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And we're live! Painkiller nearly episode 97. Coming up on 100.
Yeah, that's a lot of episodes. How's everybody doing?
Good. Doing well. I didn't fly the real gend.
That's a shame. It's coming though. It's just the wind and I'm looking forward to that.
What's the weather like there? I know it was windy where you were, but temperature wise, because here it's hot as fuck.
So, it was warm today. It was like 90. I fixed my wife's air conditioning outside in the heat today
and in her car and it was hot. It said it felt like 95 in the weather.
Oh, you need a recharge?
No. So we had done that, but the fan that blows everything started making noise.
And really the noise was the catalyst for getting me to fix it. I should have done it earlier.
It was cheap and it wasn't that hard. And, but i fixed it she's like i think it's cooler too like she thinks it's
flowing better and just probably so yeah that's i always like to recharge that thing right i'm
gonna do it tomorrow i was talking to my dad about that today when we were getting that wood
i was like yeah it's time to recharge that ac i want to think as cold as possible are you good
at it i made a few i made a few mistakes this year. I could give you tips.
I just follow the
instructions on the bottle, usually.
So, you know you spin the thing
to pierce it? I spun
it, pierced it, and waited forever. You have to
loosen it again to let the freaking
fluid flow. It seems
obvious, but it wasn't to me. I was like,
it's not accepting it. I don't know.
This is tricky.
Well, you're used to depressing valves like in a co2 bottle or something where screwing it in all the way is opening the valve you know it's a plunger valve everything
else in my life when you screw it to open it it kind of stays open this it's like you screw it
to seal it and then open it and break that seal it's a weird thing and then um the other is it
can take longer for it to come out
than you might guess like i think it was i gave it 30 minutes or something in my wife's car and
it really all got in there whereas i was under the impression that 10-15 minutes would be easily
enough so well it's real hot here today 102 i don't know how the humidity compares to Georgia. Real bad.
It's pretty humid here.
It's not fun.
102.
It's just... No, it sucks.
Yeah, it's not that hot here.
Especially in humid.
Like, when I was in Boise for a couple years,
like in Idaho for a couple years,
it would get to like 101, 103,
and it feels wonderful.
Like, it's not so dry that it's shit like Phoenix
and you're just crisping as you walk outside,
but it's not humid like Georgia or the Midwest
or Louisiana or somewhere.
It's just like a blanket you're walking into.
There's no deodorant that can protect you
from these areas of the country
because it's not sweat.
Like for the longest time, I was like,
I am such a fucking sweaty person.
Like, why am I just sweating? And then I moved to Idaho and I'm like, it's not sweat like for the longest time i was like i am such a fucking sweaty person like why
am i just sweating and then i moved to idaho and i'm like oh it's just moisture sticking to me
all day that's part of it but mostly what it is is because it's because there's so much humidity
in the air that the sweat can't evaporate off you which is the whole point of sweat you know
that's the cooling factor when it evaporates it's drawing the heat away, which is the whole point of sweat. That's the cooling factor. When it evaporates, it's drawing the heat away,
which is why doing physical activities in the humidity is so hard,
which is why the SEC is so fucking good at football
because you guys got to come down here and you're like,
what the fuck?
I thought it was hard playing in Colorado.
Yeah.
I got a thing.
So my pool guy wanted to quit.
Would you like to hear the conversation between he and I?
I'd love it.
Come on. It's all text. So the background you need is that in a vlog, maybe a week or week and a half
ago, I did like a little pool rant where I gave the state of affairs. Now we signed up for this
pool in March and we still don't have it. They haven't even started installing this thing yet.
And it's the end of June. It's really long the guys have 33 years in the
business and i mentioned them by name in my vlog so my subscribers apparently like flooded them
with emails i don't know how many mails because i didn't give out their email address or anything
people would just have to look up this company and find some contact information but some of
them use bad words and
apparently the sensitive little soul who opens the emails was was you know hurt and crushed by
this stuff and um so now he's upset i could give a flying fuck and and they thought i wrote all the
mails like from all those different addresses they know no idea like about the internet about like these things i love those
people yeah i like explaining it to those people i'm like you don't understand there's an army of
people out there bigger than any army there actually is just a quick little side note
with no accountability. No commander.
And as Batcher went to talk to like attorneys and policemen and stuff like that,
they didn't even realize you could make money
on the internet. They had like no idea.
And I had that same experience with the SWAT
team. They were all like, why don't you just quit streaming
and uploading videos if this is happening?
You know, if people are bothering me about
it, me being the detective.
And that's kind of how
these guys
are they just have no concept of youtube or the idea of these followers or whatever so he's missed
his date again like we were supposed to have it in may and then that came and went and then it was
like we should sue him and then we were what kind of fool is it it's a fiberglass to get a feel is it fiberglass okay so it's a set pool yeah and it's not overly complicated right um i didn't know if
it was like a liner pool that you were designing or something like on your own or this is just a
set moment so really no excuse go ahead and they've got 33 years in the business cling to that
and uh shit i lost my train of thought. They got the emails.
They're not happy with you.
Yeah.
They don't understand the internet.
June 3rd, missed the date.
Then they said, we're going to have a pool party for Hope on June 17th. Oh, yeah, it'll be installed and ready to go.
Not happening.
And then when that wasn't, that was clearly not happening,
they said that the installation was going to start between June 15th and 20th.
It's, what, the 21st right now?
Yeah. And that was the thing. was going to start between June 15th and 20th. It's, what, the 21st right now? Yeah, yeah.
And that was the thing.
It was really dependent on whether or not we had good weekend two weekends ago.
Good weather two weekends ago.
So this is frustrating to me.
By the way, we had good weather.
But if you're telling me, oh, your start date all depends on tomorrow's weather,
you're telling me my start date is just a couple. Like, you know, if it's not Monday, it'll be Tuesday, kind of thing.
Instead, it's been 10 days, right?
So was my start date ever really dependent on the weather two weekends ago?
You still haven't fucking started yet.
I'm sorry, Woody.
Here at J&J Pooling, we're really superstitious, and it did rain and thunderstorm on the 16th,
so we are not going to fulfill the
remainder of the project i don't see what you understand we made it this way 33 years
like i feel like he's pulling my leg at this point and by the way they fail to predict fucking
everything right right now like one of the holdups is uh so the pool gets made one state up in
virginia and they need a like permit to bring a wide load across the state line.
Okay. If you've been in the business for 33 years, get this permit in advance, right? You know,
like this shouldn't take you by surprise. You should be doing this twice a month, you know,
but everything, the way he had no idea there would be April showers and May flowers. He had
no idea that you need a survey for the plot. They had no idea that they'd need a permit to bring the pool down.
He had no idea of this or that or the other thing.
And it's all someone else's fault, you know?
So I wrote to him this morning.
This is Woody.
So the last promised date was to start construction between the 15th and the 20th.
It looks like we've missed another promised date.
When should I be expecting you guys to start this thing?
And he wrote, Joe has a meeting with the installer this week. You're next.
We'll make up lost time during the construction.
I will text you this afternoon with the day and time.
I replied, ugh.
So the thing is, I feel like
if it's due in May
and it's late June,
how do you make up time
during the construction?
Of course, you're coming in a DeLorean.
Because that's the first thing.
We'll pay extra for that, 500 bucks, whatever, you know.
Yeah, bring the DeLorean.
