Artificial Condition, Chapters 8 & 9

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This is an unspoiled network podcast. This is spoil me
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covering the murder bot diaries book. What is this? Three,
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two to two, right? Artificial condition chapters eight and nine
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in this episode. I really kind of want art to
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just be the guy in the chair. Can we just
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keep in? Mom, can we keep in? Welcome to Spoil Me.
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Welcome to the show, everyone. I am Natasha. Thank you
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very much to Rachel for commissioning this episode. And also
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thank you to Rachel for being flexible when I had
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to reschedule. Actually, today isn't a reschedule. This is the
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one recording that I was able to keep where it was.
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And I have had to move everybody else. But I'm
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sure Rachel would have been flexible and gracious. And so
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I will preemptively give you credit for that, Rachel. So...
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The end of this book, it's a weird thing where
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we're dealing with this villain, but there is still something
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that is almost anticlimactic about it. And I actually quite
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liked this book. And I am not mad if it
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turns out that every book is just another client. Instead
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of Monster of the Week, it's Client of the Week.
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It's an interesting approach that normally is like a PI thing,
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but it being security and how this all works when
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it's the future and a robot just gives it a
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completely new flavor. So that's fun. But I keep expecting
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something to come down on Murderbot because of having taken
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off from its original crew. And I still think that's
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definitely coming, but I just was really thinking by the
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end of this book that we were going to have
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some movement on that. Or that we might even have
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a hint that this group of clients actually is starting
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to suss out the fact that Murderbot is a bot.
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And no on both fronts. Which, to be honest, there
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does come a time where if there's something that's supposed
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to be really dangerous and secret, but everybody seems to
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know about it, that it does lose a little bit
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of its zing. So I don't even really necessarily want
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them to be sussing it out. I think it's kind
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of a lucky thing that Murderbot just winds up, like,
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with what one could argue is the least intelligent of
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the group, T'Pon. I'm gonna say that, and I'm really like,
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I feel bad, but T'Pon, what winds up happening is
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there is a trap. Murderbot I enjoy the fact that
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there is never a moment where Murderbot is like, maybe
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there isn't a trap. It's fully, oh, there's definitely, I
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just have to figure out where it is. And if
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it's not here, well, then it's somewhere else where I
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am not. And that is a problem. And it does
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not take long for this trap to spring. I do
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appreciate the fact that the person that T'Pan stayed to
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make this deal with actually is doing this in good faith.
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But I have to assume, it doesn't matter now, but
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I have to assume that T'Pan would see this transaction
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and that this person would not be long for this world, right? Like,
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I think the assumption being we'll just let this transaction
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go through as if we don't know about it because
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we're about to grip both of you up in a second.
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And that guy's going to come back thinking that he
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really got away with something and it's all going to
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be a nice closed loop. And we aren't going to
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have to worry about any of this information actually getting out.
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And I just wonder about this man making this deal
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and what motivates him to stay. I have to assume
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that there must be the kind of, like, tacit agreement of, like,
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we're all doing crimes, and you don't get to just
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walk away from that. That's not how that works. Unless
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you're John Wick, and even then that's really, like, probably
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it's going to come back on you at some point. So,
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the fact that Sopan was right, that this dude in particular...
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Was on the up and up. There's something kind of
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sweet about that. I appreciate, in a way, that the
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author decided not to be totally nihilistic and have this
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character who is trying to be optimistic and have faith
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in people, to have that character be justified, actually, to
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a degree. Because I do... Get tired of like, oh,
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the one good person who expects good from people keeps
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being proven that they're an idiot. It is sad when
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that happens too much. But this particular instance where T'Pon
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does not communicate with her teammates and just hangs back
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on her own and they don't see that she isn't
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with them until later, that choice is a particularly selfish one.
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And that's bumming me out, too. So, Murderbot is able
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to scan the area when making this handoff to this,
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or from getting the handoff, I guess I would want
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to say, and realizes that there's nobody watching. So, like,
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do they know? And again, do they have to be watching?
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I guess they don't. Murderbot Tells this dude, there is
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nobody monitoring us. You can leave. And goes and checks
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the shuttle schedule that we were supposed to get on.
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And it is showing as delayed. And there is now
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security footage that Murderbot has access to. I spotted, let's see,
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I was reviewing the security recording. I had gotten to
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the point in the recording where two humans with poor
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authority identification were had stopped the shuttle's departure and removed T'Pan.
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And the fact that they are able to do this,
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that this is so, they can really improvise, you know,
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that they have this kind of, these resources at their disposal.
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I have to assume that, just having a Port Authority
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fake ID, that this is sort of the equivalent of
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the Winchester boys having their fake FBI badges and that
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it just comes in handy so often that you carry
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that with you. But these people are fucking bad news, man.
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They just, you know, so this is when Murderbot is
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met by the sex bot. And The sex bot is saying,
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I'll take you to her. And meanwhile, Art is in
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Murderbot's feed going, I don't get it. Why is he
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taking you to her? And Murderbot correctly is like, because
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this isn't even about T'Pon anymore. T'Lasi wants me. Which,
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that stings in particular. The fact that if things hadn't
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gone our way, T'Pan would have died and not even
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because she was the important part. There is nothing like,
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I tell you what, guys, there's so many different shows
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and books where just innocent bystanders get ganked at a
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rate that is, you know, like, and I always, it's
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treated as like collateral damage by the author or writers
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of the show or whatever to illustrate how dangerous a
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thing is because we can't obviously have that same fate
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happen to our main character. So there's this like, again,
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you're just so unimportant. If you're, if you're looking at this,
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not as like a red shirt writing exercise and looking
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at it as what would it be like to just
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be a person who's on the periphery and at risk
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in this way? It's very insulting. And to pun, I
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appreciate that you had faith in this other guy. It
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was valid, but you would have wound up as literally
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just like a footnote to this whole story in the end,
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you know? So Murderbot goes along, until they get to
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a place where the sex bot holds up a combat
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override module and says they won't allow you aboard unless
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you let me install this. So they have fully realized
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Murderbot is a bot, but they do not understand the
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level to which Murderbot has freed itself. And it is...
