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hi,

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this

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is

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Rachel

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McElroy. Hello, this is Griffin McElroy, and this is wonderful.

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We're here for you. And we're here to tell you all about the things we like that are good.

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And that we're into, that's what we do on this show.

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Largely we do other things too.

0:33

We're not just about that.

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You know, sometimes we talk about great art, but that we don't like that.

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So it doesn't fit into the normal format of the show.

0:45

Sometimes we flirt with each other, I

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would say most times, well, Let's

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not go, let's not go wild.

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And it's not like, you know, we're just constantly ribbon each other with all love Barb's.

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Is that what flirting is?

1:02

From What I understand? Yeah.

1:03

I didn't Really ever learn, I guess, teach me what love is.

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Teach me what love is.

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I want you to show me.

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I think I already have. I think you have to, do you have any small wonders?

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They Do. Actually. I just thought of this when you get a blanket right out of the dryer.

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Oh my God.

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Last night, Last

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night was pretty rough.

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We had kind of a rough night with the boys and, and Griffin.

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I had washed our are our big bed blanket.

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Yes. And Griffin had pulled out of the dryer, came, came downstairs, cloaked in it.

1:41

And it was just so nice.

1:43

It was comfortable solace.

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So comforting.

1:46

When our children, both of them independently refused to slump out, like almost perfectly the big one.

1:55

Like You can get to go to sleep, but, but lately he is fighting and a little bit more and it seemed like the big one would be up and the little one would be down.

2:05

And then the little one would be up. And then the big one would be the Last

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night. There was a time where I went into little one to bounce him on a bouncy ball for like 20 minutes.

2:13

And then I came out and sat down and then the monitor for big one went off and I was like, what?

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How did they do that?

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So perfectly, our children were conspiring against us, but that's okay.

2:25

I did just wake up from a nap about four minutes ago.

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Is the Crow flies? Yeah. Is that your small wonder?

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Cause it seems like it had to have been something we've discussed before.

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Yeah, no, we've definitely talked about naps on many different occasions.

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No, I'm going to say I'm Phil Twizzlers.

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Good

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is

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hell. A lot of people don't think about filled Twizzlers and people say, do you like Twizzlers?

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And they are like, licorice know, thanks.

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And you're like, it can be so much more than that.

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And they feel it with the sour stuff.

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I was gonna say sour cream, but that's a different, that's a different thing.

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At some point we Are really going to examine our candy and take, Yeah,

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it's going to be when our evenings, when we've reclaimed reclaimed our time, that's fair.

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Food

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is

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all

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we

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have

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foods

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I've

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got

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right

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now,

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food

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and

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garbage

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reality

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television

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is

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about

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it. Hey, I go first this week.

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Great. I regret to inform you that my subject will not be something that you are, that you care about.

3:28

And I apologize, it's a game thing, but I was, I was struggling this week and I just came back to ACE attorney.

3:36

I just really wanted to talk about ACE attorney, the series of visual novel adventure games.

3:41

The ACE attorney series Seems

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like a sequel to a Jim Carrey film.

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Ooh, that's fun.

3:49

So, you know, there's the first of the pet detective and then when nature calls and then right, The,

3:55

the ACEs, his name in those films and ACE attorney is more, that's sort of a modifier of this is saying this guy is a great attorney.

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And typically the ACE attorney and question is Phoenix, right?

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But that is the it's up for sometimes it's Apollo justice.

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Sometimes it's other folks. Don't worry about it though.

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I want to talk about the ACE attorney series a, which is a lawyer game.

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You play as a lawyer, a defense attorney who is placed in a series of impossibly difficult trials for the wrongly accused.

4:29

And you have to exonerate them throughout these very delightful and long-winded trials one month.

4:37

I'm talking about this because there's a new one out today that I've been playing a lot of.

4:41

And it's, it's reminded me just how much I love this series.

4:44

I love this lawyer game.

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What

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Are the actions you can take as a player?

4:51

The sword attack? Well, it's a video game. So he was sorta attacking gun attack.

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And you know, it's not it's, you don't really do that.

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Largely what you do is you cross examine witnesses, just like real court.

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And Are these preset phrases you choose from?

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So, no, it's not so much like that.

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It's not a, I use the term visual novel, which typically that is how those play out.

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Like sometimes you'll have like, choose your, your, your response to this question.

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This is a lot more open in it.

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And that, so typically how it plays out is you get into a trial and the trial is like, cartoonishly stacked against your client.

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Like it is cut and dry locked room, murder, mystery, like, oh your guys, the only one that could have done it.

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And then you have to cross examine witnesses to try and find these inconsistencies to piece together the truth of the situation.

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And you do that by listening to these testimonies and you can press them to like, get more details about it and wait for them to slip up.

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And once you've picked up on something that doesn't quite make sense, you can present a piece of evidence that has been added to the court record that contradicts that.

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And a lot of those will be submitted either by you or by the prosecution.

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Sometimes there's like an investigation phase before you actually go to trial where you can collect evidence.

