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uh good morning guys that sounds weird
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doesn't it usually we do this in the
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afternoon but we have our special
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edition coming to you right now this
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morning
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um and today it's kind of a good time
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because we are going to talk about
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gaming and the holidays are right around
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the corner so let's discuss
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roll the intro
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[Music]
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thank you
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foreign
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so if I go to you and I say what is
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gaming what would your first answer be
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karims and
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um bowling and tennis
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I don't know okay not exactly what I
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expected but I guess I walked into that
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one
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um all right so while you are correct
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gaming does qualify under Sports gaming
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originally actually came off the word
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gambling so gaming came back from all
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those times are you people who like
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going to Atlantic City in Vegas I guess
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you're the original Gamers because
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that's the thing however more recently
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we've decided we're a little more legal
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so gaming is now bigger in the online
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sport or sense whether it's your PC or
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your console gaming is everywhere
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So today we're going to talk about
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gaming for non-gamers and no offense to
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her I figured this is the best person to
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do it on because you know though you do
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have something I don't so that is kind
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of funny
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um but really gaming went from solitary
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to social it used to be something that
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you would play by yourself uh whether it
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was literally Solitaire or maybe pong
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against yourself I don't know how that
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would work but nowadays uh it's an
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activity that people do together now it
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wasn't always a family thing it usually
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was competitive I talked about Esports
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before how games like Minecraft and
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fortnite have become huge and people win
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money you actually have a job playing
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video games that's crazy isn't that's
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kind of I don't know if that's cool or
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just well it's funny because a lot of
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times if you watch you know the shows on
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TV about toys and about stuff like that
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a lot of times the people who make this
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stuff I don't think they really assume
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this was going to be anything more than
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just something for them to make money
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for instance the people who make pong
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back in 1967 they wanted to have it be a
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bar game they're just like put it in a
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bar and leave it well as we know pong
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became the number one game to play until
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we started getting other systems right
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so I think you're partially right I
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think it's kind of just a hey I I'm a
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computer engineer I'm gonna make a game
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Let's Play all of a sudden boom them I
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mean you know they're obviously long
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gone but they're apologies are now
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making billions right and and also Rob
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the game started out as you said in the
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bars they literally were on table tops I
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remember distinctly sitting in uh a bar
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in a restaurant before we would go sit
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down and on the table was actually built
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in pong and you would drink and then you
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put your quarters in or whatever it was
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10 cents and and you would play Pong
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there so I think you know it actually
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evolved more as a I think in a in a
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restaurant in a bar on a tabletop you
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weren't really there weren't computer
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screens at that time and there weren't
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certainly weren't um handheld games at
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that time so it's very interesting
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I just think Chuck E cheese you know
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when you have those weird little things
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and playing yeah you know you get the
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tickets for winning but as of 2019 the
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gaming market and now we're talking what
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we're you know the the big stuff
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152 billion dollars and that was a
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couple years ago so obviously since then
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you know by 2025 uh
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bitmarketbusinessnews.com estimates
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almost 260 billion for just the gaming
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uh surface now keep in mind as you
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mentioned before it could be everything
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from tabletop to physical games like
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pool tables and darts and it also
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includes what we're talking about today
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the online electronic now the biggest
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thing or the biggest two things I
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mentioned before first one was Esports
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where you make money off of it now if
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anybody watches ABC a few months ago
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there was the tournament that they
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actually shot live and it was I don't
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know 100
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000 people however many people in a room
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playing a game not the most invigorating
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thing to watch however I was on there
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for a few minutes going why am I
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watching this and oh that's actually
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kind of cool so that by itself makes up
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most of the money however cloud
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computing now we use the cloud a lot
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right cloud computing makes all of this
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able to be done so thanks to people like
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Google
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and apple and others who use the cloud
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we can do more of this online uh thing
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but also keep in mind that means that
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those people are probably making a
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couple bucks because it's their systems
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so
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um gaming is not just for the gamers so
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much anymore now the next article that I
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found and this one really goes into
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gaming for non-gamers
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you thought this was funny because I
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said you know
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parents and kids are now bonding over
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their games well it actually is true
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from thedrum.com they used some
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information how family gaming is more
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popular than ever and this was written
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this year so this is a very new article
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the first part they said get rid of the
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boy in the basement stereotype so how
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many of those 90s movies do you see
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where that kind of weird kid is down by
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himself playing his system or playing a
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table talking that's long gone no longer
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are you stuck in your room playing by
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yourself interesting that's a big deal
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because a lot of times when you say
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video games and again now at this point
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it's a meme it's kind of funny you know