We'll make up all that.
That should have been your plan.
Sure.
Bring the DeLorean and the dock.
I've always wanted to meet Marty.
Unless you finish the pool by last Thursdayursday then stop promising me that like you're
not gonna make up lost time this wouldn't fly anywhere else like if i was in college still
and i just told the professor like i know midterms are in december we all know that
i'm more of a late march kind of guy though and i'm gonna give you my best work then i promise
actually no i would slowly lie to her and tell her you know i was a january 1st kind of guy though. And I'm going to give you my best work then, I promise. Actually,
no, I would slowly lie to her and tell her, you know, I was a January 1st kind of test taker.
Well, now that I'm looking more into my horoscopes, I'm thinking January 21st.
What looks like is a copy and paste of an email. Friday at Woody's between four and five,
he'll confirm tomorrow. John is finishing up and then moving equipment there. Pool shipping is
confirmed. Joe. Joe is our salesman.
So it looks like the pool installer is going to meet on site here between 4 and 5 on Friday.
And so he's meeting with the installer on Friday, question mark?
I'm disappointed.
I was hoping the installation would begin by then.
And I guess I'm just keeping my expectations.
I'm keeping the feet to the fire to some point with that.
It's, what is it, Tuesday?
And he's telling me we're going to meet on Friday.
That tells me that we're not doing shit until next week.
They're going to look at the site for the first time on Friday.
It's Tuesday and he's already scrapping the suite.
Thank you.
So they're going over all the details and then starting your next with fiberglass we start and finish each job so as opposed to concrete where you might like do a couple jobs overlapping
with fiberglass pools they begin it and then they fully end it before the next one and i said
maybe you must know in your heart how widely you guys have missed expectations, you said.
You personally told us we'd be having a pool party for my daughter's birthday on June 17th.
Woody, I'm doing the best I can. I'm sorry! Exclamation point.
I will call you later to discuss the several emails from your blog.
Some nice, some ripping you! Two exclamation points.
I said, yeah, I'm internet famous. My skin's pretty thick about that sort of thing now.
I've heard it all before. I have about 340 I'm internet famous. My skin's pretty thick about that sort of thing now. I've heard it all before.
I have about 340 million views on YouTube.
Too bad we're having such a poor time with the delivery on this pool.
Other contractors have received a boost from delivering on their word.
And, uh...
That's a great way to...
Yeah, to turn that around on him.
Like, there were two guys who didn't like you.
Really? Interesting.
Well, you know, Thomas and son's carpentry really got a good boost because they said i'm gonna put this door in and
then wouldn't you know it they showed up and they put the fucking door in well he don't even don't
get him started on those doors all right he had to go to court over those doors so you do have to
feel like it's easy to get lost in like hating an organization
you know like if delta fucks you to like just everyone you talk to like hate delta like this
guy joe or john whoever you're talking to the sales guy like he is hating this almost as much
as you having to be this middleman bitch relaying information there's an owner i'm talking about yeah his name is senior there is
the owner and then i guess he's kind of greeting his son to run the place as well so this is senior
this is the owner joe is the salesman he likes me i always do fine with joe um but seniors more
responsible like i don't hold joe responsible for delivery on this stuff oh joe's a great guy yeah
joe's so best but like whatever's going wrong in this thing
isn't Joe's fault.
But Senior, the buck stops there.
So he wrote,
Classic Senior.
How about I just send your deposit back?
Exclamation point.
So, I didn't...
Is that a fat one?
Are you excited to lose business?
Like...
I...
Yeah, and you know,
and again, I wrote, too bad you're having such a poor
time with delivering on this pool other contractors have received a boost from delivering on their
word and he replies how about i just send you deposit back he's kind of an emotional
fucking fly off the handle douchebag so um i i thought about it for a while i'm like do i want
this like maybe i don't want to do that maybe i I'll get my deposit back. Now, by the way, I don't want just my deposit back. I want the deposit I put on the
fence, you know, because we need a fence for this thing by code. I want, and then the survey, right?
So the deposit on the fence and the survey combined to about $2,500. I gave him $10,000.
I would like the $12,500 back, to be honest. You know, like you like you can't i don't i'm not made whole again just by getting my deposit i talk it over with jackie and we look and basically
no one else is gonna build a pool this year you know i might if these lies are to be believed and
i i say lies on purpose by the way like if i tell you kyle i'm working on your deck i'm gonna finish
this afternoon and then i don't finish until tomorrow.
That wasn't a lie so much, right?
Like there's a certain intent behind it. You were overly ambitious.
You really did think that it would be done by the end of the day.
Like you weren't sitting there like, how much can I put him off?
Yeah, but if I say, hey, Kyle, I think I can finish your deck tomorrow.
It depends on how the weather comes in.
And then 10 days later, I'm still not done.
Did I ever believe it when I said it?
So have you replied to that yet?
Yes.
My wife and I talked this over.
We decided not to accept your offer of breaking the contract.
We have too much time and money sunk in this to back out now.
Let's figure out the install date and deliver on that. that's where it ends ah so he hasn't replied no response yet no response
yet yeah um yeah if he breaks the contract i feel like i don't know i should you should sue him
yeah yeah totally absolutely yeah yeah yeah you want that money back yeah yeah so um
like he'll just come by and do the pool eventually like i i don't know i don't think he wants to do
business with me and i'm not that excited about doing business with him either you know that much
is clear he he is not enthused about your business what's his company called again
like superior pools or something like i can't believe you said it all right
yeah no i'm not also let's not just go and raid superior pools like that seems like a very generic
name like what if what he is actually using like super cool pools and these four superior pool
folk are just getting berated
i don't even know we're based out of atlanta like don't raid them by the way it does add
complications but i will warn you never to use them uh but you hear that listeners when you're
putting a pool into your palatial estate don't contact this vendor so um but yeah and i i don't know i as i reread this i think i'm the reasonable
one in this yeah yeah i think so too like in my head i was like i didn't expect that yeah like
well i was probably being inflammatory too not really not bad honestly i was going into that
being like okay he really has had some shit luck with his house so this has got to be
partially true but i was waiting for something like where you were going to be in the wrong
and this guy's just like i'm just trying to put a pool in man no every step of the way especially
i like how you included all the exclamation points in the emails to you and i'm not joking
because that's that's a tone thing and it's disrespectful i think
to use exclamation points like that like one of them your money back it's like double exclamation
point why don't you put the pool behind my home like so i yeah i'm totally on you you're not the
asshole yeah yeah and so i don't know they're all upset like like they want us to make the email stop
and jackie's like it doesn't work like that the emails will fade away on their own
yeah we got a fucking pizza delivery the same day that they're getting their emails
and you'll see a river about it um what was i gonna say uh the oh and they want us to stop it
and they just have like no idea that like there's any like the
power of social media like the impact this has how many thousands of people are watching and
listening this is pkn i feel like pkn is like it it's just us girls you know like like there's not
many people watching and it's funny so i dude i've done this i've made this mistake before i
should learn i'm a slow
learner i was in a live stream i was in some kind of drama i don't know who the fuck was attacking
me at the time it was it had to be either thunder el presador keemstar fucking obviously jesus
fisticuffs i don't even know who the white boy and the list goes on and on and um i was in a
live stream someone else's with like 90 people.
And I said something.
I forget what it was.
I gave like my take on a situation that I wish would die.
