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THE LAST OF US Episode 1 FULL Breakdown, Easter Eggs & Ending Explained | GEEKSET
Jan 20, 2023
Join Geekset (Young Deuces, Bacardi Sensei, & Didge) in 'The Last of Us' Season 1, Episode 1 review. HBO's The Last of Us takes place 20 years after modern civilization has been destroyed. Joel, a hardened survivor, is hired to smuggle Ellie, a 14-year-old girl, out of an oppressive quarantine zone. What starts as a small job soon becomes a brutal, heartbreaking journey, as they both must traverse the U.S. and depend on each other for survival.
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foreign
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you know what let us know in the
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comments below which ones I like like or
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if y'all got any ideas of what we can
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call this rebound but for our first
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series that we're going to be focusing
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on we're going to be focusing on the
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series Last of Us based off of the hit
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video game series
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and we're going to get into episode one
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so before we get into episode one let me
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tell you guys the synopsis of it we're
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gonna go through the pool I mean well
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the full plot in general but the
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synopsis of it
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in 2003 a fungal virus Sparks a global
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pandemic and turns its victims into
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bloodthirsty attackers Joe flees with
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his daughter Sarah as the virus starts
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to spread but she is killed by a soldier
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who attacks him while Joel is saved by
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his brother Tommy 20 years later the
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virus have ravaged the world Joe lives
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in the Boston quarantine Zone managed by
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the federal Disaster Response agency
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Federal as a Smuggler with his partner
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test
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when Tommy when Tommy fails to contact
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him from his location in Wyoming they
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tried to buy a car battery from a local
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dealer but it is instead sold to the
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fire flower a rebel group that opposed
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this bedroom attempting to retrieve it
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they find the uh they uh they find the
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bill has gone awry and Marlene
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the fireflies wounded leader bags draw
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to take tests to uh to take a drawing
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test to take young Ellie to the
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Massachusetts state house in exchange
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for supplies they are caught by a
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soldier while sneaking out and Ellie
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stabs him when he tests them for the
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infection when the soldier tries to
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shoot her job beats him to death test
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realized that Ellie is effective but
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Ellie promised them that she will not
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turn they enter a biological
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contamination area to flee the pursuing
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Federal soldiers
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so by the way spoiler if you ain't watch
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it yes
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y'all following us on this journey but
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so if you would like to watch our actual
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like live watching of the episode make
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then every episode you're gonna get that
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it and our live commentary throughout
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the show now unfortunately we can't show
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the show so you only hear the audio but
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you will get full audio and hearing us
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and how we think about it so and all our
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little side conversations and whatnot
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you know but until then thank you now
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let's go ahead and get into our full
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review as a resident who hasn't played
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the game I want to hear your thoughts
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first because now you're just talking on
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it purely as a TV show yeah I mean so I
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guess like I was saying earlier when we
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was watching it um they they were smart
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to drop this in right after Walking Dead
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so having another zombie movie that kind
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of Pops in
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um right especially if you're just
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especially if you are somebody who was
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just a fan of like walking dead you like
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oh there's another kind of movie you're
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saying so for me watching it it gave me
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all the the the feels energy that I had
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more background with walking dead
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because I read the conference show came
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out right yeah and this one
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um I can even feel the sense of walking
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deadness in this you know of it you know
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from even like the opening scenes like
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yeah just the the subtle choirs the [ __ ]
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really can't you know chaos really
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ensuing in a lot of zombie movies you
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know so I mean shows kind of do that so
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I think like first of all as an episode
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uh it was a great one fight
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um knowing that it like that first half
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um talking to y'all and knowing that
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that first half is literally the game I
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wanted yeah even more now yeah like
