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#7 – Men at Arm EXPLAINED (no, really) (Men at Arms Pt. 3)

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You're welcome. It was okay. Oh, shut the fuck up, George. Um...

Um... It can't be if I'm doing this, but I am buying a ticket for a podcast live show stream event. Oh my god. Uh, Simp, which podcast?

Rutors of Magic. The Romania X. The thing about Rutors is that the podcast themselves are all like, the people who are doing it are very skilled, like, improv comedians, so it's like... Oh, well, it's their imporous mediums then.

There is not a force on a noratorical scale that could persuade me to try listening to that. It's... But I'm glad you enjoyed it. No, it's great.

It's like, it's the actual podcast for people who hate actual podcasts. Ah. If you really hate them, you don't listen to them. I can't chat any shit about going to podcast live shows because I've been to, I think, three nights.

Oh my god. No, I won't cancel. I feel like watching an actual live show in person that sounds bad, but for, like, live stream events, it's fine. I mean, I think there's like a fan to the reveal.

I don't have to be around real podcast fans, you know? Yeah, it was good. I saw Aaron McEwen. Mm.

I don't know that is fun. Oh. I don't know anything. I'm stupid.

You know, I was going to be even greater about getting a new computer is that I can record my podcast, oh my good mic, rather than on my kind of worst mic, which I have to record. I'm because my good mic is so good that it destroys my computer when I try and use it for podcasting. You feel like so good that it destroys me. It just can't cope.

It can't be audacity. And my good mic and discord at the same time, it says no. I am not, I refuse to do that. I thought once, once when me and Janos did, I think it was our last stream of Empire the Masquerade.

It did work for the entire thing and it sounds, sounds beautiful. So whilst he was streaming as well. Yeah, which I don't know why. Because I tried to use it.

I tried to use it for fucking watching mermaid shows and it always like breaks my discord when I do that. So who knows? There's no logic to anything. You should watch our really good vampire the masquerade stream.

So we should do another one. We should do another one. It's just hard because of timing. But yeah, we should.

Because you're working. Yeah, they're not even streams that let's play it's because we're in 2012. Which was some funny things to say about why I'm talking about. There's nothing funny to say.

Not a human being. Every humor starter, you know, like the starter of a humor is a bit like the seed of a bit seed. They've all been used. The ground is barren.

The ground has been done already. There's no jokes left. Everything is just scorched earth and like. Yeah, we've talked about every every weird way of checking off at this point.

There is no more there's nothing else to say about checking off. No more ways. What about you? I found methods.

Yeah. Every way to jack. Well, can we list the ways of checking off? There's there's a fine masturbation.

There's standing masturbation. Okay. There's on your side masturbation. How do you have those?

There's inverted masturbation. Oh, what's in that? There's prone masturbation. What's inverted masturbation?

You stand on your head. You put it inside Australian. You'll be very athletic. And then there's the there's Jared Way masturbation.

Was it Jared Way? No, sorry. It's my answer to masturbation where you get your ribs removed. All right.

Yeah. Oh, that's not masturbation. That's like self-elatia, which I think is different. See, there's no comedy there.

Well, okay. I'm not going to tell you masturbation where you have your like you're going, my mommy with a hand thing, but you're doing you're jacking it off. What if you made macaroni that was actually a flashlight? Like the pasta was just a wide mouth.

Yeah. So it's macaroni in the pot. That's some wet-up pussy. Yeah, exactly.

But yeah, basically. I don't know. You see, that's nothing here. Any current events that were funny.

No. All the current events are terrible. Yeah. I thought for a second that I remembered that it was just being a shooting.

So yeah. Kissed. I've got shouted out by a pub landlord in Bath. But sadly, the pub landlord was shouting at him because he didn't want lockdowns because it was just old people dying.

Mm. Yeah. It's like, hey, right on. Oh, sorry.

Prince Philip fucking died. Or did we do this last time? I think we did last time. We did it last time.

Um, we did it last time. I know we do have some sad news, actually. Okay. Um, Chaz or whoever edits this role, sad music over the top.

Maybe a funeral march from. I'll do, um, I'll do my slow down salute medley cover of Game of Thrones theme. Yeah. Okay.

