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Speaker 1: Hello, goodbye.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying Colovians are dumb, They're just hard headed.

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Speaker 1: Don't talk such rot.

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Speaker 3: What am I doing? Well, I'll tell you what I'm doing.

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Speaker 2: I'm getting you ready for today's spoiler filled the episode

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Speaker 2: of Your Wrong Friend Oblivion versus Skyrim by reciting some

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Speaker 2: of the iconic voice.

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Speaker 3: Lines Hello, whatame is? Jason Cooncepsio and I'm a boo and.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to x viesit of the podcast when we

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Speaker 2: dive to your favorite shows, movies, comic tip, pop culture

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Speaker 2: cover you from I Heart Podcast. We're bringing you three

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Speaker 2: episodes a week every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday plus dudes.

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Speaker 1: And today we have a very special episode of Your

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Speaker 1: Wrong Friend in which we hold up our sacred opinions

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Speaker 1: to attack and debate to decide what pop culture thing

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Speaker 1: someone is wrong about. So let's introduce our judges for today,

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Speaker 1: the honorable and distinguished Aaron Kaufman Yarrel of X ray Vision.

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Speaker 4: Thank you a boot. You know, I used to be

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Speaker 4: a debater like the two of you, and then I

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Speaker 4: took an arrow to the knee and now here I

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Speaker 4: am well as we are here, I'm very exciting for

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Speaker 4: our debate. These are two iconic video games. And as

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Speaker 4: we are getting ready, Jason, you're here on behalf of

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Speaker 4: all of White Run. You're here to remind us why

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Speaker 4: Skyrim is the best game in the Elder Scroll series.

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Speaker 4: But a Boo doesn't agree. He's here to make the

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Speaker 4: case that Oblivion is actually peak Elder Scrolls. This is

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Speaker 4: your Wrong Friend, and joining me on the judges council

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Speaker 4: is Joel.

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Speaker 5: I'm ready for war and blood.

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Speaker 4: Let's go, and Carmen is our standby judge in case

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Speaker 4: we hit a tie. Now a quick reminder of our format.

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Speaker 4: We will have our opening statement. Jason will get two

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Speaker 4: Skyrim is the best. A Boo will then have four

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Speaker 4: to Jason's opening and argue why Oblivion is actually the

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Speaker 4: better game. Jason will then get two minutes for no

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Speaker 4: Your Wrong Friend to respond to a Boo's claims. Then

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Speaker 4: we'll move to the questions in the question round. Joel

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Speaker 4: That's four questions total, one minute for each question. Then

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Speaker 4: Joel and I will convene for the judges panel, and

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Speaker 4: then we will announce our verdict. And now let's welcome

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Speaker 4: Jason and a Boo to the stage to argue for

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Speaker 4: superiority in the Elder Scrolls franchise.

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Speaker 2: First up, Jason, why Skyrim is the best. Skyrim is

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Speaker 2: the best because of the world that it drops you into.

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Speaker 2: There's no doubt, having played and currently playing the Oblivion

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Speaker 2: just find your way into Blackreach. One of these times

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Speaker 2: You're dropped into a blooming civil war between the Empire

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Speaker 2: But this is a game that just puts an entire

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Speaker 2: one hundred thousand mods and countings for this game make

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Speaker 4: Chosen Skyrim two one. All right, now a boo. You

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Speaker 1: All right. So before I respond to Jason's points, many

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Speaker 1: Oblivion is by far your obvious choice. Oblivion is a

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Speaker 1: You can do that. Perhaps, like me, you're a soft

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Speaker 1: even see him. Go for it. Oblivion's class and leveling

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Speaker 1: to me. Oblivion's gorgeous, high fantasy setting also means that

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Speaker 1: Name one place in Skyrim that looks or feels any

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Speaker 1: Finally, I have the floor, sir. Finally. The quests in

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Speaker 1: Oblivion are objectively better and more unique than Skyrim. Throughout

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Speaker 1: or the quote unquote choices that you make throughout oblivion.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, the oblivion gates themselves have a

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Speaker 1: reshapes the world that you explore. That is something that

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Speaker 1: Skyrim lacks. Also, on the point of mods, I have

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Speaker 1: if your game needs this many mods to be good,

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Speaker 1: for you. Whoops, I yield the rest of my time.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 4: Some incendiary things there. Goodness gracious, I hope no one

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Speaker 4: from the modding community was listening. Jason, You know, have

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Speaker 2: Sure, there's a reason that Grant Have five is still

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Speaker 2: Because these games are created by creators so that fans

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Speaker 2: It wasn't until Bethesda, for some beautiful reason, decided to

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Speaker 2: fantastic five seconds. But how dare you, sir?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Thank you? We have time. We're gonna jump to

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Speaker 4: I like to ask a boo a question, A boo,

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Speaker 4: it was very loud deploring the mods of Skyrim. Do

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Speaker 4: you My question to you, is it not fun for

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Speaker 4: by SpongeBob? Is that not a fun thing for you?

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is maybe a very square answer for me,

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Speaker 1: but no, I've never really delved into the Body world.

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Speaker 1: but I find it confusing. How do I install the mods?

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Speaker 1: Is it gonna work when they pass the next game?

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Speaker 1: Is it not gonna work? Can I make it work

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Speaker 1: on my Xbox?

