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Starting point is 00:01:30 um okay we watched Last of Us season two episode one um Andrew why don't you want you take it away thank you Greg

Starting point is 00:01:41 uh yeah I really enjoyed this episode like we talked about definitely obviously changed a little bit of the chronological Aaron and I talked about this probably a couple weeks ago

Starting point is 00:01:51 I had a feeling that they were going to change up a little bit of seeing Abby's perspective a little bit earlier on and obviously as also Greg alluded to earlier we're going to be talking about spoilers obviously as Greg as I talked about with Aaron earlier a couple weeks ago I had a feeling they were going to show Abby's perspective just so we gained some sympathy for especially if you're the general going ones but that was something I really did like you know when we played the game like where you mess with the audience there because now you're forced to

Starting point is 00:02:21 play with someone you don't like at this point in time but then as you you see, you know, throughout the game, throughout the storyline, you gain more of a perspective of why she did what she did. And then also, you know, when we get to the Levin Yara portion, you know, again, you gain more insight into what's going on, you know, as her as a character. And again, you gain more emotional attachment to Abby. So that would have definitely been a more bolder choice. But I understand, again, why they chose to go this. It doesn't bother me, but I understand the choice why. So just wanted to throw that out there. But in the one moment, I will say to, like you pointed out, Caitlin Devere, is that what do you say her name? She immediately

Starting point is 00:03:04 embodies Abby. I think Devere? Abby. Yeah, however you say her name, I've never really watched her in anything. I think I saw her maybe two episodes of that show with Tim Allen, where she plays her daughter. I forgot what it's called. She was really funny in the two or three episodes i watched in that so that's the only background i've ever seen of her acting but again in the two minutes i saw of her here she really does feel like abby already she's got that you could feel that pain that sense of loss and obviously that's a very big part of abby and that sense of revenge which obviously is a very big portion of the theme of the game so i'm glad that they nailed that i did like the entire thing of how they structured with like you guys were talking about with the

Starting point is 00:03:50 relationship where everyone's got a relationship with Joel that we get to see and actually spend time with. I thought that was really smart. So that when we venture out, because it was more exposition in the game, which I still was fine with, but I think it's smarter to do here, establishing it like Jesse and Joel, Dina and Joel, and then obviously we saw Gail and Joel, but again, when Jesse and Dina and Ellie venture off, like, you understand these relationships that they have with Joel, so it's more impactful and more understander. when they go off to Seattle. So I think it's really smart to establish those relationships.

Starting point is 00:04:25 So I'm glad that they're spending time here. I also thought it's a really smart decision, too, having Joel in therapy. Just because, again, therapy is such a thing that we have now in society, but in a post-apocalyptic society, I feel like people would need it more than ever, especially at that time. But also, too, this is a town that tries to function on normality. So what better way to, you know, have that than therapy? and I thought it's a very fascinating because Eugene,

Starting point is 00:04:53 which I'm sure both of you are very familiar with that character, and if you're a gamer, I'm sure you are too. We didn't get to see any scenes of Gene. I'm not even going to try and butcher his name. It's Cipher from The Matrix is playing Eugene in the show. Joe, I'm just going to say Joe P. Because I can't even pronounce his last name. I was butcher it.

Starting point is 00:05:09 Oh, what? He is? You didn't know that. I told you didn't even see the trailer. What did you say? Oh. Anyways, he's playing Eugene. But, sorry, I didn't mean to.

Starting point is 00:05:19 a spoiler. That's fine. Anyways, point being is in the video game, we didn't really get to see any of Eugene. It was more just notes and pictures and stuff like that. We saw that him and Tommy were fireflies. They blew up QZ in Denver. I believe his wife's name was

Starting point is 00:05:35 Claire, not Gale, but we didn't actually get to meet her in that. So fascinating that we get to see Catherine O'Hara, who I freaking love. Great job in that scene, but also, too, that was a good, really good scene. Just giving Joel to some perspective as well, even though he couldn't come right out and say it,

Starting point is 00:05:54 that he's going to eventually have to. And that, like, again, interesting take because in the game, I believe he dies at 73 of a stroke. If I'm wrong, correct me. But I believe it was, that's what he died of in the game where it was they're telling us here in the show that Joel killed him. I don't remember the reason being from the exposition we got here. But again, fascinating that she's throwing that out there in exposition. And I'm hoping we get to see that in an episode.

