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S2E139 - Made By People! · No Latency

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  Last time on no latency. I'm just going to take them out.
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  Only a mimic would run this place so shabbily.
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  Yeah, kick, kick him. We missed one.
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  Yeah, Vendela, I think you should get in there.
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  I had to. Put.
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  You away. That was the last one, right?
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  We can call in these guys and start.
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  You're still on hold. Do you want me to hang up on
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  Trauma Team? I was trying to get some kind of
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  ambulance here. Retro.
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  That's my ex, Chad. The manager.
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  Was in this other locker and I opened up the other two.
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  They've been destroyed, they're gone, and they will never take a
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  single job from any of you ever again.
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  At this particular facility, I don't know if we can say.
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  Ever. It's happening, it's happening.
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  I can hear it. They're doing the thing.
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  All right, Iona, you run into the warehouse and the first
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  machine is making these PPE suits, right?
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  And one of them comes out of the machine and is immediately
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  sealed in AUV protective plastic wrap.
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  And it spits out onto the machine and falls just here
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  between these two guys. And they turn to you and Vivi.
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  How many do you guys need? How many of us that are out
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  there, There's five of us. Can we have 10?
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  Is that too much? Role persuasion is a lot of.
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  Work, yes, I know. And we appreciate everything you
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  do for us because without human labor, where would we be?
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  We would be just a robot nation and that's, oh gosh, that's not
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  what we want. Where, where is the thing that
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  I'm trying to do? What am I doing?
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  Persuasion. 23 we're just and they start working.
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  I mean that actually the people at at A at machine one make you
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  10. You know, if you listen real
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  close, the sound of the machines going together kind of sound
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  like a off brand version of the safety dance.
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  So you get 5 of these. So five of these are mine.
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  And they hand 5 to Vivi as well. Those count as 5.
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  Oh gosh, Oh, these are very large.
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  This is a large armful. Do we have a cart or something?
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  A cart. A rolling basket of sorts.
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  Yeah, that would be helpful. I asked that earlier, they said
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  that it was in cents per bag. You left your You're a
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  hoverboard in the car, didn't you?
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  I knew we should have brought reusable shopping bags.
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  Shit. Yeah, my hoverboard.
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  Right. Well, you've got these, you're
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  holding onto them. The second machine makes a is a
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  lot more complicated, but it makes the rad detector Tiger
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  countdown. No, it makes a radiation
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  detector. 11, please. Just just one. 111, please.
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  This little, this little NB who's about like 4 foot 5
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  sitting on the side of this machine like a fucking elf.
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  And they're, they're just sort of like, they're the coolest
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  little sprightly little worker, but they're working on a panel
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  which looks very custom made. I helped fill this one.
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  It's it's. Nice to meet you.
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  My name's E. Hi, I'm Iona and I'm very happy
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  to watch you work on this machine because it's it's very
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  exciting. Yeah, sometimes we feel like
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  Santa's elves. No mate, that's just you.
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  Yeah, whatever. I'm rolled an 8.
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  The rad detector comes out of the machine and they slide it
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  over to you. Oh.
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  Bendel, my arms are full. OK, do you need me to Jeff
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  Retro? Are you going to be OK here with
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  the crying bird and the dead body?
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  Yeah, sure, why not? Come in.
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  Fideli Fidelco barreling into the warehouse I'm.
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  Helpful. Take all these and I I hand
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  over. OK, they grab them all and you
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  also have now the red detector as well.
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  It's it's beautiful E thank you. You're.
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  Welcome. They give you a very, very cool
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  salute. Wow, you are so cool.
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  Did my best. Good luck with the third
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  machine. That one's doozy hasn't worked
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  for weeks. I waddle over.
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  You head over to the third machine.
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  Do you see that I gave you cards?
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  Yes. Loot cards, Yes.
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  Good. Cards.
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  So you have PPE, the five PPE suits and they have rules and
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  you have the the radiation detector, but it also has rules.
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  The Geiger counter it's. Not a Geiger counter.
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  It's not a Geiger counter. It's not a Geiger counter.
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  This can detect any kind of radiation.
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  Cool. So the the last machine has been
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  modified by it seems R&D and we'll need a little bit of
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  assistance to get working. The three guys around it are
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  kind of scratching their heads. So it says input plan for AP
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  bucket I the bathrooms are outside that's.
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  Gross. No, it's a PPE bucket.
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  I we have AI have a document somewhere.
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  Oh, OK. I've I've radio retro Remy.
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  Yeah. Could you?
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  Could you? Print out that unlocked document
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  out of your ticker tape so that we could use it to boot up the
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  third machine. I mean, I could or I could just
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  give it to you and you could just plug it in the machine,
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  right? Oh yeah, that would work
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  perfectly. You don't have to poop it out at
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  all. Yeah, I hear.
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  I'm going to give it to Jeb. I don't think I feel comfortable
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  with Jeb. I'll take it.
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  Yeah, no problem. Great.
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  So, Jeb, do you take the document to Iona in the
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  warehouse? Yeah, of course.
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  What am I? What else am I going to do with
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  it right? Eat it.
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  You leave. You leave the office, you head
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  into the courtyard, you walk into the warehouse and it's
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  filled with the workers who are protesting outside.
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  VV is holding 5 compressed and vacuum sealed packets of PPE,
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  Bendel is holding the other five, and Iona is holding a
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  radiation detector and standing next to the third machine on the
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  other side of the room. Oh, Jeb.
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  Jeb, do you have the the doc? Thank you.
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  Thank you. Do we we just plug it in?
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  I don't. I don't know how to.