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almost funny where murder bot says, if I accept that,
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will they release my client in the feed? The sex
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bot whispered, you know, they won't allowed. It said, yes,
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I really am super jealous of this feed thing where
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we can talk to people without words, but also talk
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out loud. I just truly wish this was something, you know, and,
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to a point we have it where we can like
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text each other when we're at a meal and, you know,
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make eyes at each other, but also be texting. But
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it's like, if you text too much, it's rude. People notice.
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It's also like, they're going to be able to grab
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the phone from you and see what you texted. If you're,
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you know, surrounded by people who might do that. And
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this is just ideal. I cannot imagine. I think that
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if I were around someone like Rashawn and I had
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this feature, we would just constantly not be knowing what
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was going on around us because we would be so
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involved in our little chat and we would need people
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to snap in their fingers in front of our eyes
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being like, hello, do you see that you were about
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to get hit by a car? And I'd be like, oh,
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I did not. Thank you. And then I would go
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back to my chat. So the thing that surprised me
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was the fact that the data port was still there.
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I was under the impression that whatever it was that
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arts machine had done to murder bot, that the, the
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port was removed because it in particular is like kind
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of a giveaway visually immediately. And I understand that it
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has been mentioned by murder bot. There are altered people,
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humans who have these sorts of ports. And so it's
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not an, instantaneous assumption that somebody is going to make
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that this is a sec unit. But it was more
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that like in combination with the rest of what I
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look like, that port is going to be seen as
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evidence of a thing, which is kind of what winds up,
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what wound up happening here. So I thought that we
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were just taking that out completely and was surprised. It's
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still there. I don't know if there is something about
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this port that is kind of crucial that we needed
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to keep it. If it's like kind of irrelevant now
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and we just, you know, dealt with the other things,
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which took enough time that we weren't going to be
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able to make so many adjustments. But yeah, so it
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says that it was disconnected, but not removed. So, there's
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a moment where the sex bot is putting this thing
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in place and murder bot has like a tiny, tiny
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little panic attack of like, Oh my God, what if
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they can take me over? What if they can, which
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I really appreciate are in the feed being like, uh,
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excuse me, I did not fuck this up. This is
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not something you need to worry about. Just a very like,
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don't insult me. Don't insult my work. Um, And Murderbot
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manages to keep its expression under control and really make
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it seem like this is just doing what it's meant
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to do. There's not been an emotional reaction to any
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of this. Everything's fine. I had no way of knowing
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what the combat override module was supposed to make me do,
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but I was assuming it would put me under Tlacy's control.
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I suspected the humans and the sex bot weren't sure
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what the outward effect would be. And I thought that
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was interesting, that, like, Talisi might be the only person
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who would clock if this is doing what it's supposed
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to do. You could fool almost everybody for a while.
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And this is part of what I feel like communication
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should be for, because then not everybody's getting tricked. If
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you share your notes with the class, your suspicions or
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your intentions or whatever. So Murderbot is led onto the
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shuttle and brought all the way to the front where
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there are a bunch of people. And one of them
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has T'Pon. And T'Lasi says, take little T'Pon to a cabin.
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I want to talk to her later about her work.
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I have been a little bit on the fence about
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this audiobook narrator. And I still have not fully made
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up my mind. But I will say this particular moment
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of him speaking for Tlacy, I really was not buying
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this accent at all. I'm not even sure what it
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was he was going for. It's like a vaguely British
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upper class, but like, it doesn't feel like too intense
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an accent. There's something about it that just felt like
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what little kids would have a fancy person sound like.
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And overall I've been like, performance is fine. Not super impressed.
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I am wondering if there are some places where this
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person really seems to shine. And I'm curious what y'all's
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like feelings on this narrator are as well, because I,
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there are times where somebody does grow on me and
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like the narrator for world of the five gods, that
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guy initially, I was sort of like, I don't know.
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And then I'm in, you know, halfway through the book
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at this point. And I'm just like, this guy's killing it.
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So it's partially, I think that these books are so
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short and I haven't really had as much time with
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this dude as you would expect, considering that I am
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at the end of the second book. Um, I say, dude,
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I'm assuming that it's a guy who's doing the narrating,
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but I actually don't know that. So let me know. Uh,
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and let's see. Uh, oh, right. Tupan is trying to apologize,
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but they just like pull her away, which is what
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murder bot wants because it's about to start some shit
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and it does not need her here because it'll have
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to shield her. And that's a whole complicated thing. Um,
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So Tlacy says, you really think this is one of
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the units from the Ganaka Pit accident? And before the
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sex bot can reply, Murderbot interjects, but we all know
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that wasn't an accident, don't we? I was sort of,
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for a moment, thinking that what Murderbot was saying here was,
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I know it was you. Because when... When you phrase
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things in this way to a specific person who is
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acting villainously, it usually does mean that. But it appears
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that it's just, I'm not a fool. I have the
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capacity to understand that it wasn't an accident. And I
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am also going to show you that I can interrupt
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and talk when I feel like it, just to give
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you a little taste of the fact that maybe you
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don't know what you're dealing with. And I just had,
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I really am curious if there was anyone else listening
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or reading who had the same reaction of feeling like, wait,
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is murder about accusing Tlacy of having had something to
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do with this? You know? Um, so, um, The sex
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bot is ordered to punch Murderbot, which hurts but does
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not really do damage. And Murderbot thinks to itself, that
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had to have been in order. Because if a bot
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is just told to harm another bot and they're not
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given specific parameters, that is not what they are going
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to do. It wouldn't be like that. Finally... Art was
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in the shuttle's systems, and I was clear. This happens
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as the punch happens, because Murderbot is letting Art use
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it as a bridge to get into the shuttle. Otherwise,
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the Sexbot would not have even landed that punch. But
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Murderbot has a moment of just being kind of taken
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out of the equation for a split second while Art
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is getting in there. And once Art's through, Murderbot comes back.
