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Hello the Internet, and welcome to
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this episode of My cousin Trendy.
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Uh. Remember remember when
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he says, uh, when
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Joe Pesci says that, of
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course, oh
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man, Rudy,
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rude, rude. I'm
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Jack. That's Miles. That's also DJ
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Daniel, So you know what that means, we got
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some video game news are coming.
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Uh. Damn, that was pretty good. Sick
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up, Damn, that's sick DJ
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Daniel drop. I
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gotta I gotta make that now. That sounds great. So
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guys, air Pods
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Max trending. Uh
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yeah, is that a joke? That
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seems It seems like a joke to me because
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what they have done is just created
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over ear headphones and called
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them air pods Max. Um.
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Yeah, I don't give this, it's
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there. They're also so they're coming
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in at a clean price point
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of let me seek.
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So let me just tell you about Yeah, it doesn't always
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canceling. It has all the things that the
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air air Pod Mac or the air Pod
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Pro has, U some noise canceling,
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like quick pairing. I will
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just give you the other price points in
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the industry, best in class
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Sony's w H one xmx
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XM fours. I got the threes.
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But uh so they are coming
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in at two seventy nine, uh
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and deliver thirty hours of battery life
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beats Solo pro coming
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in at three hundred. Uh
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what where we think the
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the x M M X fours for that much.
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That's a deal that's below ms r
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P. I would hop on that if you're seeing that,
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I don't. I don't know if they're the exports. They're called
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Sony's w H
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white House one thousand and
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s is okay, yeah,
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a little bit different. They might be a little bit different. Yeah,
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I'm just gonna say just one last time. Those
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other ones are are the goat noise
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canceling headphones. Okay,
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so these ones are if it's Apple then and people
2:21
are winning uh four, yeah,
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bro um they
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I know it's wild. They
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are pods. At least I could understand, like
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they're they're quick. You're like, oh,
2:38
bing bing, let me do my Donald Trump
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impersonation. I don't always said bing bing,
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but like there, what if you're interacting
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with Apple ship, it makes sense to like be like my
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phone to my computer or whatever. But
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the over the ears, see, that's a different I
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treat over that your headphones is a completely different
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experience, Like I'm as an audio
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file, Like that's a whole other
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investment that I take very seriously. And
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that's a lot like considering what you can get
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for under four dollars to go to five
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forty nine, Like you're then you're just paying
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for like the privilege
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of someone being like, oh, let's rob that fool. Hey
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Miles, what kind of audio file are your wave
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MP three? Folks?
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Uh My,
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my real concern with this is
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than MG three. As
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with all uh Apple
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products, I always worry that
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you're you're gonna come that
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Like basically this just means that the other
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products are going to be harder to use
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with Apple products than like
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they're gonna stop making it so
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that it's as easy as possible to use
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other wireless over your
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headphones. And that's what you say. Yeah, they
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just they don't add functionality.
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They just basically make it pair
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better than the comp with your
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iPhone. Um,
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it's wild. I have a Blue Tuo speed or that I've been using
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for probably like a couple of years,
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and then I upgraded OS doesn't connect
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anymore? Air pods connect?
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Fine? Yeah, interesting?
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Interesting? Is it? Is
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it? Jam box? Is it one of those jaw bone
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thingis I wish, I
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wish I was so nice enough for a jam box job
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bone, but it's a it's a soul soul
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boy thing. Did they start the
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job jobra
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job bone? They're they're around that into
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something else? Yeah, I think whatever, who
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knows, I mean, we're that was one of the
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better projects of the past, like
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fifteen years in terms of durability
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years. Boom myself a
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couple of homies had those and you can put them together, had a
4:46
little backyard party. But I'm curious with
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the naming convention. Then they're
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out like they do Pro and Max and
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there's also pro Max. So where are the
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air pods Pro Max? What are those going
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to? That's right, man, it's that's
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the it's going to be next level up. Those
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are solid gold. Also, these things
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look stupid. Yeah, they don't look
5:06
They look like really like
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if Wes Anderson was doing a film
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about air traffic controllers and likely
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this is what they would be wearing in the control tower.
