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The last time on no latency. Oh my.
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Is that a fatality? Do they get points for that?
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No, they don't get points for the fatality.
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I'm a doctor, I can help. That's going to need some
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reconstruction, I think somebody.
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Trains them deliberately I. Will find who did this.
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Hi, Fresh. I really want trauma team to win
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are. You going to bet on trauma team?
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No, I'm good. I don't bet on losers.
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There's the I don't know, we know and tolerate.
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The rest of my money, all 150 of them on biotech.
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I'm not there, but I feel like Chad has just poured into that
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uniform. Yeah, that's kind of bad for
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Biotechnica. Can they get back up?
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I mean, don't ask me, I forgot how the game worked already.
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Fuck you, trauma team. Oh yeah.
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Come on, Van Dale. We should make up a name for Van
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Dale Hot Wheels. Oh, that's not bad.
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Hot Wheels. Hot Wheels.
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Hot Wheels. I guess Chad's not that hot
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anymore. Hello.
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Hello. I have a complaint.
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Excuse me. Hey, I want to know what are you
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doing here to protect the teams? What do you mean?
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What do you mean that bullshit that we had in the first bout?
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You going to tell me what? It was awesome.
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I made so much money. You made yes, yes, yes.
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You made a lot of money off that.
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I'm who the. Fuck are you?
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Happy. Hello there.
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I am Herbert Sanspire. Nice to meet you.
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I'm in the football. Oh, oh, the Herbert Sanspire.
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That's me. What's going on?
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Yes, I am the. Announcing.
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That's why I sound like this, but I'm not the announcer
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because that's someone else they're announcing right now.
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Can you hear them? I can't.
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Yeah, it sounds like, it sounds like it's a it's a pretty tight
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race to start off with this. This could be a barn.
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Burn five guy. He's obnoxious.
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Yeah, yeah. Are you sure you're not related
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to them? You do sound very familiar.
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No, no, you do the announcing for long enough and you just get
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the voice plus. Gotcha.
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Teams want to play here when you talk.
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Like this? It's great.
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Yes, I agree totally. Fully gunk anyways, So what are
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you doing for any kind of security, anything like that?
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Because there's been some rumors that somebody spiked chick from
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the Roosters. What?
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I mean, why bother? It's just an exhibition, who
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gives a fuck? You there's money on the line,
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you're going to tell me that you think that the NCPD is not going
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to want to investigate something when you have money on the line?
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I get I get people coming, I get friends all the time coming to
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the office being like this team cheated murmur and it's like, I
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mean. So you're saying it happens and
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you allow it? No, I'm saying people say it a
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lot and people cry wolf. So how am I meant to believe
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everyone? You can't and.
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What happens if you do find proof?
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If I've got proof, I'll do some because I've got it, because
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there's like a union for the players or whatever.
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But until I have proof, I don't have to do shit.
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That's what the contract says. I just rake in the money because
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the combat zones fucking kicked it.
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Holy shit. It sounds like it just sounds
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like the biotechnic is the bio hasn't just scored.
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Fuck yeah. They're. 2.0 fuck.
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Retro is holding an internal rage at the moment.
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So OK, I'm I'll be back. I will be back.
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OK. Mr. Sandspire.
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You, you, you have a great day Mr. Weird TV guy.
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Fuck you. Fuck you too, I'll.
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Just walk off. I'm take a cursory look, is
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there anybody around or is there any cameras looking at the?
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Security room. There are no cameras back here,
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but there were cameras inside of the main area.
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Where I'm at now. No, in the main area where you
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just where where the ring is, there were cameras in there.
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There are not cameras in this back alley, no.
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OK, Oh, I'm going to break into the security room then.
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Cool. Are you are you going to check?
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Yeah, cool. That's why I was asking if
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there's anything I can see. There's no, there's no cameras
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and you're just going to try and get into this door?
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Is that what you're saying? Yeah.
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Dirty electronic security tech? Yes, you're able to open up the
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door without it making any noise whatsoever and it clicks and
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unlocks. OK, before I open it, I'm going
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to use my tool hand and I'm going to use the mirror
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attachment, slide it under the door.
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I'm going to see if there's anybody in there right now.
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Sure. Role perception.
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That's not where perception should be. 21 You see into the
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room. All right.
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So I see that it's two gentlemen there and there's a computer
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they have like the security cameras and such like that.
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The computer says security computer on the side in like a
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embossed printed stamp. OK, I will knock on the door of
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security by now. Good.
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You're right. How's it going?
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Hey, how is it going? How can I?
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Help you Sir. Well, I am with the, I'm with
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the Media Group here, Science Fire has hired me and they
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wanted me to take a look at some of the security footage because
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we need to, you know, find like the juicy bits so we can start
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getting some promotional material.
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So, you know, I came in to see if you could, you know, show me
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some of those, those good bits that we had for the first one so
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I can start editing. That way we can try to get some
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more of a get people to come and see us on the cloud, you know?
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Yeah, Garden and shit, right? Yeah, yeah, Persuasion.
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This is a very convincing argument still.
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I love it when politicians say wow, this is a really convincing
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argument. Not that he's a politician, but.
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I rolled A3. Sure.
