The Rundown #8

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Hello, ladies and gentlemen, Welcomeback, unfortunately to the rundown where,
for some fucking reason, by addingpoles to Nitro users, Discord has somehow
fucked up their app. And nowwe are quite literally recording on Discord for

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consistency sake. But I am alsoon a Instagram call with Brian so he
can hear me talk to him.I got that muted on my end,
and then he can talk to methrough Discord, so it's picked up for
the recording. Because technology is thefuture. Yeah, let's make AI run

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because this ship runs so well whenit's when like you know, it requires
you, like you know, customhand by me by human. Let's let
the fucking internet and aggregate build shit. Hey that so no intro. I
had a really funny video talking abouta guy saying throwing his home under the
bus for like the worst fucking robberythat they set them up on, and

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it was funny as shit. Butwe can't fucking watch that now because for
some reason Discord doesn't want to prodirect audio through Bryan's machine, So fuck
us, I guess. Welcome toyour minute the minute and a half intro,
meat bitching. Welcome to the Rundownnumber eight. I am your host,
Evan from High Media TV. Iam joined by the illustrious, my
illustrious co host Bryant no Dot twoOrtega, and they're they. Even though

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they were not able to do anyvideos today, there is no shortage of
discussions to talk about. We've gotthe Fallout TV show that came out,
which I'm probably not gonna watch.I'm sure it's lovely. I'm sure it's
gonna tickle my fancy as a Falloutfan. But they basically from what I
hear, they basically wreck Coon NewVegas, so and so who and probably
fall Out one and two two,so, you know, as a lord

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junkie. No. Also, thejuice is loose in the afterlife. Yeah,
he is that that man. Thatman did Holy shit. I was
expecting that. I meant he couldrest knowing that his wife's killer is actually
dead. Now he's you know,let's start with the OJ stuff first,

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because I've seen people like this thatI saw Christian Divine on TikTok's was really
funny creator like a lot and verythoughtful and funny players. And he was
basically saying that like O. J. Simpson is like a litmus test for
white people in racism. Yeah,if you don't like OJ, like you've

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gotta be racist. No, it'smore of just like we all know he
did it, but like, howangry are you that he got off?
Because that's the thing. I thinkthere's an age different thing because Christian himself
is like thirty is almost is likeis like thirty. I'm twenty six,
you're twenty four. I don't knowabout you, but I was. I

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was. I was a this whenOJ simp it happened. I don't even
that happened in what ninety four?Yeah I think, yeah, I was.
I wasn't even born yet. Idon't even I didn't give a fuck
about I didn't even fuck about that. So like, no, it wasn't
ninety four, it was. Itwas a little later than that. But
here's my thing, and and thisis I'm just gonna go with my soapbox
for a second high Soapbox Interview show. Co check that out at u h

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at Hi Hi Media dot gg slashHi Soapbox it's another podcast whatever. Real
quick, I just got to add, you know, it's a fucking fact
when you're looking up when did andthen fucking it comes up. When did
oj Killer's wife? You know it? It was ninety before. Right,

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here's the thing I will and I'mgonna make it. I'm gonna make a
video. Actually let me actually,like god, I wish I could record
twice at the same time. Actually, wait, I can, because you
want to know why, Because I'vegot a handy, danding new plug in
that allows me to record vertically andhorizontally at the same time. It's if
I like probably, but uh yeah, I guess I'll use that to do

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the thing. But yeah, no, Like, I want to just take
a second because I know that thatwe're doing the wider podcast. But but
I wanted to make this a segmentfor like my as like another piece of
content, and like also like Ineed people, and I hope you don't
mind me, Brian going on mysoapbox here for a second. People,

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I'm gonna speak on like on behalfof like like to ed, speak on
behalf of Tod, like on behalfof white people under the age of like
thirty, because I'm going to keepit a buck. If you're gen Z,

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you do in your in you're awhite dude or a white girl,
you do not give a shit aboutOJ Simpson. You do not give a
shit about OJ Simpson. It isone of those things of just like who
gives a fuck? And and Iwant to take this as a moment to
educate my contemporaries of my age andmy ethnicity. The reason why your parents

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and your uncles and your grandparents turninto clansmen. It seeming like whenever they
start talking about OJ Simpson, itseems like is because this man killed a
white woman, which already in ain our country, like a black man
killing a white woman is like everywhite person over the age over like oh

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that was born before the before likenineteen nineties worst fucking fear to start and
even some after, but also waslike up and coming rising TV starland or
something, or like a model orjust someone who is like a darling or
she's just a pretty as white womanor something or and they hated this man

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for getting off. Now you mightmight be asking, Evan, they arrest
fourteen year old kids for walking whileblack and give them five years, how
did this man get off? Andthe answer we have to go back to
a gentleman by the name of RodneyKing. For those who don't for for

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for my contemporary for my contemporaries,you might, you know, we might
live in a world where every twoweeks we see a cop beaten the piss
out of an American citizen with absolutelyno recourse for justice on behalf of the
of the of the of the brutalized, and cops get away with beating the

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dog shit out of our fellow Americansregularly. Now that and we see videos
of that to the point every twolike week to two weeks, like clockworking,
We're desensitized from it. I'm desensitizedfrom it too. I've seen copskilling
black people, brown people, whitepeople, gay people of all kinds of
people with impunity since I was athirteen year old kid. Now back now,

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but back. But that brings meto Rodney King. The reason why
Rodney King is important is because thiswas a man who was who did get
the dog shit beaten out of himby the police on camera. But the
difference is this was the first timein a generation that it's been seen.

