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Nerd of Mouth

Monopoly

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7606 Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

This week Holden and Jake take on the game that's caused more family battles than war, famine, addiction, AND political radicalization... MONOPOLY!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, it's me!

0:04.0

Rich Uncle Pinybags!

0:20.0

Oh! Did you wish to teach people me. Rich Uncle Pennybags.

0:27.5

Oh, did you wish to teach people about how horrible capitalism can be?

0:28.7

Sike!

0:32.6

We're going to show them how fun it can be instead. Yeah.

0:33.1

And I'm the iron.

0:43.6

Some people are like, why not the battleship or the race card?

0:46.3

Those pieces are too flashy.

0:47.9

The thimble is also like, takes up too much space.

0:50.9

The iron statistically gives you an advantage because it's less noticeable

0:54.4

on the board and allows you to slip through and not be perceived as a threat.

0:58.9

I see. Hiding in plain sight. Interesting. Yeah. Here's a crazy scenario. I always choose the

1:04.9

AK-47 myself, but that's just me. What are you going to ask me? Here's a crazy scenario, Holden.

1:11.7

Try and stretch your imagination and just like, it just visualize this wacky idea, all right?

1:18.3

Say you live in a world where everything that you need to survive on is controlled by an increasingly small number of people.

1:27.2

Food, shelter, resources like water

1:31.8

and energy, even just common things like transportation are all being consolidated and consolidated

1:38.3

to the point where you really have no choice, to the point where the very idea of competition

1:44.1

is so foregone that even in the face of blatant

1:48.5

record profits, corporations are raising their prices, knowing that these scant few challengers

1:56.3

are also in sync with them in order to extract the maximum from the everyday consumer.

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