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The computer's over there. Great.
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Wonderful. Yeah, I'll just, I'll just make
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my way in. What's going on, too?
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How's it going? Man, what's going on, man?
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I just ran out of beer. You know what I'm going to, I'm
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going to give them one of the smashes.
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I. Have. 1 2-3 Crack it at the same
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time Oh. Yeah, let's go.
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Smash it together. Hell yeah, Dude, dude, dude,
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dude. Dude.
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Shit. Damn it, that's fat.
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OK, so you're now mildly addicted to Smash.
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OK. It's a yellow foamy and there's
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solden cans everywhere. It gives you +2 to the following
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skills for the next 4 hours. Dance, contortionist,
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conversation, human perception, persuasion and acting.
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You will get a plus one to that. However, you're now addicted to
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Smash. Oh well, what's new?
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I need, I always need something new to be addicted to.
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Yep. And this is legal actually.
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Hey, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to get some of the
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clips here so I can put on the garden so we can promote it.
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Yeah. Did you, did you see anything
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cool or interesting happen while you're in here 'cause you guys
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are like watching the game, right?
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You guys are watching the Derby? Watching the game, No, no, we
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listen to the 05 guy. He's way more interesting.
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Oh, you don't even watch it, you just will listen to the 05 guy.
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No, we only look at the footage of the if the people tell us to.
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Dude, I will. I see pub bowl.
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I see roller Derby all the time man.
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Anyway, it's people like you that I wait for to make the
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shit. I don't know what's the whole
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fucking thing? Well, I want a compilation video
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on the dark attention span is very short tablets, you know
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it's true. It's extremely hey, what's that
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over there? Huh, cool.
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That wall is a slightly different color.
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Nice. And hopefully while they're
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distracted, I'm going to go ahead and copy the whole thing
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to myself. Sure.
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I'd also like to say at the, if I can, if I have any extra time,
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try to see if I can find any incriminating evidence on the
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computer and it's not just the footage.
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Sure. Oh, crit success.
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You look through the system and you're genuinely surprised to
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find that the guy who runs this doesn't.
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He's not part of any nefarious bullshit.
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Faster the guy. Overly excited.
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He just really loves roller Derby and the more you look
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into, the more you find out he's just always been really into
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roller Derby and that's where he's put all his money.
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He is roller crit success. You are 100% sure that the guy
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who runs this place has nothing to do with anything nefarious
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that's happened, but the footage that you grab, you do see one of
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the combat zone players shoot a trank dart into the ankle of
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someone on the other team. You mean into check?
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Into check, yeah. How do you know?
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I see how they did it. It fires out the hilt of their
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weapon in a hidden compartment. Mother fuckers.
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OK, OK, I got that. Oh, with this do I have access
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to the, I assume teleprompter for the K5 radio guy?
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Yes. I'm going to slip in just small
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little remarks for the radio guy to make a few jepes, few jokes
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at the owner's expense because he wants it.
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It makes it seem more humble and down to earth.
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OK. And just pretty much, yeah.
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Just add a little bit, have fun. Don't go, don't go too
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overboard. We got to be a little bit family
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friendly, but you know, crowd will love it.
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It'll it'll embolden the the the the owner to to to the people.
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And as you're setting this out, it gets put into the
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teleprompter data for the next match.
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Because as you start to type, the game ends and you hear a
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rousing amount of cheering coming from inside of the Punk
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the Punk punk arena. There's people screaming and
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blinding and your betting chip in your pocket bleeps and
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flashes a green light at you, indicating that you have won
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some money. Oh well damn, sounds like Vendel
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did make it. I am both happy and but also now
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scared if we have to go up against them right?
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What do you do Retro? I might take the footage, keep
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it with me of course. OK, I mean I'm at the whole
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thing and I will also leave a bug on the computer so then that
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way I have access to it remotely.
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All right, you have to roll for that because it is a new action,
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but that is fine. 32 absolutely yes, you roll.
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You roll enough that the software will self delete at the
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end of this event and you now have access to all of the
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footage remotely. Because you roll.
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Yeah, because I just, I just build a virtual computer within
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itself. So it seems like the same thing,
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but in the background in the actual computer it is sending me
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all this information onto a separate hard drive.
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Meanwhile, back inside Jeb, your betting chip flash is green.
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All right, let's go. I go.
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Stick it into the into the machine.
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And you've made twice your money, so you now have 300
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eddies on your betting chip because the bio hasn't won.
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Let's go. Oh, Maya, I haven't felt this
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rush since I was racing Widow's Gulch.
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Well, who's playing up next? I think I'm going to put it all
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in again. Who's playing up next to tap the
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machine? Game data The next match is game
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three, loser bracket Rancho Canado Roosters versus it's
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Trauma team Tower Sirens. Oh boy.
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Well, here comes me and the retro at it again.
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Well. What are the outs?
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Where is retro by the way? He he said he was doing
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investigating, but what the where?
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But investigating what aren't we like?
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Wait, hold on. Why are we here again?
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Vendell has to race. I'm gonna say you'd have fun.
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High 5. No, thank you.