Starting point is 00:06:17 But again, it's good for. for Joel because that's one of the best scenes like I remember playing that scene uh like in the last week or so and I was crying to tears watching that where Joel had to admit what he did and you could see again right here in the scene this great acting again by Bella Ramsey and Pedro Pascal where you can see that Joel has to tell this lie obviously you know it's his daughter figure and he was trying to save her but again Bella Ramsey she knows it's a lie but she doesn't want to believe the man that's her father figure the man that saved her uh saved her and the man man she's pinned across the country with is lying straight to her face.

Starting point is 00:06:53 She doesn't want to believe it. But I think it's great foreshadowing. It's just a great scene. And I love seeing this as much as I hated. It was a great scene. It was really good tension, really good suspense. And it really felt like, you know, it captured the horror aspect of the game. That that stocker scene was incredible.

Starting point is 00:07:11 I got more to say, but I'll shift it on to Aaron. Yo. I really enjoy this. I really enjoyed it a lot. I think that watching this show, in spite of the fact that all three of us have recently just played Last of Us 2, it does that beautiful thing

Starting point is 00:07:29 of allowing you to still be surprised while being excited about what's to come. And the thing about the game is it's so technically advanced. The motion capture on that and the way the character models look are so realistic. So for them to

Starting point is 00:07:47 adapted something that already feels like a playable movie you have to find ways to change it up now i think the ways that they chose to change it up were taking advantage of it's a medium right because when you're playing a game obviously you're playing it from a person's perspective but if you're having all these characters and a rounded show you get to explore things that you didn't get to explore within the first game like a scene with the council or scenes with just uh joel and dina because we didn't really get any of that before and i like that we are able to spend more time in Jackson. The interesting thing about this season is the fact that, at least so far, is

Starting point is 00:08:25 with season one, obviously it was adapted the entirety of that first video game, so each episode had to be emblematic of a chapter, breaking that game structure down into a TV format. With this one, it doesn't have to do that as much because it is sort of elongating the intention, but I like the thing that they kept from the first season is that there are, the encounters that they come across are thematic to the journey of Ellie and Joel.

Starting point is 00:08:56 The first one that comes to mind is Bill and Frank, you know, about taking care of the people that you love. And then Sam and, what's his name? Henry. Henry and Sam about, you know, this relationship and what you will do for the people that you love, even if it is the cost of other people. And here we get that with Joel and the therapist where you are seeing somebody who has been directly impacted by Joel, by them take, by Joel taking the life of somebody that they care about and getting that immediate confrontation of that.

Starting point is 00:09:28 And that person being the person he goes to to confront his own demons. I thought was very, very interesting, very fascinating dynamic because, you know, in today's society, you probably wouldn't do that. It probably wouldn't be, you know, taking shots with the therapist. and they probably wouldn't just be able to say, I hate you. So for us to get like a raw take on that is very interesting. I like Dina and the way that they've sort of played her up and they're the dynamic of that, because if you're doing all of this now,

Starting point is 00:09:57 it only makes that that much more impactful when we do end up losing Joel. And I'm just excited. You know, we had a whole entire episode where we know that when we're playing the game, 30 minutes in, is taken out. But we didn't have to really get any of that. It gives us a chance

Starting point is 00:10:16 to let this breathe. And obviously with gameplay, a lot of that structure, story-wise, is broken down by like side quests and tasks that you have to do to, like, open a gate or like turn on a generator or get some medicine. But with adaptation, those elongated portions

Starting point is 00:10:31 can get dissected or diced to allow you to have more room with your supporting cast, which only makes a story more enriching, allowing everybody involved to play into the theme of loss and forgiveness and revenge in some capacity. So I like that we are playing on the things that we already know, but changing them just enough to really hyper-focus and concentrate that theme.