Because in my head, at 90 people, this was like a, like there was no one else.
It was an empty room.
Like a secret council almost. If I was in an auditorium with 90 people listening, I wouldn't be like, all right, so the 90 of us are going to keep this secret, right?
Just between the 90 of you and me.
But, yeah, for some reason, like in the smaller things, when you know only a couple thousand people are listening, I run my mouth.
So here I am.
But, yeah, anyway anyway fucking pool guy it it's it's just like like i was saying i i
feel like it it bridged the gap from misdate to lying you know if he's telling me i'll get you
on monday depending on the weather and then 10 10, 12 days later, it hasn't happened.
It's like,
have you ever been to a restaurant where you,
you go in knowing there's going to be a way,
like a really nice steakhouse. And they're like,
you know,
how many is it for?
And you're like six.
Like,
all right,
it's going to be a 30,
35 minutes for a table of sticks.
Would you like to wait?
It's like,
well,
yeah,
we're already here.
We made a whole evening of it.
We're going to wait. And then you go back up and it's uh it's longer
than we thought you know another another 15 minutes another 15 minutes you go sit down
you come back we we are really really sorry honestly it might be another 20 minutes at that
point it's like you we have to stay because our night is shot we can't go somewhere else
you've terrorized us with this lack of time
that we now have at our disposal for similarly quality meals.
So now we're pretty much, we have to stay here.
You're not going to take very good care of us
because you're going to tell the server on the way to the table,
hey, this is that group that I've been bitching about
because they keep coming up every 15 minutes and complaining.
So she's not going to be caring for you
because she doesn't think she's going to get a good tip because you're irate.
It's that kind of thing on a slightly bigger scale.
So I understand it.
Yeah, so that's the pool thing.
Well, keep us updated on that.
I hope there's a lawsuit incoming.
That's always fun.
I hope so, too.
It's fun from the outside.
The other thing I should note is, and it's not in the texts I read, I follow up with them like twice a week just to make sure they fucking do anything.
Like that's a big issue too.
You know, like we needed to get a permit.
And I'm like, did you try?
Did you check today?
And we got the survey in.
Where are we on this?
That was their first time they told us.
That was their first fuck up was they took so long to get the permit.
And some of it was waiting on the survey.
But again, they shouldn't have waited two weeks to even begin the process. And they took so long to get the permit. And some of it was waiting on the survey. But again, they shouldn't have waited two weeks to even begin the process.
And it took so long to do that that the people they're buying our pool from just sold it to another installer.
Because they're like, well, if you're not taking possession of this pool, we'll just send it to somebody else.
Yes.
That's part of why it's so obscenely late.
Because they fucked up on getting the permit,
which now means that they had to build in a whole other pool.
And here we are, summer ticking away.
Well, Sr. is a real liar, it sounds like. Not a man of his word.
And I bet if he heard that, it would just drive him insane.
No.
Not a very good man for Jr. to look up to.
Wow, now we're going after his kid.
The kid's 40 or something though, right?
I talked to his kid on the phone.
There's not a kid named Junior.
Yeah, there is.
That's what they call him in the office, Junior and Senior.
I guess they have the same name, so they differentiate that way.
My brother-in-law is Tony and his dad's Big Tony.
I talked to him one time.
He was real customer service oriented
he's like you know what I'm going to look into that
I'm going to get on top of it
and then Senior calls me back
and it's all like attitude and bluster and bullshit
it's everybody else's fault but mine
you know the survey didn't come till here
they sold the pool to someone else
and this happened
and you know what
every contractor on the planet didn't anticipate that it was going to be rainy in the spring so we're all in the same
boat on that one and it's like you like 33 years you didn't predict april shakars you mentioned
having to like follow up with email like twice a week just to get it moving at all like you've been
an adult for far far far longer than me but like when I got out of college and got my first real job in like a real
sector of the business world, I was like, all right,
like these are professionals now.
These are people like they're not like the college kids you were with a month
ago. You know, now they're different. These are different people.
And so when I would like send emails of like, Hey, could you,
when is this project going to be done? So I can get X, Y, and Z done with it.
It'd be like, you know, you get a response of Tuesday, you know, Tuesday after next Monday, whatever the fuck they say.
And it's like, okay.
And I would just assume for the longest time like that order has been placed.
It's like Amazon, I'll just check back in the day before and see how it's going.
And every time without fail that you email these people back, no matter what, you know, HR, fucking, you know, design, whatever they're in.
It's always like you're a teacher catching a student that hasn't started their project yet.
And it's the day before where you email like, hey, I was just wondering when this is going to be done for me.
I asked you last week and you said, you know, tomorrow was going to be a good time.
Oh, well, a lot's been on my plate first of all
had a dog die didn't see that coming uh frankly it's gonna have to be how much time did you give
me at first eight days okay i'm gonna need another eight days on that because now it's time to you
know overtime buckle down and it's like god fucking damn it like it is you as a kid don't you go
into the world thinking adults have it so nailed down and so like this is professional these are
businessmen these are adults some do and you realize like not at all so much stuff gets lost
in the weeds like you have to be holding people's hands like that's why i call them twice a week
because just like you said every time it feels like I'm a teacher that calls them like, oh, oh, shit, what he called, what he called.
Yeah, all right, I'm going to look into that today for you.
Today, I'm going to be making some calls for you.
Oh, really?
And Pokemon's over.
They're always reaching out, making calls, making things happen because I followed up on them.
And it's like, so if I didn't't follow up this thing could have arrived in 2017 like if there wasn't an actual grown-up checking
on them all the time then you know who knows where this would have been so that's pool talk
flight talk pool talk game the drones talk it was so good that was the best episode oh it was so good. That was the best episode. It was so good. I loved it so much.
I watched it twice.
It was twice on it.
Wait, wait.
You're all up on it, right?
You watched it.
Yes, I'm current.
I wasn't sure if you were at it.
Oh, it was so fucking good.
I really enjoyed it.
You know what?
The greatest episodes of Grains with Game of Thrones,
my complaint is always the same,
and it's half a compliment.
I wish it was two hours long. I would have watched two and a half hours of Game of Thrones. My complaint is always the same and it's half a compliment. I wish it was two hours long.
I would have watched
two and a half hours
of Game of Thrones.
If there's any,
I wish Arya's storyline advanced.
I wish this and that and whatever.
What they did was great.
And it was slightly longer than normal.
It was like an hour and four minutes
if you count the credits.
And stuff like that.
Kyle's been saying
we're going to have
an hour and 15 minute shows
and I keep like,
I haven't yet.
Like, even that one, which seemed longer, it wasn't long.
This is one of the, I think it's one of the six or eight longest ever.
That was the thing.
Is the next one supposed to, because you were saying a few weeks ago, Kyle, that there's
supposed to be one that's like super long, right?
Is that next episode?
I don't know.
What I heard was the last two episodes were, that was the last two episodes of the season
were among the six longest ever or something like that.
Okay.
They must be kind of bunched up because, like,
so I watched it.
I was like, all right, so here's where the opening credits,
I guess, you know, with the song and everything begins.
And the whole thing was an hour six.