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  It will probably because I asked for it.
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  Oh, I see. I never, I never got that part.
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  I was just oh, to me and so I assumed that someone else was
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  going to want it. So and honestly looks like my
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  first guest was rad. Yeah, good job.
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  Good job, Jeb. I would smack you on the bottom,
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  but we decided that that wasn't the thing we're doing.
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  Hey, Iona. Anytime.
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  Great. I plug.
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  I plug in the plans. You.
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  You. I just mean, I just mean if you
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  need me to do anything. Oh, no, you can ask me anytime.
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  Oh, no, I didn't mean you need to slap me on my ass anytime.
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  Which I mean, I guess if you wanted you, you could.
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  I'm a I'm gonna go over there. Nice.
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  I plug in the plans. Yeah.
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  Yeah, you hand the plans over to these workers and they they
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  intend to plug it in and they look at you.
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  Oh man. You have problems.
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  Oh, Oh no. Well, you see these plans are
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  written in Corbo speak. It's like formatted like a memo.
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  Oh. Us guys down here on the floor
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  have never been very good at bureaucracy.
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  Oh, give me, give me one moment while I take out my reading
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  glasses. All right?
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  Oh, I'm looking for the unlocked document.
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  Oh, yeah. Open it.
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  Zoom in enhance. Enhance.
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  Enhance All right, the hard part about this is Jade can't read.
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  Right, I'm just asking you to roll for bureaucracy in a fun
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  way. I.
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  Was going to role play reading it but I can't.
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  OK 15 yes that is enough. Look at the document and very
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  quickly translate it into normal person speak with your knowledge
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  of the streets. I think that's the whitest thing
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  I've said all day. And you managed to watch these
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  three workers make a 100% powered PPE bucket for P bucket
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  for short and they hand it to you.
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  It gives off a faint field and has a really cool Helix handle.
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  Is it heavy? How should I be reacting to
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  this? Oh, it's super.
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  It weighs. It weighs about 5 lbs and the
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  air around you feels different. Oh, I'm, I'm like zesty.
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  I'm I'm tingling a little. This is good or bad.
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  That's. Probably from the depleted
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  uranium. And it gives off a very faint
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  field around it, about 20 meters.
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  There are some warning labels written on the side of the
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  bucket as part of the printing process and you can read down
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  it's card. Let me read them from the card
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  warning. Warning.
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  Oh, is this the tips? Tips and tricks for PPE.
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  I don't, I don't, I don't see any the third.
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  Card you don't see my. Card, my card.
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  Yeah, card, card, card, card. All right, Oh, the P bucket.
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  Personal dune Shields are not affected Well inside the radius.
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  Dang it. Gosh darn it, the belts that I
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  work so hard to get everybody to wear well.
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  I just to be happy. Nobody likes wearing a belt
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  these days. There's an anti radiation bucket
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  and you are putting out an EMF field to do that so.
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  Fine science. So you have managed to
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  successfully create the PPE you need to get protected from
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  radiation, a radiation detector and AP bucket and you stand here
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  victorious in this warehouse. Thanks for helping out the
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  Union, man. We should get Union and I, we
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  should do that soon before Sound gets back.
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  He's a nice guy, but like he'll have to push back because Silver
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  will make it. You should say what's coming
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  back soon. I look to the others.
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  Be ready, you know, for to unionize, right?
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  To to collect? Yeah.
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  To, to collective bargaining power.
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  Thank you again, truly. Thank you again.
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  Truly. We really appreciate this work
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  that you've put in and so grateful that you know we don't
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  have to worry about those. You know, yeah.
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  Yeah, anyway, we we hope that your friend Sam, Manager Sam
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  comes back. Let's get out.
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  Iona, stop staring at the bucket.
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  I know it's really clean. I know she's gone silent.
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  All right, come with me. Yep, looks like we got
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  everything, so let's let's roll out.
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  Let's let's. Roll out.
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  You leave the warehouse quickly before they work out that that
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  the manager's dead. Do we?
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  Just leave curve here. Yeah, it's it's, you know what,
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  Chad? Will be here, It'll it'll be
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  fine. It'll Chad will.
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  Chad will take care of it. We don't have to worry about it.
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  OK, OK. Yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah, and then and you can avoid the date because you won't be
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  here. And that's a great plan.
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  Girls Night. Great, great, great, great.
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  Yes, and you guys have to try and sneak out of here.
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  Roll Stealth. Do we?
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  Why we need it? Do you want to speak to Chad?
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  No. OK, then let's sneak out of
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  here. Roll Stealth 12.
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  All right, I'll roll against that.
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  Why not? Fuck I need.
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  To I rolled. Up. 3 So you're good.
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  Thank God. Chad is not good, as you've
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  already worked out, and you sneak out the front gate with
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  all of this new gear and you sneak into Vanna White.
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  Chad, roll a driving check. You hear a siren in the
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  background. Oh God.
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  Go oh wait, that's maybe fine, right?
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  Could just be the trauma theme. Jeb a legend tonight with his.
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  Roles. What the hell?
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  Oh boy, I am a crip but it's a 29.
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  And around the corner, you see flashing lights behind you.
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  You sail into the freeways of Night City, back to the bar.
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  All of you inside this vehicle, a little bit more knowledge.
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  And a little bit more protected. I own is like dead silent.
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  She's overwhelmed by the protection and cleanliness of
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  our future. So anyone actually, did anyone
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  try these on before we left or do they have like a return
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  policy in case it's a little too tight?
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  I don't think we'll be able to return.
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  Shit. 3000 miles of open Rd.