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I caught the Sexbot's arm and flung it across the
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room toward the three armed guards. One went down. One
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stumbled into a chair. The third started to lift his weapon.
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I knocked Tlacy out of my way and stepped on
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the sex bot. Ouch. As I went over it, thumping
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it back down to the deck, I grabbed the muzzle
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of the energy weapon and shoved it upright just as
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he fired. The discharge struck the curved ceiling. Wow, why
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was that so hard to say? I ripped it out
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of his grasp, dislocating his shoulder and at least three fingers,
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and slammed his head down on the console. Which... Yikes.
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Dislocating is no joke. And a shoulder plus three of
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the fingers on that same hand. That is rough, dude.
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That sucks. So there's more fighting here. I'm not going
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to go step by step through all of it. The
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sex bot charges murder bot. And the thing with murder
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bot is that it's fighting back to defend itself, but
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it's really not doing the kind of damage that it
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could do. I think the sex bot is fighting with
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all it has because it doesn't really have a choice,
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but sex, but murder bot is, we find out later
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kind of keeping in mind the fact that it was
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sex bots that kept, that were trying to help in that, uh,
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video footage of what happened at the pit. So it's,
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I don't want to say it's like sentimental, but it
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kind of is, I guess. So let's see. The sex
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bot shoved upright and I grabbed its leg and popped
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the knee out of the socket. It went down and
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I took out its left shoulder joint, slamming it down
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to the deck. I turned to see Tlacy reaching for
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one of the fallen weapons. I said, touch that weapon
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and I'll take it away from you and insert it
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into your rib cage. And tell Tlacy, call off your
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fucking sex bot and make sure that it listens to me.
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Try to give it any other command and I'll rip
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your tongue out. Twitch Tlacy says you need to get
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better threats. I don't, know about you guys but that
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felt like a pretty solid threat you just saw this
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this being take out five people by itself subdue another
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bot and you're acting like I'm not scared of you
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yeah you are what are you fucking talking about stop
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it And especially considering the fact that we know the
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kind of strength that sec units are working with is
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not the same as humans. So like when a human says,
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I'll rip your tongue out. Usually what that really is,
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is like, I'm going to cut it, but murder bot
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could probably yank in such a way that it would
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kill her because that affects so much. Like you would
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drown in your blood, you know? Uh, I don't know. I,
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maybe that's just me being very sensitive, but I just
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think that is a very terrifying threat. Actually. Um, Megan
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says trying for bravado and I think you're probably right,
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but it's just, it's just a weird thing to take
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issue with. And murder bot says back, I don't make threats.
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I'm just telling you what I'm going to do. And
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that is the main thing is when, when, folks talk
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about threats versus like, I'm just telling you what's going
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to happen. Are those really the same thing or not?
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I have like, I think the word threat is often
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interpreted as empty inherently. You're making threats. It doesn't really
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mean anything, you know? So saying like, I don't make
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threats is, I guess that is a threat, right? I
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had this, this like thought earlier in the book when Murderbot,
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like when art says you threatened me right away or
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something like that, or Murderbot says that whatever it was
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at the time, I was sort of like, I don't
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know if that's a threat. It just feels like, Hey,
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I can handle myself. And one of you in the
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chat said like, isn't that kind of a threat though?
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And I, at the time was like, well, Murderbot is
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the one who is out of, who's like at the
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mercy of art. So it didn't feel like a threat
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because art has so much more power in that situation
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than Murderbot does that I just didn't really see it
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that way. But like in the most basic sense, yeah,
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I guess it is a threat. And so saying, I
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don't make threats. I'm just telling you what I'm going
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to do. Well, you do make threats and you follow
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through on them. And those are still, that still means
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what it means. I am not taking issue just with
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murder bot saying that for, you know, to be clear,
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this is the kind of phrase that comes up in
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tons of stuff. And only recently I started to be like, yeah,
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but that's just what that is though. Um, Jeff said,
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once I heard someone say, I threatened them when I
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just said, if you can't keep your dog secured, I
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will have to ask my boss to cut off your service.
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I said to my boss, that's not much of a threat,
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but maybe it was. It felt like a fact. See,
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like a threat to me is danger. If you're saying,
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if you can't keep your dog secured, I'll cut off
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your service. Unless that's like an oxygen tank and they
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will instantly die. I don't feel like that's a threat.
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It just feels like a consequence for a service that
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they are making it difficult to receive. So I don't
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know that I even feel like that counts. And now
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we get into really murky territory of like, what even
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constitutes a threat? How... personal or physically harmful does it
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have to be? I don't know. It's a, I don't know,
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not an interesting question to some folks, but it is
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to me. So you're a free agent. I can give
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you a job, whatever you want. I said, all you
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had to do was give them the fucking files and
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none of us would be in this situation. The look
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she threw back at me was startled, incredulous. I didn't
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sound like her idea of a sec unit, rogue or otherwise,
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I guess. And humans should really do more research. There
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were operating manuals that would have warned her not to
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fuck with us. So this moment of just being like,
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none of this had to be this way. I actually
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do really like there are so many instances where that
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is the case. A person's like upset about the fact
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that things went down the way they did. And it's like, well,
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if you hadn't been who you are, this whole cascade
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wouldn't have occurred and we wouldn't need to be in this,
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you know, and you wouldn't be crying right now. Um,
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let's see. Uh, The door slid up. T'Pan was half
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sprawled across the bunk on the far wall, blood spreading
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across the flower pattern on her t-shirt. Drops of it
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splashed on the brown skin of the bare arm pressed
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against the wound in her side. The bodyguard stared at us,
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eyes wide. He panicked when he heard the shots, T'Lacy gasped.
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You can't... Oh, yeah, I could. I swung T'Lacy to
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shield me, And I am thinking that T'Pan must have
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seen this, but it says her eyes are shut. So,
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It's very possible, considering the intensity of this wound, that
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she is just sort of out of it and doesn't
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really actually clock what this means. Or, for all I know,
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augmented humans can have energy weapons on their person like that,
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but I don't really think that seems to be something
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that's common or even possible necessarily i don't know um
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eta is 17 minutes med system is prepping for your
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arrival 17 minutes must feel like a fucking eternity when
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you have this sort of wound oh my god I
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had made a huge mistake, which seemed blindingly obvious in hindsight.