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This is the first time in ageneration it's been seen in detail, in
color in a generation. This theRodney King brute brutalization by the police outraged
the nation, and when the copsthat beat the dog shit out of him

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got off. That led to somethingcalled the La Riots, which was an
extended period of times. Think likeyou know George Floyd Riots, but like
on like a different level. Thecity of La kind of went anarchic for
a time because people were so fuckingangry and mad that these cops got off.

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Because the city, the LAPD isone of the most racist and violent
organizations in the United States of America. I'm not saying this as someone who
thinks it as an opinion. Iam saying it as an objective fact.
They were under control. The federalgovernment had to come in and take control

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of their command structure and be incharge of the LABD because they just could
not be eating the shit out ofand terrorizing the population they were supposed to
protect and serve. So what happenedis is that a couple of years,
not too long after the La Riots, all of that simmers down. The
anger is still there, curfews wereput in, cops came out, and

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troves beat the angry population back,and life returned to some semblance of normal.
And then O. J. Simpsonwas speeding down the fire be four
in his sucking in a soup,in a suit to Bronco, and that
all that stuff happened, and whatyou had was in in paneled jury,

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mixed rates jury. That very muchis the prime example of i'd say jury
nullification. What was it obvious throughall the evidence that OJ Simpson killed his

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his his ex wife and her boyfriendwho she was allegedly big like, allegedly
for legal reasons, big quotes,you know what I mean, her a
fair partner during their marriage. Now, I want to be clear, murder
is wrong and we shouldn't be doingit obviously, and O. J.

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Simpson probably should have gone to jailfor her murder. But there was there
was the black and justice minded whitefolks on this jury had the opportunity to
do something very funny, and thatis give all of white America an aneurism,

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and they did. Doesn't help thatthe prosecutors lawyer was kind of a
dumbass and of other things. Butby and large, while the while I
make jokes and to say that theO. J. Simpson going free was
was it was like a direct responseto Rodney King, like with actual thought,

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that's not the case. It wasmore of just like this man's gotta
get off because this this monster hasto get let off because they let other
they let monsters that harm us willcontinue to run the streets. If I

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may interrupt before, not gonna talkit all about Robert Kardashian, the defense,
if the glove doesn't fit, youmust have quit all of all of
those are things that people have probablyseen. It's not I'm just trying to
give the kind of the bare bonesthing of just like by and large that

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this was the epitome of like aTV trial similar to Johnny Deppenhamber heard,
but like the big first one inlike decades really that's like was memorable to
the point where it's still talked aboutto this day and made him biopics and
movies and all that shit. Soyou know, yes, uh Mark uh
not Buck Furman, Uh, RobertKardashian and you know, and uh like

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you know Mark and Mark Furman likewas shown to evidence and preid pass.
There's plenty of like ways to thatto have so reasonable doubt. But also
there was also as well overwhelming evidence. Functionally, at the end of the
day, even if like the factsI've said about the trial are incorrect,
doesn't fucking matter, because at theend of the day, what whether or

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not you know O J. LikeO J. Simpson was, you know,
like like had a good lawyer teamand you know, whatever the evidence
thought of Like, by and large, the general zeitgeist of America is that
he did that shit. And Iand personally and the way I look at

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it and the way I think,like, if you are somebody watching this
who does not get it and doesnot understand the anger, don't worry about
it. It is it. Youwere not going to be able to get
a single black person on that jurythat lived in LA during the during the
Rodney King uh brutalization and LA riots. That was going to, especially when

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those feelings were still raw that werewith that high profile of a trial like
that was going to be an uphillbattle for the prosecution. And honestly,
I don't really give a shit.I gotta be honest with you. I
don't know why you keep saying thatthere was such disdain for him because he
was literally one of the black peoplethat was the exception to the whole I

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want to I want to out waitingby disdain saying that white people didn't really
appreciate the fact that he got offwhen a lot of white people themselves during
that time loved Ojay and didn't wantto prosecute it. Like I said,
I'm looking at this like as somebodywho is a a twenty six year old

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man. B I wasn't even bornwhen this shit went down, or if
I was, I was like afeenus. See, I don't care enough
about it to learn the details ofthe case. And I'm just looking at
this from a macro perspective on things. Yeah, for factual you know,
relevance or whatever. I'm just saying, like, because you made your separate

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video, I'm just saying, youwant to make sure you're saying the right
things in your videos. Oh no, I want to be clear. Like
even if I because the video isthrowing, even if I get this ship,
it's like some of the facts ofit wrong. The macro point that
is is this like the city ofLa was hurting the prosecutor. This the

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government in the city of La dida gigantic miscarriage of justice. People were
pissed, and while the while theacts of jurors didn't weren't probably weren't thinking
about this. They were probably justlike fuck it, it's Ojay, he

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like got like how many trophies andShay like we love him. Fuck it,
I don't care. He killed thatwhite bitch fuck him. You know,
like they didn't give it, likethey didn't like we saw there was
a video of fucking Rodney King gettingthe ship knocked out of him, and
those cops walked, he will walkthrough this shit. They don't have him
on video. Fuck it, soyou know. So it's like so you
know, so it's like, becausehere's the thing. It doesn't matter.