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• 15:58
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• 16:03
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• 16:08
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• 16:15
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  I I I I need some ammo? She speaks.
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  Oh, oh, sorry, I I were you not all Were you staring at me
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  staring at the PPE for this whole time you seemed.
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  Really enthralled by it. Yeah, we were actually
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  enthralled watching you be enthralled by it.
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  It's just, it's just a lot of. Fun.
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  I was wondering. It is fun to love, isn't it?
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  Yes. Once.
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  Well, as I was saying at once, who said that?
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  Not me Anyway. I need ammo is the moral of the
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  story. As a matter of fact, I could use
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  some too. I really would like to get a few
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  things actually. I mean, do we have, do we have
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  like a point of attack or, or plan of some sort so that we
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  can, I mean, I, I, I, I could go in there right now.
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  I got plenty of ammo. I got my guns.
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  I mean, maybe I'll have like maybe I should get like a
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  grenade or something. But I'm just wondering how we
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  doing this thing? Yeah, how many grenades you got
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  left? Ring, ring.
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  No ring ring Banana phone ring ring ring ring ring.
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  Who's phoning us? Who is that?
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  Who's is someone going to pick up?
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  Hello. Hello, Rachel.
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  I'm calling with a plan of attack.
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  Oh yeah, who is who is anymore? Hot stuffed Mcguff himself.
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  Oh, oh, he's Domino. Put him on speaker.
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  Hot stuff, Mcguff. Yeah, click the rest of the
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  Greek name I want. Friends.
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  Hi friends. How did the PPE acquisition go?
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  Perfectly, Yeah, we have so much of it.
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  We do PPE acquired. Excellent.
• 19:17
  I believe there is an entrance in the lower part of Central
• 19:21
  Light City, somewhere near the edge of the Glen and the combat
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  zone. This should give us access to
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  the crater. Most of it is fallen in, so
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  we're going to be working underground, OK.
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  So we're just going to run along that edge, then we.
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  Have to get to the centre, that's where the old building is
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  probably going quite deep underground at some point.
• 19:46
  OK, so we're going to need what exactly?
• 19:52
  A map would be helpful. Oh yeah, that'd be good, yeah.
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  Before we run into cyberpunk Tartarus.
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  Something to help with traversal movement.
• 20:04
  Traversal movement is is it going to be like, I don't know,
• 20:07
  sticky down there or something, Bob's.
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  Just come. Oh shit, I didn't expect so.
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  Some sort of vehicle or something, or climbing
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  equipment, that sort of thing, yeah.
• 20:21
  Oh, climbing equipment? What about?
• 20:23
  Hear me out, jet pack. Hoverboard a jet pack.
• 20:30
  Hoverboard A grappling hook. You know, I feel like I've got a
• 20:35
  good amount of money through all of our adventures and I think it
• 20:38
  might be time to cash in for a jet pack.
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  Well, if you think a jet pack. I'm asking you, do you think you
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  would help us? Because I kind of want a jet
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  pack. I bring the money.
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  You make that kind of decision, you're buying.
• 20:55
  No, you're buying. Be like, oh, that's the case,
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  Yeah, let's go and get jet packs.
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  I mean, honestly, I didn't even think about jet packs until just
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  now. Just kind of popped in my head
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  and I thought that'd be cool. That's kind of like a jet pack's
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  kind of like an entire. It's like a grappling hook for
• 21:14
  your entire body, but also more. It's just, it's cooler.
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  I don't know what to say. It's cooler.
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  I thought, I thought they they were telling us they wanted us
• 21:25
  to somehow move faster throughout the the compound.
• 21:30
  So I was going to suggest we talk to the collector and see if
• 21:33
  we could borrow a few of their, you know, relic Razor scooters
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  to just, you know, roll around on.
• 21:41
  Well, we we, we could just get hoverboards and it'll be like
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  VV. Yeah.
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  Really splurge. Yeah, but from my understanding
• 21:49
  these are hard to come by and expensive, Yes, though some of
• 21:54
  us might have a bit of wealth on us.
• 21:57
  Everyone looks at Retro. Well, we can't ask Iona to pay
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  for. Yeah, no, no Iona.
• 22:05
  You know, maybe Iona isn't the only one that has deep pockets
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  here in the group. Huh.
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  Retro. I'm sorry.
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  So what's the last time you? Yeah, What's the last time you I
• 22:22
  bought something? Last time that we the last time
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  that we went and stocked up, I bought ammo and I got my hell
• 22:31
  cannon refitted to my arm. Yeah.
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  And you know, when we do these jobs and we accumulate euro
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  bucks in our little in our little pockets.
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  OK. I don't often see you really,
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  you know, I me on, for example, like I, I, oh, Iona, you know,
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  I'm, I'm, I'm in debt. But you.
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  Yeah. I want to hear the whole thing
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  before I respond what I'm saying.
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  I'm just wondering if you have more Eddie's then you lead on to
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  have Retro and maybe you could afford a hoverboard or two if we
• 23:23
  really needed it. Well.
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  You can buy Jeb's jet pack or Jet pack.
• 23:30
  I think I I, I think you know, are you saving up for some big
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  are you going to buy a house in the exec district or the, the
• 23:41
  corporate district or something there retro?
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  I just, I'm just curious, just curious if you know, we don't
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  all have to get into each other's, you know, coffers and
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  understand how much we all have, No.
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  No, I mean that's, that's, I mean, you know, that's a
• 23:57
  totally, totally, you know, fair thing to ask Phoebe.
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  I mean, you know, my finances and how I spend my money and
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  save my money of course is, you know, everybody's business.