But, uh, I got to say this week, we say goodbye to a real one. We're pouring out all of our, all of our come jars for friend of the show, Bernie made off. Maybe rest in peace. Maybe rest in peace.

Maybe rest in peace. He taught me how to be weak. I'm forever thankful to him for that. I wish you hadn't, but it's fine.

Now he has. I've lived a little bit, so it's fine. He taught us the secrets to succeed in the podcasting business. Yeah.

He is. Uh, we actually perfected his, um, model of getting people to pay you money and then paying them back with other people's money. Yeah. But we, we perfected that by never having to pay anyone any money back.

What, what is a podcast? It's fucking funny. Fuck you, Bernie. Why is a podcast but a Ponzi scheme of the personality?

You know. Yeah. Why are there things where you can just have a line scheme where you're at one end of the line and the person paying you? Is it the other?

Yeah. But you're like a parasocial relationship and more parasitic social relief. Yes, exactly. We're feeding off of you.

Yeah. And much like, um, talks about as my gums, I, we are changing your brain chemistry to make you act more irrationally and very, uh, become very attractive to cats. I have actually, uh, been looking at our podcast reviews recently. I just wanted to say big fuck you to everyone who gave us 404 and a half style.

Fuck this fucking problem. Yeah. Only nerds do that. Nerds who hate who give you four and a half starts, the bitches.

Absolute nerds. This is, this is like fiction blaming something which I do constantly. Yeah. That's a really weird thread though.

That was. I don't know. It's very fun to me. I would not tear you with posters brain would have been like, I don't want to know.

So glad, you know, so I mean, that's not what I meant. I'm sad that Terry's dead, but also I'm like, in some ways, it could have less in relief to not have to like see him become something terrible in a posting sense, you know. Like there are so many bad paths he could have gone down that would have been really upsetting. You know, we could just be doing exactly what Neil Gaiman's doing.

Yeah. See, I don't think he would have discovered tweeting. Well, he has a Twitter. I don't know.

He did, he did like computers. Yeah. Yeah. He like a Twitter as well.

Social media, I think. I don't know. Yeah. But I wouldn't like to hear his thoughts on cancel culture.

Like that's not. Yeah. That's not fun. I don't want to see whether or not he's like, Susanne Moore was unfairly fired or whatever.

You know, I don't want to see that sort of stuff. But to be fair, let's not like assume the worst of him. No, I can't help it. He's a British like former journalist, which just like, you know, it's never going to be good.

I was just kind of just ended up with his British. I know. Ayy. His British.

He was. Yet your British Robin. Checkmate. Yeah.

That is true. Very clever. He's British and she was knighted by the Queen. So yeah.

He would have done a R.I.P. Prince Philip post. Probably. I didn't think so.

I don't think he would have done. Did you see that post Matt Smith made where he like posted himself from? I would have read Matt Smith. When he like posted himself of when he was like in playing Prince Philip in the crown and he was like, oh my god, he's old chap.

You were stuck in delight and you knew it like, but it was it was like written as if like, it had no actual reference to anything Prince Philip would have done. Like it just sounded like Matt Lips. At the same time, like apparently literally the first thing Matt Smith does as Prince Philip in that show is like shouted someone. If someone you should know that he was a piece of shit.

You should know that. That three of his three of his brothers fought for the Wehrmacht or the SS in the war. Yeah. One of the what reason four of them didn't because one of them died in a plane crash before the war.

Well, he's it. I don't know. I was definitely true on Wikipedia like when he died. I was like, this is weird.

This is like weird family. I can't believe that that's so fucking funny. I support that actually. I think I actually practice.

That's deranged actor posting, but like is it a good way? I like its effects. Yeah. Okay, let's get into this.

Let's start talking about the book. Yeah, I'm nothing. Yeah. And book.

Oh no, did you know we're going to read a book today, George? Fuck. We're reading it on the screen, do you? It's an audiobook now.

Okay. Currently. Hello. If I bought my human pet in.

Oh my god, but he has a human pet. Awful. Another Discworld novel, which once again features one of the more familiar characters of the Discworld, Samuel Vines. Sand Vines.