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knowing that I was like because I'm
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watching the movie I'm watching it like
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and you know you're just looking out and
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I'm playing games you know the great
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cinematic you know yeah of course and
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stuff like that but it's like
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um personally I haven't played one in a
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very long time yeah so watching this
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watching it and hearing y'all like oh
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they got to pay into a team this was in
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the game
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um I think it was I think overall I
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think I think very interesting story I
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think it makes a lot of sense you're
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saying like
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um so I think the idea okay even with
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the game like I said for game wise in
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general everybody like I've never I
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never really pay attention to the game
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like I don't have I don't I'm on the
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phone I'm not a zombie guy right right
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uh like I knew it was a great game like
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I've all heard people always tell me I
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should play it or whatever but I just
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never got got a song in the player yet
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like I want to play it but it was never
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on top of my list so yeah because that's
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what it is it's the story of this like
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that they walk you through Us in this
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Zombie World or you know in this in this
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mutated world yeah the story like I said
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it kicks off wait wait this is them
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again so it's like you like if this is
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the beginning it only either gets worse
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or even more crazier so as you are going
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through it and that that's what
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attraction to the game because yeah yeah
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it got it has that narrative like like
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you said it's that thing you're like
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damn I'm interested in these characters
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yeah I'm not interested in the world
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like I said once um
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so it was like um that like even knowing
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that kind of chaos like the backstory of
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why they created y'all pretty much just
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saying like what he had to go through to
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kind of be like now you see 20 years
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later like bro ain't really funny shits
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but I mean he kind of wasn't for the
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[ __ ] since when it was going when
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everything was going crazy he was he ran
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past that he a couple with the kids
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I don't know
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Denise definitely could have got into
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the car
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that could at least save your knees
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a to make it in the house
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foreign
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right right at the beginning the whole
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first half of this movie I mean the
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First Act that was moving up until like
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when it starts going crazy you didn't
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really get that much I think I think you
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start in Joe's house and then you know
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like there's this moment where like I
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think you see their their like Graham
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Graham came in the game no no no no that
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whole the adlers yeah which but but
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similar that like with at some point you
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get to go like explore Yeah well yeah
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and the antlers I mean they were the
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neighbors like that that's right but
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like you don't see them who they were
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yeah yeah you don't see you don't see
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the downfall because you gotta figure
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you gotta figure that was all from yeah
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like I was saying just the difference in
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the the
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similarities and obviously what made it
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more crazy again you know you feel the
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vibration and stuff yeah so it was like
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just American but even watching it you
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kind of felt like Fast playing this I
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don't know I'm feeling the vibration
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right here
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that's what I'm saying like because
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those like those are really my favorite
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video games but when you really play the
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game you realize like oh this
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controllers is really sitting here yeah
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all this time yeah watching right
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because I mean yeah
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that's what I understood when they start
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to have to actually do that video game
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because like Final Fantasy and [ __ ] like
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those kind of get bro you had that
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[ __ ] sitting down yeah you make
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you a sandwich yeah
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man you got you got to know what's going
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on like you said people they might walk
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off before or something like no you need