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  I could buy everybody a hoverboard.
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  I could buy everybody a jet pack.
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  I could. I could do all of that stuff.
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  I I want I want a jet pack. You know what, Vendel, I'll tell
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  you what, I will empty my entire bank account.
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  I will buy every single one of you exactly what you want
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  because obviously you need this money more than I do.
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  I didn't take bullets or build, you know, the specific tack or
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  spent hours of my life working on all of these things and get
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  paid handsomely for it because of my technical ex, you know,
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  expertise and know how and be able to do that.
• 24:53
  You should all just go ahead and just take my.
• 24:57
  I suppose you were quite heavily electrocuted the other day, so.
• 25:01
  Well, nobody remembers that. Nobody.
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  I. Got electrocuted nobody
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  remembers when I took a shotgun blast the chest.
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  There are times that I get forgotten when people are like,
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  we're all talking in a group together, Like, you know, like
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  there was a time that I went to, we went to space and I got
• 25:23
  almost sucked out into the, to the the abyss itself and, you
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  know, saw either God, devil or whatever thing is out there.
• 25:31
  I mean, no, it's OK, It's all right.
• 25:37
  Domino's, it's, it's fine. I, I will just go ahead and
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  bankroll this all because obviously my choices have not
• 25:44
  worked out for everybody else. Is that fair?
• 25:47
  Is that fair? It's probably an.
• 25:50
  Extra 500 each to buy some things and if you swift this
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  over honestly that's not. Really a big deal.
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  I I apologize if I opened a can of worms.
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  I don't know what my intent was really there actually retro.
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  Just to be clear retro, you are or are not going to be buying me
• 26:14
  a jet pack? Jeb, I will buy you the jet pack
• 26:17
  when you explain me how the thermodynamics of that work.
• 26:24
  I don't know, get studying shit. If you will head to Clive's,
• 26:31
  just bring me back some armor piercing ammo and a few
• 26:35
  grenades. Any kind of grenades?
• 26:39
  No EMP, I don't need those. OK.
• 26:44
  And you'll receive 500 edgies. Oh cool.
• 26:50
  So do we find out exactly? What we should be shopping for
• 26:53
  or? Climbing gear, ammo, any other
• 26:58
  weapons or gear like protective gear?
• 27:01
  If we want to upgrade our armor, you know, that might be
• 27:06
  something to consider. Jeb used to invest in a book on
• 27:10
  thermodynamics and, you know, just aircraft aeronautics.
• 27:19
  Should we have a? Net runner with us.
• 27:21
  Should we bring brush paint? Like actually ignore me.
• 27:30
  So I mean V me, that's not that's not a bad thought right
• 27:34
  there. I mean, we are going up against
• 27:36
  a bunch of cyborgs. Is it cyborgs or would it
• 27:41
  actually be robots that the red eyes are?
• 27:45
  Yes. So cool.
• 27:48
  Both. OK.
• 27:49
  So then, then there lies the question of fresh pee.
• 27:56
  Are they going to be useful to us via actually being there or
• 28:01
  is there a way I, I was going to have to worry about, you know,
• 28:04
  signal dropping out like we're at Dragon Con?
• 28:10
  I mean then then the only other net runner that we really have
• 28:14
  access to is 9. Please, let's just bring fresh
• 28:18
  pee Fuck 9. Yeah, I mean, I think.
• 28:21
  You're all thinking it. I hate to I hate to say it, but
• 28:24
  he's a bit of a handful. You don't even have to carry him
• 28:28
  around. Try to kill me.
• 28:33
  Just say it just. So long ago and and Nine's
• 28:37
  directive no longer says anything about killing you.
• 28:40
  For now. Well, Fresh peace directive has
• 28:44
  nothing to say about killing you, but it that could also
• 28:47
  change. Yeah, but I think fresh pee
• 28:48
  would still be like at least kind enough to look me in the
• 28:51
  eye as well as I think I could take fresh pee.
• 28:55
  Not a good choke to help, but another robot.
• 28:59
  Either way, we're going to have to make really sure that if we
• 29:01
  bring either of them along that they stay as quiet as possible.
• 29:06
  That's going to be hard for both of them.
• 29:08
  Yes, I mean, we could always sew someone's mouth shut.
• 29:11
  Make sure we've done that before.
• 29:13
  I would prefer not to revisit that.
• 29:14
  Thank you it. Probably passed.
• 29:19
  Are we heading to Clive's Jeb? Jeb.
• 29:24
  Sure, why not? Roll a driving check.
• 29:28
  All right, I. Realized you were concentrating
• 29:37
  at that light, that the awkward pause felt very personal.
• 29:42
  Jesus. Fuck me forever to roll that.
• 29:44
  30. You make it to Clive's, do you
• 29:53
  park in the first, second or third parking space, Chip?
• 29:57
  Those choice. So you park in the first one.
• 30:02
  Because you parked in the first one, you find 10 eddies.
• 30:07
  Look at that, I'm. Going to put this in my Jetpack
• 30:12
  account. And as you stand outside of
• 30:17
  Clive's, you notice a few things.
• 30:18
  The layout's very similar, but it looks like Clive's had a bit
• 30:21
  of a of an upgrade. He's redesigned his logo, and
• 30:26
  the roof has been sprayed with it, even though it's already
• 30:28
  been eroded by the rain. And so you're outside Clive's.
• 30:33
  There are three vending machines a few teams hanging out If you
• 30:37
  want to look around for a perception you.