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I had known the invitation to exchange the signing bonus
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for the files was a trap from the beginning, and
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I should have convinced Rami and the others not to return.
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The augmented human security consultant I was pretending to be
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would have done that. I was used to taking orders
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from humans. and trying to mitigate whatever damage their stupid
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ideas did to them. But I had wanted to work
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with the group again, and I had enjoyed how they
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had listened to me. I had put my need to
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get to Ravi Hyrule above the safety of my clients.
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I was just as shit at being a security consultant
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as any human. I actually found this very, very funny.
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The fact is especially that Murderbot... is saying I had
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put my need to get to Ravi Hyrule above the
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safety of my clients. The fact that it's saying this,
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I can't believe how fucked up my priorities were. It
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just goes to show how deep the programming goes. Because
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getting to Ravi Hyrule is your main objective. allegedly, and
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this was a means to getting there. But that is
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clearly not how Murderbot really sees it. That's a thing
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that I would have gotten to eventually, and this was
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the critical thing that I should have been paying all
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the attention to. And I didn't judge it at all
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for putting Ravi Hyrule above their safety, because the there's
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only so much that you can do. And it did
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seem like everybody had gotten away. I like the, the
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basically what murder bot is saying is I wanted to
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come to Ravi Hyrule so bad that I didn't talk
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them out of it because if they didn't go, I
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wouldn't be able to get here. Sure. But I, When
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you step back and look at it, there really is
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no reason for you to care about these people. And
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yet you do. And that, that's just interesting. Just something
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I'm noticing, that's all. So chapter nine. By the time
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we were on approach to the transit ring, Art had
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cleared us with the ring's port authority. Shuttles weren't supposed
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to be able to dock with transports without advance notice,
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but ART took care of approach permission and forged its
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captain's feed signature to pay the fine for not giving
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prior notice of the scheduled trip. They didn't suspect anything.
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Nobody knew transports could have bots sophisticated enough to fake
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being humans in the feed. I sure hadn't known it.
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And I thought that was pretty significant as well, that
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this is something that not even Murderbot was aware of. Wild. Interesting. Okay. Um,
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so they laid Tupan down and get to work on
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fixing her. And, uh, two medical drones flew around me,
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one diving in toward my shoulder and the other poking
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at the wound in my thigh. A larger drone flew
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in carrying Tupan's bag, her bloodstained jacket, and my knapsack.
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Art flashed me a view of the other drones still
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inside the shuttle. Four of the humans in the shuttle
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were still alive, though unconscious. Art had sent drones to
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scrub and sterilize away my fluids and T'Pan's blood from
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the shuttle's interior. Art had already wiped the bot pilot's
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memory and deleted any security data. It was also chatting
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casually with Transit Ring Launch Authority with a forged feed
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signature from one of the dead humans. That is fascinating.
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Fucking terrifying, bro. I just really, like, step back and
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look at this. The effectiveness, immediacy, and attention to detail
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of getting rid of the evidence and adjusting what's going
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to be found in, like, this being possible, it's almost OP.
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I know I said in my intro, I want to
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keep art and I do, but art is like there,
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one could make the case that art is able to
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accomplish so much that there's no friction at all to
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a degree, you know, which I know isn't really true,
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but it does kind of feel that way a little bit,
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but I also like it. I love no friction. So, um, um,
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I also thought the fact that getting rid of, oh, right,
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T'Pan's blood. Sorry, I was thinking T'Lasi's blood. I had
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that all confused. And the onboard pilot would land full
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of injured humans and no one would know they hadn't
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done it to each other until they were all conscious
471
00:35:31.949 --> 00:35:37.889
and told their stories. I was a little surprised that
472
00:35:37.989 --> 00:35:45.260
we aren't killing absolutely everyone. I'm not mad, but I
473
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:50.980
feel like leaving witnesses is... I don't feel like that's great.
474
00:35:52.659 --> 00:35:56.440
You know, like, what we have already in the news,
475
00:35:56.519 --> 00:36:03.219
that there is a rogue sec unit. We have this
476
00:36:03.280 --> 00:36:06.659
thing that people can remember having happened and that it
477
00:36:06.719 --> 00:36:11.530
was somebody who was... understood by that point by the
478
00:36:11.570 --> 00:36:14.079
crew as well, I think, of being a sec unit.
479
00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:18.019
I don't think that that was hidden anymore. I think
480
00:36:18.099 --> 00:36:25.400
everybody was aware. So now we've got evidence for the
481
00:36:25.460 --> 00:36:28.260
media to hold up about how that rogue sec unit
482
00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:34.230
is out here causing mayhem, especially because T'Pon's blood isn't there.
483
00:36:34.630 --> 00:36:38.530
So there's no reason to think there was a motivation
484
00:36:38.570 --> 00:36:44.670
that was like honorable for this. And I just worry
485
00:36:45.150 --> 00:36:50.510
because obviously Tlacy's dead. I don't know what, how she
486
00:36:50.570 --> 00:36:54.030
would have approached things if she were still alive, but
487
00:36:56.530 --> 00:36:59.070
I feel like if you are about to get charged
488
00:36:59.130 --> 00:37:03.909
with murder, you're going to tell them everything. Because, of course,
489
00:37:03.969 --> 00:37:05.639
you don't want to go away for this. And you
490
00:37:05.659 --> 00:37:07.719
want to prove the fact that I literally couldn't have
491
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:09.900
done that. How strong would you have to be to, like,
492
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:15.059
chuck that guy, you know? Now, I don't know. I
493
00:37:15.099 --> 00:37:23.510
don't know. So, let's see. This is when the sex
494
00:37:23.590 --> 00:37:31.360
bot is, like, explaining that it knew Murderbot was part
495
00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:35.659
of the Ganaka Pit situation, just due to the fact
496
00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:38.489
of where it was heading and why would you be
497
00:37:38.530 --> 00:37:42.489
there except for that there's nothing else down there. Drop
498
00:37:42.510 --> 00:37:45.909
your wall. It did, and I rode the feed into
499
00:37:45.989 --> 00:37:49.590
its brain. I could feel art with me, alert for traps,
500
00:37:49.809 --> 00:37:52.969
but I found the government module, rendered it null, and
501
00:37:53.050 --> 00:37:56.309
slid it back out into my own body again. The
502
00:37:56.349 --> 00:37:58.860
comfort unit had fallen back, sitting down on the deck
503
00:37:58.889 --> 00:38:03.710
with a thump, staring at me. I said, go away.
