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You're listening to twenty thousand

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Hertz.

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Reality

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entertainment is everywhere. These days. Thanks

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to have Instagram Tik, Tok, YouTube

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and Twitter. We can follow people's lives

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more closely than ever before. And

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over on the television side shows, like The

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Bachelorette, The Mask singer, and

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the Real Housewives are still some of the highest

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programs out there. Are

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you not entertained? yeah,

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These shows are based on real people

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reacting to real situations

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or at least the that pretend

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to be real. The only thing that keeps. My

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mind saying, is affecting my

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pastor is on the way. I'm trying

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to keep my Cheese's one. Step away from

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getting your face punch. Then we're

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so used to it by now, it feels totally

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normal. But this kind of entertainment

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only took off in the last couple of decades, the

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first really big reality. Show was Survivor

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which started in the year two thousand over

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a hundred and twenty million people tuned

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in to watch the season finale The.

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winner of the first survivor competition

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Oh. He

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idolizes that.

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That same year a computer game came

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along that perfectly tapped into this hunger

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for reality it was called the

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Sims presentable,

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ran off. characters

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and designs

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The Sims was unlike any game that came

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before it wasn't a platform or like

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Mario Brothers or racing game

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or puzzle game or first person shooters

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instead. it was called was light simulation

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game in it you make customised

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character

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Can decorate their house. Watch TV,

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do the dishes to

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learn an instrument and find a They

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can also get excited. Oppressor.

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I a can laugh arguments

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and even fall in

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love by

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a studio called Max's software.

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The company's founder Will Wright

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had always been fascinated by architecture.

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His first fix access was one

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of favorite games. of all time: "Sim City

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in It", you build your own city from scratch.

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That's

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what it sounds like when you build a power line. Then.

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Early nineties Will's house burned down,

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fortunately, though he and his family were all okay

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at this experience, got him thinking about what really

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mattered in his lights in an interview

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with. The website Berkeley side will said

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quote: "When something like this happens,

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you get big picture, where do I want

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to live what sort of things do need to

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buy?" There. Will

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started reading stories about people shopping habits

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and how they spend their free time, he started

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thinking about a game that would be like Sim City,

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but more personal stuff building.

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An entire city, your character would

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build home and go about their everyday lives.

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When he took this idea back to the Max's is

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board of directors, they were very impressed,

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but shortly after mattress was acquired

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by an up and coming juggernaut of a game

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company.

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The games saw the potential in Wales

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idea and gave him the money he needed to

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make it, so we'll in the max esteem

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gotta work.

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We.

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Just certain a rooms and.

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designed to the game for The

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couple years that's clear curtain

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on. On the sims,

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I was a designer

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and.

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The voice over director when.

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clear first started working on the game it wasn't

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even called the sims it was

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You're secretly gold dollhouse that,

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name didn't last too long and dollhouse

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was seen as being two

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girls focused and of course

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this game was to appeal to not

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boys or girls but everybody.

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so they settled on they name the sims which

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is short for simulated people it's

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also with the people and sim city were called

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The sims as an overall over

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arching name was just.

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the right thing for us out this game

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developed and evolves

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The late Nineties, the simmons was almost

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ready for release, but the designers still

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hadn't decided what the characters would sound like

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they were worried that using a real language

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would get super repetitive. There you

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will get the same of a player.

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Is constructing a universe where

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they might test out things over

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and over and over done, so what we didn't

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want was repetition. And there

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is nothing more boring than hearing

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the. The phrase "over and over

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and over" The from the sims

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that are on screen so, he needed

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to run The structure

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of language any language that?

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your ear would just get so

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used to that it would become boring

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and annoying

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Instead of using an existing language, they

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decided to just make one out. They

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called it similar us.

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First. They tried blending sounds from different

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languages together, we tried

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to mixing up some languages

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that we knew a little bit of

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one was list Ukrainian border

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multiple to huddle food. And I,

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think we have some Estonian mind

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the have say our stuff almost

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Sunni Barber days to the. we

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were really just trying to find In

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the right vocal sound, that.

