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Car's Wife Is The Worst - Princess Chandra Interlude - A Parade of Horribles · The Apocalypse Will Be Podcasted

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Welcome back to the Apocalypse Will Be Podcasted,
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a podcast where we overanalyze every chapter
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of Dungeon Crawler Carl like it's a college thesis
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written during a nervous breakdown. We talk theories,
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character arcs, dungeon nonsense, and all the
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moments that made us laugh, panic, or just sit
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there staring at the wall for a while. We are
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a big feelings podcast, so expect plenty of emotional
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damage, character breakdowns, and way too much
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discussion about things that probably were not
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meant to be analyzed this hard. Sorry, Matt.
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This is a full spoilers podcast covering all
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released books, including the Pineapple Cabaret.
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So if you're not caught up, now's your chance
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to turn back. You've been warned. So before book
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eight came out, I feel like people asked me,
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what is the deal with Carl's wife more than anything
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else? And I would say, okay, there are two lines
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in book seven that references Carl's wife. Would
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you like me to repeat those lines for you? Or
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do you want to go into spoilers territory? And
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they'd be like, no, no, no spoilers. Well, I
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am happy to say that here we are in book eight.
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You will learn all about Princess Chandra that
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you would want to know. And she sucks. She does
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suck, much like the rest of the Naga. None of
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the Naga that we see in the entirety of this
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series are good or nice or pleasant to be around.
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No, and we try to go through chapters as things
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happen. But when I was writing an outline for
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this, I was like, it might be a lot easier to
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just write a section called Reasons Why Princess
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Tondra Sucks. Did you write that list? I didn't
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know. Oh. We will be going through as it happens.
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Okay. Yeah. All right. All right. So we're going
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to, every time that she sucks in this chapter,
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we will highlight that for you, the listeners.
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Yes, so this chapter starts out with, Hello,
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Donut, Princess Chandra, Esquire said, which
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is a great opening line of a chapter. I love
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the opening lines of some of the chapters throughout
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these books. My favorite opening sentence of
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any chapter in these books is in book eight,
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which is, Piranhas did indeed fly. Well, I like
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the parallels of... It's starting out Hello Donut
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when with book seven, we started out with Hello
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Crawlers. Welcome to Fraction Wars. Yes. The
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opening line of This Inevitable Ruin is fantastic.
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I wonder if we're going to get book nine opening
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with some version of Hello, comma, person, people.
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Hello, gods. Hello. Ooh. Ooh. Ooh. Maybe. Maybe
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indeed. We find out that Princess Chandra is
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on a warship in Earth's orbit and it got badly
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damaged during the quick and bloody coup of the
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Naga people. And we find out that her uncle is
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now the Sultan Protectorate of the New Reformer
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or something equally inane. And this chapter,
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first half of this chapter is interesting because
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most of it is basically just like internal thoughts
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and monologue from Princess Chandra's perspective.
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There's also lots of info dumping. Lots of info
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dumping as well. And yeah, it's going to be a
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long time before all of the stuff with her people's
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change in system and government is going to be
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sorted out. And there is a note here that chaos
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is a ladder. Yeah, Chandra definitely is in the
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little finger school of thought. She definitely
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is. And yeah, she's basically like her entire
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motives throughout this chapter is just money.