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Speaker 1: Do I have to play on PC? I find the

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Speaker 4: All right, Jason, my question for you. You talked a

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Speaker 4: vast map, but I'm coming from Animal Crossing and I

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Speaker 4: really want to know why are the houses in Skyrim

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Speaker 4: better than the houses in Oblivion that you know for

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Speaker 2: Are they better? Well, there's more of them. They are

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Speaker 2: What I take issue with is this idea that, like,

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Speaker 2: That's what we're doing in both games. Okay, we're doing

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Speaker 1: I think that Oblivion story in every aspect is stronger

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Speaker 4: Oh all right, wow, wow, we are going to move

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Speaker 4: into our closing statements. Jason, you will get one minute

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Speaker 2: Skyrim is legend. It's popularity speaks for itself.

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Speaker 2: Even though you're going to play as a sneak archer,

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Speaker 2: you can play as a thief. All of that is wonderful,

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Speaker 2: me anything about Grand Theft Auto five's main story. It

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Speaker 4: It's time, all right, Boom, you have one minute for

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Speaker 1: All right, So my opponent has made an admirable attempt

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Speaker 1: And here's where I will rest my case. Oblivion Remaster

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Speaker 1: That game borrows some of Skyrim's strengths, actually many of

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Speaker 1: the obvious charms that Oblivion the original game had in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and six. So now to your gamer, you

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Speaker 4: Ooh, all right, we are going to go to a

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Speaker 5: I've maxed out on listening. I've I've contemplated deeply, and

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Speaker 5: Which shocks me because both debates are really good. I

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Speaker 5: I didn't know Oblivion was an RPG case it's something

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Speaker 5: But you know, I was like, okay, cool that that.

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Speaker 5: that world looks really juicy. But I think what got

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Speaker 1: Really, I really do.

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Speaker 5: And when if you can become the head of guild

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Speaker 5: worth sixty to eighty dollars. So that's a game you

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Speaker 5: I do love the visual designs on Skyrim, and as

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Speaker 5: I think I'm Team Oblivion. Aaron, where are you at?

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Speaker 1: Wow?

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Speaker 4: Well, I have played both.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say the price. Let's not bring

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Speaker 4: really good point that in Skyrim it's a superhero. You

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Speaker 4: That's kind of like real life. But in Oblivion, I

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Speaker 2: You love a game rule.

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Speaker 4: I think at the end of the day, I would

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Speaker 5: But which which debate?

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Speaker 5: Which debate? Are you like this is?

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Speaker 3: Because I feel like it's different.

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Speaker 5: Have you played the game and you're making.

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Speaker 4: have to call in our tide breaker judge. Yeah, Carmen

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Speaker 4: for a moment, Speaker of the House.

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Speaker 6: Carmen, Hello, Hello, Hello.

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Speaker 4: Now Carmen, before you bring your decision to the group.

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Speaker 4: Have you played either Skyrim or Oblivion.

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Speaker 6: So at the last time, I have never played Skyrim.

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Speaker 1: So you're an expert, and I had a lot of fun.

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Speaker 6: I have to say I because I love the videos

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Speaker 1: Thomas.

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Speaker 5: I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 6: Please, I'm saying those Skyrim mod videos are you can

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I'll never forgive Thomas.

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Speaker 4: There you have it. The X Ray Vision Judges panel

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Speaker 4: has come to a decision, and in this debate, we

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Speaker 4: or what arguments the most, but thank you very much both.

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Speaker 1: And I honestly, I don't know if it's from crying

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Speaker 4: I can't.

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Speaker 5: Engine. I didn't see it coming. I did not see

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Speaker 5: it coming, but I'm excited that we got here. Congratulations

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Speaker 5: Jason on your win.

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Speaker 3: Are you undefeated in the ring?

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Speaker 5: Did you win last time.

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Speaker 3: I don't. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I think I'm not sure.

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Speaker 5: We gotta start keeping track of who's who's winning and losing.

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Speaker 5: We have Ultimate Champions battle off. Eventually, this was fun. Guys,

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Speaker 5: I love this.

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Speaker 1: You can't go wrong with you wrong? Yeah you Skyrim

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Speaker 1: I'm so tempted to redownload Skyrim and replay it. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: you truly can go.

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Speaker 5: Some video games.

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Speaker 2: If you need, come to me for the mods. I'll

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Speaker 1: I'll just say that, yeah, yeah, yeah, I just need

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Speaker 1: to know how to install them. It's confused.

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Speaker 6: I have a resident evil for Leon Shirtless mod. I

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Speaker 6: got to talk to you about Jason.

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Speaker 4: Yea.

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Speaker 2: In the next few episodes of X ray Vision, we

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Speaker 2: have a summer TV look ahead, and Thursday we're diving

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Speaker 2: into our favorite non star wars.

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Speaker 3: For this episode. Thanks for listeninging.

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Speaker 2: X ray Vision is hosted by Jason SEPs and Rosie

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Speaker 2: Night and is a production of iHeart Podcast.

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Speaker 4: Our executive producers are Joelminique and Aaron Kurtman.

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Speaker 1: Our supervising producer is Abu Zapar.

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Speaker 2: Our producers are Common, Laurent Dean Jonathan and Bay Wack.

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Speaker 2: A theme song is by Brian Vasquez, with alternate theme

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Speaker 2: songs by Aaron Kaufman. Special thanks to Soul Rubin, Chris Lord,

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Speaker 2: Kenny Goodman and Heidi our discord moderator