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No. One really, I mean, damn,
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honestly it, it just feels like it's been a while, ever since we
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just got some time to ourselves. And I thought, I thought we were
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on a mission for a moment there. No, I think this is more like a
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fun downtime thing. There's two of the players got
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really into one of the DLCS that's available on the Artel
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website on and on about the roller Derby.
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So the GM thought that he'd like make a whole thing about it.
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That's a lot of commitment. No.
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It's not the GM really cares about his players or something.
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Madness. No, don't not.
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Don't get me started. All right, we should probably,
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we should probably find retro before the next.
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Match your bedding key is also flashing green.
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Oh right, I won money too. Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding.
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You pushed him out the way. Pull his ship out, put your chip
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in the machine. He doesn't even get to bet yet,
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he'll have to wait. You plug it in and it tells you
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that you now have 350 * 2, which is 700 eddies.
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Let's go. I think we might have enough to
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get into the VIP area soon, Jeb. All right, that that was the
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mission I forgot. Yes.
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Well, I'm excited what they they got.
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They got an open bar in there. I sure do.
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Yeah. Wait, was that a?
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Yeah, yeah. OK, OK, great.
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Sure do. Awesome, awesome.
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Because I'm going to be honest with you, I'm starting to really
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like this shit. What's?
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It called. Shine.
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This shine stuff I can go for some more shine right now in
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fact. And that is why I bought another
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bottle. You crack open this metal
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bottle. You take a big old SIP, it's got
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a pull tab on top so it still sounds like a can and.
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You can shaped like a Mason jar. Yeah.
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Yeah, it is. Which is weird that it's a
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little bottle. He takes a big old sip and has
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to roll. Resist torture drugs 15 you
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pass. Does this mean that my +2 and +2
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are just continue to be plus one?
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You just. Continue You have to take more
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shine every 15 minutes because it affected It only effects you
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for 15 minutes. I am feeling fast you've failed
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so fast my entire life are. You going to do any bets for the
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next match? This is the loser's bracket.
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It's Trauma Team versus the Roosters.
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I think Trauma Team is, you know what I'm going to, I'm going to,
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yeah. I'll put a bit into Trauma Team.
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I'll put 200 Eddies in special. Do I?
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Do I have an idea of how much money it's going to cost?
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Roll streetwise, yeah, that is under insect, yes.
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I just rolled 2 nines on my new edge runners dice.
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I just rolled 2 nines. You rolled 16 so you do find
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out. It's ideally if you if you want
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to get in with no one even blinking, you want at least 10
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grand worth 10. Grand.
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You probably probably could do. You probably could do with less,
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but it would require a little bit more persuasion.
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Damn do you Do you know who has very good persuasion skills?
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And money, Iona. I don't have 10 grand to give
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you either. He does Vendel.
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Vendel doesn't spend any of their money.
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It does a little busy right now. And Dell calls on the group
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chat. Yeah.
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Oh, man, I feel so full of energy.
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It just won't go away. Oh, boy.
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Hi, guys. I'm in the dressing room.
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Everyone's patting me on the back.
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I did fucking amazing. Did you see me?
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Everyone? I didn't even have to do that
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special move. Fuck yeah.
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You should definitely save the special move for, you know, the
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finale. That's what they call it, right?
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You're the most dramatic move you.
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Did fantastic Mendel. In fact, I even got the replay.
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I got the whole thing. I got a copy of the.
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Way. Yeah, yeah, put that on my
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Christmas real. That's a good idea.
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In fact, you know what? Whatever you do so you can keep
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this high, drink alcohol, obviously.
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Yeah, it's going to make you more.
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It's going to give you more constitution.
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Get that. Get that weightiness in you No.
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No, no, no deflation. Both of us.
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Both of you, Yeah. Who wins?
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We'll find out. Well, I am here.
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Oh, that's pretty good. That's.
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A 22 also. That is a. 22 Why is it 22
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Because of? The Smash.
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Oh, you're. Smash.
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Smashed. Oh so.
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I should tell you, boss. I'm your boss.
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I'm Ross. You gotta do it.
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You pulling this means that they do take.
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A negative A. Negative, yeah.
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Like right now or just in my in my relationship?
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In your relationship with them, it is now you've got one
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negative tick. You don't have very many of
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those ever. I know what the number is, don't
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get to know. That's fine.
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I don't. I don't need to know Pentel.
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Yes. We know that this is hard.
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But. I know you are cool.
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You did you see yourself out there.
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We have the real and everything and we're going to, you know
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what we're going to do. We're going to take that winning
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shot of you crossing that that line.
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And we're. Going to frame it in the bar.
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It's pretty cool. I want to be cool it retro,
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right? Did you?
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Did you want something? Coke.
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Do more sense Co. OK, I'm going to, I'm going to
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try to shut off the COM real quick between the two of them.
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All right. You are not actually fighting I
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own, you're not fighting I own or Vendel on this, you're
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fighting Biotechnics communication system.
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All right, that's a 10. That's really fun.
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Let's roll another dice. Fucking well, that's an 8.
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That's 18. And so the base.
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What's the base number I thought.
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I thought I had to the bag. Oh, I have to do math.
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Oh great. This is fairly.
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Close. I'm going.