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the older generation goes oh that's
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weird you know get out of your room go
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outside and play but nowadays you do
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actually go outside and play stuff like
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Pokemon Go stuff like the VR headset you
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actually have to be up and moving to
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actually make this stuff work right
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right so that's the first part and alone
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in the U.S 100 163 million people are
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classified as Gamers so how many people
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live in the US oh wait wait 63 million
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people classify themselves as some sort
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of gamer person that's a lot
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and I'm assuming there's a lot of people
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in the United States but that's a lot of
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people right Right Now the ages go
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differently the Peaks go between 18 to
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34 which is more of the people the
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younger generation but 25 to 44 is right
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there next to it so overall you get
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basically from your 20s to right before
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your 50s people are considered Gamers
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that's a big difference of age
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considering used to be solely young not
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nobody over the age of 30 or 40. now
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almost into your 50s you're playing your
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games so what do they say next well the
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next part is kind of interesting if you
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had to guess what genre do you think
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people are liking the most when it comes
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to games do you think it's action do you
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think it's adventure games what would
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you venture to guess because I was
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actually shocked by this answer I would
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I would say action games but you are
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correct so overall uh generally speaking
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whether it's between the 20s or the 50s
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almost 60 for each of those is picking
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action now that's kind of funny to me
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because being you know in the Pokemon
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realm in the Super Mario realm nowadays
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RPG role-playing games where you
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basically get to just run around the
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screen and Adventure those are becoming
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more popular so the fact that action
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games are the number one I'm kind of
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curious maybe we'll find out later in
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the show I don't know but I'm kind of
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curious how that ended up being who knew
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number one now
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console is King and I guess if you want
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to throw it up really quick this is just
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part one of consoles I guess but people
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are picking specific consoles uh whether
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it's PlayStation whether it's Xbox or
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switch this is actually the gaming gear
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I think we have up here oh this says
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console on here I see Ken Hank super
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console am I doing the wrong one oh I
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see I the visual says the difference
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okay well you keep talking amongst
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yourself let me remove this okay so
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console is King so most of the time
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people are picking gaming via the
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company there it is so obviously we have
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Sony Microsoft and Nintendo that kind of
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take up the most so Sony obviously has
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PlayStation all of that Microsoft owns
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the Xbox area and of course Nintendo
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owns everything else in the entire world
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whether it's uh switch N64 or something
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else there you go
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um
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so when you are talking gaming it's no
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longer game to game it's console to
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console so that's just a kind of fun
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little thing there lastly and this
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actually props to you because you are
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the parents in this conversation power
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to the parents a lot of times people
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were concerned that video games were
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detrimental to your mental health
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because of the violence however when you
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game with your family you are kind of in
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control of what goes on that's right if
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you see a game that you might not think
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is too hot to be playing that's okay
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because if you're playing if you say hey
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I want to play a game with you let's
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play this
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you're having the family time so power
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to the adults in the room here that are
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watching because they are the ones that
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are actually changing the rules now a
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while ago I did talk about either with
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you or Victoria how the one thing people
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do have the issue with is the violence
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in games right it's really a
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person-to-person thing I'm gonna say
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if you play the games that have the gore
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and the violence that's a that's on you
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that's up to you to do if you can handle
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that stuff great if you can't
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wouldn't really advise necessarily doing
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it now
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we're going to go and stuff so since we
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just taught consoles let's talk about
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them a little bit more console wise so
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the big three as I just mentioned are
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Playstation Xbox and switch or and
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Nintendo
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um you can see the stuff ranges uh a lot
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of this stuff is kind of imitation-ish
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wise but a lot of this stuff is
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different versions of the same things
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you can go retro as you can see you can
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get the classic NES games or you can get
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a PlayStation 4 for almost 500 bucks
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now I know we've kind of touched on
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business and Monopoly a little bit
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before
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I feel Nintendo kind of runs the world
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on this now Nintendo's kind of that
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funny little guy there in the corner
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right because they have franchises like
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Mario and Pokemon they have consoles
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like N64 and switch and they have toys
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and gear as well so
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I would say for those non-gamers
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pick one
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well actually know it pick a game first
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and then a console so let's let's jump
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to that to the games you can go old
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school
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um
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yeah so you can go old school and do a
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Pokemon a Mario or sonic which game
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would you like Playstation Xbox
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that's kind of where we're going right
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now oh um
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you can go old school and pick a
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Nintendo game now a lot of these
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actually are newer now which is funny
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um but you can do there you go Super
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Smash Brothers is a great one Mario Kart
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is a great one so if you're a non-gamer
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or maybe you are a parent that wants to
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game maybe pick an exploration game or a
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racing game pick something that you
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really just have to push two buttons and
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that's about it and then you're good to