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That's her motive. Well, and just this crazy
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sense of entitlement. And this chapter honestly
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made me think of Elon Musk a lot. And someone
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who was kind of born rich and born into a bunch
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of privilege, but it's not enough for them. And
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they think that they should be able to do better
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or that they deserve more. chandra talks many
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many times about how she deserves better and
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she never really clarifies why she deserves better
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i think just her whole deal is kind of she's
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mad that some of her relatives are richer than
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her and she thinks that she deserves more basically
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yeah and yeah like she just has this like entitlement
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and it's very interesting and Well, her goal
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is money, but her goal is also she does not like
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her people. She does not like their empire. And
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she wants to leave and move to the center system
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to get away from it all. Crazy how it seems like
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nobody wants to stay in the Naga system. Yeah,
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basically. But it's interesting because both
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her and Vinyada wanted to leave, but in opposite
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directions. So Princess Vinyada wanted her people
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to leave. like basically society as a whole and
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go to you know the frontier and start over from
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scratch and chandra wants to leave as well but
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she wants to go towards society and so it's just
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kind of like an interesting parallel there between
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the two of them yeah agreed but i think you see
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that kind of breakdown in real life a lot of
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the time um i'm definitely the city cousin to
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a lot of my country cousins and you know we live
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like pretty close to the heart of downtown atlanta
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But I just have so many relatives who are like
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already like pretty far out in suburbia who want
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to be like out in the real country. Yeah, it's
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it is definitely like you have people who grow
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up in a city and they're like, oh, I just want
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to get away from it all and like go and live
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in the country. And then you have people who
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grow up in the country and they find the small
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town life so suffocating because like everyone
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knows everyone and they find that suffocating.
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So they want to go to the big city to get away
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from that. You just have these like interesting
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parallels of wanting to get away from it, but
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in different ways. And it's very interesting.
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Just people, you know. So she became a lawyer.
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And I think that that's kind of where some of
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the sense of entitlement came from is that she
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feels that she did something with her life by
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going to law school. Whereas most of her relatives
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are just rich for doing nothing. And she wants
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that. I don't think anyone in royalty is like
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her relatives, maybe by like marriage. She's
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not related to Princess Vinyada or the royal
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family. And how is her uncle the sullen protector?
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Because of the coup. Okay, but like if they did
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a coup, they weren't like nobodies to begin with.
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Right, which is what's interesting because, and
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I have a note about that at some point in this
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outline that, you know, she's like, oh, Vinyada
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was just born into it and I had to work for everything.
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But like it is obvious that she was still born
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into a position of immense privilege. Yeah, and
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she just doesn't see that because she thinks
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that there should be no one beneath her. She
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thinks that she's the highest rung and she's
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just real mad about it. Basically. Yep, just
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real butthurt. Really whiny about it. Mm -hmm.
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She says that she doesn't care about titles and
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the idea that this rodent is a princess is a
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joke. Well, she has only been a princess for
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five minutes, so... Well, but she doesn't care
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about that at all. Not important. It's very clearly
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important. You get a lot of her internal thoughts
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towards Donut, and basically she just sees her
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as a rodent. It says, this creature wasn't even
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a true life form, but a barely sapient, invasive
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cyst that had artificially formed itself on a
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seeded planet. Yeah, you can fuck off with that.
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It says, no different than mold and more dangerous.
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And, boy, she just does not like cats. No, it
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seems very unnecessary how much she dislikes
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cats. Mm -hmm. I mean, she basically looks at
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Donut and sees, like, food. Oh, no. I mean, I
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imagine her people eat normal food, but, like,
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I also wonder if sometimes they're just, like,
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are they like snakes and they just, like, eat
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their food whole? Like, do they still do like
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normal snakes do, or do they, like, eat with
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cutlery? I mean, they have hands. This is far
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too down a rabbit hole for me to know how the
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Naga eat. I have no idea. You know, we learn
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a lot about their culture. We don't learn anything
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about their dining experience. I mean, if she
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was upset that she had dirty nails, I'm guessing
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that she has silverware. But this is weird even
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for us. There is a comment that she was looking
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at Donut or thinking about the voles from her
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planet that she thinks Donut looks like. And
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she got hungry. So anyways, moving on. So she's