Starting point is 00:10:57 So I'm excited to see whatever the changes that they do. And yeah, I'm going to pass off to Greg. Well, well, well, we are here. It runs. um yeah i mean i i i rewatch the first season uh i didn't re i didn't replay the first game but i rewatch the first season after replaying the second one that way i'm more in the show's vibe because like what andrew was talking about i i think a lot of us probably maybe not everyone but a lot of us were probably having like a direct one-to-one comparison uh when watching the first

Starting point is 00:11:36 season um the first go around and this this time around allowed me to simply watch the show and there's so much more i really appreciated and loved and there's aspects to what pedro does that i prefer because in the video game is going to go towards what they're doing here in the video game it's kind of a deconstruction of your of your action hero in there because i don't feel like pedro plays this at all like an action hero whereas in the game jolt's a badass badass as white dude from Texas you know he's a total badass even the scene in the finale when he goes to save Ellie in the game it's kind of badass in the way he's doing it and you're feeling that drive whereas the show plays it a little bit more sad and it's driving home that the the loss and this

Starting point is 00:12:27 choice that is very detrimental to the future of society they really that's in the game but I think the show kind of adopts a little bit more of a POV there to drive at home. And again, I think they're carrying through with that here because we're, if I were to sum it up, I think, I mean, Joel in the game is brilliant. I think Joel in the game is more hardened. And I think Joel, Pedro Pascal, is more broken. Both qualities are there for both of these characters. But when you're playing as action here, then you're going to pull

Starting point is 00:13:05 that veil back at the end and go see it's not all freaking action hero shit that's what works so much about playing the more hardened type and then even here like he really plays up the seniority of you know he's pedro pascal is playing a version of joel that is older than pedro pascal in real life and the you feel the elderness to him and they're really driving home to from the opening scene to start it off with abby to then go into the therapy scene as well where he can't even have a dialogue with his therapist now because he took the life of they're they're showing that what he has done in his past judgment is coming basically and i appreciate the boldness of it like i appreciate i think for a show you do have to because odds of pedra making it through season two are not likely you know and then you're going to have to do your season three and four i think they want to do three and four where you're going to be following ellie and abbey and you can't it would be very very hard to get an audience on board when pedro pascal is the biggest star of this show and he won like the sag award like he won awards

Starting point is 00:14:22 for this shit you know did he win the golden globe i forget i'm not sure i know he wants he won stuff like this is prestige television and this this skyrocketed him to a whole new terrain so yeah you do have to kind of drive home the you can't you can't solely do the p ov of how it was done in the game where you are showing abby is the bad guy like they started off with joel is the bad guy because in the game they don't even make it clear of why abby is after joel where here they they don't make it 100% clear but it's pretty obvious that all these guys were connected to the people in the hospital of the fireflies who died and now they've lost their home so they actually give you exceptionally more so that way when the moment does come, you already understand versus before you didn't

Starting point is 00:15:09 actually, in forces in the game, you didn't actually understand. So, for, yeah. I was just going to say to your point, the only thing we got in the game was they first just show you at the hospital, you just see Dr. Jerry Anderson, and that's really it. And it's like, okay, who's this doctor? And then it's kind of like that, but sorry. Yeah, yeah. But for like, for television purposes, this makes sense. And I think it's going to make it more heartbreaking because we don't we didn't really get Joel trying to work on himself and understand himself and to me it doesn't seem like I mean correct me if I'm not correct me it's not a

Starting point is 00:15:47 correction it's more of an interpretation timeline events at the game is that that at this point when all this stuff with dina kiss and happened they already had their blowout where she confronted him and it doesn't seem like they actually had that conversation because of the way how jol's interacting not as of yet it doesn't feel like Yeah, it doesn't feel like it's happened yet because that that blowout happens in Salt Lake City. It doesn't even feel like it's. And then the forgiveness happens the night before, the night before. Yeah, where that on the porch.