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There definitely has some like future
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her style. He's
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a little more swag for
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the price point. But yeah,
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very minimal design, but like not in
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any way this smart. What's this case
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oh, bro, you didn't know about this smart It
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looks like a bra Yeah no
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Apple, No, no, thank you,
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no, thank you. I'm fins. Also, I think it's
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also weird that they bought Beats to then cannibalize
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that whole company. Just be like, no, we made these headphones
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out of whatever we bought from that company. It's
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just like Beats or whatever. That shows you
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how much they don't give a fun Yeah, well they do your
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ass out and you'll be like, this is a dual of our
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lifetime and apples like we're sure
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than most fucking countries and
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we're liquid as fuck. Get
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at. Uh, there's
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another COVID outbreak in the White House. Jenna
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ellis who you might remember googling
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because she was that third person on
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stage at the one of the
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original Rudy Off the Reservation
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press conferences where he was throwing
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out wild accusations.
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There was Rudy, there
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was the Rosemary's Baby,
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uh, Lady Sydney Pale, and
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then there was this young blond woman
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in the background who was just kind of sitting there.
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Didn't say a whole lot in that press conference,
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but she is Team
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Mega, one of Trump's lawyers
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who hasn't been thrown off the bus
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and under the wheels just yet. And
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she uh tested positive
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for COVID, which has
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caused some concern among
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the people who work at the White House because she was
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at the White House Christmas
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party and she was
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kissing. No,
7:09
that's true. She
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was parked under the missiletoe.
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I have no idea, but that's still
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you know, not great. I don't know how
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uh there was any doubt that she,
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like why she wasn't quarantining when she
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has spent the last two months
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like anchored to Rudy Giuliani,
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who recently tested positive. But
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I mean, I do know how that is. They don't
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believe in science. It's just funny how like the
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White House like clicky, even in the White
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Houses that like all those like those that
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Axio stories, like about how they all groaned
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when she showed up at the party, like she fucking
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comes. Keep her away from the President because
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she's just gonna get them all worked up on that bullshit,
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which is the reason they don't. Yeah,
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it's because the whole thing is like she
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they already don't funk with her there because
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she has this effect on the President of
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just being like saying this nonsense about
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lawsuits. He's like, go on, and
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I should what And then that so there's
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like a struggle for the president's attention already,
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and then when she comes in, it like throws anything
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off that they were trying to be like, we're trying to at least
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off ramp him from this other thing. So
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you just you'd love to see the idiots
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just destroy each other. But yeah, a lot
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of a lot of a lot of clicking going on in there. Yeah.
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Yeah. There is a New
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York Times opinion piece where you can
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I don't know why it's an opinion piece. Maybe
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it's not factually accurate at all. They're
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like this, in our opinion, this is what
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the answer would be. But it basically has
8:45
a tool where you can input your age,
8:48
where you live, and whether
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you have preconditions that make
8:53
you higher risk for uh,
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you know, complications from COVID nineteen,
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and then you find out how any people are in
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front of you in line for the vaccine.
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Uh, and we all scored
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uh to sixty eight point seven
9:09
million. We are back
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of the line, baby, that's
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that's way to the back. Yeah.
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Um. Super producer in
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the country, DJ Daniel Miles
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and I all got two hundred sixty eight million on
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a hosnie a. Uh just
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is messaging us. No, I am one four
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million see a losers damn uh
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you know what I mean. So we're way back
9:37
there. The party will be over by the
9:39
time we get to the club door. Yeah.
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Oh, they're like, yeah, we've already have medica.
9:44
You don't need a vaccine anymore. We've eradicated it.
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Thank you for coming by and staying indoors. Yeah,
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damn. Let The other thing that I was reading
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opinion piece on it is like, uh,
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people were asking of like, how do you, like, what
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do we do with people who got COVID
9:58
recklessly? And does should that factor
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into when they get a vaccine because
10:02
they say people who have gotten over it there's some level
10:05
usually of antibodies present, But
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like, do you try and be like,
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we need to get through the people that were following
10:12
the directions and
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prioritize them, or do people who were also
10:16
being really careless also
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get to be like, oh yeah, cool, y'all doing that over here? Yeah
10:21
I was, I was, I was fine. So it's
10:23
it's a it's a bit. There's like a whole other thing
10:25
brewing of like how do we know
10:27
and should we find out? And it's like that's
10:30
gonna I think we should make them eat the vaccine
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like a parent who catches the kids like misbehavior.
10:37
Ye, eat
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this glass vial, Yeah, cutting
10:44
my mouth. One of the reasons to producer
10:46
Aron Hosnia is in front of us in line
10:48
is because her age cohort
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is younger than I
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guess you guys get lumped in with my old ass,
10:56
but she is in
10:58
her twenties, and because
11:02
people in their twenties can't be
11:04
trusted to behave They're like,
11:06
we gotta get these motherfucker's vaccinated
11:08
because otherwise we're gonna have
11:10
another Marty Gras.