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He's dead, and an entire generationof suburban white people have malded, have
have have have malded, seethed andcoked over the fact that this man got
off or some ship that he probablydid fucking do. And I'm telling you
as someone who is my age oryounger, uh, the contemporaries who of

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my ethnicity, it's basically because whitepeople fucking we're doing a white supremacy.
Black people in LA had the opera, had the chance to get get backsies
at the l A government for beingracist fuckheads, and they took it.

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Now, is that exactly what happened? And is everything I just say a
painted picture in hindsight apps fucking lutely. I'm not gonna speak for the jurors
or anything on that note, butI will say, in hindsight, it
is seen to see forty year oldracist getting unbelievably upset about But my thing
is is that, you know,I have plenty of friends who don't look

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like me and the and in twentyyears removed from the fact, everybody's like,
yeah, he did that shit,And my thing is, I don't
give a fuck if he did it. I don't even know. I don't
even know, like know the name, like I only know, I don't
even know the names of the twopeople he killed, because it's just that

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irrelevant to me. Like they're like, it just doesn't fucking matter. It's
oj is. OJ to me isa me o. J Simpson is the
guy on the fuck who who likemakes weird Instagram videos on the golf course.
Well, when you started, whenyou started your video saying like how
everybody under thirty thinks of this motherfuckerand you were saying what you were saying,
I was gonna say, everybody thinksthat this motherfucker as the guy who

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got away with murder and he's amean because of it. Yeah, yeah,
like, no, that's it.That's it. It's like it's like,
like I want to be clear thatit's like it's funny that that's the
case, but it's like, Nope, I don't think like any of us
really have any emotional steak. No, nobody is like, oh my god,
he got away with it. Howcould he accept probably some of my
racist family down in Saint Mary's Wellpeople. Yeah, and that and that's

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kind of the big stick, right, And you know, honestly, I'll
probably make remake this video in inhorizontal format, but you know, it's
still good content for the podcast nonetheless. But yeah, like O. J.
Simpson is dead now. He diedof like have cancer at seventy six.
I saw so many comments saying cancerdid with the criminal addresses system.

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Couldn't. Like, I just Ithink it's I I don't know. It's
like I kind of get a littleleary when I see like older white people
like making jokes about it about OJlike that getting it gets new. Little
people are going to do what theywant. That's true. Moving on the
fallout, shall we? Yeah,So what is the perception here? Because

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I thought previously it was known thatthis was going to be going off of
the the world of Fallout, butnot the games like it was a spiritual
successor whatever you want to call it. It wasn't supposed to take place in
the same canon. It wasn't supposedto take place in the same cannon like

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again in the Fallout world, butnot in the game universe. So so
that's difficult, right because canoninity likedoesn't necessarily like you, here's the thing.
It's like it is the lower partof the cannon like like like whatever

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is that like? Because here's whatI just to just to to explain what
I mean by that. It's I'mnot expecting them to go to the Capitol
Wasteland and go like talk and likego see the events that of the of
the fallow up three as they're happening. I'm not expecting that. What I

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am expecting is that the world buildingthat builds up this world of Fallout is
consistent. So well, one thingthat's the challenge, just let me say,
for I feel like that's the challengewhen you take a video game and
try to make it into a bookor a movie or any other uh what

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do they called it? Form amedia? Like if Halo. Let me
just ask this, if the Haloseries started off from the first game and
was an exact replica minus you know, some creative liberties of the first game,

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what people actually accept and want thatA lot of people say yes,
but I think we get and wesee ourselves having these examples, these types
of shows, video game centric showsthat don't actually follow the narrative of the
video game. It's a universe.Like I feel like that's why comic books
are a great adaptation material for movies, because yes, there's a million different

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things that have to go right inthat universe. But if you just say
this is universe twelve, then youdon't really have to worry about it.
True. Here's the thing though,from what I gather is there is also
like included with that is also likea respect to the subjects material, right,

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because you have these the games arethe reason that you know you were
having this TV show in the firstplace. And so I want to reiterate
that I want it. If inthis Fallout series, I had my space,
I wasn't gonna watch it, butI was just like not interested because
like it's Amazon like gona fuck itup, you know, you know,

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Like I just I'm my thing isbetween the Boys in Invincible, which are
both already established things, they arekilling it well from everything I gathered,
at least with the Boys in Invincible, they took the ship, they actually
made. They actually improved on ona lot of aspects of the source material,

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especially when it comes to the Boys, because the Boys was like kind
of like from what I gather,you can't make You can't take the comics
and make a show, and Invinciblethey probably did a little tweaking to like
make shit a little. I'm curious. I'm curious they're how they're gonna deal
with Anissa and Mark that ship thathappens later down the line. They have

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they have they have to put likeI'm I'm praying that they do it in
a way that is tasteful. Theyhave to. But regards back to the
Paula show, like here's my thingright, and I'm pulling up some supporting
material here from you know, justso they get my dates dates right.