Two minutes of it was, like,
pimping other TV shows they want us to watch. So I was like, all right, an hour and four minutes of it was like pimping other tv shows they want us to watch
so i was like all right an hour and four minutes of game of thrones but game of thrones is like
10 minutes of stuff on the other side it's like after the thrones or something and then the credits
and so the the actual show maybe i'm exaggerating but the actual show was an hour yeah that's much
longer than normal though because yeah because the whole thing oftentimes is 50 minutes or something like that 52 minutes um i loved it though i that that was absolutely
incredible um the special effects were were really good and the practical effects they had all those
people and horses out there there's a scene my favorite shot from the whole thing is when um
you've got john one one and torment all on screen at once, Avengers style,
kind of staggered, and they're kind of looking toward Winterfell and Ramsay.
But in the background, and it's easy to get stuck on them,
but in the background, yes, it's after the battle.
Well, the battle's still going on.
That's the thing.
Over their shoulder, the battle is still going on,
and you've got all the wildlings still huddled together, and you've got the Knights of the Veil riding in the shot, and all that's the thing over their shoulder the battle is still going on and you've got all the wildlings
still huddled together and you've got the knights of the veil writing in the shot and all that's
real that's not cgi that's not composite video that's four or five hundred people on screen
acting at once it makes a world of difference in those kinds of shows when they actually get a
bunch of horsemen and they actually dress a bunch of people up
in like metal gear and shit
as opposed to when they just phone it in
like The Hobbit
and it's a bunch of people
like people who clearly aren't real fighting
but this
that scene where they follow Jon
through the
and there are going to be spoilers
throughout all three of us talking about this
and it was such a big episode
if it hasn't been spoiled by you already
you're not still listening so we're good that scene where they followed john through the
battle was probably the coolest part of any battle scene of any movie or tv show i've ever seen
far and away the best it was amazing it didn't you know like we were talking about braveheart
a little while ago kyle the i thought as a kid the battle scenes in that were just awesome.
And they were at the time.
But looking back, there's so much just like quick movements and blurs.
And you don't know what's going on.
It's kind of just, it could be a guy with a bloody rag and a sword.
Like just kind of clanking it in front of the screen as the guy's going.
You know, and you're like, oh, fuck, this battle's raging.
There's some wide shots.
There are. you know and you're like oh fuck this battle is raging wide shots there's there are but for me in this one you would see like an arrow go in and hit a guy in the eye while he's running there's
no like blurred out effect of it it's just him getting hit and going down and then a horse just
crushes a dude not at some ridiculous speed and it zooms in too close so there's a like fuzzy effect
just right there in screen clear boom after the awesome
and they said they intentionally showed how surviving these battles is somewhat luck-based
like they you got john here who is a master swordsman very much a badass and he's doing
badass stuff and he's partly alive because of that but there's also people dying through no
fault of their own just arrows raining from the sky. Bad stuff happening.
Horses careening.
John, in spite of all his skill, almost gets killed like twice.
But, you know, in the nick of time, someone else killed his potential killer.
Or knocked him off or whatever.
And things just went his way, and that's why he's alive.
Yeah.
his way and that's why he's alive yeah you know it kind of highlighted the like butterfly effect of the battles where it's like at 50 different times throughout that battle he would have
absolutely died if some chain of events hadn't occurred that led to the death of some dude
six rows back like it's totally random which makes that kind of battle so scary and i dislike
action sheet scenes that do what taylor goes They take the camera and they hold it like this.
And then everything's happening so close.
And every scene is like four frames long.
So you can't follow what's happening.
No.
They took the camera.
They held it steady.
They backed up 12 feet.
And they showed what happened.
And that just seems so rare now.
Because it's so hard to do.
Because you've actually got to do it then, right?
And that's what was happening.
There were sword fights.
If you look even in the background, a lot of the background sword fights in some movies is two guys going,
Cling, cling, cling, cling.
A lot of good sword fights in the background and stuff. I really appreciated that one shot where Jon is looking at the charging cavalry and the camera's behind Jon.
And you see the horses coming.
And he whips out the sword
and gets into like a batter stance almost.
Throw the sheath down.
Yeah, I like that.
And it reminded me of Stannis a lot.
You're scrimping this.
Yeah, yeah.
No need to keep up with this piece of shit.
It reminded me of Stannis
when he unsheathed his sword at Winterfell.
He was like, all right, fucking let's do it.
You know, it's just like, I'm going to die now. And it was that same thought process and that's a real shot when you're looking from
behind him at horses charging at him their horses charging at him that's how they did that shot it's
forced perspective but they're really charging when that happened i was like oh are we finally
gonna get now wait wait just take a step Daenerys and her dragons actually did a thing.
This is one of the first times the dragons did dragon shit.
People will say, oh, the whole reason she has that army is because of the dragons.
Eh, kind of.
She used the dragons as currency once before and then got it back.
Like, you know, that's how...
The whole reason she has anything is because of the dragons.
Maybe so, but the dragons previously formed as currency.
Like, it wasn't because of the dragons' military might.
And it was the thought of the potential power that came with them.
It was more about the potential power of the dragon than their...
Actual power.
Than their actual power, yeah.
Than their kinetic power.
The dragon had never been used as an instrument of war until this week.
And, you know, prior to that, it was other people wanted them
because they were going to
grow into instruments of war they were currency in my mind sure yeah and so when i'm watching
back to the scene john's there right and there's all these horses and it's like he is fucked like
this guy's in big trouble and in my head i'm buzzing azor ahai azor ahai? Zorahai? Some Sauron level shit where he just...
Now that would be cool too.
What if they got there, he had swung and the music stayed sad,
but then like four horses exploded.
And he looks down and the sword bursts into flames.
I want to make it glow.
I want to make it glow.
What is the sword's name
in lord of the rings stinger maybe uh sting uh sting okay i i was like he's holding it
and i'm like that sword's about to glow he's about to kill six horses in his first strike
he's just gonna go back and force his own style it's like 40 and 60 guys die in a shot. It was going to be crazy.
I'll tell you what I thought.
Why?
So I was very, this entire episode,
the reason that I think this is my favorite episode of all time,
the entire episode I was afraid for the main characters. I thought that John was going to die at multiple points, and here's why.
They had that talk on the eve of battle between he and Melisandre, and he's saying they're talking about, you know, she's like, maybe he brought you back to life to play your little role and then die tomorrow.
He's like, what kind of God would do that?
She's like, the one we have.
And to me, that's George R.R. Martin.
Like, they're referring to the writer.
He's saying, who would write some shit like that? Who would go through all this trouble
to bring me back
and all the heartache that that caused
just for me to die three weeks later
in some bullshit battle?
And she's like,
the one we have,
that's who could do it.
And I was like,
oh my God,
they're going to fucking kill John tomorrow
just for the hell of it.
That's what's coming.
They brought us up here
to fucking put us back down there.
That's what's coming. I never seriously here to fucking put us back down there that's
what's coming i was i never seriously thought john was gonna die it's not a very game of thrones like
thought but like like taylor was just saying i thought he can't die we know he's like azor ahai
we know he plays a major role you don't know much in game of thrones but i had that burned into my
head and i was just like how does he get out of this shit i didn't
anticipate horses coming from the back i thought for sure he was gonna like and yeah i thought he
was gonna be a super fighter but i thought it was it could have happened laser beam i i loved the
um you know i guess because it happened in lord of the rings like i'm fine with like every other
kind of movie
where they're like,
no, don't kill me, Russian spy,
and then just someone bursts in the wall
and is like, not now, and kills him,
and it's like last-second saving.
