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Hit Record Episode 59: I'm Totally Fine with it, Don't Give A Fuck Anymore

·1 hr 57 min·5 clips

Punk and Big Bird reached 2-2, then Big Bird cried after the reset set.

1. Hit Record Episode 59 focuses on the album review of Arab Strap’s 2024 release "I’m Totally Fine with it, Don’t Give A Fuck Anymore" after an opening stretch of COVID jokes, nose spray talk, and missing co-host Kron. 2. Sam, Aginti19, and Adam host the episode, with Aginti19 discussing a second bout of COVID and Adam steering the conversation back and forth between illness, politics, and games. 3. The episode seems to ask what an Arab Strap record sounds like in 2024 while the hosts also try to survive a recording session full of coughs and interruptions. 4. Sam says he has been coughing for three weeks and links it to a nasal spray he started after getting "the nasal spray" from the hospital. 5. Adam describes using "clarinase" and "bacon-aise," saying the spray lets him breathe through his nose again and reduces the cough that used to feel like something was stuck behind his throat. 6. The hosts joke that the episode may need a content warning for "nose gunk" and other gross details, while explicitly treating the topic as fair game for the show. 7. The conversation pivots to Donald Trump, including the attempt on his life at a rally and the hosts’ refusal to endorse political violence while still calling Trump "a fucking awful man." 8. They connect that moment to Joe Biden dropping out of the presidential race, which one of them says he learned about through Twitch chat during a fighting game stream. 9. Kamala Harris becomes the next political topic, and Sam notes that she had already been vice president for four years, so she is not an unknown quantity. 10. Sam then argues that Trump’s appeal comes from people who feel the American dream has failed them and who respond to his anti-establishment branding. 11. The political discussion turns personal when the hosts talk about disagreeing with people on voting choices while drawing a line at homophobia and hate toward other groups. 12. The biggest tournament section is EVO 2024 in Las Vegas, which Sam explains is the largest open-bracket fighting game tournament in the world. 13. He breaks down the format with best-of-three rounds, best-of-three games, and double-elimination brackets, including the need to reset the bracket from losers’ side in Grand Finals. 14. Sam highlights Terry Bogard joining Street Fighter 6 and Heihachi being announced for Tekken 8, calling Heihachi the "world’s worst dad" because of the volcano jokes and other family abuse. 15. He also points to Tekken Top 6, where Arslan Ash won using Nina Williams while the other finalists leaned on Dragunov, the game’s top-tier character. 16. The Street Fighter 6 top six gets the biggest emotional reaction when Sam talks about a 17-year-old from the UK taking third place and Punk beating Big Bird in a reset set that ended with a hug and tears. 17. The style is loose, conversational, and highly interruptive, with the hosts constantly talking over each other and jumping from one subject to another. 18. The format feels like a live hangout rather than a polished review, with side jokes about chat, plugs for Twitch, and repeated detours into tournament mechanics. 19. People who like fighting games, Scottish banter, and chaotic current events will probably enjoy this. 20. People who want a focused Arab Strap review with no detours should skip it.

As heard by us

Loose, personality-first chat that wanders from games and film talk into a stark take on The Zone of Interest.

The episode starts with COVID brain, new glasses, GTA V, Poor Things, and The Zone of Interest, then drifts into jokes about ads and email attachments before landing on a sharper read of the film's ordinary banality and the atrocities it implies.

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If you want banter that swerves from COVID brain to heavy cinema, press play.

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