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They've appear so the dates and timingand stuff of things that happened within the
universe that they've changed a few ofthem. One of the biggest ones was
they said that Shady Sands got newthe same year as the First Battle of

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Hoover Dan okay, which means thatall of the events because also the Legion
has not there's no signifier because theyare very much like in like territory,
where like the Legion would be likefrom what I gather, would be like

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mentioned at the very least or seenthey've win the with with that huge change
to the timeline that in negates allof New Vegas with the exception I mean
maybe like you might get like aCourier six and an Independent, you know,

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New Vegas. But what you're notgonna get is like the tension in
the region that drives a story,which is the pull for power between House,
the NCR, and the Legions.This is I think this is my
criticism of fans of these universes.Y'all gets so attached to events in these

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stories in these games that you guyskind of put up a blocker on anything
outside of that, because I understandwhat you're saying. But if they took
the games as source material and triedto redo them, then I would agree
with you. If they made abig fucking change. Gret Con. I

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want to be I want to beclear. I don't want them to remake
New Vegas. I don't even wantto see New Vegas. I don't want
to see the Capitol Wasteland. Idon't want to see that. I don't
want to see Appalasha. I don'twant to see the Commonwealth. I don't
want to see Uh when did thebombs drop in the Ogi game? Or

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what year? Uh? Twenty seventyseven, Okay, so they at least
keep that up. I mean,I'm I'm just saying, since I played
Fallout since I was a kid,and I was never super into the universe,
I just love seeing that shit inreality, like the Vault exactly.
I completely understand. Now listen,if that's the extent of it, enjoy.

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I'm talking about as as someone whois emotionally invested in this, and
I want to be clear, Ido not want them to just go rehash
teams like say they're going to doan Eldest Rolls team ship, right.
I don't want to just see Skyrinthe events of Skyrin played out. I
don't want to see the events ofMoro Win play out. I don't want

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to see any of that. I'veplayed that already. I've seen it already.
What I want to see is themtaking the lore in the world and
crafting a story within the confines.I want them to take what has been
hear me out what that has beenbuilt, without changing the core of the

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world, and write a story withinthose confines when they're changing dates in caninity
and things of all of that nature. That I have a problem with.
Can I ask why because I don'thave a blind faith in the writers of
this shit, Because at the endof the day, Stanley says Canon.

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Stanley said, Cannon is the personwriting the script, the story they want
to tell. See with with comics, that's one thing you have to remember
that with video games, especially giganticstory story story like driven games like Pathestic

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games, is these games are bytheir very nature, you take them as
you see them there. They theyare games that build a lore and a
world and and a and a universethat you play within those the the the

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the I'm not saying that they needthat. They can't say, oh I
that, oh they they're stopping inI don't know, al Paso. You
know where jet was created, andyou know they have a fight with a
fucking gang there, and it's likeduring the time of the years before,

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like the NCR War in New Vegas. This is some ship that is completely
fucking removed. There is you haveto remember that that that almost the entirety
of the United States, and evena lot of shit that isn't in the
United there's a lot of open roomfor these show creators to go up to

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I don't fucking know, Montana,Seattle, Uh, Florida, shit like
that, like all of these otherplaces and write their own lore to suit
with the esthetics of Fallout. Butwhat they're doing is like, but when
you're in places where the world hasalready been built and established, these if

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you're changing those foundations, it's likecognitive dissonance, right. It's it's like
like, for example, when Igo to play a game like a Place
Skyer, right, I there isthe Imperials and the storm Cloaks, and
there's that Civil war hole debacle goingon, and then you have the you

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know, you have the the storylineage of the College and the Thieves Guild
and you know them being tied toNocturnal and ship and all that. Now,
if you know in this TV show, they like if like I playing
the game could like if if thegame was just one day. You know,
now it's not the storm Cloaks fightingthe Imperials. It's the Imperials fighting

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some invaders from marwind On on theon the eastern side, on the on
the western front, eastern front.It changes things, it feels off,
it feels wrong, like or ifor or if they or if you know,
say, for example, like someshow runners, let's just bring back
to bring back to TV. Iflike I'm playing and watching an Elder Scroll

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show and they decide to do itin Skyrim during the fucking civil war or
for some fucking reason, and theydecide to, uh make it so the
to tone down the fucking racism ofthe storm clothes for whatever reason, which
or they decide to uh say thatthe the the imperial that that that that

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that it's uh, it's imperial remnants. The empires actually fallen and these are
just the leftovers and now they're justfighting over who gets controled car That would
feel that like completely removes the entireyou know, looming threat of the ethno
nationalist foul more. Yeah, butyou're just reactionary to a lie. Like

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I understand what you're saying. Iget your full point. I'm just saying
it was one fucking line because Ijust read I just read the the conflict
on about it a little bit whileyou were talking. I was still listening
to you. But this just proveshow difficult of a fan base gamers are

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when shit is trying to be made, Because I'm saying this with the perspective
of a creative, of a personwho wants to go into the film and
TV pro So I'm saying I'm sayinglike if I was writing a Batman story
exactly, if I was writing aRatchet and Clank story, which is one
of my favorite fucking video of thegames of all goddamn time, I wouldn't

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I wouldn't appreciate people hinging their wholedecision whether or not to check out my
content on something that said in thesixth episode that maybe somebody wasn't paying enough
attention to them. You get whatI'm saying, I get I get where
you're coming from. The from likeall of the other Lord junkies and stuff
on line, I've heard nothing butnegative things, and honestly, I wasn't.

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The TV showification of like video gamesand stuff is something I'm just not
really with them. And you alsoknow, I'm not a big TV guy
to begin with, so it's like, you know, hearing the loaur and
consistencies was kind of just like thestraw that broke the Camels back from by
Ian. I think what I'm sayingis y'all tend to have and I'm saying

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theory, realistic, whatever word youused for that, y'all are never going
to be satisfied. No, here'sthe thing. It's like, I'm I
want to be clear that there aredefinitely people that are never going to be
satisfied. My thing is is thatI Star Wars is a good example of

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this ship being done well. Notthe movies, some of the movies,
not all the movies, but definitelydefinitely the TV shows. Yeah, it's
like it's like, what like theyvery much feel like things that are they
are not changing timelines or or tryingto change like fundamental like you know,

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pieces of lord and stuff in theworld. They might change like oh this
person and is like a different ethnicity, who gives a fuck? They might
change this person like like like theymight have said, oh this like this
person actually didn't die that here's howthey survived. Blah blah blah, that's
whatever. You know. My problemis is not like on the character level.