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already. getting some of princess donuts money
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but she doesn't think she's getting enough well
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she's getting money from the donuts holes licensing
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fees and she's already getting some of that and
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that alone has already made all everything that
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she's done worth it and like the amounts of money
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that are involved here we don't know the specifics
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of but like it's just got to be ungodly amounts
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of money yeah it's a little frustrating to me
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that they don't name a number in here but i'm
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very pedantic like that Basically, what we're
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learning in this chapter from this internal monologue
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from Chandra is that she put herself into a position
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to become Donut's lawyer so that she could steal
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all of their money. Which is interesting because
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she says that her late husband died because he
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involved himself in machinations involving the
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courts and that got him dead. Doesn't that seem
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a little bit maybe like what she's doing right
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now? Maybe a little bit. And she's talking about
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how like people don't trust the Nagas and don't
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trust contracts that originated from the Naga
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sector and all that. And like, hmm, gee, I wonder
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why people don't trust the Nagas. Well, she is
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also being. racist towards the nullians which
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is what quasar is in this paragraph and well
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gee if you don't like people judging you based
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on what race you are maybe you shouldn't judge
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others based on their race yeah she says that
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sometimes people lump the nagas in with the nullians
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absurd yeah you know it's well no let's cover
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that later and yeah like she's being very racist
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uh towards donut towards quasar and there's a
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lot of racism Out in the big wide galaxy. It
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sure seems like it. I mean, we even have fish
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Nazis. Yep. Those fish Nazis. Princess Chandra
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also says that she wants to move to the center
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system because there are no political upheavals
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there. And I would not hold my breath on that.
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Yeah. I don't think that a lot of things are
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going to be going great in the center system
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for anyone coming soon. Basically, I don't think
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things will be going. very well anywhere maybe
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the frontier maybe vignetta was on to something
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yeah i mean i think she saw the writing in the
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stars so to speak and literally and wanted to
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get the fuck out because i i think that honestly
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she was smart i think that vignetta was smart
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because she was seeing everything that was going
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on with this crawl and was like yeah we need
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to get away because things are shit's going to
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go down and this comment that chandra makes about
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there being no political upheaval in the center
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system, I do find interesting because it seems
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like a lot of these big players, the orcs and
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the naga, like have their own empires that kind
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of operate outside of the center system. And
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like the center system is kind of supposed to
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be this place of neutralism, I guess. I don't
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know. It's interesting. Like we don't actually
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know much about the center system. It's just
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like supposed to be great, I guess. It's almost
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like heaven. Supposedly. Supposedly. Allegedly.
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So Rishi was Chandra's husband, and that is who
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Carl killed towards the end of Faction Wars.
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And that is what basically allowed her to claim
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widow's rights and claim Carl as her husband,
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as the murderer of her now dead husband, Rishi,
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which is just an interesting bit of Naga culture.
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And she did have to go to court and have that
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decided that she would be allowed to claim it.
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But basically the jury thought it would be funny
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to punish her by marrying her to Carl. They thought
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it would be funny to punish Carl. Oh, by marrying
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her. Yeah, by becoming her husband. I think it
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was a little bit both ways. Yeah, maybe. It went
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to public jury and the public jury was like,
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haha, wouldn't it be so funny? And that's how
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it happened. Yeah, I guess the same as the fan
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boxes, but it's a little concerning that juries
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are working the same way. prize that Carl gets
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is also all of the holdings of her late husband
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and so that's all the shit that gets teleported
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into their personal space a few chapters from
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now the Naga culture is weird Naga culture is
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very weird but there are a couple of different
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factors in play here which is one she becomes
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legally married to Carl but she also separately
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manages to get to be Donut's lawyer because she
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doesn't get to be Donut's lawyer just because
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she's married to Carl. That was a separate action.
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And then also her uncle happened to do the overthrow
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coup at the same time. Right. So she definitely
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did have a couple of lucky events happen at the
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same time. Right. And she she acknowledges that
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that basically like he's the luckiest person
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ever. Yeah. Like through divine intervention,
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everything lined up all at once. And then she
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just like jumped at the opportunity to seize
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the moment and. Get a lot of money, basically.
