing an evil one is a fulldifferent experience that everybody should definitely do.
And yeah, also playing it alsodoes the game make you feel good about
being evil? Or does it?Like? Is the is the is the

(39:36):
evil experience rewarding in a way thatis that overcomes your morals? You know,
because I so like For example,do you know the percentage of people
who have completed Fallout New Vegas bysiding with the Legion? Isn't it like
ten twelve percent? Nine percent?I know it was gonna be low nine.

(40:04):
Think about how the Legion is areal The Legion is a real hard
video game faction to fucking be sympatheticto. It's really hard when you have
fifty motherfuckers all on steaks still aliveversus Balderskape three, where being evil means,
oh, you kill all of thesepeople, but you get to smash

(40:27):
drought Pussy and she's the only characterin the game that actually gives head.
So and also, like in Fallout, personally would fall Out. The reason
why I didn't choose to be likeevil characters nine times out of ten is
because you alienate most shops if yougo into a if you go into a

(40:50):
place, yeah maybe not. Maybeit short because you have to remember that
they are doing much more heavy useof like that in communities. And like
you you can if you are abad guy all the time, like if
you're a bad guy, if youlike, if you're a fuckhead in Novak,
that doesn't necessarily affect your standing onthe strip. Not only does it

(41:13):
not necessarily ifect you're standing on thestrip, Like you know, you could
kill all of the people in theWhite Glove Society and still be okay at
the tops, you know, youknow, like being evil in a follow
up game is very much like likethere's you can be self interested or you
can be evil, but even then, like there's there are things especially in

(41:35):
some a game like New Vegas foryou to still be able to have access
to shops and commerce and stuff likethat. Yes, there's lesson I was
gonna say, I don't if yousaid it with the Legion, like most
of the small settlements that have likeshops to buy shit, just to go
around and buy you know, bulletsif you need or what the fuck ever,
like most of those are your annexyou can. Maybe I'm couldn't tell

(42:02):
you. I've never played. Inever sided with the Legion because I have
morals. I mean, you're tellingme, but fuck and let me just
say once again, fuck those caravansof the Legion. Oh my god,
early mission, early game, thatshit fucks you up. That's I've actually

(42:23):
been thinking. So I don't knowif you know this. When I'm doing
a sabbath on on the on theMarch, the first I saw, Yeah,
yeah, I'm I'm hoping maybe I'mtrying to sort of like figure out
like how I want to uh structurethat, Like I'm gonna probably set the
default stream for it to be sixhours and you know, then you know,

(42:45):
if I and then if it goeslonger, I want to try and
like get like, you know,interviews and stuff with people at like the
twelve hour mark, and I'm andI'm like probably gonna and I'm probably gonna
pass the fuck out in my chairand shit, okay, yeah I might

(43:06):
come in play or shit. Ohman, Yeah, I'm sorry for the
lack of prep in today's rundown,my friend. Oh good. Last thing
I want to talk to you aboutbefore we take the recording off. What
do you think of And maybe youhave no experience, but I want to
know your opinion. What do youthink of this Hell Divers game coming out

(43:27):
or that already came out, soI've seen what the game play loop is
like through just like some a coupleof summaries. I can't really say I
have a lot of interest in it, but I do know that it's it's
you know, all all of theDestiny fan boys are currently having a much
more enjoyable time all things considered.That's weird, Destiny. I wouldn't think.

(43:51):
I wouldn't think that. I wouldhave thought like Payday people would have
been really into it. Yeah,real quick, can we talk about the
atrocious release of Payday three. Idon't know much about it. I know
that it was life service, lotsof DRM. Well, the main issue

(44:15):
that everybody was like, what thefuck about? Since Payday one? Private
games, offline games have been athing, offline matches, there was no
private, no way to go solo. Even if you were solo, you
had to be online. And fora lot of people that fox chances up,
especially on PC rubberbanding, rubber bandding, rubber banding and just as

