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Tempest's Floor 8 Recap School Report · The Apocalypse Will Be Podcasted

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  Hello, and this is the Apocalypse Will Be Podcasted.
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  We are a married couple from Atlanta with boring
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  day jobs. We have been together 12 years, and
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  we usually create a lot of weird performance
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  art to entertain people. But we are trying our
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  hand at having a podcast because we have had
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  an obsession lately, and that obsession is Dungeon
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  Crawler Carl. This is a spoilers podcast, and
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  we will be discussing plot points from all seven
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  Dungeon Crawler Carl books. You should not start
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  this podcast until you have finished book seven.
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  We will not be discussing anything from Patreon
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  or the Pineapple Cabaret. There are spoilers
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  from this point forward. Be warned. So we are
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  officially getting into book seven. We're going
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  to be starting out with Tempest Floor 8 Recap
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  Report. It's Quasar's niece, and she's interviewing
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  him on the basis of it being a school report.
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  Matt's using this as a literary device to do
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  a floor eight recap, basically. And recaps are
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  a trope that they use to help people with bad
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  memories like myself remember what happened the
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  last time without having to reread the entire
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  book. Well, it is a trope, but it's kind of a
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  holdover from before times in some ways when
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  there wasn't any internet. and you couldn't track
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  down all books in a series. So I personally was
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  a poor kid in the 90s, and sometimes you'd be
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  going to thrift stores and yard sales, and you'd
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  find book two of a series that looked really
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  interesting to you, and you'd buy it, and maybe
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  one day you'd find book one, but maybe you wouldn't.
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  So you'd just go ahead and read it, and these
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  recap chapters really helped with filling in
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  the blanks or with some series like The Babysitter's
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  Club. There's 130 Babysitter's Club books. So
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  you're probably not going to track down all 130
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  and read them in order. Who would want to? That's
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  way too many books. Do each their own. I never
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  read them, but I never had to worry about not
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  being able to find a certain book in a series
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  as a kid because I didn't read as a kid. Well,
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  I read everything I could get my hands on, and
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  that meant library books, yard sale books, and
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  that did not mean that you would always end up
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  with a full series at once. So you just have
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  to kind of go with what you got. Fair enough.
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  So this chapter is super fun. There's this great
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  dynamic between Quasar and his niece. They're
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  both extremely vulgar people. So kind of wondering
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  if that runs in the family. Definitely. And he
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  does call her his niece and say that she's in
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  school. But an example I thought of is it states
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  in the Lord of the Rings books that hobbits aren't
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  adults until they're 33. So maybe this person
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  is not the, you know, maybe 10 year old that
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  we're imagining saying all this super vulgar
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  stuff. Right. The ages of some of these alien
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  races can be a little hard to discern. I mean,
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  especially when you're talking about people in
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  the center system, which. quasar and his niece
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  aren't with people in the center system i mean
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  they can be hundreds thousands of years old and
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  you can't really tell just by looking at them
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  one of the things that i think is interesting
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  that they kind of play with is the idea of what
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  makes someone a kid or not a kid and is it just
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  based on age right right i think you're talking
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  about with the kids trying to get involved in
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  the war efforts in book seven yeah and they're
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  like we're older than donut which technically
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  they're not wrong they're not wrong and they're
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  like well big tina the dinosaur is just a kid
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  and you know her mom doesn't want her to be in
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  danger and it gives carl an existential crisis
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  which is for another episode it really does uh
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  so great thing that's right around the beginning
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  of this chapter when quasar finally starts explaining
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  what happened he brings up card system. And this
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  is a great example of lampshade hanging. So what
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  is lampshade hanging? So lampshade hanging is
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  another literary trope and Matt Deniman likes
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  using it a lot. But basically the easiest way
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  for me to explain it is it's calling attention
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  to what the audience is already thinking. Usually
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  Donut is the one who's doing lampshade hanging
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  in this series. Absolutely. It's kind of like
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  a form of breaking the fourth wall. And here
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  in this Floor 8 recap chapter. quasar is talking
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  about the card system and he says some people
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  hate that nerd shit especially when there's a
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  lot of rules but i say whatever right and i i
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  think that that card system was definitely a
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  lot and could be basically on par i think with
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  the train system uh it seems like just a very
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  complicated system i'm sure a lot of people who
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  are into magic gathering or pokemon or yugioh
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  were all over it and i didn't dislike it by any
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  means but it definitely got a little confusing
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  It definitely did create some cool characters
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  and added to the world. I mean, without the whole
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  card game, we wouldn't have Shemaria as a reoccurring
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  character and plot point going into book seven.