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To guess 29. Weigh 16 + 10 + 8.
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In math. 32. 34. Oh.
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So retro, you try and shut it down and for the first time in a
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long time you come up against fairly heavy corporate security
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and it just locks you out, doesn't let you.
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Fuck. And as you as you step back into
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the pug bowl, you see fresh pee while he's drinking a drink,
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doing something on his device there.
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We go I hate it when people try and hack our communication.
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And he walks away, which means Fresh Pea beat you.
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I'll let him have this win. And Vendel continues their
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conversation. Vendel I'm just going to say
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this. I know, but I know that they're
20:20
your boss. But sometimes you have to go
20:22
against the boss's wishes if you want to make them happy in the
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end. Just think about it.
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Heavy, heavy beer, porters such and like that right before the
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race too. You don't want to do it like let
20:32
it sit. You want to let it be right in
20:34
the beginning. That way you have all those
20:35
calories to burn. What?
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And I'll just also see this. Be careful how much coke you
20:44
take. You don't want to suddenly top a
20:47
valve. OK, Robin, just switch trucks
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for me please. OK.
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Bender rolls at Chris, 22. Nice, nice Jake.
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Wow, I would do anything for my friend.
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Would you lose for me? I believe that.
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Except that. Would you give me 10,000 eddies?
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Bucket. Sure, I just took loads of coke.
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I mean, I mean much. Money is.
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Not for spending, you know. Don't lose it all, I just want
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it back. But if you need it for some
21:32
reason, I'm sure that we'll do great.
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Bet on me. Bet it.
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Fuck it all, let's fucking go. The call ends Phoebe.
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I'm rich. Do I really want to spend this
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all this money? I mean one.
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Access to an area? Am I really about to do that?
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You could bet it and then you double it and then you have
23:04
extra so that you can buy into it and then you have a little
23:06
bit leftover but you can bet more.
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OK, you know what I'm going to, I'm going to do that.
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I'm going to bet on Vendel because I believe in them.
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So are you because the the biohazards are not playing next
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to you, betting on them to win the entire event?
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I'm going to yes, I'm going to not vote on the Trauma team
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versus the Roosters. I'm going to vote bet on Vendel
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the Biohazards. Great.
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Well I only rolled A1. Their odds go down by just one
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point, so it's actually still at 1.9.
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Biohazards 1.9. Trauma team 1.6.
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Combat zone 1.5. Roosters 1.7.
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Good luck. Let's do it.
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Load 10 grand. Send it.
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You load 10 grand and do you bet on the biohazards to win the
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whole thing? I'm going to put a little money
24:06
into Trauma Team. Here's what I'm saying on the
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chip is already the money you won from the last match.
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Yeah, I've already got quite a bit of money.
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Yeah, I'm going to put the 700 into trauma team.
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Let's just, you know, let's see how they do because I got to do
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I'm I'm a betting. And are you doing that for the
24:25
next match or overall? For the next match.
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Right, so you've. Got I'm voting for Vendel.
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Cool. All right, so you put in your
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overall bet, it locks in at 1.9, which means if you do, if they
24:37
do win, you will make 9000 eddies.
24:40
That's. A lot. 9000 Eddies Wow and
24:48
Trauma team gets a 700 bet for their game three, which happens
24:54
in about 8 minutes. Yep, I'm going to bet.
24:57
I'm going to bet I'm good. So I have 2000 now.
25:01
OK. I will put 1000 on the Roosters.
25:05
For the next game, this game. Cool.
25:07
No, no, actually no. I'm going to just put all 2000
25:10
on the Roosters for this game. That cost you nothing because
25:13
it's already on the chip. Yep, of.
25:16
Course, making my way back to the.
25:19
Area. I was out.
25:24
I'm I'm going to buy another, you know, buddy cap of smash, of
25:28
course, and along the way I'm going to go.
25:30
I'm just you know, I'm going to see VV and I'm going to see
25:33
Jabba. Hey.
25:34
Hey, you guys. Hey, where were you?
25:38
I was doing work. I'm going to say this.
25:41
What kind of work was that? Finding out that the combat zone
25:45
are full of cheaters and they definitely tricked my team so.
25:51
Oh, we knew that. Jeb, I was going to try to.
25:53
I was feeling generous at this moment, but now you're out,
25:56
baby, Come on. We're going to go to the VIP.
25:59
Let's go. You're coming with the VIP.
26:02
Let's. Go.
26:03
I'm going to VIP. Yeah, I'm going to get you in
26:05
the VIP. Wait, hold on, I want to go to
26:07
VIP. He was.
26:07
About to drop 10K talk. Shit, Jeb, and that's what you
26:10
get. On that.
26:12
It's too late, I was agreeing with.
26:13
You, Jeb. Jeb VB gets excited, pulls their
26:16
betting chip out of the machine, and you have this moment to bet.
26:20
Well, I'm going to put it all on.
26:23
Let's see. Well, I guess, well, I suppose
26:26
that that Retro was saying that they were kind of cheating
26:35
against his team. Now I wonder if that's going to
26:38
continue to happen. The team he was talking about as
26:40
you look at the bracket and not playing next.
26:42
No, no, it's like I've chosen between my best friends.