• 30:41
  Know what I'm I'm sorry, I don't think Retro is really paying
• 30:46
  attention too much. I think they're too busy looking
• 30:47
  at the recent catalog that came in the mail from Clive and like
• 30:52
  what's on sale right now. Nice.
• 30:55
  Jeez. VB.
• 30:57
  General bad. So, OK, sorry, I thought you
• 31:01
  were going to make another crack.
• 31:02
  I was going to say, Phoebe, there's a reason why the rich
• 31:04
  stay rich, and that's by seeing that's what's saving your money.
• 31:08
  All right. Phoebe is distracted as they
• 31:10
  step out of the van and they drop their their their regular
• 31:14
  lighter in the street and it falls in a puddle and then falls
• 31:17
  into the drain and is glossed forever.
• 31:20
  My my lucky lighter. No, not your luckier one, just
• 31:24
  your red plastic one. I'm not taking away your lucky
• 31:27
  1. That would be mean you didn't
• 31:28
  get a negative, you just rolled A crit fail 11.
• 31:32
  I didn't need that one anyway you.
• 31:34
  Don't want to get that one anyways.
• 31:36
  Now it's it's considered unlucky and if you use it, you know the
• 31:39
  cops are coming. Your lucky lighter is out of
• 31:42
  fluid though, so you don't actually have a lighter that
• 31:43
  works. Oh.
• 31:45
  Crap, I got to buy some fluid. BB you know what?
• 31:49
  I I don't think I've ever checked, but I just want to know
• 31:52
  since I know that you smoke cigarettes on and off, do you do
• 31:57
  you flip a lucky in your pack? Yeah, I always do.
• 32:05
  Cool, I always do. It's just, it's, it's just nice
• 32:08
  to see that some people still follow traditions.
• 32:12
  Jeb, you notice that the vending machines are on a 10% sale
• 32:17
  outside of here. So anything you buy outside will
• 32:20
  be 10% off. Hold the gun and.
• 32:22
  Action there. In the vending machines, yeah.
• 32:26
  Dying. But if you want to go check 1,
• 32:29
  you can. They got any grenades in there?
• 32:31
  You. Have to go check.
• 32:33
  I won't go, I'm looking for grenades.
• 32:35
  All right, we'll go up to a vending machine and roll AD 6.
• 32:40
  Who are these people outside of Clives?
• 32:42
  I feel like I've never seen anybody outside of Clives
• 32:45
  before. They're just people, they're
• 32:47
  just tunes. Do you want to like, roll human
• 32:50
  perception? You can.
• 32:51
  I do I do. There is this person.
• 32:54
  There's like 1 vending machine off to the waist and I I just
• 33:00
  want I just. Just.
• 33:03
  Staring at a vending machine. Sorry, one second I have to get
• 33:07
  back to my skills. Jeb, you find one item in that
• 33:11
  vending machine. Cool shades for four eddies.
• 33:15
  Cool shades. Wait.
• 33:18
  So what is? What does the fiction look like
• 33:21
  here? Like is this a is?
• 33:24
  Yes, this whole vending machine is filled with cool shades.
• 33:28
  OK, OK, So that. OK, got it.
• 33:31
  Got it. So the idea being that each one
• 33:34
  of these vending machines are like completely different
• 33:40
  things. They're not kind of a OK, I got
• 33:42
  it. Yeah.
• 33:43
  It's not just one thing. It's just a bunch of different
• 33:46
  types of the same thing that I roll for.
• 33:48
  Yes, got it. So just in, in terms of like,
• 33:52
  I've been running vending machines like this over the last
• 33:54
  sort of half of the season, you roll AD 6 and then you get to
• 33:57
  roll on a vending machine table. And then I hit a button and it
• 34:00
  gives you a bunch of things in chat, right?
• 34:03
  Yes, yes. So when that happens, either the
• 34:06
  vending machine is full of that object, or there's only one.
• 34:09
  So if I like look at the other two.
• 34:12
  There will be different things in them.
• 34:13
  Yeah, you will roll again. Each of vending machine is a
• 34:15
  different role, but by rolling them it's like a Schrodinger's
• 34:18
  cat thing. You are defining it for the rest
• 34:20
  of this session. OK, got it.
• 34:23
  Yeah, great. And remember you can use
• 34:24
  inspiration to re roll that. You can make me re roll anything
• 34:27
  home brew mechanics. So Iona, you rolled, you didn't
• 34:32
  roll human perception, you rolled perception.
• 34:35
  Oops, that's OK, I'll take a perception so you.
• 34:39
  See this tune? Buy something from the vending
• 34:42
  machine. Looks like a pack of cigarettes.
• 34:45
  They walk up against the wall and they lean against a a
• 34:49
  lithograph style advertisement that's sort of is semi 3D and
• 34:53
  transparent against the wall. They just light a cigarette and
• 34:55
  smoke it. You're all pretty high.
• 34:57
  They don't seem weird, they just seem like somebody buying
• 35:00
  something from a vending machine.
• 35:02
  Well, I'm, I'm going to go over to that vending machine.
• 35:05
  I'm going to I'm going to purchase something after them.
• 35:09
  Cool roller D6. I'm going to roller D6.
• 35:14
  Three also find my item. Oh interesting, find a pack of
• 35:21
  rubber bullets. It it seems strange enough, I I
• 35:26
  I will spend the 40 eddies great though.
• 35:29
  You obtain 4. Yeah, you obtain 40 rubber
• 35:33
  bullets for 40 eddies. They are very cheap and they
• 35:37
  have concussive force. They cannot kill, but they will
• 35:39
  knock out organic enemies and will destroy brittle equipment.
• 35:43
  Will they fit in a heavy deep? Pistol.