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So you're kind of playing part, detective part, lawyer.

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You're, you're wearing a lot of hats in these games typically, but you just listen to these testimonies and pay very, very, very close attention.

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And if you see something that doesn't make sense, you can present a piece of evidence to contest it.

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But if you mess up too many times, you lose the trial.

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How long does one of these go?

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Well, it, it right. Usually one of the games will have five trials included in it.

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And the first one's like fairly straight forward and these games are formulaic occasionally to a fault.

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Cause usually in the first one, you are the one who's been accused of murder and you are representing yourself in court.

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And those are usually pretty cut and dry.

6:51

The, the, the final one in the game I just played is like, I mean, it's a few hours.

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Like it takes a while and it's yeah, the murderer or attempted attempted murder.

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And usually in those, Like

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you robbed this convenience store.

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I mean, there's probably have been a dozen of these, I think.

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And they're like main line ACE attorney series.

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And

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so,

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you

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know,

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that's

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a

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lot

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of

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cases

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throughout

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them. There've probably been some less fatal occasions, but I don't know, I don't get into true crime.

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That's not like a type of, of, of media that I typically consume.

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So this is really how I scratched that itch.

7:31

I just really like it because it's, it's for one thing, it first came out in 2005 on the game, boy advance out in Japan or 2001, actually it didn't come to the states until 2005 rose and Nintendo DS game.

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And it kind of introduced this visual novel genre to the states and like popularized it.

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And now like there's a ton of these visual novels, which are essentially just stories presented in a video game format that you largely just read.

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But these are more interactive than that.

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And like trying to solve the puzzles of each case is really satisfying.

8:06

There is this focus on turnabouts where everything is so stacked against you.

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And when you start to find those little holes and the prosecution's argument and things start to look a little bit less hopeless until you finally like and have that Eureka moment.

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It's like something that not a lot of games have been able to replicate.

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And when it works, this new ACE attorney game that's out today does some incredible turnabouts with that.

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And it's, it just feels really, really satisfying until you get very invested in these wrongfully accused peoples stories.

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And when you start to figure out like, oh shit, you really didn't do it.

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It's just, it's a really, really satisfying thing.

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It makes me re like I never watched the law and order or any of those types of shows.

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I get, I guess, why people enjoy that?

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Because the courtroom drama is about as high stakes as it gets.

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So can you like replay? Like if you like mess up and you lose, can you like go back and try again?

9:05

Yes. Although, I mean, you can also save at any time, so you can just start, like, if you really start to mess up, you can, you can, you know, save scum a little bit.

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And some S I will say this, there are varying degrees of quality between the games and the trials, this new one that's out today is very good, but there've been some where, like, instead of feeling like, oh, I'm a super genius.

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Whenever you start to figure out these inconsistencies and, and contradictions, it's like, how on you're guessing, like, how on earth was I supposed to get that?

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Like, there's, I remember one where one of the big things is this eyewitness saw the killer holding a bunch of bananas when he killed somebody.

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And the whole time, like, it's not explained, like, what is going on and tell you realize that one of the pieces of evidence is a, a baseball Mitt and you point out like he wasn't holding bananas.

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It was a baseball Mitt.

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So the eyewitness isn't good at seeing things.

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Then The judge is, oh, and I'm like, that's not, that's not laws.

10:07

Any Of it goes, ah, but the, the, the new game I would say is, is, is really, I think just, just a bunch of really good cases that you have to solve and, and, and, and figure out there are these really great, what are called meltdowns whenever you like really back one of the witnesses into a corner and tear him apart.

10:26

And usually it's suppose that they themselves, or the killer, they have these like extended, hyper dramatic animations where like, you know, their wig goes flying backwards and they it's like, you've just defeated a, a boss.

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The, the, the dramatics are like out of control.

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Anytime you present a piece of evidence, like usually Phoenix Wright will slam his fist down on the desk and scream objection.

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And when you played it on the D S S the D S had a microphone on it.

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And so instead of pressing like a button to present evidence, you could yell objection into the microphone to present it.

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Oh, it's so good.

11:00

The prosecutor in the new game is this like Dracula looking dude who keeps like, filling up a glass of wine every time.

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He's about to like, trick you into a corner and like smash it on the table and then immediately apologized for it.

11:13

It's the games are very funny. They're very well localized, which is, you know, these games that are originally really student Japan.

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And it's quite a feat, like having not only all of that writing come over and be, you know, understandable and like genuinely very funny, but also like still follow the puzzle format of the original cases and not like screw all that up.

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And I think these games, I think the world of them and I, I genuinely think anyone would, would enjoy them.

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I don't know. I'm think I'm going to be a lawyer now.

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Cause I'm really good at, I

11:47

wondered if you ever had line ambitions between This

11:51

and watching the OSI and just see, and Sandy Coleman out there just yelling.

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Objection, man.

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I would love it. The kind of seems like maybe you're just attracted to the yelling.