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Well, again, not too

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repetitive, but carried lot

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of emotion, but none of these ideas

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were really working, then the clear

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remembered an exercise that she had seen. The actor's

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years. There's an exercise

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that's done and improv theater of.

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making up making think How am I have two

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actors on stage one will make up a home

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in completely gibberish language? And

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the other one will translated

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into English and it's usually Polaris

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life. Then.

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Clear realize that this could be a great way to

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approach seamless, it would allow these characters

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to be expressive and animated without

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being locked into the rules of any specific

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language, so she brought to improv

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actors into the recording studio.

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Even cure and Jerry Lawler where the male

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and female voice in the game and

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they were the most. play for

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and creative people and

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boy we're lucky to have them

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While they recorded, the actors would watch animations

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of the characters moving, and these are just

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wire frame animations, not closed,

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know expressions or anything on the.

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And both actors were in the booth

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at the same. On and as they were watching

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the animation they would voice with their

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own ideas of what it should sound

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like a me lotta

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how fast and then

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we would bounce back at odds.

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as not qualify Then

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we would sometimes too, depending.

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The complexity of the animation ten

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Sistine sometimes twenty takes person

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going, back and forth and back and forth on

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I'm on blast the model describe his

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size say mother not oh

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keep. up with someone and

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or my that the great part about

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that was that they could play off

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each other and they were

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great friends and could really

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read each other because they had done lot of

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improv on stage together to

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the banana having That is while

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lot of. Bad past map: I've done my

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motto, Robert, the so the flow

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of this was really says

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terrific and very energetic" And

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really. To let,

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down oh no

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Now. There are a few official simplest words

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that have developed over the years, for example,

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soul and deg are both common

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ways to say hello and goodbye, yes,

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is gibbs. And know is need,

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but ninety nine point nine percent of the dialogue

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in the game was made up on the spot by

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the voice actors and that gives

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the simplest conversations. Lots

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of variety, it also allows you to

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imagine what these characters are talking about.

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The point is that you put your own thoughts

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and your own responses

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on to that subarus that you're hearing

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aid. is whatever know whatever it is That

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ranks and down.

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When the SIMs finally launched in the year two thousand

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it was a huge hit, it sold

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eleven million copies, which made it

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one of the most popular games that year.

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Pretty soon, he a started releasing expansion

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packs for the game, followed by several

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sequels as the series grew

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and grew more voice actors got to learn

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the secrets of similar.

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Not know, almost am I now sybil

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with by emerge as the peri, maybe a soccer.

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That's pretty of others, a voice actor

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who's been working on the same as for almost decade.

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No, in and make Saloon mother's person was on

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them for know that cannot.

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At this point speaking and similar, says almost

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second nature.

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I joked am trilingual, you know, Spanish,

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English and seamless, just love

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the way it rolls off the tongue.

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Can make it like oh Canada Yola

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for I wanna. die

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young law so it's

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really scares me scares lot of rains

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prettiest fell in love with some listener

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first audition mm

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The degree the audition is pretty great because there's like a

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fan and front of mare and

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she's taking herself out and we'll start with

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nonverbals the sam's and is like oh

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oh. but hey it's you know you just making

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things Then and maybe you're angry

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or you're on the.

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One and, like, ah, you know what

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other news to move the?

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And similar has basically no structure

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you might think it would be easy to pick up, but

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it's actually pretty hard to talk continuously

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without using any real words, some

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of the voice actors they bring in just can't pull

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it off.

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I. Worked with one of the gentlemen's

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it unfortunately got caught and he was having

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a hard time with, said: "I think lot

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of it and I think that this is to. To most

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artistic endeavors is the ability to

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release control for stuff like

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that you've really gotta just be able.

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to flow i think just being relaxed about

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it once you get the idea

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of the world that you're supposed to be living

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and living think the best thing to do with kind

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of free fall into it and

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let your own instincts guide you

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The for some people finding that flow is

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almost impossible.

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It's kind of funny with a sandwich because

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some people sort of got it in, could do it,

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and other people could just never do it.

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That's jury Martin, he was the audio director

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and lead composer for the Sims and

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Sim City.

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Hi. crikey Yeah, Jere has been a lot

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of people who really struggle with as gibberish

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language in fact there was point

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further on in series where

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Drew Carey Line.