11:15
It's not like we're gonna do anything to incentivized
11:17
staying at home, so we'll just do it like this,
11:19
yeah, uh okay,
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and now finally DJ
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Daniel tell me so. One of my favorite
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hobbies is not playing video games,
11:29
but having video games described to
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me to see if they're worth playing.
11:34
That's how to determine if they were in the
11:36
eventual future where it's like it's
11:38
like watching movie trailers that you're never gonna see.
11:40
It's like a king having a servant
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taste their food. So uh
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so uh as
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a average gamer. DJ Daniel
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tell me, tell me about your
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cyberpunk. What's
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this trend we're seeing? Well tomorrow
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at four pm Pacific time, seven pm
12:03
Eastern, the single most anticipated
12:05
game of the year, Cyberpunk, is
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finally releasing. Originally
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scheduled to be released April
12:12
sixteen, pushed back
12:14
to September seventeen, pushed
12:17
back again to November nineteen,
12:20
and pushed back one more damn
12:22
time until December ten. Sounds
12:24
like they're cyberpunking you guys.
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There's a camera. Yeah,
12:37
this is uh the next game by CD Project
12:40
Red. They made The Witcher, which you guys may
12:42
be familiar with Henry Cavil series. So
12:44
The Witcher a very well received video games.
12:47
There's something a TV show I just heard
12:49
the game, of course, I think
12:51
Jack as well as in this just
12:54
the game, big big Gerald fans,
12:56
but you know it's it's uh.
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The Witcher set in a medieval time.
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This one set in a cyberpunk
13:04
future, night city time, big
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open world. Do whatever you want, cybernetic
13:09
additions to your body kind of thing, you know,
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I think people are just really hungry for another do
13:14
what you want open world game, and
13:17
this hopefully delivers, and
13:19
so people are very very excited. I number
13:21
myself among those already have it preloaded. I
13:23
will be playing it tomorrow most certainly.
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What are some of the things you can do to your body
13:28
in the so every
13:30
one of your body parts can be replaced?
13:33
Um, whether it's cybernetic arms,
13:36
eyes, legs, Um,
13:38
don't need your junk? Uh?
13:41
Is that? Yeah, there's cybernetic
13:44
genitals, there's there are replaceable
13:46
genitalia
13:48
and so yeah, No, the game
13:51
is, the game is, it's
13:54
putting itself out there as really
13:57
really do whatever you want. And so
13:59
I think people are really holding on to, oh, I'm gonna
14:01
make this kind of person who does this and that
14:03
and that, and we'll see, I mean, you know, I
14:06
hope that they can deliver. Early reviews
14:08
are semi favorable, lots
14:12
of bugs unfortunately, so people are
14:14
hoping for a day one patch, which unfortunately
14:16
also is all too common these days.
14:18
Games just come out and they need that day one patch
14:20
because they're glitchy or full of bullshit or blah blah
14:22
blah. So we'll see. I mean, I'm
14:24
hopeful, but or made by all
14:27
another show. But like just in general.
14:29
I I know that this game will be
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fun and enjoyable. I'm gonna like playing it, but
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it's too hyped. It's too hyped for it to be as
14:36
good as people think it's going to be. There's just no way
14:39
it will. It will. I mean, didn't
14:42
we both go to E three the year that they unveiled
14:44
it, and it was like at E three
14:46
you would have thought like this is the next
14:49
Matrix or like that
14:51
energy around it, and then when it gets pushed
14:53
and pushed and pushed, you like yeah.
14:56
And also the fact that the company itself was crunching
14:58
their employees all the way till the end hundred
15:01
hour work weeks, like people really working
15:03
all the damn time to finish this game,
15:05
and it's just like, you know,
15:07
I don't know. I'm sure they all get a piece of
15:09
the profits, right, Oh yeah, they
15:12
all get back in points
15:15
points on the master Yeah, exactly everybody.
15:17
That's pretty common in the game industry
15:19
though, right, yeah, it's
15:22
really fair across the board for everybody.