12:02

I think I might just like the yelling part of it.

12:04

There's a lot of yelling. There's a lot of pointing.

12:08

Yeah. I think maybe that's my, maybe that's my jam.

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I don't know. One of my dear friends went to school, she double majored in theater and political science ended up becoming a lawyer.

12:19

And it seems like that has the perfect combo.

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If you're going to be a lawyer. Yeah.

12:23

I can see myself not necessarily being good at learning all the different laws and how It

12:30

works in a courtroom, But I could see myself being very good at like when cross examining a witness, if they say something and then I'm like, can you repeat that please?

12:42

Did you just say that the gun was a, was a red gun and exhibit the guy and his blue.

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It's one of those blue.

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So my client could have pot.

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Couldn't it possibly have been the gun one?

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Yeah. You're ready case close Folks.

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Have the jury.

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I rest my case.

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The gun is blue. Peace out.

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I feel pretty good about that.

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That was good. Hey, can I steal you away please?

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Thank you. Griffin.

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I picked the features I wanted it to have.

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And when I use it, my hair smells and looks fantastic.

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Now I heard that when you were creating this shampoo, you said, I want extra sulfates and parabens and I don't want it to be vegan.

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And I want it to be extra, have extra cruelty.

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And they said, is it opposite day?

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They said, no, because we don't do any of that stuff.

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I mean, yeah. It's probably that If

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I had one of those, for sure.

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Persona fat. Yeah. Yeah.

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What have you prepared for us today, Rachel, to discuss one of you teed up?

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I have prepared something that I may have mentioned as a small wonder, but I don't recall ever doing a full length segment on oh, okay.

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By nothing groups By

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nothing groups. I appreciate these for their comedic.

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I

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think

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you

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have

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talked

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about

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this

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on

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the

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show,

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but

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it

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must

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have

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been

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a

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small

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wonder. Yeah, I think it was, so this is something that I just kind of recently got into, like since pandemic it's actually been around since 2013, it in the Pacific Northwest and kind of moved its way across the country.

20:50

And, and then across the globe As

20:52

a like Facebook group first and foremost, or did it have its origins outside the platform?

20:59

Yeah. So the it's kind of a bulk of its work is done on Facebook right now, but they are looking into an app platform so they can get off of Facebook.

21:08

But

21:08

so

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this

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is

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something

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that

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is

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really

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useful,

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particularly

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for

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us

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as

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we

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had

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a

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new

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baby,

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you

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know,

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we

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have

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four

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years

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in

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between

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our

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oldest

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and

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this

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new

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baby. So a lot of stuff either had fallen in disrepair or we had just gotten rid of The

21:27

bugs, claimed it or the bugs quickly put it in the garage.

21:30

And then we came out one day and the bugs were swinging one of their little, one of their little baby bugs and the swing.

21:35

And we're like, Ooh, that's yours. Now. You likes, How

21:40

cute would that be though? Not just a little bugs taking turns in this one, I guess That's

21:45

cute dammit and a very Joe's apartment kind of way.

21:48

I need to stop referencing that.

21:50

Nobody people that have seen that movie possibly, I saw it in theaters For

21:56

me too. And you know, it was and was Like

21:58

MTV's first movie.

22:00

And, and we wanted to be cool teens, Gary,

22:03

Gary O con Jerry O'Connor guy, not Gary.

22:07

O'Connell the evil he's sliders into a world where he turned into Gary.

22:13

O'Connor God, I've just referenced sliders and Joe's apartment.

22:16

And within like two minutes of each other, I'm 700 years old.

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Oh.

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So

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all

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that

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to

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say

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babies

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children,

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things

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you

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purchased

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sometimes

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that,

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you

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know,

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you're

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not

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to

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get

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more

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two's

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out

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it. Right. And so by nothing is great because it is a group designed to basically pick stuff up from people that they don't want anymore and to not pay anything for it.

22:45

Yup. And Facebook has just been like a really easy platform for that.

22:49

Cause you, you post a picture and, and then you can kind of drive over there and see it.

22:55

So the thing that is really unique about by nothing as opposed to like maybe Craigslist is that they really focused on making it localized.

23:02

So not just your city, but your neighborhood has a group.

23:08

And right now there are at least 4 million participants across 44 countries with more than 6,000 independent, locally led groups.

23:19

So for example, the group I joined is very specific to like our area, right.

23:25

And the idea of the people that founded it, Liezel Clark and Rebecca Rockefeller wanted to not only contribute to the less waste, but also kind of build community.

23:34

And so it's this way to like drive over to your neighbors house and being like, oh, you have cooler.

23:40

Yeah. And you don't Need to no. Anything else about you.

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And

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then

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you

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see

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like

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a

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couple

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of

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years

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later. And you're like, oh yeah, the cooler family.

23:49

That's not our name.

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Sure. I'm using that cooler though.

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Great cooler.

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And

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so,

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yeah,

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so

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it

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keeps

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in this scenario is the beanbag chair full of illegal substance.