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My problem more so is on theyou know, world building level,
and and and Jon Favreau, tohis credit, his shit feels like Star
Wars, even if it feels likea spaghetti western like with Mandalorian or and
or like a like political contract withand Or or like a fucking I want

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to cry my eyes out with fuckingKenobi like so you know, for me,
it's it's to your thing, like, oh, we'll never be satisfied.
Here was thinking there's always gonna besaid, never satisfied. I am
not so presumptuous that I want tojust see how I think a fall out
of my head on the screen.That's never gonna be the case. But
what I do want to see isa le level of of of militant care

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to the subject matter because we havelike think about it. Then can I
just finish myself saying just to wrapit up, I am. I wanted
that militant adherence to the world buildingthat is both established and and making sure
that the one the new ones thatthey do fit the flavor, if not

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perfectly, like you know, I'mnot expecting that the fall out leanness of
of say, you know, aFlorida is going to feel the same as
it feels in like the Commonwealth,which is like how it did how like
Far Harbor and the Far Harbor dealclike had a very new England vibe.
I just want I just don't wantthem to change core ship about the world

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because because this is the last thingI know. I thought, I'm a
fucking alcoholic. I talk, Italk into a camera, fur elem it
gonna be some fucking slack because wehave nerves, like like people who are
passionate about about franchises have been burnedrepeatedly by Hollywood for years and years and

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years, and it has been shownthat that that adherence to corelaur and stuff
has is possible to do. Itis being done by like Disney in the
by by by John Favreau and whatand was trying to be done by Henry
cavill on The Witcher but by butlike yes, that like that's why it's

(35:36):
not because like I want it tobe in my head. You're done,
You got my point. I challengeyou to watch the first fucking episode and
tell me where they genuinely try toget over or they don't do a good
job of the world building because II'm not saying that I wouldn't enjoy it.
I'm not saying that I wouldn't havefun with it. Because here's the

(35:58):
thing I will like. I liked. Here's the thing. I gonna be
clear. I didn't watch Game ofThrones as a game. I watched it
piecemeal. I still watched piecemeal theirentire seasons and episodes I haven't fucking seen
I start. I honestly, thefirst bit of Game of Thrones I saw
was season eight because Metal was watchingit, and that's where I came in.

(36:20):
Okay, so I thought you meantyou like chose to put on season
eight. I did. Two men. The men who made that made season
eight are never gonna work it beprolific writers in Hollywood ever a fucking game.
They're forever gonna be the people whofucked up Game of Thrones. Speaking
of which, just as a completefucking pivote, did you hear that they

(36:42):
are gonna make a Johnson O TVshow? No? Did you you know
what I did here? I heardmad Stone and Trey Parker and Kendrick Lamar
of all people, I'm not surprisedI'm not surprised with Lamar with the South
Park guys, of course, butthey're coming out with a comedy movie for
next July. For it, thatis either going to be the best shit

(37:07):
ever or like the most arthouse bullshiton the planet. Yeah, yeah,
hey, what's it? All thewhole? So I won't even talk about
it. I'm just telling you thissince it's on the movie news thing.

(37:27):
Everybody from poor Things is making amovie again. Whatever. Cool, Hey,
listen, have fun with it.Like, listen, even if they
even if they made a movie thatis like kind of tasteless, that is
tasteless, off rip, that doesn'tmean they didn't enjoy working together. Oh
no, they probably had a bunchof fun. I'm just well, well,

(37:49):
listen, let's see what they makenext time. Hopefully it's a little
less rapey so on and so forth. Uh. Let me, let me
just quick pull up the fucking entertainmentnews thing on Google news feed just to
see. No, that's that's inherentlypolitical. Oh my god, they're making

(38:13):
a live action version of the Lastronin the CNN T thing. Yeah I
knew that. I didn't know thatthat was actually like video game. I
mean, I always love the Terran'sMeeting Ninja Turtle video games. I got
the three D one for like thePS two back in the day. That
shows great. That great, thatwas my ship. You just unlocked a

(38:37):
god damn memory, dude, Icould never beat that like that, Like
the fucking boss at the end ofthe first uh uh seeon whatever it was
called the first What you're talking about? Yeah, it's like I literally like
would keep help. I didn't knowhow to get health back or anything.

(38:58):
I don't think you could get healthback, but I would literally just like
pound. I got so good atthe first leave. I was able to
pound through everything, and I wasjust like save lives as much as humanly
possible, just to desperately try.And like I could never figure out how
to beat that fucking boss. Ikind of want to go find the game.
Wow, why don't they make gamesthat have the like split path as

(39:21):
much as they did with fuckings?Do you remember the old Shadow game?
Uh Shadow Hedgehog. Yeah, Ialways wanted to try it. I heard
it was asked though, I meanif you go back to it now,
it probably is. But that thatwas my ship also, But like they
had five different like levels per ineach level you could make a decision that

(39:43):
would take you to a different level. It was crazy, But you know,
do you what what? Here's agood question. What is you in?
Noelia's like trashy TV show, y'allput on all sleep too. Uh.
Recently, we just finished Superstore amongParks and Breck. Now that's what