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Yeah, well, she says that she's going to be one
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of the richest private citizens in the universe,
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if not the richest. And it's just crazy that
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that's the level of entitlement that she has.
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And once again, like, I really think this is
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Elon Musk coded personally. Maybe a bit. But
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one of the things that really cracked me up is
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she says. And it's all because of that fucking
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human in his underwear and his pet rodent. And
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I think that that's maybe a little bit meta.
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Because I think that Matt Deniman's life has
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changed pretty dramatically over the last two
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years. And it is all because of some dude in
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his underwear and that cat. And that cat. Yeah.
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I don't think that he had any expectation of
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how big this was going to become. And we were
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just watching. an interview it was actually really
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cool like this library did an interview like
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a talk with him for an hour that was live streamed
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uh yesterday the day before and it was it was
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really cool like we didn't learn like a whole
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lot of new stuff but it was really cool and just
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getting to like see him just talk and like be
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himself you can really tell that like when he
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started writing this and self -publishing like
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he had no expectation of where it was going to
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go publishing is a little bit like ironically
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bitcoin or playing the lottery of so many people
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write books and i probably have maybe three or
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four friends who are published offers who it's
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like barely even side income for them so you
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know i think that there's just this perception
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of like okay once you publish a book like you
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haven't made in life But that's 100 % not true.
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And it is like playing the lottery because you
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really can't guess what books are going to blow
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up. I mean, I think for most people doing content
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creation of whether it's music or writing or
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podcasting, you know, like most people don't
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get into it expecting to make money. I mean,
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I think like everyone kind of like hopes that
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in the back of their head. But I think for most
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people, it's passion. It would be nice to make
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money from this podcast, but this is something
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we did because it's something we're passionate
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about and it's fun most of the time. Because
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Chandra is now Carl's wife, she gets to be his
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signatory in most legal matters and she's gotten
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a lot of contracts going, but she's now going
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to go ahead and be racist towards Quasar again.
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And she says he did a surprisingly competent
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job in building up a lot of their legal... entities
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so that the princess posse can collect money
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and some of that is because Carl has some kind
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of basically legal status because he has those
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stock certificates which is how they were able
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to enter Faction Wars as a team in the first
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place. But Quasar actually kind of dropped the
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ball. Yeah I actually think several people dropped
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the ball here. I think Carl dropped the ball.
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I think Quasar dropped the ball. I think Donut
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dropped the ball. I think that it should have
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been clear early on that this was something that
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was possible. And I think that Quasar should
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have made one of his first acts to try to nail
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down having Donut as his client as well. And
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Nikki had a pretty good point, which that Nikki
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thinks that he didn't do it because people already
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see the Nullians is kind of untrustworthy. So
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he's very by the book. But even Donut herself
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says, I thought Quasar would be my lawyer. Yeah,
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well, he should have been her lawyer. And basically,
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so where he dropped the ball is that he didn't
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assert Carl as like the custodian over Donut
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and all of her earnings, because we learn here
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that Donut's species, cats, are not yet recognized
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as a legally competent racial entity by the syndicate.
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And therefore, all of her assets should have
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been placed under a conservatorship. Carl was
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obviously the best choice as a custodian. And
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now that Carl is her wife, he is also a true
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beneficiary. Which is interesting because I think
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that Perpetente is actually fine since he chose
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to be a Caprid. So I think he picked a racial
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entity. Well, he didn't pick, but... To be a
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Caprid? Yes, he did. He didn't choose what he
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turned into. I think Caprid was his race selection.
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His donut chose to remain a cat. Oh, yeah, maybe.
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So I think he could have chosen to remain a goat,
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but I think during race selection he chose to
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be a cavern. Oh, yeah. Okay, good point. Yeah,
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so I think that because he chose a race that
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was already recognized by the galaxy, he was
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fine. But they apparently didn't already have
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cats in the galaxy. I guess so. Yeah. Interesting.
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So they don't have a cat alien race out there?