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Yeah. Oh, okay. Counterfeit Pokemon cards.

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What is that? That they like, is there a typo in them?

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Like what makes them not above board Pokemon Cards

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and make them yourself or the counterfeit?

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Nick and myself.

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Do you know, do you re do you know about like Pokemon card fever?

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I'm sorry to divert things, but it's, it is bananas A

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sign on our local target and saying that they would no longer be selling.

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Well, you can only buy Like two packs at a time or something like that.

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Yeah. And then McDonald's had like a promotion where they like figured how about miles and people just ransacked McDonald's cause they hear it and have that first and usually Bulbasaur give it to me.

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Wow. You must have a lot of kids. Huh? Yeah.

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I love these nuggets.

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They also it's, it's a community where you're not allowed to like advertise business or anything.

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They can't control what they say to you.

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So they, especially in a place like Austin, and that is so like a lot of cities, like a lot of cities like Austin have that like physical boundary of like a highway or something.

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Yeah. So they are looking into a new native platform called soup, share on our platform with the goal of expanding by nothing beyond physical boundaries.

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And also just associating itself from Facebook, which you know, is also problematic.

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Wow. Beyond the physical plane.

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And they encourage people to not focus as much on intersections, because part of it is like, prove that you live in this neighborhood because you can only be part of one neighborhood group.

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I will say. The other thing that I kind of appreciate is that when somebody posts something, there's this whole etiquette, because you know, if you're in a, like a selling group, a lot of times it's like, first I want it, like within five minutes of being posted, this one is like, I would like to be considered.

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I mean, I guess it differs group to group, right.

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There's gotta be some rowdy ass group.

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I think that's part of the role of the moderator.

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But yeah, I remember when I had, the reason I joined is that we have some friends here who had convinced me who also have young children and like gotten any number of things like outdoor equipment and clothes.

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And they told me like, Hey, before you do anything, like if somebody posts something, don't just claim it.

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Just, just say you would like to be considered because that is, that is part of the ethos because it's a free item.

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was at the present. Yeah. So my parents listened to the show and they heard me talk about smart cars and they got me the smart speaker.

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And it was very cute. Yeah. I mean, I can, I

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can giggle at it, but, but it was arguably the saddest new year's Eve celebration ever this year, we cracked that bad boy, the equivalent to the big cigarette lighter though.

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It is big hairdryer and they didn't, it's a big overclock tear dryer for sure.

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But it got the fricking done tasty, tasty, sad, lonely smores on that new year's Eve.

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I dunno. I think I like that this happened in the other way.

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It really paid off was during the big freeze in Austin and where our city kind of totally failed us.

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And so it was difficult to get to the should say the whole state, then it's Difficult

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That's very cool. Yeah, that is cool.

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I mentioned it's comedic value because also you've told me about some stuff that people have posted on there.

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That's been pretty bogus. Yeah.

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So a lot of times people will share food items, which is great because there's a lot of people with food insecurity that are kind of uncomfortable going to a shelter, but might feel, you know, safer going to the neighbors.

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one specifically, you mentioned what somebody had gotten mistakenly a pizza, the Lakers, And

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It's like, Hey, I got this, you know, 12 pack of soup.

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And I had one and I don't like it.

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Do you want the other 11 soups?

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Who wants 11? Oops.