I'm like, bullshit, that's stupid,
but for some reason, I suspend that disbelief
when horses come riding over the horizon,
and seeing the veil come in,
just like Gandalf at the Battle of Helm's Deep with Eomer and the Riders of the Riddermark.
It was great.
Yeah.
And I like to see that little bitchy boy who was sucking tits a mere five years ago.
It was now leading the charge.
Did you notice that?
No, I didn't.
Oh, I didn't see it.
Unless I totally just messed up his face recognition.
No, I didn't.
Ah, I didn't see it.
Unless I totally just messed up his face recognition,
I thought I saw Robin Arons clearly in the midst of puberty face in the nicest armor of anyone, so it had to be him.
I will say, look again, the girl who, like, agreed to give them soldiers,
she looked like she was maybe 13.
Lady Mormont.
She's so fucking adorable.
Thank you.
Her little...
It's so funny.
So I didn't notice it in the show, but you know... Me mugging that other packer. Thank you. Her little... It's so funny. So I didn't notice it in the show,
but you mean mugging that other packer.
I know.
So when the soldiers are packing up,
it's happening in the background.
They're loading their horses.
She's loading too.
So like between weeks,
I watch these like Understanding Game of Thrones videos.
Things that people think I don't think I watch.
Things people don't think I watch
because they're cocksuckers.
Anyway, so I'm watching, and they point out that she's loading up her horse.
And they infer from that that she's going to be joining the battle.
And I thought, oh, I hope that's true.
Because sometimes, you know, predictions like that turn out wrong.
But then when she was in battle, when she was part of the scene,
I hope we see a lot of Lady Mormont.
She's a great character. I'll tell you another thing that I thought might happen,
because with Game of Thrones, I'm always on my toes.
I'm always thinking, like, it could happen right now.
This moment that they're having right now
that's just like a three on the intensity scale out of ten
could jump to ten instantly like that.
They could fucking...
So when they're having the parlay between Ramsey and Jon Snow
and both their parties, you know, the Karstark guys there, the Glovers and everybody, the Glovers are not there. they could fucking so when they're having the parlay between Ramsey and Jon Snow and then both
their parties you know the Karstark Stark guys there the Glovers and everybody Glovers are not
there um during that uh they're having that talk and he's like you know Jon's challenges challenges
him to fight and he says something like you know I don't know if I can beat you but I know my army
can beat you I at that moment I was thinking like maybe Jon Snow is the first kind of Stark to wise up.
What if he's got 40 wildlings in ghillie suits laying out there,
and he just says, fuck the parlay.
They come up and butcher all these people right now.
Like, that would have been great.
I'd have been okay with that.
Jon is too honorable for that.
I don't think he would do that.
It doesn't really fit with his character.
He would have to be wised up.
But like what I would like to see is like her is like a Sansa having a talk
with him the night before about that.
Like,
look,
your father was an honorable man.
Your brother was an honorable man.
This guy was an honorable man.
This guy was an honorable man.
Ramsey's not an honorable man.
He killed them all.
He was a great character.
Very good.
Not, like, I didn't like him,
but he made me hate him so well
in a Joffrey-esque way
that you couldn't, like,
in all of his little,
he was more entertaining to me than Joffrey
because everything he had to do
was like a sadistic scheme, you know?
Like, he couldn't just fuck with you.
It had to, like, have some weird Freudian motive behind it,
and I liked that.
Just watching his little games and his little smirks, like,
no, why don't you just run to your brother?
I like when he gets excited and his eyes go like...
Willy is shooting arrows.
John C. was a master at making me hate him,
and I really appreciate that, you know?
I actually disliked the actor that played him before he died.
Because I was so wrapped up into how effectively he was Joffrey.
The Draco Malfoy syndrome.
Right?
And then afterwards, you're like, you know what?
Bravo.
Bravo to you for making...
Now, Ramsay didn't make me hate him in quite the same way.
But I slightly feared Ramsay.
I do fear Ramsay.
Yeah, that too.
See, that was the difference.
You hated Joffrey because he's pompous and full of himself, and you know you could walk over there and slap his teeth out because you've seen Tyrion do it a hundred times.
You know that all of his power is bullshit power, and he doesn't even know it, and you hate that about him, and then you hate his cruelty on top of that.
It makes you hate him more.
Right? and he doesn't even know it and you hate that about him and then you hate his cruelty on top of that it makes you hate him more right like junkie was born into such a power and he's wielding
it carelessly and it just did ramsay ramsay is the opposite he was he served it though he earned it
you know he was a bastard who became noble he like through these sadistic fuck like terrible
awfulness but he like how do you do this I don't want to say you'd respect it,
but yeah, Taylor said it better.
But he did do it.
He did make all that happen.
He achieved that position he had.
He was just playing a really brutal strategy
in the Game of Thrones.
Right.
Arguably, I mean,
brutal in a different way than Daenerys's,
but is it any less so when you think about it?
On a grand scale, Daenerys isn't cutting people's fingers off, but Daenerys is crucifying people to make examples of them.
Yeah.
She's so much hotter, though.
That's true.
And you sold me.
So I loved everything about the episode, the way they did Ramsey in.
I liked watching Jon Snow beat his ass.
That was great.
I'll tell you what I really liked, and I got a chuckle out of it
watching it the second time around, was Ramsey says,
you know what, I've reconsidered your offer of one-to-one combat.
And you look at Jon, and he is just spit.
He's just muddy and, like, holding his sword.
He's just like, right and john like immediately
runs over and grabs the shield and ramsay starts firing those arrows and john's like you think i'm
afraid we call this game dogs at the wall like catching the motherfuckers like like and you can
tell but like this is not the first time someone shot an arrow at me my girlfriend shot me twice
you fucking asshole and he gets up
close and he just like slaps the bows punches him with the thing and it's over you just see Ramsey
fall back and I'm always thinking about Ramsey's dagger that he keeps on his back in a horizontal
draw um you know he just reaches back with his right hand and pulls sideways so that's always
in my head whenever he's anywhere because he likes to pull out and kill people. But it was nice to see Jon Snow beat him up.
We don't have to watch some random arrow kill Jon or something awful like that because that's what I'm always afraid of.
There was a video like three, four years ago.
They were like, here's all the things you want to happen in Game of Thrones.
And like Joffrey dies in this.
This was an episode where the stuff you wanted to happen actually happened.
We haven't even talked about Daenerys yet,
where she fucking goes on dragon back and starts setting ships on fire.
Oh, I've been waiting for that for years now.
And now she's got Tyrion back there like talking shit for him,
which is what he's best at.
I loved him talking down to the wise masters like
like before she burns before that whole scene right so so they're talking shit he's saying
you know and the inter when he gets to the part where he says and the interpreter that you stole
um if you look over his shoulder you see the dragon swoop down and i'm like oh no
and you can kind of see it play on tyrian's eyes he's like that's a fucking dragon he doesn't say
he doesn't say anything either and this guy keeps talking shit keeps talking shit and you know that
the dragons are coming and when it lands they're just like well fuck that's a big dragon
the dragons get bigger yeah yeah if you didn't know. I watched the, like, app, the directors talk about it and stuff,
and he described the dragons as nearly full-grown.
So next year, those dragons are going to be bigger still.
The difference has been a real cunt to those other two dragons.
They busted out.