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  So other than this chapter serving as a recap
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  of floor eight, what did you get out of it? It
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  was really funny and it did a good job of serving
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  as a recap while also being very good comic relief.
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  And it also reminded us that these characters
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  that Carl are interacting with, you have families
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  and as shitty as he is towards his niece, he
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  does seem to care about her. He does. I mean,
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  he basically trying to teach her an important
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  lesson in a very asshole way. When it gets to
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  the point where she says, you don't help me.
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  I'm going to tell my dad that you said you're
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  my real dad. He's like. Keep saying shit like
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  that, you're going to go far in the world. And
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  he's basically proud of her in that moment. Definitely.
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  And he also seems concerned for her safety. And,
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  you know, she seems concerned for her safety,
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  too, when she's like, you know, uncle, can we
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  possibly be in danger because you're Carl's lawyer?
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  And he's like, yeah, seems kind of possible,
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  kid. And I think it's interesting that he brings
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  up that they live on the far reaches of the galaxy,
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  which is interesting because I wonder how that
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  works with. tunneling zones. Yeah he has to be
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  especially because he is shown as being very
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  disheveled and like he was you know pulled very
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  quickly into a lot of the situations that he's
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  going into with Carl. I mean that's just typical
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  of anything involving Carl you're not going to
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  get a lot of heads up not just as his lawyer
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  but anybody around him. Another thing that I
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  think is really interesting in this chapter is
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  a couple of things that are foreshadowing for
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  pieces that come later in this inevitable ruin.
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  One thing he says is never sign a contract in
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  the Naga system because they like to change the
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  rules on you. And the first time I listened to
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  this, I did not pick up on that at all. It just,
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  you know, went right by me. Yeah, that was definitely
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  something that on my second read through, I was
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  like, oh, is this something he told Carl too?
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  Like, who knows? Yeah, as in book seven, when
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  that happens. And Carl is just like, fuck you.
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  I'm not taking your deal with the remaining Naga
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  in Faction Wars. And I was kind of like, wow,
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  that was pretty messed up of Carl to just make
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  that decision on behalf of everybody in the dungeon
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  and everybody on Earth. But yeah, I wonder if
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  Quasar did tell him that or even if he didn't,
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  I'm still like, oh, well, I'm glad he didn't
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  take that deal then because it seems like that
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  guy maybe wasn't going to be true to his word.
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  And I think the advice that he gives his niece
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  of don't try to be nice is definitely a overarching
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  theme in the book. In what way? In that I think
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  they're always trying to do what's right, not
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  necessarily what makes people feel good in the
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  moment or what makes them feel validated. And
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  I think a lot of the time there's kind of an
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  attitude of we don't have time for your feelings
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  right now. Yeah, I mean, that definitely happens
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  a lot of having to shove your feelings and your
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  emotions down because everything around these
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  characters is just happening so, so fast. As
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  the reader, I remember my first time going through,
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  I was maybe 20 chapters in and I said to Bree,
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  like, does this book have any chill or is it
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  just 120 miles an hour the entire time? Book
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  seven is my favorite book, and I think everyone
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  gets pretty obsessed with it when they're reading
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  it through for the first time. I know I was staying
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  up past my bedtime reading every night. Same.
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  And then I wouldn't be able to fall asleep because
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  my mind was racing with everything that was happening.