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Hi. This is Rachel McElroy. Hello. This is Griffin McElroy. And this is wonderful. We're here for you, and we're here to tell you all about the things we like that are good and that we're into. That's what we do on this show largely. We do other things too. Uh-huh. We're not just about that. You know? Yeah. Sometimes we talk about great art, but that we don't like. that. So it doesn't fit into the normal format of the it doesn't fit into the normal format of the show. Sometimes we flirt with each other. Yeah. I would say most times. Well, let's not go. Let's not go wild. It's not like, you know, we're just constantly Griffins each other with all of barbs. Is that what flirting is? From what I understand, yeah. Okay. I didn't really ever learn, I guess. Yeah. Teach me what love is. Teach me what love is. I wanna know. I want you to show me. think I already have. I think you have SOOP. you have any small wonders? I do, actually. I just thought of this. K. When you get a blanket right out of the dryer -- Oh my god. last night, Last night was pretty rough. We had kind of a rough night with the boys and, and had got a rough night with the boys. And and Griffin, I had washed our our big bed blanket. Yes. And Griffin had pulled out of the dryer and came came down to stairs, cloaked in it. And it it was just so nice. It was a cloak of solace. comforting. When our children, both of them, independently, refused to slum. From, like, timed out. Like Almost perfectly. Typically, the big one, like, you can get to go to sleep. But but lately, he is fighting in a little bit more. Yes. And it seemed like the big one would be up and the little one would be down. And then the little one would be up and then the big one would be down. Last night, there was a time where I went into little one to bounce him on a bouncey ball for, like, twenty minutes. And then I came out and sat down, and then the monitor for big one went off. And I was like, what that how did they do that so perfectly? Her children were conspiring against us, but that's okay. I did just wake up from a AAPI. four minutes ago is the crow flies. Yeah. Is that your small wonder? Because it seems like it had to have been something we've discussed before. Yeah. No. We've definitely talked about naps on many different occasions. No. I'm gonna say, I'm filled Twizzlers. Good as hell. A lot of people don't think about filled twizzlers. A lot of people say, do you like twizzlers? And they're like, oh, licorice. No thanks. And you're like, it can be so much wine. What do they fill it with? Sour stuff. I was gonna say sour cream, but that's a different that's a different thing. At some point, we are really going to have to examine our candy intake Yeah. It's gonna be when our evenings, when we've reclaimed reclaimed our time. SOOP to set up It's fair. I don't Food is all we have. Food's all we got right now. Food and garbage reality television is about it. Hey, I go first this Hey, I go first this week. Great. I regret to inform you that my subject will not be something that you are that you care about. And I apologize. It's a it's a game thing. But I was I was struggling this week and I just came back to ACE attorney. I just really wanted to talk about ACE attorney, the series of visual novel adventure just really wanted to talk about ACE Attorney, the series of visual novel adventure games, the ACE Attorney Series. Seems like a sequel to a Jim Carrey film. Oh, that's fine. SOOP, you know, there's the first of the pet detective and then when nature calls and then Right. But Ace is his name in those films, and Ace Attorney is more that's sort of modifier of Oh, like you're This is saying this guy is a great attorney. Okay. Typically, the ace attorney in question is Phoenix. Right? But that is It's up for sometimes it's Apollo justice, sometimes it's other folks. Don't worry about it though. I wanna talk about the ace attorney series, which is a lawyer game. You play as a lawyer, a defense attorney, who is placed in a series of impossibly difficult trials for the wrongly accused and you have to exonerate them. Throughout these very delightful and long winded trials. Wont month. I'm talking about this because there's a new one out today that I've been playing a lot of and it's It's reminding me just how much I love this series. I love this lawyer game. What are the actions you can take as a player? The sword Sword attack? Well, it's a video it's a video. So your sword attack and gun attack and you no. It's not it's you don't really do that. Largely, what you do is you cross examine witnesses. Just like real court. And Are these preset phrases you choose these preset phrases you choose from? SOOP, no, it's not so much like that. It's not a I use the term visual novel, which typically that is how those play out. Like, sometimes you'll have, like, choose your your your response to this question. This is a lot more open than that. So typically how it plays out is you get into a trial and the trial is like cartoonishly stacked against your client. Like, it is cut and dry, locked room murder mystery, like, oh, your guy's the only one that could have done it. And then you have to cross examined witnesses to try and find these inconsistencies, to piece together the truth of the situation. And you do that by listening to these testimonies and you can press them to, like, get more details about it and wait for them to slip up. And once you've picked up on something that doesn't quite make sense, you can present a piece of evidence that has been added to the court record that contradicts that. And a lot of those will be submitted either by you or by the execution, sometimes there's like an investigation phase before you actually go to trial where you can collect evidence. you're kind of playing part detective, part lawyer. You're you're wearing a lot of hats in these games typically, but you just listen to these testimonies and pay very, very, very close attention. And if you see something that doesn't make sense, you can present a piece of evidence to contest it. But if you mess up too many times, you lose the trial. How long does, like, one of these go? Well, it it differs. Right? Usually, one of the games will have five trials. Included in it. And the first one's like fairly straightforward. I these games are formulaic occasionally to a default usually in the first one, you are the one who's been accused of murder and you are representing yourself in court. And those are usually pretty cut and dry. The the the final one in the game I just played is like, I mean, it's a few