She, what kind of adorable mother,
picks a favorite to the extent that she goes off on vacations with one
and leaves two
buried in a dungeon like that's and they're flying creatures that's like me going on a
vacation with my favorite kid and not only do i leave the other two at home i strap them to the
couch before i leave yeah you won't be doing any walking children like not until you're needed
children we're gonna what's spoken to.
Laura Ingalls Wilder rules.
In my house.
I was hoping the dragons would be more effective as military weapons, right?
Like, I was hoping they would be strafing across.
I got an answer for that.
The ships had these flammable cannonballs.
I don't know what else to call them.
So I thought they would just sort of... And, like, catch the cannonballs as they cruised by.
I got an answer for that.
Instead of three hovering, concentrating on a ship, go on.
They're showing the power of the dragons
while only destroying one of the precious ships that she's on.
Remember Tyrion says,
we appreciate the armada, we'll be taking that.
She doesn't need to burn those ships up.
She needed to show that like hey
stop or i'll kill you all okay yeah okay yeah i i didn't catch that i i thought she was just
very slowly burning those ships when she had the capability perhaps to burn them faster
but you're saying she captured a lot of those ships yeah we'll see in the next scene you've
got the or maybe i don't remember the time the exact layout of the episode, but remember when she and Tyrion are speaking to Theon and his sister about their agreement together.
She says, you've only brought 100 ships.
He says, there are more than 100 ships in the Iron Fleet.
And she says, yeah, and more are being built.
They're coming with my uncle, et cetera, et cetera.
And then at the end of it, says will their ships be enough and tyrian says with the with the with the with the master's armada yes
it'll be close but yes i thought he said nearly enough and i didn't remember him counting the
master's armada i'm sure you're right i don't remember but yeah yeah so they're no her army's
so big now she needs two armadas to get them there. Because now she's got that Dothraki horde who just, don't forget, the screamers roll in there, lopping heads off.
A lot of horses to bring as well.
A lot of horses to bring, yeah.
So you're going to be allotting at least half of those ships to just horses.
That's going to be a stinky ship.
Not that I think that in olden days they would have designated horse ships. I'm sure they
distributed them evenly. Those ones would always go rogue.
Very poor navigators, the horse ships.
Captain Seabiscuit!
There's like one human. That would be
funny, the story of the one human
who accidentally got put on the horse ship,
but he's not even the captain.
He's just like, all right.
Seabiscuit, what are your demands?
Captain, we must make a decision.
He's kidding, Ackerman.
We're going off course.
Stop drinking the seawater.
It'll make you ill again.
We can't just eat carrots
and go anywhere
there is shit
everywhere
that was so great
I wonder what the next
episode's gonna be
I feel like
because we spent so much
time on Jon and Daenerys
last time
we might spend none
on them now
a little
I guarantee there's a little
we get like a
touch-up with them to know where the direction of things are going because we got to know
the consolidation of power right between uh john the robin aaron uh little finger sansa john snow
everybody's taking a little piece of something or looking after the multi-part cliffhanger and part
of it will be denarius and her troops at sea like they're coming if you're
ready for season 10 i hope they arrive so what'd you say quite a bit with this little finger no
i feel like little finger is still acting in self-interest if sansa forgives little finger
little finger literally was responsible for her father being beheaded. Her father told him his plans and he said, don't trust me, but
hey, I got your back. And then
when he, like, I feel
like people forget. Actually,
hang on, hang on now,
hang on now. Littlefinger was acting
in self-preservation to some regard. What
Littlefinger said to Ned was,
let's do it now. I've got
everybody paid off. Let's go in we kill the
children we kill the lannisters wipe them all out you're in charge let's do this now and he's like
the children we cannot kill the children and he goes and blabs to ned goes and blabs to cersei
and cersei says you're giving me a chance i'm to kill your children because that's who you're fucking with.
Littlefinger tried his best.
He tried to get Ned to play the game.
He saw Ned wasn't a player, and he pulled out.
You got to.
If he had stuck with Ned, he'd have died too.
I don't think he's necessarily an evil character.
If he had stuck with Ned, they would have won.
It was when Ned's like, all right, I see your move.
I have planned on my counter.
Littlefinger's going to bring in whatever, like, battle a bunch of men, you know, so that Ned was able to fulfill his obligation.
And then when Littlefinger turned out not to have his back, it all fell apart.
Well, what would have happened is, you know, the gold cloaks come in.
They seize the queen or whatever.
But then they still don't have much of an argument because she's like, this is son all you have is that piece of paper that i tore up fuck you um and then there's a giant war and little fingers trying to avoid that yeah i understand where he's coming
from yeah like i think he redeemed himself some because obviously he's acting in self-interest
but if he hadn't showed up with the veil and convinced them, you know, with Sansa's help, I'm sure she had the part to play in that.
Not with him.
He did it like five episodes ago.
I was giving her the benefit of the doubt, thinking that maybe they came some because of her.
But I guess the little figure is super close to Lord Robin.
It's both.
So remember, Lord Robin loves Sansa. And there's that great, great, great conversation
that really showed off his manipulative nature and how good he is between Littlefinger, Robin
Arryn. Robin Arryn's like captain of the guard or like chief commander or something like that.
And the chief commander is questioning Littlefinger. Oh, you were supposed to be here
and there. What happened? Where did, how did Sansa get taken? And he's like, oh, well, I only told
one person where I was
taking her, and yet they were waiting
for us, as if they'd been
told. And of course, when he gets there, the first thing he does,
the first thing he does is say, hey, Robin,
here's a gift. I bought you a falcon.
This is the greatest falcon in the
world. Have one. And Robin's like,
oh, I always wanted a falcon.
Does it have teeth?
And then Robin is ready to throw his commander,
captain of the guard,
whatever that character's name,
I don't recall,
out the moon door already.
And he asked Littlefinger,
hey, should we throw him out the moon door?
What do you think?
He's like, oh, he's been loyal for a long time.
I believe he'll be loyal much longer.
Won't you?
And the guy's like, oh yeah, oh yeah.
Team Aaron.
Like, no Moodor for me.
So, like, Littlefinger has Aaron wrapped around his finger
like he has so many people, and so...
Well, maybe I was giving Sansa too much credit,
and it was all Littlefinger that orchestrated that.
Well, he uses Sansa.
He manipulated Aaron using Sansa to some regard
in that he says, don't you want to help your cousin Sansa?
Shouldn't we go help her?
And he's like, I love Sansa.
She's very nice to me.
You know, he was like this messed up little kid.
So, yeah.
But I don't think Sansa like wrote a note to him or anything or sent a – Sansa sent her letter like two episodes ago and that was the little finger.
here uh well the only thing i really didn't like about the episode and it's gonna sound so pedantic and silly but why didn't one one have a weapon right or armor we all discussed this last night
we talked about it in depth we i know that they didn't have time to go to a blacksmith and forge
a ton of shit for this guy doesn't have't have to be like that. I was saying just simple wooden armor.
You can put wood on that guy
pretty thick
because he seems to be able
to carry a lot.
A hardy fellow.
He's a hardy fellow.
Throw something
on that guy's fucking face.
Good God.
Give him something.
Also, give him a stick.
Pick up a dead horse.
Listen.
There's so much.
I could have knocked down
an appropriate size tree
of which there are many to choose from,
broke the top and bottom, and had some sort of baseball bat, giant sized.
Right?
You know, not hard or anything, but you follow me.
I'll tell you what I would have given him.
A sapling smaller than a tree.