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Is it anyway so everything's made up of the points don't

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matter, he apparently really

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like the sam's in wanted to get

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involved in so he wanted

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to do some semblance? And

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so I said one of my sound designers down

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to L. A. The Record, ham apparently

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couldn't really do the same was she couldn't improvise

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and so he actually wrote. It out

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fanatically or side and at how exactly

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wrote it out but he wrote it out and so he did. at

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our those recordings were

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used in the sims house party expansion

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pack your character throws expansion good enough party

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a sim version of drew carey shows up

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in limo

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I don't know my also,

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boost up. that drew carey

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wasn't the only celebrity who made celebrity into the sims

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after the game became a hit the got

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artist like the black eyed peas the flaming

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lips and katy perry to record seamless

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versions of their music all their while

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this gibberish language started spreading

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to the masses that's coming up

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after the break

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Then. Hams is a real life simulation

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game that came out just as Reality TV

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was taking off in game, the characters

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all speak quirky, gibberish language

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called them "less Ah" Day you'll

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see Samson or Summa

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Gibbs even, if

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he sounds don't have any specific meaning

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they still do great job of conveying emotion

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just by listening it's pretty easy. To tell

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when your sim as excited about something, like

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when they're, angry or

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when they're,. being flirtatious fans

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of though Of

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course similar was just one part

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of the game's over audio experience,

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they also needed music that would be just as distinct

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and memorable as the dialogue.

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I basically wrote some simple

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sketches of the melodies

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and some chords, and, you know, had some little

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arrests and stuff in mind.

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That's theory Martin, who composed most of the music

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for the original game when Jerry first started

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Sim's creator Will Ray, gave him some general

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direction.

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The input was he wanted to hear kind

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of a new age jazz seal

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for the build mode and the sam's,

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which turned out pretty good.

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Other than that I. was pretty much on

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my own as far as figure out what

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might go good with ads a sort of came

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up with the idea this sort of fifties

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Shopping music kind of throwback

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to the old, you know, nice

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family TV shows.

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In a game, your sim can also listen to the radio

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and tune in to different stations that

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means they needed songs in bunch of different

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genres, for instance, will write

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specifically wanted boss, Nova song for

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the Latin station.

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For the country

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station, they brought in a life bluegrass band.

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Now. I'm of the songs were instrumental, but

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others needed vocals similar moguls,

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so Jerry had a coach the studio musicians

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to seeing in seamless, according

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to him, the key is to mumble.

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One of my pet peeves with seamless

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who is when some of the actors would

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enunciate too much it would sound

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kind of fake to me so.

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i would always try to get them to make it more

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mumble a so that it sounded more realistic

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For example, here's a country tune called Hippie,

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okay, oh?

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The one had a pretty strong

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Nineties alternative rock virus.

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Read the restoration and the understand a bunch

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of different rap.

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Not very. remembers having

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to remind them not to fall back into their

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english lyrics a lot of them would kind

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of revert back to their wrapping him and

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sneak their words back and

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The series got bigger and bigger,

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so did the star power behind it pretty

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soon, same as artists were recording

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similar versions of their songs to use in the

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game. The black eyed peas recorded

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several tracks for an expansion pack called

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The Herb's Sims in the City, here's

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the original version of their songs, shut up.

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The'and and will just put an hour with one

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of the, being sick. and

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here it is

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He to pat expansion pack the flaming

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lips, redid their song free radicals,

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here's the original.

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And here's a similar spurs

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and sitting, down,.

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and only

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got us And twenty

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ten soldier boy released his single

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speakers going hammer the.

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similar version came out just week later

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and nine season hat

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The reef retreats Katy Perry recorded

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her song last breath.

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And the similar version is called "Last

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Freebie New"

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And it doesn't stop there, Depeche Mode

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redid their songs suffer well.

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The ban on did a version of their hit single,

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"We are Ya"

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Nelly Furtado did her song Munhoz

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l I raise. The

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eating of melees, a recent SIMS expansion

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pack, included Discover Track. So

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if you ever wanted kid friendly version of Saddam

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here, ditch the kids, Bob and turn on

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the same soundtrack. Course

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he wouldn't be licensing all of these songs

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and making all of these sequels if the games

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didn't have skewed fan base.