• 35:47
  They fit your weapon perfect. Beautiful.
• 35:53
  Does does anyone need anything like a rubber bullet would fix?
• 35:59
  I was looking for armor piercing bullets.
• 36:02
  This is the opposite of that. Then no.
• 36:08
  No, I'm going to hold on to them.
• 36:10
  I, I, I feel like these were, were brought into my life for a
• 36:15
  reason. I'm just going to toss them in
• 36:16
  the in the van and I think I'm going to head into Clive.
• 36:19
  Are you going to Are you just buying one pack?
• 36:22
  One pack of 40 rubber boots. Yes.
• 36:26
  VB, after dropping her lighter, walks over to another vending
• 36:29
  machine. Do you want to have a look,
• 36:30
  Phoebe? It looks.
• 36:31
  Like I I would like to take a look.
• 36:34
  Great roller D6. Accidentally closed.
• 36:37
  Let me just do that. Hey 5 that lets you find 2 items
• 36:44
  in the vending machine. 00. Oh, it's the thing you want it.
• 36:50
  Oh. Wow, OK, this is great.
• 36:55
  Well, firstly, Jeb, I found a grenade.
• 36:58
  Jeb's over there just like hitting the the vending machine.
• 37:01
  God damn stupid vending machine. I only got glasses in here.
• 37:08
  I don't think hitting it makes it work any better.
• 37:13
  I mean the screen kind of glitches sometimes I think if I
• 37:15
  can just hit it just radican. Do you want a smoke grenade?
• 37:20
  Yeah, wait, that one's got smoke grenades.
• 37:22
  Yep. 75 eddies. Shit.
• 37:26
  Oh no, wait, 75, yes. Yes, 1 smoke grenade is 75
• 37:29
  eddies. Yes, it is.
• 37:31
  So it's 68 or so eddies. It rounds up to 69.
• 37:39
  Nice. Nice. 69 eddies for a smoke
• 37:43
  grenade. All right, I'll get that and
• 37:46
  I'll. Oh, armour piercing ammo, let's
• 37:49
  go. 81 eddies. 81 eddies cha ching.
• 37:54
  I'll take that. That's just 10.
• 37:56
  So every time you want 10, it's 81 eddies from this machine.
• 37:59
  Oh well, let's. See, maybe I'll do 2.
• 38:03
  You could. Barter with Clive for armour
• 38:06
  piercing theory but he may not have a lot so.
• 38:10
  I'll just get the two, I'll get 2 armor piercing ammo's and 210
• 38:19
  packs and I will get the smoke grenade for Jeb.
• 38:25
  Guys are on a vending shopping spree.
• 38:27
  You buy out the machine. This vending machine is not
• 38:29
  empty. Nice.
• 38:31
  They had two packets of APMO and 1 smoke grenade in there.
• 38:36
  Nice work, Retro. Do you check out the last
• 38:38
  vending machine? It's like there's one vending
• 38:40
  machine for each of the major. Well, I mean, I am a sucker for
• 38:44
  a group thing, so of course. Right.
• 38:47
  You head over to the last vending machine over on the
• 38:49
  east, and as you walk over and let your passive perception see
• 38:53
  that the vehicle gate is closed and this little vehicle gate
• 38:56
  that gives access for deliveries, but it's a little
• 38:59
  PIP there to give you more information.
• 39:01
  You walk up to the vending machine.
• 39:03
  Roll AD 6. There's a camera at the gate
• 39:06
  too. I don't like that.
• 39:08
  It faces away from you. 60 My goodness.
• 39:12
  Retro rolled the crit on this little table and finds three
• 39:16
  things. Now who's?
• 39:18
  The crit. But this guy?
• 39:21
  You find 3 items in this vending machine.
• 39:25
  OK, let's see here. Taser ammo.
• 39:30
  Nice. OK, I'm not exactly sure.
• 39:35
  Wait, when it comes to Taser ammo, is that ammo for a Taser
• 39:39
  or is it like electrified bullets?
• 39:41
  It's ammo for a Taser. You have 1 somewhere.
• 39:44
  Yeah, Gizner snaps, of course. And kibble.
• 39:54
  I I'm going to say that you probably should buy the Gizner
• 39:56
  snaps so you can give them back to VV so that VV can have their
• 39:59
  secret stash back and when you vomited.
• 40:02
  Yeah. Sorry, Ariana.
• 40:08
  What? I was bouncing my rubber
• 40:10
  bullets. Don't worry about it.
• 40:12
  I was, I was talking about fluids, sorry.
• 40:19
  Good idea to lock the the the Van Jeb.
• 40:23
  Yeah, I got you. I'll.
• 40:26
  Get the Gizner snaps and gosh. There are two three packets of
• 40:34
  Jizzner snaps in the machine, each for 25 each.
• 40:38
  Yeah, I'll buy out the three packs of Jizzner snaps.
• 40:45
  I'm not into the. Kibble.
• 40:46
  The kibble is, you know, Thanksgiving dinner flavored.
• 40:49
  They're all. Just kind of, yeah, it's all
• 40:51
  like mashed together. And so it really just tastes of
• 40:54
  green bean casserole and like knock off canned cranberry
• 41:02
  sauce, not the real good stuff. But you're going to get the
• 41:06
  Taser MO. It looks like there's two left.
• 41:07
  I. Mean, I guess I could repurpose
• 41:09
  it, but it's like 150 eddies. Per that's also 10% off.
• 41:12
  Look for both packets. That's like certain eddies off.
• 41:20
  That's not bad. You know what?
• 41:23
  I guess I, I, I guess you're right, Vandel.