That's all he would have needed.
I got it.
It's real easy.
So they've definitely got chains, right?
And they've definitely got plates of steel at the very least.
They could have hung chains around this guy's neck, suspended plates all over him,
and then given it and taken a bunch of chains and tied them to something heavy.
And just he holds the chain.
Like, can you imagine?
It would be the...
Oh, he's like a siege weapon.
Just...
I need a weed eater.
So when they attacked the wall a few years back,
the giants had bow and arrow,
and they fired like the artillery version of a gun, right?
Like the arrows were baseball bat thick,
and they went so far. And when they hit things, they broke wall
or like pierced doors in ways that normal arrows don't.
So it's not as if it's unprecedented
for these giants to have some kind of weapons. Even you think like oh well one one is an idiot he's like half
retarded so all we can do is give him a stick no these guys are effective with their bows and
arrows previously and they're not retarded swordsmen or something yeah they're just really
quiet from the book lore it's not like they're not like super smart but they're not idiots like
they're just really quiet and they don't talk much if i remember correctly from the book and
he said two words that i remember one once was at the council meeting at hard home he said
torment because he's like agreeing to like he's like i co-sign with torment and then the second
time he says snow and it's the same reason he's he's co-signing with Tormund. And then the second time he says, Snow. And it's the same reason.
He's co-signing with what Snow said.
That guy is like a superpower in the world when you just got nukes.
And he's the only guy with nukes.
Whatever he decides in any council, any other cast votes are just kind of polite where it's like well you did win but the uh 24 foot
monster wants you to be the king and so you're the king like aside from the dragons because i
look the the giants were helpful but they did lose when they went up against snow in the wall
aside from the dragon we haven't seen much, like, super powering yet.
Mythical stuff.
Yeah, most of what you see, like, I still maintain, and that's changing now with the dragons,
but the most powerful thing in this Game of Thrones universe is money.
Like, being able to buy an army, being able to put people on your side.
You know, Robert Stark was defeated with money,
because that's how the phrase and whatnot align.
Being able to buy armies and put together your forces is the most powerful thing we've seen so far.
Now, that might change,
but the notion that magic or dragons,
they haven't won much yet until last episode.
Pussy has killed more people in that world than magic or money.
That speaks to any world that has ever existed.
But the thing with George R.R. Martin
that he thought out with the giants
is that he knew he couldn't have them joining John's army
and being in that fight as any real serious force.
Like, it had to just be a one-off
because if he had even a small group,
let's say he had two dozen giants.
Oh, God.
Like, that's the last of them.
The last of the giants in the world,
two dozen of them.
They're coming down because they got nothing to live for up there.
You take those guys,
you commandeer a real city,
you build them armor and just have them wade into the ocean and wait for
Daenerys's fleet.
If that's your goal.
And then they'll just destroy boats with their big hammers.
They,
they would be unstoppable.
Just 25 of those guys, led by one one, like, it would be unreasonable.
Even, like, three of them would be good enough to destroy whole armies.
I don't know how many people remember what the bow and arrow was like that they wielded,
but that's an anti-dragon missile.
It was a ballista, for all intents and purposes.
And a ballista is how you would fight a dragon, I think.
Like, a ballista is like a giant crossbow that you have to wheel around.
And, you know, you can kill a giant real quick with one of those.
The dragons can be killed.
You can kill a giant quickly, too.
You know, that's what you need.
But I was talking about the giants, what they pulled.
Yeah, sure.
You can kill a dragon quickly with them too but if they're going up against a human army they're mostly going to be shooting
those little pathetic arrows that he just kind of brushes off their tanks their tanks in the world
where the other your opponent doesn't have tanks yet oh speaking of i can't believe real quick
though kyle because you've touched on the coolest idea ever of the weed whacker strategy with one
one i didn't even i was just thinking because when he was standing there getting poked by the phalanx of people and
he was just kind of like like a lazy bear and it was like oh you could be killing so many more like
oh you pick one guy up and tear him in half like hunky dory but just a branch could have cleared
the whole area and suddenly you can leave but if you had just given that guy a long chain and then don't even put armor on all those shields and scrap knives strap those to the end of
the chain too and then just swing it like a maniac imagine the fucking mayhem that would have happened
if instead of charging with the full army it was just like one one and then you give him a chain hello and he just runs by himself in
there he's taking off you know imagine a whip like they would hold an anchor from a ship and
just pull the earth towards them get over here get over here
dude I can't wait for the next 11
you know because the next one's gonna wrap up
season 9 and then season 10 is the end
of it and
like that's pretty cool
in season 10 everything feels like
it's for keeps you know like
you don't have years down the road
to sort of figure out
yeah like the twist and turns can only turn so much next year he has to take us to a solution
as a matter of fact i wouldn't be surprised if like episode 10 of season 10 would kind of just
epilogue you know like a lot of what happened after the dust settled you know because i would
expect what you mean yeah yeah like end on credits well i guess what i know, because I wouldn't expect... Oh, that's what you mean. Yeah, yeah.
Like, end on credits?
Well, I guess what I'm saying is I don't expect the last scene of Season 10 to be someone sitting in the Iron Throne.
I do.
That's exactly what I expect it to be.
I would expect someone sits in it,
and I wouldn't be surprised at all if they show, like, epilogue-type stuff.
You know, this is what this guy did.
Here's our...
Not our, yeah.
The salty chick.
Asha?
Asha, that's who I'm going for.
Nicely done from salty chick.
You know, Asha, like, taking her throne,
and, like, everyone sort of falling into place.
Oh, the scene between Asha and Daenerys was great.
It was great.
And I love that, like, he's coming here
with his big cock
demanding marriage
and she's like,
I guess you have
no marriage demands?
And she's like,
I never demand.
But I'm kind of open.
Yeah.
Yeah, I really like
the look on Daenerys' face.
She was kind of like,
all right,
that kind of tickles me.
I like that.
She was considering it.
Like, oh.
Yeah, maybe later. Kind of busy right now, but all right. All was considering it. Like, oh. Yeah. Maybe later.
Kind of busy right now,
but all right.
All right then.
Yeah, I'm going to take that offer
and file it away.
Rain check.
Yeah, basically.
Yeah.
I, uh,
that was pretty,
but dude,
it was a really strong episode.
I liked it a lot.
One of the best
of the entire series.
That battle scene was,
it wasn't even the best
out of Game of Thrones.
It was the best battle scene was it wasn't even the best out of game of thrones it was
the best battle scene i've ever seen like the it didn't do that stupid shit where they make it go
too fast it was paced it felt real the whole thing what they never show in battles like that that i
love is like john or killed like two guys turns around there's nobody there so he kind of just walks for a couple seconds
like walking around like looking oh there's another guy go over fight him kill him oh another
guy kill him then just kind of looking around like you never think about that because that's
never portrayed like it's just pictured as full-on mayhem the whole time when really after a lot of
people died there's some space in there it did you know like there was two minutes of john like
under a pile of bodies
or something.
I love that.
That was stressing me out.
That was making my chest feel hurt.
I was breathing really shallow.
I was done with it.
And you know how I dislike it
when they do lots of shortcuts?
So this was lots of shortcuts.
As Taylor described, right?