He most sadly doesn't save the world. What he does do is give the world time to save itself, which is very much more of a dismal way of doing things. Sand Vines is not giving you a huge deal. It's absolutely right, the Sand Vines.

Holy, and poor, and then- Discworld they're doing things. No, but no. Vines is helping the same circumstances. I'm really happy with that.

I'm a ruckling man. Discworld way of doing things. We're going to watch this in a podcast for dog lovers and dog haters, basically for everyone who has strong feelings about dogs. Emphasis on the letters.

I am your host, Chaz. And, you know, I want you to know that- I don't know. I can't think of anything. My mind's got completely blank.

Because I'm thinking of Angua being a human pet. I am your host, Chaz. And I'm retiring from the watch today, but don't worry about it. I'm feeling very normal and I'm sure it will be fine.

Hi, I'm your host, Robin. And I don't know much about Copaganda, but what I do know is I'd like to Copaganda that bird. Hi, I'm your host, Janos. I just want to- Everyone who's been like curling accusations at us.

I just want you to know that podcasting doesn't kill people. People kill people. Hello, I'm your host, George. And I was in a bar the other week, and the bartender's like, oh, what you doing?

And I'm like, I'm a podcaster. And then they're like, oh, look, you're up. And then they're like, oh, I'm not- No, but I've been super cancelled right now. I know.

This continues for about 45 minutes. And then I show the tweet that I was cancelled for. And then it goes on for another 45 minutes. And I lose all interest in living.

That was a very good summary of that video. I just watched the whole thing. I've been cancelled. Do I sound cancelled?

Yeah, I don't even- I don't even bring it up on any podcast. Because like, yeah, I- No, that's not. When I made it so uninteresting, even though I got tons of people in my mentions for making a Lindsay Alice tweet, it wasn't even that critical or bad. It just made fun of her description that was like both weirdly tokenizing of two POC friends yet.

At the same time, just also plugging a ton of her white friends. The people were like, well, she did list two POCs. So it's fine that she also plugged a few white friends after that. It's two different lists.

But yeah, imagine being that invested in like a naked person who- Any poster. I mean, obviously you're not invested in us. Not being emotionally invested in someone you've never met. Yeah, you freaks.

That's one thing. But the other thing is that like, she isn't even like, imagine you're- I'm just thinking about how it kills- Oh, it must kill someone's brain to get that much attention as she gets. Because I like her content for a while, but- Yeah. It was like, she made videos about things, right?

And it was about, okay, it was a critique of Phantom of the Opera or whatever. But apparently these people who are like so invested in her, it's like she became the product, right? And then her newest video is just about herself. That would never happen to us when we become the product.

It's extremely interesting because I remember she made a video about like- Yeah, yeah. Man, you're in authenticity. And I don't know, I like a lot of British people, I think, have never actually learned anything about media analysis in school. Yeah.

You know, you do English, and it's just they're like, this is- this is Romeo and Julia. They don't do that in the sexual innuend. They don't do that in any other country. Like there's no media analysis in school in Germany or like, America.

But- I know, people really sneer at like the idea of media studies here. And like, I used to. That's wild. No, I'm like, yeah, I don't know why.

They say it's like a fake subject and it's like, I'm not sure that's helpful. How is fake and the analysis of literature? Like, there is- There is- There is- They're like 500 years old. There's no reason.

Because of dead people- It's just our TV, you just watch films and it's funny. Yeah. Maybe you should use your brain and that's why we have a media class that's comprised of like the worst numbers of society. So, you know, it was a bit like her videos were something that like made me vaguely aware of like, very basic media analysis stuff, which I've never pursued any further.

I must have hastened to add. Yeah. But like, I know that's a thing now. Yeah.

And I can do it perfectly, which is why I have a- But yeah, but then like, oh, like, you can manufacture authenticity this way. And then I'm like, however many years later, I'm like, oh wait, that's where she's done that. It was not even you. Like, she's done it.

I feel like that's what's become to all of them. Like, doing- In that video, she was doing like an ironic bit about parasocial relationships, I guess, about how people would also be parasocial to her video or whatever. And now it's like, she seems to be swimming in it. Whatever.