26:48
Who are you going to choose here in your head?
26:50
Who are you going to choose, Jeb, Me or him?
26:57
Well, you're the one talking to me in my head, so I guess I'll
26:59
talk. I guess I'll go with you.
27:03
And I put it all on dramaty. Cool how much you go. 300.
27:07
Jeb, you just made the third biggest mistake of your life.
27:12
Oh no. All right, So you head to VIP,
27:15
you watch VV and retro walk over to VIP.
27:19
Iona's sitting there drinking a real water, very clean, very
27:22
delicious. And you walk up to the front of
27:27
the VIP area VV and there are guards on either side.
27:34
Retro, are you getting us in? Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're with
27:37
me. Well, they're, they're part of
27:39
my team working wise VIP ticket. They don't need one, they're
27:42
with me. Go VIP ticket.
27:44
They I just told you Sir, they don't need one.
27:47
I am part of the team which is making the promotional material
27:51
for the Pug Bowl out there on the Guardian.
27:52
I need them to be with me on it so we can make sure that we're
27:56
doing real time updates on this. And I need them to be here for
27:59
that. So they're here with me.
28:02
I've already talked with the manager and they're already
28:06
ahead on this deal. You could talk with the
28:07
gentleman on the insecurity and they also know what the deal is,
28:10
so roll. Persuasion. 21/21/21. 21 I'm
28:16
smashed. Wait, you're the medic?
28:19
Yes, yes I am. Yeah, that's that's their full
28:23
time job. They're making money on the side
28:25
helping. Me.
28:26
You. You help.
28:27
You help, kid. I did.
28:28
Yes, I did, very valiantly. Man, you know, that's really
28:34
cool, but you know, you really have to spend a lot of money to
28:37
be a VIP. It's not like you've like
28:39
dropped a massive amount of money on a bet just like the
28:42
last one. As a matter of fact, I did.
28:47
You've checked my card? And your betting chip has a
28:50
little screen on it and it shows your bets on it.
28:52
Oh shit. I'm kind of a big deal.
28:55
You're also rich as shit. Holy crap man, if I had 10 grand
28:59
I'd spend it on like rent and food.
29:01
You just like drop 10 grand on everything on a on a on a on a
29:04
match. It's incredible.
29:06
Buy your buy your hazards to win.
29:08
Weird you're wearing tournament team match, but cool all.
29:10
Right. Did I just hear that right?
29:13
I'm a betting woman. Did I just hear that right,
29:15
baby? Hear what?
29:17
Right. You bet it all against Oh.
29:21
My gosh, just don't. Team loyalty.
29:27
Team. Loyalty.
29:29
Retro. I will remember this.
29:32
It's. For Bendel.
29:34
Retro will remember this. Jumes The next match will start
29:39
in 5 minutes. So I did a little investigation,
29:44
went and checked out security footage and checked this out.
29:48
And on my face you'll see it. Do that whole VHS reel and
29:55
you'll see in slow motion combat zone shooting that tranquilizer
30:01
into Chick's Achilles heel. And you see Jeb on the other
30:05
side of the VIP glass, watching as he can't hear you, the screen
30:09
on your face. And Jeb, you now realize what
30:11
everyone's talking about. You see very clearly that Combat
30:14
Zone cheated. No one else is watching this
30:17
around you, but you see it because Retro is your friend.
30:19
You pay attention to it. But now you have now experienced
30:22
this as well. Wait a minute, they did cheat.
30:26
Is Jeb talking to us? Jeb.
30:28
Jeb. You just see on the other side
30:30
of the of the glass, just like his mouth, just like moving,
30:36
gesticulating wildly, looking silent to you, Yeah.
30:40
You're just going to hear over your comp, Jeb, Why are you
30:42
gesticulating wildly? You know we have comms, right?
30:48
A rat. I just, you know, I feel that.
30:51
No, I got no excuse for that. I just forgot.
30:54
Are you just miming that outside?
30:57
No, I wasn't mime and I just, I just, you know, I just forgot
31:00
that we had the calms. So as we've seen the combat zone
31:07
full of cheats, obviously that's how they got their way up and
31:13
I'll be honest, I'm not going to share it just yet.
31:18
I want to see how this betting thing goes as well as see how
31:21
the Roosters do. If we lose, I'm going to make a
31:25
thermonuclear air in this place. Betting will close in 2 minutes.
31:30
And I guarantee you we'll probably get our money back too.
31:33
But anything you won will be gone.
31:36
I mean, shit, I get, you know what?
31:40
No, I'm, I'm sticking with it. I'm sticking with my bet.
31:44
I'm good all. Right.
31:45
I bet on my team. All right.
31:48
So do you guys find seats inside of this area in the VIP area?
31:51
Oh, yeah, yeah. No, I want Phoebe to sit next to
31:53
me. Because, Phoebe, there is a big
31:55
reason why I asked you to be here.
31:57
Part of it is because you're my friend.
31:59
Yes. Part of it is because I know you
32:01
want to be here and enjoy this wonderful pug bowl, but the
32:06
majority is I want to be here to taunt you when your team loses
32:10
to the God damn Roosters. We'll see.
32:14
I mean, it's not looking good for the Roosters.