504
00:38:04.610 --> 00:38:07.429
Don't let me see you again. Don't hurt anyone on
505
00:38:07.469 --> 00:38:13.429
this transit ring, or I'll find you. It shoved upright, unsteady.
506
00:38:14.210 --> 00:38:16.849
More of Art's drones flicked through the air, making sure
507
00:38:16.889 --> 00:38:19.690
it didn't try to damage anything, herding it toward the door.
508
00:38:20.489 --> 00:38:24.190
It followed the drones out into the corridor. Through Art's feed,
509
00:38:24.329 --> 00:38:26.849
I watched it go through the main hatch where the
510
00:38:26.909 --> 00:38:29.710
lock cycled, and it went out into the transit ring.
511
00:38:31.309 --> 00:38:34.510
And Art says, I thought you might destroy it. And
512
00:38:34.809 --> 00:38:40.349
Murderbot essentially was like, this was for the other sex
513
00:38:40.429 --> 00:38:44.239
bots who had no orders and no directive to act
514
00:38:44.699 --> 00:38:47.860
and had voluntarily walked into the meat grinder to try
515
00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:52.739
to save me and everyone else left alive in the installation. So,
516
00:38:54.179 --> 00:38:56.909
I am really, really curious what's up with the sex bot.
517
00:38:56.969 --> 00:39:00.150
Like if we're going to ever touch base with it again,
518
00:39:00.309 --> 00:39:03.250
find out what it's been doing, the way that it
519
00:39:03.309 --> 00:39:07.070
just seems like so unprepared to be free. It didn't
520
00:39:07.199 --> 00:39:10.940
occur to me how completely disorienting it would be at first. And,
521
00:39:11.539 --> 00:39:13.900
you know, by the time we start these books, murder
522
00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:17.159
bot has been free for a while. And so it,
523
00:39:19.550 --> 00:39:23.340
and free is like a very specific term because, once
524
00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:29.090
it leaves the crew, it's even more so. And it
525
00:39:29.389 --> 00:39:31.639
is still a to that, but most of that is
526
00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:34.260
sort of mental adjustment. And this almost feels like a
527
00:39:34.300 --> 00:39:42.960
physical thing on some level. So, T'Pon wakes up and
528
00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:48.940
it's just like, what happened? And Eden says... They tried
529
00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:52.139
to kill us again. We had to leave. Your friend
530
00:39:52.219 --> 00:39:55.360
was telling the truth. He gave me your files. The
531
00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:57.400
ship has to leave soon. I need you to call
532
00:39:57.460 --> 00:39:59.289
Rami and Mara to come meet us. And I love
533
00:39:59.309 --> 00:40:02.110
her being like, oh, they're going to be so mad.
534
00:40:02.750 --> 00:40:06.110
I should have listened to you. It wasn't your fault.
535
00:40:06.630 --> 00:40:11.570
Her brow crinkled. I kind of think it was. It
536
00:40:11.610 --> 00:40:14.900
was my fault. It's both our faults then. But we
537
00:40:14.940 --> 00:40:21.699
won't tell anybody. I... cackled. I kind of think it was. Yeah.
538
00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:26.260
I appreciate you murder bot, but like, yes, it was,
539
00:40:26.730 --> 00:40:30.190
it was Tupan's fault. You are kind of backing things
540
00:40:30.329 --> 00:40:33.090
up and saying it's your fault because you let them
541
00:40:33.170 --> 00:40:35.949
come here. And so you're very much at the origin
542
00:40:35.969 --> 00:40:39.750
of everything, which is fair. But for this particular situation,
543
00:40:39.789 --> 00:40:44.250
this was Tupan. I did a quick walkthrough of the
544
00:40:44.329 --> 00:40:46.090
areas of the ship I had used to make sure
545
00:40:46.150 --> 00:40:49.750
nothing was out of place. Art's drones had already come through,
546
00:40:49.909 --> 00:40:53.610
taking T'Pan's bloody clothes to be cleaned and sterilizing surfaces
547
00:40:53.670 --> 00:40:56.989
so any attempt to collect trace evidence would fail. Not
548
00:40:57.030 --> 00:41:00.489
that Art intended to be here when the investigation started.
549
00:41:01.139 --> 00:41:05.280
We were all leaving immediately, but Art believed in contingency plans.
550
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:10.739
And I started to remove the comm interface. You need
551
00:41:10.780 --> 00:41:15.699
to clean this too. No, Art said. Keep it. Maybe
552
00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:20.570
we'll come within range of each other again. I hope so.
553
00:41:21.510 --> 00:41:29.409
Fingers crossed. So they meet everybody else. And Rami hands
554
00:41:29.550 --> 00:41:32.840
over a currency card and says, your friend Art said
555
00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:34.739
this was a good way to pay you. And I
556
00:41:34.780 --> 00:41:36.340
had a moment of just like, wait, what? And then
557
00:41:36.380 --> 00:41:38.659
I realized, oh, right. Art can just fake being a person.
558
00:41:39.739 --> 00:41:42.239
I don't know how much money is on there. But,
559
00:41:43.460 --> 00:41:46.010
you know, because they didn't get back. Well, they got
560
00:41:46.030 --> 00:41:47.719
back their data and I guess the deal was we'll
561
00:41:47.780 --> 00:41:51.099
forfeit our bonuses. So I guess what they're doing is
562
00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:56.519
giving Murderbot the bonus that they would have been giving
563
00:41:56.619 --> 00:41:59.039
over to Tlacy if they had this deal, if it
564
00:41:59.059 --> 00:42:00.820
went down the way they were asking it to go down.