My other main point was that even though that was the most like, randos appeared in my mentions that ever happened to me, it's also just so uninteresting to talk about it. Yeah. It's like nothing. I'm so tired of Twitter, but like, not for Lindsay, Alice, like not for- because like, I assume the point of her video was also that Twitter is awful.

I'm not- Yeah. I'm just tired of Twitter just like in general. I'm just tired of the takes on the post. I'm tired of the takes on the post and the people.

I'm just tired in general though, like- I'm just bored of being online, you know. Sometimes you just want to be in the real world. No offence. No offence to my difference.

Yeah. I'm okay for pub. No phones in sight, people know. I would like to have my phone.

Not before- because I guess America got all of the vaccines. Like at this point, even like normal people who have no essential jobs and are like, our age are getting vaccinated because they bought all of them. If you're in Germany, it seems like they're vaccinating one person daily. Yeah.

It's because Germans are still arguing about like, the best regulations to have in terms of how you vaccinate people. Yeah, I guess. Mm-hmm. You've got to do it most efficiently.

But what is efficient is yet to be decided to committee. Let's talk about The Watch. What's that? What?

The What? You know- The What? We do do this podcast about Terry Pratchett, right? And it's like, what's it all for?

What's it all for? What's it? Who's it all for? Oh, no, this was a good book.

I'm glad that we finished this book. It was fun. What did we think? Gang, Robin, have you finished it before?

This was the first time, right? No, this was the first time. Were you surprised to lie about finishing it before? Which bit?

Any of it. Was there a bit that stuck out to you as being like, oh shit, didn't see that coming? I didn't think Dr. Cruises would die.

Yeah. You see, if you read the later books, you'd know that he is not the head of the Asatans Guild for the rest of the series. Yeah. Because I remembered him from the board game.

You have more book and I was like, ah, he's in- Yes. Yeah, Dr. Cruises was also in the show, right? Like, and she didn't die there.

Yeah, exactly. I was surprised that Edward Depp wasn't like super, I mean, it's so much, so much fucking happened in the last book. So much happened in this film. It's insane.

This was a lot. It's kind of- It's the classic Terry plot structure. It's called Gradually Building Action, then All the Action. Also, it's a very tall spike.

The, god, like, where are you going to pick out? Caron Angler fucked. Yeah. How did you hug him?

And then, like, 10 seconds afterwards, Carrot's like, oh, no, I might have fucked a dog. Isn't that how it always goes? Yeah. You know when you're like, fucking a lady, and then she turns out to be a dog and you're like, oh no.

Oh, it goes against my morals. Okay, so I'll just do like a summary of like the last bird of this book. Mostly to see if I can figure out what would a thing happen in. Yeah, good luck.

So they, they fond a militia, right? When last we saw them, they go visit the Fools Guild, they investigate, they figure out that, one of the dead bodies they found of the clown was actually Edward D, who put on the clown makeup to break into the Fools Guild, and then to the Assassin's Guild through the hole in the wall. They then got to break up a riot, which they do by conscripting members of the riot group into the watch. And then for saying the day watch to give up Colface, and then putting him in the watch as well.

So they should sort of, you know, get as many people in the watch as possible. Angler goes to investigate the Assassin's Guild as a wolf, and hangs out with Gasboat. On the way back, she finds out about the dog's guild, which is a guild run by a guy, by a dog called Big Fido. You kind of guy just dropped.

No, no, no, no, he's a poodle. He's insane. He's dog-hiller. He's dog-hiller.

He's dog-hiller. Not even subtly. This is a bit where Terry is like, his big feeder is talking about how wolves are the most, like, in big dogs, the most natural form of dogs, and the superior forms, and Big Fido himself is like small enough, and I was like, okay, then. It's the fucking buff.

Corg, not Corgi, she-be. Meme. There's like, hang on, I got it. It's exactly that.

I'll make that meme, and we'll put it on the Twitter later. But it's just this image. Yeah, it's like an easy-to-range poodle. He's like, one day was hanging out, and then snapped, and decided that he would free himself, and it will free the other dogs.