32:17
Oh. I I have some doubts.
32:21
You have some doubts. You have doubts.
32:23
OK, I. Have your doubts.
32:25
I did put money on trauma team, by the way, so we'll see what
32:29
happens. You guys just.
32:32
Put down, we try to sit as close as possible.
32:34
We want, we want to see the, we want to see the the blood.
32:38
So you're just going to stand at the window instead?
32:40
Well. What is the closest?
32:41
There are sofas in the VIP area. Comfy.
32:44
Sitting next to Shark Here, we'll sit next to Shark.
32:46
Yeah. You see Shark and he's like just
32:48
tapping away on his on his tile, paying more attention to anyone
32:51
and you pass by the collector as he grabs a glass of wine.
32:54
Hey, go back there. Good to see you.
32:56
Hopefully no. One smashes this.
32:58
One, what do you mean by that? Smashes.
33:02
Iona threw it at trauma team. What?
33:04
I I did. I did.
33:06
I got excited. It was, it was lovely.
33:09
I missed Iona having an actual emotion.
33:14
They got worse. That would have That would have
33:16
been great. That would have been great to
33:17
see Iona making an emotion. I certainly made it.
33:21
I made an emotion. It overwhelmed me so much that I
33:25
threw a glass. I know I've never seen you do
33:28
that before. You let your emotions take over,
33:32
are you? I must think on who I am.
33:35
It's a reflection of myself. First.
33:38
Jeb had an existential crisis. Now me.
33:42
And I mean, it's like it started on BB.
33:44
Me. Oh yeah.
33:46
Oh BB just needs a cigarette, she'll be fine.
33:48
You have been corrupted well far from where you were at.
33:51
Oh. A cigarette.
33:52
Wonderful idea. And you see the collector pull
33:55
out a packet of cigarettes in a golden case.
33:58
He opens it and pulls out these cigarettes that have golden
34:01
filters. He puts one to his mouth, lights
34:04
it, and the golden filter lights up with RGB as he smokes it and
34:08
the smoke comes out purple. What?
34:13
Who's? That.
34:15
I should have known that the collector smoked King Midas's
34:18
it's. King Midas?
34:19
Do you want one VB? Yes.
34:22
Here you go, I won't charge you. It's RGB.
34:26
Yes, $1000 a pop. Wait a minute, how much are they
34:31
actually eat? Each each cigarettes about 1000
34:34
pack of 10. Wait a minute.
34:36
OK, so a pack of 10. $10,000. I.
34:41
Can't. Do that $1000 a cigarette.
34:45
It's $1000 a cigarette. There's 10 cigarettes in a pack.
34:47
That's $10,000. This is $1000.
34:50
A cigarette I'm about to smoke. What is RGB?
34:55
The collector pulls out his his lighter, which spins and then
34:58
floats above his hand with a little magnetic.
35:01
Pack, wait, collector? Yes.
35:03
How would you like to upgrade that?
35:05
How would you like to upgrade that to Spliff?
35:08
Oh, no, no, I, I'm, I'm quite happy with my nicotine.
35:11
And also, you know, deconstructing one of these
35:14
cigarettes genuinely feels like a waste.
35:15
There are $1000. But think about it, you have the
35:19
ability to waste $1000 to make the most expensive spliff of all
35:24
time, and you will be the first to ever smoke the most expensive
35:28
spliff of all time. You've not had a party with
35:31
Danny, right? Danny Dark side.
35:35
Yes. Wait, all right.
35:38
Never. Mind Danny Darkseid, the guy who
35:41
used to. Sit.
35:42
In in in his room in college while we were all going out
35:45
doing keg stands that Danny Darkseid throwing a party.
35:48
Yes, very grumpy right there. A bunch of shit got stolen.
35:51
Apparently it was Maelstrom. They were all in his place,
35:53
completely knocked out. Roll persuasion if you want me
35:56
to put weed in this. No comments.
36:00
No 18. I will say I've got bad numbers
36:02
for you because I did roll A10. That's eating on top.
36:06
That's a big fat no. I'm happy.
36:08
Lightning team Vivi. Come here, darling, come here.
36:11
The collector heads over to Vivi and as he brings the floating
36:15
lighter closer to the cigarette in her mouth, it flicks open and
36:19
lights. He lights your cigarette with
36:21
this floating, slightly rotating Zippo lighter.
36:28
Slightly. Rotating Now as you pull on this
36:30
cigarette, the thing that strikes you is it's not synth,
36:35
it's real fucking tobacco. What the heck?
36:41
This. I don't think I've ever tasted
36:44
this in my 24 years of living. Be careful though, because if
36:51
you twist the if you twist the the filter, you can now change
36:54
the flavour and the RGB. I make it pink, it lights up
37:00
pink. And starts to taste like a
37:01
strawberry daiquiri. Oh.
37:04
My God. It's like an electronic
37:06
cigarette that has yield tobacco that is burning on the inside.
37:11
Collector, this is life changing.
37:15
You're welcome that I have a guy you know and rich as fuck.
37:18
You have a guy who's the guy? You want the guy.
37:21
I want to know his name. Where do you get these from?