It could have just been
like a piece of armor
held in front of the camera
getting shaken around. That's what it's supposed to be though it's him being suffocated it's no
what it was it's a perfect visual representation oh it was the best i've ever seen it's the best
representation of someone suffocating and it was they keep they're cutting in between like this
thing where there's like a panel with dust on it so it's like dust in your eyes to like shapes
moving and then the muck and the mud and the audio is all mumbled and distorted because he's being crushed and then it goes dark and i love really stressed
me out so real watching and that made like i i was sitting there wanting it that seemed to be over
but not because i was like oh this is stupid because i was like oh god like i don't even feel
like i can breathe like i'm just kind of like out of empathy, just like, how long can we hold the breath?
John, let's see.
No, I'm like, would I survive?
I do that in movies all the time, and I would not.
Because sometimes there's like whole other storylines in the middle.
It was a great episode.
Oh, and, you know, there's the whole storyline about,
apparently Winterfell has lots of that, I can never, fires, dragon's breath, what is the green flammable?
Dragon's fire.
Dragon's fire.
Dragon's fire.
Okay, so apparently Winterfell has dragon fire under it all over the place. You don't know this?
King's Landing.
What did I say?
Winterfell.
My mistake. King's Landing has dragon fire underneath it all over the place.
And it was placed there.
I was going to say, this whole battle just got a lot more fair if that was...
It was placed there by the Mad King.
Whatever Targaryen.
Aerys.
Rhaemus.
Targaryen was his last name.
Rhaemus Targaryen?
Is that his name?
No, that's not it.
He was placed there by the Mad King.
And I guess he had a plan where, like, if things don't go my way,
I'm burning the whole city to the ground.
And, you know, all the people that loved him, all the people that hated him,
everybody was going to go.
So the whole city is, like, rigged to blow.
It's like a Game of Thrones version of right before they explode the building
and it falls down in a straight line miraculously.
It's that and circe has made like half a dozen references maybe more i've seen a montage of her saying i will burn the city to the ground just again and again and again that's like her
you know this doesn't go my way i fucking what is it called but she's always talking about burning
someone else's cities to the ground because that's just what you do i don't think they've made any reference to that i don't
think the dragonfire is still there and i think she has a reference to burning her own city down
but it was only in one of those moments where she does that thing where she's like if i can't get my
way and get my son i'll burn this whole city to the ground it's like either a vision i don't know if it was by the fortune teller chick you know remember at the beginning of season seven or six
this season no it wasn't the beginning of this season it was the one where like the young crc
meets the fortune teller chick i don't know if it was her or if it was someone else but there was a
vision of winterfell burnt down. And so there's,
they've been alluding to the notion that some,
not Winterfell,
what the hell is it?
It was like Landing.
Landing.
I keep wanting to call it
Casterly Rock.
I'm like, that's not it.
So I say Winterfell
and it's not it either.
What do you want to keep calling it?
Casterly Rock.
Oh.
The place,
I don't know if we've seen
Casterly Rock.
We may mention it
a hundred times.
I think they showed
the inside the gate one
time when like the uncle was raising another force but no they haven't been to castley rock
so anyway uh um king's landing apparently is rigged to blow and i wouldn't be shocked
if it blew on sunday i don't think so i'm not under under the impression... I like that it takes away the whole Daenerys storyline.
Yeah, there has to be something imposing to show up to
when they get back to Westeros, you know?
They can't show up and then King's Landing's...
Like, King's Landing is the port city there.
So it's like, if they show up and it's already burnt,
it's like, oh, well, the battle's been won.
Let's just take it over and rebuild it,
and then we are the kings. I'm not under the impression... I don't think that the the battle's been won. Let's just take it over and rebuild it, and then we are the kings.
I'm not under the impression.
I don't think that the dragon fire is still there.
I thought that had long been taken away or something.
Maybe I'm wrong.
I thought that was the deal.
I've seen YouTube breaking down Game of Thrones and stuff,
and I'm sure you've seen them too.
Anyway, they make reference to that,
to the fact that it's rigged to blow.
We'll see if it's true.
Do you want to do that tournament Thursday and Friday, Taylor?
The Company of Heroes one?
Yeah.
I'll have to look into the details on it.
Part of me, like, I feel like I'm finally starting to feel comfortable with the game,
and we're just going to get blown out by whoever is actually playing in this
tournament. Unless a bunch of PKA
fishes come and play with us.
Then that would help.
So if you want to come on over to
let's see, what's it called?
Yeah, Battlefly.
Battlefly.com is holding a Company Heroes
2 tournament this Thursday and Friday the 23rd
and 24th.
It's like a single elimination tournament 2v2. so if you want to flood that and really drive that mean skill level down
then kyle and i taylor have no i think we have a shot i can handedly lower it
yeah i think i'm gonna play in that so today So today I went out and I got some lumber to build my desk with.
I'm going to build kind of a rough-looking wooden desk, a big one, wall-to-wall.
And I got some of my computer components today.
I got my motherboard.
Pretty happy about that.
Get that thing.
And I don't know, power supplies here.
Some fans and stuff.
So I'm getting the project put together.
I still don't have my ASUS Strix graphics card yet.
That's pretty fucking lame.
You haven't decided to just pre-order it and get in some line?
You're looking for someone who has it in stock and you want to strike the iron's hard?
There's places that pre-ordering is not the way to go.
I keep reading.
Everybody's like, yeah, I canceled this pre-order.
I canceled that pre-order because they're just not working.
I'm using the Is It In Stock website.
And I specifically want the ASUS Strix.
I could have gotten a 1080 half a dozen times between now and last two weeks, I guess.
Because I just watched that thing.
And it's got an alarm on it.
So I'll be taking a nap or I'll be in the other room,
and I'll hear beep, beep, beep, beep, beep,
and I come running into the bedroom, and I'm like, click, click, click, click, click.
Like, no.
Oh, shit.
It's a different one.
Like, you know, it's the MSI version or the EVGA version
or it's straight from NVIDIA or something.
But, yeah, I'm going to—
On the reference card, I like those.
I like how they eject the heat out the back.
Like the ones with the triple fans just kind of distribute in the case
and then leave the case to eject the air.
I don't think that's the case.
Part of the problem with the reference one, apparently,
is the power consumption issue,
and they can't overclock them nearly as much.
And the aftermarket ones have a big heat sink
directly on the back of the thing.
Yeah, maybe they're bad.
I haven't looked into the 1080s. i know there's there's like different thoughts on it some people put like
two or three fans right on it and just sort of blow the air all over the place and some people
make a tunnel where the air gets ejected out the back of the machine and i'm like oh you know it's
not so terrible to just eject the air out the back of the machine but uh whatever i'm sure your
machine's gonna have so many fans it'll have no trouble.
It comes with one 140 in the front,
three 120s in the front,
or excuse me, one 140 in the back and three 120s in the front
and three 120s in the top
and I'm replacing most of those
with red LED fans.
I told you about the red.
They run hot.
Did you?
Yeah.
Oh, that's... Yeah, everything's going you about the red. They run hot. Did you? Yeah.
Yeah, everything's going to be glowing red. The case glows red, the motherboard
glows red, the card glows red, the
LEDs, the fans do.
Everything does. You're in a bedroom?
No, this will have its own
room. Okay.
Alright.
Well, PKN episode 97?
Yeah. Alright. I thought it was a good show. We had flow. Here we go. Yeah. alright well PKN episode 97 yeah alright
I hope you guys liked
I thought it was a good show
we had flow
here we go
yeah