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to know this story
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so you're not making it 20 years
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the chaos that created the 20 years
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later I've gone in that going oh so you
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you're going light up you go night up
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I'm gonna light up I feel like they they
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reorganized life I don't know how
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quickly after but it's like they they
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seem to reorganized life pretty pretty
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okay but I feel like that's all they did
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was just aren't into everybody oh yeah
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military they quarantined everything was
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like week yeah like you yeah you turn if
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everything that's right you show red I'm
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out you out of here
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like I said those people that they
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executed like if you oh you snuck out
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unauthorized you didn't get a chance
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today
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if you oh you stuck in here I mean yeah
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we we like to say paper but you did
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because
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that bro I'm not gonna do it you can be
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fireflies
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let me know fireflies biting the [ __ ]
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government bro [ __ ] out of here like no
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bro that's why I kept trying to explain
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the yard like you try like even Joe bro
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like the the hustle that that [ __ ] had
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the beginning
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the backpack
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we working double time [ __ ] your
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birthday I'll break you okay
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I ain't trade again
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yeah exactly his birthday
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didn't want to get Tommy no goddamn
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money like you're saying Joe all you're
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trying to get his branded and then
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order you
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outside the wall and all that kind of
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[ __ ] man
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I feel like um you start you shooting
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from the roof do [ __ ] laughing bro if
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I make anybody yeah if I make it through
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the first
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I don't know what role I played
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I'll be translator fan like
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I could do that
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you could relate messages
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they'll probably get they'll probably
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get good money he probably get good
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rations
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cause I'm on your ass you didn't give a
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rush to beating up all your risk of my
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life I'm shooting from the roof because
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I think about in the basement it's like
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damn
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it's going crazy
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because people because people are going
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to want to have extra rations so they
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can give on two messages yeah I'm my
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rash you could delay a second message
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bro do you ever land no messages no
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message you better hope you ain't got no
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family on the other side of the Wall go
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get some death job
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two moments that I really felt like he
14:23
was like okay this I'm in on this show
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when when they killed his daughter
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because she was like well this is how
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this happened yeah and then seeing
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seeing the sport I think that that
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moment like you know fam against the
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wallet yeah
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there is reason to evolve one Gene
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mutates and then ask of my city uh
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candida ergot cordyceps aspergillus any
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one of them could become capable of
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borrowing into our brains and taking
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control not of millions of us but
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billions of us he said I think you said
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that wasn't in the game like they didn't
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really kind of get it yeah they didn't
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give that like that explanation like
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which is a dope Edition but this is like
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this gave it like the Lord it gave it
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like the signed by it yeah and I mean
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I've heard like I'm definitely like what
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he was describing yeah talking about the
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you know shrooms and everything like fun
15:26
guys like I'm definitely everybody if
15:28
you if you didn't even thought about any
15:30
of the trippier things yeah I'm saying
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like you've already kind of understood
15:34
that mushrooms do have some kind of
15:36
trait yeah you know they'd have to kind
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of control over our body anyway so
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um knowing that that's kind of like the
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premise of like I didn't know that
15:43
either about the game I didn't know the
15:44
premise was they oh okay like I thought
15:47
it was literally just like another
15:48
zombie though right either the MVP of
15:50
the show right now it's either Marlene
15:52
or Joe who you giving it to who who who
15:56
won the episode for you
16:00
family one episode for me
16:04
she came in hot bro hey you and you I
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think like if y'all knew her that was
16:09
her trained up then y'all you know I
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didn't know until she said her name
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because remember I was my first year