Starting point is 00:16:14 It doesn't feel like part of me is wondering if they're even going to have it. Yeah. Part of me is wondering if they're going to ever have that blowout. Right. Reject Nation, if you haven't heard, I'm going to tell you about a little thing that's been part of my routine these past couple months. Oh, try not to spill. Huell, H-U-E-L. God, that is tasty.

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Starting point is 00:20:31 game. They cut away as Ellie walked back, but I have a feeling if they don't show the immediacy of what happens in the moment they just showed, they'll do the thing if they did at the end of season, at the end of the game where she walked back and then she's going to come back over to have him and talk. By the way, that parallel where we thought that they were about to have that forgiveness scene possibly, because if you're a gamer, it kind of remind me of the parallel where in the first episode of season one, which I know you guys just watched, where we see that in the game, Sarah, Joel, and Tommy get hit by the car, and that's what we thought was going to happen when we were watching that. They subverted our expectations. Nope, they just get hit

Starting point is 00:21:07 by a plane engine. Yeah. So it kind of subverts your expectations as a gamer. I'm like, nope, we're going to do something different here. So fascinating choice. But I also thought, too, it was a really interesting that they decided to go with, oh, sorry, were you still going on? I was actually. Oh, my bad. so i was uh i actually lost my trade i thought no it's it's fine you can go ahead andrew it's fine i lost my bad i'm so sorry it's all good i was just going to say that i thought it was really another bold choice to give tommy a child in this because again it makes it a really tougher decision when he's going to eventually have to go out to seattle as well obviously

Starting point is 00:21:48 it's a very tough decision already because he's got to leave his wife he's got to leave the town which is very open now to either hordes coming in or just, you know, other people, you know, coming into, you know, rough up the town or whatever, but now having a child, like, that's a very difficult decision to make. And so I like that they, that they have that. And also, too, it gives Joel, you know, this connection to having, you know, a nephew there, too. I, like, I really, really like that they made that choice. It just adds another family dynamic, which Joel is all about family as we know and I like that you picked up on that because I was actually thinking it as you mentioned it where that scene was almost a recreation of the scene in the first episode with Sarah and Tommy comes in and

Starting point is 00:22:33 he was out of pancakes for his birthday very similar scene but I really I love the the chemistry between I really love the chemistry between Dina and Joel because I don't really think we got any scenes of them in the video game we didn't we did not so seeing that that was so cool and And it's him showing her the hardwiring and all that, because I believe again, in the game, she said that Eugene is the one who taught her all that. She's like, only Eugene would tinker with this shit, and he's the one who taught me how to do that.

Starting point is 00:23:02 So very fascinating angle to go that way. Again, I love when they recreate and do these own things on their own, and they do it in such a fascinating and satisfying way. I think that's the biggest thing because we talked about in season one, episode one. I'm hopefully going to pronounce his name this time right. I said Jonathan Hyde the first time. John Hanna from the Mummy.

Starting point is 00:23:21 He was on that 60s talk show where he talked about the cordyceps infecting us and how scary that was. That was an incredible exposition, not in the game. And then in episode two, the whole thing in, I forgot the country we were in, but where the physicist woman or whatever, she was studying the cordyceps and she's like blow up the city. Again, I love when they add the originality and like they do it in such a fascinating way. So again, getting to spend more time in Jackson, so much great stuff that they do. So Craig Mason, Neil Druckman, great job in episode one. Really loving.