(40:07):
we're watching together. She's also runninginto Dragon Ball Super which I'm surprised by
that she's getting into very old.I mean, that's fair dvery old.
Super is a lot more modern approachable. Well, I just can't see Goku
as a character makes sense. Iam. I am one of the dbz
A truthers. God, I wish, I wish, I wish we had

(40:30):
the ability to share videos. Becausethere is a fucking like Naruto, a
freaking borrow Tooe abridged thing that Ifound. Oh so fucking it's the funniest
ship. I seen it so long. I'll find it and send it to
you. It's so fucking good.Oh you should watch hood ju Jitsu guys,

(40:52):
Oh God, because it's the samething, but it's funny as fun.
Oh Lord, God, fucking HJKRowling Man, she's such a bitch.
Okay, You would think somebody withthat amount of money would keep their
mouths shut. You would think womenwomen beat with with like Jake, I'm

(41:15):
gonna all right, so I'm gonnalet me see if you can go find
you know who's also a two facedrich bitch. Hold on, I'm gonna
go find. I'm gonna get thatfuck head. Vah. He had a
tweet that was funny as ship thathe said further, like to be clear,

(41:35):
like misogynistic, but like one hundredvalid. Uh he said. Uh.
All jk Rowling had to do wasshut the fuck up, and she
could have been the most uncritically belovedauthor for like a century. Women be
quieter and start apologizing challenge. Now, I wouldn't say that to like anybody,

(41:59):
but I'd say that ships jk Rowling. She needs it. Shut the
fuck up, not because she's awoman, but because she's a fucking trans
boat in an asshole. Yeah.I don't understand doing that on a scale
that is so impactful. You knowwhat I'm saying? These screenshots tweets with

(42:22):
like five lights that are being criticalof like she just like she sits in
her fucking asshole in North England andjust doom scrolls on Twitter and harasses anybody
she sees in her replies, oreven just random motherfuckers with blue and pink
hair and piercings. And I'm justlike, bully me, bitch. That's

(42:46):
what I'm saying. Because I watchedthat goddamn Alex Jones documentary and foofof the
ship those parents went through. Goddamn. Yeah, just because it's like,
like it's like when you have thatlike because here's the thing when you
have money and you have a followinglike that. Like I don't know,

(43:10):
dude, it's just people who don't, I guess critically fucking think like that's
the thing that bucks with me inall these situations. I don't understand how
you if you are in the audienceof one or more of these people Alex
Jones fucking jk R, Yeah,why would you then attack a private person

(43:34):
They didn't say anything about you.So here's the thing, right in the
case of Alex Jones, the typesof people that would do that are probably
like the type I have, Likethe type of mental illness that they view.
I don't even want to say it'smental illness. They're just like fucking
brain. They're just fucking brain damagedin a derogatory sense, not in a
medical sense of they view Alex Jonesas like someone who's like speaking truth to

(43:59):
power, and like people that aretrying to take them down, or like
agents of the state are like crisisactions with some bullshit, and they're in
there and the and they think andthey think that they're evil and they're fighting
for like world tier in year orsome ship. Now. In the case
of jk R, she's a turfright and she has cultivated and through her
uh transphobia, has cultivated a audienceconsisting primarily of like right wing lunatics and

(44:27):
Nazis. But she had a fuckingaudience of goddamn children, Dad, Dad's
what buck would be right? Andhere's the thing. The children grow grew
up and then some of them,you know, separate the art from the
artists. Some of them believe thesame shits she does, which isn't too
many, and the rest of themare just like, yo, fuck you,
you know. But here's the thing. Like her, her audience now

(44:51):
is just like she like she boots, like she's like fucking Posy Parker out
in Australia, and she boots andlike terrible fucking ideologies. Here's the thing.
You have to remember that right wingpeople and I include j kr rr
in this, don't view trans peopleas people. They view them as sexual
devians and degenerates. And so whenyou know, people say, uh,

(45:16):
there's no it's it's like it's likewhen people it's like when like in like
uh, you know, if you'rewatching a sci fi movie right and the
and like the sci fi funk andlike, and they say that, oh,
Earth has like solved its racism andsexism. You and I might hear
that as oh, people got overtheir exclusionary bullshit. But what a right

(45:39):
wing person will hear is, oh, people finally accepted their places and station
in life. People because because becausebecause you have to remember that. Sure,
all right, y'all, we're back. Sorry we had Brian had some

(45:59):
questions and some statements and stuff thatwe wanted to hash out off air.
But we're gonna completely pivot now.Or are you You have never been in
your life? Maybe you have,but not to the scale that I'm talking
about. You have never been toldin your life that what you're saying is

(46:22):
not truthful or is not based inreality. That's a better way of saying
I have, but it's usually bypeople who are either gaslighting me or don't
know what the fuck they're talking about. Okay, by professionals. Let's say
you've never been told that by aprofessional I have. I've been young and

(46:43):
stupid in the past, speaking onsome shit. I will admit that,
speaking on some shit that I didn'tknow enough about, but continue your point.
There was a man who was homelessin Los Angeles. We found out
that for thirty four years, hisidentity had been stolen, that someone was

(47:10):
using his name and was using allof his information, social Security number,
the whole nine yards. So hegoes into a bank in southern California and
he says, I used to havean account. Here, here's my name,
here's my social Security number, here'sall the information you could possibly ask