But he like, you know, kills them if they act so violent anyway, and it's like, we will return to our roots as wolves, and Angler's like, that's not how wolves are. They're just acting like humans, who are dogs who want to be wolves, which wolves don't even have names. They don't have like, you know, supremacy. They successfully managed to put down this riot, and then they head back to the watchhouse.

They try and get everything organized, but they're just like swearing in a lot of people. It's sort of like a, you know, it's a vibe. Angler heads back to the watchhouse, because she's naked, and she wants to find some clothes when she transforms, so she goes into carrots room. No.

Oh, it even smells like him. And she turns back into a human, and puts on like a bed. She parent comes back, and he's super stressed, and he's like, damn, I don't know how to solve this case. It's all difficult and challenging.

Edward Deaf, we found his body, he's dead, so whoever's firing the gun now isn't him. And then gas mode in steps into his brain, the idea that he should kiss Angler. I love that he's just like, oh, there's a very sexy naked lady in my room. Yeah, he's like, oh, yeah.

Dog could make you horny, but what could we make you? Yeah. But it's like, someone who's like half a dog, and like both a dog and a human. Yeah.

Gasball is like suggesting thing is so funny. It's really funny. You know, you do that before like a dog can't talk, so it must be part of my brain. Like, did that work?

Is that how it works? Anything pictures? I can't remember. I think so.

I think so, yeah. I think he didn't have quite the power then. They ignored it. He wasn't able to make people do things in the same way.

Yeah. When he's just scared Angler off after, that's actually like quite clever bit of writing, where you think, oh, carrot's saying this, and then you slowly realize, no, it's not just a little bit to get the dog. Yeah. So.

That's so funny. I think it's been a writing. Yeah. Angler's like, wow, should I kiss him?

I don't know. It doesn't only work out because people find out on a level from their breakup with me, and it learns that. And I have to leave and find any place. Go to a new city, but she's like, oh, whatever.

So she puts gasping outside the room. And then, oh, the bed springs go gling. The world moves for carrot. He's no virgin.

He's no longer there. His become chad. Yeah. He wakes up and is like, damn.

So that's what that is. This is so much better than in the show. This is so much better than the show where the entire joke is that people keep saying, oh, carrots are rich. I'm like, oh, that's big sex-happas.

And this is so much. Well, it's the big sex-happa. He's just like, he's just like. We've got a horny mirror.

He's just like never thought about it before. He's like, huh, I've known that people, you know, hang out with women, but I never really knew why. He's been to the hallpits as well. Yeah.

He's been thinking. Exactly. Well, in like the first in God's gods, where he moves in and he moves in with the seamstress. And he's like, they have a lot of guests all the time.

He's like, maybe I should. I talked to some of my friends from my year abroad. Not the dogs, anyone, because what I was talking about. And I'd gone to visit them a couple of years ago and, you know, he will chill in.

We smoked a joint with his roommate. And then like, I seen a scene move out. It turned out he'd not realize no one's living in the house. I'd realize that one of his roommates was a drug dealer.

And he was like, people came around all the time. And like, he always had weed. I wasn't thinking about it. That's what we got for you.

Nice guy, very generous. generous. Well, he's giving it for free, I mean. Yes.

So, carrot learns what sex is. It's very exciting for him. Then he turns around. He turns around.

How he's not going to write his, explain this to his parents when he writes. Yeah, yeah. I'm saying, they probably know. Probably not.

But he's like, I will open the curtains and he shines light on and goes and she turns into a wealth. And he like picks up his sword and she runs away because he's got the sword. The classic post sex, I will let the full moon shine inside the room. You know what?

No, I can't fault him for that. You know, well, it's hard. He's like opening the window, you know. Yeah.

It's not the moon. Shine on your post-Quital day. It's like the next time with the fair breeze thing. Yeah.

You got to let it swing. We've got to air out the room. Yeah. But Ang will probably at this point, she's not going home to change her wash as she does.

Probably smell like wet dog. Yeah. Yeah, it's carrot carotamils. I'm not just saying anything about wet dog.

Carotamils accepted with bad thoughts about her being a werewolf and how sad and sorry he is. But it's just gas bird and septing thoughts and his training. Let me try to make him get a biscuit. And then he sort of realizes that it's a dog he's talking and he's like, okay, can you go find her for me?

