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02:31:59 - 02:33:03

room with um john denton playing this and him just being like that's smashing pumpkin song man it's so good we'll see uh nod along with his headphones on he wasn't um the unc of uh music reactions back then but yeah so it's liberty rock radio for me as well i actually agree i even those tracks missing is is tough but there's still so much recognizable music on there matthew how about you my favorite radio station is the journey of course oh yeah everything sounds like it would be you could also play it in a mass effect disco it'd be on the citadel you know yeah that's the rule for the journey it feels like citadel fm it's got some really cinematic tracks sometimes the right track hits when you're driving through like the rain and you get some like phillip glass or something that's that's really exciting i quite like the jazz station i listened to that a fair amount oh yeah that's very new york there liberty rock is also is really good even in this version which like you say is missing some stuff like the stuff that is there i'm i'm quite into i mean i

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... liberty rock radio by losing 1979 by smashing pumpkins um edge of 17 by steve nicks and evil woman by elo which are all incredible and i associate so firmly with my first memory of room with um john denton playing this and him just being like that's smashing pumpkin song man it's so good we'll see uh nod along with his headphones on he wasn't um the unc of uh music reactions back then but yeah so it's liberty rock radio for me as well i actually agree i even those tracks missing is is tough but there's still so much recognizable music on there matthew how about you my favorite radio station is the journey of course oh yeah everything sounds like it would be you could also play it in a mass effect disco it'd be on the citadel you know yeah that's the rule for the journey it feels like citadel fm it's got some really cinematic tracks sometimes the right track hits when you're driving through like the rain and you get some like phillip glass or something that's that's really exciting i quite like the jazz station i listened to that a fair amount oh yeah that's very new york there liberty rock is also is really good even in this version which like you say is missing some stuff like the stuff that is there i'm i'm quite into i mean i hear it's not that it's a quiet taste but i think they're very um they're very well targeted to people who like the different respective musics and yeah i was less eclectic in my listening here ...

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02:32:13 - 02:33:01

so good we'll see uh nod along with his headphones on he wasn't um the unc of uh music reactions back then but yeah so it's liberty rock radio for me as well i actually agree i even those tracks missing is is tough but there's still so much recognizable music on there matthew how about you my favorite radio station is the journey of course oh yeah everything sounds like it would be you could also play it in a mass effect disco it'd be on the citadel you know yeah that's the rule for the journey it feels like…

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you with bits and pieces and it's nice having him there because he does offset the seriousness of Nico a little bit. Yeah, and I think one thing I really like outside of the character in terms of his journey through the city, while I think you know I maybe lose the plot bit of what's going on with all the gangsters, I think the way that he works his way up from his community into like a new set of friends and then like a more powerful set of friends and then the mafia, that actually does feel like quite organic…

01:57:31 - 01:58:05

two days later the ending we've talked about a little bit like it it does um it does play out definitely based on uh who you yeah which of the two routes you go down the deal route or the revenge route does this work Matthew what do you think it's a bit of a tough act to follow coming off to the Darko which is really the end of Niko's journey and then this you know almost feels like it's like well yes there are these other threads we better tidy these up I do like the character of um Dimitri as this villain…

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