37:24
I, I I've got a smoke shop where it's in the executive district.
37:30
You need you need a referral and his name is Martin.
37:34
OK, I'm writing this down. People, people just got in the
37:37
smokestack. Quite literally.
37:39
Get it? I'm just watching them both
37:41
smoke the cigarettes while their lips are pulsing with the RGB's
37:45
colours in their mouth. Did.
37:47
You want one retro. I mean, I won't say no to a free
37:50
$1000 cigarette. You know, I'm going to be
37:55
honest. I'm real curious about that.
37:56
You mind getting one from me too?
37:58
Why is Jeb waving at? Us.
38:01
Hey, Jeb. Hey.
38:02
Jeb. Oh yes.
38:03
Fuck it, Jeb. And he, he just walks out of VIP
38:07
walks out to. You.
38:09
Hey Glitch, how are you? It's lovely to see you.
38:12
Hello, tiny Goldman. Hi.
38:15
And you touch Jeb, you turn around, and Fresh is very
38:17
uncomfortably right behind you. He scares.
38:19
You a little bit. Hey, collector, don't don't give
38:24
me one. I don't think he deserves 10.
38:28
I don't. Smoke.
38:30
Oh, you heard that? Yeah.
38:32
We're really close. I'm basically touching your
38:34
shoulder. Yeah, about that.
38:36
Can you go here? I collector OH.
38:39
Boy. And the collector hands you a
38:42
cigarette and he brings his lighter out and it starts to
38:44
float to his hand and he goes to light your cigarette.
38:51
Oh, wow, that is well, Dick dishes.
38:54
Hey, you guys, he wasn't lying. This is the real stuff.
38:57
You know, my grandpa would give me one of these and I was 4 1/2.
39:01
Well, not one of these, but, you know, like he used to put it in
39:04
the pipe. I don't know if you guys know
39:06
where the what, what, what damn old pipes look like.
39:09
They were like wood and they they kind of did like a little,
39:12
it looked like a little saxophone.
39:13
They made bonds out of wood, like saxophones.
39:17
Sure. Yeah, Yeah, that's one way to
39:18
look at it, yeah. So you smoke tobacco out of a
39:21
bomb shaped like. Oh, there was no, there was no
39:26
water, you see. Game 3 is about to begin.
39:30
Oh look at that, our bullshit has been cut short.
39:36
All right, let's see how this goes.
39:38
Roll the Derby fans. Are you ready for match 3?
39:44
It's. The.
39:45
Rancho Canado Roosters versus the Trauma team Tower sirens and
39:55
the green light says go skating around the bottom St.
39:59
The Roosters have a little bit of a lead as they create the
40:03
deadly spread. Going left quickly around that
40:07
corner. So we're ready for our first
40:10
actual round. It's weapons.
40:13
Let's go, Roosters. Let's go.
40:16
Let's go, Roosters. Let's go.
40:18
This is all directly in Phoebe's face.
40:19
Let's go. Yes, Yes, I knew.
40:24
I knew that the Collector was a was a cocksman.
40:27
Yes. I I just bet bet a million on
40:29
both. Just sort of be fun.
40:31
Holy shit. So like either way, wait wait, I
40:35
think you make more of trauma team ones, right?
40:38
Yes, totally. We had some more smash.
40:40
I'm sorry, I thought I had a burp.
40:44
And after the first lap Trauma team,
41:01
even though they got a point, their rabbit does seem a little
41:04
close to those jammers on the other side.
41:06
Come on, let's go. You could do it, chick.
41:08
I believe in you. We got this.
41:10
We got. This.
41:11
Come on now. Come on now, Sirens.
41:14
I believe in you. Shut the fuck up, jab.
41:17
I believe. Go on, give him the C block.
41:20
Hit him with the C block. I want you to tighten up that
41:22
jammer line. Oh, Trauma Team with another
41:25
crit success on 16. Unfortunately, one of the
41:27
jammers has taken a little bit of a tumble, but they score a
41:30
point. Those rabbits.
41:34
Trauma Team is up two points. This is bullshit.
41:40
This is bullshit. Oh, trauma teams.
41:46
Rabbit takes a bad crit fail and it looks like the Roosters have
41:50
scored their first point of match three.
41:52
There you. Go.
41:57
Let's get it in Going for the egg hunt.
41:59
Going for the egg hunt. Going for the egg hunt?
42:01
Going for the egg hunt? They have weird chance.
42:07
You know what do we go? Any chance is it like wee woo
42:11
Wee woo? No, it's.
42:15
It goes. We lose, we lose, we lose.
42:17
Where's fries? Sirens go towers.
42:22
Go, go. As he comes by blocking someone
42:30
because he rolls pretty well in that round, and he waves at you
42:34
as he elbows this jammer in the side, sailing them to the left.
42:38
Their rabbit takes a lead. The announcer gets really
42:41
excited. And.
42:43
Trauma team scores again, you see.
42:46
You. See Chad wave at you.
42:50
This is a good one. This, this, this, this cheer.
42:53
You hear that one? That's a good one.
42:54
It's a they're, they're a bunch of moochers.
42:57
We're going to give them sutures.
43:00
They're a bunch of moochers. We're going to give them.