And gas bird's like, yeah, fine. Okay. Because he threatens. Carot's never hurt an animal but he'll give gas bird to Nabi.

And I guess Nabi will torture him. So he agrees to go find Ang. Wait, we see that there's another character who's got the gun but we don't know who it is yet. Fimes comes.

They talk about going to do like a orangard for Fimes. Did they already go to like the Dr. Whiteface thing was it before? Yeah.

Yeah. Did I already make a joke last week about how it's so offensive? Are they doing white face? Yeah, that was me.

Yeah, but there was like another Dr. Whiteface getting in this one. Well, there's Dr. Whiteface on the cold face of the troll.

So it covers covers. At this point, Carot already had like the theory that, oh, you can just put on clown makeup and then you look like another clown. I, yeah. Okay.

So, yeah, I did, I mean, we finish the summary but that's a really good bit I wanted to go. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Cutty's made a helmet for the Tritus so he can think better. Vimes wakes up and he's like, I'm getting married today. That's kind of fucked up.

He had city and senior university which is like, he's getting married, which is exciting and convenient. And he's like, who's going to be my best man? I don't know. I need normal friends.

There's an organ that's created by Bloody Stupid Johnson, which is great and I love it. It's very cool. I want to hear it. They've sent all the watchmen around to like guard the perimeter and cutty's going up to the Tower of Art, which is not good because that's where the bad guy is.

Gasboat is looking for Anguir. She's upset, but he tries to be swayed to come back with them. Vimes goes to the watchhouse looking for someone to be his best man and is like, oh, shit, what the fuck is going on here? We were all these people.

And then they sort of all simultaneously realize that the guy with the gun is on the Tower of Art just as love the Nary Rives. And they sort of, I think, carrot tackles him and they all sort of get shot at. But Nary gets shot in the leg to try to just get shot a few times. Cara gets shot through the shoulder.

Vimes is like, I'm being shot at. I love it. I was like, wow, I hate getting married, but I love to be shot. This is the point in the book where it's the peak.

So much is happening at once. But it's also intercepted with like, it's cutting between Vimes getting married, Anguir being gone and gasport looking for her and the whole fetal situation. And the cutting being on the top of the tower and then the shooting happening, it's all like changing between these scenes. That was a lot to keep track of.

Yeah, it's mostly all right, but it does have a bit of Terry confusing scene stuff when he's doing his action scene. So you're like, huh, what is happening? It's some better than he has done in the past. Yeah.

I think so. Yeah. They're more clearly separated. Yes.

I agree. They're just cutting back and forth quite quickly. Yeah. So Big Fido decides to attack Anguir because she's like, not a real dog, and they have like a chase scene.

Gasparo uses a power which is why he tells him to sit in his human voice. They run Anguir jumps across like from roof to roof. Big Fido tries to go to, but slips and falls. Gasparo grabs him by the collar, but the collar breaks and he's like, I'm free and then he dies.

Yeah. Um, it's a lot. And there's like a mythology of Abigfido where like they keep his collar and they visit it, but until they forget and then they stop. And there's rumours that he...

What's the fee down there? I don't know what it is. Fido. I'm voting Fido.

It's Fido. I mean, it's not like a telly name though. It's a famous... It's a famous...

It comes from Latin. I mean, it's also like... It's a dog thing. It's like a dog name.

It means faithful. Yeah. It means faithful. We'd say Fido because we mangle Lengu.

Yeah, but if it's like a Latin thing, then it should be Fido. If you don't like it, there's a fucking dog name. Fido pronunciation. It's totally matter.

No, it does say, yeah, it does say, but it's pronunciation. Fido. Yeah. It will change.

To me, it's clearly an Italian word. So, you know. I would not say you were wrong. You're just doing a foreign pronunciation.

That's great. Because the joke is that it's like a classic dog name thing where they would call it like Fido. Fido, my dog. Fido would be a dog name in German too, but they would say Fido.

It's like a cartoon dog name. Yeah, yeah. Like Fido Bowser. Yeah.

Yeah, I guess that's why it sounds like a common dog name to me too, even though it's like... Because it would be like a cartoon dog name except in German or Hungarian translation. He's apparently also a famous Italian dog. He became to public attention in 1943 because of his demonstration of unwavering loyalty to his dead master.