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they called her uh I forgot Veronica so
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yeah even then yeah for me I didn't know
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it was hurt so when I realized it was
16:21
her that's why I asked when I watched
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her like is this it's not changing the
16:24
game like and he was like yeah they
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pretty accurate
16:30
for me I got Marlene one of the episodes
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she came up she just the way she came at
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her place she was like sorry I can do it
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you don't have a [ __ ] ear on your
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[ __ ] head could you please they ask
16:41
you how you are you just have to say
16:43
that you're fine when you're not really
16:44
fine but you just can't get into got it
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on one first Marlene like she's not that
16:49
Cutthroat in the game dog yeah
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it's not gonna be that aggressive
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is that your question
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that's one of them
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my answer is to follow [ __ ] orders
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our people are asking what's going on
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and I don't know what to tell them tell
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them to follow [ __ ] orders
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his mannerisms basically and Chaos
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didn't change
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honestly now this is like probably the
18:40
fourth or fifth HBO adaptation that we
18:43
saw that we were like damn this is great
18:47
so we know Netflix we [ __ ] up with
18:49
anime adaptations would you like to see
18:52
HBO try to hand that one I say yes HBO
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so HBO has has garnered my trust okay
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right so like they already have my
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choice for shows right it just really
19:02
like drama series right we're the point
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I'm like I've got to know much about it
19:05
imma watch it HBO has done so many like
19:08
you said adaptations of something where
19:10
it's like yo this is actually kind of
19:12
solid right I trust them now that if
19:14
they if they if they if they was to say
19:16
hey this is this this could be my hot
19:18
tape if they were to say all right
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listen we got the rights to Dragon Ball
19:21
Z knowing what Dragon Ball Evolution was
19:23
and knowing that I'm like I don't I
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don't think we're ready for one if HBO
19:26
say they do it I'll give them a shot
19:28
I'll be like I win it so what's your
19:30
answer before I get mine
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oh
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my God
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so you're so so you would know
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yeah why because I mean they do great
19:49
real life adaptions like nothing was
19:52
going to steal people okay okay
19:54
I don't really know how I feel about
19:56
them taking on like animation Jack yeah
19:58
Japanese but what if it's like a like a
20:01
Death Note where it's not it's kind of
20:03
real life-ish it got some Fantastical in
20:06
it but it's still more often than not
20:08
real life-ish
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David real will be the only right you
20:12
just saying that would not be that they
20:14
would have to I mean I mean in that like
20:16
there's something like that because I
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mean like I didn't think that the
20:20
definite difference was terrible within
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a sense like outside of all like the
20:24
supernatural elements and everything
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let's say an anime like high-rise
20:28
invasion
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um
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I mean I can see that I can definitely
20:35
see that going on I mean I mean because
20:37
it's still it's on it's argument bro
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like I said my issue is with the fact
20:41
that Supernatural elements yeah like
20:43
what you visually can see in mangoes or
20:45
what they like like the kamehameh like
20:48
bro what else like I said the Dragon
20:50
Ball it's certain anime that it works
20:52
for I I do agree with you I think I I
20:56
will watch it but you have to there's a
21:00
scale of
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Dragon Ball I'm sorry
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so high-rise Invasion or a Death Note
21:08
definitely Republic somewhere in the
21:10
middle because you do got the you got
21:11
the aspect of you got to create the
21:13
Shinigami yeah so compared like Game of
21:16
Thrones or whatever where you got a
21:17
dragon right like I can get that all
21:20
right but when you really when you're
21:21
adding like like Piccolo greens
21:29
let my hot Tech breathe so quick yes or
21:33
no I don't wanna we don't none of us
21:35
have to elaborate do you think they can
21:37
do Naruto let's say ship with it any
21:39
that ship with it yes
21:45
yes or no
21:47
I'm gonna say I I'll say yes as well all
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right so scale one to five eagles we got
21:54
it I'm gonna give it a five this is a
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great first episode
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all right all right well then thank you
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guys for joining us on our first
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but join us next week man for episode
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a little smoother yep the only podcast
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that blend hip-hop culture get culture
22:31
together and we are out peace
22:36
like everybody has the stereotypical on
22:39
what a black geek is are you familiar
22:40
with the term blur
22:42
blood none right some people said it
22:44
came off of Scrubs some people said it
22:46
came off the internet I don't honestly
22:48
really know ah don't you see the skin
22:52
the eyebrows the hair yo my Geeks Still
22:56
Rock you know what I'm saying dunks or
22:59
or Jordans or whatever
23:07
she's excited about it too
23:10
um and uh same as you said like a barber
23:12
shop talk like we would go into really
23:14
in-depth conversations about these
23:16
theories and like well what if and how
23:18
come it's not on news
23:22
right but we we talk about anime video
23:26
games comic books and stuff like that
23:28
but when you hear us talk about it the
23:30
passion sounds like we arguing Jordan
23:32
and bronze
23:43
you broke that down right there
23:47
but when you see the black key you don't
23:49
see that you see the socially awkward
23:51
glass as well this is me and that's not
23:55
a lot of us a lot of us do sound and
23:56
talk like us you know what I'm saying
23:58
it's because it becomes stereotypical as
24:00
if that's where our strength comes from
24:02
I don't know the geek that you talking
24:04
that you that you talked about before I
24:07
know to get you talking about right now
24:08
though it was sort of a call sign so we
24:12
can find each other on message boards
24:13
anime gives you life lessons throughout
24:16
that whole thing like there's not one
24:19
anime that I know of that doesn't teach
24:22
you to never give up it's just like I
24:24
just love seeing us go into the world
24:26
and going to different spaces and create
24:28
things that weren't there before and
24:30
then it was like Miles Morales is like
24:32
the normal you know black person in the
24:35
United States that was my first like
24:37
blurred moment was seeing you know storm
24:41
on the X-Men cartoon series and I was
24:43
like wow that's a black woman and she's
24:45
strong she's powerful that's what I want
24:48
for us I want us to be that voice
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