43:03
Sutures. I blow chattakiss.
43:08
OK, Hold on. Can I, can we have a bit of an
43:11
aside here, Vivi? Yes.
43:15
Vivi, I I know that you asked me earlier if that you asked me if
43:23
I thought that you were leading them on and at the time I had
43:26
said no, I think, you know, it's kind of a him brawl.
43:29
I'm going to be honest, I kind of think you're leading them on
43:32
now. Now I think it's a bit of a you
43:34
problem. Now I want to be clear.
43:37
If you think that this Chad guy is a a well, a potential suitor
43:43
of sorts for you, then you know I'm I'm behind you all the what?
43:47
I just don't want you to get a well.
43:49
I don't want to do anything dumb because he thinks that you you
43:53
lack them or you don't really lack.
43:55
You understand? I don't know what you're talking
43:58
about, Jeb. Yeah.
44:00
Well, as. You As you're looking at Jeb,
44:02
you can hear the crowd go wild. The Roosters have scored yet
44:06
another point. It's 2:00 to 3:00 and it's
44:08
anybody's game. Son of a bitch.
44:10
Jim. Yes.
44:11
As Chad passes by I would like to yell out Chad thanks buddy.
44:18
This is the best date I've had with BB ever.
44:20
Wait, Oh my God, Retro. That's cruel.
44:30
I want to win. I will win.
44:36
Now this, this moment out there on the field, Chad kind of looks
44:43
really concerned. He looks out across to the VIP
44:46
and watches Retro kind of give this like shimmy towards VB.
44:50
He gets really upset. Motherfucker swings his piece of
44:53
rebar back and actually smacks one of the jammers straight in
44:58
the face, ripping him forward, bumping into another jammer and
45:01
the other. Rooster took a grip.
45:03
Fail and he scores a point through the jammer by accident.
45:07
Fuck. All right, you know what?
45:10
It wasn't pretty. Match.
45:11
Point. It's these next roles that tell
45:16
us the winner. Everyone.
45:17
The Roosters roll first. Oh, and they're rabbits out
45:21
there with a Crit Success 16. Come on, come on.
45:25
Come on, Roosters. Let's go.
45:26
We haven't even fully hatched yet.
45:28
Let's. Let's do this.
45:28
Come on. We're not even.
45:30
We're not. I'm not even a quarter of my.
45:32
Tower that this isn't looking good for the.
45:35
Roosters. It's not the Roosters.
45:38
I hate this so much. I hate this so much.
45:41
Oh, the Roosters do not roll enough.
45:44
That's right there. Got a 14, Got a fourteen.
45:46
Way higher than that eight. Last hit right across the
45:49
backstage. 2. Spinning right round, baby
45:52
right. Round this.
45:54
Game. Tell you sorry, one point.
45:57
Drama team the Roosters. I always knew Vivi, Vivi, I
46:06
always knew. You know what?
46:09
I'm going to tell you something that you know, I maybe shouldn't
46:12
tell people because, you know, it might give people the wrong
46:15
idea. But I stopped and I thought
46:17
before, before I put my bed in, I kind of, you know, stopped and
46:22
closed my eyes and I heard you tell me to, to play place all my
46:27
money on the trauma team. I did hear you, a voice that
46:31
sounded just like you. And you know, I could see it was
46:34
like a a vision of you in my head.
46:38
Am I going insane? It's unclear, but one thing's
46:42
for sure, I made dope my money. I can't believe it, Jeb.
46:46
That makes me so happy to hear that the little voice inside of
46:49
you is is me. You know, I'm going to be
46:52
honest, I kind of was expecting to hear a retro too, you know,
46:56
kind of defend himself, but he didn't.
46:58
So I guess yes, it is just you and there.
47:02
Retro's defenseless right now. The Roosters are eliminated.
47:08
Retro. Maybe next year's Pug Bowl.
47:10
I think this is over. You think you've won.
47:14
I will burn this all down. That's what you sound like.
47:34
Next time on no latency. Betting is fun.
47:40
Betting is terrible. It is a sin.
47:42
You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
47:43
This is Biotechnica and you, you're not out here rooting for
47:47
Vin one. OK, I'll, I'll go sit in the
47:49
stands. Go Vandel.
47:51
This whole thing is rigged. I'm pretty sure that's a leak.
47:53
I'm going to play it on it on my face.
47:54
It's so obvious, just take a look.
47:56
At it. That's a rooster fan.
47:58
Oh unnatural rooster fan. So if there's any team out there
48:01
that has illegal modifications that are weapons, then that's
48:03
that's bad. So Retro doesn't quite see me
48:06
they. Stole your money.
48:07
They stole your money. Gotta get this fucking thing
48:10
off. Oh boy.
48:11
That's true. That's what won me last time.
48:14
All right, we're going to do our best. 300 on Trauma team to win
48:19
this match. That wouldn't have happened if
48:20
they hadn't cheated. They get it.
48:22
You get it. We, we just, we just like, you
48:24
know. Yes, I get it.
48:27
I am so excited. Oh.
48:30
That can't be good for your heart.
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Gosh, this is the moment of truth, everyone.
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Thanks for listening, Jim.