hours. Like, it takes a wha Is it always murder? It's Yeah. Murder or attempted to attempted murder Mhmm. -- usually in those. So it's not like you robbed this convenience store? I mean, there's probably I there have been a dozen of these, I think, in the, like, mainline ace attorney series. And so that's a lot of cases throughout them. There have probably been some less fatal occasions, but I don't know. I don't get into true crime. That's not like a a type of of of media that I typically consume. So this is really how I scratch that edge. Yeah. I just really like it because it's it's for one thing, it first came out in two thousand five on the Game Boy Advance. Out in Japan or two thousand Wont, It didn't come to the state until two thousand five or is an Nintendo DS game. And it kind of introduced this visual novel genre to the states and, like, popularized it. And now, like, there's a ton of these visual novels which are essentially just stories presented in a video game format that you largely just read. But these are more interactive than that and like trying to solve the puzzles of each case is really satisfying. There is this focus on turnabouts where everything is so stacked against you. And when you start to find those little holes in the prosecution's argument, and things start to look a little bit less hopeless until you finally like have that Eureka moment, it's like something that not a lot of games have been able to replicate. And when it works, this new Ace Attorney Game that's out today does some incredible turnabouts with that. And it it it just feels really, really satisfying till you get very invested in these wrongfully accused people's stories, and when you start to figure out, like, oh, shit. You really didn't do it. It's just It's a really, really satisfying thing. It makes me feel like I never watched law and order or any of those types of shows. I get, I guess, why people enjoy that because courtroom drama It's about as high stakes as it gets. So can you, like, replay? Like, if you, like, mess up and you lose, can you, like, go back and try again? Yes. Although it's I mean, you can also save at any time. So you can just sort of, like, if you really start to mess up, you can you can, you know, save scrum a little bit. And, sunset, I will say this. There are varying degrees of quality between the games and the trials. This new one that's out today. It's very good. But there have been somewhere like, instead of feeling like, oh, I'm a super genius whenever you start to figure out these inconsistencies and and contradictions, It's like, how on you're guessing? Like, how on Earth was I supposed to get that? Like, there's I remember one where Wont of the big things is this eyewitness saw that killer holding a bunch of bananas when he killed somebody. And the whole time, like, it's not explained like, what is going on? Until you realize that one of the pieces of evidence is a a baseball mitt and you point out, like, he wasn't holding bananas. It was a baseball mitt. SOOP the eyewitness isn't good at seeing things. And the judge is like, throw them out, and I'm like, that's not or that's not laws. That's not how any of it goes. But the the new game, I would say, is is is really, I think, just just a bunch of really good cases that you have to solve and and and and figure out. There are these really great, what are called meltdowns whenever you, like, really back one of the witnesses into a corner and tear them apart and usually expose that they themselves are the killer. They have these, like, extended hyper dramatic animations where, like, you know, their wig goes flying backwards and they it's like you've just, like, defeated a a boss. The the the dramatics are, like, out of control. Anytime you present a piece of evidence, like, usually, Phoenix. Right? Well, slam is fissed down on the desk and scream objection. When you played it on the DS, the DS had a microphone on it. And so instead of pressing like a button to present evidence, you could yell objection. Into the microphone to present it. Oh, it's so good. The prosecutor in the new game is this like dracula looking dude. Who keeps, like, filling up a glass of wine every time he's about to, like, trick you into a corner and, like, smash it on the table. Yeah. And then immediately apologize for it. It's it's the games are very funny. They're very well localized, which is, you know, these games are originally released in Japan. And it's quite a feat like having not only all of that writing come over and be, you know, understandable and like genuinely very funny but also like still follow the puzzle format of the original cases and not like screw all that up. I I think these games, I think the world of them. And I genuinely think anyone would would enjoy them. I don't know. They I think I'm gonna be lawyer now. Yes. I'm really good at it. I wondered if you ever had law ambitions. Between this and watching the OC and just seeing Sandy come in there. Just yelling objection. Man, I would love it. The kind of seems like maybe you're just attracted to the seems like maybe you're just attracted to the yelling. I think I might just like the yelling part of I might just like the yelling part of it. There's a lot of yelling. There's a lot of pointing. Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah. I think maybe that's my maybe that's my jam. I don't know. One of my dear friends went to school, she double majored in theater and political science ended up becoming a of my dear friends went to school. She double majored in theater and political science. Ended up becoming a lawyer, and it seems like that is the perfect combo if you're gonna be a lawyer. Yeah. I can see myself not necessarily being good at learning all the different laws and how it works in a courtroom. Mhmm. But I could see myself being very good at like when cross examining a witness, if they say something and then I'm like, can you repeat that I could see myself being very good at, like, when cross examining a witness if they say something. And a nine mic. Can you repeat that, please? Did you just say that the gun was was a red gun. And today, the guy needs blue. It's one of those blue guns. So my client could couldn't have possibly have been the gun one, the gun piece. Yeah. You're ready. Case closed. Folks of the jury. I rest my case. The gun is blue. Peace out. Mhmm. 