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The people in the coming a around

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the sims are amazing, really

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fast enough funds to people from

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all of the well.

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Me.

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Who are none of mine as friend

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she bought I as multiple YouTube

19:47

channels and I'd love to play

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in the Sims and making videos about this him?

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Ricci Bob has been a Sims fan since

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the very beginning.

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In the year, two thousand

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my friends.

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The at not and he said

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I've got this game I think oh really like

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it and. goodness i remember

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sign up for the also

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After a few hours she decided to take break,

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so she put her sister in charge of watching over

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her sam's but when she came back,

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she found out that her since house was on fire.

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Palmer of this does she's like a lot younger

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than me too late sir,

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Then after that I was totally

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hugs and then got

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really into it when the Sims Three came

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on, started by in every pack, can

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all the DLC and that kind of stuff, and it's

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been like that ever since just of

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us.

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Tuesday's reading about posts all kinds

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of seems content on her YouTube channels

20:52

including reviews demos and similar

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tutorials suit Hello,

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oh see below is. so

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angry The new to. But

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her favorite videos to make or when she sings

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seamless versions of popular songs.

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Then I make my some ice parodies,

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it is am transpired

21:14

that this magical place in my head

21:16

and it just flows out

21:18

of may definitely the best and

21:20

easiest one to saying was

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Hella by Adele Assistance

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because this is so funny as A. That

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in it sounds.

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But

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yeah that was the nicest because it's nice and slow

21:39

and he can to sell out that.

21:42

sounds like a personal audit them

21:55

The comedy in it's a fact that

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you've got this person's

21:59

singing. That been completely made

22:01

up of language and absolutely

22:04

probably sounded very all falls

22:06

to sing in our how is

22:09

it is so funny to me, it's

22:12

as to the comedy of the game which is law

22:14

doesn't listen the SIM's is supposed

22:16

to do is make people smile.

22:35

It's. "Been more than twenty years since the

22:37

first Sims game came out in the series

22:39

is still going strong, even playing

22:41

it for just a few minutes, it's easy

22:44

to see why" It became such hit,

22:46

it's one of the first games that allowed you to create

22:48

world that exactly the way you wanted

22:51

to be, and it's not just world.

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That allies.

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Like truly universal worldwide

22:58

age wide, it's Kansas

23:00

be played by any body is

23:03

not a violin is just

23:06

so pure and you can take

23:08

it in any direction.

23:09

You want to similar?

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she is just one part of this game but

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it's a crucial part it's part gibberish

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language were the only meaning comes from

23:18

the emotions behind the sounds and

23:20

that means that anyone can understand it

23:22

understand anyone can speak it

23:25

Not. Be the sense without seamless,

23:27

it's a language from no one

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made for everyone, everyone

23:31

has access to it, nobody is excluded

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from me and I think it's really

23:36

amazing that they" Had that vision

23:39

when they first created this game to

23:41

have a language where it would be accessible to

23:44

all.

23:44

For super fans like ricci Bob, similar

23:46

has become more than just part of the game

23:49

is part of their culture.

23:51

It's a very special things

23:53

the same as the site deep rooted

23:55

dance as player if. he

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Where

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the game that I love so

24:03

it's immediate friendship I.

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mean like led to the people that

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we meet when we go to international

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of and saw on line especially

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he don't really know like who are to do this

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is so through an email

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Twenty thousand Hertz is hosted by Me. Dallas

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Taylor and produced out of the sound design studios,

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a de facto sound to get some tasty

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sonic snacks, follow de facto sound

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on Instagram. Better prepared

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was written and produced by Hannah, see it. Andrew

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Anderson and Casey Emily. How

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from Sam?

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No it was sound designed and mixed by soren

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de San Angelo Border with

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the original music by was a sliver

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thanks. to our guests clear curtain pretty

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of our hosts jerry martin and rachel

25:02

party also known as ricci boss

25:05

he could find links to rachel's you tube channels and

25:07

the show description bruce willis