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I guess not. I guess not. I'm super sad about
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that. Does that mean that Donut's the last cat
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ever? No, Ferdinand still exists. I mean, I think
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they have cats. They're just not like a sapient
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racial entity with like legal rights and such
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to like have money and buy property or whatever.
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I'm calling the end of the series that she has
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to hook up with Ferdinand or the cat species
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will end forever. Okay. But 10 predictions. There
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we go. On record. On record. But... Basically,
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what Chandra is doing here is placing Donut under
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a conservatorship. So she's basically Britney
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Spears -ing Donut. Oh, no. Yep, yep, yep. That's
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my takeaway here. Yeah, what was done to Britney
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Spears is, like, truly evil. And there's definitely
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some shades of that here. Definitely. Very strong
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shades of it here. And also, we learned that
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she bribed a judge so that she could become Donut's
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lawyer in the first place. Seems like those...
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reputations that the Nagas have as being untrustworthy
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and not trusting their contracts seems to be
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holding up, even though she seems to have a lot
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of hatred towards her people for... It's complicated.
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I mean, the fact that a judge was bribable is
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definitely a problem to begin with. All judges
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are bribable. But, yeah, her saying that she
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doesn't need a will, but she was going to do
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it anyways is definitely a big, huge, flashing
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red sign. Mm -hmm. It absolutely is. Okay, so
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we learned here that the Donut Holes don't have
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to share funds with the syndicate because they
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are an unofficial fan group. And that the Princess
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Palette eye makeup kit is the highest earning
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crawler merch ever. Ever. Which is just insane.
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And I will say that the whole makeup line definitely
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has some Kylie Jenner shades of gray as far as
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what it's based off of. And I heard. that they're
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going to actually be coming out with the Donut
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Princess Palette eye makeup kit? I think they
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are. I've seen some stuff about it online, but
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I haven't dug in to see if it was official or
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not. But we'll see. I'm sure we will be getting
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more. The amount of merch that is coming out
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is crazy. So much. Yeah, which is kind of conflicting
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for me because I'm anti -capitalist, which is
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why I like these books. These books are very
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anti -capitalist. There's also a lot of merch.
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There is. Merch is capitalism and I don't know
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what to do. It's crazy because like there is
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so much official merch that is coming out now
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that like six months ago it was like oh my god
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any merch get all the merch and now it's like
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there's so much even like not just fan merch
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but official merch that is out that it's like
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I can't have all of it because then I would just
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have too much Dungeon Crawler Carl stuff which
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I know there shouldn't be but my entire house
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cannot be Dungeon Crawler Carl. I'm sure some
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of your houses are, and that is great, and I
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love that for you. But that is not our house,
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unfortunately. Yeah, we like collecting art too
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much for that. And a lot of it is Dungeon Crawler
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Carl art. But anyways, moving on. So the Donut
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Holes fan group is interesting, though, and she
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is trying to take a lot of their money. She's
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basically trying to make the Donut Holes an official
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thing so that way she can take their money. And
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she basically says that... 38 % would go to Donut's
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conservatorship and then 60 % will go to the
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syndicate. And then that would leave the donut
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holes with just 2%, which she says is plenty
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for them to continue operating on. It's crazy
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because like, how much money is that? I mean,
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I think it's a lot. I think it's still a lot.
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And I think that she underestimates the scale
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of the popularity of Donut and the donut holes
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and then the princess posse. And, you know, Donut
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doesn't like the Donut Holes because they are
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unofficial. But I guess now they're going to
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be official. So will Donut be cool with the Donut
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Holes now? I think she's still going to not like
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the name. Yeah, I guess so. We don't get to see
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the Donut Holes books. No, Princess Sandra wants
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to see their books and so do I. And she says
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that they have more money than they should, which
23:11
is very interesting. And I would love to know
23:14
more about that. Well, I think it's just because
23:15
there's a fucking lot of them. Like there's there's
23:19
a lot of people. Donut has like several quintillion
23:23
people that have her favorited. And even if 200
23:26
quadrillion are giving money to either the donut
23:31
holes or the princess posse, like that is just
23:34
astounding amounts of money. I think that this
23:37
is referencing that Donut and Zev are still doing
23:43
some backdoor deals. and some underhanded stuff.