(44:43):
I don't know if you love Paydaytwo as much as I do, but
like, I fucking love Payday two. God, I'm I'm sorry you never
had that experience. I genuinely have. Payday two is a great four player.
It's almost like Left for Dead withoutthe zombies, Like it feels exactly

(45:04):
like that. And just the gameplayloop for Payday two was amazing, And
everything about Payday three minus saw thatextra bullshit looked great in the actual game
itself. I'm so tired of studiosfucking things up. I'm so tired of
it. I don't know, man, but can't feel good though the amount

(45:31):
of it can't feel good seeing likelike like I kind of Borderlands three was
kind of that for me, likethe love like it's don't get me wrong,
it's a great game. It playsfantastically. I actually don't mind the
story compared to other people. Itjust it it didn't have a certain quality

(45:53):
that Borderlands too. Definitely. Here'sthe thing what it was, it was
it was a better game mechanically inevery way compared to Borderlands two. Story
wise. Borderlands two is obviously likehas the best main story period. I
think the thing that I miss themost upsetted me with it the most was

(46:15):
sacrificing a lot of the post launchsupport to start working on tiny teen as
Wonderlands, which I just I tightgame interesting premise, like I just could
I I think I don't. Ithink they should have made it a rated

(46:38):
our game. They shouldn't have madea T for team. It just didn't
feel as good to play. Iyou know, I just the grind to
level like I loved the concept oflike the spells, I like the weapons
variety. I like the way theclasses were, I loved the way the

(47:00):
character building worked. I thought itwas great. It's just there was just
I think just it felt I feltlike the lack of impact, like no
bloods, flatter, nothing, It'sjust it just didn't hit and that bums
me. Out because like on paper, it's exactly what the fuck I should

(47:22):
like, and it just it wasupsetting. What can you do? Yeah,
man, I would just maybe meand you even need to make a
video of like why Borderlands two wasso great? I need. I would
love to get my buddy Tom onthat if he has time between his new
son and his job. But becausehe he he got really into Borderlines two

(47:44):
back in the day, that'd bea good person to have on with that
too. Oh look, everybody,I caught a creature. It's a kitty.
He's like, let me go forpappas. He's a post party like

(48:04):
please please. He used the babyBABYD, the Mobo BABYD, the momo
be bb. Sorry for everybody listening. I'm currently I'm currently cuddling my cat
and he and giving him love againstas well, and he is kicking at
your face to be like, letme go. He's so cute though,

(48:27):
yes, he's a very good boy. Bay it all right? Shame shame,
shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame. And we're
shaming Brian right now because he wassupposed to have a freestyle ready to go,

(48:50):
dog, I don't care of this. If it sounds a little crackley.
Next time, record that ship onyour phone. No, of course,
the only reason I was trying todo it on my oh through Sony
Vegas was so you had the audioand the video at the same time.
Just dog record it. Record thatship through fucking I don't know record that's
just record that ship through your fuckingphone, upload it as a YouTube short

(49:14):
and throw it up on YouTube.Do it that way. Okay, we
got it. We got it.But awesome fucking tablet I have. Shit
is crazy. It's so big,you fucking nicotine fiends. Yep, let's
us, ladies and gentlemen, thankyou for listening to the rundown. I

(49:37):
we are here. We are closingout to another episode. I had a
long week. Unfortunately, due tomy own nkeligence, I was not able
to prepare for today's this day's episodeas much as I should have, and
that is on me, and thereforewe are Then we're gonna be cutting this
a little early ten minutes today.Please make sure to go to NOE dot

(49:58):
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two underscore Brian and follow him onInstagram and if and I've got to make
a fucking phone bill on Tuesday funbecause I have no money. So go
to Himedia dot slash donate that isthe wrong one and help a brother out

(50:25):
little as five dollars a month andis genuinely meaningful. But thank you,
ladies and gentlemen so much for watching. I appreciate you, I appreciate your
time, I appreciate your listenership.Thank you, Brian. Do you have
anything to say before we bounce?I just want to say thank you everybody
for watching. Hope you guys enjoyedand follow me where I'm at. Oh

(50:46):
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