So, I see the one that barked until he died. I see the one who stayed at the trays. I'm thinking of each drama. Wasn't it this cottage dog that like barked when the...

I don't know. I think it probably happens occasionally. Famous cottage dog. This is in 1943.

Great flails, Bobby, as the one I was thinking of. Yeah. Great fraud. Yeah.

This is one like the two busts of the century Edinburgh for spending 14 years getting the grave of his own under the titan 1872. Is that the gasbo joke where it's like they put the grave stone on his tail? Yeah. Yeah, so Cuddie is dead.

Cuddie has been killed. Yeah, he is full of them down the tower. Yeah, it's sad in it. He's fucking gone.

RIP. RIP. F. Poor one out, but for real.

Yeah. For Cuddie. Sad. Sad about Cuddie.

Um, they will have to be a character. A few things better for the triders. Like his... Yeah, he's a bit of a cuddler.

Yeah. Vimes takes the arbitration into the Greyhall at the Anson University and he's like being a bit manic. The man who's like, oh, I'm bleeding quite a lot and Vimes is like, oh, who didn't even know you had that much blood on you? She's pretty funny.

Yeah. Yeah. They all talk about it and they sort of figure out what's going on. Carrots, I need you to say that they found the killer in his Edward D.

And Vimes is like, what? Why? And Carrots is part of the plan. And Vimes is like, well, I'm still in charge until I get married.

And then he's like, we will do your plan. Yes, that's good. So they sort of let it be known. And then the petition talks to Nobby for a bit, which is very funny.

And then they see him between two fantastic characters. The triders is super super mad and he sort of goes off and they can't really stop him. They chase, they end up finding Dr. Cruises in the sewers, which is where he's sort of gone to ground.

And they have a conversation where Dr. Cruises is like, oh, you know, Edward was crazy, but he was right. We do need a king. We do need to like, you know, make the place better.

But he also seems to be arguing with the gone. And it's like the gone is speaking to him in his head. They have, yeah, they have like a sort of fight and he's going to shoot Carrot, but then Angua appears and like he shoots Angua and then they chase after him as he runs away back to the Tower of Art. And also he says himself about, you know, I'm up meeting a king again and yeah, yeah, he's doing he's doing villain stuff.

Vantas I thought about how you can always trust like evil guys will always want to like monologue at you, whereas a truly good man would just kill you instantly. They run to the Tower and they have like a confrontation and Vimes sort of grabs the um, grabs the gun, they have like a scuffle and Vimes gets it. And then once he gets it, the gun sort of talks to him and is trying to persuade him to like shoot Dr. Cruises and Vimes is maybe going to do it.

And he's like, oh no, I'll just, I don't want to shoot someone as a policeman. I'm just going to wait until I'm a civilian and then I will murder him. And then Carrot arises like you don't want to do that. And Vimes sort of manages to fight the pull of the gun and then he drops it.

Dr. Cruises picks up and then Carrot appears and stabs him. Because he's like, oh Carrot, you're the king. Carrot is like, let me see the documents and then he stabbed him with a sword.

And the sword goes straight through him and into the pillar. So he did put a sword into the stone. Show me those seats. Yeah.

It was a magic sword. Hold on. It went into the stone rather than being pulled out of the stone. Oh fuck.

Like the conversation I had in the first bit. I didn't realize that that was a... Yeah. Cool.

Yeah. It's a cool work. Damn it's good. Yeah.

And then Vimes keeps trying to ask Carrot what he means by calling him Sire and Carrot will not tell him. He's like, you just, he's trying to gasoline. He's like, you didn't hear anything. I didn't say that.

He was just trickles the echoes. Don't worry about it. Can't just stop fucking good in this fight. Like...

I know. He's fantastic. He's so scary. He's so scary.

He's the last three. Yeah. He is really scary. Carrot.

I don't know how to find him so lighten this one in like in Fifth Element. Fifth Element? Fifth Element? He's um, he is very sort of, I don't know.

He's so powerful. He's like very OP and I could very sinister away. Yeah. Yeah.

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