565
00:42:04.019 --> 00:42:06.000
They were all watching me now and it was a
566
00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:11.800
little nerve wracking. Rami said, so you're going? Yes, I
567
00:42:11.820 --> 00:42:15.690
should hurry. Can we hug you? Maro let go of
568
00:42:15.750 --> 00:42:21.789
T'Pan and faced me. I didn't step back, but it
569
00:42:22.030 --> 00:42:26.389
must have been obvious the answer was no. Maro nodded. Okay,
570
00:42:26.769 --> 00:42:29.369
this is for you. She wrapped her arms around herself
571
00:42:29.670 --> 00:42:33.760
and squeezed. I said, I've got to go and walked
572
00:42:33.800 --> 00:42:38.480
away down the mall. And that was just very funny.
573
00:42:38.639 --> 00:42:43.550
I appreciate a person who asks first. I do. I'm
574
00:42:43.570 --> 00:42:47.320
not really mad in certain situations. If somebody doesn't ask
575
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:49.639
in the heat of the moment, it's, you know, like,
576
00:42:50.139 --> 00:42:53.559
but in a situation like this, and especially when somebody
577
00:42:53.619 --> 00:42:58.610
does seem to have like particularly cemented boundaries, which I
578
00:42:58.670 --> 00:43:01.650
think is definitely the vibe murder bots giving off, even
579
00:43:01.690 --> 00:43:06.309
if they don't know it's a robot. I also appreciate
580
00:43:06.449 --> 00:43:12.190
just like not pushing the issue. Um, The idea that
581
00:43:12.230 --> 00:43:14.329
we have to be like more careful about consent when
582
00:43:14.369 --> 00:43:16.730
touching people is just so funny because people react so
583
00:43:16.769 --> 00:43:22.739
badly to it. And it really isn't that big, you know, but,
584
00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:26.119
and I'm not normally like somebody coming in for a
585
00:43:26.159 --> 00:43:28.780
hug when I didn't. The only time that would really
586
00:43:28.900 --> 00:43:30.420
irk me was when it was like one of the
587
00:43:30.500 --> 00:43:32.960
creepy men who's like an uncle figure, but you can
588
00:43:32.980 --> 00:43:35.420
tell there's lust in his heart when you're a young girl.
589
00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:38.099
And it's just really like, oh, he's, he's being like,
590
00:43:38.139 --> 00:43:43.429
where's my hug? Ew. Ew. But mostly it's fine. The
591
00:43:43.489 --> 00:43:45.530
one thing I'm really glad I've never had to experience
592
00:43:45.590 --> 00:43:48.429
is the automatically you get to touch my belly because
593
00:43:48.469 --> 00:43:50.909
I'm pregnant thing that pregnant women have to deal with.
594
00:43:51.030 --> 00:43:56.780
And I just, I would be like crafting covers for
595
00:43:56.800 --> 00:43:59.039
my belly made out of barbed wire to hide under
596
00:43:59.059 --> 00:44:01.380
my shirt so that people would just like reach forward
597
00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:04.579
and then just yank their hand back going, ow. And
598
00:44:04.599 --> 00:44:06.079
I'd just be like, oh, I'm so sorry. I don't
599
00:44:06.099 --> 00:44:14.320
know what could have been. Anyway. Fading, already disengaging from
600
00:44:14.380 --> 00:44:18.440
its lock, Art said in my feed, Be careful. Find
601
00:44:18.460 --> 00:44:22.860
your crew. I tapped the feed in acknowledgement, because if
602
00:44:22.909 --> 00:44:24.730
I tried to say anything else, I was going to
603
00:44:24.769 --> 00:44:28.210
sound stupid and emotional. I didn't know what I was
604
00:44:28.250 --> 00:44:30.309
going to do now, if I was going to go
605
00:44:30.349 --> 00:44:33.929
ahead with my plan or not. I had hoped finding
606
00:44:34.050 --> 00:44:36.889
out what had happened at Kanaka Pit would clear everything up,
607
00:44:37.550 --> 00:44:39.989
but maybe revelations like that only happened in the media.
608
00:44:41.269 --> 00:44:43.130
Speaking of which, I needed to grab some more downloads
609
00:44:43.170 --> 00:44:45.070
before my next transport left. It was going to be
610
00:44:45.110 --> 00:44:49.570
a long trip. And that is the end. I really
611
00:44:49.659 --> 00:44:53.079
do like the, I, you know, go ahead with my plan.
612
00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:58.019
I don't even know what Murderbot's plan is. It says
613
00:44:58.159 --> 00:45:01.559
that in a way, like, as far as I knew,
614
00:45:01.579 --> 00:45:05.659
the plan was simply find out what happened. And it has.
615
00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:11.059
So I don't know what else it was intending. what
616
00:45:11.099 --> 00:45:13.079
else it had up its sleeve, so to speak. And
617
00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:17.420
I am curious about that because the way that it's
618
00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:21.940
talking about, I was hoping that it would like inspire some,
619
00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:33.329
let's see, would clear everything up. It's almost like, depending
620
00:45:33.409 --> 00:45:35.909
on what I found out that was going to change
621
00:45:35.989 --> 00:45:40.409
my plan, but it's really not quite. It's more like,
622
00:45:41.670 --> 00:45:45.210
I had a plan and this would like make me
623
00:45:45.449 --> 00:45:49.300
feel better about doing it. And it hasn't. And I
624
00:45:49.340 --> 00:45:52.380
don't know if it's just exposed the company potentially for
625
00:45:52.420 --> 00:45:58.619
having done this, but I like, I have to assume
626
00:45:58.659 --> 00:46:04.949
it's find out who installed this bug and why. Right.