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Shiner, don't know what that is. Is it one of those, like, sticks with the two sort of conical brushes that spin around and you hold them on your feet? You know, and they call us your shoes for you. You know? Yeah. I mean yeah. It's probably that. If I had one of those, I would for Sherpa's on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, can I read you the name? Yeah, please. This is for Anna Beth. It is from Andy. To my dearest, Anna Beth, I'm incredibly excited to be marrying you next summer. I hope I'll have an easier time writing my vows than this jumbotron. But I hope you know that Wont SOOP I are so lucky to have you in our lives. I am endlessly proud of you and I am eager to see what adventures await us next. Love always, andy. And I should say that after winry and loop, it does say cats in parentheses. Which I'm guessing is for my benefit. Not the recipient of this jumbo tran. It's possible. It's possible. It could just be the Andy, like, loves the musical cats. Yeah. 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I I have prepared something that I may have mentioned as a small wonder, but I don't recall ever doing a full length segment on oh, prepared something that I may have mentioned as a small wonder, but I don't recall ever doing a full length segment on. Okay. okay. By nothing groups Buy nothing groups. Buy nothing groups. Mhmm. I appreciate these for their comedic sort of stability. I think you have talked about this on the show, but it must have been a small wonder. Yeah. think it was. So this is something that I just kind of recently got into, like, since pandemic. It's actually been around since twenty thirteen. It started in the Pacific Northwest and kind of moved its way across the country and and then across the globe. As a, like, Facebook group first and foremost? Or did it have its origins outside the platform? Yeah. So It's kind of a bulk of its work is done on Facebook right now, but they are looking into an app platform. So you can get off of Facebook. Good. But SOOP is something that is really useful, particularly for us as we had a new baby. You know, we have four years in between between our oldest and this new baby. So a lot of stuff either had fallen in disrepair or we had just gotten rid of or the bugs, the bugs claimed it. Or the bugs claimed it. We put it in the garage, and then we came out one day and the bugs were swinging one of their little one of their little baby bugs in the swing and we're like, oh, that's yours now. You aches. How cute would that be though? Not. Just little bugs taken turns in this one. I guess that's cute, damn it. You're right. In a very Joe's apartment kind of way. Oh, god. I need to stop referencing that. Are we the only people that have seen that movie? Possibly. I saw it in theaters for me too. I'm like, you know what it was? It was Like MTV's first MTV's first movie, and and we, like, wanted to be cool teens. Gary Gary O'Connor. Gary O'Connor. Gary O'Connor. God. Not Gary O'Connell, the evil. He he sliders into a world where he turned into Gary Okay. God, I've just referenced sliders and Joe's apartment within, like, two minutes of each other. I'm seven hundred years old. I know. So all that to say that babies and children and there are things that you purchase sometimes that you know you are not gonna get more than, like, a year or two's worth of use out of it. Right. And so by nothing is great because it is group designed to basically pick stuff up from people that they don't want anymore -- Right. -- and to not pay anything for it. Yep. And Facebook has just been like a really easy platform for that because you you post a picture and then you can kinda drive over there and see it. So the thing that is really unique about bimething is opposed to, like, maybe Craigslist is that they really focused on making it localized. So not just your city, but your neighborhood has a group. And right now, there are at least four million participants across forty four countries with more than six thousand independent locally led groups. Wow. SOOP, for example, the group I joined is very specific to, like, our area. Right. And the idea the the people that founded it, Liza Clark and Rebecca Rockefeller, wanted to not only contribute to less waste, but also kind of build communityMusic it was this way to, like, drive over to your neighbor's house and be, like, oh, you have a cooler. Yeah. And you don't I don't need to know anything else about you. Oh, I'm I think you see him at, like, a fourth of July block party, like, couple years later and you're like, oh, yeah. The cooler family. Yeah. That's not our name. Yeah. Sure. I'm using that cooler though. Great cooler. And so yeah. So it keeps everything kind of hyper local and just kind of focus on this, like, spirit of goodwill. Mhmm. You know? Like, I I am a member of other marketplace groups where people are selling, like, treadmills and they're, like, This treadmill retails for two thousand dollars. I'm selling it for eighteen hundred. Yeah. Oh my god. Cool. It's got your foot gunk all over it. Great deal. Nice. And so they they built this whole, like, rule system around it, kind of focus on first keeping it legal, you know, like, not giving away anything that is, you know, against the law. Yeah. But but, I mean, come on. They can't do it if you're nothing like, who wants to buy these beanbag chairs for free? Wink, wink, wink, wink. Wait. In this scenario, is the beanbag chair full of illegal substances? Yeah. Oh, okay. Counter Strike Pokemon cards? What is that? The the like, is there a typo in them? Like, what makes them not above board Pokemon Cards and make them yourself or the You make them yourself or counterfeit. I'm a mom making myself. Yeah. This is a thing. It's a huge issue. Do you know do you Do you know about, like, Pokemon card fever? I'm sorry to divert things, but it's is bananas. I saw a sign on our local target saying that they would no longer selling them? Well, you can only buy, like, the two packs at a time or something like that. Yeah. And then McDonald's have, like, a promotion where they, like, figure out how about Niles, and people just ransacked. McDonald's because they had to have that first institution, Bulb Azure. Give it to me. Wow. Wow. You must have a lot of You must have a lot of kids, hon? Yeah. I love these nuggets. Yeah. They also it's, it's a community where you're not allowed to like advertise business or They also it's it's a community where you're not allowed to, like, advertise ness or anything. SOOP like you're not gonna go on there and, like, get pulled into somebody's side hustle. Well, they can't control what they say to you once you get to their house to pick up the beach. Careful counterfeit Pokemon cards. True. It's it's largely volunteer run like each little neighborhood