• 41:25
  I I don't really use the Taser that much but I'm pretty sure I
• 41:29
  could refasten it to something. And we might need an electric
• 41:31
  shock. All right, fine, twist my arm
• 41:34
  some more. Yay shopping spree.
• 41:39
  I'm sad there wasn't a vending machine for me.
• 41:43
  I guess I'll go inside with Iona.
• 41:46
  Says Vendel as Iona and Vendel walk into Clive's wait.
• 41:51
  There's a vending machine in here.
• 41:52
  Hooray, this one's mine. Fuck you all.
• 42:00
  I wrote five. I find two things.
• 42:03
  Hi Clive, I'll be with you in a second.
• 42:04
  I want to do the thing I find shoes and sanitizer.
• 42:08
  Great Clive, this vending machine sucks.
• 42:16
  Hello there. Thank.
• 42:18
  You. It's nice to see you.
• 42:20
  Do you like the new logo? Looks great Clive.
• 42:26
  It does look great. I thought, I thought, yeah, for
• 42:28
  like a like a, like a nuclear exposure because I sell like
• 42:31
  gardens and explosiony things, you know?
• 42:33
  Right. Yeah, that's.
• 42:36
  What I do, my name me, I'm Clive.
• 42:37
  That's my, that's what I do of. Course, Clive.
• 42:42
  Yeah, we know. Yeah, you mention.
• 42:44
  The game. So Clive, with your recent, I
• 42:52
  would say, I would say modernized facelift that you got
• 42:56
  for the shop, what what kind of new things do you have in stock
• 43:00
  to entice us? Well, I've been, I've been, I've
• 43:03
  been stocking up on a few things.
• 43:05
  I just recently had to deliver 3.
• 43:07
  So I've got lots of stuff. And if you ask essentially, you
• 43:11
  know, I, I will tell you if there's something specific.
• 43:14
  I'll see if I've got this in the back.
• 43:17
  But I do have a special on grenades.
• 43:19
  So I buy 2, get one free, up to six per customer if you like.
• 43:25
  At least that's what it says on the computer.
• 43:27
  And then since your mates, we'll just hey mates, are you done?
• 43:32
  Are you done in here? Clive shouts at someone in the
• 43:35
  room. There's a guy looking at one of
• 43:37
  the shelves in this front area of Clives.
• 43:42
  Are you done? Look, kick, you're going to buy
• 43:44
  anything Because if you're not going to buy anything, I'd like
• 43:46
  to have like some private time with some of my best customers.
• 43:51
  That's kind of rude. Well, why don't you go and fuck
• 43:53
  yourself? Come on, get out if you're not
• 43:54
  going to buy anything. Fucking window shoppers.
• 43:56
  You don't have any windows. Yes, I know.
• 43:59
  I don't have any windows. That's the point.
• 44:00
  Those people could break into door.
• 44:02
  Whatever you're being for Dante. Yes, I am.
• 44:05
  And he clicks a button and the door closes and locks behind.
• 44:08
  That's better the privacy What? What did I do?
• 44:17
  Something different, Retro. You've got the mute symbol on
• 44:23
  your face. Sorry, I was having a a private
• 44:28
  conversation with somebody over the phone.
• 44:30
  I can't I I don't do well with emojis so I just have to like
• 44:34
  send pictures on my face. OK, OK.
• 44:36
  But like, so I've got that and then I've got like a secret
• 44:39
  thing in the back which I'll show you in a minute if you
• 44:42
  like. Does anyone want to come and see
• 44:45
  the secret thing? Secret thing?
• 44:49
  You good, thanks. Yeah, I.
• 44:54
  I'm intrigued. Same.
• 44:56
  Well, you know, as you know, my apartment, me, Clive, Clive is
• 44:59
  me. My apartment is out here in the
• 45:02
  back. Well, yeah, let's, I mean.
• 45:06
  Everyone has come in. I've got a.
• 45:10
  Is that your secret thing? Your apartment.
• 45:12
  No, no, I'm keeping this. I've got the secret thing here
• 45:14
  in the back of my apartment. And the back is your apartment.
• 45:18
  Yes, the back of the of the shop is my apartment.
• 45:20
  I've got some secrets. The secret object.
• 45:25
  I'm going to be honest, it does. That does sound a little weird.
• 45:28
  Kind of creepy honestly. But well.
• 45:30
  No, no, it's not creepy. I invite you into the back of my
• 45:33
  my place all the time, don't I? Do you have I been there before?
• 45:39
  All right, I'm in. Are you guys there?
• 45:46
  Yes. No, there's no reason to be
• 45:49
  suspicious. Jeb just come into my apartment
• 45:51
  in the back. All right, does anyone want to
• 45:58
  roll anything? No, no, I'm going to follow,
• 46:02
  Yeah. We trust Clive.
• 46:04
  We have no reason not to trust Clive.
• 46:06
  All right, go into the back then.
• 46:12
  That's right, there's nothing wrong.
• 46:15
  That's right. Can you just follow me into this
• 46:17
  room? Don't look back.
• 46:21
  All right, cute place you got back here.
• 46:25
  Yeah, it's lovely, isn't it? Yeah, kind of a kind of a studio
• 46:31
  kind of feel. Where's your bathroom?
• 46:33
  Oh. It's over there.
• 46:39
  Jeb. Sorry, I had to go hold one SEC,
• 46:42
  Jeb. I can't see any more.
• 46:46
  World perception. In the bathroom.
• 46:51
  I mean, you didn't turn on the light job.
• 46:53
  That's true. All right, It's almost OK.