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go Pokemon Arceus that's a game that I
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am obsessed with right now until we get
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to our next game which will be next
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month but that's for another day
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um Sonic has a new game where you
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basically get to run around the map and
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just explore you don't have to collect
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Rings anymore you just explore as Sonic
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who remembers Kirby
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um Animal Crossing so gaming and
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consoles are two different things but
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Animal Crossing actually brings me up a
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really good one Krista actually brought
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up this idea earlier
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do you remember the Sims do you remember
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building games do you remember where you
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had to build your thing well Animal
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Crossing is the new age of The Sims
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so if you think about it Guys these
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aren't really that odd of a selection of
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games it's a new version of an old game
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that we played right so I don't know if
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you just want to put the links up I
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don't think we're gonna go over in depth
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on the other ones per se but
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that's what I would recommend first pick
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a style that you like so obviously when
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I said Sims you you smiled you said oh I
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remember so a game like Animal Crossing
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would be great for you whether it's Solo
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or with a partner because all you do on
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that game is you build you build a
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little house you build a little island
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you get to meet other animals and you
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get to play as an animal so you can be a
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raccoon or a dog or a cat it's really
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cute
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um the console will come with it so once
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you pick your game you'll know on the
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corner of the game it'll say for switch
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for PlayStation for Xbox then you pick
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your console right
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any any questions so far as we go no I
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mean I just remember you playing all
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these games and and every you know
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holiday time wishing for the next and
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the best and the greatest and you know
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well that still happens now because I'm
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still going oh next month
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um now just kind of an offset really
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quick if you are more of a PC person you
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can still do that stuff too there's no
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there's nobody's stopping those games
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for me as far as I know many of the
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games you can play on systems have a
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version for the PC as well you just have
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to look for it unfortunately because PC
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or because uh computers have become more
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work than play a lot of people have
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given up on gaming on computer because
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it's not really cool correct you know
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you know I mean I remember way back
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Oregon like Oregon Trail it's a great
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example you can play organisms on the
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PlayStation now and on the Xbox it's the
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same game obviously everybody's a little
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more 3D now than they used to be right
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but you can play the same game you'd
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actually probably and get a kick out of
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that because it's the same you know it's
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the same game
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um all right so that's part one so the
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easiest thing I'd recommend is pick your
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game pick your style action adventure
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whatever now gaming gear
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this is the kind of and it might be a
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little confusing part for some
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if you are cool just with your system
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and regular controller
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that's cool too
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if you are like a lot of people on
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YouTube or twitch you might want
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something like the chairs the multiple
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screens uh the um the the microphone uh
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I don't know if you want to scroll
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through just because I know yeah so
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gaming gear this is kind of when you do
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feel comfortable this is where you're
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going to go next I mean they even have
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glasses that do the kind of you know it
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helps with the glare so if you're on the
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screen all day it's not going to hurt
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your eyes
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um you have your VR headset that
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actually connects to a lot of systems as
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well as your computer too
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this is just something where
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because you're talking gaming I felt
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amiss if we didn't talk about gear
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are you looking at this Rob this extreme
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Sim racing racing oh yeah my it's
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um probably throw up but people do like
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that for the racing
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um alrighty well that's interesting yeah
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so I mean that's pretty much where you
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know where we're at and that's kind of
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where I think I'm I have my stuff but
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hopefully if anything it gave you some
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ideas for the holiday but more
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importantly maybe some stuff you can do
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with your family and I'm putting links
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up Rob for like Xbox games and
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Playstation games as well as the rest
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that we had going here because again you
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know as you're saying Robin and I think
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it speaks right to me because a lot of
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these things have I have no interest in
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but when you say things like you know
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almost like the oldies and the Goldies
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you know Oregon trade all that stuff I
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go oh that was fun and you know pong and
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all that stuff it might be a really
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great way to share your past with your
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grandkids or your kids right is to find
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some of these oldies that are becoming
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newbies again I think I think I don't
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know it's kind of fun maybe you and I
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should like do a game live or something
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we'll have to do that we will I'm sure
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we will do multiple versions yes
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um but yeah I mean that's that guys if
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anything we probably just gave you a
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great holiday shopping list for
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you know yeah but yeah that's what I got
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hopefully I taught you one or two things
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maybe you did no you did I I I just
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thought it was something you stuck in
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your you know a thing and you played I I
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don't you know that's my thing I I don't
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really think about that stuff but now I
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do so thank you for that thank you for
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that always fun Rob
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um we have a lot of good shows coming up
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in the in the next few weeks so stay
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tuned make sure you go out and give
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somebody
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an awesome day and we'll see you next
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time let me put this screen back up on
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the next altered universe live with us
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see ya
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