15:24
I can't imagine they're just exploiting people's labor
15:26
to maximize profits and get a product
15:29
out hastily just to begin those sales,
15:31
to get the Q four numbers. I mean, I'm
15:33
just like making stuff up at this point. It can't
15:35
be any of them. So
15:38
there, this is like a rated R
15:41
whatever the video game equivalent is. And
15:44
yeah, definitely there's
15:47
a there's a there's a lot of I mean
15:49
like it definitely plays into the world
15:52
of the of it's
15:54
supposed to be like the dark side of cyberpunk
15:56
or the dark side of the future or whatever. I
15:58
mean, I don't know. That's just to say you'll be interacting
16:01
in maybe some some illicit
16:04
drug operations or maybe some
16:07
sexual scenarios. Well
16:09
i'd imagine if you're able
16:12
to replace and trade out
16:14
your your junk on
16:16
the side mission that one side mission
16:18
I was reading about where you can steal COVID
16:20
vaccines and then you know, sling them
16:22
on the side. That sounds like a fun thing to do too.
16:25
Sounds like a blast um because this is
16:27
still a problem in This isn't
16:29
a this isn't a sequel
16:32
to Cyberpunk, uh
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correct, this is the first cyberpunk
16:38
very good started.
16:41
Also for people who don't know,
16:43
like when you were saying bugs, it's not like there's mosquitoes
16:46
in the game. Oh yes, that they programmed.
16:49
Yeah, I'm glad you googled that to confirm. Yeah,
16:51
I did. I just wanted to make sure people knew
16:53
robot insects no actual bugs though,
16:55
right, got it? Um?
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Yeah, I just you know, like us get aimer
17:00
as, we get it. But for
17:02
the don't worry about the way people. Um
17:05
all right, Well, every once in
17:07
a while, we like to check in with what is
17:09
trending on in right
17:12
wing media on Facebook and other words,
17:14
with your elderly problematic
17:17
relatives. Um, and
17:20
right now they are I'll flipping
17:22
out about a video of
17:24
a mall Santa. This got picked
17:26
up by Fox News, all the great Fox
17:29
News, the the other one,
17:31
ship Stain dot org, dot
17:34
work. Uh. This is this little boy asks
17:36
for a NERF gun and
17:39
Santa said no, uh,
17:41
and then he started crying and
17:43
his mom's like, you're still getting She's
17:45
like, no, but a NERF gun, not a gun, Santa
17:48
and gun and still
17:50
still as for me, he
17:53
says, I don't do guns. Uh. So
17:56
you know that that's a Santa
17:58
has his policy that he he's not he's
18:00
not going back on um. And
18:02
people are acting like this
18:05
is a war being
18:07
waged that he was put up to it
18:09
by Bernie Sanders,
18:12
um and that this
18:14
is the worst thing
18:16
that's ever happened to Christmas, even
18:19
though it is literally the premise of
18:21
that movie a Christmas
18:23
Story, all right, because he wants
18:25
that, uh you want to be guns? Yeah,
18:29
he wants to be begun but Santah literally tells
18:31
him, no, kid, you'll shoot your eye out. Um.
18:34
A London eye hospital recently
18:39
issued a warning that NERF guns
18:41
basically will shoot your eye out.
18:44
Um. Apparently nerf guns have gotten
18:47
very uh hyper
18:49
charged up. They are awesome.
18:51
Next, I mean, gone are the days
18:54
of ball Zuka, which
18:56
I had, which shot out them just shitty
18:58
little foam ball as they barely
19:00
do anything. But even those were better than
19:03
the ones that shot the like little like kind
19:05
of lip dart that would just be with like the section
19:07
tip. There's like yeah yeah and then somebody
19:09
like did someone like wave at me? Did
19:12
I get shot by? Yeah? The ones now
19:14
are like they're like chain belt
19:16
fed, like their mimic modern
19:19
like weaponire arms, like
19:21
they're like essentially the same things like gatling
19:24
guns and like assault rifles and ship
19:26
like that, which I was like, damn,
19:28
we only have ball Zuoka. But I also
19:31
you know that's that's like the sort of the gun
19:33
culture pipeline. You know, it's like make
19:35
the make the kids toys like guns. Yeah,
19:38
and then get them hooked, as the n r A says,
19:40
get them while they're young, like quite
19:42
literally last year they made something called
19:46
a remote controlled tank drone.
19:49
Uh. That is way
19:52
more over the top than that. Even sounds
19:54
like it looks like the
19:56
what's the RoboCop? Oh?
19:59
Yeah, that thing the machine. Yeah, the machine
20:01
that just lights that dude up. Uh.