Starting point is 00:23:51 what we got here you guys think we're going to see tommy's journey to find abbey and following ellie's journey do you think they're going to kind of have that happen off screen like in the game good question could you mean from i'd like to see tommy's perspective if we're doing this adaptation you're going to three seasons you got enough time to you got enough time to for sure right with three seasons i don't know i have no idea actually um yeah where are we at this timer here 22 uh yeah i think the well hard time getting my thought back i really am um i think the psychological aspect of if you look at what happens at the end of season one when joel is walking up the hill

Starting point is 00:24:37 with ellie it's almost it's very very so the word picks up here at the beginning of this episode it's very identical to what happens in the game but contextually wise it's feels very different than what happens in the game because you're still kind of in Joel's shoes in the game where you feel like he kind of did the it's a debate but it's kind of it's played a little bit more tender and sincere where when I watch the show I'm like Joel seems a little crazy like he's clearly thinking he's got the new Sarah right now and he's doing something super selfish and he's made Ellie this projection now for the thing he lost it's all in the game as well but I think the show does a better job

Starting point is 00:25:19 actually at driving that home. So for him to be doing that with Dina as well, I think drives home that broken psychosis even more so. And I think it's brilliant, the enhancement of it. I think that on when I replay last of it, because I was,

Starting point is 00:25:37 the first time I played Last of Us too, I thought it was manipulative when Abby killed Joel. I was like, I had the whole journey where I was like, piss at the game and I thought it was messed up and manipulative. And then I fell in love with the game. game by the end. And then on replay, I like the, I think this show is doing a great job at emphasizing like he's not a hero. He actually maybe didn't make the right call. And I think they're doing a great job

Starting point is 00:26:02 to really spotlight that throughout this whole experience. And the distance with them is great because what they're doing right now in terms of smart writing is they're elevating their supporting cast because soon their lead character is going to be gone. So they're really, making i think they're making it more feel more ensemble where in the game you kind of only would interact like tommy and marlene and all them via through if you're like playing when you're only playing as ellie and this time it kind of seems like we're going bigger cast and we're going to get way more emphasis on everyone that way um it's it's kind of like if you guys have seen the office in a much different version where steve carrell was the lead and then when it wasn't the lead anymore they made they elevated

Starting point is 00:26:43 the whole ensemble i kind of get the impression they'll be doing a tad bit of that because soon it'll be the Ellie and Dina show at some point but I do love how they've amped I like when they pay attention to like emphasizing a little bit more of the game stuff because in the first season when they fight a clicker it's super hard and in the game you're fighting like a billion clickers and then here they show you like if it's real life it'd probably be hard to take down one or two actually and to show the elevation of how far Ellie has come where she is confidently able to go in there and actually kill the clicker and then to build up the stalker because you know there's more than stalkers to come there's you know shamblers there's the rat king uh we only met one bloater before i think a bloater's harder than a stalker but they really put this like kind of emphasis on the stocker like it's the next evolution of something which so i don't know like where they're going to go with that because to me imagine for the gamers like a bloater if you guys don't care about spoilers and if you're here the bloater's the thing in the episode five that comes out of the ground um

Starting point is 00:27:47 I think that's significantly harder. Why does he got fire? The bloaters are easy. Well, I think it was more so the introduction of the different type of threat. We're not accustomed to because they haven't logged it yet. And I was going to the council. But they didn't do that with the bloater. And the bloater, I think, is like a massive step up.

Starting point is 00:28:04 Well, the bloater existed in that, what they were all underground. We didn't really spend any time in Jackson. They didn't have a name for it. Yeah, there's no conversation around like, what was that? It just happened. It had to leave. Yeah, we're here. They're like, no, they're evolving.

Starting point is 00:28:17 I think maybe because there is more personality to a stalker, right? Like it's kind of thinking way more, whereas the other infected head straight in and just to handle business. This one was, like the ability to stock requires a little bit more mental work. And so I guess actually, that's why I like, that's why I love about the show, because I never consider that in the game. But the show is spotlining it in a way that's going, oh, that is a bit. that is a thing where you have to have a conversation about the evolution of the infected at that point this is why when I was I wasn't just like

Starting point is 00:28:51 going on a spout like I hate stalkers more than anyone because they are like they make strategic moves against you and they come at you at the last second and when I play them in the video game I hate more than anyone more than the bloater I'm not going to go more than the racking that's a different story I hit the racking more than anyone else other than the rat king stalkers I hate the most

Starting point is 00:29:11 they are the most difficult and I think this episode really emphasized Craig Mason and Neil Druckman really did a good job emphasizing how strategically they move and just again the way they contort themselves and just how scary they can be. So really great job and that was a good point you made.