(47:36):
the woman the teller at the windowsays, okay, but we actually had
this guy by the same name,and we have his numbers, so I'm
gonna call and because of some errorit might have been the fact that he
was homeless. That definitely helped out. But for some reason, the guy
on the phone was seen as morevalid than the With all this documentation in

(48:00):
front of him. He gets thrownin jail, is told he's not fit
to stand trial because he's still claimingthat's his name. So we get sent
to a mental institution for years.Turns out that this guy, I think
it was Kansas, somewhere in thecountry was working hold on, listen to

(48:23):
this was working as an IT professionalfor a hospital using this motherfucker's name.
So after the guy gets out ofthe hospital at a hospitalization for being you
know, told that he's crazy forsaying that it's him, he goes to
the state. He like, goesthrough the whole thing. He finds out

(48:45):
that it's this guy he lives here. So he goes to the police.
He goes to the police out thereor no, no, no, I'm
sorry. He goes to the hospitalout there and he says, hey,
the guy you have working for itis actually stealing my identity and has been
for thirty four years. They believehim for whatever reason, they believed him

(49:07):
enough they called the police on theguy and it turns out he was in
fact using his identity for thirty fouryears. But I mean, could you
imagine the insanity, the insanity youmust feel when everybody around you was like,
that's not your name, that's notwho you are. He was christ.
I fully believe that, like,like eorl folks are such a fucking

(49:32):
mixed bag. I fully believe that, like this sounds like this dude like
was like in fucking Oklahoma or someshit and like or like in like Denver,
Colorado or some shit and like getsthrown in fucking prison and then he
goes to Kansas and he's like somesweet old lady is like, I didn't
like that motherfucker anyways, I knowhis shit, stang, I believe you

(49:54):
literally, I'll ask for you.She's like, he, you know what,
he probably caught the one nurse thatlike, the dude probably said some
slick shit two fourteen years ago,and like she ain't like him since,
I mean I could never the guygot like twenty years and I'm like,

(50:15):
yo, that's not nearly enough,no, because how much how much time?
Because he needs to get like threetimes what the fuck? Almost?
Man? God? I mean,ah, here's the thing. Here's the
thing though, Like while yes,all of the mean girls from high school
go off to be nurses, Istill feel like a hospital is a much

(50:37):
more empathetic institution compared to a fuckingbank without a doubt. I mean it's
I feel like it's still an institutionthat's likely to prioritize, like to respect
someone with money more than someone without, But it's like less likely to do
that than a booking bank, especiallya bank that has like a customer that's

(51:00):
like that's a customer or some shipversus an employee. Like if you co,
if you came to that with anallegation for it's a customer, you're
then you're not a customer. Ofcourse, the man's gonna take their customer
side. But like it's the employee, Oh we hired we might have hired
somebody who was like faking the shipboss documentation. Yeah, that's that's our

(51:21):
ass. No, because now becausethe hospital even jump on that ship,
that means that they didn't background checkenough or I mean, how much could
you really background check back then thirtyfour years we're talking about like eighties.
Yeah, that's fucking goofy. Ijust oh boy. I will say one

(51:45):
TV show that I'm not looking forwardto is that godfors saken Borderlands TV show.
No, that's a movie movie.Still fuck it. I ain't watching
that ship. Yeah, I seethat is an example of them trying to
use the games as marketing or asa reason for people to actually go.

(52:07):
That's kind of why I was defendingFallout because I'm like, I don't get
that same vibe here. Yeah,I'll hear. My thing is is that
I think the big thing for Falloutfor me at the end of the day
is I like, no TV showis ever going to amount to what I

(52:30):
expect in my head, and Iwould just rather save myself the disappointment I
feel that. No, I getit. I'm just aweso, especially if
they're letting little things like like especiallyif they're like what they're saying, also
going, here's the thing. Let'ssay for the record, even if they

(52:52):
messed up the dates a little bitand it was just like an overlook,
like an oversight on their part.Fine, you're just gonna let the You're
gonna like go with the let theLegion take over New Vegas. No,
no, no, that's like no, no, I'm just saying like if
if if the Battle of the FirstBattle of Hoover Dam what ever happens,

(53:15):
and you know that means the Legiontakes over New Vegas, and that means
the Legion becomes like a giant fuckingissue because it's a slaver army. Yeah,
you know, I'm like, I'mlike, I understand that the NCR
is like a bit is like abit of a fucking mess and shiit.
But like them or like like likelike I think they are personally the best

(53:43):
ending independent New Vegas is like funon an individual level, but like map
grow perspective have it like a likeI'm kind of against the idea of any
libertarian utopia because it's usually gonna bedevolved into like a shithole. But I
don't know what do I know anyways? Like but the like the legion ending

(54:05):
is what y'all are just gonna defaultto there, Like come on, bro,
I don't even think the Legion ofSteel is in it. No Brotherhood
of Steel. Brotherhood of Steel isa brotherhood of Steels. Is the tech
guys in power in her armor?Caesar's Legion are the are the Roman Roman
wannabes? Oh yeah, because theEnclay they talk at least about in the

(54:30):
first episode, because that's all I'vewatched it for. They talk at least
about the Enclay. They show anaspirate and him turning into a scribe.
That's about it. I don't Ididn't register that. I'm probably gonna have
to watch it then, is itjust? I will say they do a

(54:54):
good job of what I guess isthe process of becoming a brother and a
steal squire about like the tea andshit like that on the back of the
neck. I don't know. Idon't even I don't whatever. I guess
that's a creative choice. All Iknow is is that if you're like,
the only way like to become like, the only way to become like a

(55:15):
member of the Brotherhood of Steel whenyou weren't born into it is they they
usually send you on like some bullshitsuicide mission, and if you die,
they weren't going. They didn't givea fuck about you anyways, And if
you come back that means you're probablyuseful enough to have around it, like,
so what the fuck ever, guesswe'll tolerate your ass like it's one
of those types of things. Iguess in this the Brotherhood is still recruits

(55:38):
people who they say, is thisin the West or in the east.
This is in the west, thisis new ooh, that's a change.
So somebody who somebody played one ofthe the writers seem to seem to have
played, didn't didn't seem to playa didn't seem to play New Vegas.