23:48
And I think that's why they have more money than
23:50
they should have is that it's related to some
23:53
plan that they are cooking. Quite possibly. And
23:56
we're definitely going to learn more about that
23:57
in the next book. Probably. I hope so. Chandra
24:01
says that if the donut holes do not agree to
24:04
give 38 % to the conservatorship and she will
24:08
have her two foreign associates call on the families
24:11
of the founders of the unauthorized fan group
24:13
and that it's. Always easy to get people to agree
24:16
to things when one exerted pressure in the proper
24:18
places, especially when they have small children.
24:21
Yeah. So I think that that is everything you
24:25
need to know about Princess Chandra Esquire is
24:29
that she is willing to threaten small children
24:32
to get what she wants. And it's despicable behavior
24:36
and it's everything that Carl and Donut stand
24:40
against. And. This chapter was so good. There's
24:45
so much info dumping. There's so much character
24:48
insight as to who Chandra is. There's information
24:51
about what's going on outside the universe. This
24:54
is the longest outline I've ever written. It
24:56
was five pages. And we kind of have a lot of
25:00
life stuff going on right now. So we are actually
25:02
going to split this into two episodes. And we're
25:06
going to call it here. And so the next episode
25:09
is going to be. The actual conversation between
25:13
Donut and Princess Chandra. Yeah. And it is so
25:17
good. I can't wait to cover it. But unfortunately,
25:21
I think we are going to have to drop down to
25:23
biweekly. We don't want to dox exactly what it
25:27
is that Nikki does. But I will just say that
25:30
it is heavily stressful because of current events.
25:35
The economy is crazy right now, y 'all. Yeah,
25:39
and definitely some industries are infected more
25:42
than others. And Nikki is in one of those industries.
25:45
Yeah, they've just been working crazy hours.
25:47
So because of that, we are going to need to drop
25:50
down to bi -weekly. It kind of sucks. We've been
25:52
talking about it for several weeks now, and I've
25:55
been really opposed to going to, you know, airing
25:59
episodes every other week. I've really wanted
26:01
to stick with publishing weekly, but... Yeah,
26:04
it's just gotten to the point where this has
26:05
become unmanageable. And, you know, I've had
26:08
some moments where I've just wanted to kind of
26:09
stop altogether. And I've even been like, if
26:12
we're going to just go every other week, then
26:13
we should just completely stop. And it's like,
26:15
well, is it better to deeply or completely stop?
26:18
I think it's better to be weekly, I guess. Yeah,
26:20
especially because, as alluded to earlier in
26:23
this episode, we are making negative money on
26:25
this. And for complicated reasons, like we're
26:28
not really trying to make money off of this.
26:32
We just want it to be fun. And like what we really
26:34
love about it is deep diving into the chapters
26:37
together and also getting to talk to other people
26:40
about it. And we can still do that as a biweekly
26:43
podcast. We definitely can. And a lot of podcasts
26:45
are biweekly. Not very many actually are weekly.
26:48
And the ones that are are like professional podcasters
26:51
because it's a lot of work to do that. And they're
26:53
doing it full time. We love you guys. This was
26:56
a really hard decision for us to make. But we
26:58
think it was the right decision for our household.
27:00
Yeah. So, yeah, it's going to be biweekly from
27:03
here on out. And, you know, hopefully that's
27:05
still great for you guys. And thank you so much
27:09
to everyone who listens. Our listener count has
27:12
been growing a lot lately. And, you know, we
27:14
really, really appreciate all the support and
27:16
love that we've gotten. So I'm just going to
27:20
keep babbling, I guess. See you soon. See you
27:22
soon.