Starting point is 00:29:28 I think Abby, that was something that I do think that in the game for Abby to be buff is very emblematic of her rage and anger all of this hyper focus. I'm going to take it

Starting point is 00:29:44 all into my body that way when the day comes i can extract revenge at all costs right and it might not be necessary for the show i'm i'm beginning to actually change my tune with that honestly we have this conversation a couple weeks ago it's an expression of pain but that's not the only way pain can be expressed and it's because of how she sold it here when like she does sound like abbey and stuff so um and you could feel that rage and it's not like she needs to be buffed to kill Joel but i don't know there's other aspects to where abby's physical bruteness and strength and it's like very specific in the game built like a fox yeah i mean i she's not built like if she looks more like sarah connor toned like

Starting point is 00:30:31 that i mean i'd be okay with that even you know what i mean so short or is or is the guy who plays oh and so tall and we got falcon here yeah i did notice too just last thing i did notice with the salt lake crew because you i didn't see Jordan. I didn't see Leah. But again, that was just outside the Salt Lake. There's a lot more of them. Yeah, there is a lot more of them when they do come to Jackson. So, but I did notice that we did not see Jordan or Leah. I mean, I think the show is actually going to deviate from the games quite a bit. Right. The fact that this ended, because they remix and they're having fun. The first season was pretty accurate to the game. It's pretty accurate. Structurally, but some of the events

Starting point is 00:31:10 were different to highlight the themes of the story. I didn't say 100% accurate. all right you were pretty pretty close and and but i think like if they have infected a horde uh overrun jackson and i'm like oh that didn't happen in the game at all like what was that going to lead to and i think the more they actually they didn't have the therapist character if they're not doing all these things um that i i i feel like they're for a game that's already insanely long to do this expansion over the course of three seasons it's going to allow for a cooler adaptability and it's going to allow for more creativity

Starting point is 00:31:55 and you got to surprise you because the game is massive the second game is a massive massive game and a lot of people watch the cutscenes without even playing the game so I feel like they can remix a lot and hold off on Joel's death to like close to the last episode honestly if they wanted to or it could happen in the next episode and there's so much better

Starting point is 00:32:13 And there's so much important dialogue that happens during the gameplay. So for the people who just watch the cutscenes, like there's so much fun and important stuff you miss during the actual game. I love that they brought the beer bottle in. Yes. Yeah. Now, I really appreciate this show's restraint as far as the death of Joel because obviously it happens very early on and sets the tone for the entire game,

Starting point is 00:32:36 but for us to be able to spend time with these characters. Yeah, really really hammers home the fact that this story from the beginning has been about character more than it's been about its action. His action is only used to heighten the experience of the game and show the danger of this world.

Starting point is 00:32:54 Now, the fact that we're showing Abby early, as opposed to being like something that's bamboozos as a player, now there's this building sense of dread. There's this mystery aspect of what are they going to do once they get to Joel, how are they going to see Joel for the

Starting point is 00:33:09 newcomers. But then there's a sense of dread for us as the gamers are like, oh no, we know it's going to come but we know this is a remix how is it going to come because it's not going to be happening in the same way there's going to be a horde coming to the city where in the game it was them patrolling and then they happened to to find them i swear to god they shy away from abby beating the shit out of joel i will i'll actually she said to it was slow yeah she did say that i'm sure she's going to get a joel in one don't worry i have really hope they uh they don't shy i hope we like watch a brutal yeah a pride drop house