will have administrators that kind of make sure that that all the posts are appropriate. Mhmm. The one thing that they have really had to focus on though, just because it is neighborhood based, is kind of not playing into, like, the systemic racism of communities. Yeah. So, you know, a lot of times when you join these groups, they say, like, what are your what's the closest street And lot of times that was a way for a group to kind of, like, keep certain people out. Oh, yeah. So they had Especially on a place like off and that is so like Uh-huh. Professionally straight of cities. Yeah. A lot of cities. Like, a lot of cities like Austin have that, like, physical boundary of, like, a highway or something. Yeah. SOOP are looking into a new native platform called SOOP share on our platform. SOOP. You With the goal of expanding by nothing beyond physical boundaries and also just associating itself from Facebook. Which, you know, is also problematic. Wow. Beyond the physical plane. And they encourage people to not focus as much on intersections, because part of it is like, prove that you live in this neighborhood because you can only be part of one neighborhood they encourage people to not focus as much on intersections. Because part of it is like prove that you live in this neighborhood because you can only be part of one neighborhood group. So that prevents somebody from like running a hustle, like, all over the city Yeah. -- and collecting all the rocking chairs. Right. And so they they said, like, well, just let people, like, identify with whatever neighborhood they want to. You know, don't don't make their house number be the issue. There is a book that came out to buy nothing, get everything planned, which came out April twenty twenty by these two founders. With the idea that you could I mean, you can create this anywhere -- Right. -- you know, and it doesn't have to be Facebook. I will say the other thing that I kind of appreciate is that when somebody posts something, there's this whole etiquette. Because, you know, if you're in a, like, a selling SOOP, lot of times, it's like, first, I want it, like, within five minutes of being posted, This one is like, I would like to be considered for this I mean, I guess it differs group to group. Right? There's gotta be some rowdy ass groups out there. I think that's part of the role of the moderator. But, yeah, I remember I had the reason I joined is that we have some friends here who had convinced me, who also young children and, like, had gotten any number of things, like, outdoor equipment and clothes. And they told me like, hey, before you do anything, like, somebody post something, don't just claim it. Just just say you would like to be considered because that is that is part of the ethos. Because it's a free item and, you know, obviously, it's up to the person. They're not making any profit. Like Give me that. Right. But people will also post things that they want. SOOP, like, the today, I saw people, like, looking for, like, camping equipment because they wanted to host a little indoor camping thing for their kids -- Cute. -- and and asking for, like, a tent and a smores maker, which I thought, hey. Hey. Why do we have a s'mores maker? Was that a present? Yeah. My so my parents listened to the show, and they heard me talk about Smores, and they got me the Smarts maker and it was very cute. Yeah. I mean, I can you know, I can giggle at it, but but it was We have what is arguably the saddest New Year's Eve celebration ever this year. That bad boy. Yeah. It is equivalent to a big cigarette lighter though. It is a big hot. It's a big hair dryer. Which color they didn't It's a big over clocked hairdryer for sure, but it got the freaking job done. I did. Yeah. Tasty, Tasty, sad, lonely, smores on that New Year's Eve. I don't know. I think I like that this happened and the the other way it really paid off was during the big freeze here in Austin. In where our city kind of totally failed us, and one Might say the whole state say the whole state did. Yeah. And so it was difficult to get They should say the whole state then. Difficult to get things like water. And people who are on buying nothing, just posting like, hey, I have extra water or my water is still on if you wanna come over and and it was just a really -- Yeah. -- nice way to connect with the community. Or saying like, hey, I have a key to shut off your your water your shit exploded. Or, hey, I have a truck that can operate in the eyes if your family is dangerous. And since it was hyper local, you could, like, know that you weren't gonna have to drive fifteen miles on the ice -- Yeah. -- to get it. So Yeah. It was very cool. Yeah. That is cool. I I mentioned it's comedic value because also you've told me about some stuff that people posted on there that's been pretty bogus. Yeah. So a lot of times people will share food items, which is great because there's a lot of people with food insecurity that are kind of uncomfortable going to a shelter, but might feel you know, safer going to a neighbor's. Absolutely. But sometimes it's like The one specifically, you mentioned what somebody had gotten mistakenly a pizza, the Lakers, one specifically you mentioned but somebody had gotten mistakenly a piece of the letter. Somebody accidentally received some dominoes that they did not discover until the next morning. And they said, hey, I had a slice. It still seems good. I didn't know they wanna add a slice. D and that kicks it up that kicks it up again. No. It's been outside the food safe zone for such a long time. Yeah. Would you would you come take this outdoor pizza? This outside pizza. And I I think I followed that post just to see if anybody and I don't think anybody took that or pizza. But a lot of times it's a lot more useful. It's like, hey, I I got this you know, twelve pack of soup and I had one and I don't like Mhmm. Do you want the other eleven soups? Who wants eleven soups? Hey. Thank you to Bowen and Augustus. For these short theme song, money won't pay. You'll find a link to that in the episode description. Thank you to you Dearlistener. For listening Dearlistener to our show, this product that we create together as lovers. And and thank you to maximum fond for having us on the you to maximum fun for having us on the network. They have so many great shows there at maximum fun dot org just waiting for you to click on them and listen to them and love. Yeah. Maybe now that the bubble graphic novels out, you wanna check out, bubble the show. Yeah. No one's gonna judge you for being so late. To it. 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