627
00:46:05.010 --> 00:46:07.849
Cause that's what happened at the pit is that somebody
628
00:46:07.929 --> 00:46:16.969
sent in kill software and everything went bananas. So again,
629
00:46:16.989 --> 00:46:20.909
I just really thought Murderbot was accusing Slacy of this,
630
00:46:20.949 --> 00:46:26.690
but apparently not. And this being like the bigger overall
631
00:46:26.750 --> 00:46:33.599
mystery now, like the concern that Murderbot had about like,
632
00:46:33.639 --> 00:46:36.880
did I actually do it? Did they cover for me? Yada, yada.
633
00:46:37.699 --> 00:46:40.559
I was not as invested in that because I trust
634
00:46:40.739 --> 00:46:46.590
that Murderbot now is is decent and not a murderer
635
00:46:46.769 --> 00:46:49.630
and wouldn't do a thing like that. And so whatever
636
00:46:49.690 --> 00:46:52.769
it did in its past, I'm not concerned. Like I
637
00:46:52.829 --> 00:46:57.030
understand why it is and I can respect that. But
638
00:46:57.090 --> 00:47:00.719
as a reader, I'm not particularly clamoring to find out
639
00:47:00.760 --> 00:47:02.440
because it's not going to change anything about how I
640
00:47:02.519 --> 00:47:06.579
feel about the murder bot now. But now we are
641
00:47:06.619 --> 00:47:10.090
turning a corner where somebody did something that and caused
642
00:47:10.219 --> 00:47:16.119
all these deaths and caused a situation in which Murderbot
643
00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:21.460
thought it had done the thing and evidently had done
644
00:47:21.500 --> 00:47:23.880
the thing, I guess, but it was because of that override.
645
00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:31.170
So I am much more invested now in this aspect
646
00:47:31.230 --> 00:47:33.230
of the story than I was before, because now we're
647
00:47:33.250 --> 00:47:39.010
getting back at somebody and, depending on their motivation for
648
00:47:39.119 --> 00:47:41.829
doing it as well, which I have to assume is
649
00:47:43.150 --> 00:47:46.789
always going to revolve around money, I would like to
650
00:47:46.849 --> 00:47:53.010
see that person handled. I would. It feels a little
651
00:47:53.090 --> 00:48:03.639
bit too easy to override sec units. I gotta say. Oh, sorry.
652
00:48:03.880 --> 00:48:07.420
Sophia's in the chat and says some trivia. You mentioned
653
00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:12.119
how autistic coded Murderbot is. When Martha Wells released the books,
654
00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:14.079
she got tons of people being like, oh my God,
655
00:48:14.119 --> 00:48:16.280
how did you capture the experience of autism so well?
656
00:48:16.300 --> 00:48:20.349
And she was like, I did? That explains some things
657
00:48:20.429 --> 00:48:30.349
about it. Murderbot was her first person written as first POV. Oh, oh,
658
00:48:31.309 --> 00:48:33.099
this was the first thing that she wrote that was
659
00:48:33.139 --> 00:48:34.920
written as a first person POV? Is that what you mean?
660
00:48:37.050 --> 00:48:39.070
And Sophia says, Natasha, can you tell the listeners we
661
00:48:39.110 --> 00:48:41.929
need more people commissioning Murderbot? If anyone wants to participate,
662
00:48:41.949 --> 00:48:44.340
they can say so in the unspoiled Discord or comment
663
00:48:44.460 --> 00:48:48.219
on the Patreon post. All right, I will. So for
664
00:48:48.260 --> 00:48:50.119
those who aren't aware how this works, the reason that
665
00:48:50.139 --> 00:48:55.159
these episodes exist is because there are people who really
666
00:48:55.260 --> 00:49:00.000
want this content and they commission me to cover a
667
00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:04.550
few chapters at a time. Sometimes I'll have one person who...
668
00:49:05.679 --> 00:49:09.179
overtime commissions an entire series. And that happens actually pretty frequently.
669
00:49:09.619 --> 00:49:12.110
There are some people who want to pay upfront in
670
00:49:12.219 --> 00:49:15.590
bulk for a whole book. And then there are shows
671
00:49:15.690 --> 00:49:19.130
like this or like The Expanse or One Piece where
672
00:49:19.349 --> 00:49:23.639
there's a group of people who all coordinate together to
673
00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:26.639
figure out who's commissioning this week, who's going to commission
674
00:49:26.659 --> 00:49:30.199
it for next week. And they also do like the
675
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:33.949
chapter breakdowns on how much should I be covering for
676
00:49:34.110 --> 00:49:38.269
this episode, which often we have to adjust downward because
677
00:49:38.289 --> 00:49:44.039
your girl doesn't shut up. but it is, it, it
678
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:47.699
takes some organization and it's all kind of funny because
679
00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:49.780
I can't be involved in a lot of it. It's
680
00:49:50.300 --> 00:49:54.059
got to take place with the folks doing the commissions
681
00:49:54.099 --> 00:49:57.429
and they have to like organize it all. So I
682
00:49:57.469 --> 00:49:59.690
just wind up finding out what's going on after they've
683
00:49:59.710 --> 00:50:04.889
all decided and set it up. But it's, if you
684
00:50:04.909 --> 00:50:08.429
are interested in continuing the series, if you've been enjoying
685
00:50:08.449 --> 00:50:13.170
the episodes and, I believe the current pricing is $ 60
686
00:50:12.750 --> 00:50:18.570
for an episode. If I'm not mistaken, I am, I
687
00:50:18.650 --> 00:50:23.219
am pretty much like I'm booked up. I think to
688
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:27.980
the day of what's available because the way the calendar
689
00:50:28.019 --> 00:50:32.480
works for commissioning is that it's open up to four
690
00:50:32.599 --> 00:50:40.289
months ahead of the current date. So I, November, December, January, February. Yeah.