Starting point is 00:33:41 I hope we watch Mr. Fantastic, really get clubbed. What I will say, what I will say is that though it will be sad to us as a viewer, I don't think it will be as divisive as it was in the game because the game becomes a sense of identity because you're playing as Joel, therefore you feel like you are Joel. So when Abby kills Joel, it feels like she's killing you. But because we're doing this ensemble take and establishing her early on, she's killing a character that we love, but we're also going to be establishing her as a character. that we're going to get to know yeah right well i mean the game positions her again like what i said

Starting point is 00:34:17 earlier the game positions her like she is the antagonist the villain of the story and she they even kind of like play her up as if she's evil like they make you play as her for a little bit but that does nothing right i mean you play as her but it does nothing to make you like endeared to her where here they set her up like a child who just lost someone really important to her. And so what I'm saying is they actually make you understand her right away versus in the game

Starting point is 00:34:46 you don't understand her right away. Yeah, and I like that in my rewatch of the show, him killing Jerry Anderson was like a quick like one-off, just another thing in his way. We're in the game, it's like a moment. It's like very intimate. He stabs him. Like, okay, this is something, we don't know

Starting point is 00:35:02 it's going to be important until two, but yeah, it just feels even less, like more throwaway and just goes to the fact there are consequences for your actions yeah man all right guys last of us season two episode one in the can't wait keep a lookout for the blind reactions they have no idea what's coming they have no idea oh no i might i might just kick that door open i want to do it like 10 minutes before jolt does i'll be like hey he's going to die in five minutes like really spoiling yeah He's coming with a golf club.

Starting point is 00:35:38 I was going to say, if Greg doesn't spoil it, please don't spoil it for them. Yeah, don't do that while we're spoiling it. It's Denver. We know. Like, we were fucking talking about it. We know. I'm saying for the blind reaction, please don't spoil it for them, guys. Guys, leave your thoughts down below.

Starting point is 00:35:56 What did you think about this episode? I'm enjoying the remix. I'm excited. I think Dina casting is flawless. I barely talked about it because. uh shit yeah i do want to say something about that it kind of reminds me of like miss marvel casting where i i fail to notice how good of a job she's doing because it seems so it's so effortless it's like so slipped in that i'm like oh my god yeah she's like totally hurt you know and i don't i'm not

Starting point is 00:36:22 even paying attention to that when she's pulling it off wonderfully so thank you guys so much for being here subscribe click that bell we're going to cover all these episodes t l u peace out Guito Galindo. Hey, you know what? I'd tell you, Guito, if you were infected. Don't, don't say it. Say it ain't so.

Starting point is 00:36:48 Not Guito. I would chain you up and taunt you till the rest of my days. Oh, man. So mean. I would get a feather and little tickles right on his nibbles. Oh, I see. Physically. I thought you were just going to, like, call him names and shit.

Starting point is 00:37:05 That's worse. No, that's part of it, man. I'm going to humiliate you verbally, but I'm also going to mess with you physically. I'm going to be like, this is what you get for subscribing to Blindwave. I'm going to leave so many banana peels in the barn where we keep you. Oh, that's going to be so funny. He's going to be falling down. I'm falling all the time.

Starting point is 00:37:23 I'm going to literally, like, slice my whole body open, have my guts fall out. Yes. So that way, he's like, I need it. Finally, I get to eat you. You won't be able to reach me. It's going to be hilarious. Oh, man. That's the ultimate revenge.

Starting point is 00:37:41 And because phones have stopped working, I'm not going to be able to call for help. Jokes on you, Guido. Because I'm going to be dead on the ground. And you won't be able to enjoy a minute of it. We'll be able to get a taste of it. Might of a morsel. I'll be a rotting flesh right there. It's like pizza staring you in the face.

Starting point is 00:38:03 And he will be able to do jack. Shit, dumbass. Can I have to stare at it forever. Oh, God. I made you look stupid. That's for sure. What an idiot. Yeah, I bet you feel real smart about pledging

Starting point is 00:38:15 to this Patreon. Well, I'm looking forward to making a fool out of you. Oh, look out. Watch your back, Guito. Happy April, buddy.

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