(56:00):
See that they play fall Out threebecause Fallout three the Brotherhood and the good
guys they help the world. That'sthe Brotherhood of Steel in in Fallout three
are very very much are very muchthe Brotherhood of Steel broadly are like,
fuck you, I got mine.We're gonna protect you from yourself otherwise get

(56:24):
fucked. They also they fix it. They do the thing of how it's
pre war tech and that's their wholereason for being, you know there,
So they do explain that. Don'tget me wrong, I like nice guy
Brotherhood of Steel, but like ifit was, that's not what they are,
Like, that's what they are,that's what they are for very select

(56:46):
See, that's another reason I'd belike, because like the Brotherhood of Steel,
our assholes. You go there,but they're like they don't recruit locally
unless like they it's like a strandedchapter. Their fucking numbers are down and

(57:06):
they desperately need people, or they'rein the middle of a fucking war and
they're detached from the rest of theBrotherhood, like like like in the case
of the East or the Hidden ValleyBrotherhood and fall in Vegas. But even
then, like they still put abomb collar on your neck until you prove
yourself like they're they're the Brotherhood arefucking goofy, And I don't wrong.
I like nice guy brotherhood. IFallout three was my first Fallout game.

(57:29):
I love nice great Brotherhood, butlike I think that was everybody's first fault
Out gay, Like we all knowthere's og ones, but did you play
them? I tried them. They'replaying click Okay for everybody watching. If
you want a really good summation ofthe If you just want like a really

(57:51):
good, rock solid summation of thefirst two games of Fallout, go onto
go onto the Dead Channel, Shoddycast, and go watch the their Lore
Their Lore series, what the fuckwas it called? It was? It
was like such a good series untilAustin fucking what the fuck is Austin even

(58:14):
up to nowadays? What does heeven do? I have no idea what
you're talking about. I don't knowthis channel at all. You're good,
You're good, I got you so. Uh it's just called shody Cast and
uh there. The the series inquestion that you're gonna want to look for
is the storyteller. They have.It's seventy six videos. They basically cover

(58:37):
everything. They cover some of thenew game stuff, they cover mostly all
of the old game ship. It'sall wonderful. It's it's all machinima and
it's wonderfully crafted and stuff grow.It's great, Go for it, have
fun with it. Uh and ifyou if you want to know all the
lore for the first and second game, so when you go back and play

(58:58):
Followup three or fall Up four,fill the new vegas were like, francognize
that. It'll all makes sense.For example, the NCR comes out of
Shady Sands, Shady Sands being thecapital, Shady Sands being one of the
first fucking tang you come across theFallout one. Oh wow, okay.
Literally, the most influential president ofthe NCR, the founding president of the

(59:22):
NCR, who won multiple terms,was like a ninety something year old woman
when she fucking died, you yousave her in fall Out one for her
dad, and no not in Faultone and followed two, and you basically

(59:45):
like, Shady Sands is still there, you know, because it takes I
think something like I don't know,twenty thirty years after the fact, and
then you know, she this chickis the one who founds the ncr and
and and and does all the bureaucracyto do that. Even and here's the
thing, Like people love to saythat Bethesta doesn't give a fuck and wants

(01:00:08):
to like retcon ballot New Vegas.That's bullshit. I mean, maybe there
is is that on some level,but like I'm gonna keep it a buck
with you, dude, Like theyhave like in Nuko, there's the they
have easter eggs for New Vegas inUH fallow fall of four. In fact,

(01:00:32):
one of the storylines of one ofthe main quests of fall of four
where you go into the mind ofKellogg, the guy who you fucking brain
who who get after your son?You go through his memories, one of
which is being when he's a littleboy and you hear on the radio like
and the UH and by him froma vote from a fifty six fifty five

(01:00:54):
to fifty six, the Hub agreesto join the ncr M, like they
have actual like that it's canon,and it's cannon. It's cannon. It's
like Fallout New Vegas as Cannon inthe Fallout universe. So it's like that's
a part of a big a lotof the Fallout. Like Lord junkies are

(01:01:14):
like in their beasts with is thatOh they nudia like they say, oh,
they knew they made that change becausethey want to wreck connivations. No,
that's why. That's not why.But I'm just rambling at this point.
I'm sorry. I talked to youdamn much. Anyways, We're all
good. I'm just trying to makesure these cats don't kill each other.
No, that's fine. I probablyfeed the children myself anyways. But uh,

(01:01:36):
I think that's might be a goodplace to stop for the evening for
sure. Ladies and gentlemen, thankyou so much for watching the Rundown.
I appreciate you your time and yourlistening. I'm Evan from High Media.
Uh, thank you. Brian.You find his instagram down below in the
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will we'll check a little bit later, have a go on everybody, and
thanks for watching. This has beenher rundown number three.

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