691
00:50:40.329 --> 00:50:44.429
So I'm booked into February of next year and the
692
00:50:44.590 --> 00:50:47.820
only slots are on Tuesdays and Thursdays and they don't
693
00:50:48.030 --> 00:50:52.159
open until you have reached the corresponding day. I believe
694
00:50:52.340 --> 00:50:55.659
the number day, not the day of the week, four
695
00:50:55.780 --> 00:50:59.920
months earlier. Um, so I'm looking at the calendar now
696
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:07.360
and the next available slot is February 11th, uh, Actually, no,
697
00:51:07.400 --> 00:51:12.769
that one's not available. Sorry. The 16th, February 16th. And
698
00:51:12.789 --> 00:51:16.630
the slots go quick. That's also part of what can
699
00:51:16.650 --> 00:51:19.809
be difficult about organizing this whole thing is that they
700
00:51:19.849 --> 00:51:23.269
are in demand. And if you don't jump on it
701
00:51:23.389 --> 00:51:25.610
quick or pay a little extra to get me to
702
00:51:26.110 --> 00:51:28.389
open up part of my schedule, even ahead of time
703
00:51:28.469 --> 00:51:32.570
for you, you kind of can go a while without
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getting any slots. And that can be really tough. I
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have a limit. currently of three months, if there's a
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three month break between episodes, I am going to consider
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canceling coverage entirely because I start to get to a
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place where I forget character names. I forget important plot
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points and my overall coverage just suffers because of that.
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You know, Jeff's okay. I need a prank show where
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women wear electrified baby bumps and dickheads get shocked. I
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love this idea. Uh, Macon says, Hey, we love the
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fact that you can't shut up. And we've got a
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few emojis agreeing with Macon under that. Appreciate it. Yeah.
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I have managed to really leverage the fact that I
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never stopped talking and, um, I'm lucky to have done it.
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I'm lucky to live in a time where podcasts are
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even a thing. Um, but yeah, so I, I just realized,
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sorry that the, uh, If you want to– I'm trying
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to find this website. So it's spoilme.simplybook. I think that spoilme.simplybook
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will just bring you to it. I'm trying to see.
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This is sort of a weird link. But I really
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do recommend not just going in and booking, but communicating
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with the people who are in the Discord because– if
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you book without telling them it's likely they book on
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the same day potentially, or it overlaps in a way
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that they didn't realize. And it throws off the, like
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the spreadsheet for the reading. So yeah, it's a, Sophia
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says we will get the slots. No problem. Just communicate
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with us. Okay. That's what they do with one piece
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as well. There's like one person who's sort of in
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charge of being alert, keeping on top of the slots
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and everybody just sends the money to that person. And the,
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handle it they're like the treasurer for that show you
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know so uh and i think that's a good way
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to handle you just you know you have to trust
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that people are going to do what they say but
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my community is great i don't think i've ever had
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somebody who was like shady doing shit like that ever
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and i've been doing this a long time so yeah
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just um and also you know keep in mind that
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if you are listening to this and you're like oh
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i really wish you would cover this other thing maybe
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email me unspoiled podcast at gmail.com or come into the
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discord and talk about it. Like that's something that I
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am not adding new titles right now, but once I
747
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start wrapping up on some of the things I'm covering,
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then I will be. And if you are interested in
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getting something started, and especially if you want to like
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buy a batch of episodes, I will really strongly consider
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throwing your title at the top of the list. So
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something to think about. Um, April says, I like that
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because I'm so clueless about getting a slot. I'll reach
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out for commissioning on Discord. Cool, cool, cool. Thank you, April. Yeah,
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I'm so sorry. Like, I'm realizing as I'm saying, I
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don't even know my spoil me booking thing. Like, I'm
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not repping for myself, but it is spoil me dot
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simply book. Dot me, maybe? Or it might just be
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without the dot me. It's a weird thing. It's a
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weird thing. So if you don't need to actually do
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that part, don't worry about it. Just come to the
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Discord and let somebody else handle it and it'll be
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best for everybody. I wish that I could have done
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like Calendly, like another more popular interface for booking appointments,
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but it did not have enough specificity in listings and
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required questions and whatnot the way that I need in
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order to keep everything organized and not overlap appointments. I
768
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tried it with them and it really hit the fan
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and was a huge pain. So this is the one
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platform I found that does all the things that I need.
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And they're not too expensive, which is nice. I appreciate it. Hey,
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Macon's in here. We're putting the link in the chat.
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Appreciate you, Macon. Okay. Okay. thank you guys again. So,
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so much for listening for commissioning. I want to, Sophia
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says we have booked to the end of book four currently. Okay.
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Cool beans. I just want everybody to be aware that
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there is possibility of more scheduled changes coming up. We
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have episodes booked for next week that I may have
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to move around. I'm not really sure when, you know,
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things are going to be happening, but, I fractured my
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wrist and I'm going to see the hand specialist today
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to find out if I am going to need surgery,
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which sounds like it's pretty likely. And I don't know how,
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I don't know anything. So just if you are somebody
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who comes to the lives, stay vigilant on the event
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calendar because whatever changes happen will be reflected there. I
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will also try to come into the Discord no spoilers
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channels for the shows that I have to move around
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and let you guys know. So everything is just probably
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going to be a little bit fucked up for a
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little bit. Bear with me. All right. Is there anything else?
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I have a couple minutes and I just want to
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say like before I completely wrap up, is there anything
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else that you guys wanted to like ask or mention
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before I head on over to this hand? His name
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is Dr. Metta. And it's M-E-H-T-A because I think he's Indian.
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But I just kept hearing it as like the fake
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AI doctor that Facebook has. Like that's not a real thing,
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but that's what he sounds like he is. You know
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what I'm saying? So when they were like, we think
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you should see Dr. Mehta, I was like, should I?
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Should I? Because he does not sound like he knows
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what he's talking about. And then I saw how it
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was spelled and I was like, oh, oh, that's different then. Okay.
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Thank you for the hug, Megan. The doctor from Vorkosigan Saga.
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I forgot that that was in there. Oh my God.
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You're right. You're right. You're right. Yeah. How wild. I
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didn't even think of that. That's so funny. Okay. Thank
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you guys. Appreciate you. And until next time, toodaloo motherfuckers.
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That was an unspoiled network podcast.