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  So another great piece of foreshadowing that
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  happened is when Tempest says, I like Louis.
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  It sure would be sad if something terrible happened
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  to him this next floor. It sure would be terrible
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  if something happened to him. But, I mean, what
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  happens to him isn't the worst. It's just a very
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  stressful series of events. I mean, dying and
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  having to have some of your parts replaced, I
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  think that it's up for debate on if that's the
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  worst or not. It's pretty bad. Yeah, but, like,
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  he lives, you know. I thought Louis was going
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  to die. I mean, honestly, I thought more characters
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  were going to die in Book 7 than did. Um, I thought
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  that too, but I think that a lot of that credit
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  goes to them working together as a team for them
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  having plans and, you know, just for their overall
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  attitude of we're going to get as many people
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  out as possible. There's a couple other points
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  that we want to highlight, which come at the
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  end of this recap chapter. And one of them is
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  Tempest asks what happened with the homeless
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  shelter. And Quasar says, oh, it was just a non
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  -event. Gee, a lot of people sure have said that,
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  huh? Yep, yep. I mean, when Carl gets pulled
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  out of the homeless shelter and he's talking
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  to Orin, Orin's like, yep, everyone was disappointed
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  because it was just a bunch of bullshit. Yeah,
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  people have said that enough times that that
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  doesn't seem to be the case. But that will be
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  our entire next episode. Which is definitely
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  going to be a longer episode. We'll see how long
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  it may even get broken up into two episodes.
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  Another interesting point that comes up is she
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  asks what happened with She -Maria. And he says
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  that nobody knows how that's going to turn out.
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  And we definitely get a lot more info throughout
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  book seven on that. And they end up locking her
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  away inside of Carl. So she's no longer like
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  a danger or threat. But it's interesting because
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  he does still have power to release her. It's
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  like a last resort, right? Yeah, lots of last
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  resort scenarios. They're kind of building up
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  like the doomsday scenario. He's just building
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  this arsenal of cataclysmic level weapons that
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  can unleash untold. destruction and horror. I
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  wonder if he's going to get any more of those.
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  I would assume he is. But I will say that it
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  was a little hard to start with prologues and
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  that we're going to have a little bit more of
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  a set structure with a lot of the episodes that
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  we're talking about once we get out of the prologues
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  and into more straightforward. This is chapter
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  one. Right. The prologue episode where we had
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  to do a lot of research. and a lot of digging
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  between all of the books to be able to accurately
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  go through it in the next episode. One of the
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  last things we want to do today is talk about
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  a couple of our favorite quotes from this chapter.
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  I was going to do some lampshade hanging of my
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  own and say, Carl, you've complained about how
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  much research you had to do for this next episode
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  twice. It'll make you seem whiny. Well, I am
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  whiny and that's something that you're all going
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  to find out. Brie, what was your favorite quote
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  from this chapter? My favorite quote from this
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  chapter. is they can all really die now. It's
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  going to be a shit show, an epic, but sir, you
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  haven't taken a bath shit show. That was fantastic.
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  And then mine comes pretty much right after that.
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  Tempest twisted a pipe and cursed as the whole
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  unit came out. Mother horse fucker penis basket,
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  she exclaimed. Don't worry, kid. The sink doesn't
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  even work anyway. More of an art piece. Yeah,
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  they keep having her fix the sink, which it doesn't
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  seem like it works or... he even uses so this
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  is very bizarre the whole scene part is bizarre
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  but very in line with the rest of the series
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  we talked before we started uh recording about
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  if we were going to have to bleep things for
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  monetization or not and i will admit i still
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  have not done the research on that But I think
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  it will get a little out of control if we have
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  to bleep things because we are trying to give
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  direct quotes whenever possible. And there is
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  a lot of curse words in this. In this chapter,
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  Quasar calls Tempest's teacher old anal beads.
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  Another great example of the profanity in this
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  series. And with that, we have wrapped up episode
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  one, the first official episode of our podcast.
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