• 46:55
  There we go. Perception.
• 46:58
  Crit. 29 As you explore this little abode that Clive has in
• 47:04
  the back, Clive's sort of standing in the bedroom area.
• 47:07
  It's behind sort of a dividing wall, but it sort of works as a
• 47:10
  studio apartment. And as you step forward, you
• 47:13
  notice that there's someone lying in the bed and you wrote a
• 47:18
  quit. 29 And the thing you notice about the person lying in
• 47:21
  the bed is that it looks like Clive and he's tied up.
• 47:26
  Clive, did you? Did you?
• 47:28
  Did you make a cloney yourself? The door of the apartment locks
• 47:35
  behind your. Wall and you got all my doors.
• 47:40
  Damn, Clive, you really? Oh.
• 47:42
  Man. No.
• 47:46
  The open door. I did not consent to this king
• 47:51
  play. And Clive shimmers in front of
• 47:56
  you, the one that was talking, and turns into a mimic.
• 48:00
  The eyes go red. God damn it.
• 48:05
  Oh. This is the secret thing.
• 48:08
  We just got played. Clive, didn't you see the ad?
• 48:11
  You don't fuck the mimic. Why it's not available right
• 48:15
  now? Fuck no.
• 48:19
  Were you going to say what I was going to say?
• 48:21
  Retro, retro. Were we going to say the same
• 48:23
  thing? What?
• 48:25
  Were you going to say it's a mimic retro?
• 48:27
  Because. Because oh fuck, that's a mimic.
• 48:32
  Bob, I don't need to learn you, but on the left outside.
• 48:38
  Oh shit, Bendel, we left. Bendel
• 48:53
  next time on no latency. Looks like this is going to be
• 49:00
  an interesting one. Start blasting.
• 49:02
  Oh, Clive got them tied up in nuts, huh?
• 49:06
  Oh man, I was sure we were going to get some sort of like long
• 49:09
  villain monologue, but. I always fall for the mimics.
• 49:12
  Oh God, reproducing. There was a bad guy in there.
• 49:15
  I'm sorry, I didn't I, I didn't notice.
• 49:17
  I wasn't looking for it. So.
• 49:18
  Sorry. Interesting.
• 49:22
  Vindel's going to move to the right here around the corner of
• 49:24
  the door and give this mimic a good oh.
• 49:26
  Damn it, I forgot to reload this one.
• 49:28
  Swift kick in the nuts Arena's. That's not bad idea actually.
• 49:32
  Are you able to solve complex paradoxes without freaking out?
• 49:36
  Don't. Fuck the mimics.
• 49:38
  No, no, please do not I. Wasn't planning on it.
• 49:42
  You got this. Go.
• 49:43
  Go, Jeb. Go.
• 49:44
  Vendel, you all right? Hang in there.
• 49:47
  Oh no, you can't kill Vendel in in Clive's stop please.
• 50:19
  The. Geiger counter, it goes.
• 50:21
  It's not that's it's not a Geiger counter.
• 50:24
  Oh, it's not a Geiger counter. It is I.
• 50:26
  Mean like isn't a Geiger counter literally like?
• 50:29
  It just isn't. It yeah, but it only detects
• 50:32
  rate. It only detects atomic
• 50:33
  radiation. This is a radiation detector.
• 50:36
  This thing can detect any radiator.
• 50:39
  I think you're splitting hairs on the definition of radiation,
• 50:41
  but I understand that this is a game with.
• 50:43
  No, because a because a Geiger counter only only detects like
• 50:46
  nuclear or atomic radiation, whereas this could detect
• 50:49
  infrared light. EMF.
• 50:52
  EMF, it can detect more than what I'm giving you, a tool that
• 50:56
  I want you to role play with more.
• 50:57
  And so it's not just a Geiger counter, it's in any radiation.
• 51:04
  In case the the listeners are wondering, and if this stays in
• 51:08
  the episode, a Geiger counter does in fact only measure
• 51:12
  ionizing radiation. That's what I was wanted to say,
• 51:15
  yeah. But again, we're probably coming
• 51:18
  this out of the show. It is a radiation detect.
• 51:21
  Yeah, it's kind of like I. I think you should keep it.
• 51:23
  I think that our our listeners like to learn a little something
• 51:27
  something. 5 bucks says that we have a listener that probably
• 51:30
  knows exactly what my eyes need and they're probably right now
• 51:35
  pulling their hair going like you idiots I've said it.
• 51:38
  So many times. Idiot.
• 51:40
  Why aren't you listening to me? But I do stuff like that every
• 51:48
  day and I get, I feel Tracy go, yeah, that's good.
• 51:50
  That's very. That was really good.
• 51:57
  So we got to go in there, we got to stop it somehow, but I guess
• 52:02
  we don't really have a plan for exactly what we're doing and in
• 52:06
  doing so we should get the core or something that would allow
• 52:12
  the would finalize Domino, Domino's.
• 52:19
  Done. You're going in there to get rid
• 52:22
  of the AIS that came over from the Black Wall.
• 52:24
  That's what Domino's trying to. That's what the Shinder cut are.
• 52:27
  We're trying to get rid of those guys because then being in skin
• 52:30
  space is bad. Skin space in the flesh zone.
• 52:37
  OK. That's yeah.
• 52:41
  So we're going in, we got to stop them because they're
• 52:43
  already leaking out. And the longer we wait, the
• 52:46
  worse it's going to get. So better do it now.
• 52:48
  But we can, we can we, you know, what's like, what's like a few
• 52:53
  hours, you know, to go shopping. Thank you listener once again
• 52:58
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