20:03
And my favorite scene for
20:06
the first two nine
20:08
e D two oh nine, two oh nine, Yeah,
20:11
it looks like a D two oh nine, but it's all
20:13
gun. It's just there's nothing else but a
20:15
giant nerf gun. Um. A
20:17
few years before that, they made an automatic weapon
20:20
that shot foam disks at sixty eight miles
20:22
per hour. Uh. And
20:28
and uh this is not by
20:30
accident. In a two thousand and six team report
20:32
from the Violence Policy Center detailed
20:35
how gun manufacturers utilized toy
20:37
guns to hook children while
20:39
they're young, priming them for future gun
20:41
ownership. UM. So it's
20:43
not totally surprising that the n
20:45
r A leapt onto the Santa
20:49
story to take on this Twitter about
20:51
how about that, mall Santa
20:53
no less than five times as
20:56
of the right as of this writing. Um,
20:58
I mean, you know, like sure, what is
21:00
Santa supposed to do? You know, can Santa have
21:02
a political stance? Is supposed to say yes
21:04
to every child's wish? Right, Like,
21:07
yo, let me get some yellow cake so I can
21:09
make some wepons of mass destruction. Santa
21:12
come through with it. My
21:14
dad is asking me to ask you for this. I'm not gonna
21:16
lie, Santa. Um.
21:19
And then because of this viral
21:21
story, this kid who's by the way,
21:24
for according to some
21:26
of the news stories, is being
21:28
like just bombarded with uh
21:30
these nerve rifles that are supposedly
21:33
for people ages eight. Uh
21:37
yeah, no, not bombarded like
21:40
that, but people are has been mailed
21:44
these guns, like they they got dozens
21:47
and dozens of these guns mailed to their house.
21:49
What does that due to the young child? You know? Like I'm
21:52
always curious like follow ups with like
21:54
kids who are become these cultural moments
21:57
where like Ellen or some other thing,
21:59
like they go and then they get like a ton of
22:01
something because of this moment that they
22:03
occupied in our media consciousness,
22:06
Like does that suck them up down the road? Like
22:08
this guy gonna be like I lost total sense of
22:10
what's earned after that, right, you
22:12
know I cried in front of a Santa and then things showed
22:14
up on my doorstep. It became like a pattern
22:17
for me. Yeah, well kind of that's
22:19
specifically something you have to deal with when you're
22:21
parenting. Is that like when your kick cries,
22:24
like like what it's reinforcing? Yeah, you
22:26
can't like necessarily respond to
22:28
that as empathetically as you
22:31
want to, which is just like give them whatever they
22:33
want. I just want them to be happy,
22:35
because then that reinforces
22:38
like that, that's how you get things done. Um,
22:41
so you know you don't even it's
22:43
happening in our government right
22:45
now, that's right. Huh,
22:49
what do I know about parenting? That's right. That's
22:51
why I just owned three NERF guns. Just
22:55
go roll up to your house and it's like that scene
22:57
in Terminator to where they like in
23:00
the underground vault of exactly
23:04
your parents have been killed? Your first
23:06
the parents have been killed? How
23:10
is fluffy Wolfie?
23:14
Wolf is just fine? Parents have been
23:17
killed? Wow, MT
23:21
It's just a weird. It's just a heavy thing
23:23
to hit a young person with Terminator.
23:26
Please, I get that you're using your game
23:29
theory and logic. You know, I do understanding
23:31
of logic to try and figure out if someone's
23:33
being deceptive. But you could have just been
23:36
like, you're in danger, kid, and you know, let's
23:38
let's talk about it later. Do you want to ice cream
23:41
first? And then I'll tell you first the parents have been killed?
23:44
Uh, speaking of video games, I didn't
23:46
know Mortal Kombat had like terminators
23:49
and robo cops and now Rambo.
23:52
They've been having characters all the time. Yeah, they're
23:54
trying to do like their copy the magic
23:57
of like cap con versus
23:59
Marvel kind of thing, and be like, here's a new I p into
24:01
this fighting game. Maybe you'll stick around. And
24:03
the thing that links them all is just violence.
24:06
Like these are off
24:09
on camera. Our
24:11
brand is violence. Have you ripped someone's chest
24:13
open in a film? Okay, then you could be in the m K universe.
24:16
Um. All right, well, guys,
24:20
thank you for joining me to tell the
24:22
people what is trending. Um,
24:26
that's gonna do it for this afternoon. We're
24:28
back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the
24:30
show. Until then, be kind to
24:32
each other, be kind to yourselves, wear
24:34
a mask, wash your hands, don't do
24:36
nothing about white supremacy, and we will
24:39
talk to you all tomorrow. Bye bye,
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